Secrets revealed Author: 17/f/USA. This is my first Roswell fan fic. I would like to give a special thanks to my best friend in the whole wide world: "Hot. Without her this fan fic would never be readable." I don't own any portion of the WB. Email me at: kerrmit2005@AOl.com if you like my story...or if you hate it.

It had been a week since graduation. Everyone had started a new life in a new town and a new state. At this point in time, everyone was just

settling down. Well, everyone ,that is, except Liz and Max. They were still on their honeymoon. With their low budget, they couldn't go to some ultra- classy and expensive love nest. Instead, they had to limit their enjoyment to a national park for some peace and quiet.

While back home, Isabel moped around her apartment longing to see her Jessie again. Yes, she knew in her heart that she had done the right thing by letting him go. But, god, she loved him. After everything that had happened in the past year in a half, she had lost three boyfriends, two of which are dead.

Maria, on the other hand, missed her mom. Over the past 10 years, she had come to despise her father. After all, he had walked out on she and her mother when Maria was only a little girl. Maria looked at herself in the mirror and saw what she had become. She had become her father. She had walked out on her mother, just as her father had

done to her. But to put all that behind, she and Michael were in there own world.

They had just gotten back together and were making up for lost time. Michael had it the easiest when it came to leaving Roswell. After all, he never really had any family. Well, there was Hank, but no one, not even Michael, would ever consider him a part of the family. In this case, he was the lucky one. There was nothing there to hold him back from leaving. This was his time to shine, his time to rise above and become truly independent. He could now start over.

Then there was Kyle, who was just as miserable as Isabel. All he had was his

father, and now he left him all alone in that dump of a city called Roswell. Lately, Kyle had been blaming himself for everything. First, it was for trying to expose the aliens. Then it was for acting like a buffoon for having to keep their secret.

Then, he helped Tess with the murder of one of his closest friends. Now he had

left his father, just like his mother had done.

"Kyle, you okay?" Came a soft, loving voice.

"Yeah, you know just thinking about things." He said looking away from the glowing

emerald eyes that searched for his chocolate brown ones.

"You're wondering if we did the right thing, aren't you?" Kyle was going to

argue against it when she interrupted his thoughts.

"Because I know that I have been asking myself that question daily. You know, I really need someone to talk to, and you do too. You know how Michael is, he just isn't the emotional support kinda guy. And with Liz gone...I..I." Maria couldn't finish her sentence for she was pulled into a tight embrace from Kyle. From a distance, it would look as though they were "together," but lately they had come to brother-sister terms. After all, Jim was planning on proposing to Amy before they left. If he still went through with it, he and Maria would be step brother and sister.

"Thanks, I needed that."

"Me too, little sis." Kyle laughed as he gave Maria a noogie.

"Don't start with me!"

"Okay, you're right, I was wondering if we did the right thing. You know...

leaving." Kyle blurted out. Maria decided to lighten the mood.

"You know, there is a way for you to still keep in contact with your father."

Maria said as she smiled that smile.

"Oh, really! How would that be, my dear Watson?"

"You see, I've heard of this great invention. It's called a telephone and, well, you can call people up and have a nice long conversation. How 'bout it?"

Kyle smacked her on the head lightly.

"Smart a**," Maria giggled. "But wouldn't they track us down? I mean I don't want anything to happen to my dad or to be the one to lead the government right to us."

"Can't trace you if they don't know where you are. Plus, everyone thinks we're dead." she exclaimed.

"Well I guess it would be okay. But I think I better wait 'til max and Liz

come back first."

"Whatever you say, Buddha boy!" Maria stated as she stood up and flipped her hair behind her shoulder. I'd love to stay and chat but if I'm gone too long with no word to Michael, he gets a little crazy. Let me know if you want to join me for facials to exfoliate yourself. After all, real men aren't afraid to get in touch with their feminine side." Maria winked and blew Kyle an air kiss.

"Catch ya later, Bro!"

"Well, see ya! I may take you up on that offer. I must find a way to shrink my pores! They are just dreadful." Kyle mocked.

"You know, I wouldn't plan on Liz and Max coming home any time soon." Maria quirked.

"And why is that, little lady?"

"Well, they are on their honeymoon! When they get home, they will say

"Hello" and bolt to the bedroom to relive their sexcapades."

"Bye Maria!" Kyle said, annoyed. He was mad that he hadn't gotten any in a while.

"Bye."

