Journal NOT a Diary!
Max's Journal
June 23, 2010
I didn't expect to open this so soon, I apologize. But you need to know what I just heard.
First in inside: There are two guests rooms. Fang and I had gotten them at first, but when Angel came, she got my guest room and I bunked with Analie.
Analie has only one bed. One, queen sized bed. At first it seemed like a good deal, until it came time for bed. We both have a side of the bed, and the middle was empty at first. But Analie rolls, and ends up pushing me off the bed. And she snores. None of the flock snores, so I'm not use to falling asleep to it.
Usually when I'm about to hit the floor, I get up and take a quilt to sleep on the couch. It's actually more comfortable then you think. Then I wake up at about 5:30 and head back up to Analie's room, so it looks like I was there the whole night.
When I went to bed last night, I had a headache from thinking. I went to bed with my hand on the necklace, and didn't move it as Analie fell asleep. Then she snored and rolled. I dozed off for a while, and was pushed off, hitting my head on the side of the nightstand before hitting the floor.
So I grabbed a blanket and headed down to the living room. I threw it on the couch and pulled out a glass. I was about to get a glass of water when I heard a crash.
I dropped the glass. It shattered in the sink. I looked around desperately and keeled down behind a chair. It was a new moon, and cloudy, so there was no light. My breath caught in my throat. Something opened - the wall? - and someone ran out, probably a girl. I couldn't see them, but they shoved the wall closed behind them and ran out the door. I couldn't get a good look, all I saw was medium-length dark hair and wide blue eyes.
"Wha -" I started. It all happened so fast I had to take a minute to process what happened. The wall was a door? I jumped out from my hiding place and came over to the wall. Where did she open it? It all looked just the same.
That girl - broke in? My head whipped around, ready to fight. I ran out the front door, but the girl was long-gone. I jumped in the air and whipped out my wings. I didn't know where I was going, just where my head told me to go. I realized that everything I saw, we had searched for Iggy and Gazzy.
Suddenly I froze, which wasn't good in the air. I started to drop like a stone. My wings caught me as I hit the ground. I hid behind a tree and looked in front of me with wide eyes. A building - the candy shop we found Analie in. It was burned to the ground. All that sat there was...ashes.
My heart beat wildly. We had just been there a few weeks ago. And now there was nothing left. My stomach leap to my throat as I realized that the ashes were days old, and pushed and shoved around by wind. Ashes were scattered down the sidewalks and streets, and there was no breeze tonight. I just wonder why no one had made move to clean them up.
I flew back to the house, dozens of thoughts going through my head. The girl, the candy shop, something told me they were connected. I thought about the woman who told us Analie was in the shop. She couldn't have been the girl I saw. She had long blond hair, not medium dark hair. And green eyes instead of blue. So who was is?
I knew I wouldn't be able to sleep tonight. Too many things happened tonight. It was only one-thirty, maybe later. I flew through over NYC, looking at everything I had seen before, and one or two I hadn't. My breath slowed, my head began to clear. My hand was at my necklace the whole time, fingering it so violently I was afraid I would break it. I forced my hand down.
Deep breaths. In, out, in, out.
Relax, just fly. Don't focus on you wings.
Stop falling!
I picked myself back up. I really needed to stop talking to myself. It's going to be my death.
When I landed in the yard, I saw Fang step out of the house towards me. "Where were you?"
"Out talking a flight. Clearing my head." My breathing picked back up and I started talking faster and faster. "Fang! The wall and the girl and the candy shop go boom ashes and crashes and poor little water glass and snoring and rolling and nightstand and the hard floor go owie and -"
He grabbed me and kissed me hard on the lips. "Max, calm down. Everything's okay. Slow down and tell me what happened."
My heart didn't slow down, or my breathing. "Why - why are you out here?"
"I heard glass shatter. I walked down to the kitchen and saw glass in the sink, and a blanket on the sofa, and the door wide open." He took a deep breath. "And I checked all the rooms, and you weren't in bed. I thought -" He shook his head.
I knew what he was thinking. That someone had broken the glass and used it to kill me, and took me out of the house to dump my body. "Everything's fine," he said. "You're fine, except you scared me to death." He shrugged and looked away.
"Sorry. I just - I'll tell you in the morning. Let's just go in, please."
Fang took my hand and we walked back in Mary Lou's house. "I'll sleep on the couch, you just go back to bed."
"No. Analie snores and pushes me off the bed. I have a knot on my head where I hit the nightstand."
"Then sleep in the gestroom I'm in. And try to get some sleep, please. This is our last night here." He gave me a goodnight kiss and sat of the couch. "'Night."
"Yeah. 'Night." I walked up to Fang's room, where I am now.
I probably won't be able to go to sleep, anyway. But it's worth a try. Goodnight, Ella. Maybe it will be better later, It's already thee-thirty in the morning.
-Maximum