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Anyways, I'm so sorry it took so long to update… I was busy with school starting and the algebra test next week. Does anyone else hate algebra? But this week I don't have to go to school cause I have….. IT Camp. I know, how nerdy. But it's like fun, because I don't really have to do any work. And we were all like being random.

I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango
Thunderbolt and lightning, very, very fright'ning me
(Galileo.) Galileo. (Galileo.) Galileo, Galileo Figaro

Lol. Bohemiam Rhapsody by Queen. Best. Song. Ever. It's also fun singing it in the middle of class.

Thanks for all the reviews guys, it made me happy.

Oh and btw. In the last chapter, Max was a bit happier cause she just got to this awesome new house and sometimes she like forgets. In the next chapters she'll be back to her old bitchy self (no offence). 'Cept maybe to Fang, Iggy and Nudge… Most of the time.

Swearing in this chapter… Avert your eyes little ones!

Here's Chapter 3: My Half-Sister

"Mmmm… Iggy, I don't know where the hell you learnt to cook but you are damn good."

Yes, yes. I was back on speaking terms with Iggy. It only took him following me into the kitchen (limping), me slamming the door in his face, him trying to come onto me 11 times, me kicking him where the sun don't shine 5 times, 4 kicks in the shins and finally… a slap on his cheek. Hahaha. It even left marks. Yay for big rings. When he'd finally grovelled for mercy, I mean apologised, we were good friends. Albeit friends who slightly damage each other. And he insisted on making breakfast.

I thought Nudge and Fang were overreacting when he said that and their eyes lit up but he makes pretty damn good bacon.

Speaking of which, I reached for another piece. And grabbed thin air.

"Where's all the bacon gone," I said, horrified.

Faint replies came from everyone including "In my stomach," and "Your mom," Yeah. Real Mature.

"A loud knock on the door resonated through the house.

"I'll get it!" Shouted Angel and Gazzy simultaneously and ran out of the kitchen.

I sighed. Things like this kept on making me want to break down. But I had to keep it together. I couldn't just break down every time I saw something familiar. I mean imagine looking at chocolate chip cookies and just bursting out crying. It was going to be even harder at school. Oh God. School. From what I had heard from Nudge and Iggy (Fang didn't really speak much) the whole school basically consisted of sexist pigs, skanks, sluts and people who needed their asses kicked. Wasn't this going to be fun?

I was interrupted from my mindless rambling by Angel bursting through the kitchen.

"Max!" She gasped. She really needed to work on her stamina. "Jeb is here and… (Gasp) there's a girl with him who says she's his daughter."

"Oh. You mean Ella. I better go help her." I said leaving a stunned Angel.

Now most people don't know this but I actually have a half-sister who's a year younger than me. I met her couple of years ago. See my Mom left Jeb when I was still a baby and she met John and they got married and had the twins but the reason my Mom left Jeb was because he was having an affair and on my tenth birthday I found out that he had a daughter a year younger than me.

That was my tenth birthday present actually. I asked my Mom if I could meet her and we arranged a meeting. We'd become good friends and had exchanged emails but we'd lost touch over the years. The twins had never known about her though.

I walked into the completely white entrance hall and saw Ella and Jed. I didn't really like Jeb though he tried to change that. I still resented him for leaving us when I was so young although if he hadn't my mom would never have met John. He always tried to get on my good side by sending presents on my birthday and Christmas, never mind the fact that this was the first time I had seen him in 7 years. No doubt he would conveniently forget about all that.

"Maxie!" He shouted when he saw me. I rolled my eyes and groaned inwardly. Anyone who actually knew me would know that calling me Maxie would result in a trip to the hospital.

I sidestepped his hug and looked at him.

"It's Max actually. Or Maximum. Maximum Ride. You would know that if you actually knew me." I turned away from him and faced Ella.

"Ells!" I said and smiled. Even though we had lost touch over the years she was still one of my oldest friends.

"MAX!" She shouted much louder and threw me into a hug. "You didn't have to do that you know," She whispered in my ear.

"Yes I did Ells." I said with a sad smile. "Anyways thanks for doing the rooms, I didn't think you'd furnish them and everything.

"No probs. The rooms were already those colours anyway and I figured you'd want the room with the balcony." We started chatting about random things until the door from the kitchen opened.

"Hellooo," Said Iggy, "Did you forget about us or something. Hey Ells by the way. How come you never told us about your evil half sister?"

She blushed and mumbled something incoherent. I would definitely be questioning her about that later.

"Never mind that Iggy. Why don't you take those bags upstairs and everyone can come up to my room." I said and dragged Ella up the stairs.

"Whoa. I love your room. It's so much better than it was before. How did you paint all this?"

"Ella, careful, you're going to end up like Nudge," I countered. She smiled and jumped onto my bed and flicked through my iPod. Music blared loudly until she turned it down.

"Crap Max, how loud is that!" She said.

"Well, judging from your aggravated expression, too loud," We looked at each other completely serious before bursting out laughing.

"Oh, I missed you Max. I can't wait until school now, when I get to show off your bad ass attitude off," she said in between giggles.

