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Fang POV

I looked at my alarm clock. In the big, red, glowing, number it read 2:27 am.

"Why can't I go to sleep?" I thought.

Ughhhh! The worst part was that it was a school night. Tomorrow was my first day at Shepard High School and I'll probably be a zombie from lack of sleep.

I rolled over onto my side and then felt a sharp pain. I was crushing one of my wings. Yes wings. My sisters, Nudge, Angel, and I have bird wings.

I am the oldest. Angel is a year younger than me. Nudge is the same age as me but she was adopted into our family when she was only a few days old. Right after Angel was born Dad convinced Mom to let his company do experiments on us. Before we moved here, Dad used to work at this top secret laboratory called Itex where they experimented on children. The result of our experiment was bird wings.

After our wings were done growing, they continued to do experiments on us. Dad said that he saw how they were hurting us with the experiments and stole us and brought us home.

All of this happened years ago when we were only kids. A couple months later Itex went out of business and shut down. Dad had the idea of moving so no one would track us down. So ever since then, we've been moving from place to place. If someone figures out who we are we have to move again. (That is usually thanks to Nudge). Exactly one week ago we moved from California to Texas. The move was frustrating but Dad said that we should be grateful about it. So far, I'm not grateful.

I rolled off of my wing and lay on my stomach which was really uncomfortable. I groaned out loud in frustration and tossed and turned. I finally threw my blanket off and sat up. I needed to get out of the house. I hurried down all two flights of stairs and silently opened the sliding, glass door. I walked out to the grass and started running. When I reached the speed I needed I extended my wings.

I soared through the night sky. The wind blowing through my hair felt amazing. I looked around. Above me, millions of stars twinkled and shined bright in the dark sky. I looked straight ahead and saw the familiar brown wings fly in front of me.

"Must be Nudge." I thought.

I watched as she landed on the roof of a house. I flew over to her and said, "Couldn't sleep?"

She jumped a little after I said that. "Fuck! Fang don't scare me like that!" she answered.

"Sorry." I replied.

It was quiet for a while until the Nudge Channel turned on. "No I can't fucking sleep tonight. I mean like we moved again thanks to me! I've caused us to move about a bajillion times and I don't want to make it a bajillion and one. I don't want to have new teachers and deal with homework again! Wait. What if nobody likes me? What if I don't make any friends? What if I make friends and then I can't control my mouth and they find out about my wings and they think I'm a freak and we have to move again? What if I-".

I put my hand over her mouth to make her shut up. Nudge could talk for hours if someone didn't stop her.

I lifted my hand off of her mouth and quietly said, "You're going to be fine. We all are. I bet you and Angel will be friends with half of the school before I've even made one friend. Then if you don't have any friends by lunch and I've already made some friends then you can sit with us at lunch."

"Thanks Fang." She said with a tiny smile. "Okay. I'm going to head back home. Wanna race?"

"Uh yeah!" I said then flashed her one of my rare smiles. I only smiled at Nudge and Angel.

We both flew back as fast as we could and I let Nudge win. She did a silent victory dance and giggled. I smiled at her and whispered, "Night Nudge."

"Goodnight Fang." She answered and slipped into the house.

I quietly followed her and watched her go into her room. Once her door closed I tip toed up the stairs to my room. I jumped into bed and was out like a light.

I opened my eyes and looked at my alarm clock.

8:20!

I was supposed to wake up 20 minutes ago! School starts in 25 minutes!

We lived about ten minutes from the school so I only had 15 minutes to get ready.

That was not enough time! I had to shower, fix my hair, and eat breakfast. I power showered and threw my clothes on. I dried my hair and started to comb it. Angel calls me OCD when it comes to my hair. I usually deny it but I'll only admit to myself that I'm a little obsessed with my hair. Every strand has to be in the right place or I go crazy.

Once I fixed my hair I ran out of my room, grabbed my backpack, then snatched a Pop Tart from the pantry. I hurried to the garage and saw Nudge and Angel sitting in the car. Nudge was in the driver's seat and Angel had the passenger side so I climbed into the back.

