CAHPTER: Bad Clock.



Max turned in her bed. She went to bed immediately after she retuned form Crash. She remembered how Alec had put his hand on her butt. It was typical that he would try some smart aleck move like that. That's what made him Alec right. However he did say he was sorry pretty soon after and didn't seem to take any pleasure what so ever in it. Now she didn't know if she should take it as a compliment or an insult. What the hell was she thinking; did she want it not to be a mistake? She had to get these thoughts out of her head. So she thought about Logan and what he did. She couldn't get over how romantic he was. She wondered about what he had planned for her. How was he planning to tell her that he was the one sending her those gifts? Would it be in the day or night? It was just too much to think about, it would keep her up all night and she had work in the morning.

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Max got up from her bed and looked at the time, she was running late. She got up and ran to the bathroom, She didn't bother to hot any water. She took it cold. She ran out the bathroom and into her bedroom. She quickly threw something on and was out the door fifteen minutes later. She rode on her ninja to Jam Pony and ran through the door. " I'm here," she said quickly.

Normal looked over the counter form the dispatch section. " Missy what are you doing here."

" My name is Max?" she corrected. " And I'm here because I work here."

" Well you're at least hour early."

" What I'm like ten minutes late."

" No, look at the time, your early, very early."

Max looked at the time on her pager; she was early. The clock by her bed must have stopped working. " Well what am I supposed to do with all this time?"

" You can deliver packages."

" What, I must have the word 'ass' written on my forehead. Why the hell should I work when my shift hasn't started? When it's ten o'clock, then I will start doing work."

Normal rolled his eyes and walked off. " What ever."

Max went in the back and picked a magazine and began to flip through it. She was about to read an article on motorbike care when she saw a familiar face. " Why are you here so early."

" I'm always here this early." Alec said. " What about you?"

" My clock stopped and I thought I was late actually."

" Well I gotta go deliver some stuff."

" You actually work when you get here?" Max asked.

" Umm humm," he said. He closed his locker and went off again.

Max watched him take off and began to flip trough the magazine again. She read until it was ten o'clock and then took some packages and went on her way.

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Four o'clock came and they were sitting in the back room as usual. OC and Sketchy were sprawled out on a chair while Max and Alec were standing against a wall.

" I don't get it." Sketchy said. " How come you guys never seem to be tired?"

" Vitamins," Max lied. She knew he would believe her.

" That's some vitamin." Sketchy said.

" Hey Alec is the one whose been working overtime," Max said.

" You mean pretty boy actually has it in him to do work?" OC asked sitting up.

" I know what you mean," Max said. " I would have never guessed it."

" Well not everyone was handed a small fortune from birth." He said flatly. " Some of us actually have to work."

" Amen to that," said Cindy.

" Max," Normal yelled. " Max get out here."

" It's four o' clock I don't have to listen to you anymore." Max yelled.

" I have something for you." He replied. " A package."

Max eyes opened wide and she ran to Normal "where is it?"

He handed her it and she grabbed it form his hands. " Did you see who sent it?"

" Yeah some guy with glasses, I've actually seen him here before."

Max smiled. Logan was actually dropping the packages himself, she expected him to be a little more careful than that. She went in the back with the package and waved it to Cindy. She got up form her seat and went over and leaned over Max. " Open it." she said.

Max opened the small rectangular box; it contained a velvet covered rectangular box inside. She opened the box. It was a necklace, with a heart pendant. She closed the box and then opened it again. She did see right. " Wow," she said. " I can't believe him. Cindy isn't Logan amazing."

" Oh my god Max it's beautiful." OC said awe.

" This is the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me." Max said. " Alec you have to admit this is pretty nice."

" Yeah it is nice." He admitted.

" So you finally admit that Logan has taste." Max asked.

" Well it shouldn't be about what Logan thinks is nice or important, it's what you think. The gifts are for you right?" Alec replied.

" Well I do think it is nice, so he I guess he knows me better than I thought."

He rose and eyebrow. " I guess so."

" You know it's times like these Logan doesn't seem so boring anymore." Cindy said looking at the necklace. " I mean his gifts are nice. Very nice."

" I guess to impress the girls I have to be loaded with cash." Sketchy said.

" No you don't," Max stated. " At the end of the day that really doesn't matter. You could have as much money Bill Gates, it still can't buy you love."

Alec smiled he knew that Max couldn't be that materialistic; his pocket wasn't deep enough to support that habit.

"Weren't you the one just gloating over expensive jewelry?"

" It's not the jewelry that I like so much, is the idea that he would think to do something like this. And he doesn't even want me to know it's him. That's very admirable."

" I guess he ain't half bad." OC commented.

" So tomorrow," Sketchy said changing the topic. " What are you guys doing?"

" Crash." Alec said.

" Crash." Max and OC said together.

" Then Crash it is." Sketchy decided.

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