This chapter is all about when Layne met the flock, and the flock met her. They're eating at a restaurant called Old Chicago (it was the only one I could think of!) and Layne works their as a waitress, the reason is because she's 18, and has a apartment that she has to pay rent for. So on with the story!

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Chapter Two, More To Her

Max's POV

We walked carefully into the restaurant, not wanting to attract too much attention. We sat down at an empty table, big enough for the five of us. When our waitress came over I did a double take. She was beautiful, blue eyes, blond hair, curvy figure, blah, blah, blah… Anyway she took our…. unusually long orders, and didn't look surprised just… curious? I wasn't quite sure.

When she came back I noticed something. She had a necklace around her neck, but something about the little metal thing on the end bugged me…And it bugged me even more that I didn't know why it was bugging me. "Is there anything else I can get you?" She- Layne- asked.

I was about to say no when Nudge accidentally knocked over my cup, I'm not quite sure what she was doing at that moment… Layne took a towel out of her little pouch thing she had on, and wiped it up. When she bent over I saw something that I didn't expect. She had a huge pink scar on her shoulder, and there was something wrong with the way her back looked… almost as if she had something underneath her shirt… like, say, wings? My eyes widened, and I looked meaningfully over at Angel. She looked at me for a moment and then nodded. She then looked at Layne, and concentrated. After a moment Layne shot up strait, and looked around at all of us. When her eyes landed on Angel, she stopped dead in her tracks… as if she knew what was happening…. This was getting way too weird.

"Wow… Cool!" Angel exclaimed, grinning excitedly.

Layne smiled, "I like to think so." She said and then laughed.

"What are you talking about?" I asked Angel.

She looked over at me, bouncing up in down in her chair, "Layne." Was all she said. I nodded, prodding her on. "I'll let her tell you!" Angel said.

I looked expectantly over at the subject. She sat down in the one empty spot. "Well.." Layne began. "I'm like all of you are; with the wings," she continued, "But my 'special talent' is a lot different…" Layne took a deep breath before continuing. "Iabsorbotherpeoplesskills." Layne said it so fast, I didn't understand it until Angel explained when I gave her a questioning look.

"When we use our powers around her a few times, she gets them to; she absorbs them. That's what just happened, when I tried to read her mind, she absorbed my power to read minds!" Angel was bouncing up and down again. I grabbed her shoulder and stilled her. "Isn't that sooo cool?!" Angel said, making 'so' sound allot longer.

I looked over at Layne who was looking at Angel and smiling. Angel was smiling back, witch made me think that they were having a privet conversation, it annoyed me more than it should.

"We should probably get going." I said, even though we hadn't eaten everything yet.

"Okay, I'll go get your check." Layne said. She stood up, smiled at angel, and then walked off.

"Oh, Max! can we keep her?" Angel asked.

"Angel, she is not a dog. You can't just keep her! We don't even know anything about her, like; is she on the schools side?" I said.

Angels face fell, and she started to pout. I didn't look at her face, because I knew if I did I would see her bambi eyes and give in.

"Her mind is clear… she isn't bad Max! She is the opposite." Angel said. I made the mistake of looking straight at her. Angel's eye's were wide and begging, her lips quivering, and pouting. She looked like she was on the verge of tears.

I sighed and Angel, being the mind reader that she was, knew that it meant I was giving in. "Yay!" Angel yelled, loud enough for a few surrounding tables to look at her like she was a foreign species. I gave her a glare that didn't even put a dent in her excitement.

Layne was coming back with the check now and it seemed like her and Angel were having another privet conversation. Layne's eyes widened and she glanced at me and then back at Angel.

"Really?" Angel said out loud, "We get to keep her!" Angel said to me. Everything at our table was quite for a moment, and then Layne burst out laughing.

"If it's okay that I stay with you, that is." She said looking at me. "Oh, Angel told me you were the leader… that's why I'm asking you." She answers my unspoken question. I glanced back at Angel, wondering just how much she had told her.

"Not too much." Angel said defensively.

"So who are you exactly?" Iggy said. I had all but forgotten that he, and the rest of the flock, was there. They were all being so quite… even Nudge. Now that was strange.

"Oh, my name is Layne… I have wings, my parents sold me to Itex when I was nine days old, the school told me that to get me mad and test my powers. I used to have people with me… but they got killed. One of them was my sister… one of the others was my…'boyfriend', and the other was my Best Friend. I lost them a year ago. Hmmm, what else do you want to know?

Wow. That was allot to drop on people that you don't really know. I thought to myself.

"Well, you're helping me, I might as well tell you stuff that you would find out sooner or later." She said

"You wouldn't have to tell us." I argued.

"I talk in my sleep sometimes." Layne said with a laugh. "I get off in about five minutes…" She said, changing the subject.

I nodded, not sure what to say. Layne walked back to the kitchen, leaving me and the flock alone. I glanced around at them; Gazzy was belching the alphabet, Nudge was jabbering to Angel about Layne, Iggy had something under the table… I'd talk to him about that later, and Fang was glaring at me. I sighed and looked away.

When we got to the hotel that we were staying at, I told Layne that she could share a room with me Angel and Nudge. She said that she had an apartment, but that it was too small to fit everyone. In the end we all stayed in the Hotel.

Angel and Nudge shared a bed, and Layne slept on the other one. I slept on the very small couch. Even though Layne volunteered to, I objected, wanting to be able to keep an eye on her, I couldn't do that from the bed. She gave up eventually, collapsing on the bed. I stayed up all night, keeping an eye on her.

A/N: So that's how they met, the next chapter is going to be back to the present time. This is only about the first time they met obviously. R&R plz! I also want flames! Tell me what u don't or do like!