At Last
Part 2
By the time her last class finished Maria had the worst headache,
she hadn't seen Michael today she was glad, but tonight no matter what she was going
to confront him about what had happened. She pulled up the drive to the house, when she pulled up she heard
laughter coming from the living room, she stood in the door way and watched, Isabel
and Michael were on the floor, they seemed to be wrestling with each other, Michael
then spun Isabel onto her back and straddled her hips, he started to tickle her,
Isabel opened her eyes, she noticed Maria standing watching her, she pushed at Michael
but he kept on tickling her, "Maria." Michael
stopped and looked in the direction Isabel was looking, he noticed her then, and
climbed off Isabel, he helped her to stand and went towards Maria, he bent to give
her a kiss, just before he made contact with her lips she moved away and walked
up to her room, she heard Michael call her name but she kept on walking.
Maria took some clothes out of her closet and put them on
the bed, she would only take some she would move the rest out later, "Maria
what are you doing?" Maria didn't
answer, she kept on taking things out of her drawer, she stopped and looked at
the pile, shrugged her shoulders and gathered the bundle up, she walked to the
door. Michael stood in the way and
Maria just looked at him, "Michael, do you mind? I would like to be past," "Maria?"
"Like today." Michael stepped back, he
didn't understand what was happening. Maria walked past him and into Liz's room, she put her things down and
opened drawers and started to put her things away. Michael watched her put her
belongings in the draw, he walked over to her and touched her arm, Maria jerked
it away, "don't touch me, YOU no longer have that right." "What do you mean? I don't know what your
talking about, Maria! Look at me." Michael grabbed her by her shoulders and turned her to look at him, "What
is going on? Why are you moving your things into Liz's room? Wait, is this
about what you saw downstairs? We were just messing about, that's all." Maria started to laugh then, "that isn't
why, you jerk, you don't get it do you? I saw you and Isabel together, get the
drift?" "Yeah, but like I said we were
just messing about." Maria sighed, "No
Michael, I mean I saw you together yesterday, in OUR SHOWER." Michael's face paled then he started to
sputter, "I'm sorry…" Maria put up her hand and slapped him across the face, "don't
even try to talk your way out of that one. You and me, we no longer exist, you're
just a guy who I happen to share a house with, you mean nothing to me, now get
the hell out!" Michael staggered back
from her, he was holding his face where she had hit him, but what was worse was
the look in her eyes, there was not hurt there, no tears, only indifference. He
never expected to see that look on her face. He walked through the door when he
heard Maria speak, "tell Isabel, if she doesn't want to get her face slapped,
she better stay away from me too." He turned and looked at her, he was about to
speak when Maria slammed the door in his face.
Michael walked back into the room they had shared, he sat on
the edge of the bed, her perfume was on her bedside table he took hold of it
and opened the bottle, he brought it up to his nose and took a smell of it, he
felt something wet hit his hand, he was crying, he had lost her, and for what,
a quick roll in the hay, even though he had feelings for Isabel, she would never
be Maria.
What they didn't know, was that downstairs they had an
audience who had listened to what had gone on, Isabel had the good grace to
look ashamed, she sat on the sofa looking down at her clasped hands. Kyle
couldn't believe it, he looked at Isabel made a hmmph sound and walked out the
room. Max looked at her, she looked so lonely there alone, he sat next to her
and put his arm around her, "Is, what you did was wrong, you know that don't
you? There's no-one to blame but yourselves, I think you should make yourself
scarce for a little while, stay with some friends or something, maybe you
should take Michael with you, I think you need to give Maria some space, I'll
look make sure she's okay." He knew
what he was saying was true but he had his own agenda, he wanted to be with
Maria alone, he wanted to be the one she would turn to.
TBC…