Quote #8: The police are looking for a suspect who is smart, sexy, and funny. Your ugly ass is safe, but where should I hide? Sorry I haven't updated in a while, life has been so busy lately :P.

Max POV

I glared ahead of me and tried to keep the wind from blowing my hair in my face. I wasn't flying point in the V the flocks were flying in. I always fly the point.

Kiki recommended that she fly in the front because my "injury" could "slow us down". Why was she flying point instead of Hawk or Travis? At least they are the leaders of their flocks! Kiki isn't. I don't like her. She's like the cheerleader of the high school. And I'm nothing but the sporty tomboy.

When Fang and I got back to my mother's house, I left a note saying I love her and we all left after hugging Ella and sending her to her neighbor, Mrs. Morris's house. We had a ten minute long debate on who would fly the point. Hawk knew not to mess with me, and Travis stayed quiet, so Kiki walked up, smiling, and somehow, someway, she ended up leading the group.

Hawk flew up next to me, smirking. "I can hear you cursing her out through your mind from halfway across the sky." She chuckled and ran he fingers through her long, awesome hair. Even Hawk had awesome hair; it was like the brown version of Kiki's. Long and silky. Mine was all ratty and knotted. "Your hair is pretty, just let me get a brush through it later." She smiled at me.

"Get out of my head." I said to her, and even though I tried not to, I smiled a little bit.

"So, Fang's mind keeps going on about this make-out session at the hospital. It sounded pretty hot." I blushed and she smirked at me. "I take it you healed just fine?" She laughed, clutching her side a little. My eyes immediately widened and my face turned red. "It's cute. You've got a keeper." She flew up over me and patted my shoulder.

"You know, you have a keeper too." Ha-ha. I can play this game too. If she was going to read my mind about stuff with Fang, I'm going to use Iggy against her. But it was all out of good fun. Hawk was cool enough to know that.

"What are you talking about?" Her cheeks turned a shade of pink and red spots crept up her neck.

I smiled, "You and Iggy obviously have something going on. Don't break his heart. He's a sweet kid." I looked up at her, and her face was calm; different from her usual sarcastic, yet serious demeanor.

"I know." She smirked down at me and flew away, next to Iggy. That's when Fang flew next to me.

"Where does the O' Mighty Voice direct us to now?" He asked me. I looked at him and sighed. I have heard nothing from the Voice the past couple of hours. The Voice was what led us to Travis's flock, but now it has been silent.

"Nothing. But I have a plan." I didn't have a plan, but no one needs to know that.

"No you don't." Fang said. Damn, he knows me too well. "Look at the flock, Max." I scrunched my eyebrows together in confusion.

"Whaa—" I was saying, but he cut me off.

"Just look at them."

I looked at everyone around me. Lima and Angel were flying around each other, laughing about something. Taya, Xavier and Gazzy were swooping around, playing tag. Iggy and Hawk were smiling at the other. Nudge was blabbing away to Kris about some superstar. Josh and Janie were holding hands, blocking out everything but each other. Travis, Spike and Jacob were trying to decide if Hawk was hot or not; which was extremely rude, even if they all voted yes. And Kiki was leading us all. They all looked happy. And then I realized something important.

"You called them all by one flock." I said to Fang. He shrugged and looked at me, his gaze sent shivers up my spine.

"I don't think of us as three different flocks anymore. Hawk, Josh, Xavier and Janie feel like they have been with me as long as you guys have. And Travis, Kiki, the Twins, Kris, Taya, and Lima fit in just fine. It's a big happy family. I want it to stay like that." I looked at him, amazed. That was deep. Well, deep for Fang anyway.

I think you should combine the flocks. My eyes widened. The Voice was back.

"The Voice is back." I said. Fang's face fell and he took a deep breath.

"Where to next?" He asked.

You know the drill, Voice. I thought.

Venice, Italy. Say la vita.

What?

It's Italian, for enjoy life.

I rolled my eyes and yelled, "Stop!" At the top of my lungs. Which is loud. Everyone stopped, but still had to turn around and look for me.

"This is why I should be point!" I growled at Kiki. I turned around and looked down. We were over the mountains in Colorado. I started losing altitude and landed on a dry patch of the mountain. Everyone soon landed behind me, fully attentive.

"We're going to Venice." I said.

"Total would love Venice. Maybe we should go back to Dr. M's house and get him. He would never forgive us if we don't take him." Angel said.

"Total was oddly quiet while he was at my mom's house. I never noticed he was there…" I said, looking at Angel and trying to remember if Total was in any of my memories.

"He was in a dog house out back, that's his and Akila's house now." Oh.

"Venice?" Asked other confused faces.

"The O' Mighty Voice has spoken." Fang sneered.

