Max's POV:
Everyone stayed silent for a while thinking things over. So far Angel, Gazzy, Nudge, and my mom were all crying. Angel and Gazzy were cuddled together comforting one another. Nudge was burying her head in her hands sobbing. Kyle was trying to comfort her but she wouldn't let him. I think it's because she thinks he's a stranger and the fact that he's a good Eraser. She must not trust him. Mom was also sobbing in her hands but Iggy was comforting her.
Iggy was trying to be the 'big brother' that he is, keeping a straight face. Fang was just emotionless starring into space. The three amigos, A.K.A Kyle, Ari, and Max, were just sitting there looking sad and angered. They were probably angry with The School for doing those horrible things to them and to me, but mostly to them. And sad for the fact that this has to happen.
"You have a messed up life." Fang said not trying to hide it. I snapped my head to him with a medium glare.
"Really?" I said sarcastically. "I thought I was living a normal life, with no wolf people chasing and trying to kill me. I thought I was living a perfect life like all of yours. Where did I go wrong?"
Fang looked at me with a harden glare. "By coming here that's what." He said bitterly. Everyone looked at us with worried eyes, especially Ella's. She knew what I could do to him within a second. I stood up from my spot on the ground slowly and gracefully as I glared at him with a slightly harder look.
"What?" I asked slowly trying to restrain the icy substance in my voice. It didn't work out too well. Fang stood up straighter and looked at me.
"You heard me. You went wrong by coming here. What made you think that the Erasers or whatever comes here?" He said icily. "If what you say is true about them then they would have no problem in killing us all. You're going to be the death of us all." He said a lot in those sentences and those were the cruelest words that have come out of his mouth.
My eyes widened and I took a step back. "What?" I asked shocked. "You think I'm responsible for this?" He nodded with his lips in a firm line. My glare just went to almost the most deathly I had. Everyone gasped and looked away. All except Fang. His eyes widened a fraction of an inch but he didn't back down. "You think this is my fault?" I didn't wait for him to reply. "If it's any-ones fault here it's hers!" I said outraged and pointed a finger to Ms. Martinez. Her face became the guiltiest ands saddest expression I've ever seen. I would have soften and told her I'm sorry but I was too mad to do that. "SHE'S the one who dated that bastard Jeb! SHE'S the one who gave birth to me! SHE'S the one who started this whole freaking cycle! And SHE'S the one who 'adopted' me in the first place! SO STOP BLAMING ME FOR SOMETHING THAT'S NOT MY FAULT!"
Iggy with a sour look on his face came up to me and punched me in the nose. Me and someone else gasped in surprised. I looked to the sound and saw Max holding his nose just like me.
"What just happened?" Nudge asked warily. That's what I was thinking. I moved my hands from my nose and everyone watched as it healed itself and got back to normal, except with the blood of course.
"Well?" I asked impatiently at Max. He looked at me with a bewildered expression. "What the heck happened?" I said clearing it up a bit for him. I tried to ignore the fact that Iggy was the one who hit me. I glanced over at him and it looked to me that he just now figured out that he punched me. Looks like he wasn't thinking and was too angry. I would be too if someone just practically insulted my mother. Heck, she IS my mother. I looked back a Max and saw that he was still thinking.
"I don't know." He said honestly after a while. "It's just when Iggy punched you I felt like someone punched me too." He explained standing up and moving beside me. I had a confused look on my face.
"So what would happen if I do this?" Fang asked and in a second he moved to be in front of Max and punched him square across the face. Before i could ask what his problem was, pain shot threw me and memories of my past foster homes came to me. Me and Max stepped half a step back together and images flashed through my mind. I don't know if Max was seeing this too, all I could think about was the pain both on my face and in my head.
"Why the hell did you do that!" An angry voice yelled off in the distance. I heard the tiniest shuffling before a familiar sense of darkness surrounded me with its silent presence.
I woke up to see a white light I shut my eyes quickly and groaned in displeasure. Where the hell am I? Against my will I opened my eyes again and tried to refocus my eyes. It only took a few seconds but it was long enough to annoy me. I looked around and saw that I was in my room on my bed.
