Maximum Ride; Finding Myself, Chapter 3
Max. Her smile. Her frown. Her kicking butt( preferably not his.) The more Fang thought of her, the harder it was not to turn back. But that dweeb Dylan was right, his being there put her in danger, and suprisingly he wasn't that selfish. Not yet, anyway.
Searching his mind he thought of every memorable time hhe had with her. Like the time they had been sparring, and Max had dislocated her shoulder trying a new street-fighting move Jeb had taught them. She had staggered around, Jeb talking to her, and then, POP! her shoulder was back to normal. Jeb had gone inside to get her a lemonade, and he'd walked over to her, unsure of what to say or do. Sensing him there she had lifted her head and said, " Thanks, Jerk," and had slugged him right below... the... stomach. Hard.
Another time, she had been flying and dropped on him from above, wrapping her arms and legs around him, trying to make him run into a tree.
The time Jeb took them to a store, Wal-Mart, he thought, and Max had found two rubber spiders. She dropped one down his and Iggy's backs, and them laughed histarically as the danced, trying to rid themselfs of the gooey things. That night, he had put a frog in her bed, only to find it sitting on his face when he woke up.
He tried not to scream, and settled on a strangled cry, which of course brought everyone running.
Later Max had panomimed his face, which had collapsed them all in a laughing heap.
Max dumping macaroni on his head after he spit it out, as it was her first attempt at cooking. Max putting out the fire that Iggy started on his first attempt to cook, sraying the white foam everywhere. Later, they had made themselves Santa's, With jolly white beards and mustaches.
Standing up Fang ran out of the forest, and jumped, flapping his wings. This is pathetic, he thought. I need a goal, a destraction. Thinking he came up with an idea. Canada. That was where Iggy had wanted to go.
Iggy. Even thinking of him brought pangs of longing and sorrow. Not that Fang knew what either of those feelings were, but still, you get the point.
Using his raptor-vision, he saw a small town. Wheeling in an arc, Fang turned to the area.
Top four things on his list of To-Do's for today were:
1. To find a town with a computer
2. Do a new blog, telling fans the Flock had split and not to worry before Max got Nudge to do it
3. Get a nice hotel room using the cash he had taken from Max's bank card (he hoped she didn't mind) so he could have a good night's rest, and
4. Find out where the heck Canada was (Was it a state or continent? He didn't know.)
Pulling in his wings he descended, already tasting the burger he was going to buy for breakfast.