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At least not yet.

I'm not sure whether I'm going to pursue her feelings for Iggy and will side with Max or will dump her feelings for Iggy and will continue her friendship with Sydney.

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That sentence made no sense.

Well that is normal.

For me at least... Don't look at me like that!

--BEAR!

Iggy.

When I'd awaken, Sydney was still asleep. I checked the clock, it was still pretty early. So I decided to let Sydney sleep in a bit, and still keep her promise to her brother and aunt.

I laughed a bit as I noticed a bit of spit dripping from her mouth.

Her eyes opened gingerly and I playfully informed her-

"You drool."

"Shut up." She chuckled as she slowly wiped the spit form her lips and pillow before weaving the arm back under on the underside of the pillow and fading back into slumber land.

I heard a faint snore and smiled at her cuteness.

Then I heard our front door slam and two people enter. I got u, rubbed my eyes and opened my door.

"What the- Ella?"

"Hey, Iggy…" Ella immediately acknowledged.

"Dr. Martinez? What-"

"We have a problem!" Dr. Martinez cried, obviously in freak out mode.

"What's wrong?!" Fang asked from his room, where he too was standing in the doorway.

Max looked up from the paper and Nudge looked up from playing with Angel and Gazzy.

"What happened?"

"Erasers have practically taken over New York City!"

"Huh?" I asked.

"They figured we must have migrated there, they practically tore the place apart, business men were everywhere!" Ella explained.

"We got out of there to tell you guys, you have to be careful! We need to move elsewhere! It won't be long before the Erasers get wise and realize your still here." Dr. Martinez had to held on to a table corner to keep from shrieking.

I heard a faint moan and then Sydney tired voice, from my room.

"Iggy, Iggy… What's wrong?"

She asked sleepily. I looked back at her blurred colors and back at the messy blobs of Ella and Dr. Martinez.

I could tell that Ella had nothing, but a look of bitter crazed shock on her face. Dr. Martinez must have had just the same look.

"Um…" I said kind of quiet.

I heard Sydney's footsteps slowly tiptoe behind me as she placed a hand on my bare wing, instantly her sparking image illuminated the world.

"Uh… " She mumbled in barely a whisper. Looking kind of embarrassed and awkwardly at Ella and Dr. Martinez.

"Maybe I'll just go back to um… bed- I mean sleep. Uh, sorry, nice to- uh yeah." Sydney said awkwardly, jostling her bare pale legs around before turning back around and hurriedly going back into my room and into the bathroom. I knew she was getting my loaner jeans

"Who is that!?" Ella practically shrieked at me.

I heard the bathroom door click back open and Sydney came back out, leaning embarrassedly on the door's wall. I heard her whisper repeatedly and quietly to herself.

"Oh God. Oh my God. Oh my God."

I hope people don't get the wrong idea from what this may look like.

I could almost hear what she was thinking since I was pretty much thinking the exact same thing.

"Dr.-… Mrs. Martinez… Ella…"

I found and took Sydney's hand and pulled her away from the wall and into the light exposure and judging eyes of Max's mom and sister.

"This is Sydney."

Sydney.

"Who's that?" The girl Iggy referred to and had told me about, Ella, cried out in a shrill high tone.

I glanced back at Iggy who looked kind of nervous,

He acknowledged them and pulled me back out of his room and introduced me.

"This is Sydney."

Iggy looked down at me, a small smile on his lips and in his eyes, he took my hand and wrapped my arm around his waist. He bent over a bit and let some of his light red hair fall in my face.

"My girlfriend."

I heard a faint gasp, but didn't bother to look up to see who'd gasped, I was a little too preoccupied with Iggy.

Ella's expression was crossed between fury and near-to-tears.

I bit my bottom lip in nervousness.

I reluctantly turned my gaze from Iggy and solemnly nodded my head.

"Do I know you from somewhere? I know I've seen you somewhere, that type of hair is impossible to forget!"

Confused, I shook my head. I don't think I've ever met her before. Though I did have a feeling I had seen her before.

"She knows?" The older, but not that much older, woman asked. I presumed she was Dr. Martinez. The name sounded so familiar . Why-?"

Dr. Martinez came up to me and Iggy grabbed both of our elbows and dragged us to the den area.

"Alright! Flock meeting. NOW!"

Everyone scampered into a chair. Dr. Martinez let go of our elbows and Iggy sat in the large cushiony chair and softly pulled me on top of him.

"TOTAL! YOU TOO!" Dr. Martinez shouted.

The black dog came round the corner grumpily. Grouching all the way.

"Wake me up at nine o clock in the morning. I'm tired. I don't even need to be here."

Everyone laughed.

I tried not to call too much attention to myself as I quickly re-buttoned some of the unbuttoned ones on Iggy's black shirt that I was wearing.

