Sorry about the delay in posting this part, I hadn't wrote any for a while and had pretty much resigned myself to the fact that it just wasn't happening, but I've wrote more now, so it definitely won't be as long until the next part's posted. Thank you so much for the feedback so far. Hope u enjoy, feel free to leave feedback that is brutally honest, even if it's not too nice. Leanne x Chapter 6

           
Liz breathed a sigh of relief as she felt the bus pull away. Opening her eyes she looked out of the window, just to make sure that she was really on her way, well and truly out of this town and this life. Ok, as unhappy as she'd been lately, she knew she would miss something's about home- her parents, Maria, The Crashdown…even her silly little uniform that she still occasionally wore when she worked as a favour to her dad. Liz thought back to when she had told her parents she was leaving to go and live with Alex…

"Okay honey. I think you deserve a holiday; you've been far too stressed out recently. Whenever you want to go, we'll arrange it," her mother had said with a pitying look on her face. Her dad had just sat looking at her, she had a feeling he understood what she meant.
"Mom, you don't understand. I don't want to go for a holiday. I'm going to live there, for good. I need to get out of Roswell," Liz had explained slowly. "I'm really sorry, you know how much I love you, both of you, but I can't bear it here anymore."
"Lizzy, you know we will support you whatever you do but are you sure you want to do this? I mean California's so far away," her dad asked her gently.
"Yes dad, I really want to do this. I need to do this. I'm 21 and I've never really been out of Roswell. And…" Liz said trailing off.
"And what honey?" her mom asked although she had a fairly good idea as to what Liz had been about to say.
"Oh, nothing, it doesn't matter," Liz brushed the question off. "I've already booked the plane tickets. I'm leaving at the end if the week. I'm sorry."
"Next week? That's far too soon. Have you even made plans about where you're going to stay, or how you can afford it or anything?" Her mom was reacting exactly like Liz had thought she would.
"I'm staying with Alex for awhile until I get sorted and Alex's friend has promised me a job in a restaurant he works in. And I still have my savings, if I need them," Liz told them matter-of-factly.
Nancy could see that nothing was going to change her daughters mind; she was as stubborn as herself.
"OK, Liz, we'll help you in any way that we can," Nancy told her softly looking at her husband sorrowfully.
"Thank you Mom, I really wanted you and Dad to understand," Liz said hugging her parents tightly.

Liz was woken from her reverie but the voice of the driver over the intercom. "OK folks, we'll be stopping in Las Cruces in approximately five minutes. If everyone isn't back on the bus within ten minutes, I'm sorry but you'll have to catch a later bus, people. That's the rule!"

Liz had hardly been in the bus and already the stuffiness was killing her, She needed a cool drink and some air. She was one of the first off the bus when it stopped. So absorbed in finding a vending machine, she didn't notice a shiny black jeep pull into a space near the bus, didn't notice a handsome young man get out and run over to her. She didn't notice until she felt a hand grab hers. Turning round she found herself looking straight into a pair of deep soulful eyes that were so familiar to her and yet almost like they were from a dream she had had once but struggled to remember.
"Max?" Liz gasped. "What are you doing here?"
"I could ask you the same question. I got a phone call this morning telling me that you were leaving. Why Liz, why?" Max asked her forcedly.
"Maria! She told you!!
"That doesn't matter. What matters is why you're leaving. Liz, talk to me."
"Why? So you can make yourself feel better and than go back to her leaving me alone again?" She spat at him. "It's happened before Max and I am NOT going to let it happen again. You left me long before now. Now let go of me. Go back to your fiancé." Liz shouted at him.
Max recoiled out of shame. He had never heard Liz speak like this but he couldn't deny it was fully justified.
Liz had begun to walk back towards the bus. Max ran after her.
"No, Liz wait. Just let me speak. Please?" Max asked pathetically.
"I've said all I want to say and for once I am not going to listen to anything you want to say. I'm looking after ME for once. Now leave, I am getting on this bus and you aren't going to follow me. I need to live my life, instead of waiting for you to live yours." Liz turned on her heel, walked away from him and got onto the bus.