I probably won't be updating as often as I used to with school, studing (I really need to do that more), speech and drama, along with dealing with a crazy stalker ex-best friend. But hey! What the heck! I'll update the most I can! And I'm in a shout out mood so go check out caribbeansoulforever 's stories along with Lille Katerina Ride's stories! They're both super talented! I don't own Maximum Ride like always; no matter how many times I try to get the rights. *Sigh* ONWARD!
The rest of the day after that was pretty boring. Fang luckily was only in four of my classes. Advanced mathematics, biology, geography, and study hour. Not my favorites but not my most hated either, just a balance of the two kinda like yin-and-yang.
After all my classes I go to my car to meet with JJ and Nudge. But I see another figure by our cars is that...Ella? Nudge spots me and waves her arms frantically because I can't see her. No that would be impossible."MAX!" she screams. I give a small wave and nod towards them.
"Hey Ella," I say.
And for some reason me knowing Ella catches Nudge completely off guard. "You guys know each other? How? Are you the neighbor she was talking about? I wonder what it's like to have a neighbor! I've never had a new neighbor except for Gavin but he was really weird and smelled gross. But besides that I've never had a new neighbor. It's like the land is cursed: No one new can live hereor something like that. I don't want to live on cursed land Max! I don't want to! I want to live! I want to-" THANK YOU JJ!
"Yes she is my new neighbor, I know Gavin smelled gross; I highly doubt your house is cursed-"
"THE LAND!" She tries to interject from behind JJ's hand but it comes out like "TH ANGD!" but when you're as experienced as I am in Behind-the-hand-talk you get the general idea...most of the time.
"The land," I say correcting myself mostly for her sake. "I know you wouldn't want to live on cursed land, and we all want to live." I go over all the topics she talked about in my head while ticking it off on my fingers and see that I didn't forget anything. Score one for Max.
Nudge licks JJ's hand and JJ pulls her hand muttering about she could have just asked for her to move her hand. Nudge shrugs and looks towards me, "We're all going to head out to Ella's house you in Max?" She asks.
I shrug, what do I have to loose? Don't answer that. "Sure why not."
I hop in my car and head off to Gazzy and Angel's school. Angel is sitting on a concrete step looking around. She sees my car and smiles brightly. She runs up the steps and grabs Gazzy by his arm.
He pushes her away slightly.
What the heck?
She grabs his elbow and tries to pull him away raising his voice where I can hear him, "Angel, I said give me a minute." He has more bite to the bark than I expected.
She tries one more time and he pushes her down. Before I know what's happening I'm out of the car rushing to Angel, I grab her arms and sit her up, "Are you okay Angel?" She nods her head mutely; a few tears slip out of her eyes and go down her cheeks.
I get up and look Gazzy in the eye. "What the hell"—Gazzy and Angel both gasped because I never curse—"was that?" I say to him trying to refrain from raising my voice and slapping his hands like you would to a baby so it wouldn't hurt but would let them know they did something wrong.
"M-Max, I-I d-didn't mean t-to." He stutters out looking at the ground. I tip his chin so he has to face me.
"Get in the car." I ground out. He nods and dashes to the car. "Angel are you sure you're okay?" I ask.
"I'm sure Max," she smiles brightly at me then frowns. "Max?" She asks gently; I nod for her to continue. "Do we have any more Hello Kitty Band-Aids?"
I laugh at her silliness, "I'm sure we have some band-aids some where." She nods and we walk to the car scraped knees almost forgotten. Almost.
I look at the car and see Gazzy in the backseat playing with the fabric. I open Angel and Gazzy's door. "Front seat. Now," I say jerking my head toward the front of the car. He nods and buckles in on the passenger side.
"I'm sorry Max." he says barely whispering.
I appreciate the effort. I really do, but I have been spending the last six years sticking my neck out for them so they wouldn't get hurt, and then he goes out and purposely pushes her. It basically sent my heart into overdrive wondering why he would do these things. I can't help it I just can't. It's out of my mouth before I even give my brain permission to speak.
"Don't." I say raising my hand to stop him.
It's one simple word.
But it has more bite to the bark than I expected.
"Gazzy," I start my extremely long lecture about how what he did was wrong. I'll spare you the details because even I was bored and it was pretty basic.
But I don't normally enforce punishments at all; spill a drink? Clean it up and be more careful. Forget something at the house? We go back and I tell you not to forget it again. But he looks upset with himself. He has tear streaks going down his face and his normally bright blue eyes are red and puffy.
I feel bad for him. There's almost nothing worse than having a parent saying they're disappointed in you.
I pull into the driveway and once we reach the door I hear...noises. Not the noises noises, more like a...house guest?
Impossible.
Well, Jeb could have a potential boss in there. Best to leave it alone I guess. I go back to the car and dig around for the emergency medical stuff I have packed in the trunk.
I clean Angel's cuts and when I finish we head over to Ella Fang and Iggy's house. We knock and Nudge opens the door smiling brightly. "Hey Max!" She says bubbly.
"Hey Nudge. Doesn't the owner of the house normally answer the door?"
She shrugs, "We were playing truth or dare. I chose dare; you knocked; I got dared to open the door." It looks like she contemplates this for a moment before an imaginary light bulb goes off in her head. She crouches down with her forearms resting on her legs. "Hey Angel! Hey Gazzy! What's up?"
In case you're wondering why she acts like this is because she knows I raised Angel and Gazzy. I think I may have had her babysit with me once when we were 14 and Angel was starting to do the torturous fours. Let's say Angel was a…hard toddler.
Gazzy is about to respond but I cut him off. "Oh no you don't!" I say sharply. Earning a confused glance from Nudge. "Once we're in here you are going to put your nose to the corner."
"Yes Max." He mutters. Scuffing his shoe and looking down.
I shuffle everyone in the house, Gazzy and Angel stand there looking awkward under everyone's stares. "Gazzy. Corner." I say. He nods and goes to stand with his nose to the corner. I look over to Fang, Ella, Iggy, and Nudge. "Do you guys mind if Angel plays with us?"
A chorus of "no"'s and "nope"'s were heard around the circle. "Awesome. Who wants to start then?"
"Oooh pick me!" Angel says waving her hand in the air like a kid full of candy.
"Angel it is." I say in an announcer voice.
"Iggy right?" She says to Iggy. He nods. "Iggy truth or dare?"
He doesn't even hesitate. "Dare."
I groan in my hands while Nudge and Angel smile evilly. Iggy doesn't know the power in Angel. She rubs her hands together like a super villain would and says happily,
"I dare you and Fang to play fairy dress-up with me outside."
Iggy's face goes paler than normal and looks to me for support. "What can I say? She learned from the best. She has an evil six-year-old mind." I tell them. Then as an after thought I say, "Come on you two have a dare to full-fill."
I would say when we pulled out our phones and starting recording their faces were priceless but I would be lying.
It was better.
Let's just say that the world of facebook, twitter, myspace—even though no one uses that anymore—and instagram will never forget about our lovely…how Angel put fairies.
Jeb's house guest stayed the night which I thought was strange so Angel, Gazzy, and I crashed at Dr. M's house for the night.
Today I actually fell asleep happily and feeling safe. I just wish everyday felt like this.
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