Previously
'Priceless, absolutely priceless is his face.' I think to myself as I watch him pale at the mention of this and giving me a panicked sideward glance he turns back to his mother as she continues.
"Why don't you come over for dinner sometime this week Liz, I would really like to get to know Max's other friends since I've only ever met Michael before." She asks.
"Urm, mum, I'm sure Liz doesn't want too.." Max starts, but I cut him off by saying.
"I'd love too Mrs Evan's, how about this Wednesday?" I ask, not believing my supreme luck.
"Ok then, it's settled." She says beaming while Max stands there, his expression unreadable.
'Just you wait Max Evan's, just you wait, we haven't even begun to tango yet.' I think to myself as I leave the house saying my goodbyes.
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Part 11
I feel bubbly.
'After teasing the hell out of Max, especially in front of his mum, I feel so much better.' As I approach the Crashdown and go around to the back entrance a spectrum of ways to torment Max in the upcoming dinner arise within my mind.
'Jezz, I think I might actually have a spring in my step after all that. I wonder what Max has done with all that pent up sexual frustration?' My mind drifts to bishops and trimming the lamp shade sort of things as I enter the dark kitchen all closed up for the night, only to be shocked out of my train of thought by a high piercing scream.
I freeze where I'm standing and tense up trying to figure out where the scream came from, only to have the sound followed by a sharp smashing sound of shattering glass coming from down in the basement.
Opening the door and hurrying down the dark staircase I listen to pieces of a heated argument.
"You Pig Headed, Chauvinistic, Bastard!" I hear a voice yell, which is unmistakably Maria's.
"That's rich coming from a Stuck-up little Bitch!" Michael shouts.
"Y-you. How dare you call ME a bitch! Your nothing more than a Neanderthal!"
"Better that than looking like some cheap tart!"
Reaching the bottom of the staircase I survey the scene before me and choke back a laugh. Right in the center of the room Michael and Maria stand practically in each other's faces looking like they're about ready to kill one another. Standing off in the corner of the room near the unpacked boxes Alex stands also watching the scene with an almost fearful expression.
Crossing my arms and leaning on the side of the doorframe I watch the battle with amusement. Something sparkling catches my eye on the floor near them and I see what must have been between 3 or 4 glasses shattered on my lovely new floor.
'So that's what made the breaking sound' I realise. Funny enough the fact my exquisite new room could have been damaged is adequate to sober me up out my entertained state.
'Guess I'll have to stop this before they actually destroy something valuable'
"I hate to break up this lover's tiff, but could you all please tell me what your doing here?" I ask in a loud voice trying to be heard over the fight. They both go quiet for a few seconds looking at me and then say in unison. "Where the Hell have you been!"
A bit taken back by their double outburst I uncross my arms and walk into the room.
"Thank God Liz, I though they were gonna kill each other!" I hear Alex say in a mock serious voice as he comes over into the center of the room besides Maria.
I suppress a chuckle at seeing both Michael and Maria's so-not-amused faces glaring between Alex and me.
"Liz, where the hell have you been? You said you was gonna meet me and Alex here later this afternoon so you could show us this 'wonderful' new basement of yours, and it's now later this EVENING!" Maria's rants emphasizing the words with her hands.
"Shit" I mumble. "Damn sorry guys I completely forgot."
"And you said you were gonna meet me later this afternoon to help me with some of the work down here Liz." Michael says, sounding irritated.
"Damn, gezzz.. Sorry guys, I got caught up with something else and forgot I was meeting you." I say.
"What on earth made you completely forget and turn up a few hours late?" Alex's asks in a more subdued tone.
"Oh, erm. me and Max were working on our biology together." I say noticing the curious look Michael gives me at hearing this. I quickly add. "We have a project in science due soon, so I went over his house to get a 'head' start on it."
Maria sighs rolling her eye's "Ok, whatever, you gonna give me and Alex this grand tour now?"
'Wow, that was easy, she's just given in.' I think to myself.
"Coz so far I've only seen Michael's ugly face up close and personal and that's something I can live without for sure." She finishes wrinkling up her nose at him and turning back to me.
"It wasn't much better from this side of the fence either DeLuca, aren't you girls meant to wear foundation or something to hide crappy complexions like yours?" He says before heading over to the couch and slouching back on it giving her a cocky smile.
"Why you inbred little." Maria starts, her voice rising higher with every syllable.