Ella was still frozen in her spot, half glaring at me and Iggy the other half was going into shock.

"Ella. Take a seat." Dr. Martinez ordered, and Ella, obeying her mother, took a seat in a kitchen chair, Gazzy pulled over for her.

"What, what, what, why, wh- how?" Ella stuttered out immediately, sending both of us a glare I didn't like.

"I um…"

"She was…"

Iggy and I spoke at once.

I motioned for him to go and awkwardly put my head down and rubbed the back of my neck.

"Well, the flock wanted soda and sent me down to find some and I stopped at a gas station store thing and ran into Sydney… At first I thought it was just going to be a one time acquaintance, but when I got back I kept thinking about her and wondered if I was going to see her again, and fortunately after that, Max suggested that-"

Max groaned in disgust at the realization that this realization was all her fault.

Iggy shot her the bird and continued on.

"-We all go out for coffee. And we stopped at that place you recommended. You know, the Break Room, turns out Sydney-"

"Sydney…? From the coffee house? Sydney Falcon?!" Dr. Martinez gasped.

"Uh yeah?" I replied, I looked up to see familiar eyes boring into mine.

"Oh!" I cried, getting off of Iggy and going up to her.

Dr. Martinez!

Dr. Valencia Martinez!?

"Dr. V?!" I gasped, nearly jumping on her, in a tight hug.

It had been so long!

I had met Dr. Martinez or Dr. V as I commonly referred to her as, had met me at one of the gigs at the House of Blues, Maya's uncle had invited me to hear Maya's cousins band play at about a couple years ago a couple months before I was due to turn twelve or thirteen. I knew it was just to get my mind off my parents death. But I went I liked a concert as much as the next music freak and hearing people enjoy it, but anyway. She and her daughter were apparently having some sort of get together with some friends and met me when her daughter Ella had gone to get a refill or something. It started out as just another comment on my hair and turned into a full out conversation. Soon Ella and I were swapping cell phone numbers chatting it up like we'd been best friends forever.

After sever minutes of conversation Ella's mom had joined us and when she told us about her career I had to tell her about my pets, which I still have today a nice black ferret, Magnus and our two dogs a collie named Risk and a Jack Russell terrier named Maks Russell, mostly known as Maks or Russ, by nickname standard.

She told me to drop them off for a visit sometime and gave me her card and sure enough I was taking my animals for visits. In fact Dr. Martinez was the one who got me the job at the Break Room.

We became great friends, especially Aunt Rhonda and Dr. V, and Maya fully and warmly accepted and loved Ella being in our group, but after about seven months they moved to New York, Ella and I'd text each other at least six days a week, but then our friendship just collapsed and soon it went from just once a week to, once a month to barely once in three months to not at all. And soon enough we had forgotten all about each other.

I wondered why something, somewhere in the back of my head, didn't spark when Iggy had spoken of them back when he told me of his Ella and Dr. Martinez.

"Oh it's been so long! How is your aunt? What about Magnus and Risk, and Maks Russell!?" She cried out happily pulling me outta her crack-your-ribs hug.

"All great! And my aunt misses you terribly. She would say how she missed your advice on shopping trips. She'd turn to her left and say, "Oh Valencia! What about these boots! Oh Armani has some of the most fabulous shoes! Don't you-" and she'd realize she's talking to some random person beside her."

Dr. V giggled and smiled. "Well tell her she doesn't need it. Rhonda was always a great shopper. And probably still is! She always found the best stuff and dressed in the best accessorized outfits I'll ever see!" She claimed.

"Oh Ella! Ain't this great! I remember when you kids would hang out all the time!" Dr. V reminisced.

Ella stood from her chair and unfolded her arms.

"Sydney? Is that really you?"

Next thing I see is Ella leaping over the couch and jumped on me.

"Oh my God! It's been so long! So, so, so long!"

She began to have a couple tears drip from my eyes into my shoulder.

"What's happening?" I heard Fang ask as he stared at us with a weirded-out expression.

So we had to sit down and explain it all.

After the long explanation, I glanced at the clock and nearly cried out in shock.

I had to go!

Nudge quickly tossed me my clothes and Iggy jumped up grabbing me around my waist and lifted up in mid air, swirling around the high-ceiling den.

I laughed in delight as I waved a goodbye to Ella and Dr. V and the Flock.

Max, as expected, wave back.

But Angel did. I hoped she didn't hate me for what happened last night.

Iggy adjusted me to where I was on his back holding on to his neck, my bag of clothes placed in between my stomach and his back.

My eyes began to drift closed as I focused on the nice blue sky as a soft breeze rustled my hair.

I quickly pecked Iggy on the cheek before nestling my head in between his shoulder blades and wings and fell back asleep.