1.1 Consequences
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Part 2
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Liz sat down on her bed. It had felt soo good to see Maria. And felt so good to be able to talk to her about everything. Well, almost everything. She couldn't deny that she's been relieved to talk about it to someone. It was true, what she had said. That she knew he didn't love Tess. But, maybe, she had lied a bit. It didn't hurt a little. It hurt so much, that sometime she just want to cry, cry 'til she didn't have a tear left. But she didn't. she held and still hold herself together. For Max. and for him. For that little boy growing inside her. Yeah, she already knew it was boy, thanks to Max. And she wasn't about to let him sense her sadness, her despair at the fact that she could never be with Max the way she wanted to. Getting married, living together, spending all their time together… and not to have to share him with another woman, living in the shadow of this other woman she could never be: his destiny. She knew Max didn't love Tess, but she didn't knew if Tess loved Max. Max had told her so many times that Tess didn't love him, that she was just playing a game in front of their friends, and in front of Michael and Isabel. But who was he to affirm things like that. Of course he knew what she told him, but could he know what she was thinking and feeling? What if someday, Tess decides that she's tired of waiting, and that it's time for her and Max to produce an heir? She didn't even want to though about. I was sickening her. 'Try not to think about it!' she told herself firmly. With that, she changed in her pjs and went to sleep, her hand protectively on her stomach.
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Liz was slowly awakening, when she felt her hand on her stomach and smile.
"Is that beautiful smile for me?" asked someone in a playful tone.
That's when she realized that the hand on her stomach wasn't hers. She looked up at the man lying beside, stunned.
"Max?!? What are you doing here?!"
"What? Don't I get a hello-kiss?"
"Of course you are, you smart ass!" she answered, before grabbing him by the collar and kissing him until he was left breathless.
"That was a good hello!"
"Yeah. So, you didn't tell me? What are you doing here? I mean, how did you manage to come here? Isn't Tess going to be suspicious?"
"I told Tess that I was going to see my adoptive parents in Albuquerque with Isabel. And if she calls at my parents, I told everyone I was going to visit an old friend."
"So what? I'm 'an old friend' now? How old?" She asked in a fake indignation.
"Old enough for some thing I have in mind…"
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Two hours later
"Liiii-iiiz! We're here!! Liiii- Oh My God!!! Who are you? What are you doing in My best friend's room? Where's Liz? Oh my god, where's my cedar oil?"
Max stayed stunned at the blond pixie. He tried to remember who this might be. Loud blond girl+best friend+cedar oil=…Maria?
"You must be Maria… and-"
"Alex."
"oh, yeah."
"I repeat: Who are you? And what are you doing here? And how do you know my name? If you don't answer me, I'm gonna scream!" she yelled.
"Um, alright, um I'm Max, and uh..er… Liz is taking a shower…and"
"You're Max? As in the Max? Oh my god!"
"Yeah, I guess it's me."
"Oh my god oh my god oh my god!!!"
"Maria? Care to explain? The Max?"
"Oh, my, yeah, I'm sorry Alex, I forgot to tell you. Max is… uh… Liz's lab partner."
"Her lab partner?" asked Alex still confused. Then it dawned on him.
"Oh yeah! The lab partner! Oh,okay."
Max had watch the scene with amusement. So Liz had talk about him to her friends. He wondered what she had told them.
"What-" before he could say anything else, he heard the bathroom door opening, followed by Liz's voice.
"Max, could you- Oh, Maria, Alex! You're here! Um… uh… I guess you met Max?" She entered the room with a shy smile, slightly embarrassed by the conditions her friends had meet her boyfriend. **Oh my god, oh my god, what are they gonna think? What are they thinking? They know he's the Max I talked about… and I told Maria about the 15 times! I'm sure they're suspecting what we were doing earlier. At least Maria is! Thanks God they didn't show up half an hour earlier! I would be sooooo dead…**
"Oh, yeah, you can say it!"
"Um… what do you say we head downstairs, I'm really starved." Suggested Liz, trying to avoid any questions she knew Maria would ask.
