OKAY! So the story starts.

-Max's POV-

I woke up to the sound of my alarm clock yelling at me to get up.

I raised my hand and sent in plummeting towards my bedside table, in a matter of seconds I heard that familiar ear-splitting sound of dying alarm clock. Ah music to my ears.

I grunted to myself and rolled over, hoping to bury my face in my pillow and sleep in the rest of the day. But, being me, I rolled the wrong way and fell with a thud onto my floor dragging pillows and blankets with me.

"Max?" I heard Ella call from my door "you have to get up, I'm leaving early. Iggy is downstairs making breakfast, 'Kay?"

I grunted from underneath my lovely grave of linens. I lay there for a while trying with everything I had to stay awake.

"Max. Get up!" Ella stomped over to me and kicked my side.

I threw my blankets at her in frustration as she ran out of my room screaming. Walking towards my wardrobe I avoided my mirror for the fear of seeing a grumpy morning zombie with drowsy eyes and nightmarish hair flying in all directions. Mornings were always just so...nice.

"Hurry up, Max!" Ella called again laughing.

"Yeah, yeah. Gimme a sec." I moaned as I started to strip off my PJ's and change into my uniform.

Because, you know, I'm all about cooperation.

So yeah, hi. I'm glad you got to meet me in the morning in my best state. Note the sarcasm. My name is Max, as you've gathered and Ella is my older sister, as you've also gathered. My two brothers, Nick and James, were adopted. Why am I explaining, you already know this stuff. Well when they arrived at our house we gave them about a week then we began bombarding them with nicknames. I don't know why...but Nick is now known as Fang and James, Iggy. So yeah, just thought I'd clarify that.

"Hey sleepy head" Iggy called as he sat the pancakes on the table.

"Unh" I groaned sleepily as I sat down and began devouring my pancakes. Mmm chocolate chip pancakes...heaven. "Thanks Ig, these are awesome" I said with my mouth full. Because I'm all about manners.

Fang was lounging around on the couch in the living room with his earphones glued to his ears. Ever since the two boys came and joined our family, we had to renovate our old home continuously and then my mum just got sick of it and moved us all into a new house. Big, two storey, six rooms: One for each of us and then a spare for god-knows-who-would-want-to-spend-a-night-with-this-family.

Which made me think..."where is mum?" I asked Iggy

"She went to drop off Ella at school early."

Oh, right. She probably wanted to sit in the library before school started. Sometimes I went with her, I liked the isolation the library provided, but Ella had to get up really early if she wanted to catch it empty. Me? Well...we know from this morning's little episode that I obviously can't do that. Fang plopped down on the seat next to me and yawned. He still had his IPod on so he probably wouldn't hear me if I shouted. Instead I wacked him. Why? Morning ritual.

"Ow" he groaned as he removed his earphones and rubbed his arm. Fang was the oldest, he was eighteen, Iggy and Ella were in the middle, both of them were seventeen and I was the youngest, which really got on my nerves. I was sixteen, oh sweet sixteen. More like...horrible, stressful, no good, very bad full of high school and work and boys and did I mention high school?

"Throw me a pancake, Ig" Fang said as he put his forehead down on the table. Oh Iggy threw it all right...he threw it well. It landed on Fang's plate which was right next to Fang's head. So it splattered a little and I laughed and then Fang wacked me and then Iggy laughed and I glared and then I mentally wacked myself. Iggy was blind, another wasted glare.

"So how was last night?" I asked Fang as he wiped his face. Fang, being in year 12, had a party last night. Which seemed like loads of fun since he came back wasted.

"Yeah man, are you still hung over?" Iggy asked.

"It was last night of course I'm hung over." And then he turned to me "don't drink, understand?"

Oh yeah, way to set an example.

"She gets drunk on fanta, you don't have to worry" Iggy said with a laugh

I yawned and placed my plate in the sink before I walked upstairs to get organised.

"Ah shit" Fang moaned "we have school don't we?"

He was cute when he was tired. I did not just say that.

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