"Knock, knock. I am home." Maria entered her psychedelic living room. Michael and Maria had thought long and hard about their living arrangements. They decided to give it a whirl and try sharing a home. After all, there was no one else either one of them would want to spend their lives with more than with each other. But, unlike Max and Liz, they just weren't ready for marriage. Although they believed they were soul mates, neither one would admit it. As Maria walked into her apartment she felt a cold shiver shoot up her spine. When she was fully in the room and had total sight, she couldn't believe it...everything was in complete...order!

"Surprise!" Michael shouted from around the corner. He had cleaned and

scrubbed their new place down with his bare hands...no powers until it sparkled

and shined like Maria's smile.

"Michael, it's gorgeous. I didn't think you knew the meaning of the word

clean." Michael walked behind her and put his arms around her and whispered into her ear.

"Yeah, well you know I say a clean girl is a sexy girl." At that moment in time, Maria got a flash from Michael.

*He was on Courtney's bed kissing her and telling her the same thing.*

She tried to ignore it, after all Michael had explained her that everything

he did was just to get information and that he would never do anything again, unless it was a life or death situation. Maria popped back into reality when she noticed he was still speaking.

"So I guess the same goes for an apartment, a clean place is a sexy place. I feel sexy, do you?"

Maria smiled after Michael finished his last word and tightened his grip on

her.

"You know I invited Kyle and Isabel over tonight for dinner and we're going to rent a movie."

"If we must. Well I guess I'll get started on dinner then." Michael said as he went into the kitchen.

"I'll help you then." Maria started toward the kitchen, but Michael stopped

her half way there.

"Oh no you don't. You know I love you, but you can't cook."

"But...fine! Just remember there are going to be people here who don't like their food marinated in Tabasco sauce!" With that, Maria stormed off to the shower. She was enraged to find out that Michael had squeezed out all of her "Strawberry eruption" body wash in the toilet and replaced it with "manly man" body scrub.

Isabel and Kyle had also decided to share an apartment. They, unlike Maria and Michael, were not romantically involved. They each had their own room ,with locks on each door. They even had their own bathrooms.

"Kyle are you almost ready? We're supposed to go over to Maria and Michael's for dinner, remember?" Isabel called from outside his bathroom. There was no answer.

"Isabel! "called a shaky voice from the bathroom.

"What is it? Kyle, is something wrong? Or maybe you are having a little too much fun in there!"

"No! I am fine. Just a touch of the flu. I'm fine. I'll be out in a

minute!"

"Fine! Well, don't puke all over the bathroom, coz I'm not cleaning it up."

*Inside the bathroom*

"Oh, God what is happing to me?" Kyle asked himself as he looked into the

mirror to get a good look at his back that had a vibrant tattoo of an alien symbol on it. It was the shape that was on the cover of that alien book. The

tattoo started to glow a deep sea green. He patched it up as if it were a mere

wound and walked out of the bathroom as if nothing had happened.

"Okay Isabel, let's get the show on the road." He and Isabel walked out of

the apartment door and down the hall to Michael and Maria's place. Yes, they live in the same apartment complex. It was a decent building, nothing like Michael's old one, thank God. When Max and Liz came home, they also would live in the same building, but on the first floor, they lived on the second floor.

After dinner, everyone was settled in the living room for a movie.

"Okay everyone ready? Michael, what movie did you pick out?" Maria was a

little afraid to ask because she knew Michael and hoped to God it wasn't some action film with gun-fire, death, and all that macho jazz.

"I thought you were supposed to pick up the movie?"

"What?" But before Maria had the chance to kill or just lecture him to death,

Isabel interrupted.

"Maria relax, as much as we all love to go through one of yours and Michael's love spats, I brought a movie." She held it up for everyone to see.

"How to lose a guy in 10 days."( yes I know it's not out on tape)

"No way! That's a chick flick!" both Kyle and Michael yelled." If you make us watch that, you'll lose us both in 10 minutes!"

"Oh it's okay, there's a shower scene in it."

" I'll get the popcorn."

"Well I think I just go right to bed, you know big day tomorrow with work and all"

"Oh, no you don't Mikey G. If you love me, you'll watch this movie with me and everyone else." Maria batted her eyelashes.

"Man, you're whipped, but look at the bright side there's still going to be that

shower scene." commented Kyle.

"What was that Kyle? What do you think you are trying to do pollute my

already perverted lover boy's mind?" Maria snarled.

Everyone was really getting into the movie. Then the shower scene came.

