Disclaimer: Me no write english. But I can write that I OWN Zee and Tommy. Yey!
A/N: Thanks so much for those that reviewed and read.. means lots.
Gosh yall.. i'm getting excited to write the next chapters so I can finally write when Max and Alec meet.. Phew, guess I'm gonna have to type a lot faster huh?
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Cause I'm here, ready to take it all here.
Everythings feeling unclear.
I wish it was raining,
Cause I hate every beautiful day.
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- Alecs Apartment, 9AM -

Sighing, Alec turned his head to see Max walking towards him. Her face had shown that she was happy, but her eyes showed that she was tired and weak.

"Alec." She said. Her voice was not much higher than a whisper. Alec ran a hand through his hair and she touched his face softly. His eyes fluttered shut, just wanting to feel the warmth that she was giving to him.

He opened his eyes moments later, and her eyes now showed panic. He looked at her confused, when he saw blood. Touching her face, his hand was now covered in the red, sticky substance.

The blood kept coming, it seemed to not stop. Her head was bleeding, and now her nose was too. He was now scared and confused, and his mind was blank. "You did this to me Alec." Max whispered.

Alec froze at her words, and she repeated them. "You Alec, you did this to me. It's all your fault." She repeated this several times, and he tried to block her voice out, but it wouldn't go away.

Shaking his head furiously, Alec sobbed, dropping to his knees. Forcing himself to not hear her, he covered his ears. But he could still hear her.

Snapping his eyes open, Alec shot out of bed drenched in sweat. It had just been a dream.

Sighing, he quickly got out of bed and walked into the bathroom. Turning the water on, he hurriedly got into the shower and let the water cascade down his body.

Closing his eyes, he shut the dream from his mind. But it was still there, in the back of his mind, itching at him. He felt sick.

About 15 minutes later he finally got out of the shower, feeling much better. Grabbing a towel he brought it around his waist and opened the door.

The girl, Eve, from the night before was laying sprawled out on his bed. He smirked, almost forgetting she was still here. He went back in the bathroom and shut the door, getting dressed in there.

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After what seemed like hours, Alec finally got Eve to go home, not without her complaining how 'small and icky' his place was.

Quickly hopping on his bike, Alec rode over to JP.

As soon as he got there he spotted OC and walked over to her. "Hey OC, can I talk to you for a minute?" Alec asked her.

OC nodded and turned to look at him, "What is it boo?" Alec rubbed his hands together, not knowing how to tell her anything he was about to say. "Well, I think I'm having this problem."

OC raised her eyebrow, "You think?" She repeated. He shook his head, "Okay I know I have a problem. But, I just don't really know how to explain it. I've- I've been having these dreams."

Original looked dumbfounded at him. So.. he had a dream.

Alec shook his head again, "You don't understand, this wasn't an ordinary dream. It's one of those dreams you never wished you had, but you know that you had it. And you can't stop thinking about it. And the dream, it just, I don't know how to explain it. It's one you never thought, or wished you had."

Original Cindy nodded her head, she was beginning to understand where this was going, "It's aight boo. Everyone has those dreams."

"But this one, it's different. Max, she was.." Alec's voice trailed off thinking about the dreams he was having. It had to be about 6 now. He was almost afraid to fall asleep.

"What was Max? She was in your dream?" Alec nodded, "Well tell OC 'bout it boo." Alec sat down beside her. "Well, I've just been having these reccuring dreams with Max in them since she left. In them, their's always something wrong with her, or me. And she's telling me it's all my fault."

OC nodded, "Why do you think your having these dreams?" She asked him. Alec shrugged, "I don't know, but ever since she left, I can't get her off of my mind. And I don't know why."

Original briefly hugged Alec, "It's called love boo." She smiled tiredly at him and walked away. "Love?" Alec repeated to himself.

It couldn't be that. Anything but that.

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- California, Noon -

"So, where's this new job of yours?" Tommy had asked her for about the tenth time that day. Max breathed inwardly, praying to herself that she wouldn't lose her temper.

"I told you, it's about 10 minutes from our apartment. I'm on my way their now. Just shut up." Aparently he did, because she didn't hear his annoying voice anymore.

"So, what are you?" Max clenched the steering wheel in anger. "For the tenth time, I'm a bartender." The kid opened his mouth to form an 'o' shape. "Whats that?" Tommy asked.

Max was sure by now that her skin had turned red hot with anger. God this kid was so much like, Alec. "Whatcha thinkin'?" Tommy asked her five minutes later.

"Just about my friends back home." She said honestly. "Tell me about them." He said quietly. "Well, I have this best friend of mine, OC." Max smiled thinking about her, "Shes great. Probably the most honest person I've ever met, besides you."

Tommy giggled, "Thanks." Max smirked, "And theirs Logan." Her voice drifted off, "Not much to say about him." She said trying to force him from her mind.

"Sketchy," Max smiled, "Now theirs a perfect waste of a male species for you." Quietly laughing, she stopped when a name popped into her head suddenly.

"And theirs Alec." She paused, "God, he knew how to drive me insane, just like you. But I've always had a soft spot for him, though I'd never tell him."

"You like this Alec eh?" Tommy asked, smiling sheepishly up at her. Max shook her head, "Nah, he's just a friend. A pain in the ass, but a friend none the less."

