Max had always tried to be faithful to everybody she was ever involved
with. She and Logan had almost promised to only be for each other until
they found a cure for the virus and could be together. But. lately her
feelings had been shifting. She didn't know why she felt different but she
couldn't help it.
~*
"Cindy?" Max called as she entered the apartment. "Are you home?"
"Gee, I didn't think you were ever going to come back." Cindy said exiting her bedroom and embracing Max in a hug. "Where you been?"
"Well, I've been getting around. Logan and Asha drove Alec, Joshua and me to San Francisco." She started.
"Logan drove you to San Francisco?" Cindy asked in her 'are you sure' tone.
"Yeah, when Zack was in town once he gave me a hint on where my sister Jondy was, so I went looking." Max continued.
"Did you find her?" Cindy questioned impatiently.
"No but it was a good trip." Max started to go through the fridge. "I'm starving."
"So basically, you spent three months cruising around San Francisco for no reason?" Cindy sat on breakfast stool and watched Max pile food into her arms, kick the fridge door closed and dump the load on the bench.
"Basically." Max said plainly pulling a knife out of the draw and unscrewing the lid of the peanut butter jar.
"How nice." Cindy stated and picked up a piece of bread that Max had coated in peanut butter and took a large bite.
"Did I lose my job?" Max asked with a mouth full of bread and peanut butter.
"Normal's scared of you, he'd never fire you!" Cindy laughed also with a full mouth.
Max nodded and bumped fists with Cindy.
~*
Logan spent his first night back at his apartment cleaning.
"How's it going?" Asha asked. "Want any help?"
"You can help if you want." Logan said unenthusiastically.
"Hand me a rag." Asha said putting her coffee on the counter, rolling up her sleeves and cracking her knuckles.
Logan tossed her a rag and continued scrubbing out the fridge. "Maybe tomorrow you can help me look for a new apartment."
"Why?" Asha questioned sticking her head above the cupboard that she had just crouched in front of and started emptying.
"I can't keep living here, White knows where I live." Logan said without looking at her.
"That doesn't matter, there are things that you can do to lead him off the trail." Asha said flicking the rag aver her shoulder and standing next to him.
"Really?" He asked with a sarcastic tone and kept working, still without looking at her.
"Yes like changing your name in the phone book and getting a security system or a big scary drooling dog." Asha continued to try to make him feel better.
"Max doesn't like dogs." Logan plainly stated without pausing from his scrubbing.
Asha grabbed the door of the fridge and slammed it shut just missing Logan's fingers.
"Hey." He yelled facing her.
"Not everything in this world revolves around your precious Max!" Asha was yelling rather loud, "You can think about yourself!"
"She keeps me alive." Logan retorted.
"Yet if she gets too close she could kill you!" Asha pulled the rag off her shoulder and threw it at him. "That's really balanced!" She turned and stormed out.
"You don't know anything about it!" He yelled after her.
Just before she slammed the door she screamed back, "Maybe not but I'm expected to pick up the pieces when everything goes wrong!" Then she was gone.
Logan knew that she was right. He remembered the time that she took them to the hospital when he got chicken pox. Logan reopened the fridge, got out a bottle of red wine and proceeded to polish off the whole bottle alone.
~*
Max figured that Alec would probably be looking to get his job back too, ringing him wouldn't hurt.
(Phone conversation)
"Hello?" Alec said picking up the ringing phone.
"It's me." Max said quietly.
"Max? It two o'clock in the morning." Alec said scratching his head.
"I know, I didn't think you'd care." She said without changing her tone.
"I don't, I was just making a point." He started to turn on his stupid charm.
"Shut up." Max said laughing slightly.
"So, to what do I owe this pleasant phone call?" Alec asked, riffling through his fridge for a quarter past two am snack.
"Are you going to see Normal for your job back?" Max asked cutting straight to the point.
"I was thinking about it." Alec answered choosing an apple and taking a bite out of it.
"Are you eating?" Max asked.
"Yep." He said taking another bite.
