Chapter Three

I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I knew everyone else was looking just like I did.

"Hello, is any one home?" She asked waving her hand in front of my face. I didn't say anything until Iggy elbowed me. I shook my head still not believing it. But it was true, there stood Max. The girl I have been looking for for several years now.

"Um, sorry about that, is Dr. Martinez here?" I asked sticking my hands in my pockets and forcing myself not to scream.

"Yes, hold on a second." She closed the door and I could hear her run off some where.

"What happened?" Iggy asked looking in my direction.

"Max is here, and Angel is right, she doesn't remember us." I said just in time to see hear someone come to the door.

"Yes may I help…" she trailed off as she recognized us. "…you. What are you guys doing here?" She asked stepping out and closing the door behind her.

"Well, we came here to find a place to live because we left Anne and that's when Max opened the door. How long has she been here?" I asked lowering my voice.

"For the past three years. The school had her for a year. I'm sorry Fang but she doesn't remember any of you guys. I can't help there but you are more then welcome to stay here." She said smiling. I smiled back and for once, didn't mind the fact that she hugged me.

"I'm so happy she's alive." I whispered in her ear.

"She doesn't remember everything but at night she cries about you. There is something there so until she gets her memory back all of you are living with me. I have enough space in my house, so you guys need other names." She said letting go of me.

"Simple, I'm Nick, Iggy is Kevin--" I was cut off.

"I resent the name Kevin." He said glaring in my direction.

"Well get used to it because now it's your name. Anyway, Nudge is Nicole, Gazzy can be Jesse, and Angel is Alisha. It's not close but some are and I don't think I have ever heard Nudge not talking about the name Nicole." Angel smiled and so did Dr. Martinez.

"Okay, well let's give it a shot. If she doesn't get her memory back by next year then it's too late." I nodded and followed her back toward the house. She opened the door and as I walked in, I could faintly smell chocolate chip cookies.

"Ella, Max, come down please." She called from a stair way. I could hear feet running down the stairs.

"Yeah mom." Max said.

"Max, Ella, these people will be staying with us for a while. They are friends of mine so be nice. This is Nick, Kevin, Nicole, Jesse, and Alisha." We all waved as she called out our names.

"It's nice to meet you." Ella said holding a hand out to Iggy. He didn't do anything so she drew her hand back and glared at him.

"Sorry about Kevin, he's blind." I said tapping his hand twice.

"I'm sorry about that, I didn't know. It's nice to meet you too." He stuck out his hand and after a quick hesitant moment, Ella shook hands with him.

"I don't mean to be rude but, how can you do everything you do?" Max asked.

"He gets used to surroundings fast and I help him occasionally but other than the few things he's really good. Plus, he can cook amazingly." I said smiling the smile I knew melted away her heart. I was right; she blushed slightly and looked away at her feet.

"Sorry to say girls but you'll have to share a room. We need the extra room for them." Dr. Martinez said still having her shoulder on mine and Max's.

"Its fine mom, would you like me to show them the rooms they'll be staying in?" Max asked making eye contact with me and barely her mom. I looked at Dr. Martinez and she was smiling.

"That would be lovely dear." Dr. Martinez walked away and Ella followed her.

"Please come with me." We all followed. She let the way through a long hallway and up a flight of stairs.

"Nicole and Alisha will be staying in my room, I hope you don't mind my things, I'll come in later and get them. You can go get moved in if you would like to." Angel and Nudge smiled nodded and walked into Max's room.

"Jesse and Kevin, I hope you don't mind sharing the guest room and there is a computer in there so excuse my mother when she comes in to get what she needs. There are two beds so you may go and get settled in." She said stopping and facing to the left were their room was.

"Thanks Max." Gazzy pulled Iggy into the room and shut the door. She stared at the door, her eyes got big for a second, and quietly said okay to herself.

"That's move on to your room shall we?" She asked me.

"Lead the way." I said holding my arm across the way telling her to walk. She smiled slightly and walked up the hallway a bit. The door was closed and she stood in front of it, her back to the door and her hand on the door knob.

"This is the second guess room and I have to say, it's a really good room." She opened the door walking in side and looking around it. I walked in and noticed the full bed against the wall, the big window that had a view to a huge backyard, and my own bathroom/

"This is…" I started. "I was thinking…" Max said at the same time. She closed her mouth and blushed a little bit.

"Please continue." She said placing her hands behind her back.

"No you go first, I insist." She smiled a warm hearted smile and continued what she was saying.

"I was thinking of moving into the room across from this one but then my mother would have to give up her office. I'm not sure though."

"Well I think you should do it. By the way, this room is really nice thank you." I smiled for the first time in a very long time.

