A/N: Yay! I just finished one of my stories, Max Attack, so now I will be able to update quicker. R&R!

I knew that since Max was... gone now, I had to take lead. So, my first choice was to leave Anne's. For good.

So, to make it less of a chance that Anne would catch us leaving, I did it in the middle of the night. After Anne had tucked everyone in and went to her own bedroom, I waited about an hour or so for her to go to sleep. Then I crept out of my room and shut the door quietly.

I walked over to Angel's room. She was cuddling Total and Celeste, and had her eyes closed. I shook her shoulder gently, and she opened her eyes.

"Wha'...?" She moaned. "Oh, hi Fang." She tried to smile, but she couldn't really. She was still really sad, and I could see dried tear tracks down her cheeks. "What do you want?"

"I need you to get a message to everyone. Except Anne." I whispered. "Tell them to get everything they need, because we are leaving. I'll get some food, but you guys go outside, behind the barn. Got it?"

It took her a second to process what I said, but then finally she understood. "Uh, okay..." She closed her eyes to tell everyone else what we were doing. I crepted out of the room and walked down to the kitchen, bringing my empty backpack with me. I carefully opened the cupboard, making sure it didn't creak, and then took everything that would be easy to eat; some potato chips, apples, carrots, pretzels, you get the idea. Then I grabbed a six pack of diet Coke that Anne had told us never to touch, and stuffed that in with rest, too.

Then I grabbed a couple water bottles and filled them up. I didn't have anything else I needed to bring, so I ran to window and hurled myself out, unfurling my wings. The flock had already made it behind the barn when I got there.

They all looked at me with tired faces. Iggy was resting his head against the side of the barn, looking like he could fall asleep right then and there. I nudged him and he looked up at me.

"Okay guys, so we need to get as far away from here as possible. I don't want any chance of Anne finding out we left and then calling the cops, it would cause too much chaous." I announced as I shifted the backpack higher on my shoulders, so it wouldn't get in the way of flying.

"Where are we going?" Nudge asked through a yawn, sounding more like 'wha are weh goin?'.

I hesitated, not really sure. "Away from here." I said finally, after a couple of minutes pondering. I took a running start and then took off into the cold, crisp air. The sky was a shade of dark blue, ad I knew that I would blend in with my dark clothes. Good, no one will notice us.

***

I checked behind me, to see if everyone was still there. We had been flying for about three hours, no breaks. It was still dark out.

"Oh my God, where's Iggy?!" Nudge suddenly exclaimed.