Chapter 3: Meeting the coach
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"Aaaaahh! Who ate all my cookies?!" I shrieked at the people who I call my friends. I glanced at all 6 of the people sitting on the grass, observing their innocent faces. Then suddenly, 5 of them pointed to Blaine.
"Blaine?" I asked, trying to calm my voice. "Why?"
He flinched under my glare. "W-what? I-I don't K-kn-know. It wasn't me!"
"Blaine. Stop. You ate them all. Now you got to go buy me more." I said in a dangerous voice. Yeah, yeah, you may think that it' just some cookies. No big deal. NO! It is a big deal. Those things are like heaven on Earth.
"Max...i-it wasn't m-me."
"Yes, it was you, Smith." I turned to the rest of the group and said "Right guys?" They all nodded, while trying to hold in their laughter. "See, now Blaine, you have 30 minutes to run to the bakery shop and get me 30 chocolate chip cookies before you won't be able to reproduce. Understand?"
"Y-yes, Max." He said, obviously scared.
"Go!" I yelled, smiling in victory. "You wouldn't want a repeat of last time, right?"
"No. Bye!" He said, running off towards the bakery shop.
And what happened last time? The same situation, but being Blaine, he refused to go buy me my cookies, so I kneed him where the sun doesn't shine.
I turned back towards the group and smiled at them, causing them to whoop. I high-fived Nudge, Angel, and Ella and fist bumped Gazzy. "Okay. Ella, did Nancy send you the address yet?" I asked.
"Yeah, she just sent it a minute ago… The Plaza Hotel on 5th Ave. The Penthouse."
"Mkay. We'll go there after Blaine returns."
What's happening? Well, right now, our little group is gathered around a bench, waiting for this Nancy girl to text us her address so we can go and meet her and yada yada. We've been here for a week now, and New York is still as fabulous as when we got here. But the sad thing is we start "school" and practice next week, which will cut our freedom short.
After Blaine returned with my 30 chocolate chip cookies, we made our way to Nancy's hotel. And, god! That was a good and tiring 40-minute walk. And my friends, being sooo wonderful left me behind as they ran into the hotel first, chattering excitedly about meeting Nancy. "God, Blaine. Why are you leaving me behind also? Curse you!" I yelled in my head.
When I went inside the hotel's main entrance room, the first thing I saw was a sign leading to the buffet stands. Feeling hungry again after those 30 cookies, I decided to go check out the buffet food stands, forgetting about meeting Nancy.
Aaah! As I observed the food, my stomach begins to grumble. I headed over to the dessert section and the smell of chocolate chip cookies invaded my sense of smell. As I headed over to the cookies, I noticed a tall boy with strawberry blonde hair standing in front of it. NO! Those are my cookies!
"No! Wait!" I yelled towards the boy, running over to him.
"Yes?" He said, confused.
"You can't take all those cookies"
"And why not?"
"Because those are mine and only mine. Not yours."
"Uuuh, actually, it's the hotel's"
"Okay, I know that pretty boy." I said running out of patience. What? He is kind of cute. "But these were mine before you got here. So give it to me!" I said as I snatched the plate out of his hands. He stared at me as I started stuffing those cookies into my mouth 2 at a time.
"Whoa, a girl who can eat. Haven't seen one in a while now!" He said as he reached over and grabbed a few cookies.
"Mmm. No. You have no permission to call me hot, blondie. Heck, I don't even know you. What's your name?" I said as I stuffed more cookies in my mouth.
"James Griffiths. But call me Iggy." He said as he stuck his hands out at me to shake.
"Max." I replied while shaking his hands. And that was how we spent the next 20 minutes in the dining room of the entrance floor. Eating sweets and getting to know each other. "Wow, I've never seen a girl eat that much before." He muttered.
I looked at him with wide eyes. "Isn't that a good thing? It's awesome how I have a big metabolism, right?"
"Yeah. But with modeling being my whole life, I had never seen a person eat that much. Like seriously, all my model friends only eats fruits or wheat crackers a day. Like, how do you guys eat so little, yet survive. Crazy people.."
I laughed at his comment. "Oh my god! Those are my friends too! You should see Nudge! But, model? Aren't you supposed to, like, starve yourself so you won't get fat?"
And with that, he stood up and snapped his fingers in a z formation and said two octaves higher than his regular voice "Well, first of all, try being a model. Those stupid people will starve you to death. And second of all, what do you think I'm doing here? I'm eating on this floor so that Nancy wouldn't catch me and make me run 1 hour straight for the next 3 weeks. And third of all, can you shut up please? I'm trying to enjoy my time eating while I can before somebody catches me."
And as if on cue, three big security guards entered the room and yelled out Iggy's name. "Well, fuck. Act normal" He muttered under his breath. When the big guys stood in front of him, he smiled goofily up at them and said, "What's up guys? You know.. I was just talking to a fan here.. so if you'll please excuse us, we have somewhere to go." He finished the last part as he grabbed my arm and tried pulling us through the guards. Key word. Tried.
"Iggy! No! This is the third time you did this this week. (A/N: Hehe, that makes sense.) Nancy won't be too happy if we tell her. Be glad we covered for you the past two times," one of them spoke.