"It's two o'clock in the morning." She said mimicking him.
"Yes I know, we established that before, back to the topic at hand." Alec said sarcastically.
"Well, are you?" She asked quickly getting impatient.
"Yeah." He said trying to sound defeated. "Why?"
"I was just wondering." Max stated now sounding completely uninterested in a hope to string him along a bit more.
"Just wondering because why?" Alec asked teasing her a bit.
"No reason." Max said trying to sound distracted.
"Don't make me come around there." He said joking around.
"Okay, okay," Max gave in, "I'm going and I don't want to feel like an idiot alone, especially when we can fight for each other."
"Max, that is the sweetest thing that you've ever said to me." He said pretending to cry.
Max was laughing so much at Alec's jokes that Cindy came out of her room wrapped in a silk robe, looking sleepy.
"Do you people ever sleep? Just for a minute?" Cindy asked going to the fridge for a glass of water.
"I gotta go." Max said.
"Okay, see ya." Alec said.
They both hung up the phone.
"Max, trying to sleep." Cindy said pointing at herself. "You spent three months with Logan and you still have to call him a two am?"
"It wasn't Logan, it was Alec." Max said plumping a pillow on the couch.
"You spent three months with him too!" Cindy stated. "Alec?"
"Yep" Max got off the couch and headed to her room.
"Okay." Cindy sounded suspicious.
"It's nothing." Max stated.
"It better not be." Cindy warned.
"It's not!" Max said almost laughing.
"If you say so. Night." Cindy walked back into her room.
"Night." She lost her smile as soon as Cindy was out sight. Max knew that she felt some sort of attraction to Alec. She didn't want to and wasn't going to give into it, she was sure that she was in love with Logan and was going to keep it that way.
~*
Max was planning on climbing into bed and stare at the ceiling until the sun rose, but instead she got dressed and jumped on her bike to cruise around town but even that didn't go according to plan.
~*
Alec seemed to be experiencing one interruption after another. He walked half-naked to the door and swung it open. On the other side was a confused looking Max.
"What are you doing here?" Alec asked more worried than anything else, "Is everything okay?"
"Yeah everything's fine, I was just bored and thought you might be able to entertain me." She said trying to smile.
"Sure, come on in." He stood aside and let her enter.
"Tell me, what is it that you do at this hour?" Max walked around his messy little apartment picking things up and looking everything over.
"Whatever it is that I feel like." Alec answered taking a small snow globe from Max and putting it back on the mantle on top of his fireplace. "How bout you tell me what you're doing here at this hour?"
"Like I said, I'm bored." Max replied picking the snow globe up and sitting on his couch.
"Then, why did you come here, instead of going to Logan's place or whatever?" Alec asked taking the snow globe off her again and placing it on the mantle.
"Because Logan and whatever are human and tend to be asleep at this hour." Max said smartly.
"Right," Alec said retreating to the kitchen. "Care for some wine?"
"Okay then." Max called after him then tried to make herself comfortable on the couch. Alec came back with a bottle of red and two glasses.
Max didn't know that she could even hold a half-decent conversation with Alec let alone a decent conversation with him all night.
~*
Normal was short staffed and he knew it. After the little hostage situation, Normal decided that if he left the transgenics alone then they would leave him alone. He had decided that maybe they weren't so bad after all and that he could live with them. The thing was, he had tried to convince everyone was that he knew that Max and Alec were transgenics, no one believed him, he knew that too, but he pretended anyway.
Max walked smartly into Jam Pony followed closely by Alec. They stopped at Normal's desk and waited for him to turn around.
Normal had four packages in his arms, he turned and saw Max and Alec and jumped, dropping all the packages, "Sweet Jesus, are you trying to kill me?"
"Yes actually." Alec piped up before getting Max's elbow in his ribs.
"How's it going?" Max asked.
"I-I -I'm, I'm fine." Normal stuttered.
"That's great," Max said reaching across the desk to pat him on the head.
Normal flinched, 'oh my god she gonna kill me' were the words than sailed through his head when she first stretched her arm out towards him.
