-1Nothing Sinister but High School:

A/N: ok… so I know so many of you probably want to kill me for not updating sooner, but I have a good excuse… Who am I kidding, I'm lazy and refuse to fight off the writers block army. (yes, it has an army) So anyway, besides being lazy…my mind has been otherwise occupied with school, other great reading material, friends and boyfriend, and my constant art projects. There is no reason for me to be telling you this, but I am. Probably because I'm sleep deprived and delusional. On to the standard A/N… I don't own Maximum ride or any other characters, except Arianna. (who will a major character starting this chapter.) Also, I am aware that there are some inconsistencies with things like location and age, ect.ect.

With that said…on with the madness!

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The First Week

"This isn't so bad I guess. Not as bad as the last school at least." Max offered as she sat down at the flock's 'table' at lunch, closely followed by Arianna. The young hybrid had showed up the Sunday before school started. Jeb had tracked her down and brought her to live with some neighbors who had lost their daughter to leukemia. She had also been enrolled at the high school despite actually being only one or two years old, but it would seem odd to have a very intelligent girl who looked fourteen in a preschool, so there she was, a freshman in high school.

"Did the people at your last school stare all the time?" the younger girl asked.

"Well we didn't get to have our wings out there, but yeah, I think its about the same." Fang snickered, remembering the absurd uniforms they had been forced to wear.

"I still can't believe that they're letting us keep our wings out in the open, I mean, I know Jeb talked to the principal , but there's no way he's got his thumb on all these teachers and students. Isn't this just asking for trouble?" Iggy poked at his food with his plastic spork.

"Don't worry about it Ig. It's not like people don't already know we exist, Itex is gone, there's no one left to want to dissect us, the worst that could happen if someone told the media is that we'd be famous… or more so than we already are." Fang explained, his speeches seemed to get longer as he spent more time around people.

"You'd like that, wouldn't you? More attention." Max said, rolling her eyes as Fang grinned.

"Face it Max. I'm too pretty to not be on TV." Fang joked, pushing his dark, emo style, hair out of his eyes dramatically. Max groaned, while Ella, who had just arrived with her lunch, threw a french fry at Fang.

"So…" Ella changed the topic.

"Anything interesting going on?" she asked, though without much enthusiasm.

"Oh! I just remembered, I have to do some stupid job shadow thing for my Drivers Ed slash career class. Do you think Mom would mind if I followed her around at work for a few days?" Max spoke, grimacing at the thought of the big project ahead of her.

"Yeah, I think she'd love that. You know how she is."

"I thought you were supposed to shadow someone who works in the profession that you want to go into, Max. You don't want to be a vet, do you?" Iggy voiced his opinion, having the same assignment, he knew the rules.

"Like they're gonna know what I want to be. I don'teven know what I want to be. I just want to get the project done, and call it a day. Besides, shadowing Mom will be simple… I already know most of the tools and terms of the trade." She grinned

"You scare me sometimes Max." Arianna said sarcastically. Everyone knew that nothing in the world could scare Arianna, except Erasers, but those were all gone.

The Second Week

"Fang!" Fang turned toward the sound of his name.

"Hey Brice," he called back. "I'll be right back." he told Max and the others then got up from their place in the amp theater and jogged down to the young jock below.

Max looked at Ella and Arianna and arched an eyebrow.

"Hey, ya think maybe they're gay?" Arianna joked, nodding towards Fang and his new friend.

"Arianna!" Max exclaimed, offended for Fang, since he couldn't come to his own defense.

"Chill, I'm joking. But seriously, what do you think's going on down there?" Arianna watched the boys curiously.

"I can hear them you know.' Iggy interjected dryly, uninterested.

"Hush Ig. Don't spoil the fun." Ella scolded playfully as she gave him a light shove. Max rolled her eyes at this.

Moments later, Fang returned, and sat back down.

"What was that all about?" Max asked.

"Tryouts are Friday after school. Don't let me forget." He replied noncommittally.

"Tryouts for what, moron?" Max pressed.

"Basketball. I guess they were impressed with my dunk." Fang flashed a Fang equivalent of a grin and laid down on the warm cement step. Just as the bell for the start of school rang.

"Right… good luck with that." Max said as she gathered her backpack and headed inside for her first period class.

A/N: YAY! Ok I'm ok. Sorry for the wait guys. The Army of the Writer's Block Nazis had me captive. Anyway… next chapter (or the first part of it anyway) will be in Fang's POV, so something to look forward to. Again, sorry for the long absence, but I do have another life that needs attending too (though I find it hard to believe sometimes) Thank you all for the favorites and alerts and reviews, you have no idea how many times I've opened this chapter to work on it, just to make you guys happy. Damn Writer's Block Nazis! (closely related to bathroom gremlins and evil garden gnomes) Moving on! I'm hoping to get the next chapter up soon, but in all honesty, I haven't started on it yet, so it may be a while. Fingers crossed people.

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