Sooo… there's a lot of flood damage here. One of my friends has to stay in a hotel overnight because his house got flooded. And I can't reach one of my friends, so I really hope she's okay. I called my friend Connor the other day to see if she was okay, and the conversation started like this.

Connor's mom: "Hello?"

Me: OMG ARE YOU ALIVE?

Connor's mom: Umm, yeah we're alive

Me: You didn't have to evacuate and didn't get any water in your house?

Connor's mom: No… who is this?

Yeah… anyways, the upside of this flood is lots of time to type!

Fang: Starry doesn't own maximum ride. Is she a middle-aged man? Even though it's hard to believe, no, she isn't.

Who let you out of the fridge?

Fang: *smirks*

Grrrrr…

Chappie 6

(Because. Chappies are cooler than chapters)

MPOV

I officially suck at making friends. I sighed and leaned against the wall.

My mind wandered back to that day at lunch.

"If you're going to go now and find some other people to sit with, I understand. But remember, you're not telling anyone what I told you."

"Actually," I say, "I think I'll fit right in."

Oh my god. What if she found out? Do they think I'm dangerous?

I shook my head and tried to think of something else. Maybe Fang just realized he was late and had to leave in a hurry.

Yeah right.

I lead King into his stall, contemplating what to do now.

I was deep in thought when something beeped and my leg vibrated, causing me to jump a foot into the air and do a three sixty.

Then I realized it was just my phone.

Whoops.

I pulled it out of my pocket and read the glowing screen

(My little Microsoft Word assistant just popped up and said "You can hurt yourself if you run with scissors". That isn't exactly what I had in mind when I clicked "show tips")

It was from Ella.

Where are you? Mom said we could go shopping for room stuff after school.

I punched in a reply telling her I was at the barn and hit send.

Send Failed

Grr. No signal here.

I walked out the front doors, looking back at the row of stalls. A brown head poked out to watch me go.

"Bye." I whispered softly

I slid the door shut behind me and began the walk home.

You see, we didn't really choose to move here.

Flashback start

"Bye Devon. Thanks for letting me stay." The girl said, smiling at him.

"No problem. Are you sure you won't need a ride?" He asked, concern showing in his voice.

"I'll be fine. It's not that far." She reassured him, and walked down the steps.

Actually, it was a bit of a walk, but the girl didn't want to bother him.

She walked home in silence, her footsteps barley making a sound on the sidewalk.

Suddenly, she heard another pair of footsteps. She tensed, ready to spring into action against any threat.

A man appeared, seemingly out of nowhere, and stepped in front of her.

"Ah" He said, a bemused expression oh his face "The great Maximum ride. We finally meet."

"Who the hell are you and what do you want from me?" She snapped, extremely wary of the flash of silver in his belt.

"Aww, Maxie, don't be mad. I just wanted to ask a favor of you." He said, moving closer

Max held her ground and stared him down.

"You see, we think of you as a potential threat. If you're not with us, you could be very dangerous."

"We?" she said, trying not to let the fear seep into her voice.

The man held out his arm and pulled up his sleeve. There, on the inside of his forearm, was a tattoo showing a skull with a coiling snake for a tongue. (Does anyone get that? I just couldn't resist…)

The mark of one of the more threatening gangs in town.

"Shit." She muttered under her breath. "What do you want?"

"Join us." He said. "We consider you a powerful girl, Ride. We'd rather have you with us than against us."

"No!" She said, now really scared.

The man frowned. "That's not what I wanted to hear, Maxie."

"You don't need me on your side!" she almost yells.

"Yes we do, Max. Because if you're not with us, you could be against us, and we don't want that."

"I won't be with anyone! I don't want to be with you or against you! I don't want to be in a stupid gang!" She yelled.

"You're lying." He spat. "You're going to join up with our enemy. I guess we'll just have to eliminate you before that happens, Maxie." He grinned evilly, his hand reaching towards his belt.

Suddenly, there were more footsteps. He turned around, looking for the source of the noise. Seeing something Max couldn't, he took off into the dark.

"This isn't over!" He yelled over his shoulder. Then he was gone.

