A/N: Here's chapter 5! WooHoo! I don'y own maximum ride, but i do own my OC's so no stealing! Now on with the chapter!

Others Like Me

Max, Nick and I started to become really good friends. Turns out that Max and Nick aren't siblings but are more like boyfriend and girlfriend, they won't admit it though. We hang out together at school and I've learned some things about them.

At home I spend my empty afternoons learning to fly with my newfound wings, it was hard at first but I got the hang of it eventually. My parents never saw me, but it's been a close call several times (snapping my wings in as they walk through the door). My wings are basically the same color as my eyes, maroon with speckles of bright red here and there.

I've been debating over whether or not I should tell Max and Nick about the wings. I want them to know but I also don't want them to think I'm some sort of genetic freak, even though I probably am.

It turned out I didn't have a choice.

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We're isolating DNA in science, and they want a sample from everyone. I tried to refuse but my science teacher made me do it, I knew it wasn't going to turn out well. We had to give a small sample of our blood and then the teacher went into the back room to start the process.

A couple days later the teacher said that he had the results and he gave us each a little test tube with our DNA inside, mine was a different color from everyone else's. The little particles floating around in my test tube were red, everyone else's were white.

"Philip, can I talk to you please?" I heard my science teacher say.

"Um... ok," I replied. Oh god, here it goes.

He took me into the back room and closed the door. I was a little freaked out, I had been a little claustrophobic ever since that nightmare. He walked over to the desk and turned on a light, revealing a microscope on the desk. He looked into the microscope and I wondered what he was looking at.

"This is a piece of the DNA sample you gave me the other day," he said. Uh oh.

"At first I thought it was just some sort of anomaly, but I saw that there was another type of DNA in your blood," he said, "Other than human DNA."

This was it...

"I didn't think recombinant life forms were a possibility, but after some research I realized that it must be possible." He said, "Because I think you are one."

"What...?" I managed.

"So you didn't know? I thought as much, since you were still going to school and acting like a normal kid."

"So..." I said, "How do you know this?"

"I found bird DNA in you blood," he said turning back to the microscope. "you're only 98 human, Philip."

my mind flashed back to the nightmare I had had, "We're gonna play a little game, Birdie," Holy crap, so thats what they had meant...

"W-What should I do? I can't go to the hospital, they'll think I'm a mutant freak and stick me in a cage..." I muttered.

The teacher raised an eyebrow, "So there are noticeable signs of this change?"

I stared at him.

"I mean apart from your eyes of course," he clarified.

Should I tell him? hmm... he seemed nice enough... I nodded slowly.

"like what?" he asked, his eyes widening.

I walked over to the door and locked it, then pulled the shutters down over the windows. Then I took off my jacket and spread my wings.

"Holy Shit!" he gasped. He stumbled back and nearly tripped over the trashcan, knocking it's contents onto the floor.

He slowly picked himself off the floor and came closer to examine my wings, he really didn't seem as surprised as I thought he would be. He was probably more surprised when he found the bird DNA in the first place. He rubbed his fingers through my feathers, making me shiver. He started muttering to himself and occasionally I'd hear words like "impossible," or "amazing," and I would stare at him. Eventually he pulled back and just stared at me.

"So, can you actually fly with your... wings?" He asked.

I nodded, "I think I have, like, air sacs or something." I answered.

"Wow..." He suddenly turned around and headed to his desk, he reached into a drawer and pulled out a stethoscope. He came back over and asked me to lift up my shirt. I did so and he pressed the stethoscope to my chest, god it was cold.

"Your heart beats extremely fast," he observed, "I can also hear air moving, it must be the air sacs. Are there any other side effects?" he asked.

"Well, I get hungry a lot faster, so I guess I burn more energy." I answered.

"Hmm... Yes, that would make sense..." He muttered. I glanced at the clock.

"We should probably get back to the class," I reminded him.

"Oh! Yes, I forgot!" He held up my jacket, "Um, here you go."

I folded my wings back in and shrugged on my jacket. I walked into the classroom and everyone was staring at me. Max and Nick were giving me questioning looks, which I ignored. I grabbed my things and ran out of the classroom.

Max's POV

Something was wrong.

Philip never snapped like that, he was always calm and collected. He would never just burst out of the classroom like that, so something was wrong. He had been in the back room for about twenty minutes, and halfway through I had heard the door lock and the blinds close. He had come out looking almost... disturbed. I had noticed before that the particles in his vial of DNA had been red not white, that was odd. I thought back to when fang and I had first done this lab, our DNA had been red as well. Maybe that meant he was like us? That would explain why he was gone for, like, a week when he first came. Whatever, I needed to talk to him.

I glanced at Fang and we both ran out of the classroom, we needed to find Philip.

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We caught up to him about halfway down the hallway, he was staggering around and shaking his head.

"Whats wrong, Philip?" I asked.

He glanced up, realizing we were there.

"Nothing," He said, staring down at his shoes.

"Philip, don't lie to us," Fang said. I could see the slightest hint of worry in Fang's eyes, that meant he was pretty worried.

"You Want To Know What Happened?!" Philip yelled, he pulled out the vial of his DNA, "This Is What Happened!!" He waved the vial in front of our faces. "I'm Not Fully Human! Thats What Fucking Happened!" He screamed and threw the vial at the wall where it shattered, the reddish liquid poured out on the floor. Philip fell to his knees, tear's forming in his eyes.

I heard a sharp intake of breath from Fang's direction, that's the closest he ever got to a gasp. I glanced at him with a look that said 'should we tell him?' he looked back, 'it's your call'. My wings shifted on my back as I debated whether or not we should tell him. I finally decided, this kid had no idea what he was or what had happened to him. Fang and I could help, so we would.

"neither are we," I said pulling out my own vial, which was also red.

He stared at me blankly, "Y-you mean you have w-wings, too?" he asked.

I nodded. I reached behind me and plucked a feather from my wing, ow, I handed it to him and he stared at it. He reached behind him and pulled out a feather of his own, he handed it to me. It was dark red, just like his eyes, speckled with a lighter red. An overwhelming silence followed, broken by the person I had least expected.

"Let's go outside," Fang suggested, "I think we could all use some fresh air."

A/N: I told u it would get longer! chappie 6 will be up soon!