Fang's POV:

Max was looking extremely uncomfortable with everyone starring at her. The new people were in the living room watching God knows what. Max, Iggy, Nudge, Ella and I are in her room starring intently at Max, except Ella who was standing beside Max. She had a hand on her shoulder reassuring her that everything's going to be all right. I'm guessing Ella already knew the secret Max was keeping and that didn't really surprise me.

"What is it that we need to know Max?" I asked, my voice dripping in venom. "Why were those guys there?"

"I don't know Fang." Max sighed. She ran her fingers through her hair. "I don't know why those guys were here. As for the stuff you need to know…" She trailed off and looked at Ella who nodded. Ella took back her hand and stepped back. Max looked us all in the eye before whispering, "I have wings." She looked sad and regretful.

We looked at her wondering what she was talking about. She must be joking. No one could have wings. It's impossible for one to have them so why is she acting like she does? Why is she telling us lies?

"Be real, Max. You can't have wings. It's impossible for you too." Nudge said waving her hand away like it was nothing. I think she was just hoping that it was all a joke.

"I am being real, Nudge. I really do have wings." Max said in a louder and more confident voice. I think that was just because she doesn't like to be told she's wrong.

"Yeah right, Max." Iggy said crossing his arms over his chest. (A/N: By the way Iggy has his eyesight so he can see. Just to let you know.) "That can't be true because nobody could have wings. It's just impossible." He said continuing.

"Really?" Max asked in an annoyed tone. Ella stepped away from Max but I couldn't interpret if it was out of fear, or she just wanted to get away because her face was expressionless. Max took off her wind-breaker and tossed it to Ella who caught it with ease. "Then why do I have these?" Max asked in an almost pained voice. I felt something drop in my stomach but I don't know what it was. Before I could ask what the heck was going on Max rolled her shoulders and two beautiful brown and tan with white speckled wings came out of her back.

It was so unreal. I mean, how would you feel if your best friend just sprouted her wings in front of you? How would that work out for you?

For me…

Let's just sat I'm going through it fairly well.

"What the hell?" I yelled sitting up and moving to the back of the room.

Okay…maybe not…

"I have wings." Max said slowly like she was talking to a child. "Can't you see them?"

I had a mind to roll my eyes at her but didn't.

"I see them. How the heck could that happen?" I said with my voice made of steel. I looked into her eyes and they showed hurt, but also the realization of "I knew it." I wonder why on both of them.

Before she could answer there was a crash and a girlish scream. I couldn't make out who it was but Max apparently did.

"Mom." She said in a breath and ran inhumanly fast to the door. In a second she was gone from my vision.

I knew she was hiding something, I just didn't know it was this big.

What's going to happen now?

Max's POV:

I ran out of the room and down the stairs in a heartbeat. I saw in a second that Kyle, Ari, and Max were all standing perfectly still in front of Ms. Martinez, or better known as my mom. She was clutching her heart and leaning against the counter to the kitchen traumatized. She had no idea that three shirtless teenaged boys would be in her house with a teenaged daughter.

I didn't either and look where that let me.

Mom looked up seeing me and her confused expression turned to angry in an instant.

"Maximum Ride! How dare you bring home three boys! And they're shirtless! Is this all a joke to you?" She yelled at me standing up straight.

"No I don't think it's a joke. And I didn't bring them home. How could you even think that? And they came here by themselves. I also have nothing to do with why they're shirtless." I said pulling in my wings a bit so she doesn't see them. She doesn't need to know the dangers of my past…yet.

"I don't care! Go to your room!" She shouted giving me an icy glare. Images flashed through my mind.

Images of the people who hurt me when I did nothing wrong.

FLASHBACK TIME!

"You worthless piece of shit! How dare you back talk me!" A man with brown hair and black, dead-looking eyes. He raised the knife and sliced at my arm.

"Run while you can but you can hide no matter what!" taunted a woman with black hair and green eyes. "Even you can't handle a bullet!" She cackled and raised the shotgun she held in her hands. I ran faster through the streets trying to get away from the gun, but it was too late…she already pulled the trigger.

The smoke came into my mouth and I started coughing, I struggled against the ropes that tied me to the pole, but the ropes were too tight. I looked around frantically trying very hard not to cough. Then I saw the little piece of glass on the floor near me. I reach for it with my foot…but the building started to collapse.

END FLASHBACK!

