hey all u ppl! ok i wanted to update so here it is but it is shorter then all my other short chapters so my bad guys. i had lots of homework so i couldn't even write plus i had lots of distractions like hunger, my moms cousins son(since it waz my job to entertain him hes only eight i just gave him my old ds with mario kart in it and he stayed quiet except for all they 'yeeeeesssss!' and 'yeah that was a good shot' and all the other random crap he yelled while playing yeah he stayed quiet) but what i dont understand is that my moms cousin works for the four seasons, you know that big expensive HOTEL, and he has an ipod touch 2nd gen., his kids have never seen a wii, and hes staying at our house....

oh! and thanks to britt108 for favoriting my story! thanks britt!

Alex POV

'Welcome to Arizona!' is what the big dumb sign said, with cacti for an exclamation point. So cheesy. Hot, dry. Dry, hot. I sighed, and kept walking, the flock at my heels. It was too hot to fly. If we flew, we'd be closer to the sun, and after an hour or two we'd be Cajun style bird kids—extra crispy. So here we are walking, and walking. Nudge was going to start complaining soon. Good thing I can see civilization from here.

"Are we there yet?"

Right on queue. "I don't know, Nudge." I replied.

"I'm hungry." She panted.

"We all are, Nudge."

I started to get dizzy. Whoa, everything's going blurry. I felt myself drop to my knees. Blackness surrounded me. In my last moments of consciousness I heard someone scream my name.

Nudge POV

"Are we there yet?" I asked Alex. It was so hot. My hair is fizzing badly. I probably look like an eraser. Ugh. I felt a familiar rumbling in my stomach.

"I don't know, Nudge." She told me.

"I'm hungry."

"We all are, Nudge."

Alex didn't look so good. Her eyes were fluttering. Her legs started to wobble. All of a sudden she dropped to her knees and then to the ground. Oh my god.

I screamed, "ALEX!"

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Max POV

I was able to check us in to a small motel with money that Alex had in her, uh…shirt. What I can't figure out, though, is why she just fainted out of nowhere. I mean, one minute she was fine the next she fainted. So what happened? I looked at this person lying in this bed, who could be my blood, my sister. What was going to happen to her? I am a fourteen year old mutant; I know practically nothing about being sick. We have stronger immune systems, and so should Alex. If whatever she has can break our immune systems, it must be bad.

…what if it's contagious?

Angel POV

…what if it's contagious?

Contagious? What does that mean? All of a sudden Max leapt up from where she was sitting on Alex's bed.

"Uh, everyone! Wash your hands. Now." She said.

"Wash our hands?" said Gazzy.

"Since when do you order us to wash our hands, Max?" asked Iggy.

"Since I realized that whatever Alex has could be contagious. So go scrub Iggy." Said Max through gritted teeth. Oh, so if Alex is sick we could get it too. So I followed the rest of the flock onto the cramped bathroom too wash my hands as well.

Alex POV

"Alex, come on! We have to hurry!" he yelled.

"I'm coming!" I yelled back to him. We were running for our lives through a cramped corridor that had to be a mile long. The building was coming down. Red lights flashed and sirens blared. My legs felt like jello. But I had to keep moving. The gap between us was growing. I couldn't go any farther. He turned around and saw me collapse. He ran back to help me up.

"Go. You can't save us both." I told him.

"No," he said, "I can't, and I won't, leave you." He said.

"Kevin," I said panting, "That's an order. Go!"

But he ignored me. He put me on his back and ran. The sirens were making my ears ring. I was also hot like hell. On missions like this we were required to wear all black uniforms of a waterproof and heat resistant jumpsuit, tight soundless shoes that were similar to ballet flats, and tuck our hair into tight ski then I saw the light at the end— outside. Fresh air. We made it.

oooh whos this mysterious kevin? what team is alex apart of? and most of all...what will happen next?

the answer to all of the questions above is simple: i have no freaking clue.

plz read. plz review. ideas, suggestions, plz any thing but flames and if u really have to flame me plz be short and sweet with a 'i just dont like it' or even 'i hate you' will suffice.

guess what!!!! i figured out why the kid has to go to the ent doc: he picks his nose like an animal!!!!

(once there was this kid in my class he was always diggin im math and guess what always happened. guess. every day he would pop a frickin blood vesel. so disgusting.)

one last thing: my vistors this moth have almost beat last months. see last month was 88 hits and right now it 85 hits. so lets beat my one and only record at anything! whoo! go jag-uars!( dont ask where that came from cas i have no idea.)