"Ok, ok, I think we all get the idea, you'd like to see each other dangled over shark invested waters. Now could you both cool down so I can give you and Alex the grand, yet very short tour, and then I can help you afterwards with the work Michael. Kay?" I say in my compromising tone.
"Ha, the sharks would take one look at her and swim a mile in the other direction, not to mention being traumatized for life." Michaels says sarcastically, watching with glee as Maria gets all flustered and storms over to him, starting the fight all over again.
"Damn Liz, we're going to need a referee for those two soon." Alex mumbles in my ear.
"Not if the two love birds delve into smooches first before one can arrive." I mumble back.
I can't help but laughing at the sight of his disbelieving face. "Ten bucks Alex says they'll be seriously making out within the month." I say confidently. "Ha, your on, this is one bet your gonna lose Parker." Alex laughs smugly.
Surprisingly enough the rest of the night went quite smoothly. After World War 3 had ended I had a lot of fun showing them the place, from the horseshoe couch for the TV, to what would be my science desk, to the bathroom, the what-was-to-be training area and not to mention Alex's happiness at helping me unpack all the computer hardware and setting it all up, loving my Apple Laptop.
Even Michael seem contented only grumbling when I missed something about the room that had taken him age's to do, getting almost electrocuted to death 'by the shoty wiring job'. Something he said about that meaning a woman must of done the wiring set Maria off again, and yet it did not go unnoticed by me, nor I think Alex, that Michael kept hovering near Maria all the time and seemed to be deliberately provoking her.
*~*
I look up from my diary when Maria starts complaining about some customer between gritted teeth. I turn around on my stool to see who she's complaining about, but don't see anyone in particular so turn back to the counter shrugging at her.
"Damn it Liz, why can't I just quit like you did, if something doesn't change soon then we are gonna have a few dead customers, I can just see the headlines now, 'Waitress Pushed Over the Edge!' then the article goes into the gruesome description of how she stabbed them to death with a spoon!"
"My heart does soooo not bleed for you Maria, but if you want to change places with me flipping burgers be my guest." Michael yells from the kitchen wiping his hands down his new apron.
"Yeah, I can just see you Guerin wearing one of the waitress uniforms, springy antenna and all." Maria snaps back.
Ignoring their current fight I go back to writing in my diary.
~So I talked with my dad and got Michael his new job so that he'll be able to pay for his apartment once his emancipation is finalized.
But I must say the highlight of my day has been running into Max this morning at school. He stopped me in the corridor wanting to say something, but the poor dear was so tongue-tied it was unbelievable. Who would of thought I guy could go so red with embarrassment.
He never did get a chance to tell me what he was gonna say due to the fact while he was trying to talk I reached in my bag and pulled out 3 recent photos of me. 'Here you go Max' I said 'Take these three way better photos of me as replacements for the very bad one I nicked from your room.' His jaw was kinda hanging off its hinges at this point when I shoved the pictures in his hand and his eye's kinda glazed over with hesitation.
I stood there staring at him for a few moments wondering if he was gonna keel-over, but sure enough he snapped out of it and turned one of the deepest shads of red I had ever seen on a person. He still wasn't able to form any cohesive words by the time I had walked away, didn't see him for the rest of the day after that. I wonder if he was avoiding me? Nah!
Oh well, it doesn't matter either way since I'm having dinner over his tomorrow, 'Thanx Mrs Evan's for that invite' so I figure I've got to do something that will really.~
"Liz!"
'Damn, can't I even finish my diary entry in peace?' I think to myself.
"Yeah Maria?"
"So we still on for Friday night to go see a movie with Alex?"
"Sure Ria, I already said it was gonna be my treat, don't sweat, you and Alex can even pick the movie." 'Even though it's getting on my nerves now I must admit I did actually enjoy their company last night, something's off though, both Maria and Alex have become too subdued. Neither of them are asking questions about me anymore, or the stuff I'm doing, something's going on and I'm gonna find out what.' I mull over while watching her finish off wiping down the counter.
'Well if they're my only problem, at least things can't get any worse.' I reason.
It's then Maria's hand stops wiping the counter as if frozen. Looking up at her I see a shocked expression plastered on her face staring at something over my shoulder.
Then a high-pitched female voice hollers from behind me.
"Yo! CORNBALL!"
'I just had to jinx it by saying 'things couldn't get any worse' didn't I?'
(A/N: Tanky is forcing me to walk the plank if I don't post soon, and now I'm writing a new part to this story finally so I thought I might as well publish the rest of this story so it's up to date before posting a new part to the net.)
