CHAPTER: I'm coming out!!!!







Max went to her bedroom and took up a book. She planned on lying there until Alec called her. The very night Alec gave her the cell phone he called her. They just talked and talked. She couldn't remember what exactly they talked about but she knew they talked until it was time to get ready for work. She remembered when she asked him about how he planed to pay the phone bill he'd have because of their long conversation. He replied with no attention paid to his genius, that he somehow got his phone to check an hour as minute. It never had the right time on the phone but ' That's why you have a watch.'

That was a new thing they started, they would just call each other and talk. When they couldn't thing of anything else to say they'd wait until something came to mind and something usually did. She began to feel like she could tell him anything and he would do the same. However she knew some topics were restricted (Rachael and Logan). They only talked about things that didn't cause them any pain. She hoped one day that they would be able to talk about the undesirable but at the rate things were going with their friendship she truly doubted it.

Her phone went off and she answered it quickly. " Alec?"

" No, Logan."

" Oh," she said.

That delivered a painful blow. She wanted to talk to Alec and she sounded less than excited to talk to him. He couldn't help but think that she had developed feelings for him during their three-week game of charades. " I just wanted to see how you were doing."

" I'm fine." She said. She didn't intend to give short answers but she had feeling like Alec was calling her and he couldn't get trough. She wanted Logan off the phone.

" Okay, so I guess you're waiting for a call from Alec?"

" Yeah, he said he'd call."

His suspicion kept growing as the seconds went by. The only thing that was leading him to believe otherwise was the fact that she was dating him. " So I'll let you get back to what you were doing."

" Okay, bye." She waited for him to hang up the phone and then she looked to see if she had any calls. She had none. She looked at the watch and it was approaching eleven o'clock. She wasn't about to wait for hours again so she dialed his number. He answered after five rings. " Why did you take so long to answer?" she yelled.

He smiled at the fact she called him instead. " I was in the shower," he said wrapping the towel around the lower part of his anatomy.

" Are you sure you're not lying about that too."

He deserved it, so he took it. " No, I'm serious. As a matter of fact I still have some soap on me. Can I go wash it off?"

" No, leave it," she said laughing. " This is my payback for yesterday." He moaned on the other end. Then she heard some water splashing. " Hey! you're washing it off."

" Yeah, so."

" Remind me to beat you up tomorrow."

" I think trying to put on clothes and a talk on a phone at the same time is punishment enough." He took a while before he was able to speak again. " So what are you doing?"

" I'm talking to you, obviously."

" Yeah, I guess." He waited for her say something then he realized that she wanted him to talk first. " What are we talking about tonight?"

" You decide."

He wanted to tell her something but he planned on doing it some where around three o' clock so he could work up the nerve. " Tell me bout the guys you dated before Logan." He went on his bed and lied down.

Ah yes, something about dating, finally. " Well they were few and far apart. I broke up with most of them because they thought I was too secretive," she laughed. " But I moved on."

" Did you ever have problems moving on?"

" No, that only happened with Logan." His part of the conversation had suddenly become mute.

" What about you? Your pre emancipation days?"

" What about me, I didn't date anyone. How could you when you're in a cell."

He was avoiding Rachael like a bad cold. But something in his voice told her that he wouldn't mind if she inquired further. " Tell me bout her. Tell me why you fell in love with her."

He knew it was coming. He took a deep breath and tried not to get worked up about it. " She was nice, really nice. When she smiled I would forget about everything, about my mission, about Manticore. But what made me fall in love with her is the fact that some one so sweet and pure had feelings for me, loved me, I never had that before. I mean, I was just someone without a name, with out a parent, I was nothing and she still took me into her heart and it felt amazing." He heard Max sniffle on the other end. That was the last thing he wanted. He hated when people felt sorry for him. " Max can you stop that."

Knowing that he was referring to the tears she said, "Okay." There was an odd moment of silence. She decided to ask another question, she had to let him release it slowly, too much at once would be overwhelming. " What about After?"

It was something he was more comfortable talking about. " No one really mattered. Like I told you once before: I only fall for the ones I can't have."

" Who did you fall for that you couldn't have? As far as I can see there's always a beeline of girls falling at your feet."

The opportunity presented it self and he decided to go for it. He closed his eyes to help him calm his nerves as he said it. " You." Silence flooded the other side of the line.

NOTE: Nice place to end the chapter huh?