Maximum Ride: A New Life

chapter 24

Max Pov

  I was able to cut them two to three weeks down to a week and a half with enough caffeine and reckless driving.

   When we pulled up the flock jumps out with Gazzy hugging the ground. "I am never getting in a car with her ever again. Never again." He whinnied, hands shaking as he giving her a weak glare.

  "Oh stop being so dramatic. We needed to get here faster so we speed up a little." Anita huffed. "And get of the ground who know what the passing dogs did the this land."

   "You call that a little? We had to hide from the cop three time on the way here!" A shaking Nuge chimed, watching a the Gazz Man shot to his feet rubbing of any grass blades.

   Fang and Maya just walked to the front door and banged on it twice before pulling out a spare key from the Bushes and unlocking the door.

   Max watched "Do y'all know that that its a bad place to keep you spare key?"

   "Its been working for years." Ashley said simply as the flock walked in the house.

The house looked like the same. The couch in the same spot, table in the same spot, even the magazine's. The place was spotless.

     Neather Miss. Martinez or Ella was the cleanest people.

   "Miss. Martinez? Ella?" Silence

  "Toto?" Angel called, but she greeted with silence as well.

"Do mom have any friends that she could have stayed with?" Max ask, staring at the table, a thin layer dust coating it.

   The place had to have been abandoned for a least a day.

    "She has coworkers,but only a small few she consider friends. She is always carful about who she hangs around." Claimed Ashley as she plopped on the sofa, watching as Dylan walks past her and to the kitchen.

  After a few seconds of silence Max said "One of you call Mom, im going to call a friend of mine for help." Before stalking off, phone in hand.

They all stared at her, Anita included. It was not often that she called for help. Max must be out of her element.

    "I'll go call Miss.Martinez." mumbled Maya, slipping into the downstairs bathroom.

"Alright." Anita shifted form on paw to the other. "I am assuming the this is strange behavior for the both of them?." 

    "Yeah. Its past Miss. Martinez working hours." Dylan yells from the kitchen. "And i don't think anyone has been here for days. No food anywhere." He rounded the corner with a nervous look on his face.

   "You all start unpacking while I scope of the yard. Make sure that no one is lingering in the area. And check the house for things out of place." She walked to the front door. "And one of you come open the door for me."

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   In her temporary room, Max leaned one the door taping her foot wildly.

    "Come on come on pick up." She mumbled as her boyfriends phone went to voice mail for the third time.

   'Ok, time to call in the big guns.' Max thought. If Daniel was not going to answer then her mom will.

   The phone ringed twice before a sleep male voice responded "Hello, Max?"

    "Yeah its me dad, is mom up?"