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Max POV

The guy who was carrying me landed inside a cave. The cave was warmer than the cold, wet afternoon air.

"I accidentally hit her while I was flying. She has wings too." The guy said urgently to a girl who rushed over to us. "I elbowed her in the back of the head; she got knocked out." The girl pushed my hair back out of my face. She looked at me with bright blue eyes.

She looked concerned, but relieved at the same time. "My name is Hawk. And the guy holding you is Josh." She said. "We are like you; we have wings. You don't have major head damage, but you are paler than a ghost." She gave me a quick, forced smiled and looked back at the couch… Couch? This is a frikin cave! There should be no furniture. Oh, but there was. There were things you would find lying around a house in this cave. I craned my neck to get a better look at the place. "Who are you?" Hawk asked me.

I cleared my throat, "My name is Maximum. Can you put me down?" I asked Josh. He nodded and slowly dropped me to my feet. At first I was dizzy, but after blinking many times I regained my balance.

Hawk walked over to a bed and grabbed clothes out of a bag. "Here, your clothes are soaked and you must be freezing. Put these on." She nodded towards an indent in the cave wall that had a curtain draped over it. "You can change in there." I nodded and walked over to the changing place and closed the curtain. When I put on the warm clothes, it felt like sunshine touched my body for the first time. The clothes were dry and warm. Hawk and I had the same simple style; a t-shirt, a light jacket, and jeans. I think I might like her.

I walked out of the curtained area and took a deep breath. A little boy stood before me. He smiled and waved, "Hi, I'm Xavier. You must be Maximum."

I nodded, "You can call me Max." I looked around the cave/home to get a better view of the exits. The only exit that was visible was the mouth of the cave. I tensed and looked down at Xavier. I didn't even think that these people could be dangerous when I first got here.

Xavier looked at me with a confused expression, but then it dawned on him what I was thinking, "Don't worry. I am on your side." He snapped out his wings. I was shocked, for his wings were the same size as mine, if not bigger. He had a giant scar going down his left wing. The shiny pink line was visible through the white plumage. "An eraser scratched my wing when I was younger. It took a couple of hours to stop the bleeding." He shook his head, "I wish Erasers were still here though, now we have to deal with indestructible robots chasing after us. Erasers were easier to hurt." Xavier gave a small smirk.

I was staring at his wings, which he noticed, "Why are they so big?" I asked quietly.

He turned his head to look at his snow white wings, then he looked back at my light brown ones, "Well, someone who is staying with us now has the same kind of wings you have. Well they are small like yours. We are part owl; you are part of a different bird I am guessing." Oh… "You guys actually have similar wings, only his are black."

My heart stopped. Black wings the size of mine? "What is this person's name?" I looked at Xavier urgently. He was about to answer when someone called out my name.

"Max?" It was his voice. Oh my, God. I found him…

Fang POV

After a couple minutes I fell asleep to the soft drum of the rain. The couch was amazingly soft, which meant I slept in a deeper sleep than usual. I dreamed of Max, of course.

In the dream, she looked more beautiful than ever. Her dark blonde hair looked like silk that hung over her shoulders, her brown and white wings were outstretched fully. Max looked like a goddess on earth. The dream was basically about Max finding me, which she never would… Dream Max walked over to me and started shaking me. "Fang!" She said

The Dream Max shook me more and more; coming back to my senses, I realized someone in real life was shaking me. My eyes snapped open and saw Hawk leaning over me with her hands on my shoulders. "You are a very heavy sleeper." She said. "You think that fighting off scientists for your whole life would cause you to wake up in an instant." Hawk shook her head and released my shoulders.

"Blame this couch; it's the most comfortable thing ever. I usually wake up if a piece of dust lands on me." I sat up. "Why did you wake me up from a good dream? I will only accept the answer of breakfast."

She chuckled and looked toward the other side of the cave, "No, Josh dropped breakfast on the way here. He… ran into something important." Hawk smiled brilliantly. "Get up, I have a present for you."

She started walking away. I wanted to lie back down and get back to my dream when I heard there was no breakfast, but a present would be nice too… Slowly, I stood up from the super comfy couch and rubbed my sleepy eyes. I walked in the direction Hawk went, but stopped halfway through the cave. I saw Xavier talking to a girl. The girl's back was facing me, but I knew it was her.

Maximum Frikin Ride was standing in front of me talking to Xavier. What the hell? I have been gone one night and she already found me! I never really was good at hide and seek… I should have gone to Bangladesh or somewhere across the world. Max would never have found me there. Well, Max probably would never have found me here either. How in the world did she find me?

Fang, just say her name. And when she turns around, DO NOT CRY.

I took a deep breath.

Then another.

One more deep breath…

I was about to turn around and run back to the couch and hide when my mouth betrayed me, "Max?" I asked.

