"Hello?" she asked. Looking slightly confused. Her pretty red hair hung down to her waist, and her big brown eyes looked out from her porcelain face. the face that I had once wanted to bash in, now I simply stood here.

I unfroze when I saw the look she was giving me, "Hi, Lisa?" I asked hesitantly. She looked at me, as though she as bored.

"Yes this is she, can I help you?" she asked with forced niceness. She never had been the best with people that she thought weren't worth her. No wonder I hated her. "Hi, It's me, Max." she all out glared at me and slammed the door in my face. We stood shell shocked. And I almost broke down, but X held my hand and kept me from going insane. Shadow stared at the door, and then lunged and ripped it open. Obviously pissed, we all looked out for one another. And I had just got hurt. Boom grabbed his arm and stopped him, because there all in fighting stances stood my flock.

"I should have told you, they go on offensive really fast." I said, quietly as I looked at their faces. Gazzy, my little trooper wasn't so little anymore. Now he was 16, and a handsome teenager now. I almost cried… Angel, my baby, was 14 and a real beauty. Long blonde hair down to her hips, and slender and amazing big blue eyes. Nudge. Her hair hung pin straight down to her shoulders and her smooth mocha face, looked like a firickin' fashion model! On her finger sat a diamond ring. Tears came to my eyes. Iggy, he'd grown taller. If that's possible, he would be well over 6ft now. his eyes focused in on our group, despite the fact that he's blind. And Fang. Oh god, Fang. He had grown now at age 23, his black hair hung over his forehead. In the way that I loved, just before he cut it. His face had lost all boyish roundness and his coal black eyes looked impassively at me.

"Fang, it's me, Max?" I said. My heart pounding in my chest, as Lisa glared at me from behind his shoulder. No one moved, but the flock eyed me and the others with fear and worry, in angle's eyes I swear that I saw hope. But none of them wavered, not even for a second. It was heart breaking. And what made it worse was that the flock was protecting, her. He was protecting, her.

"Prove it." It was like he had spit the words at me, but I understood. There was another of me. And so I had to let them ensure that I was, well me.

I thought for a moment. Then decided to make him embarrassed… "you used to sing into a hair brush, after jeb left. And when I told Iggy he peed his pants laughing." Fang flushed, and stood up, "very funny, Max. I still haven't forgiven you for that." He mumbled. Before I could say anything I was running toward him, and jumped up to hug him. I started to cry as he wrapped his arms around me without any hesitation. The next thing I knew I was being tackled by flock members. And even though it hurt I didn't want it to end.

When we were all done with the hugs and kisses, shadow spoke up. "maybe we should head back to the house, Max. They can all meet the others, and Thorn." My eyes brightened and I nodded happily. But behind the flock, I heard Lisa stomp her foot.

"Fang, I don't think that's a good idea. And we have plans to finalize." She said in that annoying chirpy voice of hers, I could see Iggy and Nudge mocking her and laughing behind their hands. Fang rolled his eyes and moved to see her.

" I haven't seen Max in eight years, so I intend to meet the rest of her family, and this Thorn person. I want to go and so does the flock. We have really missed our leader." I raised my eye brows. "What up with the paragraphs?" I asked. He simply shrugged his shoulders and flashed me a grin, for a moment I was 14 again and I loved it.

"But shouldn't you at least tell her?" Lisa asked angrily. The flock tensed, and looked around as though nothing was happening. But I could clearly see the anger and worry in Iggy's cloudy blue eyes. I began to feel sick, but I didn't know why. The entire house seemed to crackle with tension and suppressed rage. Almost as though the very atmosphere hated her as much as I did. That made me feel even worse, because what had she ever done to me?

"Oh whatever, I'll do it if your too chicken…" Lisa said turning to me. "Fang and I are engaged to be married." She chirped as though she delighted in destroying my life and stabbing my heart…now what was I gonna do? The man that I've been in love with for 10 years was getting married to another woman.

I'm Maximum freaking Ride, I am flock leader because I can do the Gnarly jobs, I can do anything…I saved the world; I can certainly fight for Fang. And that's just what I'm gonna do. So there little . Take that.

The Flock, Lisa, Shadow, Boom, Dagger, X and me all flew back toward the house. The flight was slightly uncomfortable as Fang carried Lisa, 'cause she's not special like us, HAHAHAHAHA (sorry, I had a weird moment there.) it was hard to just fly by when she was sitting in his arms. But I could do it with all my Maximum strength.

Within a few moments we had landed and I could hear the others out back, splashing could be heard from around the front of the house. I ran around back, calling out to my baby the whole time. "Thorn! Come here Baby!" the flock looked mildly surprised, when a short girl with pitch black wings came running to me screaming "MOMMY!" Her long brown hair and tan eyes glowed in the afternoon sun. A smile lit her face as she raced toward me.

As she ran her wings fluttered and lifted her up over the grass, making her skirt flutter around her knees. Her big happy smile made me feel all warm and fuzzy. Her big brown eyes took in the flock standing behind me, and she looked cautious. As though she knew not to trust anyone. I was so proud of her.

"Hey baby!" I said as she came into my arms. Her smile only a bit strained. She was holding onto my neck and I stood up to introduce her to the flock. "Thorn, this is Iggy," he raised his hand. "And Nudge" she stepped forward and smiled touching Thorn's cheek. "And Gazzy, and Angel." Angel stepped forward to hug Thorn and Gazzy shook her hand. I took a deep breath. "And that's Fang." I said. Her eyes fastened in on him, and instantly her little face became calculating.

"You don't like that my mom has her own new family, you want her to come back home. And you don't know how I was born. Now you don't know what to think. But you do want my mommy to come back to the flock." She said. "And no, I don't have a daddy. I was made by the white coats. But mommy knows who my daddy is. She tells me stories sometimes, when she thinks I'm asleep. She missed you very much too. And she hates that girl, I don't know why. But I don't like her either, she smells weird and has mean thoughts about my mommy." With that my little baby girl ran off to play with jade. And left the flock staring after her…

What can I say my baby's talented.