Chapter 2 – Max

"Max! Max! Wake up!" I felt a tiny pair of hands shaking my shoulder violently as the squealing continued, and I knew that Manney wouldn't give in until he got what he wanted. I groaned as I sat up,

"What's wrong Manney?"

"Mommy said to wake you up because some people are here to see you" I yawned as I slid out of bed.

"Who is it?"

"Mommy said they're called the Flock" Mum knew if anyone else other than Manney came to wake me up I would kindly tell them to F off and go back to sleep, especially if I was told the flock were downstairs. Wait... THE FLOCK WERE DOWNSTAIRS? I suddenly felt a lot more awake,

"Manney, how many people are downstairs?" he plonked onto the bed next to me and began counting on his fingers.

"Four" He beamed up at me, proud of his counting, aw my brother is so cute!

"Okay Manney, tell mum I'll be down after I've had a shower" And with that he gave me a quick hug and ran out of the room, I smiled as I headed for my bathroom. Honestly, my brother was too cute for words. :-)

I made my way down the stairs slowly, being as quiet as possible, avoiding all the creaking stairs and successfully got down the stairs. I just about made it into the kitchen before Manney came running up to me.

"Up!" I sighed, wanting to be angry that he gave me away but knowing I didn't have it in me, then happily picked him up and sat at the table where a huge fry up was set in my place. I ate slowly, giving Manney some of my food, trying my hardest to delay entering the living room. But eventually, my plate was scraped clean and I headed for the living room door. I took a deep breath and opened the door... and was met by four strangers. Because that couldn't be the Flock; could it?

The first one I noticed was a tall, strawberry blond, who sat cross legged typing something into a brand new blackberry and I assumed that was Iggy. I was shocked, the twig like arms were now replaced with slightly muscular ones, and his long hair was now a stylish looking mid length. He was wearing a checkered shirt (blatantly bought from Top Man), black jeans and matching converse.

The next one I noticed was obviously Nudge, who was leaning against Iggy. Her lion mane hair was now tamed and dead straight, with a few red highlights here and there. She was wearing a red sleeveless top, with high-waisted shorts (blatantly bought from Topshop) and black suede ankle boots.

Then on the other side of the room was Gazzy and Angel both playing on a Nintendo Ds each. Gazzy was wearing a blue short sleeve with matching jeans and Nike trainers; and Angel was wearing a sparkling pink top, with matching pink three quarter lengths and pink canvas Emilio Pucci espadrilles (which I didn't even know they did for kids).

All of them looked so OLD! But when I glanced around the room again, I couldn't help but realise there was one person missing...

"MAX!" I jumped, and realised everyone was now staring at me then smiled as a reply. I was then on the floor, tackled there by the younger three, as Iggy just looked at us and laughed.

"Erm... nice to see you guys too." I just about managed, before they got off and dragged me to an empty seat before taking their places. As I sat there, all of them started their stories, filling me in on the last five years, all laughing and joking as if I'd never left. It was times like these I missed, but I still couldn't get that one missing person out of my mind...

"Max, you're probably wondering where Fang is right?" My mind snapped back into focus and I looked up at Iggy, then nodded. "He still doesn't know that you're here yet, though you're probably gonna see him when we get to the conference." I nodded again, and then I heard my mom calling and everyone one of us started heading to the cars outside. I hugged Ella and a very sad looking Manney goodbye before getting into my mom's car with Nudge and Angel; Jeb got into Iggy's car (how can the blind guy drive now? I'll explain later) with Gazzy since they were detouring to pick up Fang. Then we all headed off.

I was lost in thought as we drove towards the conference hall. Everything really had changed; the Flock especially. Gazzy and Angel's parents were billionaires (yes you heard me!) who owned a huge worldwide business. Nudge's mum was a famous interior designer, and she now lived in the Hills with her mum, dad and younger twins brothers. Iggy; who is supposed to inherit his dad's multimillion dollar business, has now got a two year old baby sister (aw!) and has got his sight back (which explains the driving). He explained earlier how the School's experiment on his eyes did work, however the temporary blindness was an after effect and he got his sight back around three years ago. Now he had the best eyesight on the planet and could see (well, feel) colours even when his eyes were closed; and I'm so happy for him. The others didn't mention Fang though, so I guess I'm gonna have to ask him about it myself. We're pulling into the car park now... wish me luck.

Okay, this chapter was kinda pointless, but I did this just so i could build up enough ideas for the next one. Next chapter is Fang's POV!