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CHAPTER 14

Liz' POV

Welcome back to Roswell, New Mexico, land of the weird, where this morning nothing seems to be normal. Yes my friends, I'm still here! Looks like fate had something against my dying, fate in the shape of Max Evans anyway. What I am about to tell you will probably send you screaming into a mental home, it almost did for me! Max saved my life. He dissolved a bullet and brought me back to life! Mmm-hmmm, there you go off to the mental home. And how did he do this? Well I'm damned if I know! All I know is one moment I was lying there with the bullet dissolving the life away from me and the next the bullet's gone and Max is running out of the restaurant!

And now I'm landed with the question, what is Max? Is he just a normal human who's been exposed to a little too much nuclear radiation?!? Or perhaps he was dropped in toxic chemicals as a baby! Or was the rainbow magically ending at the Crashdown on Saturday and Max is my little Irish Leprechaun with a pot of gold! How the hell should I know? All I know is he saved my life on Saturday and that's when things started to get odd!

I woke up late this morning, I slept through my ridiculously loud alarm clock, and believe me that NEVER happens! I walked to the bathroom, looked into the mirror and almost had a heart attack. Surprise! Look no glasses! Yes people, all of a sudden my need for glasses has vanished! Now normally that should NEVER happen! I went downstairs and found my parents sitting there, and yes, you've guessed it, they're NEVER there!

'Lizzie, sweetie, sit down.'

'Mom? Dad? What's going on?'

'Honey, you're Mom and I have decided to close the Crashdown for a while.'

Well that's a big bomb to drop at 7.30 in the morning! 'What?!'

'After what happened on Saturday we decided some time out would be good.'

'I'm gonna work in Amy's shop, sweetie, and your Dad's gonna do some accounting for the UFO center-'

'Brodie said you could have a part time job there if you want.'

'But what about Maria and the others? You can't just fire them!'

'We thought we'd get some redecorating done and give them a small amount of paid leave.'

And that was breakfast! I think some higher power is trying to steal everything normal about my life here. Well then I had to walk to school, I opened the door and. it was raining! It hasn't rained for months! So why the hell is it starting now? Especially when I have to walk to school? But hell, I had nothing better to do so here you find me walking to school in the rain! And isn't it just the funnest!

'Hey LIZ! Wait up!'

Alex and Maria? They NEVER walk to school this way!

'Why are you two walking this way?'

'We thought it was time for a change!'

'Maria! You know you're rubbish at lying, so spill!'

'Fine, fine, we thought we'd better keep you company, after all, we don't want a repeat of Sunday! It was Ria's idea!'

'Oh! For goodness sake! When will you two listen????!???! THAT WAS NOT ME!'

SMASH!

'Yuh-huh, and I suppose that trash can threw itself at the wall, chica!'

Oh God! What's wrong with me?

'Something's up Lizzie, and we have to find out what it is! Maria and I are here for you no matter what!'

I suppose you want to know what happened on Sunday now. Here you go.

[I]'Oh Liz! Come on in, take a seat! Sorry you've been waiting so long, I've been talking to the other witnesses.'

'That's OK Sheriff, sir.'

'Call me Jim, Liz. After all you are dating my son!'

Please don't remind me! 'Sure. Jim'

'OK now Liz, how about you tell me just what happened on yesterday.'

Here goes nothing! 'Well, Alex, Maria and I were just chatting in between waiting tables when this guy started shouting, him and the other guy had been pretty tense ever since they arrived-'

'Together or separately?'

'Separately.'

'Ok, carry on.'

'I went over to them, Maria followed. I tried to calm them down but when they didn't, I asked them to leave. As soon as I asked the biggest guy got really angry and yelled something about this being nothing. Then he just. he just, pulled out a gun and shot the other guy! And then he grabbed me, and put the gun to my stomach, I don't really remember much else.'

What now? What the hell am I meant to say? He shot me, then Max used some kind of super powers to save me? Yeah like that would slide! Does he even know that Max was there??

'What then Liz?'

'I-I don't remember anything else until I woke up from fainting.' I suppose he could believe it!'

'OK then Liz, are you sure you haven't left anything out?'

'Certain.' yeah like hell I am!

'Right, now Liz, what can you tell me about Max Evans and Michael Guerin?'

He Knows! Shit! He knows!!! How can he know? No one except Alex saw! And he swore not to tell! Maria wouldn't tell either! Who told? Who saw?

'Liz?'

'I, ummmm. I.'

'What the he-'

OH MY GOD? What did I do? I swear books aren't meant to fly through the air like that!

'Sheriff?'

