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Ruby
Maria sighs as she looks up into a pair of chestnut eyes

"Michael." Maria starts as she running her hand through her dark curls and stares across the room at him

"Maria, please just hear me out!" Michael pleads moving closer to him

"I think you said all you had to at the crashdown," Maria states bitterly

"I didn't mean any of that!"

"Well it sure sounds like you meant it!"

"Maria, I was mad and I spoke before I thought what I was saying!"

"Isn't that something new?" Maria asks sarcastically

"Will you just shut up?" Michael asks running his hands through his already wild spikes

"Oh that's nice isn't it? You come break into my house after you already ruined my date and tell me to shut up. Who the hell do you think you are? I mean don't you think that you have hurt me enough and caused me enough pain for one lifetime? What do you want from me? Do you want to see me cry or something? Do you need to see me pushed over the edge? What do you."

Michael pushes Maria towards him, crushing their bodies together and lowers his lips to hers joining then together in an earth-shattering kiss.

Too long! It had been to long since he had felt her in his arms, her body moulded against his.

His hands run across her back, along her arms, cupping her cheeks, moving through her soft curls, a desperate need run through his entire being as he tries to make up for lost time, tries to feed his addiction.

Maria felt her knees go weak and clings to the front of Michael's shirt as he suckles her bottle lip in his mouth before he slides his demanding tongue into her mouth and assaults her mouth in a desperate frenzy that left her short of breath. She tries to move closer to him frantic to be closer to him, to drown herself in him.

Michael could feel her tremble against his touch and felt himself sink in her strawberry flavoured lips.

Wrong this is so wrong Maria thought to herself suddenly coming to her senses, she shouldn't be doing this not with him, she shouldn't be letting him back in so that he could hurt her again when he left to be Isabel.

Anger courses through her body at the though of Isabel, Maria was now doing the exact same thing to Isabel that Isabel had done to Maria, she was making out with someone else boyfriend, Michael wasn't hers maybe he had never be hers!

She pushes him away from her using all her might and slaps him hard across the face

"What the hell do you think you are doing?" she hisses glaring at him, her green eyes flashing dangerously with pent up anger.

"I deserved that!" Michael whispers gently fingering his cheek.

The anger dissolves from Maria as she looks at the white handprint on his cheek, her handprint and instantly remembers a time not so long ago when a broken Michael had turned up at her window in the pouring rain searching for comfort after he had been beating by his foster father, Hank.

"I am sorry, I am so sorry. You didn't deserve that, you don't ever deserve to be hit!" Maria cries softly, how could she of hit him? She was no better then Hank.

"Maria." Michael starts towards her again wanting to offer some form of comfort

"I think you should leave!" Maria says backing away from him and trying to gain some control over her emotions

"I am not going anywhere until we have talked. Please Maria I need to talk to you, I need to explain to you everything that has happened!" Michael says taking one of her hands into best of his own.

She pulls her hand away from his and ignores the sudden cold feeling that flood her body and spent shivers down her spine.

"Just go!" Maria orders, her eyes downcast to the floor and her arms tightly pressed against her sides

"I am not going anywhere until we have talked!" Michael says firmly folding his arms across his chest

"I guess, I am going to have to call the sheriff then!" Maria sighs walking out the room and towards the phone, which was downstairs in the hallway

"Fine then" Michael says as he follows her down the hall

"Why do you have to make everything so difficult?" Maria asks him, not turning around

"Because I love you!" Michael says in barely a whisper but Maria catches it and stops dead in her tracks

"How can you lie like that? If you loved me then we would be together!" Maria says still not turning around because she didn't want him to see the tears that were threatening to spill from her already red and puffy eyes

Michael looks at her back in shock, shocked that she had heard him and shocked because she didn't believe it, that she didn't believe that he loved her.

"It's the truth. I do love you!" Michael says gently walking towards her

"No its not because if you loved me you wouldn't be with Isabel!" Maria says feeling all the fight go out of her and all the pain from a few days ago, the pain of seeing him with Isabel at school that been pushed down underneath the surface rise back up leaving her feeling weak again.

She had been desperate for him to come to her, to touch her, to confess his love for her but it didn't feel right when he was still with Isabel.

This hadn't been how she had wanted it to be but to be honest she hadn't know how she wanted it to be all she did know was that it wasn't meant to be like this.

"Maria, I have to be with Isabel, she's my destiny" Michael lies he wasn't with Isabel because she was his destiny, no he wishes that was the reason but no he was forced together with Isabel because of Max and his love for Liz.