"Normal, we want our jobs back." Max said clearly enjoying him being scared out of his wits as her hand slid to the back of his neck.
"O-okay," Normal said secretly praying that she wouldn't hurt him.
"Thanks." She took her hand back, spun, grabbed Alec by the collar and dragged him along behind her.
"Nice work." Alec complimented as she pulled him to the lockers. "Thanks for bringing me along I did a lot."
"Shut up!" Max said aggressively.
"It has recently come to my attention that you spend the best part of you life telling me to shut up." Alec said leaning against a locker as she riffled through hers.
"Well if you did it every once in a while then I wouldn't have to tell you." She smiled at him sweetly, slammed her locker shut and went to collect a package off Normal.
"Ouch." Alec said to himself before walking over to Normal's desk where Max had successfully left him shaken once again. "She's not that bad."
"Shit, no I mean crap, no I mean shit!" Normal jumped again when Alec appeared behind him.
"Relax." Alec said seriously, "She's just stringing you along because she can. Just go back to being the way you were with her before."
"She might kill me!" Normal was shaking and sounded worried.
"Max? Never, she wouldn't hurt anything that didn't hurt her first." Alec stated.
"But she's a transgenic." Normal said still quite worried and showing it.
"She's always been a transgenic and she's never done anything before." Alec kept defending. "Plus, so am I."
Normal didn't say anything else, he just watched Alec pick up a package, grab a bike and head out on a delivery.
~*
"I think that White got his hands on a few transgenics." Max called as she entered Logan's apartment.
"Please excuse me a moment." Logan said to the people looking around his apartment and went into the kitchen where Max was emptying his fridge. "Can we discuss this later?"
"No, I don't think we can. I leave town for a couple of months and he thinks that he's free to pop off a few of my brothers and sisters." Max said angrily with a mouthful of apple.
"Look I'm in the middle of something here." Logan started.
"Perhaps we should come back another time, Mr. Cale." Said a middle age Chinese man as he entered the kitchen with his young wife.
Max just stood perfectly still as though something were about to attack her and said nothing just wondered to herself about who these people were.
"That won't be necessary. Max please wait in my office." Logan said before leaving her to tend to his visitors.
Max decided to go through the stuff on his computer. She found stuff on Zack and herself and Alec. But what surprised and angered Max the most was that Logan had stuff on his computer about Jondy. Max was furious, she wanted to hit someone. So making sure that her glove was perfectly in place, she wiped it over her shirt a couple of time to make sure her DNA wasn't on it and stormed into the room where Logan was discussing something with his guest. She walked straight up to him and slapped him hard on the left side of his face.
He nearly fell flat but managed to keep his balance by grabbing the corner of a sideboard. He looked up to see two confused looks on the faces of his guests and to hear Max slam the door closed. "I'm sure it was worth a lot more before I met her." He said rubbing his face where Max slapped him.
~*
Max was still in a bad mood when she arrived back at work, she exercised this by throwing her bike down, slamming her locker door and storming off.
Cindy could see that something was wrong, she knew that she was a fool if she couldn't.
She followed Max down to local park that was full of screaming children and homeless people sleeping under benches.
"What's wrong Boo?" Cindy asked stopping next to her. "Tell Original Cindy."
"He lied to me." Max whispered. She wouldn't cry though, she had already decided that she had cried too many tears for him.
"Who?" Cindy questioned.
"Logan." Max replied quietly.
"Bout what," Cindy asked, "He's not creepin with that blond thing is he?"
"No, no." Max assured her, "He just forgot to mention that he knew where my sister was and that he's been in contact with her and that she lives in New York not Seattle."
"How did you find out?" Cindy was full of questioned. She didn't know if she was being nosey or not but it was more out of concern for her friend than anything else.
"I was screwing around with his computer." Max replied.
"Okay." Cindy processed the information in her head. "Maybe that was a bad idea, what did you do?"
"I slapped him, really hard." Max laughed at how stupid she'd reacted.