Since Nudge and I are the same age we both got our licenses at the same time. Right after we passed the driver's test Mom and Dad got us a car to SHARE! I was pretty ticked off when they told us that but I don't really care anymore. Nudge doesn't really use the car.

"It's about time." Nudge said as she drove the car out of the driveway. "What took so long?"

"My fucking alarm didn't go off." I answered.

Angel giggled then said, "Your hair looks… nice?"

I started freaking out "Oh shit! Does it look bad?" I asked trying to look into the rearview mirror.

Nudge and Angel started laughing then Angel said, "No it looks fine. I'm just kidding."

I sat back down and didn't say anything for the rest of the drive. We arrived at the school and I was taken aback about how big the school was. It had to be two stories. This place was huge.

Nudge parked the car and we all got out. Without another word, we walked into the school and separated. I looked at my schedule.

I had Mr. Howards first period AP Physics class. It took me a while to find the classroom but when I did the bell had already rung. I walked in and Mr. Howards introduced himself while a lot of the girls stared at me.

"Attention class! Everyone!" he yelled, "We have a new student in our class. Why don't you introduce yourself?" he asked me.

I don't like people knowing a lot about me so I just said my name. Once I finished talking Mr. Howards told me to find a seat so I looked around for an empty chair. I could feel everyone's eyes staring at me so I looked down. I chose a seat next to a girl with really pretty, dirty blonde hair.

Right as I sat down she turned to me and said, "Hey I'm Max."

"Fang." I replied but then regretted saying it. Of course she knew my name. I just said it in front of the class a minute ago.

We weren't even talking for one minute and the teacher decided to snap at Max. I had a feeling that he didn't like her.

Once Mr. Howards started the lesson I zoned out and stared at Max. She didn't notice which was good because I stared at her for almost two minutes and if she saw she would probably think I'm some sort of crazy stalker.

After what seemed like a million years the bell rang. I stood up and looked at my schedule. Just then a familiar voice said, "Need help?" I turned around and saw Max standing there.

"Uh. Yeah. Sure." I said.

I handed her my schedule and stared at her again.

She had long, dirty blonde hair put up in a ponytail. She was wearing a blue t-shirt and had white jeans on. She too had Vans on but hers were blue and white.

"Well," Max said, interrupting my thoughts, "We have a couple classes together so I'll show you around. We have Algebra 2 next with Ms. Wilson."

She handed me my schedule back and we walked in silence to math. When we reached the classroom Max sat down next to another girl and left me standing there. Just then the teacher caught sight of me and introduced me to the class.

"Everyone! This is Fang. He will be joining our class from now on. Fang go ahead and sit next to Mr. Ride. Mr. Ride, please raise your hand."

Then a kid with reddish blonde hair raised his hand. I took my seat quietly. Ms. Wilson left the classroom and everyone started talking.

The kid next to me said, "Hi. I'm Iggy. Fang right?"

"Yup."

"Cool. Have you met my sister?" he asked.

"Umm. I don't know. Who is she?"

"Max." he answered then pointed in her direction.

"You guys are related?" I asked.

"Sadly yes. Triplets." He said. "We have another brother named Gazzy but he's not in this class. I'm the oldest and Max is the youngest."

"Wow." I said.

Iggy and I talked about school and then Max walked over.

"Hey. Whatcha talking about" she asked.

Before I could say anything Iggy cut me off. "Fang is sitting with us at lunch."

Wait. What?

"What do you mean by 'us'? Last time I checked you and Gazzy don't sit at our table." She said to Iggy.

"Well now we do." Iggy told her.

Max went back to her desk with an annoyed look on her face.

Before I could ask Iggy what that was about, Ms. Wilson walked in.

"Okay everyone! Settle down! Stop talking. Now, let's get started."

Then, for the second time today, I zoned out.

QOTC: what kind of classes do you take?

AOTC: i like to aim for straight a's taking the hardest classes

remember to stay swaggy and peace out :)