"Yeah, I can understand it!" said Maria, under her breath only for Alex to hear. And then, louder:
"So, Liz, what was you doing with Max in your room so late? I mean it's almost noon and you just got out of the shower?"
**I knew it! I just knew it she was gonna ask something like that!**
Liz just shot Maria a 'don't-you-dare' look, not trying to voice an answer, before turning to see if Max had heard Maria's comment, and by the way his ears had turned a bright red, he had. She sighed, took his hand and gave it a little squeeze, not wanting him to be embarrassed.
As they arrived downstairs Maria heard Alex asked:
"So, Max. How is it to have parents in the Mafia?"
Max's eye went wide and he questioned Liz silently. She shrugged and mouth 'I'll explain later'. Maria, as she saw Max's eyes widening, hissed at Alex:
"Damn it, Alex! I told you we weren't supposed to know about it!"
"Oh um.. um, Max, man, that's' not what I meant… uh.."
"Don't worry Alex, it's okay, as long as no-one else knows." Replied Max, who had heard Maria.
"Okay. Wow, you know, Max, Liz scared the hell out of me yesterday when she told me about your parents being in the mafia, and that those who knew about it risked to… Oh, I don't even want to think about it!"
"Well, you know, I had to be sure you weren't going to tell anyone." Liz said, trying to defend herself.
"Yeah, right, I can understand. But Liz, how are you going to explain this to your parents. I mean, I'm pretty sure they're not going to be thrilled." Both Max and Liz paled at Maria's sentence.
"Yeah, she's right. And Max, how are gonna tell them that you can't marry their daughter?"
"Oh my god, Liz! They're right! Your parents are gonna kill me! I mean, I don't know them, but any parents would kill me!"
"No, Max, it's gonna be okay…um…we… um… we'll try to find an explanation. It… it will be okay." Tried to reassure him Liz, although she was hoping she sounded more sure than she was. Everyone looked at her doubtfully.
"What?"
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Two days later
Maria, Alex, Max and Liz were sat in a booth, with Liz on Max's laps, his arms around her waist.
They were quietly talking, trying to find something to tell Liz's parents. A few people were already in the Crashdown, so when the door opened, no-one noticed. Suddenly, Maria saw a spiky haired boy heading towards them. Before she could say anything, the guy was at their booth.
"Maxwell! Thank god, I finally found you!"
"Michael?!! What the Hell are you doing here?" asked Max while Liz was discretly sliding off his laps, hoping Michael wouldn't notice.
"We have a problem… no, wait, you have a problem!"
"What are you talking about? And how did you find me?"
"It's not important how I found you. What's important, is that you, stupid asshole, got your girlfriend pregnant!" Max's face went white.
"You… you… you know?"
"Yeah. Not thanks to you. Isabel told me."
"You mean, Iz… Iz knows?"
"Yeah. Tess told her."
"What?!? Tess knows?!?" asked Max, frightened.
"Of course she knows! She's the one whose pregnant!"
"SHE WHAT?!?" yelled both Max and Liz. That's when Michael noticed her. His eyes went wide.
"Liz?! What are you doing here??"
"She lives here, duh." Throw Maria at his face.
"Um… Hi? Nice to see you Michael. Meet my friends Alex and… Maria."
Michael looked at Maria.
"Did I asked you something? I was talking to Liz." Then turning to Liz: "You live here?"
"Um, yeah. I grew up in this alien-themed restaurant. Ironic, isn't it?"
"Yeah." He laughed a bit.
"Excuse me, but why would it be ironic?"
"Oh, um, nothing Alex, it's just…er… a joke between us.." quickly lied Liz.
"Uh-uh." Said Alex, not really understanding.
"Uh, Guys, could we like come back to the topic in matter, please?" asked Max. He really wanted to know what was that shit Michael was talking about. "Tess can't be pregnant! I mean, we never… um, well, we never… um… ya know?"
Maria rolled her eyes, then she whispered to Liz:
"Guys can be soooo dense!"
Unfortunately, Michael had heard her.
"What? You're not thinking what I think you're thinking, are you?"
