okay, so.
new chappie!
chapter 8? or is it 7? no, it's definitely 8. i think....
blah.
"Oh, don't say that... We're all going to get together, and go, SHOPPING!" ha, ha. funny funny movie.
another favorite of mine!
"i love her." "okay, fine, you love her. have you ever actually met her?" "no...can you introduce me?"
anyways!
let's continue with the story!
she never slows down, she doesn't know why but she knows that when she's, all alone, feels like it's all, coming down.
and...
i wear a disguise, i'm just your average jane...
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"Guys, I wanna go to the park..." Lauren stated.
"Oooooooh! I wanna go! I wanna go!" Lydia added.
"Me three!" Chaz said excitedly.
"Make that four!"
"Five!"
I mentally hit myself on the head. Of course we just had to pass by a park. We just had to. Of course the younger kids would want to go to some boring playground, with a slide, monkey bars designed for short people, some rope thing... Oh, and let's not forget the random pole you can slide down. They really shouldn't have that kind of thing at a children's park, if you catch my drift.
And now, onto round 2!
"Maaaaaaaax, can we go to the park?"
"Yeah! It looks like fun!"
"Maaaaaaaax, pleeeeeeeeeeease."
I mentally hit myself on the head... again. Max would let them go to the park, she would say no, then decide to go to the stupid park.
"No. We're not going to the... park." Max answered.
"Maaaaaaaaaax, please." The three youngest flock members begged.
Then get this, my family members went and joined the begging flock members, knees on the ground, hands together, puppy dog pout, big eyes, the whole picture.
So, just imagine Max, with 8 begging kids in front of her, outside the gates of a park.
"It'll only be a little while." Chaz reasoned.
No, it wouldn't be. Whenever a kid says 'it'll only be a little while', they mean it'll only be a little while until they ask you to stay longer.
"Yeah." The other 7 kids nodded, at the same time, it was kinda creepy.
I was watching this whole ordeal and it was pretty funny when I thought about it.
Then I thought Max was not going to win this fight and that we would go to the place a kid never, ever, EVER wants to leave.
Why, you might ask, do I hate the park so much? You could say I've had.... bad experiences with the park.
"She's going to give in." Iggy whispered.
"Of course she is." I whispered back.
"She's Max, she won't say no." Fang whispered. I turned to Fang.
"So Fang, did you have fun spinning with Max?" I whisper-asked him, casually.
He smirked, "We did more than just spin." He wiggled his eyebrows suggestively.
Iggy grinned, "Good job, man." He raised his hand for a high-five, and Fang gladly returned the gesture.
Ugh. Pigs.
"What are you guys whispering about?" Max asked. My eyes widened and I looked at Max, then up at the sky.
"Ever notice how pretty the sky looks?" I asked, trying to change the subject.
"Yeah, clouds are... neat?" Iggy offered, looking up.
Max looked at us strangely. "Iggy, I hate to break it to you, but you're blind."
Iggy looked at Max with weird accuracy, waved his hand in front of his face, and gasped. "Gosh, you're right! I am blind!" Then he rolled his eyes.
"Maaaaaaaaaax, you never answered. Can we go to the park or not?" Nudge groaned.
"Nope. Let's go." Max said, and started walking away.
The 8 begging kids frowned but all stood up, and followed Max.
I was genuinely surprised. Max never said no to the flock.
Hm.... Makes me wonder....
'She's the real Max.' Angel said in my head. There went my idea... Hey. That was...
'Angel! Long time no hear!'
'Yeah... Hey! Can you get us to go to the park?'
Huh? She wanted me to get us to the stupid park? How in the.... heck was I supposed to that?
'The park isn't stupid.'
"Shardae?" Chaz started. "You see, I was wondering, I mean, I heard you and Iggy laughing yesterday about something that wasn't really funny."
I mentally slapped myself in the head for the third time today.
I mean, really, who saw that coming? That he heard us yesterday? Laughing about stuff little 9 years olds shouldn't know about?
"Have you ever noticed how pineapples don't wear tutus?" I asked, trying yet again to change the subject, without drawing attention, to no avail. Everybody looked at me funny. I shrugged.
"What? Where did that come from? We were talking about why you and Iggy hope Max and Fang using protection is funny." Chaz said, a bit confused.
