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(Vivian)

PS- I wrote this chapter while listening to Rainbow Veins by Owl City. It sort of spices up the chapter if you listen to it for the second half of the chapter. Also, the poem in this chapter I had written myself, so please tell me what you think about it.

Max POV

I was attacked with “We missed you”s and “Where were you”s from all around the room. The flock crowded around me with hugs and tears. Of course, I returned them, answering all their questions, apologizing for my mistakes.

But something still bothered me.

I wanted Fang to forgive me, but he had only done the opposite.

I glanced outside the window to see him asleep on the rocking bench on the porch. I wondered what he had been doing with the journal in his hand and the pen. From where I could see, his grip was tightened around the pen. I wondered what he was dreaming about. I wondered if he’d ever forgive me…

I sure hope he would.

~*~ A couple hours later ~*~

I had decided to attempt to at least walk around a bit. I was tired of lying in bed feeling useless. I first sat up. “Ow, stupid bed,” I muttered as I hit my arm on the side. I then stood up and almost fell back on the bed. “Crap,” I said. I stood up again, and then walked out of the room in pain, slightly limping.

“Max! You were supposed to stay in bed,” my mother yelled at me.

“I’ll go back, just, I have a few things I really need to take care of,” I told her.

I then went to the patio to see what was up with Fang. I hoped he would forgive me, I really did.

I walked over to him, and looked him over. He was still sleeping, only more peacefully, fist not clenched around the innocent pen. I reached down and picked up the journal to see what he had written. My eyes had widened as I read the words on the flimsy paper.

(A/N – The following poem I did actually write, so if in your review you could give your opinion on that too, that’d be great)

Gone

Life is just a chance to grow a new soul,

Mine, a mirror reflecting off dull coal,

An emotional mask, hiding all pain,

Only true feeling revealing is love.

Walled in around me is nothing but fear,

Starting to think that my end may be near,

I’m just a rose ripped out of a garden,

A poisoned black rose beginning to darken.

Fear, pain, two things I find unsharible,

Such thanks like these, aren’t but comparable,

Haunting by morning and night all the same,

If only I knew when they had even came.

Most emotions I don’t quite like sharing,

Instead I ponder and go ahead caring,

The number I wanted to hurt simply none,

So I slowly and simply sacrificed one.

Just about now was the most perfect time,

Some might be hurt, but they would be fine,

Now with a knife in my hand just at dawn,

I broke down the wall, and now everything’s

Gone.

~Fang

I flipped through the pages to find all sorts of poems. They were written with incredible feeling, but the only disappointing fact about it was that those feelings were negative. After flipping through the journal, a page had fallen out, ripped but taped back together, crumpled up, but still in the journal. I figured that this page he had possibly wanted to through away but had changed his mind several times about it, considering how many tears there were on the paper and how much tape was used to put it back together. I was just about to read it when a hand grabbed it out of mine and snatched it away.

“What were you doing look through that?” he glared at me.

“I uh…I didn’t read much. But Fang, those were really good, I mean I-,” he cut me off.

“Yeah okay great, glad you liked how I felt. But as much as I’d love to hear your opinion of my view on things, I have better things to do,” he had said with venom in his words. He stood up, standing several inches above me.

I looked down disappointed. “I’m sorry,” I said. “I just, I was just curious okay?” I apologized and started to walk away. I never even got to do what I went over there to do. I limped away, when suddenly I heard him utter my name oh so quietly.

“Max…” I heard. I turned around to see Fang with a look on his face that I didn’t recognize. It was a mix of guilt, regret, depression, love; it was an expression I child would have given to a lost stuffed animal. I know it was a weird way of describing it but it was the only way I could.

“Fang,” I said, walking over to him, no longer limping, but still feeling jolts of pain in my leg with every step.

I felt his warm hand on my cheek as he leaned in, closing his eyes. I then slowly closed my eyes and leaned in as well, closing the space between us, feeling his soft lips on mine. I brought my arms around his neck as he slowly brought his down my back and around my waist. We kissed like that for just about a minute or so. Okay so maybe it was more of a make out session, but I mean, either way, it was amazing.

He pulled back, the slightest smirk on his lips, and I smiled. “God, I missed that,” he said. I smiled even wider, “You’re not alone on that one.”

He took my hand and brought me over to the rocking bench, as he sat back down, and I sat next to him. He brought his arm around my shoulder and took my hand with his other. I rested my head on his shoulder and just sat there, with him. I missed this, I really did. After moments of silence, well pleasant silence that is, Fang spoke.

“Max, I’m sorry about the way I acted. I love you, so much. I just missed you and it was killing me when you were gone. I just couldn’t find a way to forgive you for leaving me like that, but then I realized that I was the one that did wrong. I was the one that should be apologizing. I hope you realize that,” he had said, still looking out into what seemed to be the woods.

