This chapter sucks and I admit it but I needed to clear some things up between Max and Fang and I started introducing a little fax in but not enough for Max to realize it yet. Once again I don't own Maximum ride James Patterson does and I'm just a fan with a good idea for a plot. (Well sort of, I have an idea where this is going but I just don't exactly know how I'm going to get there)

"So we'll work at my house, oh and remember Ari and I moved in with Ella." I said to Fang over the phone.

"Great, I can pick up the poster board and colored paper." He replied.

"Oh and my mom is working late so do you think you can get carry out? I would but I have to stay and help Ari. Just don't tell him I said that or he would kill me and my mom." I said still not believing the fact that I'm inviting FANG into my house, much less asking him to bring me dinner!

He just laughed and agreed. Then I hung up wanting to end this conversation as soon as possible. I know I sound mean when I say that but I can't help that I know that he is just dying to insult, embarrass, or totally degrade me. And yes that is truly the type of person he is. I don't even know who started the insult war but I know that once you get him going he can be brutal. That's probably because he used to know me so well, we actually used to be best friends, I think at one point I even had a crush on him, but that was be for he emo-fied himself, before the incident even happened.

"MAX! Nicks here! Hurry up!" Ella shouted from the front hall, she's so impatient!

"I'm coming! Just give me a sec!" I yelled back.

I ran down the stairs and skidded to a stop. Ella and Fang we're talking about something in hushed voices, I thought I heard them say Dylan so I decided to make my presence known. I cleared my thought and they both whipped around. "Hey Max." Fang said with a slightly uncertain tone in his voice.

"Hi" I replied shortly. Then I motioned him to follow me and I headed upstairs to the office. Our office is probably as cool as offices can get, it has a table with a huge tough screen tablet mounted in it, there are monitors on all sides but one and you can send images and information to them and the display it. It also has a huge desk on the beyond the monitors and it has a few smaller tablets imbedded in the top.

"Wow" was all Fang could manage.

"Yep I get it, it's pretty cool. Can we get to work now?"

"Yeah Sure"

We worked for an hour and then I got extremely bored. "I'm bored! Can we stop and eat for a second?"

Fang rolled his eyes and I thought I saw a flicker of a smile and he said "Yeah I was just about to say the same thing; I hope you don't mind I got us burgers from the place in town."

"Nah it's cool, as long as they're medium rare, I only eat burgers if they're medium rare. And I do realize that the sounds really bitchy, but it's the truth."

"Well you're in luck I'm the same way so I got us both medium rare burgers."

For a second I thought he was being sarcastic but then I realized he was telling the truth.

"Really?" I asked.

"Really" he responded with a nod.

So I'm betting that you guys think that from here on out me and fang will be best buds forever just because we have the same taste in meat, well sorry to burst your bubble but that isn't going to happen. So we talked some more and I finally had to ask him what had been on my mind, "Fang, do you remember how we started the insult war? Because I don't."

"Um I think that it was right after the incident, we had just started school and we got into another one of those fights and finally you said something that I was offended by and I think I insulted you back and then it just never stopped."

"That's probably why I don't remember. Oops did I just say that out loud?"

"Yeah I remember from when we were kids you always forgot something if it was your fault or something like that, all I know is that it used to piss me off so much."

"why don't we just stop the insult war and call it a tie," I said "but just because I'm not going to insult you doesn't mean I can stand you anymore then I used to. I'm just getting tired of it; we've been doing this since eighth grade."

"Agreed."

Then we went back to work now that we figured that out it will be a lot easier to finish the project.

Tuesday day came and went without incident, only a few issues with Fang, they were mostly about the project, Dylan was starting to respect my personal space more, Ella and I are becoming a lot closer and Ari found out he can go to school starting next week, so as far as I knew my life was fine. Wednesday was when it all went downhill. That was the day Ari and I both got letters asking us to testify against our own dad.

"Max! Ari! You've got mail!" I heard mom yell as she walked into the kitchen. So I reluctantly pulled myself off my bed and I went downstairs to see what it was. Ari and I arrived at the same time and mom handed us each a letter. I opened mine first and read it. As soon as I finished it I let it fall from my fingers and onto the floor.

"What is it Max? Max? Are you okay?" mom asked with a worried tone.

I just motioned to the letter and she picked it up and read it, "Oh" was all she could say. Ari and I shared a look before leaving the room to discuss it (wow I actually sound kind of serious there!). That night I called Fang and told him I couldn't work on the project that night, and when he responded he almost sounded sad, what's up with that? Anyway Ari and I had decided that we were going to testify and that we were determined to keep him away from Ella and Angle. After we were done with him, he wasn't going to be able to call us let alone come near us, or our family.

Oh and I still need ideas for last names and teacher names! Please help me! I am terrible with coming up with last names! Read and review and if you really want to I guess you can give me flames but only if you give me a name/ ways to fix what I messed up on! Oh and sneak peak! Fang is going to get a makeover that makes Dylan the third hottest guy in school! Ha-ha sucker!