A/N: Guys, I am SO sorry it's taken me so long to update. I wasn't allowed to do anything other than 'family time' during my birthday, and then I had to pack for vacation. I know you're all planning the most torturous forms torture for me. Um…that made more sense in my head. Please don't kill me just yet! The story isn't done! So, Max will now help me.
Max: I will NOT do anything for you, you split up the Flock!
Me: Hey! I told you to do this, so you do it!
Max:…
Me: I'll give you cookies…
Max: Ok, OK! This weird lady doesn't own me or anyone else from Maximum Ride. *mumbles* I'd be afraid if she did.
Me: Hey!
Chapter Two: Wake-Ups
Max Pov:
So those electric blue eyes I woke up to? They belong to the best boyfriend in the world, Iggy.
After the Flock kicked us out, the School caught for a very short time. There, Iggy was my everything. I was depressed for a while, but then I figured out that I love him, and that's why I never felt quite right with Fang. Then, we found out that Flaire is Iggy's brother. I've never seen Iggy so happy!
Flaire then introduced Iggy and I to everyone else in our Flock. Naturally, Iggy and I broke them out, and now I'm the leader and Iggy's the co-leader. With the Max Ride card, we bought this amazing mansion! Right now, we think it has about 35 rooms …on every floor. We have five floors. Well, five floors of bedrooms. And one dining and cooking floor. We have the most up-to-date kitchen you could imagine, and Iggy loves it.
We also have a play and movie floor. Each member of the flock gets their own free room, where they keep all of their spare toys, games, movies, and all sorts of junk that won't fit in their rooms.
They also have bean bags, couches, and TVs in there so that they can cool of if they're mad about something.
In the backyard, we have a huge pool, with a small slide and a large pool. It also has a small, medium, and large diving board. Of to the side, we have a snack, candy, and drink bar. And lastly, a beautiful garden filled with all sorts of spices, flowers, and trees, tended by Rowan, of course. In the garden are small animals, like rabbits, and larger animals, like deer, trained by Robin to wait to be fed.
As leader and co-leader (and boyfriend/ girlfriend) Iggy and I get our own floor, the first floor of bedrooms. The first room is mine; the next is Iggy's. Even though we have our own rooms, we almost always sleep with each other. So, we keep a change of clothes for each other in our dresser.
And no, you pigs, we do not sleep together in that way. We've been dating for two years tomorrow, and we both just aren't ready yet. I won't bore you all (Like I have been) and go through the details of my room. Basically, blood red and dark purple walls, red and white bed, one red, one purple, and one white beanbag, purple couch, white TV, snack bar. Welcome to my room. I also have a blood red laptop with purple vines creeping up the right side. We all have a laptop and IPhone 6 plus. If they wanted one, I also got them an IPod and IPad.
What? Sure, I may have abused the Max Ride card just a little bit, but hey. I want them to have a nice childhood. Sure, half of them grew up in the school and are now too old to really be considered a kid, but I just want them all to be happy. I love them all so much, and they've been through hell and back.
Iggy's room is all white. He can see 100% since the school fixed him up when we got caught. But he told me that white is still his favorite color, since it's the first way he saw. The rest of the rooms are other rooms for the kids to sleep in, in case the kids have a nightmare. I normally wake up to find at least three kids in the spare rooms.
On the second floor are Sunny, Trax, and Swift. I think of Sunny, Trax, and Swift my babies, especially Trax.
After that is Robin and Rowan, separating the floors by siblings.
The next floor up holds Soara and Rocky. Even though they are very different, they're the best of friends. They are the same exact age, and everyone else is either a boy, or to young. Because of this, they got to share a floor.
On the fourth floor up, Flaire is content to stay with Luthor and only come out to pull pranks, eat, and set fire to Rocky's clothes.
As a matter of fact, I've been wondering what's up with those two. They would never look each other in the eye, and whenever they did, they both would start furiously blushing…Hmmmm. Musing; I walked into the bathroom, putting on my outfit. Black skinny jeans, dark gray tank top, and an off the shoulder blood red shirt. Black converse and I'm good to go! You might have figured out that I like dark colors. Good for you! You deserve a freaking prize. Note the sarcasm. Iggy groaned and walked in, mumbling about how he would start breakfast. Mmmm, pancakes.