She knew what he'd say if he were here right now. *It's always over my ass isn't it Max?* He'd say with his sly grin on his face. That grin, it could get a girl in bed with him within 10 seconds.

"Doesn't sound like your just friends." Tommy said to her. Max looked down at him surprised, then ruffled his hair. "Ahh, where here." Max said pulling the car up to the bar, and also changing the subject.

The car had been from Zee. He had been nice enough to lend her a car that she could pay off, and she couldn't complain, it was pretty awesome.

Max and Tommy walked up to the place and walked in silently. "RockHard, nice name." Tommy said, following Max into the large place.

"Cool." He said looking around. The place was big, she had to give it some credit. It had speakers everywhere, a stage, large bar, everything. It looked almost identical to Crash.

"Your early." A voice said. Max turned around quickly, it was Zee. "Yeah well, you know. Figured I'd give myself a tour, get acquainted with my new job. Though, I really don't know how to be a bartender."

Zee smiled, "Ahh, It's not as hard as it seems." Max nodded, "So do you work here?" Max asked him. She didn't want to be nosey, but she was just curious.

He shook his head, "Nah, I work below in the garage. I'm Mrs. J's nephew." Ahh, now she was getting the picture, "So you help her take care of the place eh?"

Zee nodded, "Yeah. But sadly, she won't be here for long. You see, she's been sick for awhile, and she needs someone to take over the place. But she just doesn't want anyone, she wants someone she can trust, someone that's not so greedy. She hasn't found them yet."

Max nodded in understanding, "Why don't you take it over?" She asked. Zee shook his head, "Can't. See, I already run my own shop, I can't run two businesses. Not that talented."

Max laughed quietly. Zee moved over to a near table and sat down, looking over the paper in his hands. "What you doing?" Max asked sitting beside him.

"Looking for a roomie. Can't pay all the rent to my place myself, and since my last roomie just went in debt, I really don't think he could be much help."

Max cocked her eyebrow in thought, "Well.."

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- Crash 9PM -

Alec was on his seventh pitcher of beer. He didn't have a buzz, and he didn't feel like he wanted to, numb. Sketchy and Original were sitting across from him, both drunk.

Alec dropped his head, trying not to think. Trying to do anything but sleep, it was the last thing he had needed at the moment.

Original and Sketchy were talking, but he couldn't make out what. Not even with his great sense of hearing. Their had to be something wrong with him.

Ahh yes, his ears were ringing. So loud, he thought his brain might explode. Not that he would complain.

"You guys, I think I'm going to call it a night." Alec said slowly getting up, putting his jacket on and walking out the door.

"Whats with him?" Sketchy squeaked, laughing lightly. OC shrugged, "Just got bit with the love bug is all."

Sketchy laughed and snorted. It wasn't funny at all, but he was drunk. Right at the moment he couldn't tell the difference between a word and a sentence.

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Sighing, Alec kicked his shoes off and layed on the couch. His eyes kept closing, but his mind kept telling him to not fall asleep.

So he turned on the tv and watched some music videos, all thoughts of Max trying to be blocked from his mind. He kept struggling, forcing himself to forget her for one minute.

And he had, almost. But their was just one thing he couldn't get out of his head, and it was love.

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- Max's Apartment, 10PM -

Right at the moment, Max would have been at Crash with OC, Alec and Sketchy, and she wished she had been. It was much better than what she was doing now.

Zee had decided to come over to her place for the night and help her get packed, because she was now staying with him at his place. Which was much better than her place.

Tommy and Zee had been playing Monopoly for about 3 hours now. She wanted to strangle them, she kept hearing 'I passed go!' and 'I wanna be the shoe this time'.

Max was sitting on the floor, sprawled on her stomach, watching Trading Spaces. It seemed fascinating how one home could be a piece of trash one day, and beautiful 5 hours later.

But the occasional laugh and cheer coming from the kitchen was enough to keep her mind off of the tv. So she decided to call OC.

Getting up, she grabbed the phone and went into her room, closing the door. Slowly dialing the number, she listened into the phone.

After the phone rang numerous times, the voice mail came on, and Max decided to leave a message.

"Hey OC, it's Max. Sorry I didn't get ahold of you. Hopefully I'll try back soon. Bye."

Max hung up the phone and went back into the living room, seeing that Tommy and Zee had finally put away the game, and were now watching Trading Spaces too.

Their was something about Zee that she couldn't place, and it made her wonder. Max wanted to ask him so many questions, but felt that it wasn't the right time to.

Max got up off the couch and headed for her room, "Guys I'm goin' to bed now, you can stay up as long as you want. Just make sure I don't hear your ass talking." Max threw over her shoulder.

"Always an obsession with my ass ain't it Maxie?"

Max quickly turned around and looked at Zee, "What did you say?" She asked him. Zee looked up at her alarmed, "Nothing. I didn't say anything."

"Oh." Max said softly. Zee and Tommy stared after her as she turned around and went into her room, shutting the door.

"What the hell is with you Max?" She asked herself aloud. "It's all in your head."

But what she should have said, was HE'S all in your head.

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A/N: Okay, hope you guys enjoyed this installment. I decided to stop here and save the rest for the next chapter.
And the winning choice is: Idea #1. But just because so many of you wanted to wait a few chapters till I go right into some months later, I decided to write a few more chapters.

Hopefully you all like my story so far, any ideas or suggestions you wanna throw at me, go ahead. And a nice little review is always nice.. =)

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