Previously

"Maria" I say in one breath and start running to get up stairs as fast as possible only vaguely aware of the fact Michael is hot on my trail as well recognizing the scream.

I spot Maria standing down at the bottom of the hallway staring through my bedroom doorway at something inside the room. Her jaw just hangs open and her body is completely motionless as I jog down the hall, overflowing with worry.

"Maria! Maria what is it?" I ask desperately, turning to see what she's staring at in my room. It's then I go completely still myself in utter shock. Only distantly registering that Michael, Max and Isabel are also running down the hall towards us. A panic runs through me at the thought of them seeing what's in the room, but I realise there's nothing I can do to stop them, my muscles tense up at the impending argument I'm gonna have with Max.
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Part 3

I hesitantly take a step into my room and then continue to walk all the way in with Maria following behind me. I spin around awe struck at the sight overflowing in my room.

Everywhere, on the floor, on the units, on the desk, every empty space in my room was crammed full of beautiful white roses transforming the place into a wonderland. It looked like some enchanted grove, with the daylight filtering in through my window it made the white roses seem as if they were almost glowing in their Transparent Clear vases.

I only realise that I have been holding my breath when I hear Michael, Max, Isabel and Alex enter the room also.

"Liz. damn girl. this is so, so, incredible" Maria mumbles.

"Stunning." Isabel breathlessly says.

"Wonderful." I finish as we three girls stand in wonder looking around the room.

"Urh. Girls?" I hear Alex say. "I can think of loads of words to describe this sight, but those defiantly aren't them!" I turn to Alex giving him a confused expression.

Michael decides to step in and finish Alex's train of thought by this point. "Hello? Don't you find any of this seriously fucked up? SOMEONE was IN your room Liz, which you don't know, and was also able to get hundreds of roses in here without anyone knowing. This is like something from one of those fucked up horror-stalker movies where at the end of the movie the girl gets sliced and diced." I watch Max visibly tense at hearing this, but he continues to remain silent staring at me with an unreadable expression, while a feeling in my gut starts to build that his going to go ballistic any minute.

"Michael you moron shut-up! This must be one of the most romantic things I have ever seen with my own two eyes and your idiotic self is ruining it for me." Maria yells and adds under her breath "You'd never do anything like this for me."

"I'll never understand girls, you're acting as if this is the most amazing thing in the world, they're just God damned flowers." Michael grumbles in a huff.

Isabel walks off over to the window, while Maria and Michael battle it out over what's romantic and what's not. My eyes focus on the dozens of white rose petals sprinkled upon my bed where one solitary rose lay's on my pillow besides a small velvet black box.

"Hey, this is how whoever it was got in, through the window." Isabel points out, proud of her discovery. "There are a couple of rose petals on the balcony."

I walk over to the bed feeling Max's gaze burning twin holes in my back. Picking up the box I find my hand is slightly trembling, sucking in a breath I open the box. I feel someone come up behind me looking over my shoulder at what's in my hand, I'm shocked to see both Maria and Isabel standing there peering at what I have discovered, I hadn't even realised Michael and Maria had stopped arguing.

In the box is a tiny little charm of an angel that looks almost like a cherub. The detail on it amazes me, it's as if someone found a real little angel and froze it in silver. 'Or white gold in this case' I think recognizing the same tint in the metal that my bracelet has.

A small little card is tucked into the top of the box, wedging it out I read what it says not even realising I'm saying it aloud. "You're my little angel Liz."

"Oh My God Liz! That is sooooo sweet. I can't bel." Maria doesn't get a chance to finish what she's going to say when a loud voice boom's across the room in anger.

"WHO THE FUCK IS IT LIZ? Huh? I knew there was a reason you didn't want to get back with me! You've found someone else and are just using Tess as an excuse aren't you?" Max roars storming over the room towards me with such anger and betrayal in his eyes that it makes me take a step backwards.

"Max there is no one else, I'm as clueless as you." Suddenly realising I'm defending myself for no good reason I bite back. "And even if there was someone else, it's none of your business either way! We're not together anymore remember? Your with Tess now!"

"I'm not with Tess, don't you get it Liz I've never wanted to be with Tess! I only want you!" Max yells with pain in his voice.

"Well maybe you should of thought about that before letting me walk away outside the cave. You certainly weren't that sure then. I'll be damned if I'm gonna let you have your cake and eat it too!" I cry.

"God Liz, how many more times can I say I'm sorry? I know I fucked up, but not being able to be near you over the holidays has nearly killed me, it gave me a hell of a lot of time to think. You, are all I want and need Liz. Also may I remind you it had only been hours before getting to the cave that I was being tortured in the white room, I wasn't fully back to my senses." Max pleads, the last part coming out almost as a whisper.