"What's so funny?" Cindy asked shocked at her friend, "You just smacked you boys eyes into the back of his head and you're laughing!"
"I'm so stupid!" Max laughed harder.
"Damn straight." Cindy put her arm around Max and laughed with her.
~*
Logan was lying on his couch with a bag of frozen peas on his face when Asha entered the room.
"My God, what happened to you?" She asked, clearly shocked.
"Max happened." Logan stated rolling off the couch and standing. He removed the peas from his face and watched as Asha flinched.
"Ouch!" Asha exclaimed, then started to laugh.
"What?" Logan asked angrily. "This isn't funny!"
"Have you looked at that thing?" She asked, "She's hit you so hard that you've got her hand outlined on your face."
Logan headed quickly towards a mirror. "Shit!" He yelled, "Shit, look what she did." He grabbed his coat and headed for the door.
"Where are you going?" Asha called after him.
"Jam Pony." He yelled back and slammed the door.
"Wait for me." Asha yelled grabbing her coat and running after him.
~*
Max had calmed herself and got back to the task at hand which was delivering package. Mentally she was planning her apology to Logan.
Logan stormed into Jam Pony with Asha in tow.
"Where's Max?" He asked one worker who passed him.
"I don't know man." He said backing off.
Max who had heard her name mentioned had come out from the locker and stood facing him with her arms folded.
He saw her and started toward her, as her reached to grab her she stepped back to avoid contact. "Look what you did to me!" He yelled pointing at his face.
"You kept Jondy from me!" She yelled back at him.
"You went through my computer files!" Logan pointed aggressively at her.
"You ignored me!" Max yelled scoffing.
"You interrupted me!" He said putting his hands on his hips.
"I came to tell you that I found a dead transgenic." Max realized that she had completely forgotten about the dead transgenic. "I'm sorry."
"I'm sorry too." Logan whispered
Unknown to them, they had an audience. The audience clapped and cheered when the apologies came.
Asha, who was now pissed off, stormed out of Jam Pony.
"Tell me about these dead transgenics." Logan said taking her gloved hand in his and pulled her out of her work place.
"Well."
~*
"Cindy?" Max called as she entered the apartment. "Are you home?"
"Gee, I didn't think you were ever going to come back." Cindy said exiting her bedroom and embracing Max in a hug. "Where you been?"
"Well, I've been getting around. Logan and Asha drove Alec, Joshua and me to San Francisco." She started.
"Logan drove you to San Francisco?" Cindy asked in her 'are you sure' tone.
"Yeah, when Zack was in town once he gave me a hint on where my sister Jondy was, so I went looking." Max continued.
"Did you find her?" Cindy questioned impatiently.
"No but it was a good trip." Max started to go through the fridge. "I'm starving."
"So basically, you spent three months cruising around San Francisco for no reason?" Cindy sat on breakfast stool and watched Max pile food into her arms, kick the fridge door closed and dump the load on the bench.
"Basically." Max said plainly pulling a knife out of the draw and unscrewing the lid of the peanut butter jar.
"How nice." Cindy stated and picked up a piece of bread that Max had coated in peanut butter and took a large bite.
"Did I lose my job?" Max asked with a mouth full of bread and peanut butter.
"Normal's scared of you, he'd never fire you!" Cindy laughed also with a full mouth.
Max nodded and bumped fists with Cindy.
~*
Logan spent his first night back at his apartment cleaning.
"How's it going?" Asha asked. "Want any help?"
"You can help if you want." Logan said unenthusiastically.
"Hand me a rag." Asha said putting her coffee on the counter, rolling up her sleeves and cracking her knuckles.
Logan tossed her a rag and continued scrubbing out the fridge. "Maybe tomorrow you can help me look for a new apartment."
"Why?" Asha questioned sticking her head above the cupboard that she had just crouched in front of and started emptying.
"I can't keep living here, White knows where I live." Logan said without looking at her.
"That doesn't matter, there are things that you can do to lead him off the trail." Asha said flicking the rag aver her shoulder and standing next to him.
