I am sorry for the wait but I had j.v. soccer practice everyday twice a day last week and I was helping friends of my family move on the weekend so I had no time to update. I will try to update as much as I can before the summer is over because practice is only once a day now. When school starts, updates will only be on the weekends because I will have tons of schoolwork, practice everyday and games. Please be patient updates will come.
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On with chapter 7. ENJOY!
Disclaimer: I do not own Maximum Ride. All rights to publish Maximum Ride remain with JP.
The Flock and I were once again resting in a cave for the night and we would be at our destination by mid-day tomorrow. You would think I would be able to sleep after flying all day but I was wide-awake staring at the opening of the cave. One member of the Flock was on watch but I had no idea who it was.
With a sigh, I grabbed my laptop and walked to the entrance of the cave sitting with my back to one of the huge stones on either side of its opening. I logged on to my blog account and started writing an entry to my loyal readers of my first encounter with the Flock.
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Hey Everybody! I have finally found the Flock and I am writing this entry from a cave while the rest of the Flock is sleeping. We are on our way to Arizona where Max's parents are living. Apparently, her dad used to be a whitecoat but saved them and turned good guy. My encounter with the Flock was not how I had imagined. They found me getting my but kicked by some Erasers and decided to help me out. My opinions on the Flock are as follows. Max does not trust me. Big surprise there right. She is extremely protective and watches my every move but I would be the same way if some stranger came up to me and said "hey I'm your friends little sister." She's quick to attack any newcomers so in a way she is kind of like me. Nudge and Angel are the sweetest kids ever. They took a liking to me quickly and talk to me frequently. Especially Nudge she talks like her life depends on it. The dog Total is cute but a talking dog is going to take some getting used too. Iggy and Gazzy I don't know very well but, they seemed excited to learn that I can make bombs from scratch so bonding with them should be easy. Finally, Fang, my brother, things with him are so complicated it is hard to explain. He never lets anyone in and wears an emotionless mask to conceal the world. I don't think he's said more than twenty words to me since I meet him. Maybe I'm not going to get the big brother I wanted but in time, if they learn to trust me I may have made some friends.
Fly on,
Ember
Hannah Brandon 1234321 from Orlando writes:
Hey,
Ember,
You named yourself, right?
So are you a Pyro? Do you
have fire breath, or something?
Hannah Brandon 1234321, Yes, I named myself but I am not a Pyro and I do not have fire breath either although it would be cool. I just picked the name because I liked the sound of it not because it related to me in any way.
~Ember
aLiSOn395 from Paris writes:
Hey, do you think you will ever fly over here to France? Maybe the School would not be able to find you if you came across the ocean.
aLiSOn395, That is a good idea and when Max trusts me more I'll ask her about it but, in the end it's not going to be my decision because Max is the leader. From what I've witnessed, the Flock is not a democracy and everyone listens to what Max says. The only member who seems to get a little say is Fang.
~Ember
I shut down my laptop and looked out into the night thinking about everything that happened since I found the Flock and what would happen when we reached Arizona tomorrow when a shadow fell across the small amount of light the moon and stars had given me. Looking up I saw the dark form of Fang. I had been dreading when he would come up to me and ask about our parents so all I did was look at him while he sat next to me. For five minutes, we sat in silence neither one of us wanting to begin the conversation that was going to follow. Fang was the first to speak.
"A while back we found information at the school that said our mother was sixteen when she was pregnant and our father was currently dead," he paused before continuing, " You said that you knew where she is do you know anything else?"
"Neither of them are dead. They just deserve to be," I said in a small whisper.
"How do you know?" he asked.
Here we go I thought, time to spill the beans about our parents. "When I escaped from the School I found out they were living in New Mexico and went to see them. I asked them about what happened and they told me flat out that they never wanted either of us and they gave us away for money. They tried to be polite about it but it was clear that they still didn't want me so I stormed out of the house and flew away."
I was putting what happened very bluntly not caring about how Fang may have felt about what happened because my anger was rising and it took all I had not to punch a rock. For the first time since meeting my parents and finding out what I knew, I was close to tears and I hardly ever cried. In a way, I was trying to release some of that anger and sorrow on Fang so that he could feel what I felt but it just made me feel worse. For the first time since meeting the Flock, I could actually see raw emotion on his face and I am positive that it mirrored my own.
"They look like us," I said awkwardly. "They both have our skin and hair. You have his eyes and I have hers."
I watched as he lifted his head and stared at me. Our eyes were locked in an unblinking stare. I watched as he looked at my hair, skin color and wings, which he could see since I was not wearing a jacket. He seemed to be calculating the similarities and accepting the fact that what I said was true. By now, both of our emotionless masks were hiding our emotions and he was probably noticing how I too hid my emotions from the world just like him to keep from getting hurt.
What he said next truly shocked me.
"I'm sorry."
"Why?" I asked, "They're your parents too. I should be sorry for having to be the one to tell you about them."
"I may have had to hear about them but, you had to meet them and stare them in the face while they told you they didn't want you."
I watched him push against the stone with his back as he stood up. "I have to wake Iggy up," he said. "He has next watch and don't worry about Max, Angel told us that the two of you are a lot alike. She'll warm up to you and soon you can take watches too."
Just before he turned into the cave, he looked over his shoulder and spoke one last time. "I'm not very good at talking to people but, I'll try and be a good brother. I always wanted a little sister."
I stared at the spot where he had disappeared. Something told me that he was not always this accepting and he really did want to get to know me. I was happy for the first time in what felt like forever, everything seemed to be going great with the Flock.
That night I slept with my back against the rock, not bothering of going back inside the cave while dreaming of a future with the Flock as my family. It was also the first time I had slept peacefully until I was awoken by the horrid stench of rotten food and the sound of Iggy's voice as he shouted the one word that could make my blood run cold, "Erasers!"
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