The Pool. DUN DUN DUN

"Max!!! Wake up!!!!!!!!"

Ughh. What time is it? I open my eyes and see 5 hyper bird-kids. Well 4 hyper bird kids seeing as Mr. Unemotional is, well, unemotional.

"wh ime s it??" I say. I'm way too sleepy. Maybe if I close my eyes they'll leave.

"Maaaaaxxxxx you said we were going to the pool. Come ooooonnnnnnn!!" someone screamed in my ear. Probably Nudge. Grrr. I should probably get up.

"I'm coming already sheesh." I say as I get out of bed. "Gimme 5 minutes and we can leave"

They all leave except for Fang.

"Awesome hair" He says pointing at my head. I felt my cheeks getting hot.

"Back at ya" I spit back even though there really is nothing wrong with his hair. He walks out putting his hood on in the process. I grin.

*******At the Pool*******

Well here we are. The flock is splashing around in the pool. You're probably wondering how nobody is freaking out and pointing at our wings. If you weren't wondering, well you are now. I suppose now would be a good time to tell you about the spiffy new power the whole flock got. We can make our wings disappear. Yeah. Poof! When we want to use 'em they just come back. Yeah it really comes in handy like now. Anyway I was feeling kinda nervous about my whole plan to get Fang jealous. I'm starting to think that maybe I had been like high or something when I came up with that little idea of mine. I was still pondering this when this guy came over.

"Hi, my name is Justin." He said

"uhh I'm Max." Smooth

"Cool name, I was playing with my little sister when I looked over and saw you. It looked like you were seriously considering something and you probably didn't notice but you were staring at my sister. I just came over to ask if you're like, ok."

I bet my face was the color of tomatoes. –again-

"Oh. Well yeah I was thinking about something and I'm sorry about staring at your sister. You probably thought I was some kind of creeper or something." I uttered

"Naw, it's cool. I'm just a tiny bit overprotective over my sis. She is constantly telling me to calm down and calls me paranoid." He said. Hmm just like me. On closer examination he had long shiny brown hair, tan skin, really dreamy brown eyes, a really really nice smile, and he was actually pretty muscular. Wait does it sound like I'm going all googly eyed over him?? Aww man, it doess….. There goes my face changing color again. Why is it that I keep blushing around this guy I just met??!!

"Max, are you ok? You got that far off look in your eyes again." He asked.

"Yeah I'm fine, I tend to do that a lot." I replied.

"Just like my sister. She seems to go off into her own little world sometimes. I find it adorable. In both cases." He said giving me one of his dazzling smiles. I did not just say. If you say I did, I'll simply deny it. After he said that guess what happened?? Yeah I blushed for like the 100th time!! Every time I blushed his smile got bigger, and when he grinned wider I blushed even more so you can imagine how we both looked. Wait Maximum Ride DOES NOT get swooned by a guy!! Well, maybe just this one.

"So do you live nearby?" He asked.

I felt my barriers go back up and I guess he noticed that I tensed up after he asked me that. Wait, maybe he's a bit too good looking. What if he was an eraser?? Oh my gosh I'm an idiot, I've been having a conversation with the enemy! But, he doesn't seem like a bad guy. If he were one of them, I would have felt something. Like some sort of sixth sense.

"Oh never mind, if you don't want to say then don't. I don't live too far away from here." He gushed.

I looked up at the sky and noticed that it was getting pretty late. He seems to notice too.

"Wow I didn't think it'd be that late! I better go on home, I need to start helping my mom with dinner. " Justin said. Did I mention how perfect his hair was??

"Oh ok." I was kinda sad to see him go. As he was walking away it occurred to me that I should give him my number.

"What's this? Oh thanks. I will so call you, I enjoyed talking with you. Bye."

"See you around!" He yelled as he ran towards home with his little sister on his back. He is such a good brother.

"Bye!" I yelled. Waving at his fading figure.

That was an interesting day.