Oh great, just fricking great! I knocked out the sheriff![/I]

When Valenti finally woke up he couldn't remember what he'd been asking me! But I'll tell you one thing. It's damn hard to explain how one minute someone's sitting there perfectly fine and the next they're sprawled out on their desk unconscious surrounded by random books. And I don't know how, but some how I managed to move those books from the shelf on the other side of the room to the desk! And knock out Valenti on the way! And since then things have gone crazy, I was sitting in my room last night freaking out about what was going on and the whole of my book shelf colour coded itself without me moving a finger! Then when I went down stairs to the restaurant to get a drink and saw the order for scrambled eggs, the eggs flew out of the fridge into one of the walls! Try explaining that to your father!!

It's impossible to deny any more, when Max Evans healed me he did something to me! I don't know whether it's temporary or permanent but for the time being I can move things telepathically, and I can't control it to save my life! And until I can find my fairy godmother and talk to him, I'm stuck like this! Life sucks!

***

I never knew the hours could go so damn slowly! We got to school soaked and late after clearing up the mess I made my flinging that trash can at a wall, so I had no time to find Max. Then at break, my English teacher decided to have a loooooong philosophic talk to me about my last essay, that I wrote about Snoopy! Hey everyone gets a bad essay once in a while! So again, no time to find Max! And now, come lunchtime, Alex and Maria have gone into overprotective mode and hidden me in a quiet corner of the quad while they go on a Max hunt!

'Hey can I sit here?'

'Uh..' Heeeeeeello! Wow! Man, this guy is fit! All you girls out there, eat your heart out! I now have in front of me a 6 foot 4 Adonis, blonde hair and blue eyes. 'I uhh..' But he's just not Max. 'Sorry, I'm just waiting for my friends.'

'Oh right, that's OK, I always get that, being the new guy and all. See you.'

'Oh what the hell! They'll take ages, grab a seat!'

'You sure? I don't want to intrude.'

Hey manners as well as cute! 'No really, it's fine!'

'Thanks.'

'So, you're new here?' Hey no shit Parker! He just told you he was the new guy!

'Yeah, I transferred here from Alaska. I'm Doug, by the way, Doug Shellow.

'Liz Parker, my parents own the restaurant down town.'

'Oh yeah I saw it, Crashsite? Was it?'

'Crashdown.'

'It looked kinda closed.'

'Yeah, we've closed for a while.'

'Shame, I was looking forward to trying some native alien meat!'

'Maybe I could cook you some sometime.' Can you really blame me for trying?

'Sure, I'd like that. Why's it closed anyway?'

'I.'

'Sorry, I shouldn't have asked.'

'No, it's OK, I'm just being stupid. Everyone's gonna start talking about it soon, I may as well get used to it. There was a shooting there on Saturday, one guy was killed, I-I saw it.'

'Oh my God! I'm so sorry! It must have been awful! I shouldn't have said anything. You'll just have a to pick a subject this time.'

This guy's smile is just so warming, he just makes it all seem alright! 'It's OK really, it's nothing top secret! Anyway, it'll be all over town soon, it's the most excitement this town's seen since '47, and even then, that was just a weather balloon!'

'What? You don't believe in aliens?'

'And you do?'

'Are you kidding? It's practically a proven fact! Besides.' He's looking around himself suspiciously, oooh, he's coming closer, 'I've met them!'

'Oh God! You're a loony!'

'I am not! About two months ago they landed on my doorstep in a big pink ship and asked for directions to Jupiter! And now the FBI's chasing me to steal my memory with their flashy light things! But I'll never let them win! Those MIBs can go 'nod their heads' else where!'

I'm laughing so hard I think my sides will split! I haven't laughed this hard since I was with Max. Max.

*Throat clears*

'Oh hey Alex, Maria! Doug, meet Alex and Maria, my best friends. You guys, this is Doug, he just transferred here from Alaska!'

'Hey Doug, good to meet you!'

Maria looks like she could eat him whole! Hahaha!

'Hi Maria.'

'Yeah, hey Doug. Anyway, Liz we need to talk to you.'

Rude much? 'Sure Alex, it was nice meeting you Doug!'

'You too Liz, perhaps we could hang out some time.'

'Yeah, I'd like that!'

And you know what, I really would! It wasn't love at first sight, but I can feel myself really beginning to like this guy!

'You realise Kyle's gonna start having seizures again don't you chica?'

'Screw that! I'm fed up of him freaking out! Doug's just a nice guy.'

'A Veeeeeeeery nice guy, with a bod to die for and.'

'Please can we change the subject! I'm gonna be scarred for life!'

'Sorry Alex, anyway, what did you guys find out?'

'Well.'

Why are they looking like at? 'What's happened?'

'Isabel and Michael didn't show up for school today.'

'So?'

'Chica, neither did Max.'

'What does that mean?'

'Liz, Max is gone.'

'HE'S WHAT?!?'

Lunch trays are flying right, left and center but what do I care? My life has just officially been destroyed!