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Sorry for the late update! It's because my friend is leaving for another country and never coming back, so we've been hanging out a lot together!

SORRY!

Okay, well it's my third chapter! I am really happy and pleased.

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Disclaimer: And I have forgotten in the first 2 chapters but I do not own Maximum Ride
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Quick Recap from chapter 2

Sighing, I realised that there was school the next morning.

Well here's chapter 3!

Chapter 3

Max POV

Nudge's mum drove us to school after a wonderful and filling breakfast.

Nudge had been filling her in on Jeb's behaviours.

"Max, Iggy, if you want to come and live with us for a while, you are must most welcome to. Actually, I would much rather you did than go back and live with Jeb." You could see that she was holding in her anger. Oh, did I forget to mention? Nudge's mother was a psychologist and also worked against child abuse and domestic violence.

I gave her a warm smile. "That would be great Mrs. Woodevert. In fact, I don't especially want to go back to that house. It wouldn't be a good idea."

Mrs Woodevert nodded, and the rest of the ride was silent, apart from the occasional texts that Iggy was sending Nudge.

Sooner or later, we arrived at school, and J.J ran up and hugged me. Apparently Jeb had called J.J last night and asked her about where we were, but clearly he didn't have the brains to call Nudge.

"Oh my gosh! Max! Where were you last night?" J.J may not have been as much of a chatterbox as Nudge, but she was still extremely loud and also worried about things really easily.

I told J.J about what had happened, and at the part when I told her that we had runaway, I saw her jaw drop just a little. She tried to cheer me and Iggy up, but we just decided to go in for class.

We made a trip to our lockers. Since we were all in the same homeroom (A/n: is this what they call it in America?), our lockers were fairly close to each others.

"Hey look everybody is Maxie Batchelder! Clearly she is too poor to buy new clothes. She's wearing the same clothes as yesterday!"

I rolled my eyes in distress. Every since I was in the same Yr 5 class as Ari (A/n: school systems are much too confusing for me), he had been teasing me ever since. Ari hung around the popular group, but since his sister Ali was a "popular girl" but was also a very helpless girl, Ari was almost his sister's bodyguard, so he had freakishly developed an interest in clothing and fashion.

I saw most of the populars turn their heads to look at me and then erupt into laughter. Sure enough I was wearing the same clothes as yesterday, but was that really that much of a big deal? Even Nudge hadn't caught me and started to lecture me about clothing, so how could the populars that I never ever talk, to notice what clothes I wear on a daily basis?

"She's worn that shirt so many times that it's almost changed colour!" Another popular called Becky called out. More people started laughing.

"And those shoes and her outfit just clash!" A girl called Belinda called. Again, people come smirked while some giggled.

"Her outfit just clashes!" This was said by a girl that I didn't recognise. She and Belinda high fived while the sound of laughter was still quite loud.

I felt myself get red in the face. Not because of my clothing, but because everybody was laughing at me, except for those that really hated the populars, which was of course J.J, Nudge, Iggy, a close friend called Sam, the nerd group (though they probably couldn't say much), the geek group, the emo and gothic group etc.

Suddenly a girl called out "And those pants have been so over worn that they have become so baggy!" All the laughter stopped and everybody looked at her. Even I looked at her. Then everyone erupted into laugher once again, but not at me, but at the game girl who had said that very comment. Lissa Jenkins. Fang's girlfriend.

Oh, and for your information, Fang, whose actual name is Nick Ride, is the hottest guy in the whole school. Every girl would fall for him if he smiled at you. And I will admit that I am one of those girls. I would fall for his smiles. But, let me clarify that sentence to you. Any girl would fall for his occasional smiles. Fang never smiles, he just smirks, and that is the reason why I would fall for him because of his smiles. Not because I am a mainstream person, but because I would feel a sense of achievement if he gave me one of his very smiles.

Anyway, you may start to wonder why everyone was laughing at Lissa. That was because I was wearing trackpants, so of course they were going to be baggy! Lissa looked totally confused, until Belinda told her, and then he started going tomato red in the face.

Just to tell you, Lissa is known throughout the school as the biggest slut. She wears the most tight and revealing shirts, and the shortest skirts in the whole world. Not to mention her heels, they were at least 3 inch tall. But then a person that short needed them. She was about 155cm tall, where as I was a good 180cm tall. See the difference? I can walk around school in flat shoes and still look down at a majority of people while talking.

Lissa, being so embarrassed, walked away ready to go to class until she bumped into Fang. Everyone went silent as Fang stared at Lissa then at everyone else. Iggy, who was best buddies with Fang walked up to him and spilled the beans to him. Fang was frozen for a while as everyone stared at him. Then he smirked, yes, only smirked and walked past Lissa with Iggy behind him, and walked towards he and Iggy's other best friend, Dylan.

Dylan was also super hot, and was nicknamed "Mr. Perfect," but because he smiled pretty much 24/7, I wasn't as desperate about him. Not that I was even desperate about Fang either.

Lissa stared at Fang as he walked past her, her jaw almost touching the ground in shock. She couldn't believe that her boyfriend had just walked away from her.

That was until Fang turned around and she closed her mouth.

"We're over" Fang said. And he simply turned away and walked off with Iggy and Dylan. I swear that I saw the faces of almost all the other girls light up. By the end of the day, Fang would probably be making out with a new girlfriend all ready. He was just that hot.

Ari looked at Lissa, and smiled with sympathy and then walked away with the rest of the populars. Who knew that he could still be kind? Lissa, still with an open mouth, then looked at me, then at the corridor. Turns out Fang had forgotten to take his books out of his locker for first period, so he had come back for them. He saw me look at him, and then saw Lissa. He turned away from her and then winked at me. Everyone that was there saw it, and I saw Iggy and Dylan's eyes widen at me. Soon after Fang left, everyone started to crowd around me, and Lissa glared at me. "Watch it" she threatened. But to be honest, her glared were pathetic. She walked off full of anger realising that she was no longer in the popular group.

Nudge, J.J and Sam came up to me. "OMG! He so likes you. Don't forget he's single! OMG! Wouldn't it be so cool if Fang and Max started to go out! She would become popular and then more people would talk to us and then maybe we could sit with the popular group! That would mean that Iggy and I would be able to sit and eat lunch together! OMG! That would be so cool! Now we ne-'' But thankfully, Sam slapped a hand on top of her mouth.

"Thank you Sam. Nudge, Fang and I won't go out! I doubt he even likes me as a friend!" I cried.

J.J and Nudge exclaimed glances and then walked off, leaving me with Sam.

I heard Sam sigh and mutter under his breath "I will never understand girls"

He looked at me, and together we walked off to our first period class, History.

Okay! This was the longest chapter so far!

So there was a little bit of Fax in this chapter!

I will gradually add more Fax to it though!

I will try to update as soon as possible, but on the 23rd (this Friday) I am going overseas and I doubt that I will have access to a laptop there, and obviously not the internet. So if I can, I will update as much as I can these 2 days, or it will be when I come back, which is around the 10th of January.

Sorry!

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