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Chapter 26: The End

"Guys, down there."

We descended, one after another and landed, taking off our packs. I sat down and rubbed my temples when no one was looking. My headache was getting worse. Nudge must have seen because she walked up and dropped a blister pack of tablets at my feet and walked away again, to help Max with something.

I picked it up and had on dry: I couldn't be bothered with the water. That's how lazy I am.

"Hey," Max sat down next to me. "What's up?" I shrugged.

"Nothing. Hey, why are we going to DC?" I had a feeling that the Voice played a big part in that decision.

"Um, the Voice," yep, one point to me.

I rolled my eyes. "I thought as much." Max grinned at me, playing with my hair. I caught Angel grinning at me, as if she had just found out she could have a whole teddy bear store.

What! Why are you staring at me with that stupid grin on your face! What did I do!

I think it cool how you and Max are together. It's…um…cool! Wow, how descriptive was that.

What makes you think that? How did you find out, if we were?

Well, the first clue was when Nudge came rushing back to us and told me that you two were, like, making out.

Then the second clue was that Max kept thinking about it. She was wondering if it would work. The third clue was Iggy. He kept thinking things like 'finally!' and 'about time!'

And the fact the you keep thinking of her too. Your not the brightest crayon in the box are you? The fact that you like her means nothing ether.

Angel flashed me a grin from where she was sitting.

Thank you very much Angel. You just told me my whole life story.

That's cool Fang. Anytime. Ok, you can get outta my head now-

Max started kissing me as Angel laughed loudly in my head. Well, that did my headache good.

But I think Max fixed that.

Half an hour later we were back in the air. Angel kept looking over at me, flashing me a smile.

Fang and Max sit-

Can it Angel, or I will for you.

Whatever. But she stopped, thank goodness.

I wasn't sure what we were going to do in DC, but I trusted Max. She was the leader of this flock, so yeah, I guess that means I have too.

She caught me watching her and smiled. I returned the favour, smiling back. Then I caught Angel smirking at me.

I glared at her.

And so we flew of into the sunset, blah blah blah. Whatever. I don't do all that corny shit. I get straight to the point.

So then this is the end of the story. I hope you had fun. Maybe you did, who would know?

I got what I wanted: Max, a cool flock, Jeb dead. I mean, that's got to be pretty good right?

And I'm just glad that even after killing her father, Max is still with me.

I don't think I'm going to be able to get rid of her easily.

Not that that's a bad thing or anything.

I looked below me again. The land was spotted in browns and greens, tiny roads and cars like ants. They were going nowhere.

We were, and we had a damn good reason for it. We just didn't know what yet. T

hat's how bird kids roll.