'Priceless, absolutely priceless is his face.' I think to myself as I watch him pale at the mention of this and giving me a panicked sideward glance he turns back to his mother as she continues.
"Why don't you come over for dinner sometime this week Liz, I would really like to get to know Max's other friends since I've only ever met Michael before." She asks.
"Urm, mum, I'm sure Liz doesn't want too.." Max starts, but I cut him off by saying.
"I'd love too Mrs Evan's, how about this Wednesday?" I ask, not believing my supreme luck.
"Ok then, it's settled." She says beaming while Max stands there, his expression unreadable.
'Just you wait Max Evan's, just you wait, we haven't even begun to tango yet.' I think to myself as I leave the house saying my goodbyes.
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Part 11
I feel bubbly.
'After teasing the hell out of Max, especially in front of his mum, I feel so much better.' As I approach the Crashdown and go around to the back entrance a spectrum of ways to torment Max in the upcoming dinner arise within my mind.
'Jezz, I think I might actually have a spring in my step after all that. I wonder what Max has done with all that pent up sexual frustration?' My mind drifts to bishops and trimming the lamp shade sort of things as I enter the dark kitchen all closed up for the night, only to be shocked out of my train of thought by a high piercing scream.
I freeze where I'm standing and tense up trying to figure out where the scream came from, only to have the sound followed by a sharp smashing sound of shattering glass coming from down in the basement.
Opening the door and hurrying down the dark staircase I listen to pieces of a heated argument.
"You Pig Headed, Chauvinistic, Bastard!" I hear a voice yell, which is unmistakably Maria's.
"That's rich coming from a Stuck-up little Bitch!" Michael shouts.
"Y-you. How dare you call ME a bitch! Your nothing more than a Neanderthal!"
"Better that than looking like some cheap tart!"
Reaching the bottom of the staircase I survey the scene before me and choke back a laugh. Right in the center of the room Michael and Maria stand practically in each other's faces looking like they're about ready to kill one another. Standing off in the corner of the room near the unpacked boxes Alex stands also watching the scene with an almost fearful expression.
Crossing my arms and leaning on the side of the doorframe I watch the battle with amusement. Something sparkling catches my eye on the floor near them and I see what must have been between 3 or 4 glasses shattered on my lovely new floor.
'So that's what made the breaking sound' I realise. Funny enough the fact my exquisite new room could have been damaged is adequate to sober me up out my entertained state.
'Guess I'll have to stop this before they actually destroy something valuable'
"I hate to break up this lover's tiff, but could you all please tell me what your doing here?" I ask in a loud voice trying to be heard over the fight. They both go quiet for a few seconds looking at me and then say in unison. "Where the Hell have you been!"
A bit taken back by their double outburst I uncross my arms and walk into the room.
"Thank God Liz, I though they were gonna kill each other!" I hear Alex say in a mock serious voice as he comes over into the center of the room besides Maria.
I suppress a chuckle at seeing both Michael and Maria's so-not-amused faces glaring between Alex and me.
"Liz, where the hell have you been? You said you was gonna meet me and Alex here later this afternoon so you could show us this 'wonderful' new basement of yours, and it's now later this EVENING!" Maria's rants emphasizing the words with her hands.
"Shit" I mumble. "Damn sorry guys I completely forgot."
"And you said you were gonna meet me later this afternoon to help me with some of the work down here Liz." Michael says, sounding irritated.
"Damn, gezzz.. Sorry guys, I got caught up with something else and forgot I was meeting you." I say.
"What on earth made you completely forget and turn up a few hours late?" Alex's asks in a more subdued tone.
"Oh, erm. me and Max were working on our biology together." I say noticing the curious look Michael gives me at hearing this. I quickly add. "We have a project in science due soon, so I went over his house to get a 'head' start on it."
Maria sighs rolling her eye's "Ok, whatever, you gonna give me and Alex this grand tour now?"
'Wow, that was easy, she's just given in.' I think to myself.
"Coz so far I've only seen Michael's ugly face up close and personal and that's something I can live without for sure." She finishes wrinkling up her nose at him and turning back to me.
"It wasn't much better from this side of the fence either DeLuca, aren't you girls meant to wear foundation or something to hide crappy complexions like yours?" He says before heading over to the couch and slouching back on it giving her a cocky smile.
"Why you inbred little." Maria starts, her voice rising higher with every syllable.