"Max?" A voice asked me. I shook my head clearing it from the horrible images that flashed through me. I looked up to see everyone there with worried faces. Ella had the saddest one of them all. She knew what I was remembering. I made a weak smile at her and looked at my surroundings.

I was standing where I was and the others were all in the living room with the TV off. Kyle was sitting next to Nudge that was having a very hard time trying not to glance at him. I mentally rolled my eyes at her. Ari was sitting next to Ella on the love seat. They didn't look that much interested in each other, except for Ella's blushes and Ari's smiles. Whenever Ella and him would make eye contact he would grin and show his teeth and Ella's face would go red and she would immediately look away. I felt sorry for Ari when he looked a little hurt that she did that. I'll talk to both the Ari and Ella couple and the couple of Nudge and Kyle. The other Max was sitting alone in the chair starring at me. Wherever I move his eyes would follow. It was kind of creepy…and, yet I felt safe somehow…this was so freaking me out. Fang was glaring at Max for some reason, but Max couldn't care less, he would still stare at me. Mom was trying to calm herself down by breathing deeply.

I'll just say that it's not working.

I walked over to the other Max and sat down next to him. I don't know why, but I just did. Once I sat down Max looked straight in my eyes and grinned a toothy grin. I smiled uncertainly at him not knowing what to think of his happy grin. I looked away from him and sighed when I saw all the others starring at me.

"What?" I asked annoyed. They shook their heads trying to clear their thoughts.

"Start from the beginning, Max. The very beginning." Fang said venomously. I shot him a confused look but he just glared at me. I nodded and stood up. I looked at the curtains making sure that they were closed and that no one could see. They were so I returned my attention to the others. Slowly I let out my wings. The younger kids and my mom's eyes went huge and wide-rimmed.

"Oh my god." They said at the same time in a whisper. I smiled at them.

"How do you like them? Jeb took a long time making them." I wrapped the wings around myself. "He also took a very long time planting the DNA inside me. Along with all those horrible people he sent me to, to learn self-defense stuff."

Mom's eyes filled up with unknowing tears as she starred at me. I felt weird and decided it was just the windbreaker I was wearing. It WAS hot.

I folded my wings back in and took off the jacket and threw it to the ground where I was sitting. I heard everyone suck in a breath. I was wearing a white tank top so now my arms were uncovered showing all my scars that I have. I smiled grimly.

"Those people thought they were causing me pain." I said coldly. "They thought it would teach me a lesson." I scoffed angrily. "But it didn't. None of it did. It just taught me that humans here are cruel and untrustworthy."

"But you trust us don't you?" Nudge asked sadly. I looked at her and shook my head.

"I don't trust you. I will never trust anyone." I said firmly.

"Then why are you showing us your wings?" Iggy asked. I looked at him getting annoyed at all these questions.

"I would have never showed you them if those three-" I said pointing at the three good erasers. "-Hadn't shown up. I'm telling you know so that I won't have to lie and possibly get grounded when I leave for-" I cut myself off from finishing my sentence. Everyone shot me confused glances so I quickly recovered. "I also don't want to explain to you why I would leave you and go someplace else when the other erasers- the bad ones- get here. How would you react when you see your step-sister or step-daughter or whatever being attacked by wolf-men?" I said easily trying to ignore their looks.

"Can you just get on with the story?" Fang asked meanly. 'What's wrong with him?' I thought, shooting him an irritated glance but nodded.

"Well…" I said going back on topic. "It all started before I was even born…"

So I told them. I told them everything. About the school and what they did… about the erasers… about Jeb… about everything.

Let's just say that, after seeing my wings, the information was a lot easier to take in.

[A/N: Okay I think it's plain to see that I have writer's block but my sister says that it isn't completely awful so I'm okay with updating this because I thought you all would have wanted the new chapter by now. Sorry for how small it is. I couldn't update for… 6 days was it? Because of school, every sane kid's Hell on Earth. All my teachers must hate me or just enjoy giving me like 2 pages of homework per class :P Did you know that the average highschool student will have 1 to 3 hours of homework every day? Yeah… can't wait till highschool. (Please note my sarcasm.) Anyway I updated today, Friday September 3, 2010 and I am planning on squeezing in another update since it's a three day weekend, but unless it's a holiday or longer weekend I don't plan for more than one update a week unless I'm extremely, extremely inspired and have no homework and I don't see that happening, so I'm sorry if you're disappointed with this but education always comes first even if I hate it.]