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TLM ~ Chapter 5 ~ The Sighting

~Max POV~

"Whoa! It's so airy and big out here!" I exclaimed, flapping around awkwardly. "Is there normally so much space outside?"

"That's why it's here, Max." Angel told me.

"Yeah, but I never imagined it would be this….huge! I feel so free!" I looked around in awe.

"Ooooh! Look at all the little buildings down there!" I pointed towards what I guessed was the city.

"Yeah," Nudge looked at me strangely, "Ummm, anyway, speaking of those buildings, we should probably land down there and figure out what to do next."

"Okay, come on!" I said rushing downwards, excited to see what the world looked like from the ground. Wow, I'm really not myself right now.

Angel and Nudge followed me to the ground and we landed behind a tall building so that no one would see us. We walked out from behind it and onto the sidewalk. People were walking all over the sidewalk; there were so many of them!

And, there were lots of little doors with signs above them, lining the sidewalk. Were they like the rooms at the hospital? Why were people just walking in and out of them?

"It's so good to be back!" Nudge cried, getting a few stares. But I don't know why, people yelled crazy things all the time back at…..home, I guess. Plus, we had on what we were supposed to be wearing, sweatpants and T-shirts, but looking around, I saw that we were the only ones. Odd, I thought that it was the required day wear.

"Let's go shopping!" Angel suggested. "We can finally get back into normal clothes!"

What else would we wear? I thought.

"Yes! I haven't been into a store in FOREVER!" Nudge screamed to the street, earning some more glances.

"Quiet down, Nudge!" I told her. "What if people call the hospital and tell them where we are?"

"Relax, Max! There are always weird people on the street. No one does anything about it. Besides, no one knows who we are or where we came from, so just calm down!" She said.

She started towards one of the little doors that said Hollister and went in with me and Angel closely behind her. Instantly, she rushed over to a rack with shirts hanging from it.

The first thing I noticed about the place was how strongly it smelled. Uck.

"What is this place?" I asked, full of curiosity.

"It's a store, Max." Angel responded, implying that I should know what that means.

"What does it do?"

"They sell things, Max. This one sells clothes." She added.

"Oh." I said in a small voice.

"Look around! See if you like anything." Nudge urged.

I started looking at the clothes, but still didn't get why I would wear them. Couldn't I just wear what I had on?

In the end, we all bought some shirts and shorts, even though I was fine with what I had on. Then we went into another store and bought even MORE unnecessary clothes. After finally being done with clothes, we got some food, and that made me happy.

By then, it was almost dark out, so Nudge and Angel started discussing where we would stay.

"Why don't we go to a hotel? We can spend the night there, and in the morning, we can try to find a more permanent place to live. I don't think we can go back home. Mom will probably just send us back." Nudge said with a sad look on her face.

"No, they have security cameras." Angel replied, trying to avoid the subject of her mom.

"But I don't wanna sleep outside! That's gross!" Nudge whined.

"I'm not saying that we have to! All I'm saying is that three sixteen year old girls checking into a hotel and paying only with cash would be a little suspicious to me!"

"Guys!" I butted in, "Why don't we find an empty house that the owner of is on vacation or something, break in and sleep there?"

"Good idea, Max!" Nudge said.

"Yeah!" Angel agreed, "Let's start looking!"

We started walking down the sidewalk until we found a small and twisted road that led up to a neighborhood.

"Whoa! Those houses are huge!" Nudge said, amazed, "We must be in a rich person neighborhood or something!"

I looked around to see that she was right. Geez, these places were enormous. With the money to buy the smallest of these houses, I could get like 20,000,000 chocolate bars!

"That's a lot of chocolate, Max." Angel told me and Nudge looked confused.

"It was just a example, Ange – wait." I stopped walking. "I didn't say that out loud."

"Yeah you did, Max. I heard you clearly."

"I don't know what you guys are talking about, but Max didn't say anything until you did, Angel." Nudge said, warily.

We were all quiet for a minute, trying to process what was going on.

"So….What? I can read minds?" Angel asked.

"Yeah, I think so," Nudge responded slowly, "What am I thinking about right now?"

"How living in these mansions would make you feel like a princess?" Angel answered.

"Ok, that's creepy."

"Did the hospital do that to you?" I asked, a growing hatred inside of me.

"Well, I couldn't do this before. And it's giving me a huge headache! There's so much noise inside my head!" she screamed, holding her hands over her ears.

I felt really bad about it, but there was nothing I could do for her. Nudge looked the same way.

Angel resituated herself and took her hands off her ears. She still looked like she was mentally freaking out, though.

"Sorry, guys, this is really confusing and annoying. I wish it would stop!" She was almost crying, now and Nudge reached over and hugged her.

"Thanks, Nudge. Just give me a minute to make sense of it all." We waited while she concentrated.

"Ok, from what I can hear, none of these houses are on vacation." She told us.

"Really? That sucks! Now where are we gonna go?" Nudge asked, frustrated.

"Hold on, I'm not done yet!" She continued, "There is a house on the end of the block where it sounds like a party is going on. Now I know that sounds like the worst possible idea, but judging by their thoughts, they are around our age."

"So?" I asked. "How is that going to help us?"

"Well, you wouldn't know this, Max, but crazy things happen at teenage parties, and crazy people are there. We would fit right in!" Nudge informed.

"That still doesn't solve our sleeping problem!" I told them. What were they thinking?

"Ugh! Max! Please just listen to us for a second!" Nudge cried, being way overdramatic, if you ask me.

"At parties like that, there is usually drinking involved! People pass out! We would be completely under the radar if we slept there in an empty room!" Angel explained.

"What kind of drinks would make you pass out?" I asked, confused.

"Alcoholic ones!" Nudge practically screamed at me.

"Sorry!" I said, "I didn't know! Let's go check it out."

There was a lot of tension between us, but we sort of lapsed into a comfortable silence as we walked, following Angel as she led us to the house.

We got closer to the house, and I could already hear the music radiating off from the house. Oh great, just how I like my music, loud, obnoxious, and aggravating.

I saw lots of people that were probably the same way. There were so many of them, some going in and some leaving. We would probably never get noticed.

"Their thoughts are all so loud and confusing." Angel said as we walked towards the house.

"I'm sorry, Angel, at least you'll know if people are telling the truth or not." Nudge tried lightening the mood.

"Yippidy-doo-dah for me." She replied sarcastically. "But, thanks." She added, and we walked up the lawn to the front door.

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~Fang POV~

The party was shaking the whole house, and as I walked around, it seemed that even more people had showed up. I was currently walking over to Iggy but decided to talk to him later, not wanting to interrupt his make out session with Ella.

I was on my way back to the kitchen to get another Mt. Dew, but as I passed by the front door, it opened and went straight into my face. I fell unconscious as heard a shout of

"Oh crap!" and a muttered "So much for staying under the radar."

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Hey guys! I am sooooo sorry for the long wait! I have been so busy lately and I've been feeling sorta crappy too so I promise to be better next time!

Thank you all so much for reading this! Please review and tell me what you think! Also, if there is anything you think should be different, please tell me and I will try to fix it.

Also, I am posting a story of just the characters from this story, but it's not like a story, it's just like their past and info about them and stuff. So, yeah. Sorry again about the delay!

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