"Really?" He asked with a sarcastic tone and kept working, still without looking at her.
"Yes like changing your name in the phone book and getting a security system or a big scary drooling dog." Asha continued to try to make him feel better.
"Max doesn't like dogs." Logan plainly stated without pausing from his scrubbing.
Asha grabbed the door of the fridge and slammed it shut just missing Logan's fingers.
"Hey." He yelled facing her.
"Not everything in this world revolves around your precious Max!" Asha was yelling rather loud, "You can think about yourself!"
"She keeps me alive." Logan retorted.
"Yet if she gets too close she could kill you!" Asha pulled the rag off her shoulder and threw it at him. "That's really balanced!" She turned and stormed out.
"You don't know anything about it!" He yelled after her.
Just before she slammed the door she screamed back, "Maybe not but I'm expected to pick up the pieces when everything goes wrong!" Then she was gone.
Logan knew that she was right. He remembered the time that she took them to the hospital when he got chicken pox. Logan reopened the fridge, got out a bottle of red wine and proceeded to polish off the whole bottle alone.
~*
Max figured that Alec would probably be looking to get his job back too, ringing him wouldn't hurt.
(Phone conversation)
"Hello?" Alec said picking up the ringing phone.
"It's me." Max said quietly.
"Max? It two o'clock in the morning." Alec said scratching his head.
"I know, I didn't think you'd care." She said without changing her tone.
"I don't, I was just making a point." He started to turn on his stupid charm.
"Shut up." Max said laughing slightly.
"So, to what do I owe this pleasant phone call?" Alec asked, riffling through his fridge for a quarter past two am snack.
"Are you going to see Normal for your job back?" Max asked cutting straight to the point.
"I was thinking about it." Alec answered choosing an apple and taking a bite out of it.
"Are you eating?" Max asked.
"Yep." He said taking another bite.
"It's two o'clock in the morning." She said mimicking him.
"Yes I know, we established that before, back to the topic at hand." Alec said sarcastically.
"Well, are you?" She asked quickly getting impatient.
"Yeah." He said trying to sound defeated. "Why?"
"I was just wondering." Max stated now sounding completely uninterested in a hope to string him along a bit more.
"Just wondering because why?" Alec asked teasing her a bit.
"No reason." Max said trying to sound distracted.
"Don't make me come around there." He said joking around.
"Okay, okay," Max gave in, "I'm going and I don't want to feel like an idiot alone, especially when we can fight for each other."
"Max, that is the sweetest thing that you've ever said to me." He said pretending to cry.
Max was laughing so much at Alec's jokes that Cindy came out of her room wrapped in a silk robe, looking sleepy.
"Do you people ever sleep? Just for a minute?" Cindy asked going to the fridge for a glass of water.
"I gotta go." Max said.
"Okay, see ya." Alec said.
They both hung up the phone.
"Max, trying to sleep." Cindy said pointing at herself. "You spent three months with Logan and you still have to call him a two am?"
"It wasn't Logan, it was Alec." Max said plumping a pillow on the couch.
"You spent three months with him too!" Cindy stated. "Alec?"
"Yep" Max got off the couch and headed to her room.
"Okay." Cindy sounded suspicious.
"It's nothing." Max stated.
"It better not be." Cindy warned.
"It's not!" Max said almost laughing.
"If you say so. Night." Cindy walked back into her room.
"Night." She lost her smile as soon as Cindy was out sight. Max knew that she felt some sort of attraction to Alec. She didn't want to and wasn't going to give into it, she was sure that she was in love with Logan and was going to keep it that way.
~*
Max was planning on climbing into bed and stare at the ceiling until the sun rose, but instead she got dressed and jumped on her bike to cruise around town but even that didn't go according to plan.
~*
Alec seemed to be experiencing one interruption after another. He walked half-naked to the door and swung it open. On the other side was a confused looking Max.
"What are you doing here?" Alec asked more worried than anything else, "Is everything okay?"