Max was king and felt guilty for not following his destiny with Tess and was scared that because of that Antar and all its people, the people they were suppose to safe would die or something like that so to ease his own guilt he had forced Isabel and Michael to follow theirs while his stupid little bitch had made them believe that the love Michael felt for Maria and the love Isabel had felt for Alex was nothing and would only end up hurting the humans and destroying all those lives back on Antar.

Michael felt the anger at what had been done to him and Izzy rise to the surface.

Ever since Isabel had pushed Alex way, she had hid herself behind her ice princess act and was a class A bitch to everyone. Feeling the need to make everyone's life hell since she was in pain and she was lost and she had no idea what to do. Michael had seen her staring longingly in Alex's direction; hear her cry when she thought that nobody was around to hear. She had pushed everyone away because she didn't want to hurt anymore people and she didn't want to be hurt again in return. He knew she used her powers at night, she had felt her do it, he guessed that she dreamed walked Alex, trying to be close to him in a fantasy that she wished was really. She wasn't the same girl that Michael had know before this had all happened she wasn't even half the girl all that was left of Isabel Evans was the perfect outer shell, her eyes missing the something that made her who she was. She hated everyone but most of all she hated herself.

Because of Max and Liz's so-called love and their selfishness they had destroyed six people lives that were meant close to them and god knows how many other people.

Michael may not have talked to Alex since the break ups but he had eyes. He had seen the flashes of emotions run through Alex's eyes, the anger, the hurt, the love, he had seen everything. The way Alex would stay so close to Tess, Maria and Kyle as if the three of them were his lifelines, the way he would shield Maria away from everything protecting her and pretending that he wasn't in pain as well. Alex had even been protecting Tess from the other aliens, standing up for her when Max had tried to get her to come to one of the meets about home no doubt to try and guilt trip her into rejoining the group. Alex had shown his loyalty for his friends time and time again but it had been Kyle and Tess that really protected his friends

Kyle had been the one to tell Max, Liz, Isabel and Michael to stay away from his friends, from his family. Kyle had been the one to tell Liz what a selfish bitch she was, tell her that she had hurt Maria so much because she was a selfish two faced back stabbing bitch. Kyle had shouted at Max when Max had tried to stand up to him, tried to explain that it hadn't been his fault. Isabel had remain her icy self and had remain calm as Kyle had asked her if she was happy, if she was glad that she had broken Alex and Maria's hearts. After Kyle had gone Isabel had gone off by herself before the tears could fall in front of them. The words Kyle had said to Michael had been burned into his mind 'you killed Maria' he had hissed at him before walking away. That had been all he had said and it had nearly killed Michael.

Tess, the alien queen, the one that had been obsessed by Destiny had been the one to turn out the most human of the four aliens. She had followed her heart and done what she knew was right. She had offered her friendship to Maria, given Maria someone to cling to and trust. She had supported Alex through everything and had been willing to do anything to try and help him. Kyle had found someone to help him cope with Maria and Alex and had discovered that he wasn't alone anymore, that he wasn't the odd one out.

Maria, Michael had watched her from a far for so long since the day he had walked away from her, hiding behind his stonewalls wishing the pain would go away or at least fade but instead it had increased. He had seen her cry herself a sleep at night, seen her laugh with Tess, Alex and Kyle and then break down into tears and cling to them as if she was never going to let go of them. He had seen her smashing up her room in fits of anger, screaming words he could not hear. He had seen her be broken and lose herself and it was all because of him, all because of who or what he was.

Maria turns around to face him, searching is face.

"You're lying to me!" Maria states knowing that he was hiding something from her, something that was important

"Maria, I am not I do love you!" Michael says

"You're not with Isabel because she is you're destiny. You said before that Destiny meant shit to you. Michael, you want to talk fine tell me what you are hiding! Why are you really with Isabel?" Maria orders folding her arms across her chest, the phone forgotten for now. She looks at he at waiting for his answer and dreading it. What if he told her that he was with Isabel because he wanted to be and that destiny had been a way to break up with Maria?

"Maria."

"Just answer the question Michael or leave!"

Michael swallows before he starts to explain Maria the really reason why he was with Isabel, the whole story. He told her everything, not leaving anything out.

When he finishes he looks at a shocked Maria.

"Its unbelievable." Maria whispers her mind still trying to absorb the words that Michael had spoken.

"I am sorry"

"Stop saying your sorry Michael!" Maria orders rubbing her hand over her face trying to figure out what to say next

She sits down against the wall and rests her chin on her fist.

Michael slides down the wall and sits next to her.

He looks at her his eyes full of hope as he asks

"Where do we go from here?"