"But Briiiaannn! I was just teaching Maxie here the basics of being a model," he whined. I stomped on his foot and glared at him. "Don't call me Maxie, James."
He cowered under my glare and replied a simple yes obediently.
"Iggy, if you don't get your ass up at the room right now, I will tell Nancy about your eating fests and you won't be able to come down here alone for the next 3 weeks. Now I suggest you go up now," the other big guy said.
"Wait.. Nancy? As in Nancy Pearson?" I asked. Iggy nodded. "Oops. I totally forgot about her. I was supposed to meet her..." I looked at the time on my phone "20 minutes ago! Shit!" I started to hyperventilate. I was late. Super late. Nudge is going to give me a long, long lecture about being late. God, Nudge is going to kill me!
"Max! Nancy is my manager. Calm down. Now if you'll excuse us, we got to go," he said to the guards in a sassy tone.
He pulled on my arms again and pulled me through the guards again. This time, they separated and let us go. Once we were 10 steps away from they, Iggy bent down and whispered in my ear, "Okay.. Once we get out of this room, we're gonna run out the hotel doors and run to the bakery down the street, okay?" I nodded, and smirked. Iggy was a cool guy. Finally! Another person who understands me besides Blaine and Nudge!
When we got out of the dining room, Iggy let go of my arm and we both ran towards the door as fast as we can. "Run, Maxie, run! They're coming. If we get separated, you know where to find me! Remember we will always be friends no matter what!" He yelled as we ran from the guards. God! You got to love him!
"Aaaah! They got me! Run, Maxie! Run for your life." He said as two guards tackled him down. Hmmm. Iggy had been nice to me ever since I met him. Maybe I'll be nice to today. I ran back towards him, grabbed his hands and tried to pull him out from under the two guards. "Dammit! Stupid people!" I shouted. No progress. Wait! Two guards? Wasn't there three? Oh shit! I thought as I progressed this information in. Just then a huge, muscular man grabbed me and swung me over his shoulders, fireman style. "Aaahh!" I yelled, as he carried me towards the elevator! "Let me go!" I punched his back multiple times, but he won't let go. "I got to go meet Nancy!" I yelled.
"Gosh. Teens these days.." I heard him muttered.
Next to me, I heard Iggy said "Well, it was nice knowing you, Max. Maybe in another life we can be friends again and head over to that bakery shop we never got to go to." He finished with a fake sniffled. The two guards were holding him, each guard holding on an arm.
I looked at him and smacked him on the head. "Dumbass. Who said we were dying today?"
"B-but they're going to kill me! They're going to starve me to death, then chop my body to pieces than feed me to the alligators!"
I sighed and looked at him, amused. Dramatic much? And then I remembered I was still swung over the man's shoulders and started yelling every colorful words I know at him while hitting his back. I looked over at Iggy and saw him doing the same thing. Good job. At least we're going to die fighting.
I was too occupied hitting and screaming at the guard to realize that we were already at the penthouse floor. They guards dragged us over to a room, probably the living room while we tried fighting as hard as possible. "Max! When we meet Nancy, I want you to lie to her. Don't tell her we had been eating those sweets. You had been my best bud for the past 30 minutes that I had met you. And I know I trust you in this. Get us out of this mess. I don't want to die yet. Our lives are in your hands! Save us Maxie!"
"Shut up, Iggy. We're not going to die." And with that, I started screaming and hitting the guard again. "Stupid guard! If you do not let me go right this instance I will tell my best friend Blaine about you and we will kick your ass. And when you die, Iggy and me will bring you back to life again and torture you and kill you again! Right, Iggy?"
"Yeah! We will send all three of you to Lucifer and tell him to give you back and then I'll send my family of vampires to haunt you for the rest of your lives! Now, let us go right now or I will tell Nancy about you!"
At the mention of vampires, I started laughing. "Really, Iggy. Vampires? Really?"
"Will, yeah." He said in a duh tone. "How did you think I got this pale skin tone then? Oh and just one more thing, Edward is my boyfriend! I will ask him to torture you. I will ask Fang to kill you too! Now let me go!" He finished, then started struggling against the guards' hold again.
And for the millionth today, I started to punch and yell at the guard again. God this is so annoying, why can't he just let me go? I'm capable of walking on my own. How does he not get tired at all? Stupid person must be on steroids.
"James Adam Griffiths! Stop it now!" We heard a woman yelled and instantly looked at the direction of the voice.
"Uh-oh. Meet the wonderful Nancy," Iggy muttered to me. I tried stifling a laugh but the woman turned her gaze on me and glared. "Who are you?"
"Hi. I'm Maximum Ride, but call me Max. Are you Nancy Pearson? I'm supposed to meet a person name Nancy. She's my coach for the USAMAC (United States Annual Music Arts Competition)."
"Oh, hi, Max. Your team is already in the music room. What took you so long?"
And then one of the guards stepped up (I think his name was Brian?) and said "We caught them both in the buffet stands eating all the desserts. When we caught them, they both tried to run out of the hotel. We thought you wouldn't be too happy with Iggy."
