Hey everyone. I'm super glad that you are all loving my story. I know that it's a little sad right now, but it will get so much better later. You just have to hold on for a few more chapters. It's gonna be awesome. I promise. Okay, so this is another Skye chapter. It's a dream of his. Actually, it's more of a few flashbacks. I really hope you guys like this. I thought it'd be a cute chapter. So what if it's a filler? So, you should all read 'NeoFlock' and 'Deadline' by Talon666. And 'Dark Blue' and 'Maximum Ride: Wings vs. Wands' by Madeline Cullen. They are seriously awesome. If you like my stories, you will love theirs'. Well, you probably want me to get on with this incredible chapter. I hope you enjoy this. Well, here we go.
Skye staggered to get back to his feet. It was useless because, as soon as he stood back up, Tanner knocked him down again. He couldn't take it anymore. He was sore and tired. He didn't even try to get back up.
Tanner chuckled, looming over him. "Give up Skye? Are you tired of getting beaten up?"
Skye growled at him. He couldn't believe that he was ever friends with this guy. He'd changed, that was for sure. They both had.
Tanner chuckled again. "Yeah, I think you've had enough for now. Get out of here."
Skye didn't like having to get permission from Tanner to leave, but he got up and walked out of the training room anyway. He headed up the stairs and down the hall to the room he shared with Jewel. He wasn't going to tell the kid he'd been beaten up again. It'd just worry her.
He placed his hand on the doorknob and was surprised to hear talking. That was unusual. Jewel wasn't the kind of person who would talk to herself. But, wait. Did he hear two voices? There was only one way to find out. Skye pulled open the door.
The first thing he saw was Jewel looking up at him, a smirk on her face. However, there was another girl sitting next to her. He'd never seen her before. He'd definitely remember seeing such a… perfect face before. She was new alright. He tried to get a good look at her without her noticing that he was staring.
She had long, dark, wavy hair that framed her angular, tan face. She was looking at him curiously through a pair of large, crystal blue eyes that seemed to stare into his soul. They were the kind of eyes that drew you in and put you in a trance. She had a perfect mouth and Skye mentally slapped himself for even thinking about that. However, the feature that absolutely took his breath away was her 12 foot, steely grey wings. They looked magnificent, powerful, graceful. In fact, the girl gave off those feelings herself. She was beautiful, whoever she was. He couldn't help but think that.
He stared at her another second, lost. He realized what was happening. He was starting to like her. But, he didn't know her and, therefore, he couldn't trust her. How did he know that she wasn't some spy of the Director's? He didn't, so he scowled at her and slammed the door before walking over to Jewel and the intruder. He noticed that her face fell and he pretended not to care.
"Who's this?" he asked Jewel. The new girl rolled her eyes at him.
"My name's Melody." she said in an annoyed tone. "I'm guessing you're Skye then." She crossed her arms and glared at him with those piercing eyes of hers.
So she wanted to play games huh? "You guessed right Princess." He copied her attitude and even crossed his arms.
She stood up and pressed her finger to his chest. It was then that he noticed her arms were long and semi-muscular. So she was a strong one. "Listen here buddy. The name is Melody. You can call me Mel if you want, but don't ever call me Princess. Got it?" She was obviously trying to prove her strength.
Skye threw his hands up and backed away, humoring her. "Fine Mel. Whatever you say." He paused a moment and asked, "What're you doing here anyway? Where did you come from?" His eyes fell on the sandwich in her hand and he suddenly realized what was going on. "And why are you eating my food? Jewel! Please tell me they don't expect her to stay here."
The little red haired girl cringed. "Okay, I won't tell you then." He groaned loudly. How could they stick this random stranger with them? She must've been a spy. "It's not her fault Skye. Why are you being so mean?"
Maybe because he didn't know who the heck this girl was or why she was there. "I'm not being mean." he said, defending himself. "I just don't know where she's going to sleep. We only have two beds. Wouldn't want her to have to sleep on the floor."
