Part 4
At 5:20 Max stumbled back at the intensity of her words. His mind a mixture of revulsion, anger, disbelief, and sorrow.
Alex and Maria were at a loss of words, neither knew what to say to the sobbing girl between them.
Max had something to say, and before he could reign it in his haggard voice said one word over and over.
"Liar."
He motioned to Liz, almost panicked, "she's lying," he stated, hoarsely… "I saw her……she was, was, she was in bed with Kyle, she slept with him." His voice rose with every word.
"Oh no you don't, you bastard." Liz brought her shaking body to her feet and took three quick strides to him.
"It was all a set-up, a fucking scam. How in the hell are you supposed to be my soul-mate, hell, the King of an entire planet when you can't see the workings of something right in front of your eyes." Her eyes sparked as she talked, shaking her arm at him, small drops of blood landing on his shirt unnoticed.
"You slept with Tess because you thought I was unfaithful, right?" she asked him, eyes boring into his.
"Well you are the unfaithful one Max. You. You. You. You slept with her, you got her pregnant. All the while I saved myself for you."
She turned to the others, who still stood in shock.
"And why?" she laughed, doubling over…..
"Because" she began to answer her own question, "I thought you were the center of my universe. Now I know how dead wrong I really was." Her voice cooled down towards the end, her energy expelled.
She went to the bathroom, turning around before entering.
"Leave now. Leave."
All three stood resolutely in their respective positions.
She closed her eyes for a moment and concentrated hard, her eyelids fluttering momentarily.
She opened them again.
"Leave." She ordered.
Wordlessly they all left in ordered fashion.
As soon as the door closed, she dropped to her knees, her head in agony……….she dragged her body over to the sink again and shook two Tylenol into her shaking hand, swallowing them down without water.
She'd been experimenting with her developing powers and found that the one she had best control over was mind control……a feature she thought she would never need to use, but which aided her greatly at this time.
"Damn you Max Evans." She swore under her breath…..with every ounce in her body she hated him hated how she felt when he was near, despised her own reactions to him.
Her head began to ache more……..wincing, she opened her small medical bag again, and without any forethought, swallowed the entire contents of the Tylenol bottle , coughing a little as she did.
"One second." Her mind became fuzzy, trying to formulate what she had just done. "What did you just do Liz Parker?" she asked herself sketchily…. Wincing between the crushing pain in her head.
Her vision getting fuzzy, she read that there were 100 pills in the bottle.
Oh God, Oh God, Oh God, Oh God, Oh God, Oh God………
Her body racked with pain she crawled to her bedside table and picked up the phone and dialed 911.
She heard the ring twice, "911, what is the nature of the emergency." Came a loud voice that almost made Liz drop the phone altogether.
"Please….Please just help me." She managed to get out, before completely falling into dark oblivion.