"Hallelujah! I was beginning to think that I was gay." But before he could

continue, Isabel slapped him and shot him an evil glare. If sitting in the right spot and close enough, you could see the drool hanging out of Kyle's mouth as the movie went on.

"Michael, don't I have better legs than she does?" Maria whined impatiently.

Isabel hummed the theme to Jeopardy.

"Well, your legs are hairier." Michael whispered under his breath. Maria hit him hard but he still babbled on since he enjoyed the attention he was gaining.

"Maybe you should have used wax to make 'em smooth as silk." quirked Iz. Kyle just sat there smiling like a Fat kid in a candy store..

At the end of the movie the girls had already gone through a box of tissues.

"Oh that was the sweetest thing!" Isabel cracked out.

"I know! The way he sang to her was just darling."

"Michael why don't you ever sing to me?" Maria wimpered.

"What the hell is this, 20 questions? Are you PMS-ing?" Michael snapped back.

"Why, you need some of my Midol?" Maria reached for her purse.

"Well there's our cue to leave, Iz. You ready? Because we really should be heading back to our own place..." Kyle wasn't able to finish his sentence because he fainted . Everyone ran to his side.

"Oh my god what's wrong with him? Isabel, Michael! Do something." Maria was starting to panic and when she started to panic it wasn't pretty. Her heart

would beat really fast and she would start talking quickly, faster than

usual and not even Liz could understand her when it came to that.

"WAIT, there's something glowing on his back. Isabel you gotta see this."

Michael had removed his shirt and there was a bandage. In which he had removed as well. And there it was this glowing tattoo in the at symbol that was so familiar.

"Wow, where's Max when you need him?" Isabel was starting to freak out. The last time something like this happened, Michael went nuts and almost killed them all. But this was Kyle he would never hurt them. Would he? No he wouldn't, couldn't For goodness sake, he prayed to that fat, bald little man named Buddha. It was then that Michael realized he was the only one thinking clearly at the moment. He had to take control of this situation.

"Come on girls, snap out of it. Let's get him in the tub. Maria, baby. Go get

some ice . I just felt Kyle's forehead and he's burning up." Maria nodded and

ran out of the apartment. Michael knew that she was about to crack so he had to get her out of there. Plus, if this was what he suspected and Kyle was going to act the way he had, then he wanted to get her out of harm's way.

One hour later Maria showed back up with the ice, 30 bags of it.

"Hey I'm back, I'm going to need your help, there's a lot of ice." Maria

yelled from the door closing it with her foot.

*Inside the bathroom*

Isabel started to get up to help Maria. But Michel stopped her.

"You stay here with him, Iz. I'll help Maria. Besides, I think he likes you

better than me."

*Outside in the kitchen*

"Here give me that" Michael took the heavy bag from Maria.

"Thanks, um, how's he doing? Any changes?"

"No, nothing. Maria, you remember the time I gained Max's powers. I think

somehow that's what Kyle's going through." Maria suddenly turned quiet and Michael felt alarmed, even though he says he gets annoyed by her yapping. The truth of it all is that he loves to hear her voice. His Maria has the voice of an angel. Maria was beginning to scare him because she never shut up when they needed her to and now she just stood there. A silent Maria is a frightened Maria. Maria was to busy thinking to care what was going on around her. She was worried about Kyle and the mention of Michael going crazy wasn't all that heartwarming. He had threatened to kill her and their friends and he had thrown her out of her Jetta. Those were not good times for them back then.

"Maria, Maria!" Michael cupped her small chin in his firm hand so that she would have to look him square in the face. She was dead to the world.

"Maria it's going to be all right, I promise." he reassured her. Ever since

Alex's death, Michael had always come through for her more often, always in a crisis situation, but she loved him anyway.

"I'm fine, you should be worrying about Kyle, not me." she finally answered.

"Maria maybe Kyle is going through the same thing Liz did but in a

different form. His powers are taking over."

"Let's get this ice in before it melts."

*Inside the bathroom*

Isabel was sitting inside the bathroom on a stool next to the bathtub.

Isabel had never been a religious person but she decided the best thing for Kyle was to pray to GOD. Since there was no way she was going to pray to Buddha, she hoped he was listening. Isabel suddenly broke out of her prayer as she noticed Kyle was levitating above the tub. Isabel shot up immediately.

"Michael get the hell in here!" Isabel screamed from the bathroom. She was

worried about Kyle before, but now she was terrified. Michael and Maria ran into the bathroom to see a very "high" Kyle.

