Chapter 1
Liz calmly turns toward her door, "Hey Maria. You're early." Bends down picking up a sock that has at least been under there for a few weeks and a blouse she dropped on the floor early that week, her bed still firmly in her grasp above her head.
"Can you believe the nerve of those four?" She crosses her arms upset by what she witnessed in Crashdown. "They say that they want nothing to do with us humans, so what happens, they come into the place where we hang out and work. Not only that but they sit in my or your section, everyday."
Gently Liz rests her bed back onto the floor moving a little so it fit between her two end tables. "This is kind of a popular place to hang Maria." Her friend stares at her with disbelief gracing her face. "But I get what you're saying. It's irritating there's no doubt about that. We just can't let them know that it bugs us."
Sighing Maria plops down on Liz's bed, holding up a magazine with Lex Luthor on the cover. "This is who I need to get involved with. Rich, successful, the bald head is kinda weird but I could get used to that. It doesn't detract from his looks at all. Although, he does have those crazy eyes…" She closes the magazine and tosses it onto Liz's end table.
"So what happened downstairs that bothered you so much? Besides them being here?"
"Isabel was holding Michael's hand the entire time I was finishing up my shift, then when I left to go take a shower she saw me and began to kiss his neck. Ugh!" Her jaw tightens, "I've just started to move on and it hurts to see them together." Maria's voice quivers but she doesn't cry. "If they weren't so obvious in front of me it wouldn't be so hard, but the fact that at least Isabel is throwing it into my face every chance she gets is making it difficult."
Liz tries to think of something, anything that could get Maria's mind of Isabel and Michael for a little while, all that can come to mind is the man's life she saved an hour ago. "Saved someone today, Mr. Rouker a few miles down the road."
"Mr. Rouker? Oh, the banker guy. Who did he piss off?" It was common knowledge that no one liked this man, no matter when, where, or how you ran into this guy he was rude and obnoxious. He never has a good day, every time you go up to his window he gives you a scowl to go along with your day.
Liz drinks from her coke can, "Apparently Mrs. Taggert, the cleaning lady for his home, went off on him. Grabbed a bat from his son's room and started to beat him up, she went postal."
"Hon, I know you have these powers and you see them a way to help people who need it, but couldn't you have let Mrs. Taggert take care of him all the way? Couldn't you be late, say you were held up in superhero traffic? The police of Roswell will believe anything."
"Trust me I was tempted. I've had more than my share of run-in's with him but he's still a human being, albeit one with a bad attitude but one none the less." Chuckling at the image Maria caused to enter her mind. "You hungry?"
"Yea, thought about grabbing a burger from the kitchen but I didn't want to be around the Pod Squad any longer than necessary." She admits.
"Not a problem, we have some hamburger and buns I can heat up for you." She leaves for the kitchen; Liz remembered when she first got her heat-vision. It only activated when she was hot for some guy, something her father was not too pleased hearing about. For weeks she stayed away from Maria and her friends because she was afraid she'd hurt them until she got the power under control.
Her secret was one that wasn't really a secret, it was but it wasn't. Many people knew, her parents, Maria, Kyle, Alex, and even Jim knew. That's many in her book, all of the people she told were the people she trusted with all her heart and soul, she didn't have to worry about them running off to tell someone about their alien friend.
She, Elizabeth Claudia Parker, came from the planet Krypton, on her home planet she was named Livara she didn't know who her parents were or what her station was all she knew was that she felt loved. Liz's earliest memory wasn't a memory at all but a feeling she remembered having while still a baby, comforted, loved, wanted.
Years had past while she was in her little ship, 5 to be exact, she had hurdled to Earth under the guise of a meteor shower. When she opened her ship after the rough landing she walked around in an empty cornfield, she heard a truck but hid scared of the noise. She had to have trudged for miles when someone finally saw her walking around naked and confused.
Instantly she was scooped up and put in an orphanage, it was there that she met her adoptive parents, Nancy and Jeff Parker. They saw her and immediately wanted to take her home, even after the agency told them that she couldn't talk and had an abnormal amount of strength, they still wanted her to be a part of their family.
Grabbing the food and condiments she brings them into her room where Maria was drooling over Lex Luthor's picture. At times Liz felt guilty about bringing in her human friends and not her alien ones, but she was almost ashamed to say, that she didn't trust them. There was something always holding her back from letting them in on her secret. However after last month she was certain she made the correct decision in not exposing herself.
TBC
