A/N: THANKS FOR THE REVIEWS.
HERE'S CHAPTER TWO. I HAVE THIS WHOLE STORY PLANNED ALREADY BUT IM WILLING TO LISTEN TO SUGGESTIONS AND MAKE SOME CHANGES ALONG THE WAY.
ENJOY.
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Max scanned Jam Pony as she entered the building. Alec was over at his locker, half hidden in the crowd of mingling workers.
Heaving a sigh, she walked over to him.
She knew that Alec knew she was there but he chose not to look up and continue digging into his backpack.
"Alec."
"Max." He said; his voice just as tense as hers.
"Where have you been?" She asked as she leaned one shoulder on the lockers.
He finally looked up from what he was doing and gave her an icy what's-it- to-you-glare. "Around." He replied as he slung his bag over one shoulder and began to walk away.
"For a whole week?" She asked as she kept in pace with him.
"Yeah. A whole week. Why?" He replied without looking at her.
"I was worried." Max answered, her voice slightly softening. She knew he was avoiding her. Hell, he had every reason to be ever since she played the blame game on him again.
He rolled his eyes and muttered, "Right."
"Don't give me that crap, Alec." She hissed under her breath, refusing to draw attention to them.
"What crap?" He grinned. He was baiting her emotions and it was working. And he loved it.
"This crap!" She snapped as she continued to follow him again. "Alec, we have to talk so cut it."
"Actually, I have to do my runs." He said as he reached the booth where Normal was handing out the packages.
"Which sectors?"
"Five and six. Why?"
"I got sector six so I'll talk to you while we go there." She offered.
Alec said nothing and just grabbed the packages and shoved them into his back pack.
"Bip! Bip! Bip!" Normal's usual annoying tone rang out. "Don't just stand around here people. I didn't hire you to be here and make my life miserable by making my business a failure!" He yelled out. Someone mumbled that it already was but Normal just shot at glare at the closest people who happened to be Max.
Max rolled her eyes at Normal and followed Alec. This sure was going to be tough.
"So how's Logan?" Alec asked as if he gave a damn about the guy who he honestly thought was making Max's life miserable.
"He's okay, I guess." She replied, not sure what to say.
"Good." Alec said.
Max sighed as they rode their bikes. "Alec, can we please stop this?" She asked. She could only take so much from him. It was already hard enough that she had to be the one to instigate their "talk" and he was avoiding it altogether.
"Stop what?" He asked innocently.
"Stop playing games." She said through gritted teeth as she gripped the handle on her bikes tightly. He was definitely pushing her buttons.
"Games! I'm not playing any games. I can't say the same for you though." He said icily.
"What the hell is that supposed to mean?" Max demanded angrily, stopping her bike in the middle of the crowd.
"You know damn well what it means." Alec glared at her.
"Actually, I don't. I don't understand why you're so angry with me and why you've avoided me for a whole week now." She declared. Alec was really starting to irritate her. Here she was trying to make peace with him and all he was doing was making it worse.
"Do not stand there and act saintly and innocent, Max. You know damn well why I'm pissed as hell at you." He hissed angrily.
"Alec-"
"No, you listen! I have taken a lot of crap from you, Max. I have tolerated you blaming me day in and out for every single bad shit that happens to you but DO NOT blame me for the mess that you've created because we slept together." He said as he glared at her icily. Alec knew that was going off on her and that perhaps he shouldn't be but he was so damn hurt that he just wanted to lash out at her. Make her hurt a little and maybe, just maybe, Max would understand what he was feeling. "In your mind, you're always right Max. It's alright that you use me for just cheap sex and leave it at that. You act like it means nothing. It doesn't work like that." He said growing quiet.
"Bullshit! You do exactly the same thing, Alec. You screw anything with legs and breasts. And like always, it means nothing." She retorted furiously. A crowd was beginning to watch them, curious at the rather heated and controversial argument. "What's so different now?"
Alec wanted to tell that it was different because it was her. She was Max and meant that sex wasn't just nothing. But instead, his ego got the better of him and he yelled, "I am not the one who claims to be in love with someone else!"
