AN: I'm going away today. I'll try and post more chapters to this story and 'Someone Save Me'.

Enjoy your nice cliffhanger. ;D

Disclaimer: I do not own Maximum Ride or any of its abosolutely fantastic characters.

Freedom. It was great. And right now, I had it. Freedom. Me and the Flock were cruising down the back roads of California, enjoying every second of it. Fang was driving. I was in the passenger seat. And The kids were in the back. We had 'borrowed' some SUV that seated seven so everyone had enough room.

We were driving pretty fast and the wind was blowing in through the open windows. My hair was flying everywhere and I had to keep brushing it out of my face. Fang thought it was hilarious. I thought it was pretty annoying. Note to self: Cut hair.

The road we were on wasn't paved and the dust flew all around us as we sped down it. It was like smoke. Gazzy kept commenting on how cool the dirt looked, I couldn't help but agree with him.

Fang was silent as usual, but had a crooked smile on his face. He loved driving. Every time we 'borrowed' a car, he insisted on being the one driving. Of course, no one argued.

The radio was turned up and all of us were singing along quietly. We could barely hear ourselves think it was so loud, but we didn't mind.

We were rounding a turn when suddenly out of nowhere, there was another car. Fang tried to swerve the car out of the way of the oncoming truck. He turned quickly but it wasn't quick enough. All the kids were screaming in the back but I couldn't find any my voice. I gripped to the seat with all my strength.

It was like slow motion as we slid across the road putting the right side of the SUV in the path of the truck. It came at us head-on and smashed at full speed into us. The sound of the impact was deafening.

The last thing I remember is hearing Angel scream and Fang yell my name…