"Looks like you're up." A voice said next to me. I didn't jump and just casually turned my head to the sound. It was Fang. He was sitting on a my desk chair, obviously from my desk, next to the bed. I looked at him curiously.
"What happened?" I asked slowly and cautiously. He looked at me with an eyebrow raised.
"You don't know?" He asked slightly amused. I still had a confused look on so he just continued. "Well I punched Max wondering if you would feel the same thing, you did, but what was weird was that you guys went to the floor unconscious and I have no idea why." He said. I starred at him like he was a different person. He raised an eyebrow at me. "What?"
"Nothing." I said shaking my head. "It's just that you talk way more when you want to or when you're explaining something." I said nonchalantly and I pulled away the stupid covers over me and I got out of bed. I felt a little dizzy but that didn't stop me from still heading to the door.
"Where do you think you're going?" Fang asked me. I turned around to look at him.
"I think I'm about to walk out this door and to the kitchen to eat. Being a bird-kid and all, I need my food." I said happily and before he could respond I opened and closed the door after me in less then two seconds. That's right. Two seconds. I think that was a new record for me.
As I walked down the stairs I heard the familiar voices of everyone.
"So what do you say?" I heard my mom ask. There was a pause and I heard a new and lower tone of voice reply.
"Sure."
I was within eyesight of them and saw my Mom sitting on the couch looking at Max, Kyle, and Ari expectantly. Angel and Gazzy were playing with cars and dolls in front of the TV. Nudge was looking worried along with Ella on the love seat. Iggy was seated next to my mom looking disinterested and a little mad. Probably from the fact that i insulted his mom, but you never know for sure.
"What do you say to what?" I asked. They looked at me and gasped, shocked that I was there. I'm not surprised, they were too interested in their conversation that they didn't notice me. Mom looked at me worriedly and a little bit hurt. At first I didn't know why but then I remembered what I said to her. I felt guilty and I gave her a truly sorry look. I think she got the message but she still felt guilty from what I see.
'I hope she knows that we're staying here for a while.' I heard Max say. I snapped my head to him.
"What?" I said through gritted teeth. They all looked at me confused.
"What?" Iggy asked confused.
"Don't 'What?' me. You know exactly what. Who was suppose to tell me that Kyle, Ari, and Max would be staying for a while?" I asked angrily. I saw Max stiffen, and shot him an angry glare which he ignored.
"How did you find out? We didn't tell you." Nudge asked worriedly. I looked at her annoyed.
"What are you talking about? I heard Max say it, clearly, out loud." I said shooting him a pointed look.
"No he didn't Max." Ari said soothingly. In the tiniest corner of my eye I say Ella straighten and look away. I mentally sighed. She SO liked him. There was no denying it. "I was sitting right here and I didn't hear him." And sure enough he WAS sitting next to Max.
I rubbed my head feeling another headache coming on.
"Yes he did. I heard him." I said getting annoyed. I walked toward the kitchen and sat down on the stool next to the island.
"Max." I heard Max say. (A/N: Okay I'm not sure if you think the same way but when I write this it feels weird, so if anyone has options on what to nickname the boy Max I would gladly take it.) I looked at him with an irritated expression. "I didn't say it." I opened my mouth to complain but he beat me to it. "I thought it, Max. I THOUGHT it." He said.
I looked at him for a whole three seconds in shock, digesting what he just said, before a grin broke out on my face. I jumped up and punched the air. "Yes!" I shouted excited. I did a semi-happy dance around the kitchen. It lasted for three seconds before I stayed put and tried to control the massive grin on my face. The looks on all of their faces made me want to burst out laughing, but I controlled that too. "What?" I asked sitting down on the school again. "Never seen a person smile before?"
"No. I just don't think we ever seen YOUR smile before." Iggy replied calmly after two seconds of silence. He didn't seem mad an more and i still wondered why. I rolled my eyes. I bet he's just trying to burst my bubble.
