Hey guys! I'm spo sorry that it took me so long to update. I've had some serious writers block. But I'll try to be better from now on!

Disclaimer: I do not own Maximum Ride. My friend owns the plot. But I own the actual written peice.

Chapter 6: I can't take it anymore!

Max POV

It really sucks to have your best friend ripped out of your life - his choice - just so he can date a slutty redhead. It's painful to have your mom die. And it makes everything worse if your dad beats you up too. That pretty much sums up my week. Okay, so it's been a week since Fang turned into a jerk and he hasn't turned back. If that was all I might be able to cope. But it's not. Add to that the grief I still feel for losing my mom two weeks ago. Okay even if you add that I might be able to cope. But when you add a drunk Jeb who constantly beats me up and abuses me. You get this.

Me sitting cross legged locked in my bathroom holding a pair of scissors. I slowly pull my sleeve up past my elbow. Bruises and the odd bite mark coat the entire patch of skin. Yes Jeb has bitten me, multiple times. It's the only thing he can think of to make me bleed. Unless you count the time he smashed a beer bottle on the side of my leg. Good thing I knew how to fix that. My mom was a vet so she taught me how to fix injuries like that. You know, in case of emergency.

I slowly brought the scissors up to my wrist. And cut. Blood dripped down my arm and I watched as each drop fell to the ground and stained the carpet. Funny, I thought to myself. If I focus on this the rest of the pain I call a life seems to leave me alone for once. I cut again, just below the first cut. I cut again. And again. Hell, I cut until I reached the middle of my forearm. Finally, I found something that helps me forget the pain I'm in.

(6 months later 6 months later 6 months later 6 months later 6 months later, yea I know it's weird to skip 6 months but I just did so :P)

As I walked into the school building I pulled on my jacket making sure the sleeves covered the cuts on my arms and the collar covered the bruises on my neck. I started heading towards my friends, only to be stopped by the populars. Great, that's just what I needed on my sunny bowl of a crappy morning.

"Where do you think you're going Maxi?" Lissa asked in an all too sweet voice. Blah. "Going to see my friends. Why? Do you want to come?" I threw that back in her face. "What friends?" That squeaky thing was Brigid. Lissa's BFF. Since like three days ago. "Come on Maxi, don't be like that." Damn it! It's so much harder to make people feel bad when I'm trying to make Fang feel bad. Why can't he keep his mouth shut anymore. Gah! "Sorry Fangles, but I'm going to go hang out with the people you left for these aliens. By the way, you still haven't given Iggy his twenty bucks back." I turned and left, leaving a pissed off Fang behind. I said it wasn't easy, not that I couldn't do it.

When I got back to the others they were completely unaware of what just happened. Well they were acting like they were. When Nudge saw me her face dropped, sure I wore make-up almost every day now, but I have to wear baggy clothes to hide my injuries and I'm pretty sure I didn't brush my hair this morning. Whoops. "Max, come on. Why do you wear those ugly clothes. All dull and baggy. You should wear purple, it would so work with your eyes. Or blue! That would work with your hair. Okay tomorrow after school I'm going to buy you a new wardrobe whether you come with me or not. I'm gonna get you some hair spray. No I'm gonna get you a hair brush seeing as you forgot how to use one. Oh! Can we go to the hairdressers? mff mff ffm!" I rolled my eyes and removed my hand from her mouth. "No. I'm fine like this."

I'm not gonna say I like the bell, I just no longer want to choke it to death. Want to know why? It went before I had to say anything else. And I was all too happy about that. Until I realised I had science next. I'm just gonna put it out in the open. I HATE SCIENCE! But we aren't doing any old science. NO! We are doing BIOLOGY. And I'm pretty sure that next week we have to disect something. I say something because I know it's not a frog.

Anyway, I walk into the classroom and take my seat at the very front of the room. What? Don't judge me. The freaking populars are at the back and if I don't get good grades Jeb hits me on the leg with a beer bottle. It's only happened once, but thats enough for me. Anyway almost as soon as I sat down, guess what happened, if you guessed Iggy came cartwheeling through the doorway, well, I'm sorry he's not in this class. If you guessed Fang and his gang of populars came in, then you should have a cookie but I don't have any so . . . sorry.

They all took one look at me and laughed. All except Fang. He was looking at my arm for some reason. I looked down and saw that my sleeve had gone up a bit. I mentally cursed and yanked it back into place. I knew he had seen though. He had seen a bruise, bite mark and cut. God, this was not good. At all.

When class was over it was announced that we would have a short break now because we were having an assembly that would go halfway through lunch. I walked into the cafeteria and went straight to the table I alway sat at. My friends were already sitting there. And they were all giving me worried looks.

"What?" I asked as I sat down. "Haven't you heard?" Damn it Iggy! If I had heard I would have told you now wouldn't I! "Obviously not!" My voice was rising. Angel shushed me, and if it weren't for the urgency in that shush I would have said something back. They all looked around as if they were checking if anyone was eavesdropping. Why would listen in on our conversations? They weren't telling me something. I knew they were going to tell me, but they were taking so damn long with it that I snatched Nudges phone off the table to check for myself. The only reason anybody would try to listen in on us is if they were looking for gossip.

I literally almost screamed in anger at what I read.

Maximum Ride is such a Dadyz grl. I herd tht she loves her dad soooooo much shed died wthot hm. And she fat ugly hore. no1 lks hr. she shod go die in a hole.

WTF!? That doesn't even make sense. I was so mad that I was seeing red. No joking, I was actually seeing red. I slowly put Nudges phone down. But I didn't say anything. That scared them more than anything else I could do. Nudge gulped and took her phone back. Probably silently thanking me that I didn't break it.

I stood up onto my seat. They all looked at me confused. Then I climbed up onto the table. I turned and faced everyone. They were all chatting amongst themselves. The odd person would look my way, nudge the person next to them and point, eventually everyone was looking at me. And I was just about ready to kill. I just couldn't take it any more!

It seems a lot like I'm overreacting doesn't it? Well, my 'dad' beats me up everytime he sees me, I have lost so much weight because I can't get any food without getting hit by him for taking what isn't mine, it's because of him that I have scars all over my arms and legs, and it's his fault that I cut. These people are saying that I'm a 'daddys girl' of course that is going to piss me off.

I slowly chose my target. Fang. I looked him right in the eye and shook my head slowly. Only he and the flock would notice. Then I jumped off the table landing crouched on the ground. I actually landed almost silently, but the room was even quieter so it sounded like a bomb exploding. I turned and walked out of the cafeteria. Even as I left I could hear phones buzzing. I turned around and yelled "I'm not even out of the room yet! Don't you people have anything better to do than pick on me?" With that I walked away. This was not going to go well. I gave them what they wanted. A reaction. Now they're gonna keep trying to get them. Great.