Heyyy friends!!!
Emerald: WHATDIDTHEYSAYWHATDIDTHEYSAY!!!!
Me: Well, they did seem to think you were a bit of a Mary-Sue. Shadowleaf264 and Jennedy, you were a big help with this. Thanks!
Emerald: NOOOOOOO! Now I'm going to be in a car crash and have to get a leg amputated or something!
Me: Emerald, don't worry. I've got something planned out…
Emerald: I don't like the way you're grinning…
Me: Do the claimers, Emerald.
Emerald: Evie doesn't own Max Ride. She owns my flock and the plot. Now will you tell me what the Heck's going on?
Me: In time, Emerald, in time…
10 minutes…20 minutes…30 minutes…
After a while, I lost count of how long I'd been sitting on that stupid branch, sobbing my eyes out. Once I had started, I didn't seem to be able to stop. I felt like I was about to throw up. Suddenly the branch sagged. I turned around so fast that my limb brown hair whipped my face, thinking Erasers!
"Hey." Iggy said.
"Oh, hi." I said, wiping the tears off my face and trying to control my voice, which was all high pitched and wimpy and making me feel like a complete nerd.
"Can I join you?" He asked.
"Sure, pull up a tree." I said, smiling slightly despite how crap I felt.
"You left your clothes at the mall." He said, holding up a bag.
"Oh, thanks." I said lamely. I wanted to think of something funny and interesting to say. But my mind was completely blank. There were probably a couple of cobwebs in there.
"What happened back there?" He asked, sitting beside me, "It's just you took off pretty quickly."
"Uh, yeah." I said, hanging my head, brain still full of cobwebs.
There was a pause, then Iggy said, "You're upset." It was a statement, not a question.
"No I'm not." I said, stubbornly.
"Yes, you are."
"How am I?"
"Well, for a start, your voice is slightly more high pitched than normal," Iggy said, "You're sitting stiffly on this branch, and," he touched my arm briefly, "Yep. Your temperature's slightly higher 'cos you're lying to me about how you feel." (Quick A/N: This is probably kind of OCC for Iggy, but it's the only stuff I could think of) Good grief, how did he know all this? There was a pause. Finally I said, "Are you sure you're not just pretending to be blind?"
Iggy laughed and held up his hands, "Deadly serious, I promise!" I laughed as well. Iggy, in those four statements, had made me feel better.
"We're all up at the cave, if you're coming back." Iggy said, standing up.
"You're leaving?" I said, sounding like a wimpy little baby.
"Yep. Sorry. Bombs don't make themselves, you know."
I laughed again.
"I'm here if you need to talk." Iggy said, touching my shoulder briefly. My stomach twisted into complicated knots. Then he leapt off the tree and flew away, leaving me with feelings I didn't have words for.
***
"All I'm saying is, I'm not sure you know what you really want." Angel said, picking a blackberry of its branch. Max had sent the two of us to look for food, and we were discussing…certain things.
"Angel, I know exactly what I want, and it is Chase's head on a stick." I said, pricking myself on a thorn. I pulled it out of my finger and examined the cut. Not too serious. It was only a thorn, after all.
"No, Emerald, I don't think that's what you want." Angel said seriously, blinking her blue eyes at me.
"Angel, it is." I snarled, "So build a bridge and get over it. On second thoughts, why am I even discussing this with you? You're a bloody six year old!"
Angel scowled at me, and I realised what Max meant when she said that dear Angel was 50% gumdrops and rainbows, and 50% evil genius.
"Emerald, I've tried to help you. I've talked to Chase. I've talked to Nudge. I've tried to get the three of you to wise up and get over yourselves. But if this is the thanks I'm going to get, you can sort it out yourselves." And then she turned around and marched through the trees back to where the Flock had made a small camp. I sat down on a boulder and put my head in my hands. How come when I'm in a horrid mood to one or two people I take it out on everyone? Everyone except Angel and sometimes Iggy had been giving me a wide berth over the past couple of days. It was a continuous battle at camp these days. Chase, Nudge and I weren't talking or even looking at each other, only to hurl insults or give each other murderous glances. It wasn't Angel I was angry with. It wasn't her who had kissed my crush.
Somewhere deep in the forest, Dreamer screamed.
Okay, I hope Emerald was a little less Mary Sueish in this chapter.
Emerald: I hope so too!
Me: And also, some of my advice to make Emerald unMary-Sueify herself was to make her not find true love quickly. Well, I actually already had that all planned out so sorry! Tell me what you think! Next chapter coming soon!
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P.S. If you don't know what a Mary Sue is, read The Maximum Ride guide to Mary Sues, by theweirdperson. It should really clear things up!