"Right. Not happy at all. Iggy, for your punishment, you will have to run an hour each day for 3 weeks and go on a healthy diet. Meaning, only fruits and wheats. We're going to the music room and I expect you to use your manners and introduce yourself nicely to my new group of students, understand?" Then she turned to me, "Now, lets head to the music room."
"Told you she was a witch.." Iggy whispered to me as we followed Nancy down a hallway. "Worser than a witch" I whispered back, causing Iggy to laugh.
Once Nancy opened the door to the big music room, every conversation stopped.
"What? Did everybody died from my beautiful face?" Iggy whispered to me. I shoved my elbow into the side of his stomach and whispered back sarcastically. "No, they all died because your oh so beautiful vampire face is too beautiful for them to look at."
He puts a hand on his heart and looked at me with fake hurt on his face. "Oh, Maxie. I thought we were best friends."
"Uuum, no. You're too stuck up to be my friend."
"What? That hurts, Maxie." Then he wiped a fake tear away.
I looked at him amused and as if we thought of the same thing, we started to laugh until tears were rolling down our cheeks. See? We just get each other like that even if we had met only 30 minutes ago.
When our laughter died down, I knew it was just a matter of seconds before Nudge explodes. 3...2...1. "OH MY GOSH! MAX! DON'T YOU KNOW WHO THAT IS? THAT'S JAMES GRIFFITHS! THE JAMES GRIFFITHS! THE FAMOUS MODEL JAMES GRIFFITHS! THE HOT FAMOUS MODEL JAMES GRIFFITHS! I FINALLY GET TO MEET HIM IN REAL LIFE! AAH! THIS IS SOOOO EXC-"
"Thank you Angel," I said as I looked at Iggy. Instead of looking surprised and amused as everybody does whenever Nudge lets out a rant, he actually looked….lovestrucked? What? Iggy and Nudge? Nudge and Iggy?
"Well anyways, since everybody is here, let's get going with introductions. First of all, my name is Nancy Pearson. And I'll be your USAMAC coach this year. The students can introduce theirself first then my models can go next."
When she mentioned the word models, I looked up and realized that we weren't alone in this room. In fact, there were quite a few other people in here too.
After Blaine and Nudge introduced their self, it was my turn to go. Yay. (Note the sarcasm) "Hi, my name is Max Ride, and Gazzy is my twin...okay."
"Wait, Max as in Maximum Ride?" A boy around my age with black hair, black eyes and olive skin tone asked. I had to say.. He was attractive.
"Yeah…. why?"
"Wait, Maximum? As in Maximum Elizabeth Ride?" Another person asked. This time, woman that looked like my mom, but with blonde hair. She was curled up in a love seat with the dark eye boy.
"Yeah…. How did you know my middle name?"
"OH MY GOSH! MAX!" she yelled, then ran over to hug me.
Confused, I looked at Blaine and Nudge for help. They both shook their heads. I sighed and pushed the girl back away from me. One day, I'm going to kill them both. "Uuum, sorry. Had we met before?" I asked.
"You don't remember me?"
I shook my head. "No..."
"How do you not know me? M&M?"
"Nope.."
"Oh my gosh! Max. Who do I look like?"
"My mom..?"
"Yeah! And who looks like your mom?"
"My ex-sister?"
"Ex-sister?"
"Yeah. Maya?"
"Yeah! Maya! How can you not remember me?"
"Wait! You? You're Maya? The Maya bitch? Why the fuck would you be so happy to talk to me then? Didn't you say you wanted to be out of our lives? Well, you're out. Sorry, booboo. No refund. And don't even think about coming back into my life, because you are never ever gonna come back no matter what. You'd hurt us, Maya. You hurt mom and dad the most. It's like they had lost a daughter. And you had missed too much. Guessed what happened? Dad died. Dad died and you weren't there. Oh, right. You kicked us out of your life for your fame. Right, I totally forgot about that part." I finished as I walked out of the room, tears rushing down my face.
We'd never talked about dad after he died. It was just too painful to even think about him. I ran towards the elevator and got in, pressing the button to the main floor. "Okay...calm down. It's just Maya. Maya is just like Lissa. Both are the enemy. Calm down." I told myself as I took deep breathes while the elevator moved down. I headed straight to the bathroom and washed my face with cold water. When I got out, the boy from earlier was waiting for me by the women's bathroom doorway. "Hi," he said, and came to stand in front of me.
"I do not have time for anything right now, so if you'll excuse me, I got to go home and call my mom and explain to her about what just happened." I finished the last part as I tried pushing past him, but he blocked my way again. He mirrored my movement as I moved from left to right.
"Seriously! Move!" I yelled as I pushed him to the side. He budged a little bit but grabbed my wrist as I got a couple steps away from him.
"Max. Please."
"What do you want? Heck, I don't even know you." I said as I tried to pry my wrist from his grip, but it wouldn't budge.
"Max… You don't remember me?" His face suddenly has a mixture of sadness in it. "We were best friends. You were my next door neighbor. We used to do everything together. What happened to you Max?"
I thought hard...hhmmm. Best friend? Next-door neighbor? I only had two next-door best friends. Nudge and… "Fang?" I whispered his name out.
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