"What? That she had enough to wait for Max to come around aand that she offered herself a little fun? Nah, not at all, I really wasn't thinking that!" replied Maria, sarcasm evident in her voice.
"You can't say that! You don't know anything about Max and Tess's relationship. She would never, never do something like that, and neither would Max!" he shot back.
Maria wanted to laugh. She looked at Max and Liz, and they both had their head down, looking at the table as if it was the most interesting thing they'd ever seen. Not wanting to turn them down, 'coz apparently they didn't want Michael to know about their… relationship, she asked Michael:
"Then explain how she suddenly is pregnant when her boyfriend didn't even touched her?"
Damn, though Michael, she's asking way to much questions. I believe Max when he says that he and Tess didn't do anything, but Tess could never cheat on him, I mean… could she? Nah, it must be an alien thing.
Not knowing what to say without revealing anything alien, Michael didn't reply.
Just as Max was about to say something, a waitress stopped at their booth and dropped The saturn rings Alex had ordered. Maria looked at Liz closely as she saw her friend's face go pale.
"Liz… Are you okay?" asked Maria concerned.
"Um, not really." She put a hand on her mouth and stood up. "I need to go to the bathroom!" she ran off to the bathroom while everyone looked at her in shock.
"What- What.." Max started to stand up, but Maria stopped him
"Wait Max! I think I know what's wrong…"
"Yeah? Well, what?"
Maria looked at him with knowing eyes, and said:
"Morning sickness."
"Oh."
"What? Morning sickness? What the… Oh! You mean… she's pregnant?! But I thought she and Kyle were-"
"It's not Kyle's." replied Maria evenly, not really wanting to say more.
"…"
"Well?"
"She cheated on Kyle?!" asked Michael, disbelief in his voice.
"Apparently so."
"But… But what is she going to to? What is she gonna say to Kyle?"
"She already told him, they broke up and she's keeping that baby. But don't worry, she and Kyle are still on good terms." She said the last part with a sweet (but false) smile, already knowing that it didn't really mattered to him.
He looked at her, annoyed, before glancing at Max
"Wow, man, this is so weird. This is so really weird! I mean Liz Parker-"
"Someone talking about me?"
They hadn't seen her come back, so Michael nearly jumped in shock when he heard her behind him. They all looked at Liz, relieved to see that she was looking better.
"Oh, hey Liz, sorry, I hadn't heard you come. So, you better?"
"Um, yeah, thanks Michael. I guess it was just-"
"Morning sickness?" she stared back at him in shock.
"Um… yeah…" she responded, on her guards.
"I can't believe it. So you're going to have a baby. Wow."
She laughed a bit.
"Yeah, you can say it. Wow." She said smiling.
"How far along are you? Not more than a couple of month I guess?" he asked "'coz You aren't showing, yet."
"Um, yeah, a month and a half actually."
"So, um, who's going to be a father? Anyone I know?" he asked smiling.
Liz's smile faded, but before she could of anything to say, she heard Max say softly:
"I am." Was all he said. Liz felt her heart skipped a beat.
Michael stared between Max and Liz, shock written all over his face. No one spoke, not daring to break the silence while Michael was trying to digest the information. He crossed his arms, and stared at Max accusingly.
"Well, Max, thanks for the flash info." The look Michael had now on his face was a look of hurt, while Max looked guiltily at him, waiting for his friend to finish.
"I mean, I thought we were friends, I can't, I can't believe you kept something like that from me, but not only did you kept this from me, but she cheated on you, and you cheated on Tess, since at least a month and a half –" he said looking at Liz pointedly, " but you all kept on pushing me and Isabel together, knowing we didn't want to be together. Destiny. Does that mean something to you or Tess? You shouldn't have tried to make us follow our destiny if you wasn't following yours." He said the last part more calmly, although by the look in his eyes you could say he was really angry. "I'm leaving now." Was all he said before heading toward the exit.
"Well," hissed Maria at Max, "I didn't get everything he said, but aren't you going to catch him, and try to explain to him?"
Max looked at Maria sadly, before replying.
"No. He's right. I know he is. Plus, he's gonna need time to process with everything he learnt. Right now, he's mad at me and Tess, and there's nothing I can do."
