Part 20
Maria bolted out of bed at the sound blasting out of the alarm clock. She got up, and got dressed, and drove to the Crashdown.
"Hey Maria, how are you feeling?" Liz Parker said, as Maria came in through the backdoor.
"Good, you?" Maria said, and placed her jacket in her locker, and put on her headband.
"Fine, guess who's here" Liz said to Maria, and smiled a sarcastic smile.
"They couldn't stay away" Maria said, and looked out the little window that was on the door out to the restaurant. There sat the famous 4. Max, Michael, Isabel, and Tess just sat there chatting about something like nothing was wrong.
"So, you or me?" Liz said to Maria.
"Let's flip for it" Maria said, and pulled out a coin.
"OK, heads" Liz said as Maria threw the coin up in the air, and let the coin fall to the ground. Maria put all her energy on thinking *not me*. When she looked the next time with Liz she smiled, and said:
"Good luck, Liz"
"Thanks" Liz said, and walked out of the break room and over to the table where Isabel, Max, Michael, and Tess sat.
"Hey, and welcome to the Crashdown, what can I get you?" Liz said to them. Not in her friendly voice, no in her waitress voice.
"Ill have a coke, and fries" Tess said to her, and smiled.
"Me to" Isabel said to her nicely.
"I will have a alien blast and a will smith burger," Michael said.
"And I will have the same" Max said to her.
"And extra Tabasco sauce right?" Liz said to them.
"Right" Tess said frostily.
"Coming right up" Liz said, and began to walk away from the table.
"Liz wait, is it always going to be like this between us?" Max asked her sadly.
"Well, you are the one who wanted it to be." Liz said to him.
"No, we wanted to follow our destiny, but we want to have you as friends" Max explained.
"OK, so what we want is not an issue?" Liz said angrily.
"Liz" Isabel said to her.
"No, your order is coming up" Liz said, and walked away from them. She didn't want them to see her cry.
Maria saw Liz walk in the back in a hurry, so she followed her. When she walked in she saw Liz crying on the couch.
"Liz, Hun, what's the matter?" Maria said, and she sat down beside her.
"Oh, nothing except the assholes over there" Liz said angrily.
"I get it…well how about we do a sleepover at my house tonight, and eat ice cream?" Maria said, trying to make Liz happy again.
"I'd love to" Liz replied happily. Maria and Liz had always loved bonding over ice cream.
"And we will have the whole house to ourselves, my mom is gone for another two weeks" Maria said to her.
"So she will not be home for your birthday?" Liz asked Maria. Liz was in total shock; Maria´s own mother wasn't home for her birthday.
"Liz my birthday is tomorrow...Wait a second" Maria said.
"Maria, what's the matter?" Liz asked her
"I have the strangest deja vou feeling" Maria explained.
"What?" Liz asked confused.
"It's probably nothing" Maria said and blew the feeling away
"Well anyway... I will be there, and so will Alex and Kyle" Liz said, trying to cheer Maria up.
"Thanks" Maria said, and hugged Liz. They both got off the couch and started working again. They didn't pay attention to the four aliens that were sitting at a both. And two of them were following them constantly with there eyes. The shift went by fast for Liz and Maria, and soon enough it was closing time. Maria and Liz started cleaning up, and an hour later they were done.
Liz walked up to her room, and started packing her over night stuff. Ten minutes later Maria called up to her:
"Liz are you ready to go?"
"Yea, hold on a sec... OK I am ready" Liz said, as she walked down to Maria.
"Great, let's go" Maria said, as they walked out the back door.
They stopped dead in their tracks when they saw who was waiting for them.
TBC.
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