alrightttyyyy before i start the story i just want to say i dont own anything maximum ride related!!!!!!
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Prologue
After Fang left I just, I just didn't know how to function. Without Fang I just couldn't be happy. I know I have to be strong for the flock...And Dylan. Dylan was sent to the flock to replace Fang, but that could never, ever happen. Of course I've noticed that Dylan is 'Mr. Perfect' but to me he wasn't, Fang was, and I hope I'm just as perfect to him as he is to me. Honestly, I would have to suck all of this up and not share my feelings from the flock. None of them could ever possibly find out how I feel about this, except Angel, because she is probably is reading my mind right now, at this very second. I couldn't hide anything from her.
Angel, Iggy, Gasman, Nudge and I were all that were left of the flock. Missing one member was like a down fall, everyting seemed different. Oh, did I mention Dylan is now in the flock? Jeb, being as irritating as he is forced us to put him in. Jeb said 'its for his own good, you can teach him how to fly better than he already can and maybe even consider him as a possible "friend", just think about it, ok max?'. Apparently the word friend didn't apply into Jeb's dictionary, I could tell that a friend to him was somewhat of a romantic thing. I mean me and Dylan? WTH. Was Dylan going to try to takeover Fang's secondhand spot? No way I was going to let that happen. I'd rather die than let Dylan be my secondhand. However, I do think he would be a good secondhand to, let's say, Gasman or Iggy. They would probably make stink bombs explode all over him all day.
Angel has taken a weird liking to Dylan actually, it was kind of scary. She has been following him around like a lost puppy. It's sickening the way she stares at him. Dylan doesn't seem to notice. Iggy and Gasman try to keep there distance from him and well Nudge, well all Nudge does to him is go on and on about what is in this season. It's hilarious how he tries and tries to get away from her so he doesn't have to hear another sentence about how pink and orange will never be compatible colors, according to all the fashion magazines. Nudge was my hero for the moment, she kept Dylan occupied well I had time to think about how I was going to keep on leading the flock while Fang is... well off the map. My heart couldn't take the fact that he was gone but my head kept saying 'get over it. FANG. IS. GONE.' He couldn't be gone could he? He promised he would never leave me, but he had already given up on me, I think. He died on me. But then the adrenaline I put inside of him brought him back, did he want to die? He didn't seem surprised or upset when Angel had predicted his death. I remember just how pisssed I was when she said that, I couldn't believe it, and when he actually did die, I knew she wasn't a trator or anything, she was just saying what she thought. Fang wasn't dead for long, but he was still dead. He broke his promise. Twice. Could I ever forgive him? I don't know.
Chapter One
Hearing the sound of myself crying was the last thing I wanted anybody to hear. Crying wasn't my thing, and I especially didn't want anybody to know I was crying, but of course this is my life and as we all know nothing ever goes right for me. So of course someone heard and it had to be my Mom. She didn't even knock on my bedroom door, she just barged right in.
"Max," Mom said "sweetie, what's wrong?"
I kept crying. My mouth was too dry to talk but i managed to say, "Fang." Mom kept rubbing my back between my wings... Just like Fang did.
"Max, I know it hurts, but as time goes the pain will cease. I know you love him and I know you want to bring him back, but in that note it said not to look for him. Do you really want to go against his wishes?" She said. She made me feel even worse. Yes, I was thinking about going after him and no, I don't want to go against his wishes, but I did want him. No scratch that. I need him. "Max?"
I realized I'd been silent that whole time.
"Sorry," I said as i whiped the tears from my eyes"I've never felt so back stabbed. He hurt me more than anything! What he wrote in his not hurt me even more than breaking all my ribs. It hurt even more than being kicked out from the flock. Well, maybe not that but it still hurt." I explained.
"I understand, Max. I know that I honestly can't say something that will make you feel better but I do know you hurt. I've never expirienced something like this so I cannot say I understand how you feel, but what I can say is I'm sorry, but Max you have to take care of the flock, I'm sure their hurting just as much as you are, you have to be strong for them." She said. What she said was right, I had to be strong for them, no matter how much I just wanted to sit around and sulk.
Mom understood me even more than I understood myself, she knew how sad, angry and betrayed I felt and yet she still knew how to make me get out of my sulking mood, well more like avoid my sulking mood. The flock needed my leadership and I need them. They and Mom were all I had now and I had to keep them protected. We have to protect each other. Since apparently Dylan was now appart of the flock that meant we had to protect him too, no matter how much I didn't want to.
"What's wrong with Max?" Nudge said as she walked into my room. She was starring at Mom.
"Nothing." I said as I stood up."Just having a mother-daughter talk. Don't worry about me, ok?" Nudge nodded. I walked over to her giving her a hug. Mom was right, the flock, my family was all I needed.
TO BE CONTINUED....
