Chapter 11

I was so confused; it was near 11 at night and pitch black outside, yet 2 grow ups had managed to find our house, that was in the middle of nowhere by the way, and Max wasn't freaking out. Max freaked out about anything that could put us in danger, but she wasn't going crazy about someone finding us and possibly taking us back to some laboratory to experiment some more on us.

"Hey, guys," the woman called out smiling and waving at us. She had dark wavy hair and was actually really pretty. Oh and she also had that maternal look about her.

Everyone, but me, smiled and waved back. "Hey, Dr. Martinez," most of them yelled out.

"Hey, Mom," Max said.

I looked at Max with my eyes wide and my mouth open, "mom?"

"Max, will you lower the ladder for us, please," the man asked. He looked weary and as if he hadn't had sleep in a while, still, he was very alert and observant. "I see you got Ja'leese here with no trouble," he said when he and the women Max had called mom, climbed up the ladder and was standing with us on the wrap-around-porch.

"Yeah," Max said walking into the house with everyone, including our little guests, following her.

Dr. Martinez sat in the armchair, the man stood by her, the younger kids sat on the floor, and Max, Fang, Iggy, and I all sat where we had before. The other flock members and me looked at the guy and Dr. Martinez.

"So, Jeb, what are you guys doing here this late at night?" Angel asked the man, whose name I guessed to be Jeb (I'm so smart aren't I?).

"Well, Dr. Martinez and I came up with a great idea that we hope you guys will agree to," Jeb told us.

Max groaned and threw back her head, "what is it this time?"

Dr. Martinez clapped her hands together and smiled at us, "we think you guys should go back to school."

Max looked at her mom like she was the craziest person ever for suggestioning such a thing. "Why? You guys both know how school always ends up for us."

"It was only bad because there were people trying to kill you then. No one's trying to murder you anymore, so it'll be different and I bet you'll like it now that you don't have to worry about getting killed by crazy scientists," Dr. Martinez told Max.

"Maybe shes right, Max," Nudge said helpfully. "now we can focus on doing normal kid things instead of freaking out about our safety."

"well, why don't we vote on it," Fang suggested, "if you think we should go to school, raise your hand."

Fang, Nudge, Gazzy, Angel, and Iggy all rose their hands, and Max glared at them.

"Oh, whatever," she said hopelessly.

The flock, including Dr. Martinez, cheered, Jeb smiled, Max glared at them all, and I just sat there confused. I ran through what had just happened in my head; tomorrow we would be going to school, Max was NOT happy about that, apparently the flock didn't have a good history at school, and everything had been discussed as if my presence was invisible. The last thing I didn't care much about but I was still stressing out about everything else.