Maria sat still upon the couch she spent what she came to know as her early childhood. The child she grew to know as Liz Parker, had a secret not even she knew. Everything she had worked so hard to prevent was about to hit the fan. Upon tear after tear she sat and waited for Alex to come through the door. To instructed her on what to do now. The Parkers were well off to sleep, Maria smiled, Micheal was still on the kitchen floor. Liz upon her bed and not disturbed. 'Maybe i should do something before he gets here?' she inquired herself. "First off micheal." She said standing and going to the kitchen. She looked to his crumpled form, bent down to pick him up. Putting him on her shoulder like a bag of old laundry, she carried him to the couch and fashioned him non-chilantly. As if he had fallen alseep watching tv. 'When he wakes i will just explain he fell alseep. If he remembers anything i'd say it were a bad dream.' she thought to herself taking his shoe off and putting them one the floor as he kicked them off.

"Maria!" Alex yelped coming from the bottom step.

"Alex shhhh!" maria loudly whispered to him as he entered the room.

"What happened?" He asked.

"Shhhhh!" Maria grabbed Alex's arm and pulled him to the kitchen.

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Blackness blended to color as micheal's eyes opened to a television set with snow on the screen. He blinked them and rubbed them slowly. He had the weirdest dream. Somthing in the back of his mind told him that is wasn't. But the last thing in the dream he remembered was being in the kitchen. And clearly he wasn't in the kitchen. He moved his leg to the floor noting the pain in his lower back. Making a metal note to cut back on the over time at the crashdown, he searched for his shoes. Which he didn't remember taking off. It was early in the morning. The sun was beaming through a small window in the passage way to liz's room. Micheal squented his eyes, 'really weird dream.' he thought

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Liz's eyes awoke to the sound of birds clattering outside her window. She noted their gayish laughter. She had never in all the years she lived there, which was mistakingly all her life, heard birds outside her window. She smiled inwarded and with her eyes as she slanted herself in her bed to get closer to hear them. The sun shone down in rays through her curtain and upon her face. Lighting up her olive skin. Her skin seemed to glow with inward content. She slowly raised her head and noted the time. She then pulled her lagging body out of her tangled sheets and headed to the kitchen.

Liz floated in with a slight limp. Her foot was sore, for some reason she knew not of. Thought it were a light ache and she didn't really notice it much. She noticed a slowly moveing Micheal on her couch. "Did you stay the night?" She asked realizing that he must of because why else would he be doing here looking like that.

"Yeah sorry, i guess i fell alseep and Maria didn't wake me up." Micheal said. Standing up was such a workout in the morning for him. Even after he got a cup of coffee in his system.

"No problem, glad to have morning company for break....." Liz said entering the kitchen to see a passed out Alex and Maria. "Well what do we have here.?" Liz said tapping them on the shoulder. "Morning sleepyheads." she greeted them with smiles.

Maria raised her but an inch before her neck protested. "Ahhh! Morning sore!" she announced before flopping her head back upon the table. Alex just raised his head and wiped his eyes.

"Thanks for staying the night here to make sure that i were okay. I apreciate it." Liz said opening the frige and grabbing a container of Orange Juice. Puring her self a glass, which she got from an over head cabnet, she asked, "Now really what are we going to do today. I don't feel like doing work or anything related to school." She paused. A wicked smile graced her face. "How about a day in the desert."

"Liz i think it is too early to be makeing plans. Plus i need a good two cup caffine in my stomach before i am even really socialble. Plus who does this little adventure have to deal with."
"Why everyone silly." Liz said a little chuckled. She bent over to the table close to both Alex's and Maria's ears. "Can't tell my secret to an audience of none." She whispered and straightened and walked out of the kitchen to her room. Alex's eyes darted to Maria, and Maria's eyes were as wide as river stones. "Around four okay. Tell everyone to be there. You know where. " she said crossing the living room. She gave Micheal a little wave and entered her room. She had a lot to prepare before she was to meet everyone out in the desert.


IN THE DESERT....
COMMING SOON....