Iggy POV

When Max broke it to everyone that we were going to Italy, I felt like my whole body was beat. I just wanted to lie down and fall asleep. We were in Colorado. Italy is far from Colorado, very far. Everyone sat there silently and looked at Max.

"We're going to rest here for the night. I know, it's freezing, but buddy up with someone and stay close to them. Body heat, my friends." Max walked away and sat down with her partner, who was obviously going to be Fang. I looked over at Gazzy, who could maybe be my partner, but Xavier and he were already talking away. I walked over to Hawk and put my hands in my pants pockets.

"Gazzy would usually be my partner, but Xavier got to him before me." I tried to pinpoint the direction of the sound of Hawk's breathing so I could be looking near her face.

"Are you asking me to be your partner, or are you just stating the obvious?" Hawk asked. Even though I couldn't see it, I could hear the smile in her voice.

"Both?" I asked her. Hawk laughed.

"Sure, Iggy, I'll be your partner." She grabbed my hand and walked me over to a dry spot on the mountain. I sat down next to her and started feeling the cold, causing me to shiver. I heard Hawk shivering too and hugged her close to me, trying to warm us both up.

"This is going to be a long night…" I whispered, watching my breath float up into the air.

"Sometimes I wonder if Max is thinking when she makes a decision for us to stay the night." Hawk chuckled and lay back onto a tree stump. I lay back with her and we closed our eyes, hugging each other to stay warm.

Nudge POV

"Hey, Kris." I smiled and looked at the gorgeous cream-skinned, green-haired, boy standing in front of me. He was going to be my partner tonight. I will make sure of it.

Kris turned around and smiled at me, "Hey, Nudgester." He gave me that nickname. Isn't is so cute? "Taya already asked me to be my partner. Sorry, hun." I whipped around and glared at Taya, who was smiling evilly at me.

"Then that leaves me without a partner! I'll freeze to death up here!" I whined. I'm getting Kris. Whether his little sister likes it or not.

Kris bit his lip and looked around, "Surely, there has to be someone…"

"Max and Fang. Iggy and Hawk. Josh and Janie. Kiki and Travis. Gazzy and Xavier. Spike and Jacob. Lima and Angel. Everyone else has a partner. Taya can help keep Lima and Angel warm! The two of them surely aren't big enough to produce that much body heat! I mean have you seen them? They are so skinny! Taya, isn't fat or anything." That one got a glare from Taya, which let me know I was ticking her off. " It's just that she has more muscle that can keep those two from freezing to death!" I took a deep breath, feeling slightly light-headed from not taking any breaths.

You could see the confusion all over Kris's face. He looked from Taya to me, and then back to Taya. "She has a point…"

Taya's face turned beat red and she made a noise of disgust from the back of her throat, "You always told me family comes first. But now all you seem to want to do is get into Ms. Twelve Year Old's pants! That's a four year difference you pig!" She glared at me and then, get this, fire literally shot from her hands. I yelped and leaped back as she stomped off to Angel and Lima, who seemed happy to have another partner in the group.

"Since when could she do that?" I asked.

Kris's eyes widened, "For a while. She didn't mean what she said about me being in your… yeah." But all I did was smile. Because if it was true, it was so hot.

Gazzy POV

"Are you going to teach me how to make a bomb or what?" Xavier asked me, smiling. I promised him a few days ago that I would dig up some supplies from Iggy to give Xavier some lessons on how to construct a bomb.

"Soon, soon. I promise." I smiled back, hoping that I could do it soon so we can destroy things together. Iggy and Hawk have been so caught up with each other that me and Xavier we left in the dust. At least we became friends.

If you destroy his innocence, boy, I'll kill you. Hawk's voice rang through my head and I jumped a bit. Xavier noticed and looked at me questionably.

His innocence was long gone by the time I got to him. I smiled and looked over to the corner Hawk and Iggy were sitting in. Hawk shook her head and smirked.

"What's wrong?" Xavier asked me. I just shook my head.

"Your sister is creepin' on my mind." I laughed and Xavier smiled.

I looked back over at Hawk and she started laughing. Iggy gave me a stop-it-right-now-you're-ruining-it-for-me expression. I winked at him (even though her couldn't see it) and turned back around to Xavier.

"I'm freezing." He said to me. I nodded in agreement and sat next to him. I looked down in my lap. Two boys can't hug each other, right? Would it look weird?

It's just that I have this big secret that only Angel knows… but I'm nine. And Iggy and Fang have girlfriends. I'll turn out like that. Right?

Go ahead, Gazzy. You can hug him. He's confused about that too. I looked over at Hawk, my eyes wide. She just smiled and nestled into Iggy, closing her eyes. I looked around, making sure Hawk said that in my head, and saw Max and Fang on watch.

I guess Hawk knows my secret now, too.