My thoughts about the wonders about bacon and pancakes are interrupted by screaming and shouting upstairs.
"Flaire!"
Looks like Rocky's awake. And-
Flaire comes tumbling down the stairs, followed by a disgruntled Rocky.
"Hey!" She begins to shout up the stairs, and then realizes that everyone else in the Flock is asleep, and Flaire is right behind her. Her face turns red, from anger and embarrassment, and then storms up the stairs. Great. Two angry flock members and we didn't even have breakfast yet. Pushing all of these negative thoughts from my mind, I walked down the hall, pushing open doors to empty rooms, until…
Ha. Gotcha. It was just Sunny, Swift, and Trax, huddled together in a bed, with Swift closest to the door, then Trax, and finally, Sunny, cramped in between the wall and Trax. Even though we have enough rooms for them all to sleep separately, they always stay huddled together through the night.
"Guys" I whisper, stepping into the room. "Time to wake up."
Trax rolls over, and I can tell that they are all wide awake. Even though they look all relaxed and in the land of slumber, I know it's just about the easiest thing in the world to wake them up.
"It's just me, Max"
I walk into the room, and they sit up.
Trax runs over to me, eyes wide.
"Max, it was horribly! Erasers came running in, and they caught all of you in your sleep! They backed me into a corner, and…and…and-" I hug him to make him stop talking, and he looks up at me.
I sit on the bed, and he clamors up next to me.
"You know it was just a dream, right?" He nods, slowly. "And that I would never let you, Swift, Sunny, Robin, Rowan, Soara, Rocky, Flaire, Iggy, and even Luthor get hurt? Or captured by them?" this time, Trax nods rapidly, so fast his head is just a blur. "Good. Now, do you guys want to help me out and wake everyone up?"
In response, they all dart out of the room, and Swift yells back,
"We'll just help Iggy with breakfast!"
Grrr. Wait, did I really just growl? Oh well, tiny person I think is in my head.
You might not know this, but other than those three, it is very dangerous to try to wake up the Flock.
Some people throw fire-balls at me, others have their rooms rigged so that a bucket of glop falls on top of me, pelts of rocks are thrown at my head. And that, my dear friends, is why I am the only one who wakes people up.
Let's see. Entering Robin's room, I step on a piece of paper, which then flattens to the ground. Then, a marble rolls across the room to the bookcase, where a small paper cup lifts it to the top of the tallest book. It looks like the marble is going down stairs, because the books are in height order. At the end, the marble lands on a horn, this releases snakes in my direction. I have to stifle a scream, but then I realize that its toy snakes, not real ones. The snakes land on the floor, about five inches from me. The snakes landing trigger a wire, which rolls out with Robin's IPhone on it. The phone rolls right next to me, and announces, "NICE TRY MAX!" in Robin's voice. God, I think I just went deaf. I pull down the covers on Robin's bed, and when I see he's 'asleep', I just throw him over my shoulder. He begins yelling and banging on my back, telling me to put him down. When we reach Rowan's room, I toss him inside, the quickly close the door, so he can't get out. I wait a few minutes; then open the door to find…
Robin on the floor, rolling around. I walk over and crouch down next to him, then reach out my hand, letting it hover about an inch above his ribs, which he was clutching. In a few seconds he managed to jump up, and start attacking Rowan, who was in hysterics on the floor. Grabbing Robin around the waist, I threw him out the door and sent him downstairs to get breakfast. I turn around to ask Rowan what she did, but change my mind, shaking my head and sending her to get breakfast.
See what I meant by how dangerous it was to wake up the Flock?
Soara. Last Flock member to wake up.
I knock on the door three times. Nothing. Three more times. Nothing. I finally just open the door, expecting the worst. I look around, noticing how everything looks normal. I tiptoe to Soara's bed, and gently shake her shoulder. She turns around, and something stringy sprays all over my face. I rip the sheets off of Soara, and see the Silly String in her hand.
Soara takes one look at my face, and starts laughing. Loudly.
I pinch her ear, and drag her out of bed.
"Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow! Max! I'm up! I'm up!"
"Oh, I know." I respond, and begin dragging her out of the room and down stairs. She manages to pry herself from my grip, and runs down the rest of the stairs.
There is only one thought in my head.
FOOD!
I run down the rest of the stairs, and see that everyone else has grabbed literally ALL of MY pancakes.
"But…but…but…" I mumble, unable to believe the sight in front of me. Iggy magically appears next to me, holding out a plate filled with pancakes, with cool-whip, sprinkles, cherries, and ice-cream on top.
I take the plate and fork he holds out to me, and sit down at the chair he pulls out for me. I look up at him, one eyebrow raised.
Looking around the table, I notice everyone smiling widely at me. What the…?
Iggy grins widely, and then produces a single candle. Candle?
He then places the candle in the middle of my pancake stack, and everyone begins singing.
"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Ma-ax, happy birthday to YOU!"
On the last word, confetti is thrown at me. Oh, yeah. It's my birthday. I think I'm turning…18? 19?
Iggy bends down and whispers in my ear, "18." "Thanks." I whisper back. Rocky turns to me. "How old are you?" "I am officially turning 18." I announce. Cheers erupt over the table. You see, the last time we were at the School, Iggy and I found out what our real birthdays are. (A/N: I'll write them down at the end)
Also, because I am eighteen, I can legally be the guardian of the Flock. This also means I don't have to bribe the cops to let us to live here. After eating, we head over to the theater room. Oh, did I forget to mention we have one of those? Sorry. Once in there, I notice the huge pile of presents against the wall.
Groaning, I turn around to face the Flock. "Guys, you shouldn't have done all of this for me."
"Ah, but we did." Iggy says, nudging me over to the huge pile of wrapping paper and ribbons. Sighing, I dive in.
Picking up the first thing I find, I see that it's from Iggy. And it's huge. I'm afraid to see what it is. But just to be safe...
"Is it gonna explode?" "No." "Is it gonna shoot fire at me?" "No." "Is it gonna try to kill me?" "No! Just open the present!" "Ok, ok! Sheesh."
Tearing apart the wrapping paper and tossing aside the bow, I am greeted with a large box. With holes in the top. Shooting him a quizzical look, I gently remove the top of the box, where I am greeted with two mewing kittens.
One is an adorable tabby, about the size of my hand, and the other is completely black, about the same size as the tabby, if slightly larger. I gasped, covering my mouth with my hands. I picked them both up, and realize the perfect names. "Wall-e and Haven." I whisper, and Iggy asks me, "What'd you say?" "This one," I say, raising the tabby a little bit "is Wall-e, and this one," I raise the black kitten a bit "is Haven." I announce.
"Aww.", Sunny, Soara, and Rowan coo over the kittens, and snatch them from my hands.
"Eh-hem" I cough, getting their attention.
"What?" Soara asks. "It's not like you can open your presents and hold the kittens at the same time." She pointed out.
Curse her logic.
Grumbling, I set to work, grabbing my next present.
-I am a line, and my name is bob-
Over all, I got fire starting set from Flaire, a new laptop from Rocky, a $300 dollar gift card to ITunes from Soara, a gift card for a free tattoo from Robin, cat toys from Sunny, Swift, and Trax, and cat food from Rowan.
All in all, it was a great birthday. Other than the kittens, my favorite present had to be the laptop from Rocky. It was all black, with blood red wings on the back. It also had the words 'The Flock' on the front.
We were all laughing at something Sheldon said on the Big Bang Theory, cake bits flying everywhere, when the doorbell rang. "I'll get it!" I yelled out to anyone who cared.
Still giggling, I opened the door wide, only to find…
The old Flock.
Duh, duh, duh! Ok, guys, I know I said I would tell you the birthdays, so here they are:
Max: October 8th, 1997
Iggy: December 19th, 1997
Flaire: January 16th, 2001
Sunny: June 12th, 2010
Swift: May 14th, 2009
Trax: April 13th, 2010
Rocky: August 13th, 2002
Soara: July 10th, 2002
Robin: September 12th, 2004
Rowan:September 12th, 2004