"Oh really, how bad is your school anyway, and when do I start?" I asked.

"Tomorrow," she said.

I stopped laughing.

"You're not serious are you? I mean come on. Tomorrow?"

"Yup, Jeb said that it would be better."

I narrowed my eyes. "Why do you call him Jeb anyways, why not Dad?"

"I dunno, he always asked me to call him Jeb. Hey can I ask you a question?"

"You already did." I countered.

She rolled her eyes. "Why do you call yourself Maximum Ride? Why not Maximum Martinez, after your mom?"

"Well, on my 15th birthday, I asked if I could change my name, because I still had Jeb's last name. Mom said yes of course but she said now that I was older I could change it to something other than Martinez, so I changed it to Ride, after Sally Ride."

She looked at me for a moment and I knew she could see the tears in my eyes.

"You really miss them don't you?" She asked.

"Yeh," I said, smiling sadly. "I keep on forgetting about everything and just being jolted back to the present."

She gave me a hug and looked as if she was about to ask something but our sentimental moment was ruined when somebody knocked on the door. I got up and opened it to see the twins, and the other twins and Nudge. Okay that sounded weird.

"Is this your room?" asked Nudge. Angel and Gazzy smirked; they knew Nudge had left herself open.

"I dunno Nudge, considering my door has Max on it in giant letters but you never know."

She blushed and frowned before deciding to leave it.

I turned my back on them and jumped on my bed. I looked back and saw them still standing there.

"Are you gonna come in or are you gonna stand there all day?" I asked while Ella snickered.

Angel ran in and jumped on my lap. I'd been kinda distance lately and I think she was glad to my old self. Well not exactly my old self since I was a teensy bit bitchier and my wardrobe consisted of mostly black, but better than closing myself off. I gave her a hug and started fixing her hair. I couldn't really do hair but it reminded me of when we were younger before this.

Gazzy followed suit and jumped next to me while the others just ambled in awkwardly. My music had turned off a while ago so there was just an awkward silence.

"Soo…" I said, "Fill me in on this school that I apparently have to go to tomorrow."

"Well…" started Ella. "There's a massive group of sluts, led by Lissa, the queen of sluts, who thinks she rules the school. But she doesn't. We're I guess what you would call the populars, although we're not mean."

I groaned. "Really. It had to be you guys."

"Why what's wrong with populars?" asked Iggy.

Angel answered for me. "Max has been sued by about ten of them."

"Really, why?"

"Well, they might have been pissing me off and I might have accidentally punched them all." I said, trying and failing to look angelic.

Ella, Iggy, Fang and Nudge just stared at me for a couple of seconds before bursting out laughing. Well the others laughed. Fang just chuckled.

Angel and Gazzy just stared at them for a second before turning to me.

"Max, we're gonna go watch a movie, kay?" Angel asked.

I smiled. "Sure sweetie, just stay out of Jeb's way," They nodded and practically ran out of the room. I didn't blame them, these guys were weird.

Nudge finally regained control. Kinda. "What did all these girls do to you?" she asked.

"Oh, they weren't all girls. Actually most of them were guys. Only 3 of them were girls. I don't usually beat up girls. Unless of course they really piss me off."

The laughter stopped abruptly and they all stared at me.

"You mean you punched seven guys?" asked Nudge.

"Twelve actually, and it was more than a punch. Let's just say a lot of them won't have any children. With good reason too. It's just only seven of them were rich enough to sue."

Yet again, utter silence. I decided to explain.

"Well it wasn't exactly hard," I started. "I've done practically all the martial arts and I'm pretty good at kick boxing too."

Ok this wasn't helping.

"I won't beat you guys up of course, unless you really piss me off, and even then I won't hurt you too bad, since we're friends and everything."

I looked at their blank faces.

"I was joking, come on. I wouldn't beat you up,"

This was getting really annoying.

I got up from the bed and walked over to my iPod, searching for a song. I had a weird iPod. I didn't really have one kind of song. They were all different. I was busy trawling through my 1123 songs when I heard Nudge speak up.

"We're your friends?"

"Duh," I answered. "Why else would you be in my room."

She shut up.

Silence. Again.

"For god's sake you guys! What the hell is wrong with you?" I practically roared. I get annoyed easily.

They all jumped and burst out laughing again. I mean come on. Is it really to much to ask for to have a half intelligent conversation.

Finally their laughter died down and I jumped back on the bed.

"What the hell is so funny?" I asked.

Ella was wiping tears out of her eyes as she answered me.

"We're laughing because we can just see the impression you're going to make tomorrow."

"God help them all," Iggy said and looked up to the sky.

I smirked. They didn't have a clue what was coming.

Yay, I finished finally. I kept on starting to write it and deleting the whole thing.

The next chapter will have Max starting school. Muhahahaha.

Anyways, I'm not sure how long it'll take for the next chapter since I have tons of tests and assessments due next week. Grrr…

Review please! Chocolate chip cookies for reviewers. And if I get enough reviews there might be a shirtless Fang in the next chapter.

Magnifico-o-o-o-o
I'm just a poor boy nobody loves me
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity

I just feel like putting that in there. I'm listening to it now.

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