I lifted my head off of his shoulder to look him in the eye. “Fang, it’s okay. I missed you too, oh god how much I missed you. I wanted to just give up and run back to you but I knew I couldn’t. I had to do what was right for the world, and I did. I decided it was time for me to come back, and once on my way home, I had realized that the war wasn’t over. Ari had shot me, was about to kill me right on the spot, but Jeb had told him to leave me, that I was going to die in moments anyway. I barely made it here, but didn’t give up. I couldn’t give up on coming back to the ones I loved, especially you Fang. I loved you so much, and I still do. I wasn’t even sure how I made it without you. I finally got back and when I understood the way you felt when I had left, it broke my heart. But I realized that I wasn’t the only heart broken one, and I was only being selfish. I’m sorry too,” I told him.

He kept gazing straight into my eyes, and then smirked. “Maximum Ride, what am I ever going to do with you?” he asked me.

“The world may never know,” I mocked him back, standing up, and running away.

“Hey, where are you planning on going? You’re not leaving that easily again!” He yelled after me.

“Chillax, I’m just going out for a flight,” I looked back. “Catch me if you can!” I yelled as I jumped up and opened my wings, and flew up. The feeling of the air against my wings, that was just breath taking. I flew off, making circles in the sky. I could feel the sun on my wings, the wing blowing through my hair. Let me tell you, I do not know how I would survive without these wings.

Fang soon made it into the sky, flying after me. His dark wings outstretched for several feet. Flying in the sky he looked like the ‘Angel of Darkness’. I smiled at him, and my smile spread as I saw the rest of the flock running out the door and joining in.

It reminded me of old times. When we were all small and still in the E-shaped house, we’d always play tag in the air.

They flew up and started flying around. “Who’s it?” Iggy asked, receiving a tap on his left shoulder from the one and only Fang. “Right now, you are,” he said.

“Aw man,” Ig said, then did a 360 and tagged Nudge.

“How’d you get me so easily?!” she laughed.

“I could sense you smiling,” he said. Wow, sometimes I really could not understand that boy.

Nudge the tagged Gazzy, who eventually tagged Angel. Angel then flew and heck knows how, tagged Fang. Fang, being unfair, had used his capability of invisibility.

“Fang, that is not fair! Where are you?!” I yelled through the sky.

I felt a familiar tickle and the hair rise off the beck of my neck. I quickly turned and rammed right into Fang’s chest. “Tag, you’re it,” he whispered before leaning in and kissing me on the lips once again.

“Awwww,” Angel and Nudge giggled.

“Bleh, seriously?” Gazzy and Iggy made comments. I heard Iggy whisper something into Gazzy’s ear, but wasn’t sure of what I was hearing.

I pulled away. “And you were wondering what you were ever going to do with me,” I smiled.

The day lasted like that and only like that, until we all became exhausted and landed in the tree house. Iggy went over and turned on the radio, clicking several buttons with his sensitive hands.

I sat in a corner with Fang, same position as from earlier before with the rocking bench. It just felt right that way, and I felt oddly cold without his presence. It was a great feeling.

Iggy and Gazzy were laughing about some guy jokes. I rolled my eyes, who knows what they talk about. Angel and Nudge were talking as well, but sneaking glances over at us every two seconds. I had a feeling I knew what they were talking about.

Soon, a song started to play on the radio. One that I recognized: Rainbow Veins by Owl City. Hm, Owl City had some really good songs. They always had an uplifting mood to them.

High rise, veins of the avenue
Bright eyes and subtle variations of blue
Everywhere is balanced there like a rainbow above you
Street lights glisten on the boulevard
And cold nights make staying alert so hard
For heaven's sake, keep me awake so I won't be caught off guard
Clearly I am a passerby but I'll find a place to stay
Dear pacific day, won't you take me away?
Small town hearts of the New Year
Brought down by gravity, crystal clear
City fog and brave dialogue converge on the frontier
Make haste, I feel your heartbeat
With new taste for speed, out on the street
Find a road to a humble abode where both of our routes meet
The silver sound is all around and the colors fall like snow
The feeling of letting go, I guess we'll never know

Cheer up and dry your damp eyes and tell me when it rains
And I'll blend up that rainbow above you and shoot it through your veins
Cause your heart has a lack of color and we should've known
That we'd grow up sooner or later cause we wasted all our free time alone

Your nerves gather with the altitude
Exhale the stress so you don't come unglued
Somewhere there is a happy affair, a ghost of a good mood
Wide eyed, panic on the getaway
The high tide could take me so far away
VCR's and motorcars unite on the Seventh Day
A popular gauge will measure the rage of the new Post-Modern Age
Cause somewhere along the line all the decades align

We were the crashing whitecaps
On the ocean
And what lovely seaside holiday, away
A palm tree in Christmas lights
My emotion
Struck a sparkling tone like a xylophone
As we spent the day alone

Cheer up and dry your damp eyes and tell me when it rains
And I'll blend up that rainbow above you and shoot it through your veins
Cause your heart has a lack of color and we should've known
That we'd grow up sooner or later cause we wasted all our free time alone

Wow, right then and there I wished for it to always stay like this. It would be heaven.

“So Max, you said that Itex wasn’t gone. What are we going to do about it?” Fang brought up.

“Well, I have a feeling Jeb told Ari to leave me alone for a reason. I think he knew that I’d make it, and he wants me to finish Itex off. But we’ll get there. For now I just want everything to stay like this,” I said, the music still playing in my head.

Wow, well I could say was that I was on one ride that would never end.

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