CHAPTER: One step closer to heaven.

Alec woke up the next day to find Max still in his arms. It hadn't been a dream. He didn't want to let her go but he had to. They had to reach for work in hour. She looked so beautiful resting there next to him. He shook her lightly. She opened her eyes and looked into his. She smiled. " We have to go to work," he said.

" I know." she replied.

They got up from the bed and made their way to kitchen. Max almost found herself putting pots of water on the stove to hot to take a bath then she remembered where she was. Alec had hot water.

Ten minutes later they sat around a small table eating break fast, which was cereal. They weren't really taking much cause either of them knew what to say." Max how come you're here with me?" Alec asked after a long period of just watching her eat.

She smiled. " I realized that I wanted to be here."

He almost giggled at what she said. If someone told him that he would have been this far with Max he wouldn't have believed them but he always hoped for it. " I want you to be here to too."

" I know, you were crying when I left." Max said over a sigh.

Alec couldn't believe it. She was making fun of him. " You think it's funny?"

" Not funny. I think it's cute."

" Cute?"

" Okay more than that. It's hard to describe what it is. You don't cry for just anyone, I must a lot to you," she said smiling but she was actually serious.

" I can't even begin to tell you how much." He said playing with his food.

" You want to know something that I realized?" she asked him.

" Yeah."

" I wasted my money." He laughed. " I spent it on Logan only to realize I'm in love with you. I guess I was mean to be broke."

Ahh, his existence had not been in vain. " Say that again please."

" I guess I was meant to me broke."

" No the before that."

She didn't realize she said it at first. Now that he had brought it to her attention she noticed how true it was. " I'm in love with you."

He sighed. It was like music to ear. " You have no I idea how good that sounds."

He tried to control his emotions, but he was acting like a three yeah old who just discovered chocolate. " Love took my side this time." He whispered to himself. He moved in and kissed her.

There's a moment in someone's life when everything you did before seems so trivial. that was the moment for them. It was like their life was building up to this moment.

Whenever weary from the battles that rage in my head. You make sense of madness, when my sanity hangs by a tread. I lose my way but still you seem to understand.

Now and forever I will be your man.

Sometimes I just hold you, to caught up in being asleep.

I'm holding a fortune that heaven has given to me.

I'll try to show you each and every way I can.

Now and forever I will be your man.

Now I can rest my worries and always be sure that I won't be alone anymore.

If I had only known you were there all the time.

Until the day the ocean doesn't touch the sand.

Now and forever I will be your man.

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" Wait let me get this straight you guys won the lottery?" OC said in shock. They were in crash telling how they finally happened.

" Yeah, but so much other people won, we didn't get much money." Max explained.

" And Max spent all hers on a cure for the virus." Alec added.

" Which was a waste cause I don't even love him anymore."

" Do you think he still loves you?"

" He and Asha hocked up." Alec added. He was perfectly comfortable talking about Logan, he knew they were stronger than that, nothing could touch them.

" So how did this happen?" OC said referring to Max and Alec hooking up. " I knew all the lying would pay off."

Max looked at OC and then and Alec, " What lying?"

" I sort of lied to make you spend all those nights with Alec, the guy needed help he was like a love sick puppy,"

" I had a feeling you were lying," she said surprised that OC would do something like that, " And you, you knew didn't' you?"

" I had a feeling,"

" Well all's well that ends well." OC said raising a toast. " To Max and Alec, may you have all the happiness I the world."

" To us," they said raising the glasses.

" So Alec what did you do with your money?" Max asked realizing that he never told her.

" Oh that reminds me, I'll have to show you it."

" When Now?"

He nodded. " If you want to now."

" Yeah," she said jumping off her seat.

" We'll see you around." he told Cindy and headed out the door with her.

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" Ok keep your eyes closed," he said trying to open the door with out making the keys jingle. He opened the door and led her through. He moved his hands. " Do you like it? I mean I know it's not a mansion but it's the closest I will come."

" Wow this gorgeous," she said when she opened her eyes. It was an apartment, it looked a lot like Dr. Wong's house only thing it didn't have so many paintings, but it was just as beautiful. " How could you afford it?"

" Well when I bought it it was like this, so I had no refurnishing to do. I figured it must have been destiny."

" So your address is changing huh," she said smiling.

He put his arms around her and said, " I was actually hoping that yours would change too. I mean if you want it to."

" I'll love to move in with you but only under one condition."

Condition, he didn't like he sound of that. " And what condition would that be?"

" That I get the right side of the bed and you don't hog the sheets."

He smiled. She had him worried for a second. " Speaking of the bed how about we check to see if it's soft enough."

She pulled him towards her and kissed him, " Sounds like a good plan." They went into the bedroom and locked the door behind them.

THE END

NOTE: OK so I know this was not a very good ending but. I changed it so many times I got lost.