"Oh." She whispered softly, looking longingly at the door, not listening anymore.
"Well," added Liz "I think it went well."
Alex looked at her as if she had grown a second head.
"Are you crazy? You think this went well?"
"No, Alex, she's right. You don't know Michael. I expected something way worse from him. And I don't even know how my sister is gonna react when she'll learn the truth."
Alex looked at him in sympathy.
"Max, I'm sorry to say this, but I think you've other problems. What are you gonna to about Tess?"
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"… Hi Tess… Yeah it's me… yeah, I'm fine… yeah, yeah, it's okay… um actually yeah… I think we need to talk… you do?… Um okay… yeah, I guess it would be better face to face. Where are you? … You are?… Oh, good, I'm not very far… Um yeah… I could come-… Uh, yeah, yeah, that would be okay… Yeah, if you want… Um, yeah, I'm in Roswell… HAHA, real funny Tess… No, um… yeah there is… so at the Park? Yeah okay. Tomorrow at 2pm... Yeah, okay… yeah, bye, see you tomorrow." Max hung down the phone just as Liz entered the room.
"You called Tess?" she asked worriedly.
"Um, yeah."
"So?"
"She'll be here tomorrow. She'll meet me at the park tomorrow afternoon at two o'clock."
"Oh."
"Um, Liz… do you think you could join us like… I don't know, maybe at 2:30pm. I don't want her to see you at first. But then, when I'll told her, I want you to be here when… when I told her."
"Oh. Okay. Maybe I'll just be waiting in the background."
"Yeah, maybe that's a good idea. But Liz, I want to warn you: Even if she has someone in her life, I don't think she's gonna be too thrilled about us being pregnant. I mean, we were never in love, but in the past, anytime a girl would be showing too much… attention to me, she just… I don't know… but I can say that it never was a nice sight."
"Oh, don't worry for me. I'm a big girl you know. I really like Tess, but if she does anything to harm our baby, it's not gonna be a nice sight either!"
Max laughed with her.
"Oh, I believe you, don't worry!"
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TBC…
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Part 2
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Liz sat down on her bed. It had felt soo good to see Maria. And felt so good to be able to talk to her about everything. Well, almost everything. She couldn't deny that she's been relieved to talk about it to someone. It was true, what she had said. That she knew he didn't love Tess. But, maybe, she had lied a bit. It didn't hurt a little. It hurt so much, that sometime she just want to cry, cry 'til she didn't have a tear left. But she didn't. she held and still hold herself together. For Max. and for him. For that little boy growing inside her. Yeah, she already knew it was boy, thanks to Max. And she wasn't about to let him sense her sadness, her despair at the fact that she could never be with Max the way she wanted to. Getting married, living together, spending all their time together… and not to have to share him with another woman, living in the shadow of this other woman she could never be: his destiny. She knew Max didn't love Tess, but she didn't knew if Tess loved Max. Max had told her so many times that Tess didn't love him, that she was just playing a game in front of their friends, and in front of Michael and Isabel. But who was he to affirm things like that. Of course he knew what she told him, but could he know what she was thinking and feeling? What if someday, Tess decides that she's tired of waiting, and that it's time for her and Max to produce an heir? She didn't even want to though about. I was sickening her. 'Try not to think about it!' she told herself firmly. With that, she changed in her pjs and went to sleep, her hand protectively on her stomach.
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Liz was slowly awakening, when she felt her hand on her stomach and smile.
"Is that beautiful smile for me?" asked someone in a playful tone.
That's when she realized that the hand on her stomach wasn't hers. She looked up at the man lying beside, stunned.
"Max?!? What are you doing here?!"
"What? Don't I get a hello-kiss?"
"Of course you are, you smart ass!" she answered, before grabbing him by the collar and kissing him until he was left breathless.
"That was a good hello!"
"Yeah. So, you didn't tell me? What are you doing here? I mean, how did you manage to come here? Isn't Tess going to be suspicious?"
"I told Tess that I was going to see my adoptive parents in Albuquerque with Isabel. And if she calls at my parents, I told everyone I was going to visit an old friend."