"Are you okay, Miss?" a voice asked from behind her. She spun around and come face to face with a middle aged man. He was wearing a tie with the initials JP stitched into it. For some reason, Max thought he looked very familiar. She couldn't shake the feeling that she knew him. (Oh. Yes. I. Did. :D)

"I'm fine." She said hurriedly, and ran the rest of the way home.

Flashback end

I shuddered at the memory. Stupid gangs.

I saw my house come into view, and I saw Ella on the front porch.

"Hey Ells" I said, trotting up the steps.

"Hey." She said "You know, we were going to go shopping for house stuff after school but someone took off."

"Ooh, sorry. I forgot about that." I said sheepishly.

"Oh, by the way, did you see Fang after school?" she asked.

"Yeah." I said slowly. "Why?"

"Well, I was just sitting in my room and I heard this loud crash come from next door and it sounded bad so I went over and rang the doorbell but no one answered and none of the lights are on or anything and it's like no ones home and-"

"Shut up!" I yelled.

"Sorry" she said.

"Let's go over and look." We walked up to the front door and I rang the doorbell. No one answered. I pushed on the door and it swung open, so I stepped inside.

"Max!" Ella squealed.

"You said yourself someone could be in danger. It's acceptable in this case. Now come on." I said and pulled her inside. Actually, I have no idea if that was acceptable or not, but I was curious.

The floorboards creaked as I stepped across them, and I paused to listen for sounds of anyone being home.

"Hey, Max, did you see a bedroom while you were upstairs when we came over to dinner?" Ella said, looking around nervously.

"Come to think of it, I think I saw one on the way to the bathroom. Come on." I practically dragged her up the steps and into the long hallway at the top. The second door we passed was hanging wide open to reveal an almost all black room.

Seriously. Black walls, black bed, black rug. I guess we know whose room this is.

I crept in, Ella close behind. A quick examination showed a large indentation in the wall. Upon further inspection, it turned out to be a hole.

"Well, this may have been the source of the noise. But it looks like there's another room through this wall." I leaned closer and peered through the hole.

"Hmm. I can see a wall with a window. It's not a very wide room. It looks like it wasn't really supposed to be a room, just a walled off section of the house. I don't see a way to get into it."

Suddenly, I heard a small noise come from the room. Ella froze.

"Did you hear that?" She whispered. I gave a short nod.

"Hello?" I called. Suddenly, the noise stopped. "I think someone's in there." I whispered to Ells. "How did they get in?"

"Didn't you say there was a window?" She asked, keeping her voice low.

"Good thinking. Come on, let's go outside."

We practically flew down the steps and out the door. "Umm, this side." Ella said and ran around to the side of the house.

There was a large tree with branches extending to the second story window. Ella and I looked at each other, and then ran for the tree.

I reached the top first, and shimmied out along the branch that led to the window. When I got to the end, I saw it was still open. I scrambled to the sill and jumped inside. I heard a thunk as Ella landed next to me a couple second later. (Microsoft word doesn't think thunk is a word either! It is too!)

The room was small and long, and very plain. There were pictures and frames scattered around the room. They each seemed to hold pictures of the same two people.

Wait, is that me?

The pictures all had a girl in them, and she could be my twin, she looked like me so much.

And then I saw Fang. He was sitting in a corner, cradling his bloody hand.

"What the hell is going on in here?" I yelled.

I really do enjoy these cliffies :D So, it's been kinda a long time since I've updated. Sorry about that, but sadly, I have a life. One that consists of soccer practice every day after school.

Fang: Whoa, rewind. You have a life?

*smacks Fang upside the head*

Anyway, there will be more flashbacks from Max to show you the rest of her story. I think there'll be about three. And, the next chapter, I was thinking of making it an all flashback chapter. Like, a bunch of important flashbacks with him and Grace. Or, I could just distribute the flashbacks throughout the story. Tell me what you want!

QOTC: Do you support Eggy? (Ella x Iggy)

To answer last chapters question, I read One Piece, Bleach, Ultimo, and MR manga. I don't really watch anything. Occasionally I'll watch an episode of One Piece.

Bye!

-Starry eye

PS: anyone want to explain to me what a beta is?