"Yeah everything's fine, I was just bored and thought you might be able to entertain me." She said trying to smile.
"Sure, come on in." He stood aside and let her enter.
"Tell me, what is it that you do at this hour?" Max walked around his messy little apartment picking things up and looking everything over.
"Whatever it is that I feel like." Alec answered taking a small snow globe from Max and putting it back on the mantle on top of his fireplace. "How bout you tell me what you're doing here at this hour?"
"Like I said, I'm bored." Max replied picking the snow globe up and sitting on his couch.
"Then, why did you come here, instead of going to Logan's place or whatever?" Alec asked taking the snow globe off her again and placing it on the mantle.
"Because Logan and whatever are human and tend to be asleep at this hour." Max said smartly.
"Right," Alec said retreating to the kitchen. "Care for some wine?"
"Okay then." Max called after him then tried to make herself comfortable on the couch. Alec came back with a bottle of red and two glasses.
Max didn't know that she could even hold a half-decent conversation with Alec let alone a decent conversation with him all night.
~*
Normal was short staffed and he knew it. After the little hostage situation, Normal decided that if he left the transgenics alone then they would leave him alone. He had decided that maybe they weren't so bad after all and that he could live with them. The thing was, he had tried to convince everyone was that he knew that Max and Alec were transgenics, no one believed him, he knew that too, but he pretended anyway.
Max walked smartly into Jam Pony followed closely by Alec. They stopped at Normal's desk and waited for him to turn around.
Normal had four packages in his arms, he turned and saw Max and Alec and jumped, dropping all the packages, "Sweet Jesus, are you trying to kill me?"
"Yes actually." Alec piped up before getting Max's elbow in his ribs.
"How's it going?" Max asked.
"I-I -I'm, I'm fine." Normal stuttered.
"That's great," Max said reaching across the desk to pat him on the head.
Normal flinched, 'oh my god she gonna kill me' were the words than sailed through his head when she first stretched her arm out towards him.
"Normal, we want our jobs back." Max said clearly enjoying him being scared out of his wits as her hand slid to the back of his neck.
"O-okay," Normal said secretly praying that she wouldn't hurt him.
"Thanks." She took her hand back, spun, grabbed Alec by the collar and dragged him along behind her.
"Nice work." Alec complimented as she pulled him to the lockers. "Thanks for bringing me along I did a lot."
"Shut up!" Max said aggressively.
"It has recently come to my attention that you spend the best part of you life telling me to shut up." Alec said leaning against a locker as she riffled through hers.
"Well if you did it every once in a while then I wouldn't have to tell you." She smiled at him sweetly, slammed her locker shut and went to collect a package off Normal.
"Ouch." Alec said to himself before walking over to Normal's desk where Max had successfully left him shaken once again. "She's not that bad."
"Shit, no I mean crap, no I mean shit!" Normal jumped again when Alec appeared behind him.
"Relax." Alec said seriously, "She's just stringing you along because she can. Just go back to being the way you were with her before."
"She might kill me!" Normal was shaking and sounded worried.
"Max? Never, she wouldn't hurt anything that didn't hurt her first." Alec stated.
"But she's a transgenic." Normal said still quite worried and showing it.
"She's always been a transgenic and she's never done anything before." Alec kept defending. "Plus, so am I."
Normal didn't say anything else, he just watched Alec pick up a package, grab a bike and head out on a delivery.
~*
"I think that White got his hands on a few transgenics." Max called as she entered Logan's apartment.
"Please excuse me a moment." Logan said to the people looking around his apartment and went into the kitchen where Max was emptying his fridge. "Can we discuss this later?"
"No, I don't think we can. I leave town for a couple of months and he thinks that he's free to pop off a few of my brothers and sisters." Max said angrily with a mouthful of apple.
"Look I'm in the middle of something here." Logan started.
"Perhaps we should come back another time, Mr. Cale." Said a middle age Chinese man as he entered the kitchen with his young wife.
Max just stood perfectly still as though something were about to attack her and said nothing just wondered to herself about who these people were.