Max' eyes widened, Fang's widened very, very, very, very, VERY, VERY, VERY, slightly.
"You guys hope WHAT?!?!?!?!" Max screeched. She started walking towards us angrily.
Iggy and I started backing up, away from the very mad Max. Iggy laughed nervously, "We... We weren't..." He scratched the back of his head as he talked. Then his voice turned to a whisper as he said to me,"Help me."
I remembered we were in front of a park. The most distracting thing in the world.
"Hey! Who wants to go to the park?" I asked, then started running toward the park without an answer from anybody.
I heard 8 cheers, then people following me to the playground.
You know what's funny? I didn't even want to come to the stupid park, but I'm the one that let them come to the stupid park.
I just think that's funny.
Once I arrived at the park, a thought struck me. What the... crap am I supposed to do here?
Blah, I just decided to go sit on a bench, staring at the rest of the park.
I looked back at Max to see her in shock, staring at me, as if she didn't believe I actually went against something she said.
Well, what can I say? I'm a rebel. XD
She still looked angry, really angry about what my cousin had said we had said.
But, she walked towards the playground anyway, and decided to sit on a different bench on the other side of the playground, Fang following her.
She glared, madly (is that a word?), at me the entire time.
I would have glared at me too.
"Is she gone?" Iggy asked, from his hiding spot behind the bench.
"Yeah, she's across the park. But, she's still looks really, really mad." I answered.
"Okay, is Fang sitting with her?"
"Yep."
"Good, he'll calm her down."
"Unless he's mad too."
He smacked his forehead, clearly frustrated.
Then, my curious little cousin came running up to me. "You still didn't tell me how protection is funny."
"I'll tell you when you're older!" I exclaimed.
"Like, when I'm ten?" Chaz asked.
"More like a hundred and ten..." Iggy muttered.
"Shardae..... Just tell me what it means, and I'll be on my merry way."
What... did he just say to me?
"What did you just say to me?" I asked, staring at him.
"I said, just tell me what it means." He said again.
I stood up, and one finger on my right hand went up. "First of all, you don't tell me what to do." Another finger went up. "Second of all, you're not old enough to know." He looked like he wanted to say something, but I held up another finger. "Third of all, WE'RE AT A PARK!! GO PLAY!"
Yes, I raised my voice, sue me.
But it worked, his eyes widened and he ran to the swings.
I sat back down on the bench and put my face in my hands.
"You handled that well." Iggy said sarcastically.
"Bah..." was my oh-so intelligent reply.
I looked up. Nalani, Lauren, Chaz, Nudge, and Gazzy were all swinging high on the swings, laughing and giggling, clearly happy with my decision about the park. Angel, Lydia, and Ty Ty were playing on the slide, sliding down, then running up the stairs and sliding again. Ty Ty fell once or twice, but got right back up again and kept running.
"Funny kids they are." I said aloud, absentmindedly.
"Yeah... Real funny." Iggy stated, clearly absorbed in his thoughts.
Then about 16 yahoos around... 16 years old came running up to the field by the park, making tons of noise like a bunch of... yahoos. One of them was carrying a football.
Little known fact about me. I played tons of sports, all the time, with people older than me, guys older than me, and I'm better than them.
See where this is going?
All the kids playing, stopped what they were doing and stared at the creeps. At the same time, again.
The yahoos split off into teams and lined up. 8 against 8. 8 yahoos versus 8 yahoos. Seems about even.
"Blue, 42! Set! Hike!" One of the yahoos in a red shirt yelled. The yahoos then scattered, ramming into each other, trying to keep each other from getting the ball.
Wow, I never realized how close people get when playing football. It's just so funny, that they're that close. xD
Then the guy in the red shirt threw the football to one of his open teammates. But, I guess he threw it too far and it went soaring over his head toward the playground. The ball bounced against the floor a couple times, and landed in front of the bench I was sitting at.
"Hey! Can you get the ball?" One of the yahoos in a blue shirt called.
I felt the need to be nice, not that the guy was cute or anything, hex no, but, I don't know, I couldn't explain it.
So, I picked up the football and stood up, just about ready to throw the ball to them. But, I guess the guy in the red shirt had different plans, because he came jogging over towards me.