She turned around to look at me. It was her. Max's mouth fell open; her eyes were wide.

"Fang!" She yelled. She didn't cry, but because I knew her, I could tell she was using all of her force not too. Xavier looked at me and Max with a confused expression. Hawk must not have told him that she was the girl I fell in love with. Within seconds, you saw realization flash across Xavier's face like a light bulb flashed above his head. He slowly backed away towards a different section of the cave.

"Can I talk to you?" I asked her. I kept my face expressionless, but my eyes were filled with emotions. Max looked straight into my eyes and knew I was on the verge of tears. Me, Fang, about to cry; that was something people would pay millions to see. She nodded and walked towards me. She stopped about a foot away from me and turned to look at the four sets of owl-kid eyes that stared at us from behind the couch. She looked up at me, and I nodded. Slowly, we both walked towards the cave's mouth and unfurled our wings. Max flew out of the cave first, not wanting to look me in the eyes. It hurt to see she didn't want to make contact with me, but I understood completely. I left her.

I dove out of the cave and didn't flap my wings for a couple seconds after my descent. Max was already on the ground when I landed. The rain lightened up, but not by much.

Max finally looked at me. My knees almost buckled when I saw the pain in her eyes, "Can you please… explain." A tear escaped her eye. You could tell it was a tear and not a raindrop because she tried wiping it away before I could see it. I grabbed the hand that tried wiping away the tear. She shivered at my touch.

I bit my lip and let go of her hand, "I left for your guy's safety." I took a deep breath and looked down. Water dripped off of my black hair. I couldn't look in her eyes anymore; I felt like the biggest jerk on earth. An even bigger jerk than the white coats all put together…

"How is leaving and ripping our hearts out better for our safety? What were you thinking, Fang?" Her voice cracked when she said my name. I couldn't look at her. It caused more pain than being punched in the gut. I would rather be set on fire than have to deal with emotional pain. I stayed silent.

"Look at me, Fang…" She said.

I shook my head and kept my gaze locked on the soaked grass.

"Please, Fang… Just please look at me." She put her hand under my chin and lifted it. I looked straight at her. A tear left my eye. I am Fang, the guy who never showed emotion to anyone. Yet again, Max got me to express emotions I thought I never had.

I couldn't handle it anymore; I pulled Max into a huge hug and dug my face into her shoulder, "I left to keep you alive. I left because I love you all and me being with you would kill you." Another tear escaped.

"Fang, if you loved me… you wouldn't have left. You would have stayed and explained what dangers we were going to be in." Max started shaking.

My heart was beating faster than a hummingbird's wings. She did think I didn't love her… I crushed her heart. I pushed Max up against the cliff wall and looked straight into her eyes, "Max, I love you so much it hurts. Just trust me, I am putting you in danger." I closed my eyes and opened them, fighting my own war with my watery eyes. "Being away just one night is killing me, but if I stayed, it would be killing you."

Max shook her head and sighed. There was silence for a few seconds. We never broke the position we were in. Finally she spoke, "I love you too." She bit her lip and pulled me closer. My breathing was out of control. If we kissed, I would never want to leave her. I couldn't resist it, I loved her too much. But I needed to have Max.

Our faces were inches away from each other. I leaned my head down and kissed her lightly. My heart swelled up to the size of a balloon. I was with Max. The giant crack that was increasing in size in my heart was being mended. Max had that power on me; she could fix any problem ever. Our lips parted. She trembled when I put my hands on her hips.

"What drove you away from me…?" She whispered. The sound of the rain almost drowned out the question, but I was able to just barely hear it.

"I got a call. When I got home from the wedding, someone called and told me that if I stayed they would kill the Flock. The person said that they knew if I left or not because we were all chipped and being watched, but we can't be chipped. You and I got x-rays from your mom, and I was chip-less and you only had the one that was removed. I think they were lying; it has to be someone close to us. The person is connected to the Flock. I left you a note, trying to explain as much as I could. The call said not to tell you about the message." I leaned my head on her shoulder.

Max wrapped her arms around my neck, "I-I'm sorry I got mad at you. It just broke my heart." She lifted up my head and kissed me. I pulled her closer; so close that there was no space in-between us. The kiss had so much emotion behind it. I lifted my hand to the spot in the middle of her wings. I massaged the muscle there, just like I did when we were at with each other. She gave a small smile.

The kiss ended sadly. Max looked up at me, "Can you come back. I can't leave without you. I won't leave without you."

I squeezed my eyes closed, "I can't go home, but I can fly you home. I'm going to take this phone call seriously, Max. I will fly you to the bottom of the porch of the house. Tell Angel to tell the Flock through telepathy why I left. Whoever called me is watching you guys." Max shut her eyes. They stayed shut for a couple more seconds.

"Okay…" She barely got out of her mouth.

I nodded and kissed her again. I did not intend on wasting my valuable time with her.