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Chapter Sixteen: Double Crap

"Who is it?" Cheyenne asked me bringing me back to reality.

"Joe," I replied. Tiffany, Cheyenne, and Lilyann's eyes grew wide with fear. The Flock looked confused and Iggy looked the most confused.

"The way I see it, we have two choices. Get the heck out of here, or wait and explain this whole thing to this Joe guy," Max explained.

"Running will do us no good," I reminded her. "He'll see us."

"I guess we have no choice. What's so bad about this Joe guy anyway? Is he like out to kill you or something?" Fang asked my friends' eyes still wide with fear.

"No, it's worse," Lilyann answered for me. "Joe's Katie's boyfriend." Iggy looked at me with wide eyes. I gave him a look that said, I would explain later, but you're going to find out soon enough. "He went crazy when you left, Katie. He thought you had killed yourself or something."

"Yeah, he didn't talk in class for two days," Tiffany added. Then she noticed the expression on Iggy's face and her eyes grew wide. "Crap. This makes it much harder."

"What is it?" Cheyenne asked. Tiffany whispered something in her ear. "Who?" More whispers followed. "Shit."

"Hey, we have younger kids here," Max said covering Angel's ears.

"Sorry," Cheyenne muttered. She then whispered something to Lilyann.

"That complicates things a bit. If I were you, Katie, I would get out of here," Lilyann said. I looked over the edge again and saw Joe beginning to climb to the cave.

"We don't have much time," I said. "He's starting to climb up."

"Fu- sorry," Cheyenne said stopping herself.

"We could always make it look like, you two were making out when he comes up here," Nudge suggested.

"Then he'll get mad and probably punch Iggy or something," I said.

"I like my nose in one piece," Iggy muttered to himself. Then Angel tapped my shoulder.

"What's up?" I asked her.

"Joe's hanging out just below the mouth of the cave. He's heard almost our entire conversation and he's listening to this and is wondering how I know all this," Angel said. I rolled my eyes and walked over to where Joe was hiding.

"Hey, guys, look who it is?" I asked sarcastically. "Nice of you to join us, Joe," I said, pulling Joe up. With my new found strength, thank you genetic engineering, I managed to pull him up myself. Joe hadn't changed in a week. His blond hair had been cut; making his eyes stand out a bit more, but that was it. Then I realized how I fell for blond-haired, blue-eyed guys, like Joe and Iggy, but that didn't really matter now.

"Hi, Cheyenne, Tiffany, Lilyann," Joe said waving to my friends. "Where the hell did you go? I went crazy," Joe whispered to me, holding onto my shoulders. I had to think of a lie and fast. Joe would tell the world if I told him what had really happened.

"I ran away with these guys," I lied, referring to the Flock. "They're homeschooled. You don't know them. My parents were putting me under a lot of stress and I just needed to get away. You understand don't you?"

"Of course I do. Please, next time; just tell me when you're planning on doing something like this again," Joe requested. I nodded in agreement. Then I looked over at the horizon. Wow, the day had gone by fast; the sun was already setting under the trees.

"You want to stay here with us for the night?" I asked. Max looked at me like I was crazy and then understood what I was thinking. Joe wouldn't suspect anything this way.

"Sure," Joe agreed. I glanced over and Iggy. He refused to look me in the eyes. It was going to be a long night.