Max shut his locker and turned around and found himself face to face with Tess.

"Hey," he said and smiled at her. He had really started to like Tess.

"Hi," Tess said, but seemed nervous about something.

"Is everything alright?" Max asked concerned.

"Yes. No," Tess answered and looked lost. "I don't really know. That's why I have to talk to you. And maybe the others too."

"Okay. Where do you want to go?" Max asked.

"I thought we could go over to my place," Tess said.

"So you're calling it your place now, huh?" Max joked.

When Tess didn't answer, he continued: "Seriously, I think it's really great that you have found a family here in Roswell."

"Thank you Max. It feels great to have a place where you can feel safe." Tess looked as she just remembered something and then added: "Although it's kinda hard to feel safe anywhere right now."

"What do you mean?" Max asked, feeling his worry growing every second.

"I'll tell you when we get to my home…"

30 minutes later Max and Tess were sitting in the Valenti's living room.

Max was waiting impatiently for Tess to tell him what was going on.

"Tess, please tell me now. It can't be that bad."

"I think we might have been exposed," she said flat out. Just like that.

"What?" Max said almost choking on the coke he just took a sip from.

Tess took a deep breath and then looked at Max. "Last night someone called here. It was a man's voice that I didn't recognise." Tess took a short break and then continued: "He told me to get away from Roswell right away. I asked who it was but he said that it wasn't important. That all that mattered was that he knew what I was and that I should get away from Roswell and never look back."

Max listened to everything Tess said and felt afraid. What if someone had found out about them? The truth about him, Tess, Isabel and Michael?

"Are you sure it wasn't just a prank?" Max asked, already knowing the answer.

"It sounded really real. And he said he knew what I am. Why not who I am? I'm pretty sure it was real," Tess said and started to chew on her hair.

Max realised how scared she must be.

"Tess, we'll find out who it is. You're going to stay in Roswell with the rest of us."

"Thanks for saying that Max. But I think it will be safer for the rest of you if I just left," Tess said.

"You're not leaving," Max stated. "We will find a way. And anyway we're not even sure that this person knows anything. And he didn't say anything about knowing about me, Isabel and Michael right?"

"No. Just me," Tess answered.

"So for now we just never leave you alone in case this man is dangerous. And then we'll see what his next move will be…"

(Saturday morning)

Kyle almost fell out of the couch when he awoke by the sound of the doorbell. He slowly went up and opened the door.

He found himself looking at Maria and Amy who both had big smiles on their faces. They were bot carrying a moving-box.

"Hey Kyle!" Maria said to him with a way to cheerful voice in the morning, according to Kyle.

She and Amy went past him and placed the boxes on the floor.

"So where are our rooms?" Maria asked, smiling at Kyle.

"Ehh…I don't really know actually," Kyle answered. "Let me go get dad…"

An hour later Amy had started unpacking her things in Jim's room and Maria had been put in with Tess.

For the moment there weren't so many bedrooms in the Valenti-household, but Maria and Amy had already started to plan how to make Jim's office-room into Maria's bedroom.

Tess felt both happy and a little sad to have more people moving in.

It had been good to have Kyle and Jim to herself and to be the only woman in the household. But she was exited over the whole roommate-thing with Maria. She had always felt that Maria didn't like her and Tess had always wanted to be closer to Maria because she watched her and Liz's relationship and felt a sting of jealousy cause she didn't have any real "girlfriends". And maybe that would change now.

"So Tess. Isn't this great!" Maria said and interrupted Tess's thoughts. "Now we can borrow each others clothes all the time, since we are about the same size. I mean if that's okay with you of course?"

"I think that's a great idea. I've always wanted a sister to borrow clothes from, but I've always been alone. So this is great!" Tess agreed.

And she really meant it.

A knock was heard on the door and Tess and Maria both yelled, "Come in!" at the same time. Kyle opened the door and took a look around the room. "I can see that you already are feeling like home Maria," he said and smiled. "How do you figure that?" Maria asked. Tess smiled at her. "Well maybe it's because all of your thing are lying everywhere in the room," she said. "Oh…" Maria said. "I'm so sorry. But I promise it will look as usual soon.

"It's okay," Tess said. "It's no big deal."

Kyle cleared his throat and got both girls attention. "I came in here for a reason you know," he said.

"Yeah? And what would that reason be?" Tess asked.

"Dad has made some coffee and I think Amy has a cake, so they were wondering if you wanted some?"

"Sure I want some cake," Tess said.

"Me too," Maria agreed quickly.

"Although Maria?" Tess said

"Yeah?"

"I'm warning you about Jim's coffee. It's not the best."

"Well thanks for the warning," Maria said and gave Tess a big smile…

TBC…     If you want me to?