"So what? I'm 'an old friend' now? How old?" She asked in a fake indignation.
"Old enough for some thing I have in mind…"
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Two hours later
"Liiii-iiiz! We're here!! Liiii- Oh My God!!! Who are you? What are you doing in My best friend's room? Where's Liz? Oh my god, where's my cedar oil?"
Max stayed stunned at the blond pixie. He tried to remember who this might be. Loud blond girl+best friend+cedar oil=…Maria?
"You must be Maria… and-"
"Alex."
"oh, yeah."
"I repeat: Who are you? And what are you doing here? And how do you know my name? If you don't answer me, I'm gonna scream!" she yelled.
"Um, alright, um I'm Max, and uh..er… Liz is taking a shower…and"
"You're Max? As in the Max? Oh my god!"
"Yeah, I guess it's me."
"Oh my god oh my god oh my god!!!"
"Maria? Care to explain? The Max?"
"Oh, my, yeah, I'm sorry Alex, I forgot to tell you. Max is… uh… Liz's lab partner."
"Her lab partner?" asked Alex still confused. Then it dawned on him.
"Oh yeah! The lab partner! Oh,okay."
Max had watch the scene with amusement. So Liz had talk about him to her friends. He wondered what she had told them.
"What-" before he could say anything else, he heard the bathroom door opening, followed by Liz's voice.
"Max, could you- Oh, Maria, Alex! You're here! Um… uh… I guess you met Max?" She entered the room with a shy smile, slightly embarrassed by the conditions her friends had meet her boyfriend. **Oh my god, oh my god, what are they gonna think? What are they thinking? They know he's the Max I talked about… and I told Maria about the 15 times! I'm sure they're suspecting what we were doing earlier. At least Maria is! Thanks God they didn't show up half an hour earlier! I would be sooooo dead…**
"Oh, yeah, you can say it!"
"Um… what do you say we head downstairs, I'm really starved." Suggested Liz, trying to avoid any questions she knew Maria would ask.
"Yeah, I can understand it!" said Maria, under her breath only for Alex to hear. And then, louder:
"So, Liz, what was you doing with Max in your room so late? I mean it's almost noon and you just got out of the shower?"
**I knew it! I just knew it she was gonna ask something like that!**
Liz just shot Maria a 'don't-you-dare' look, not trying to voice an answer, before turning to see if Max had heard Maria's comment, and by the way his ears had turned a bright red, he had. She sighed, took his hand and gave it a little squeeze, not wanting him to be embarrassed.
As they arrived downstairs Maria heard Alex asked:
"So, Max. How is it to have parents in the Mafia?"
Max's eye went wide and he questioned Liz silently. She shrugged and mouth 'I'll explain later'. Maria, as she saw Max's eyes widening, hissed at Alex:
"Damn it, Alex! I told you we weren't supposed to know about it!"
"Oh um.. um, Max, man, that's' not what I meant… uh.."
"Don't worry Alex, it's okay, as long as no-one else knows." Replied Max, who had heard Maria.
"Okay. Wow, you know, Max, Liz scared the hell out of me yesterday when she told me about your parents being in the mafia, and that those who knew about it risked to… Oh, I don't even want to think about it!"
"Well, you know, I had to be sure you weren't going to tell anyone." Liz said, trying to defend herself.
"Yeah, right, I can understand. But Liz, how are you going to explain this to your parents. I mean, I'm pretty sure they're not going to be thrilled." Both Max and Liz paled at Maria's sentence.
"Yeah, she's right. And Max, how are gonna tell them that you can't marry their daughter?"
"Oh my god, Liz! They're right! Your parents are gonna kill me! I mean, I don't know them, but any parents would kill me!"
"No, Max, it's gonna be okay…um…we… um… we'll try to find an explanation. It… it will be okay." Tried to reassure him Liz, although she was hoping she sounded more sure than she was. Everyone looked at her doubtfully.
"What?"
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Two days later
Maria, Alex, Max and Liz were sat in a booth, with Liz on Max's laps, his arms around her waist.
