Yello! I just read Out Of My Mind! It's awesome! Now I'm not going to updating very often because of the regular excuses that I know you guys just LOVE. Buuut, they are all valid excuses. I'm pretty sure everyone heard about my school's lockdown right? From Miss Big Mouth over here? I don't own Maximum Ride, or anything mentioned in this chapter.

School. Is. Out! Yes, yes! Double fudge cherry on top YES! Okay it's not totally out but it's finally the weekend! Which brings me to where I am right now, YES!

But this weekend is different! Do you want to know why? I'm getting a job, but this is no ordinary job. No, no, no. This job, this job will rock. Why? Because it's at an ice cream shop. Yeah, the new store Sansando; and it makes AMAZING ice cream. Better than Ben&Jerry's yes, THAT GOOD!

But enough about ice cream and it's pure fluffiness that you can't deny. As I run out of school I run into a black wall. I would have assumed it was a wall but walls don't wear shirts. And our school is all white except red and black lines that are up to my stomach.

Not my face. Which only leaves one option: I ran into Fang. The kid clad in black. Aka: Mr. Emotionless Emo. I snicker a little at the thought.

"I need to talk to you." He says.

I roll my eyes and start to move forward my messenger bag slinging in between my shoulder blades. He puts his hand on my shoulder and jerks me back. I spin faster than humanly possible and look at him with a steely glare, "What?" I practically hiss.

"I need to talk to you." He says his voice not even wavering from the ice in my voice.

I sigh and turn back around. "Come on Emo Boy." I call after him. And I can practically FEEL his smirk. We get in the car and I start to drive to the elementary school. We listen to the radio and get ourselves settled into a perfectly comfortable awkward silence.

But me, being me decided to break it. "Speak Fangels."

He gives me a look and I shrug turning onto Blueman Drive. "I know Max."

What? I voice these complex thoughts by saying, "Huh?"

"I know about Jeb Max."

THAT gets my attention and I swerve into another lane almost getting hit by a semi. I do a u-turn and pull into a abandon super mart effectively slamming on my breaks spitting fire at him, "You are not to tell anyone! ANYONE! You hear me! Not a soul! If you do there will be hell to pay!" I scream at him.

"Max you have to tell someone!" He screams right back at me.

"No I don't! How did you find out anyway!" He looks ashamed for a second his eyes turning to a downcast. "Spit it out!"

He mumbles something incoherent. I grab his arm and slam him against the back of the seat. "I heard you and Angel talking this morning while Angel was taking a bath." He says louder this time.

I mentally face palm. Daaang iiittttt! I'm a little hesitant to ask, "How much did you hear?" I say quietly backing out of the parking lot and onto Blueman.

I see him smirk out of the corner of my eye just in my line of sight. "'Will you be my Mommy?'" He says quoting Angel.

I groan. "You heard all that?" He nods and I sigh. I pull up to the school but don't see Gazzy anywhere. "Wait here." I say getting out. I slam the door shut and apparently Fang does the same. I glare daggers at him but let him stay.

Angel sees me and runs into my arms I pick her up swinging her in my arms for a second before bouncing her on my hip. "Max, Gazzy got in trouble."

I sigh pinching the bridge of my nose with my pointer finger and thumb. I nod and start up the steps Fang on my left side. I go to the office and see a secretary with brown hair to her collarbone that's stick straight, she has brown eyes that frown when she sees Angel on my hip. I frown back at her. She has aristocratic features with an upturned nose at the tip, her name plate says Aimee Vanhurster she looked about 29.

"I'm here to pick up Zephyr Ride." I say bitter sweetly.

"Are you his legal guardian?" She said in a disgusted voice eyeing me up and down scrutinizing every imperfect detail.

"I'm his sister," I started in a dwindling patience voice. "His father couldn't be here today."

She looked at me warily. But then an older nicer looking lady came in. She was probably 50 with the type of golden hair that people get when they still have healthy hair but their age destroys. She had kind brown eyes compared to Aimee's cold and cruel ones. "Come on sweetheart." She said, her voice was kind of crackly but you could still sense her affection for people.

I smiled warmly at her and followed her into a small hallway containing councilor's offices and the assistant and regular principal's office. "Would you guys call me next time something like this happens," I ask.

"How come babe?"

"Our dad doesn't really like to be disturbed at work, he's a scientist and he could have the answer to the hardest thing ever and a phone call can make him loose his train of thought." I explained lying carefully.

She smiles and says, "I'll work on that right now hon." And takes off to her desk down the hall.

I set Angel down and give her instructions to stay put, then walk in the room and Fang closes the door behind us. Two chairs are in front of the assistant principal's desk, Gazzy sits in one looking at the ground shamefully. I take a seat while Fang hides out in the back of the room with his arms crossed.

"Miss Ride." The principal starts off slowly—his name plate says Mr. Groulder. "Are you aware of why Zephyr is here today?"

I know you're supposed to be patient with adults—especially ones enforcing punishment—so I try to stay calm, "No Mr. Groulder, in fact I am not." I hear Fang snicker at the back of the room so I carefully move my hand to the back of my chair to where Mr. Groulder can't see and give Fang the bird.

"Today there was a stink bomb in the boys bathroom"—He doesn't even get the chance to finish before I barely turn to Gazzy and give him a glare.—"Zephyr was found near the scene at around the same time the stink bomb was set off." He looks at me gauging my reaction.

Let's say its not what be expected, "What makes you think he did it?" I ask. "You need a better reason other than he was found near the scene. How many other people were by the bathroom? Was it a class trip?" I interrogate him.

"Well, um…" he says scratching the back if his neck.

"Was there. Or was there not. Other people there." I ground out.

"There was—"

"So go ask the other people's guardians before you go interrogating my brother. But really Mr. Groulder they're in 3rd grade. Most of them only know how to light a smoke bomb like they do to keep bugs away during the night."

"I suppose..." he says rubbing his chin thoughtfully. "I'll have to look in to it. Goodbye Miss Ride."

"Goodbye Mr. Groulder."

I nudge Gazzy with my elbow, "Goodbye Mr. Goulder." He mumbles.

"Please give me a call if anything happens—it should be in the computer." He nods his head and we all walk out.

I don't see Angel at first glance and panic a little. I hear a little girl giggle that could only come from Angel from Mrs. Lexington's office aka: The head principal's office.

I open the door a crack and see Mrs. Lexington's hair in a million different ponytails and her bangs pinned back by the cheap hair pin things you get at Wal-Mart for $1 of a pack of 25.

Angel is on the desk making her hair go in lots of directions and Mrs. Lexington is just pretending to go along with everything Angel's doing. Angel doesn't notice us coming in and continues to chatter aimlessly. "And so Greta—my other imaginary friend—told me to tell Cathy—my real friend—that her dress was the cutest. And I said 'Tell her yourself! Cathy won't bite!' But Greta went and got Ashleah—another imaginary friend—and they ganged up on me! So I finally just said to Cathy 'Greta and Ashleah like your dress.' And she looked at me weird but then said, 'Yeah, and Delilah and Rosemary like yours.'"

Mrs. Lexington notices us and puts her hand up. "Angel, I think your sister and Gazzy are here." She says pointing to me.

Angel stops and looks at me rushing off the desk and into my arms like earlier. "Max!" She says happily. "By Mrs. Lexington!" She waves as we leave.

I'm back! Just so you know next chapter... it has FAX. I'm not gonna lie- I'm less than a hundred words in. And it has FAX. See you guys later. Review please!