"Holy crap." Maria was getting more creeped out by the second. Michael entered the room right behind her.

"Okay, isn't there some power you guys have that you can use bring him down?"

"No, not really" both the aliens answered.

"What the hell?" Kyle said as he awoke from his deep state of unconsciousness. "How'd I get up here?" Kyle came crashing down to the tub.

"Ow that's gotta hurt!" Michael imagined the pain that Kyle was going though at the moment. He had been levitated fore feet into the air and to came have come crashing down minima title wave .

"What, why is everyone staring at me, and how did I get in the bathroom,

why are my clothes off?" Kyle spat out question after question at his friends.

Kyle fixed his stare on Isabel.

"Isabel you naughty, naughty girl! You took advantage of me!" Isabel just

stood there shocked." Next time do you mind waiting until I'm conscious?"

"I want you, I need you, oh baby oh baby!" Isabel quipped, sarcastically.

"Well I didn't have all that much time, you know with you levitating in the air and all.." She was cut of by Michael.

"Okay, okay that's enough. I don't want to hear any more. Let's get down to

business."

"Kyle how come you never mentioned you got a tattoo?" asked Isabel

"Isabel what are you talking about? What tattoo?"

"Dude, look at your back shoulder in the mirror." Michael turned Kyle around forcefully, so he could see the symbol of the tattoo.

"Now when were you planning on telling us about this?" a furious Isabel

snapped.

"Oh it's the newest thing glowing tattoos I had it done by this great tattoo

artist named fish-head." Wink, wink.

"Come on Kyle cut out the bull. We all know that's no tattoo." Kyle

began to sweat. The tension in the room was making the heat rise. Maria made her way up to Kyle to explain what they believed was happening.

" Kyle welcome to the closet."

"What do you mean by that?"

"You... an alien" Kyle took his leave into the kitchen, to grab a beer. He

was about to open it.

"Kyle what do you think you are doing?!" Isabel asked as she snatched the beer away from Kyle.

"Hey I was going to drink that"

"Kyle you're an alien now."

"Don't remind me."

"like I was saying, you can't go around drinking any more. This stuff makes us go crazy. You've heard Max and Michael's stories. You want that to happen to you?" Isabel cried.

"Hey, chill out! It was only light beer." Kyle offered.

**ring , ring , ring***

"I'll get it!" Maria answered the phone, and boom, an ear chilling shriek filled the air.

"Liz gosh, my god how are you babe?"

Liz and Maria went on for god knows how long while the aliens explained to Kyle how dangerous it was to drink alcohol. Maria told Liz what was going on and that she and Max should high tail it back home.

The sun was just coming up. It was going to one of those days were everything is just so confusing. Kyle was staring up at his ceiling. He hadn't gotten a wink of sleep at all. Thoughts kept running through his brain. It was driving him crazy because they weren't ordinary thoughts...they weren't his. They were someone else's. Isabel, on the other hand, slept like a log. She always enjoyed her sleep time. It was the only communication she had with Jessie. She would deamwalk him at least once a day, mostly at night so she could stay longer. That night she kept feeling the love she felt for him and was wondering if she would have done something different if Alex was still alive. And if so, would she be married to him instead? She tried to forget because she loved Jessie. Those were the thoughts Kyle was getting. He knew they were Isabel's but how was he able to hear them? How? But those weren't the only thoughts that Kyle was sensing. He could sense Max and Liz. They were in town, soon they would be home. All of a sudden, he stopped sensing everyone's dreams and worries and everything for a while until he started seeing Michael and Maria's dreams. Michael was having a nightmare. He was in the forest looking for something and there was a

large group of people crowded around a body. Except the people all

looked familiar. There were five of them. Nicholas, Khavar, Rath, Lonnie, Courtney, Hank, Topolsky and Pierce. And in the middle, the person they were surrounding was Maria. But behind the large group of traders / old enemies, was Alex. He had a glow around him. *pow * Kyle was kicked out of the dream. That happened all the time. He'd would start hear or feel thoughts or emotions from other people, then he'd be blocked out.

The next morning Liz rushed into her ex-boyfriend's apartment to see how he

was. After her phone call with Maria, she was worried.

"Kyle, yo Kyle you here?" Liz hollered through the place waking both Isabel

and Kyle up.

"Yah, right here!" Liz ran up to him and gave him a huge hug. She had a death grip on him. So tight she was depriving him from inhaling oxygen.