They were quietly talking, trying to find something to tell Liz's parents. A few people were already in the Crashdown, so when the door opened, no-one noticed. Suddenly, Maria saw a spiky haired boy heading towards them. Before she could say anything, the guy was at their booth.
"Maxwell! Thank god, I finally found you!"
"Michael?!! What the Hell are you doing here?" asked Max while Liz was discretly sliding off his laps, hoping Michael wouldn't notice.
"We have a problem… no, wait, you have a problem!"
"What are you talking about? And how did you find me?"
"It's not important how I found you. What's important, is that you, stupid asshole, got your girlfriend pregnant!" Max's face went white.
"You… you… you know?"
"Yeah. Not thanks to you. Isabel told me."
"You mean, Iz… Iz knows?"
"Yeah. Tess told her."
"What?!? Tess knows?!?" asked Max, frightened.
"Of course she knows! She's the one whose pregnant!"
"SHE WHAT?!?" yelled both Max and Liz. That's when Michael noticed her. His eyes went wide.
"Liz?! What are you doing here??"
"She lives here, duh." Throw Maria at his face.
"Um… Hi? Nice to see you Michael. Meet my friends Alex and… Maria."
Michael looked at Maria.
"Did I asked you something? I was talking to Liz." Then turning to Liz: "You live here?"
"Um, yeah. I grew up in this alien-themed restaurant. Ironic, isn't it?"
"Yeah." He laughed a bit.
"Excuse me, but why would it be ironic?"
"Oh, um, nothing Alex, it's just…er… a joke between us.." quickly lied Liz.
"Uh-uh." Said Alex, not really understanding.
"Uh, Guys, could we like come back to the topic in matter, please?" asked Max. He really wanted to know what was that shit Michael was talking about. "Tess can't be pregnant! I mean, we never… um, well, we never… um… ya know?"
Maria rolled her eyes, then she whispered to Liz:
"Guys can be soooo dense!"
Unfortunately, Michael had heard her.
"What? You're not thinking what I think you're thinking, are you?"
"What? That she had enough to wait for Max to come around aand that she offered herself a little fun? Nah, not at all, I really wasn't thinking that!" replied Maria, sarcasm evident in her voice.
"You can't say that! You don't know anything about Max and Tess's relationship. She would never, never do something like that, and neither would Max!" he shot back.
Maria wanted to laugh. She looked at Max and Liz, and they both had their head down, looking at the table as if it was the most interesting thing they'd ever seen. Not wanting to turn them down, 'coz apparently they didn't want Michael to know about their… relationship, she asked Michael:
"Then explain how she suddenly is pregnant when her boyfriend didn't even touched her?"
Damn, though Michael, she's asking way to much questions. I believe Max when he says that he and Tess didn't do anything, but Tess could never cheat on him, I mean… could she? Nah, it must be an alien thing.
Not knowing what to say without revealing anything alien, Michael didn't reply.
Just as Max was about to say something, a waitress stopped at their booth and dropped The saturn rings Alex had ordered. Maria looked at Liz closely as she saw her friend's face go pale.
"Liz… Are you okay?" asked Maria concerned.
"Um, not really." She put a hand on her mouth and stood up. "I need to go to the bathroom!" she ran off to the bathroom while everyone looked at her in shock.
"What- What.." Max started to stand up, but Maria stopped him
"Wait Max! I think I know what's wrong…"
"Yeah? Well, what?"
Maria looked at him with knowing eyes, and said:
"Morning sickness."
"Oh."
"What? Morning sickness? What the… Oh! You mean… she's pregnant?! But I thought she and Kyle were-"
"It's not Kyle's." replied Maria evenly, not really wanting to say more.
"…"
"Well?"
"She cheated on Kyle?!" asked Michael, disbelief in his voice.
"Apparently so."
"But… But what is she going to to? What is she gonna say to Kyle?"
"She already told him, they broke up and she's keeping that baby. But don't worry, she and Kyle are still on good terms." She said the last part with a sweet (but false) smile, already knowing that it didn't really mattered to him.
He looked at her, annoyed, before glancing at Max
"Wow, man, this is so weird. This is so really weird! I mean Liz Parker-"
"Someone talking about me?"
