There was banging on the window. "MARIA! MARIA! WAKE UP!"

"What?" said Maria, half asleep. "I know who killed Alex, it was Tess."

"WHAT?" Maria yelled. "HOW DARE SHE. Wait, they're going in a couple of hours, lets go, we've got to tell Michael."

Maria, Liz and Kyle got into the Jetta. By time they got to the desert rock, it was day, and Maria was in tears. They ran up the rock side. When they got to the closed opening they started banging in the rock wall calling for the aliens to open up.

Then something happened. The ground started shaking.

The three of them looked up and saw a ship blast out of the rock. That's it. They were gone.

Maria fell to the ground. She couldn't deal with this. She started to feel different. Very different. Like she was going to throw up. She did. All over Kyle's shoes. Not that he cared, at the moment. He helped her up and Liz took her other arm and slowly, both of them, walked Maria down the rock side and put her in the back seat of her mother's car.

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A couple of days later, Maria couldn't deal with Michael being gone. This led to her running away.

She went to New York.

She thought she'd seen Michael, but then she seen him everywhere since she left. But this guy yelled her name.

"Michael?" Maria accidentally let it out. She hadn't said his name since the night he left. She cried herself to sleep at night, but was determined not say his name ever again. Well that didn't work out.

"It is Maria, Right?" It was Rath. Only now he looked good, not evil. What was the world coming to?

"Yeah, it's me. Why?"

"Just curious." Said Rath with Michael's grin.

"Where's your girlfriend?" Asked Maria Sarcastically.

"Gone!" he said darkly. "I killed her when she wanted to kill me. Guess she wanted to get home bad, yo. What about you? You look like you haven't eaten in days."

"Well, I haven't." she said truthfully.

He touched her hand. Then stood back, fast. "Whoa, man!" he said, while looking at her.

"What? What are you staring at?" Maria was starting to hyperventilate.

"Dude, you don't know?" he replied while staring at her as though she was an idiot.

"Don't know what?"

"Dude, your pregnant." He said with a half smile.

Maria fainted.