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Max's POV

What the HELL was going on?! Fang was still holding Rowena (who was a red head…and we all know how Fang likes red heads), Nudge, Gazzy and Iggy looked as if they knew a secret and Angel looked innocent. So of course she had to have done something.

"Angel…" I turned on her "What did you do?"

Her face was simply too sweet for words.

"I showed them a picture."

"What picture?"

"One I found in Jacen and Rowena's minds."

"Can you show me the picture?"

She nodded. Then I was watching Fang and Rowena fighting-street fighting. She kicked at his head; he jumped back and then opened up his wings! He's just brilliant, isn't he?! He swooped down and held her against the lockers. I saw her pause. She murmured a word that I couldn't hear, and then kissed him. Red hot anger flooded through me.

SHE KISSED HIM?!!!?!!!?!?!?!?!

ANF FANG LET HER?!?!?!?!?!?!

There's another one too, Max.

Okay sweetie. Can you show me that one? I was barely keeping myself under control.

Yep

I was brought back to the real world for a second to see Rowena watching me. She didn't look me in the eyes though. Good. I hope it meant she was scared of me. Given the way she fought Fang, that's probably not a possibility.

I was sucked back into my own mind. This time it was from Rowena's perspective. She was fighting Fang, then he shot out his wings and she was stunned. When he swooped down on her, she lost it. In her head, he was really, unimaginably hot. She murmured his name, and kissed him. Jacen hadn't known just how…intense their kiss was, since Fan covered them in his wings, but now I knew.

Wonderful.

I returned to real life, and proceeded to glare at Rowena. She finally looked me in the eyes. It must've been a trick of the light or something, but I swear I saw a flash of black in her eyes.

An apologetic smile slid over her face.

Rowena's POV

I was on a roll.

In less than five minutes, I had fought the flock's second-in-command, Fang, kissed him, and then seriously ticked off Max, the flock's leader, who obviously liked Fang.

Whoops.

So, once the whole Rowena-Kissed-Fang-And-Caused-A-Whole-Freakin-Ton-Of-Mayhem thing was over and done with, we went outside and stole a bus. That's right. It was one of the small ones, too. Max was driving and, ehem, it was rather painful.

"So, why are we running away?" I decided to be sociable. It's not like I wanted Max to hate me!

"Who said we're running away?" Her voice was cold and annoyed.

"Uh, we're riding in a stolen bus, six of us have wings, the six of you are all under 18 and yet you just took six other under-18-year-olds out of school, so you're technically kidnapping us. We are so running away."

She was silent. I guess we'd traveled far enough, 'cause then she stopped the car.

"Everybody out. Now."

I hope this wasn't my fault.

Max's POV

That girl was pushy. And believe it or not, I didn't hate her. She just seemed sort of genuinely nice. But what do I know? I trusted Jeb, and look how that turned out.

"Vy are ve stopping?" Antoinette was French? I should have known.

"We're going to tell you why we're running away." I saw Rowena smile at that.

"As you know, we all have wings. We're only 98% human. That other 2% is bird."

"Ahhnd vat does zis 'ave to do vith us?" Well isn't somebody speaking up lately?

"We think you're all genetic hybrids too." They stared at me. I'm just oh-so subtle, aren't I? "You're going to be showing signs of the modifications tomorrow. We think we know what you're going to turn out to be, sort of."

They were still staring at me.

"So what are we gonna be?" Simian seemed oddly excited by the fact that he may have possibly just been condemned to a life of possibly eternal torture. (I'm such a poet)

"Uhm…Nudge, where are the papers?"

She ran up to me with a spark in her eyes.

"Thanks. So Simian, you're supposedly 2% bird, 2% wolf and 96% human." He was the one that scared me the most. Why? Wolf=Eraser. If he starts to morph on us, he's done.

"Sweeeeeet"

"Antoinette, you're 2% bird, 2% gazelle, 96% human." I could see her being the graceful, flitting type.

And so we went on, and the final results were like this-

Simian=2% bird, 2% wolf, 96% human

Antoinette-2% bird, 2% gazelle, 96% human

Jacen-2% bird, 2% fox, 96% human

Camden-2% bird, 2% lion, 96% human

Heather-4% cockroach, 96% human

Nudge, Rowena and I were cracking up when I said Heather was part cockroach

"I guess that explains why you're so short!" Rowena could barely talk.

Guess we're more alike than I thought. After the giggles subsided, Rowena asked why she wasn't told what she was. Then Fang spoke, since he still had her paper.

"It says your 9% some sort of huge flying lizard."

"Like, a dragon?" She sounded so young and innocent

He smiled that crooked half-smile "Yea, like a dragon."