I realize it's been a while… but I updated! I have had writer's block…and a job…and senior year classes…and college applications…and way too much on my plate. I found the time to treat you all with a nice update though, so read, review, and, by all means, enjoy!

Chapter 15

One Week Later:

"I swear to God, if you all don't stop following me around like I'm going to collapse, heads will roll!" I yelled at the group of people all standing in front of me.

After I had woken up from my injury, Carlisle had done a full physical on me out of curiosity. That's when everyone discovered all the scars that littered my body. It was not a pleasant conversation.

Flashback:

"Where the hell did all these scars come from? You didn't have them when you were with the Flock?" Fang yelled as he stalked around me.

I could feel my feathers bristling in anger at his tone of voice.

"Well, most of them are from my fights with the School when I was working to keep the School from killing all of you." I said backing quietly. Everyone besides Fang froze and held their breath. They knew that voice well. It only ever came out when I was well and truly pissed.

"And we never asked you to do any of that! You can't pin any of this on the Flock!" Fang yelled.

Silence followed. I narrowed my eyes at him, and I saw with satisfaction that Fang started to look just a bit nervous.

"I never said that any of you asked me to do what I did. It seemed like the best, and only, option at the time, so I made that choice! I don't see why you are freaking out so much about it in the first place! You have Meghan, and I have Sam! So why don't you back the eff off!" I shrieked back.

"I know that the School didn't put all those scars on you! You put some there yourself when you decided to have a pity party for yourself and take the easy way out! And leave Meghan out of this!"

"Pity party? I tried to take myself out of the equation so that the School wouldn't have a freaking guinea pig to keep using! Don't you dare yell at me for that while you found yourself a new family and landed in the lap of luxury! You have no idea how hard it was for me to try to do that knowing you all were alive and well somewhere!" I screamed at him.

I could feel Jasper trying to calm the whole situation down, but it was having absolutely no effect on me.

With a muffled shriek of rage, I launched myself out the open window in my room and took to the sky. I could hear everyone in the house yelling at me as I dodged all of their hands as I shot past them. My wings pulled at my wound a bit, but the pain was welcomed, as it helped to pull me out of my rage. I focused on the ground to distract myself further, and saw a pack of giant wolves running below me. A black wolf, bigger than the rest, was in the lead and kept glancing up at me to keep me in sight.

I smiled at Sam's protective streak to myself, and decided to see what their reactions would be to some air acrobatics. I led them to a clearing, and abruptly pulled in my wings. I could hear sharp yips of alarm come from the wolves as I hurtled towards the ground. At the last minute, I whipped out my wings and shot back up into the sky, which led to a long series of spins, flips, dives, and anything else that I could come up with to do. I finally grew tired of entertaining the overgrown wolves, landed lightly on my feet in front of them.

Sam was immediately in my face, sniffing me all over for injuries and growling lightly at me, probably telling me off for scaring him. I laughed as the rest of the pack rushed forward to sniff me as well, except for the lone female of the pack. She hung back, glowering at me as I got all the attention of the males.

I met her gaze around the males, and she took this as the challenge it was meant to be. I was having a bad day, and her attitude wasn't helping at all. She started to growl at me, and I shocked everyone when I started to growl/hiss at her right back. I guess the female forgot that I was part bird and could make quite a few different sounds. The staring contest continued until she recognized that I was more dominant than she, and she lowered her gaze. I nodded once in satisfaction, and turned my attention back to Sam."

End Flashback:

Not everything in the week following my injury was bad, however. I met the kids that were traveling with Meghan before they all met up with the Cullens, and immediately fell in love with the youngest, a little boy. It annoyed Meghan to no end that he took to me immediately; he now preferred me to her. I replaced her and Esme as Mom in his eyes, and I loved it. Sam commented that I was a natural mother. Emmett and the rest of the Cullens were quick to agree with him.

The wolves and the Cullens were on better terms now, and the pack all took turns telling me it was all because of me. I could find no solid argument anytime they made the claim, and gave up arguing.

Nothing out of the ordinary had happened in a week, and I was starting to think that maybe I would finally be able to live a normal life… yeah right. Like I would ever be able to live a normal life. I'm Maximum Ride. I don't ever seem to catch a break.