Hello again everyone, I hope you had a grand Christmas, or what you happen to celebrate in mid-winter. I'm upadating again and just wanted to tell you, Dr. Numanuma gave me a great story idea, so it won't be ending as soon as I thought. Only one question remains though, neither of us could decide for sure if it should continue as the same story, or ba a sequel. So I'm asking for help people. If you don't mind reviewing and telling me what you think on the matter, I would be grateful for the help.

Disclaimer: I own nothing, which in retrospect might be a good thing. I'm nowhere near as good a writer as either of those two.

Garnet Flight

Chapter 21: Leaving

Nia's Pov

I felt terrible as we took off from the Cullens' backyard. I was leaving, but I hadn't helped her convince the werewolves that she deserved to be changed. Maybe that's why I went looking for her in the first place, even at her mother's house months ago. As children, I had been the only friend of her own age that Bella had. Then I got taken to the School, and left her with no one else who just wanted to be her friend. I couldn't help but feel guilty. She was the closest thing I had to a sister, excluding Artemis. And I had let her down. I was careful not to look back. Bella was resourceful and she had Edward, they would think of a way to deal with the wolves—even Jacob.

I flew high, far higher then anyone else in the flock was venturing. Even with my strong guilt over Bella, I couldn't help but feel relaxed. This—the sky—was my place; it was the only place where I felt like I completely belonged. I heard wings and glanced down, just to see Adrian's wings lifting up to join me. I just stared at the grey shades, the ones that subtlety darkened as you looked closer to his shoulders. "What are you thinking about?""Nothing, just where we're going to go next." Yeah I was lying, but he would get very worried if he knew where my thoughts were really taking me. For some reason, my guilt trips had always bothered him a lot. "Max wants to visit her mom, do you want to go with them?""The whole Flock is going, that might be a little much for one person—or even one family. Let's go back to New York; I've always loved that weirdo city. So many places to hide…" I grinned at him.

Adrian dropped back down, I guessed to tell Max that we were leaving to go back to lovely New York. I never knew why I loved the city; it clashed with the fact that I was normally very claustrophobic. But Adrian liked it as well (even weirder for him) so we spent most of our alone time there. I flew on, waiting for Adrian to turn around under me."Come on, I'm ready to leave," I mumbled aloud, and impatiently.

Finally, he turned. I flipped in midair as I followed. I didn't say good bye to the Flock; I never did. Good byes never did anybody any good. We flew, and didn't stop until we were half way across the country. Then we had to stop, for both food and rest. The Cullens' had somehow snuck a credit card in each of our packs (don't as me how they did that.) but at the moment I didn't really mind, as I got to buy food instead of dumpster diving for once. "Hey, why don't we pick up a cell phone?" I knew that Adrian was making a suggestion purely for my benefit, so that I could call the Flock and Bella when I freaked out or something."We don't know if the whitecoats can track cell phones, but I wouldn't put it past them.""What if we only used it when we were moving?""What is they could track it even if it wasn't on?""Do you want one?""Yes." Oops, I wasn't supposed to let him know that. Having a phone could be dangerous if the whitecoats could track it. "Fine then, we're getting one.""What use is it if the Flock doesn't have one?""You could still talk to Bella." "Okay."

I can't believe I fell for that. I really need to get used to the fact that Adrian could be as deceitful as me when he wanted. Even though this wasn't true deceitfulness, just idle trickery. We ended up walking to the Verizon store after lunch, and picking me up a small, cheap phone. I didn't want to spend a lot of the Cullens' money—especially on cell phones of all things. We didn't get a plan; we'd just pay with a card.

Of course the first thing Adrian did was run out and pick up a phone card. "Call Bella, tell her that you have a phone so that she can call you if she needs anything. I dialed the number that had been stuck in my bag with the credit card. It would either be Bella or the Cullens, time to find out which. Someone answered on the first ring. "Hi, do you know where Bella could be?" I asked the stranger on the other end. "Sure, she's right here. May I ask who you are?""I'm Nia." Bella got on the phone; I guessed that the man who answered was her father. "Hey, I guess you found my number.""Yeah, and the credit card that someone slipped into my bag. ""I'll bet that was Alice. Why did you call?""I just wanted to give you my new number, just in case you ever needed something, or your caller ID put up a random number and it was just me or something.""Thanks. Where are you going?""The city where I met with Adrian." We were in the middle of the town, I didn't want someone to overhear where we were headed. "Alright. Bye, Nia.""Bye Bells, tell everyone over there I said hi, and that I thank Alice for the card, even though I don't need it." I hung up, no prolonged good byes; that was the rule.

"You got her?""Yeah." That was it, we found a place to crash for the night, and Adrian went to sleep. I took the first watch; Adrian needed sleep more then me right now. When Adrian took over, I feel asleep with my head against his shoulder. Even when neither of us was speaking, we found comfort in each other's nearness.

We made it to New York two days later. I smiled at the sight of the Empire State Building as I flew high above the city. I said I loved New York, and I wasn't lying. I wondered vaguely how the Flock was doing, but decided not to worry. Max was a very capable leader, far better then me anyways. That is why I only lead Adrian and my self. It kept me out of to much trouble.

We landed in the usual, the tallest unfinished building in the city. There was always construction going on to scope out. I kissed Adrian and slipped out of the building. We needed some food.