"Liz, I'm glad to see ya too, but Kyle can't breathe. Mind loosening that grip?

Besides I don't want Max to walk in here and get the wrong idea. On second

thought, come here! He pulled her back into a gentle hug.

"Now what in tarnation is going on? Maria called me yesterday in a panic

about you turning into your worst nightmare. Care to explain?" breaking away from her embrace with worry, Kyle began. Whoa, Liz calm down. Let's get everyone in here and then we'll figure things out." He said, guiding her toward the living room to have a seat on an inflatable, green

plastic chair shaped like an alien.

"Very cute." Liz said, sitting down on the extraterrestrial memorabilia.

" I'll go get the others." Isabel walked to the door but was caught off guard by the 3 m's: Michael, Max, and Maria.

"Hey! Thought we'd crash the party." Max said as he entered the room.

"MAX!" Isabel ran up to give her brother a hug.

Michael and Isabel filed Max and Liz in on the details of Kyle's David Copperfield impression. There wasn't a person or alien that wasn't worried about Kyle. Maria took it the hardest. Kyle was the closest thing she had to a brother besides Alex, who obviously wasn't there anymore. He had always been there for her. One time, Liz had hooked her up on a blind date to try to help her get over Michael. When Liz and Max went off to make out, she was left alone at the beach with a guy who had a nasty reputation, even

worse than Michael's. The guy almost hurt her, then Kyle appeared out of nowhere and beat the crap out of him. It was then that Maria noticed that Kyle was much more than a friend to her. He was her brother. Whether he was blood-relation or not. Maria made her way over to the couch.

"So Kyle, how are you feeling?" She held her delicate hand up to his sweaty

forehead.

"Fine." He groaned, trying not to show her that he was uncomfortable and in pain.

"Well, yesterday you had a fever and it feels like you still do. Maybe you

should go lie down, just in case."

"Maria! I'm fine, now just drop it okay? You're not my keeper!" With that he got up and walked away. Maria got up to follow him, but Isabel stood in her way.

"Let him go. Maybe you should give him time to cool off. I'll talk to him."

"No!" Everyone turned their heads toward Liz.

"Isabel, I know you mean well. As much as you want to help him, if you walk in there you're just going to make things worse. The best you can do is

just walk away, at least for now." Liz headed toward the room.

"It's nothing against you. It's just that I think this is a problem that we

semi humans need to handle. You coming, Maria?" Maria planted herself next to her best friend and went into Kyle's room to comfort him.

*Inside Kyle's room*

"Hey, I thought you could use some earthly comfort." Liz smirked.

"Look Liz, I know you're here to help, but I really just want to handle this on

my own."

"No. Kyle, you need us here. We're your friends. Start at the and beginning tell us what has been happening." pleaded a distraught Maria.

"All right, it all started when I was in the bathroom getting ready to go over

to your place for dinner." Kyle described each detail about his inhuman experience.

"Then I experienced something new with dreams. I could sense what people were dreaming. Kind of like dream walking but doing it without your own knowledge of it. You have no control over what you see or when you see it.

I can sense fear and other emotions. I can hear what people are

thinking but only the "special" ones, you know. I thing I'm telepathic or

something." Kyle finished. He told them everything. Everything but about Michael's dream. He didn't want Maria to freak out more than she was.

"Well, Kyle, are your changes hurting you? I mean, when I was going through mine, it looked as if it hurt but it didn't hurt until Max tried to heal me."

"No, they don't." With that, Maria feel to the floor in agony.

"Oh my god, Maria are you all right?" Liz asked her friend, helping her up to

her feet and onto Kyle's bed.

"What? Oh, I'm fine. I just didn't get much sleep last night and I felt

faint." It wasn't the truth but in light of all the confusion, Liz seemed to buy it.

"Okay, as long as you are stable."

"Um Liz, could you wait outside for a moment. I need to have a little brotherly- sisterly chat with Kyle here."

"Sure thing, call if ya need me." Liz joined the others.

"Okay now that Liz is gone, Kyle I need to talk to you. Something has come up. Maria had been hiding her hand behind her back the whole time and now brought it up for Kyle to see. It looked just like Liz's did when she was going through her ch-ch-changes. With one exception: hers were not only green bolts. There was also yellow, pink, red the whole kit-n-caboodle. Kyle was officially freaked out.

"What the... how were you even healed?"

No answer.

"You weren't, were you?"

"Kyle that's not important right now. We have to figure this out."

