A/N: HEY! I can't believe how much you guys are liking this story! I've been working on this for MONTHS!!! I'm still working on the end but till then I'm having fun re-editing this story and posting it in ch. Parts! If you guys want to help me out than you can either POST a REVIEW telling me what you want to see happen, or you can E-MAIL me at swtlatinakisses@yahoo.com –sound good? Okay so lets start reading…

Oh yea and this is a 2-name chapter because I could figure out what title I wanted to use… hehe!



Ch. 3

Are You Ready? / Sullen Girl

Liz's POV



Okay so I may have overreacted a bit. But you try breaking up with the one you love and then find out that your FIRST love has come back into your life and wants to see you –all within 24 fucking hours! I mean just putting aside all the alien bullshit; I STILL don't think you could have handled the news any better than I had.

How I feel can be described in a Fiona Apple song. Depressing yet progressively informative. Do I sound sophisticated? –Yea, I didn't think so either. It's like one of the verses in Fiona's 'Sleep To Dream' song:

"Don't make it a big deal

Don't be so sensitive

We're not playing a game anymore

You don't have to be so defensive…"

Somebody should have told me this a long ass time ago…

-

"Do you love me Liz?" His breath was warm against my neck.

"Yes." I barely could whisper without moaning in delight.

"Tell me… tell me you love me…" He pleased with me.

His hands roamed my body setting each place he touched on fire. How could I deny him?

"I love you." I said.

"Do you want me?" He murmured in my ear.

"Oh!" I cried out as one hand possessively cupped my bottom and one hand took grasp of my face, pressing his hot lips against mine. So soft, so great, so… Loving.

Sullen girl.

Sad girl.

Poor girl.

Silly girl.

"Liz, tell me you want me." He repeated more forceful.

"I want you!" I moaned in pleasure, his hands! Oh god his hands felt like electric bolts running through my body. His hands, his lips, his body. I wanted him, I wanted him so bad.

"Make me believe you Lizzie, tell me you want ME." He teased. "You taste so good."

"Oh god I want you so bad." I whimpered, my lips roaming his strong muscled chest. My tongue slightly grazing his pecs before they returned to his hot sensual mouth. His body was what had me hypnotized, his body and his hands. "Mmmm, please… please take me." I begged.

"You love me, you want me… WHAT do you want me to do?" He smiled against my cheek. He knew he was driving me crazy with ecstasy. He used his techniques against me.

"I want you to make love to me." I grinned and locked eyes with him.

Our lips touched lightly once, twice, then they were glued together again.

I wish I had known then what I know now, then maybe things might have turned out different. Maybe I wouldn't be so bitter and mean. Maybe I would be happier, maybe I would be… Alive. Instead of the walking dead, walking around not paying attention to anything that's going on all around me. Oblivion. But then if things had not happened the way they had that sullen night, would I still be here today?

Would I still be the Sullen girl I am now?

"Days like this, I don't know what to do with myself

All day – and all night

I wander the halls along the walls and under my breath

I say to myself

I need fuel – to take flight –

And there's too much going on

Buts its calm under the waves, in the blue of my oblivion

Under the waves in the blue of my oblivion

Is that why they call me sullen girl – sullen girl

They don't know I used to sail the deep and tranquil sea

But he washed me shore and he took my pearl –

And left an empty shell of me

And there's too much going on

Buts its calm under the waves, in the blue of my oblivion

Under the waves of my oblivion

Under the waves of my oblivion

It's the calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion…"

(Sullen Girl [#2], By Fiona Apple - Tidal)

He took my insides out when he left; he took what heart he created inside my body. He made it what it was and he destroyed it all at once without even looking back.

"I love you Liz Parker." He whispered sweet.

"I love you… Max." I was half asleep and in my unconscious mind I had imagined that my first time was with Max Evans, my one and only love.

My soul mate.

But it wasn't. And to this day I still don't know whether Kyle had heard me whisper Max's name instead of his own when I responded. I still don't know if he heard me but just chose to ignore it, or if he hadn't heard me at all before we both fell into oblivion.

-

"Liz!" Maria's loud voice interrupted my memory.

"Huh?" I blinked tears glazed my eyes but I refused to let them fall in front of anyone.

"Are you ready Liz?" Maria asked concerned.

"No." I replied walking out to my 5-car garage, grabbing the keys from the key holder by the front door, my bitch side filling in for weak little Lizzie Parker.

"Good cuz Alex wants to leave as soon as possible." Maria chirped.

I glanced down at the keys in my hand and noticed that I had grabbed the keys to my fire engine red, 2001 Trans-Am Firebird. I hope the Alien Trio doesn't want a ride home. Then I froze in place…

Tess.

What if she was there? Of course she was going to be there. She and Max had a child together stupid! I scolded myself. "Shit." I cursed out loud.