"Uh, actually I was thinking about getting out the hammock." Jewel said, twisting a lock of her hair.
"You're going to make her sleep on the hammock?" Skye asked in mock concern.
"Uh, no. I actually thought that you could." she told him, waiting for him to explode.
"First my sandwich and now my bed? Is nothing sacred?" he asked. "Ugh, fine. She can stay. She won't last long anyway." he said, picking up a sandwich and walking to the closet. He was going to make sure the Director got absolutely no information.
As he opened the door, the girl asked, "What is that supposed to mean?" If only she knew.
Skye pulled a white t-shirt over his head and then pulled his wings through the slits. "Nothing. I just mean that, well we have to fight here. I don't know how you'll be able to take the beatings."
"We'll see." she said in a tone that sounded like it had a hidden meaning. Skye saw that he was going to have trouble with this girl. "And now to answer your other questions. I came from Arizona. My parents were former experiments at the School and they escaped. Apparently the School found out about me and took me. Anything else you wanna know?"
Skye rolled his eyes. "No, that'll do. The less I know the better." It was better not to know anyone's story, especially if that person was a potential enemy. It just made you feel sympathy for them and that could be very dangerous. He walked over and sat down on his old bed and looked at the ground.
Melody turned to Jewel. "Uh, okay Jewel. Next question. How do things work here?"
Jewel grinned mischievously. "Hey Skye, do you know who Melody is related to?" she asked.
He looked up, wondering what Jewel was doing. "No Jewel and I really don't care." he said and then he went back to staring at the ground.
"Maximum Ride is her aunt." Jewel said. How was that even possible? Maybe it was a trick.
He looked up again. "THE Maximum Ride?" he asked incredulously. "She was the only experiment to ever get out of the School. Well, besides the rest of her flock. How is she your aunt?" He didn't believe it. He was certain it was a trick.
She rolled her eyes at him. "She married my Uncle Fang. But what does that have to do with anything?" she asked. Skye knew that Fang was a member of Maximum's flock. However, he didn't see how he was Melody's uncle.
"We've been coming up with an escape plan for forever. We wanna get out of here. Can you help us? I mean, you said you're really smart and escaping is in your genes. Sort of." Jewel begged.
Skye figured that was what Jewel wanted. The poor kid didn't know that he only tried coming up with escape plans to make her happy. In reality, he knew that there was no way out. And even if there was, this Melody girl wasn't going to help them get out. She'd probably report this to the Director.
"Of course I will. Or, at least I'll try." she said, smiling. Skye didn't believe it for a second.
However, Jewel gave her a huge hug. The poor little sap. "Oh thank you so much Mel. You really have no idea how much this means to us. Right Skye?" she asked.
"Yeah, whatever. I'll thank her when we get out of here." he said rudely. Jewel could fall for it, but he wouldn't. He wasn't going to get his hopes up and then find out that his initial thoughts about this girl were true.
Suddenly, the door swung open and a whitecoat by the name of Dr. Jackson came in. "You." he said, pointing at Melody. "Come with me."
Skye knew it. She was working for the Director. But then why did she look so scared as she was dragged out of the room? And why was she being dragged out? Skye didn't know, but it didn't prove anything. People who worked for the Director were often scared by the aspect about having to go to her office. And then again, he himself had to go see the Director a lot. Just because she was going to her office didn't necessarily mean she worked for her.
Skye sighed and walked over to the closet, dragging out the hammock. Jewel helped him pin it up and then he lied down in it, thinking about this Melody girl and wondering if he could be wrong about her. He supposed, or perhaps hoped, that he could have been wrong. And, man, was she beautiful.
Suddenly, everything changed.
Skye was sitting in a tree and it was raining. He looked next to him. Melody was sitting there, tears glistening in her beautiful, crystal blue eyes. Skye had never seen anything so sad in his entire life. It hurt his heart to see her like this, although he didn't know why. She turned away from him. His heart thudded in his chest for some unknown reason. He wished it would stop and then again, he didn't.