"But why did you smile?" Nudge asked. "I mean it's not bad that you smiled. You actually have a very nice smile, it lights up your face, but what I mean is that he just said that he thought it and then you do a happy dance with a smile and the-" She was cut off by Ella putting a hand over her mouth.
"She did a happy dance because she thinks she developed a new skill of mind reading." Ella explained easily, like it was no big deal, but in her eyes I see that she was trying not to freak out.
"I know!" I said happily. "It would be so cool. I get to know all of your secrets." With that Ella and Nudge looked away from Ari, Kyle, and me all at once. I smiled knowingly at them along with mom. She must know too.
"What's going on?" I heard a new voice ask. I looked to the stairs to see Fang standing there confused. I first wondered why it took him a while to get down here, but thought bette of it.
"Oh, nothing, just the fact that I might be able to read your every thought in the next 24 hours." I said casually and went to the fridge to get a drink of Sunny D. Fang had an expressionless face but in his eyes I saw complete horror. I inwardly laughed and I saw Max look at me with a grin that I think I also had when I found out what I could do.
"Hey, Max guess what?" Max taunted.
"What is it? You're ruining my parade over here." I said sweetly. He just smiled more.
"It's just the fact that I can hear your thoughts as well. I think it's just the two of us that can read each others minds." He said. And with that I coughed up my Sunny D and starred at him.
"What?" I croaked out trying to swallow the lump of Sunny D in my throat.
"I said that I think only the two of-" He said but I cut him off.
"I know what you said. Ugh!" I said putting down my juice. "Now I can't make sure that Ella has a crush on Ari, and that Nudge has a crush on Kyle." The two boys looked at the girls startled and the girls glare angrily at me, but I continued on ignoring them. "This is NOT what I wanted. I wanted to read EVERYONE'S minds not just one person who looks exactly like me. That was not in my day planner. What WAS on it was to talk to Ella and Nudge about keeping their hormones controlled when their around Kyle, and Ari-" The next thing I know I'm being tackled to the ground with people punching me. I found out that it was Ella and Nudge trying to hurt me with murderous faces on. Of course it didn't work. It felt like pokes, but I didn't say anything.
"Don't ever speak of it again!" Nudge yelled at me trying and failing to keep the blush of her face.
"We do NOT have crushes on them!" Ella yelled throwing a punch at my arm. She also was blushing and I mentally laughed. It was too hilarious for me. I mean how would you feel when two blushing friends attack you throwing you punches that feel like pokes? It's weird.
They each grabbed one of my wrists and began to pull me towards the stairs. Everyone looked at us trying to hold in their laughs.
"Hey!" I yelled frustrated. I twisted in their grips but they had an iron hold. "This is not a way to treat a friend!" Everyone lost it and started laughing.
"We won't treat you like one until you treat US like one." Nudge said calmly still pulling me to the stairs. I stopped struggling and let them drag me.
"So...what are you going to do to me?" I asked. They looked back at me and smiled devilishly.
"You'll see." They said at the same time and by this time I was at the bottom of the stairs. You know what they did? If you think that they let me up and go, then your wrong. They dragged me up the stairs. I don't know about you, but that hurts. Especially when you're on your back with wings getting crushed every time you move up a step.
"Oh, and Max!" Mom called. I was now a little more then halfway up the stairs. "Kyle, Ari, and Max are all going to be attending school tomorrow! I also thought that since your not leaving any time soon I changed your schedule to only half of your classes are with Iggy and/or Fang!" I smiled despite my position.
I finally get to have freedom. I chuckled mischievously in my head. That means I could skip those classes.
"NO YOU CAN'T MAX!" I heard Max shout after I was at the top of the blank damn stairs. I groaned from not only the fact that I just landed on my back but also for the fact that I can't skip.
This is so hell.
(A/N: So how did I do? I'll try and update faster and give you better chapters because this chapter is just boring to me. But trust me once everything gets "settled" it will be much better and WAY more exciting. READ AND REVIEW! PLEASE!)