"Ok, ok, I think we all get the idea, you'd like to see each other dangled over shark invested waters. Now could you both cool down so I can give you and Alex the grand, yet very short tour, and then I can help you afterwards with the work Michael. Kay?" I say in my compromising tone.
"Ha, the sharks would take one look at her and swim a mile in the other direction, not to mention being traumatized for life." Michaels says sarcastically, watching with glee as Maria gets all flustered and storms over to him, starting the fight all over again.
"Damn Liz, we're going to need a referee for those two soon." Alex mumbles in my ear.
"Not if the two love birds delve into smooches first before one can arrive." I mumble back.
I can't help but laughing at the sight of his disbelieving face. "Ten bucks Alex says they'll be seriously making out within the month." I say confidently. "Ha, your on, this is one bet your gonna lose Parker." Alex laughs smugly.
Surprisingly enough the rest of the night went quite smoothly. After World War 3 had ended I had a lot of fun showing them the place, from the horseshoe couch for the TV, to what would be my science desk, to the bathroom, the what-was-to-be training area and not to mention Alex's happiness at helping me unpack all the computer hardware and setting it all up, loving my Apple Laptop.
Even Michael seem contented only grumbling when I missed something about the room that had taken him age's to do, getting almost electrocuted to death 'by the shoty wiring job'. Something he said about that meaning a woman must of done the wiring set Maria off again, and yet it did not go unnoticed by me, nor I think Alex, that Michael kept hovering near Maria all the time and seemed to be deliberately provoking her.
*~*
I look up from my diary when Maria starts complaining about some customer between gritted teeth. I turn around on my stool to see who she's complaining about, but don't see anyone in particular so turn back to the counter shrugging at her.
"Damn it Liz, why can't I just quit like you did, if something doesn't change soon then we are gonna have a few dead customers, I can just see the headlines now, 'Waitress Pushed Over the Edge!' then the article goes into the gruesome description of how she stabbed them to death with a spoon!"
"My heart does soooo not bleed for you Maria, but if you want to change places with me flipping burgers be my guest." Michael yells from the kitchen wiping his hands down his new apron.
"Yeah, I can just see you Guerin wearing one of the waitress uniforms, springy antenna and all." Maria snaps back.
Ignoring their current fight I go back to writing in my diary.
~So I talked with my dad and got Michael his new job so that he'll be able to pay for his apartment once his emancipation is finalized.
But I must say the highlight of my day has been running into Max this morning at school. He stopped me in the corridor wanting to say something, but the poor dear was so tongue-tied it was unbelievable. Who would of thought I guy could go so red with embarrassment.
He never did get a chance to tell me what he was gonna say due to the fact while he was trying to talk I reached in my bag and pulled out 3 recent photos of me. 'Here you go Max' I said 'Take these three way better photos of me as replacements for the very bad one I nicked from your room.' His jaw was kinda hanging off its hinges at this point when I shoved the pictures in his hand and his eye's kinda glazed over with hesitation.
I stood there staring at him for a few moments wondering if he was gonna keel-over, but sure enough he snapped out of it and turned one of the deepest shads of red I had ever seen on a person. He still wasn't able to form any cohesive words by the time I had walked away, didn't see him for the rest of the day after that. I wonder if he was avoiding me? Nah!
Oh well, it doesn't matter either way since I'm having dinner over his tomorrow, 'Thanx Mrs Evan's for that invite' so I figure I've got to do something that will really.~
"Liz!"
'Damn, can't I even finish my diary entry in peace?' I think to myself.
"Yeah Maria?"
"So we still on for Friday night to go see a movie with Alex?"
"Sure Ria, I already said it was gonna be my treat, don't sweat, you and Alex can even pick the movie." 'Even though it's getting on my nerves now I must admit I did actually enjoy their company last night, something's off though, both Maria and Alex have become too subdued. Neither of them are asking questions about me anymore, or the stuff I'm doing, something's going on and I'm gonna find out what.' I mull over while watching her finish off wiping down the counter.
'Well if they're my only problem, at least things can't get any worse.' I reason.
It's then Maria's hand stops wiping the counter as if frozen. Looking up at her I see a shocked expression plastered on her face staring at something over my shoulder.
Then a high-pitched female voice hollers from behind me.
"Yo! CORNBALL!"
'I just had to jinx it by saying 'things couldn't get any worse' didn't I?'
(A/N: Tanky is forcing me to walk the plank if I don't post soon, and now I'm writing a new part to this story finally so I thought I might as well publish the rest of this story so it's up to date before posting a new part to the net.)