"Just go away." she muttered. But Skye couldn't go. He didn't know why, but he physically could not get up and fly off without her.
Before he even knew what he was doing, he reached his hand out to her and, almost instinctively, placed her chin in it. He slowly turned her around to face him and then tilted her head back so her teary, crystal blue eyes would meet his ocean blue ones. His breath caught in his throat and he just stared at the beautiful creature for a moment in a way that he had never looked at her before. She looked at him, confused. Good. He was confused too.
"What are you doing?" she asked. Her voice was soft and questioning. She looked afraid for a moment. Not because she was scared of what he was doing, but because she was scared that she was liking it.
He stared at her a moment, unsure of what else to do, before he whispered, "I… really… dunno." He brought his face closer to hers and then placed his lips on her perfect, delicate mouth.
He felt electricity surge through his body. It seemed as if he couldn't feel anything but her. His rough hands felt her soft, warm cheeks. He could also feel her long hair brush his arms and it made him shudder. He didn't know why he was kissing her, but he knew that it felt right and that he liked it, the closeness, everything. However, he wasn't sure how it felt to her because she wasn't doing anything back. That was when he slowly, and reluctantly, pulled away from her.
He looked into her confused eyes and suddenly found himself lost and dazed. What had that been? Was it anything for her? What did all of this mean? What was he supposed to do now?
He cleared his throat after a minute of total silence. "Uh… Jewel's probably worried you know. We should head back."
"First, tell me what that was." she demanded. She sounded very angry.
Skye sighed. "Okay, look. I don't even know what that was. So, can we just forget that it ever happened and get out of here?" He didn't want to talk about that, whatever it was. He wished that he'd never done it in the first place. And why had he done it anyway?
"What?" he asked, studying her face. "You don't think that was… you don't think I actually…" Didn't actually what? Love her? Did he?
Skye kept staring at Melody, clearly bewildered. He groaned, "I told you I don't know what that was. I just sorta… did it. I don't know why." No. He did know why. He had to admit it to himself. There was no escaping the truth any longer. Even though he tried his hardest to prevent it, he had actually fallen in love with her. There was no denying it. He groaned again. "This sucks."
"What does?"
Skye shook his head. "I think I do… love you. A lot." More than a lot, but he didn't want to admit it to her.
"What do you mean that sucks?" she asked, sounding a little offended.
He groaned again. Why was it so hard to talk to her? "Because I never wanted to be in love with you. When I first saw you, yeah, I thought you were pretty. And I knew that if I didn't make myself hate you I'd fall in love with you." How he wanted to avoid this.
"And why didn't you want to fall in love with me?" she ventured. She looked almost… sad.
He sighed. "You might as well know now that everything else is out." he began. "I thought you'd leave just like Tanner and Willow did. If I loved you and that happened I'd be crushed. It'd be worse than when they betrayed me." So much worse.
"Well, I never wanted to fall in love with you either." Melody said bitterly. "You are the world's biggest jerk. I can't stand you! I hate you!" she yelled, making his heart hurt. Then she sighed in defeat. "No. I don't hate you. I love you." she admitted, making his heart leap out of his chest with happiness.
He couldn't believe it. It was too good to be true. This amazing, fierce, powerful, beautiful girl actually loved him back. It was a phenomenal concept. "Really?" he asked, unsure what this meant.
She nodded and he felt happier than he could ever remember feeling in his entire life. She loved him. And he loved her. And nothing could rip them apart. Nothing could ruin his happiness. Nothing. Ever.
Unbeknownst to anyone, including himself, Skye smiled as he continued to dream of his powerful, beautiful, brave, cunning, perfect Melody. His true love. His heart. His soul mate. His world. His universe. His life. The very reason that he was still living and breathing.
Cute huh? Well, I do try. So, that wasn't too depressing. Next chapter will be though. We go back to Melody. So, I'll update as soon as I can. Leave me some nice reviews guys. Bye.
