Title: Still Looking
Author: Terri
Disclaimer: Yawn, not my characters….etc….etc….etc…
Summery: Maria is gone but Michael is still looking
Sequel to Maybe, you didn't think I'd leave at like that did
you?
Part 1
It's been two years since she's been gone, two years I've been
looking for her, I still don't believe she's dead, I think of her as in limbo,
waiting for me, it's been two years since I've been back to Roswell, I won't go
back until I find her.
He was in Denver now, he'd lost count of the towns he had
been in, he lost count of the faces he had looked at, a few times he thought he
had seen her, she'd be walking down the street but when he called her name, she
didn't answer, and when he turned her to look at her face, it was never hers,
he hoped that one day when the girl turned it would be her face looking back at
him.
His stomach rumbles he needed to eat, he couldn't remember
the last time he had eaten proper food, he came to a café called the Ranchers,
he sat at the booth and looked at the menu, steak, steak and more steak, guess
I'll have steak then. The waitress came
to his table, "so what can I get ya?" Michael looked up at her, he always hoped
that the next waitress would be the one, she wasn't, he sighed deeply, "ummm…I
guess I'll have the steak and coffee, strong coffee." The waitress popped her
gum and sauntered away.
Michael looked out the window, and daydreamed about the day
he would finely see her.
His food had come and he found that it was quite good, the
coffee though was crap, well nothings ever perfect. The door of the café swung
open and a girl with flowing hair ran into the place, Michael caught a whiff of
something that he couldn't quite put his finger on "Joe, I've come for my pay
check, is it ready?" Michael jerked
upright, My god that voice I'd recognise it anywhere, I looked at her but her
back was too me, please god, please let it be her. "Here you go Alice, your
bonus is in there too," "thanks Joe,
see ya next week," "enjoy yourself
Alice you deserve it." Alice leaned
over and gave Joe a quick kiss on his cheek, she turned but she was looking
down at the money in her hands. Michael still couldn't see her face, his heart
was thumping in his chest, could it be her?
Just as Alice neared the door she could feel someone looking
at her, she looked up just as she took hold of the handle, she turned her head
to the left, and she saw him, he was good looking in a rugged kind of way,
shame she was going away today, he was cute, she gave him a bright smile and
winked at him and walked out the door.
Michael sat frozen in his seat he watched her smile and
wink, then she left, his eyes never left her as she got astride a black
motorbike, she was putting on her helmet, when he suddenly jumped up, threw
money on the table and ran out of the café, as he reached the pavement, Alice
pulled away from the kerb, Michael shouted her name…….Maria.
TBC