"That won't be necessary. Max please wait in my office." Logan said before leaving her to tend to his visitors.
Max decided to go through the stuff on his computer. She found stuff on Zack and herself and Alec. But what surprised and angered Max the most was that Logan had stuff on his computer about Jondy. Max was furious, she wanted to hit someone. So making sure that her glove was perfectly in place, she wiped it over her shirt a couple of time to make sure her DNA wasn't on it and stormed into the room where Logan was discussing something with his guest. She walked straight up to him and slapped him hard on the left side of his face.
He nearly fell flat but managed to keep his balance by grabbing the corner of a sideboard. He looked up to see two confused looks on the faces of his guests and to hear Max slam the door closed. "I'm sure it was worth a lot more before I met her." He said rubbing his face where Max slapped him.
~*
Max was still in a bad mood when she arrived back at work, she exercised this by throwing her bike down, slamming her locker door and storming off.
Cindy could see that something was wrong, she knew that she was a fool if she couldn't.
She followed Max down to local park that was full of screaming children and homeless people sleeping under benches.
"What's wrong Boo?" Cindy asked stopping next to her. "Tell Original Cindy."
"He lied to me." Max whispered. She wouldn't cry though, she had already decided that she had cried too many tears for him.
"Who?" Cindy questioned.
"Logan." Max replied quietly.
"Bout what," Cindy asked, "He's not creepin with that blond thing is he?"
"No, no." Max assured her, "He just forgot to mention that he knew where my sister was and that he's been in contact with her and that she lives in New York not Seattle."
"How did you find out?" Cindy was full of questioned. She didn't know if she was being nosey or not but it was more out of concern for her friend than anything else.
"I was screwing around with his computer." Max replied.
"Okay." Cindy processed the information in her head. "Maybe that was a bad idea, what did you do?"
"I slapped him, really hard." Max laughed at how stupid she'd reacted.
"What's so funny?" Cindy asked shocked at her friend, "You just smacked you boys eyes into the back of his head and you're laughing!"
"I'm so stupid!" Max laughed harder.
"Damn straight." Cindy put her arm around Max and laughed with her.
~*
Logan was lying on his couch with a bag of frozen peas on his face when Asha entered the room.
"My God, what happened to you?" She asked, clearly shocked.
"Max happened." Logan stated rolling off the couch and standing. He removed the peas from his face and watched as Asha flinched.
"Ouch!" Asha exclaimed, then started to laugh.
"What?" Logan asked angrily. "This isn't funny!"
"Have you looked at that thing?" She asked, "She's hit you so hard that you've got her hand outlined on your face."
Logan headed quickly towards a mirror. "Shit!" He yelled, "Shit, look what she did." He grabbed his coat and headed for the door.
"Where are you going?" Asha called after him.
"Jam Pony." He yelled back and slammed the door.
"Wait for me." Asha yelled grabbing her coat and running after him.
~*
Max had calmed herself and got back to the task at hand which was delivering package. Mentally she was planning her apology to Logan.
Logan stormed into Jam Pony with Asha in tow.
"Where's Max?" He asked one worker who passed him.
"I don't know man." He said backing off.
Max who had heard her name mentioned had come out from the locker and stood facing him with her arms folded.
He saw her and started toward her, as her reached to grab her she stepped back to avoid contact. "Look what you did to me!" He yelled pointing at his face.
"You kept Jondy from me!" She yelled back at him.
"You went through my computer files!" Logan pointed aggressively at her.
"You ignored me!" Max yelled scoffing.
"You interrupted me!" He said putting his hands on his hips.
"I came to tell you that I found a dead transgenic." Max realized that she had completely forgotten about the dead transgenic. "I'm sorry."
"I'm sorry too." Logan whispered
Unknown to them, they had an audience. The audience clapped and cheered when the apologies came.
Asha, who was now pissed off, stormed out of Jam Pony.
"Tell me about these dead transgenics." Logan said taking her gloved hand in his and pulled her out of her work place.
"Well."