"Here, I'll take that." he started, then took the ball out of my hands. "I wouldn't want you to hurt yourself." he winked. Did he think I was some kind of... I don't know...-_-? Yeah...
I scowled, and I heard a really low growl, like a really low one. So low, I wasn't even sure I heard it, but there was something incredibly familiar about it, that growl sounded incredibly s-...
Right, back to Earth with the sexist pig.
I wanted to kick him. Nobody... winks at me. Nobody. Especially not some random yahoo.
"I''m sure I'm not the one that's going to get hurt." I replied, angrily.
"Come on now. You don't mean that." He said.
I heard the se- growl again. What the heck was it? Some kind of cat? Like a lion? Or maybe a bear! Or a dog? Maybe a wolf? Werewolf! It would have been funny if it was some kind of bird. Ha ha, bird... Funny. Get it? Cuz... Yeah...
Yeah, I have officially gone crazy.
"Brian! Come on! She obviously doesn't like you!" The guy in the blue shirt called. The yahoos burst out into laughter.
"She'll come around!" Brian yelled back. But really, who's name is Brian?
Like, 'Hi. My name's Brian.'
Then, he turned back to me, "They always come around."
I scowled again, "I don't know who they are, but I'm sure not one of them."
Then he frowned. "Brian!"
He opened his mouth to say something else but instead I said, "You're boyfriends are waiting for you."
" I don't know who you think you are, but I happen to be..."
"Lonely and bitter?" I asked, innocently.
"You better watch yourself, I have a football in my hands."
Wow, that's a new one. I'm being threatened with a football.
"I'm sure you'll hurt yourself if you try to use that against me." I said, confidently.
"Brian! Come on!"
"Listen, chick," Chick? How incredibly sexist. " I'm sure you know nothing about football."
"Oh, really?" I asked. Then I took the ball out of his hands and threw it to the guy in the blue shirt. The football flew over Brian's head and landed in the blue-shirted guy's hands. Brian and the guy in the blue shirt both looked surprised.
I raised my eyebrows in triumph.
He huffed and walked away, past the laughing yahoos, and down the road.
I rolled my eyes, sometimes, guys overreact more than chicks.
"You handled that well." Iggy repeated.
"Sure..."
Chaz then came running over to me," Am I old enough now?"
I glared at him.
He turned back around and ran towards the playground equipment, and ran up the steps.
"Wow. What a weird day." Iggy muttered.
I nodded my head in agreement. Then remembered he couldn't see it. "Yeah. You could say that again." I said.
"What a weird day." Iggy muttered.
I rolled my eyes. Guys... They think they're hilarious.
Then, Nalani and Lauren came strolling up.
"So, what's so funny about protection?" They asked at the same time.
I exhaled, so agonizingly slowly.
They were clearly very, very frustrated with me, it wasn't even funny.
Okay, maybe it was a little funny. :)
I stared at them. They stared at me. The blind guy stared at them with very, very strange accuracy. They alternated between staring at me and Iggy.
"Well...?" They prompted.
"Didn't I get them to the park Igster?" I asked Iggy, turning to him.
He pretended to think, "Yep, I believe you did."
"Then why do they keep asking me about this protection thing? I mean, it's only making me mad, and I did bring them here, I could get Max to make them leave..."
Their eyes widened and they ran and played with Chaz, Angel, Lydia, and Dantie.
"You're just full of surprises, aren't you?" Iggy asked.
I grinned, "Of course I am. Is that a problem?" It was his turn to grin.
"Nope. I wouldn't have it any other way."
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i'm done!
yeah...
i dunno... i think this chapter is almost exactly the same as the chapter max meets ella in the first book... the dialogue i mean... where max is talking to the guys with the guns, remember?
but i swear, i did not do that intentionally!! i promise i didn't!!! i'm reading the maximum ride books to my sister and it's like 'oh my gosh! it's almost exactly the same!'
yeah...
any other announcements? hmm...
i'm an eighth grader now?
all my teachers talk waaaaaaay too much?
i'm taking 5 high school credit classes?
blah, that stuff is boring...
writing test! i got a score of 440, (above proficient) on my writing test! surprising isn't it?
yeah... that's boring too... hmm....
wow, long author's note... i'm just going to disappear now...