I feel the walls I had built up for myself over the holidays breaking down around me, Max's beautiful eyes staring into mine, begging me to understand and accept. Which I do, but I still can't let this happen, a whole world is depending on Max to save them and he won't be able to do that if his with me. Fortifying myself I make my stare become cold and steady, in a voice that comes out even harsher than I meant it to be I say.

"Get out Max. Get out of my room now, we're not together and never will be again, lets just leave it at that." Everyone else in the room holds their breath waiting for Max's reaction. I feel like my entire soul has just been shattered with that one look of utter pain and hurt in Max's eyes and I could swear I saw tears beginning to form as he quickly turns away and walks out the door without another word.

Awkwardness settles upon the room as the others try and figure out what they should do next. A few moments of silence pass until Michael turns and also leaves the room with Isabel following a little way behind him.

"Chica? Are you ok?" Maria asks breaking the silence as I continue to stare at the doorway Max left through.

"Yeah" I say feebly. "I'll be ok, I would just like. I just want to be alone right now Maria alright?"

"Sure chica, get some rest, I'll cover for you." She says, then adds with a giggle. "And if it gets too busy I force Alex to wear one of the waitress uniforms."

"Hey!" Alex replies in protest.

"Come on" Maria says as she grabs him by the arm and starts to lead him out. I can't help but laugh at the scene. "Thanx Ria."

"No probs. Just get some of that well needed rest Chica." As she closes the door she quickly pops her head back inside and says "Don't expect this to be a regular occurrence either. I'm not letting you get away with not working while I have to." With that she closes the door and I let out a heavy sigh once again looking around at the beautiful scene that has been squeezed into my room, the sun softly setting letting a few golden rays fall into the room.

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Warm soft fingers caress my cheek and drift down my neck to my collarbone. Fine cool metal drifts across my throat and I hear the clicking of a clasp being locked around my neck. Tender kisses are peppered along my jaw line lovingly as another hand slips under the bed sheets drifting the to the small of my back, dipping under my pajama top to touch the skin there.

I let out a soft cry as the hand on my neck glides down my front to cup one of my breasts. I feel the weight of the mattress shift beneath me as he climes into the bed and lies down by my side pulling me towards him.

I open my eyes wanting to see his face, but it's completely obscured by the darkness in the room. His mouth starts to seek mine, claiming my lips in a searing hot kiss, his tongue darting out along my mouth as one of his hands starts to kneed my breast making every nerve there become heightened.

I wrap my arms around his neck pressing him closer to me, for some reason not worried in the slightest that I don't know who he is. I feel safe, I feel whole, and I can feel the depth of his love for me, which is washing away all my fears.

Demanding entry into my mouth I allow him to obtain entrance happily while grinding into him in the hope it will relieve some of the aching between my legs.

Then it happens, my mind is bombarded with images and feelings so powerful that my very soul feels shaken by them.

Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain, Victory, Loss.

It's like nothing I've experienced before, far more powerful then any of the flashes I ever had. I actually feel like I'm a part of the scenes I'm witnessing, but then they dash so fast and strongly through my mind like a rivers current that I can't even remember what they were.

His and my body seem almost scorching hot, the atmosphere of the air around us seems to be humming with an energy that makes my skin tingle everywhere.

Our mouths continue their onslaught of one another as the visions hasten their pace across my mind. A blinding white light begins to build behind my eyelids and the air suddenly seems to be sizzling making electric crackling sounds.

Then the light behind my eyes explodes as I feel his arms tighten around me in a strong embrace.~

I sit up suddenly in bed, desperately panting for oxygen, with my heart beating a mile a minute. Quickly reaching for my bedside lamp I turn it on knocking something over in the process and the room fills with a soft yellow light. I look around frantically and find myself alone in the room, not so much as another sound in here other than my breathing and heartbeat. Besides my bed on the floor I see the tipped over vase of a dozen white roses or more lying there that I had just knocked over.

Glancing at the clock I see it has just gone three in the morning.

"It was a dream." I murmur.

I lean over and picking up the vase I set all the flowers back in it before placing it back on my bedside unit.

"God, it was only a dream." I say reinsuring myself, my hand drifts up to brow to wipe away the thin layer of sweet that has formed there, it's then my hand comes into contact with something around my neck. Looking down to see what it is I'm stunned to see a twinkling little diamond staring back at me on a silver chain. 'What the hell? How did that get.'

I let out the gasp of air I had been holding in and I say in almost a whisper. "Was it a dream?" A shiver runs down my spine at that moment shaking me to my very core.

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A dark figure watches the realization cross her petite beautiful features from outside her window within the shadows. A smug smile crawls across his face in satisfaction as he turns to leave, his current mission completed. Taking one look back he whispers to the wind.

"Your mine Liz Parker, and I won't stop till you belong to me completely, no one, not even that wimp Max shall take you from me."

Taking one final delight in seeing a shiver run through her as if she had actually heard his words, he climes down the ladder already plotting the next step of his plan.