"Look, have you or haven't you been healed by Max? Answer the question, Maria. Yes or no? It's not that complicated."

"You don't understand, it's not that easy. I just can't tell you. Don't force me.

It's just better if you don't know. It's the best thing for all of us."

"Maria, I will not be left in the dark. Either you tell me the truth or I go

out there and ask Max for myself. Now how about it?" Maria remained silent. She couldn't tell him the truth. The moment she told him he would get super protective and go out there and tell Michael and together they would play hero and make sure she was never out of their sight again. She would go mad.

"Please, Kyle!!!" she pleaded.

"Fine!" he headed torward the door.

"Fine!" he turned his head torward her. "If I tell you, you have got to promise

me that on your grave you won't snitch. Not Liz, not Michael...not anyone.

Promise me that."

"You have my word as a Buddhist." Maria took a deep breath before telling him.

"Alright, sit down. This may take a while."

"It happened while I was in New York, yes Max healed me. I was

staying with Billy. Max was also in town that day. His father was on a

business trip with Jessie. It was a male bonding thing. Well, one day, Max

went out exploring. He wanted to see if he could find Rath and Lonnie and Ava. He couldn't track them down. That's when he got a call from Michael. Michael told him that I was in NYC making a CD."

"Did Michael know that Max was in the same city as you or was that just a bonus?" asked Kyle. He was getting annoyed .

"No, max lied to him. He just told him that he was still looking for his son.

When he found out that I was there, he decided to look me up. To check up on me, I guess. While I, on the other hand, was in Billy's apartment. Only if I had known the real Billy, I never would have agreed to stay with him. He had been drunk, maybe even high on drugs." Maria tried to hold back her tears, but they squeezed their way out. She held in a sob and Kyle took her into his arms.

"It's okay, go on." he encouraged her.

"He...he attacked me. First he hand-cuffed my wrists together and threw me all around the apartment. He hurt me so much but I wasn't afraid for my life until he locked me in the closet and came back with a knife. I was so scared, Kyle!" she wiped her eyes. Kyle was in shock, he couldn't believe the words that were coming out of her mouth. He had met Billy and never would have even considered him to be a violent person. But if they ever crossed each other's paths again, he would be

the violent one. No one treated his family like that. Especially not Maria. She wasn't just some ordinary girl.

"Maria, he didn't, you know, (gulp) did he?" asked Kyle, worriedly.

"What, no! Um, he stabbed me about 5 times in the abdomen and then when I wouldn't give up, he pulled out his gun and shot me. That's when Max came bursting through the door. I don't know how he knew where I was, but he found me and kicked the s*** out of Billy. Without using his powers, too. I don't think I will ever see him again. Max healed me that night. And I made him promise me that he would never tell another living soul. I knew and still

know that if Michael ever found out, he'd kill Billy. They SO do not need that distraction right know. So please, promise you won't tell anyone."

"Wow! I was not prepared for that."

"Yeah, neither was I."

"Maria are sure it was really Billy? I mean, couldn't it have been a shape shifter or some alien hunter that used you as bait to get to Max?"

"What do ya mean? It was Billy! Only one man could kiss me like that. Oops!" Maria slippedup. Kyle was so perturbed that he didn't hear it.

"Well with this group, I just want to make sure it was him. I met the guy. He

didn't seem to be that type of person. So before we jump to conclusions, let's

make sure Billy is Billy."

"All right, you're right! It could have been a shape shifter."

"Come on, let's get out and join the others before they come barging in. Here." He said as he handed her a kleenex. "Don't want anyone getting suspicious."

Minutes later, they reopened the door.

"Hey what took you so long?" asked Isabel, obviously annoyed.

"Oh we just had to clear up a few things, that's all." Maria gave him

thankful look. It was clear to her now that he wasn't going to tattle on her.

"Kyle, how are you feeling? I'm not trying to be a nag, but I am worried." offered Liz.

"What? Do I look like a six-year-old." he threw back at her.

"Well someone sure is acting like one." shot Isabel.

"Maybe someone needs a nap."

"Shut up, Isabel." everyone yelled.

"Maybe you all need nappy time. You are all cranky."

It's getting late. Let's all go home and get some rest and we'll

figure out what to do tomorrow. You know, start fresh. Goodnight everyone." Max said before leaving. He winked at Liz. That was the signal for

"I hope you have enough energy to meet my needs."

Tomorrow they would figure this whole thing out tomorrow.

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