Chapter 5 Angel Pov
Max's mind processed so fast, I clutched my head in agony. Fang looked at me, and so did everyone else, except Max, who was staring intently at the doorof her cage.
Her lips formed a word, I didn't know what she was doing. I tried to read her mind again.
This time, instead of insane thinking, all she thought was concept.
Open. She thought, staring at the door intently. It didn't move. I said Open. Open.
Max sighed in frustration. She rubbed her temples and tried again.
Open. Open. Open. Open. Open! Unecpectedly, the door to her cage flew out and hit the wall on the other side of the room, near Iggy.
Max smiled, crawling out.
She looked at my cage door, then at the others' cage doors.
Open. She thought slowly, emphasizing the word in her mind. Mine, Fang's, Iggy's and Gazzy's cages opened.
Nudge whimpered. Max hurried over to her and thought something different. Disappear.
Nudge's whole cage disappeared and she stared in shock at Max.
"I forgot to tell you, I'm a, uh, I guess you can call it a 'spell-caster'." Max chuckled nervously.
"You can say- I mean, think something, and that happens!" I whispered. Everyone looked at me.
"It's true. Watch." Max smiled and looked pointedly at the door, without making any sound, she had made the door blast open. "C'mon!" She started to run. We followed with an odd feeling. Like, this was how it was supposed to be. With Max.
"Where are we going?" Iggy shouted over the alarm that had begun to shriek. His hand was in Gazzy's hand. Gazzy looked determined, as well as everyone else.
"I've memorized the escape route! Hurry!" Max yelled back. She was running ahead of us, but with effort, we managed to keep up.
We followed all of Max's orders willingly, trusting her like we'd never trusted an outsider before.
She looked extreemly focused while every door was blasting open. Finally, we came to a huge- huge- window at the end of an extreemly long, narrow hallway. Max glared at the window as if it had insulted her. I heard her thoughts toward the window.
Decinigrate! Max ordered the window.
It shuddered slightly, but not enough to get out. The Whitecoat footsteps got closer and closer as our hearts pounded painfully.
Decinigrate! Melt! Desappear! Max commanded.
It shuddered again, the whitecoats got closer, and we were feeling light-headed.
"Vanish!" Max screamed aloud. The window broke into shards. She was standing to close to the window, they peirced her skin, but skidded onto the ground before hitting us. Max looked back at us and grinned.
"Go! Go! Go!" She yelled happily, pushing us out the window and watching as we spread our wings. We hovered questioningly in front of Max as she stood at the window. She looked abashed. "What are you doing? Go!"
"Not without you!" I yelled through fresh tears. Max stared at me. In that moment, the warning sirens, the Whitecoats yelling, the dogs barking, that all went away once I thought of leaving Max behind. I trusted her, and she had no where to go. She was like a mother to me, even though we'd just met.
There was no way I was leaving that chance behind.
Max hesitated angrily. She sighed in defeat. "I need to finish something, real quick! If you really want to wait… you're not going to see a good side of me."
"I don't care! We don't care!" I yelled. I looked around at the others. They nodded encouragingly.
"Yeah, Max! We'll wait!" Gazzy piped up.
Max's eyes were baffled. I heard Fang think, what happened to her before we met her…?
I didn't even want to know.
Jeb skidded around the corner; no one else was with him. Max's back was turned, so I yelled, "Max! Look!" Pointing at Jeb.
She spun and I saw a shakey smile form on her face as she crossed her arms. "Ah, okay. Let's get this over with."
"Max, you can't leave!" Jeb exploded. "You are an experiment! I can help you. Who else do you have?"
Max froze up; her arms fell to her sides.