They hadn't seen her come back, so Michael nearly jumped in shock when he heard her behind him. They all looked at Liz, relieved to see that she was looking better.
"Oh, hey Liz, sorry, I hadn't heard you come. So, you better?"
"Um, yeah, thanks Michael. I guess it was just-"
"Morning sickness?" she stared back at him in shock.
"Um… yeah…" she responded, on her guards.
"I can't believe it. So you're going to have a baby. Wow."
She laughed a bit.
"Yeah, you can say it. Wow." She said smiling.
"How far along are you? Not more than a couple of month I guess?" he asked "'coz You aren't showing, yet."
"Um, yeah, a month and a half actually."
"So, um, who's going to be a father? Anyone I know?" he asked smiling.
Liz's smile faded, but before she could of anything to say, she heard Max say softly:
"I am." Was all he said. Liz felt her heart skipped a beat.
Michael stared between Max and Liz, shock written all over his face. No one spoke, not daring to break the silence while Michael was trying to digest the information. He crossed his arms, and stared at Max accusingly.
"Well, Max, thanks for the flash info." The look Michael had now on his face was a look of hurt, while Max looked guiltily at him, waiting for his friend to finish.
"I mean, I thought we were friends, I can't, I can't believe you kept something like that from me, but not only did you kept this from me, but she cheated on you, and you cheated on Tess, since at least a month and a half –" he said looking at Liz pointedly, " but you all kept on pushing me and Isabel together, knowing we didn't want to be together. Destiny. Does that mean something to you or Tess? You shouldn't have tried to make us follow our destiny if you wasn't following yours." He said the last part more calmly, although by the look in his eyes you could say he was really angry. "I'm leaving now." Was all he said before heading toward the exit.
"Well," hissed Maria at Max, "I didn't get everything he said, but aren't you going to catch him, and try to explain to him?"
Max looked at Maria sadly, before replying.
"No. He's right. I know he is. Plus, he's gonna need time to process with everything he learnt. Right now, he's mad at me and Tess, and there's nothing I can do."
"Oh." She whispered softly, looking longingly at the door, not listening anymore.
"Well," added Liz "I think it went well."
Alex looked at her as if she had grown a second head.
"Are you crazy? You think this went well?"
"No, Alex, she's right. You don't know Michael. I expected something way worse from him. And I don't even know how my sister is gonna react when she'll learn the truth."
Alex looked at him in sympathy.
"Max, I'm sorry to say this, but I think you've other problems. What are you gonna to about Tess?"
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"… Hi Tess… Yeah it's me… yeah, I'm fine… yeah, yeah, it's okay… um actually yeah… I think we need to talk… you do?… Um okay… yeah, I guess it would be better face to face. Where are you? … You are?… Oh, good, I'm not very far… Um yeah… I could come-… Uh, yeah, yeah, that would be okay… Yeah, if you want… Um, yeah, I'm in Roswell… HAHA, real funny Tess… No, um… yeah there is… so at the Park? Yeah okay. Tomorrow at 2pm... Yeah, okay… yeah, bye, see you tomorrow." Max hung down the phone just as Liz entered the room.
"You called Tess?" she asked worriedly.
"Um, yeah."
"So?"
"She'll be here tomorrow. She'll meet me at the park tomorrow afternoon at two o'clock."
"Oh."
"Um, Liz… do you think you could join us like… I don't know, maybe at 2:30pm. I don't want her to see you at first. But then, when I'll told her, I want you to be here when… when I told her."
"Oh. Okay. Maybe I'll just be waiting in the background."
"Yeah, maybe that's a good idea. But Liz, I want to warn you: Even if she has someone in her life, I don't think she's gonna be too thrilled about us being pregnant. I mean, we were never in love, but in the past, anytime a girl would be showing too much… attention to me, she just… I don't know… but I can say that it never was a nice sight."
"Oh, don't worry for me. I'm a big girl you know. I really like Tess, but if she does anything to harm our baby, it's not gonna be a nice sight either!"
Max laughed with her.
"Oh, I believe you, don't worry!"
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TBC…