Part 3
Liz hadn't seen Max or Maria for a week, this was highly
unusual she was worried. She found herself walking Maria's,
looking to see if she was hiding out at home. She rang the
doorbell, Amy DeLuca answered.
"Hi Liz, come in, where's Maria?" Amy asked Liz calmly.
"Same question, where is Maria?" Liz was confused, if
she wasnt here where could she be?
"Shes with you, although she didn't tell me that, that Tess
girl rang me and told me Maria was upset about something and she
was staying with you for a while, she told me it had nothing to
do with me and that I shouldn't worry, I guess I thought I should
give her some space." Amy's face told her story, it was now
wrinkled around the eyes and full of fear! Liz was shocked Tess
was involved, then remember that Tess was a bitch so it was possible!
"Ok Miss DeLuca, im gonna call a few people and ill be back
later, is it ok if i go to Marias room to get her phone
book?" Amy waved her away in the direction of the stairs.
Liz looked around the room for around 10 minutes straight, panicing that Maria had took the book with her where ever she was. A light bulb pinged in her head, to search the computers address and phone book. Maria had put all her contacts on the computer because she felt she needed to and plus she had shown off to Liz all day when she had completed the directory....Liz had still not managed to suss out the complicated program she and Maria had borrowed from Alex. She opened up the lid to the Mac and turned on the screen, she typed in Marias password, MichaelLover, and user name, Maria, then opened the directory named 'Address2000'..... BINGO...... Liz was in. She surfed the named and numbers printing out the short list. She was just about to close the omputer when she noticed the Mail icon was flashing. Liz forced herself to close the computer lid. She got up , picked up the printed paper and headed for the door. Something inside her, the weak side, turned around and headed back to the computer. Liz turned on the computer and clicked on the flashing mail icon. PHEW. Just an email from herself, still not opened from the day before, well that explains it, Maria hadn't been there yet to open it. Liz's eyes imediately noticed a large number of emails sent from Max. She clicked on the latest one.
Hi Maria, is everything ok? I hope everything is going to
be ok soon between you and Michael. Hey guess what I only thought
about Liz a hundred times today!!
Cya soon
Max
Liz let out a sigh of relief. Then she noticed it. The email address was blocked. But why? Liz tried to send a reply to the address, but the server rejected the email saying the address was not recognised. She printed out the email. Liz noticed all the emails from max had the subject: 389907*/89046+. Liz was confused for about 2 minutes, she just sat staring at the emails, then noticed an email from Max with the subject: History Project....HELP!! and the email address wasnt blocked. Why would Max block his email address?? And use that strange number thing as a subject. Then it came to her, the place where she had seen the coad. Maria and Liz used a numbers and symbols coad when they were younger so that they could talk about people without them not knowing a thing. She tried to remember what the numbers represented. 0 always equalled a space between words. A dry hard lump hit Liz at the back of her throat she knew what the coad meant. TESS LOVES MAX. Why on earth would he have that as a coad, and how on earth did he know the coad? Liz closed the computer grabed the prints she had made and headed downstairs. She got out of the house and raced home, to un-block the email address and possibly find her friend and only love!