"Liz?" Alex reacted.

"Huh?" I turned to him innocently.

"What car are we taking?" He asked.

"Well I have the Firebird keys in my hand and that's only a 4 seater. And if I'm giving everyone rides then I'll have to take another car." I shrugged, pressing the button that lifted the garage up. "Let's see, me, Maria, Alex, Isabel, Michael, Max and…. Tess." I stopped.

Alex stirred uncomfortably.

"What?" I asked rude.

"Uh, there's kinda been a new development." He shoved his hands into his pockets.

"A new development? What the fuck is that supposed to mean?" I snapped.

"I don't really know but Isabel just said that things were complicated and if we could bring any means of transportation it would be greatly appreciated." He said to the floor.

"Fine." I snubbed. "I'll take the Firebird and you guys can take the Navigator." I replied walking back to the house.

I descended from the front door not a minute later and threw the Navigator keys at Alex. "I still don't know why the hell I have to be present. I don't want to see any of them." Bitterness was a bitch wasn't it?

"Thank you Liz." Alex replied hugging me warmly.

I slowly made my way back to the garage and slid the key into the driver door lock.

"I'm going with Liz." Maria announced walking over to the passenger seat door.

Alex shrugged, "I'm still driving a kick-ass car anyways." Completely unaffected by the fact that he would be riding back to Roswell alone.

"Kyle had just installed a killer system in it too," I paused, "Blow it out." I got inside the Firebird and revved it up.

"Bitter much?" Maria snorted, adjusting her side mirror so she could see herself.

"Conceited much?" I teased back.

Maria rolled her eyes, "Shut up." Yet she moved the mirror back to how it was.

"Roswell here we come…" I replied backing out of my 2-mile driveway.

"Yup… This should be fun." Maria muttered.

"The best!" I yelled like a valley girl and poked my head out the window to speak to Alex, "Alex!"

"Huh?" He yelled back over the deafening music he was blasting.

"Does the pod squad realize that we're in California?" I replied.

"Well that might of slipped my mind when I told Isabel I was on my way." Alex wrinkled his forehead.

"Don't trip Alex, We'll make it in like two days… If we drive non stop." I laughed.

"First one there?" Alex challenged.

"Hell yea!" Maria screamed from her side of my car.

"Seeeee ya!" I smiled, peeling out and leaving Alex to eat my dust. My flow masters we're deafening loud in my ears but I didn't care. I always loved hearing the roar of the engine and my mufflers.

"LIZ!" Maria whined.

"What?"

"Musica babe!" She hooted.

"Alright, alright." I flipped my stereo on opened my 5-disc CD changer, "What do you wanna hear?" I asked, tossing Kyle's favorite CD out the window.

Maria laughed, "You're so evil. I wanna hear, well what do ya got? Oh I wanna here this!" She shoved a CD in my face.

"St. Lunatics, good choice." I popped it in and changed it to track 3.

"LOUD!" Maria squealed, obviously excited about the road trip.

"You asked for it." I raised the volume to 6, which to my 2 twelve's and my 6 Nacamichi tweeters all in my trunk means that Alex could hear me from 50 miles away and still have his radio turned up loud.

"We aint be here but two minutes mama already yellin, whatta nigga gon do with it, can we hop it -." Maria couldn't finish the rest of the song before she burst out laughing.

"Maria, you're such a dork." I cracked a smile, my first that day.

***

Isabel's POV

"Michael, you're such a dork." Max chuckled.

"What? I have to go!" He scowled.

"Well why don't you just walk out into the desert and go!" I laughed.

"Shut up Isabel! Like that thought hasn't crossed my mind." He yelled at me.

"No it hasn't, or else you would have gone!" I teased.

"I've gotta go!" He yelled running out behind a rock.

We all had a good laugh, "So, Midea, how do you like it here on earth so far?" I asked the fragile girl to my left.

"It's nice." She whispered.

She looked so scared that she might puke. Max and I tried our best to make her feel more comfortable.

"You don't have to be scared you know." Max softly said.

"Wait till you meet our friends Midea, they're the best." I brightened.

"What's taking them so long anyway Iz, it's been like 6 hours already?" Max asked worried.

"They're in California." I said annoyed, "It generally takes a while to get from there to here..."

"What? What the hell are they doing there?!" He freaked.

"It's called a life Max, you should get one." I snubbed.

"What I miss?" Michael came back into the picture fixing his pants.

"Max is mad because they live in California now and can't get here until tomorrow or the next day." I explained.

"Who lives in Cali?" He asked.

"Liz, Maria and Alex!" Max yelled.

"What!? What the F -." Michael threw a fit.

"Exactly my point!" Max added.

"Oh God you two, get a life." I walked away disgusted.