"Your welcome. I'll let you get together and I'll see you at dinner?" It was more of a question then a statement. I set my bag down on the bed.

"I'm done. Do you want to go for a walk? I like to know where I'm going to be staying for a little bit." I asked sticking my hands in my pockets. Her cheeks flushed a little bit as she looked toward the ground. I continued to stare at her. The stare wasn't hard it was one of those out of amazement. I'm amazed she's stayed this long and couldn't remember a single one of us. It just doesn't make any sense.

"Sure, why not. It will be a while for dinner and there's a nice park around the block from here." She said looking up at me. She smiled and I returned it with a soft smile.

"Shall we head out?" I asked pointing to the door. She walked out and I followed. Dr. Martinez was sitting on the couch reading a book. Don't ask what it was because I have no clue what it was.

"Mom," She looked up from her book and smiled glancing at me and back to max. "We're going to go on a walk. We'll be back before dinner." She started heading toward the door.

"Okay, but Max, can I talk to you for a minute?" She turned around and walked back over to where she was. I headed for the door, I didn't want to intrude.

"Oh, Nick you can stay." I stopped where I was and turned around. "Max, I know you hate to share a room with Ella so I was wondering for the time being if you wanted to have my office. I can move my things into my room for how big it is." I tried to hide the smile but Max had a full blown smile.

"Oh mom I would love to!" She hugged her mom and her mom hugged back. They stopped hugging and she walked out the door with me following behind her. She closed the door, preceded down her stairs, and down the driveway.

"See, all you had to do was ask." I said looking up at the sky. It was a gorgeous day and I wish we could just both jump up and fly away from here forever. Well maybe not because Dr. Martinez and the Flock would kill me and probably her for letting me do it.

"Trust me when I say my mother isn't usually this lenient." I felt someone looking at me. Looking over, I noticed she was staring at me. Has she been doing this the whole time?

"She doesn't seem that bad." I could remember times when we had to come here and she made chocolate chip cookies.

"She isn't but sometimes she can be a bit on edge. I don't know what got into her today. She was a grouch before you showed up. I guess you're her lucky charm or something." She smirked and I looked back up at the ceiling.

"I don't think I'm her lucky charm, trust me." Even I could hear the little secret in my voice. Let's just hope she couldn't. We were walking around a corner and I could see the park clearly in my view. It had the biggest jungle gym I have ever seen.

"Yeah…" We walked up to the play ground and I leaned on a support beam of the play ground. Max climbed up the latter and started playing on the monkey bars. She always did have a thing with heights.

"Max, what are you doing?" I asked as I noticed she was climbing up to the tip of the cover on the little landing they had before the slide.

"I want to fly!" She said as she continued to climb.

"Max I really don't think that's a good idea." I said, the worry seeping through my lips.

"Nick relax, I do this all the time." She continued to climb up and I quickly calculated that the tallest cover was fifteen feet high. Aren't these jungle gyms supposed to be for little kids?

"Max, that really isn't the best idea." I said grabbing on to the top of the monkey bars. I swear if I have to I will fly out and save her.

"Nick, what's the worst that could happen?!" She continued to climb and was getting close to the top of the play ground. I could feel the fear struck my face. I pulled myself onto the monkey bars and stood there looking at her. She looked at me for a minute and shook it off as she continued to climb.

"Aren't these things supposed to be for little kids?" I asked under my breath. Apparently she heard me because she started laughing.

"Not this one. This is a High School play ground. Yeah it's a park but the high school uses it. They have this climbing team and I'm on it. The object is to get higher then the record and I hold that record. I've done this several times." She was climbing up the poll that held the 15 foot ceiling thing.

You need to catch her. This isn't going to work out like she planned. Angel sent to me. My fear flew up higher.

"Max, I really think you should get down." I said quickly walking across the monkey bars. She was on the top and started to stand up. This couldn't be good.

"Nick, I told you I've done this several times." I looked down and noticed that the monkey bars were higher then usual. I swear this is a suicidal play ground.

"Max…" She stood up, spreading her arms out for balance.

"Watch this." She closed her eyes and I could see her start to lean backwards.

"Max…" She started to fall. "…NO!" I screamed and without thinking, dived to catch her. I didn't bother to think that the fall could kill both of us.

I caught her and with out thinking again, my wings flapped and saved us. We landed perfectly and I noticed that Max was staring at me. She was getting paler and paler. Sweet dripped down her face and her eyes started to droop down.

"You can fly…" I started at her bug eyed. Her head dropped back and she fell unconscious.

"Max…" She didn't wake up no matter how much I shook her and lightly tapped her face. "Max…" still no answer. "…MAX!" I yelled again.

I was in some deep shit.

Ohh Cliffy! What happened to Max?! REVIEW!!!!