"This has nothing to do with Logan." She argued.
Alec groaned furiously. "Yes it does, Max. It has everything to do with Logan. You claim to love him and yet you're not faithful. Explain that to me."
Her eyes softened as she tried to find and explanation. "Because with you it's different." She replied but the anger in Alec's face remained.
"How?" He asked incredulously.
"I don't know. It just is. It's not always nothing. It means something too. You mean something." Max explained.
"I think you lie to yourself so much that you actually believe them now." He said.
"I am not lying. I am trying to tell you the truth here." She protested.
"No, you're not. You're trying to relieve yourself of your guilt so that if and when Logan finds out about this, you can honestly say that it was 'my' fault." He argued stubbornly. "And don't give me that speech about me meaning something to you. When it comes down to it, Logan will come first before everything. Before yourself, your friends and me."
"That's not true." She said unconvincingly.
"Believe what you want. Do you honestly know why I'm so angry at you?" He asked as he shifted his weight from one foot to the other. She nodded. "When we slept together, you called me Logan. Me! And when you couldn't pretend anymore, you just said nothing and did not look at me."
The deed was done and damage already created.
She loved Logan. Plain and simple and that hurt him. She meant a lot to Alec but Logan would always come first. No one would measure up to Logan.
"You couldn't touch him so I became the replacement. Each time you touched me, you were dreaming of Logan."
Alec looked so hurt that Max wanted to step forward and hug him just to ease the pain even for a fraction of a second. But instead she glared back him and stood her ground. "I never did that." She said defending herself.
"Forget it then. You're never going to accept the fact that you were wrong but I guess 'wrong' depends on who's judging the situation." Alec said as he suddenly looked very weary. He had enough of this. "It happened once Max. Just once but that was enough for me."
"I'm-"
"Don't. I really do hope that you and Logan are happy Max." He said sincerely and with that said he straddled his bike and drove away from her.
Max stood in the middle of the crowd, her cheeks burning red from the slight embarrassment of making a scene and from the fact that she was holding back tears. Swallowing hard, she kept her eyes on Alec until he vanished into the crowd.
"That's the problem. I don't want to be with Logan anymore." She whispered but even with Alec's enhanced hearing, he was too far gone to catch what she just said.
~*~
A/N: WELL THAT WAS A LOT OF PROFANITY. BUT HOPEFULLY I DID ALRIGHT ON PORTRAYING THEIR ANGER. THERE WILL BE MORE ANGST, I ASSURE YOU.
SO COME ON, TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK.
THANKS FOR READING.
HERE'S CHAPTER TWO. I HAVE THIS WHOLE STORY PLANNED ALREADY BUT IM WILLING TO LISTEN TO SUGGESTIONS AND MAKE SOME CHANGES ALONG THE WAY.
ENJOY.
~*~
Max scanned Jam Pony as she entered the building. Alec was over at his locker, half hidden in the crowd of mingling workers.
Heaving a sigh, she walked over to him.
She knew that Alec knew she was there but he chose not to look up and continue digging into his backpack.
"Alec."
"Max." He said; his voice just as tense as hers.
"Where have you been?" She asked as she leaned one shoulder on the lockers.
He finally looked up from what he was doing and gave her an icy what's-it- to-you-glare. "Around." He replied as he slung his bag over one shoulder and began to walk away.
"For a whole week?" She asked as she kept in pace with him.
"Yeah. A whole week. Why?" He replied without looking at her.
"I was worried." Max answered, her voice slightly softening. She knew he was avoiding her. Hell, he had every reason to be ever since she played the blame game on him again.
He rolled his eyes and muttered, "Right."
"Don't give me that crap, Alec." She hissed under her breath, refusing to draw attention to them.
"What crap?" He grinned. He was baiting her emotions and it was working. And he loved it.
"This crap!" She snapped as she continued to follow him again. "Alec, we have to talk so cut it."
"Actually, I have to do my runs." He said as he reached the booth where Normal was handing out the packages.
"Which sectors?"
"Five and six. Why?"
"I got sector six so I'll talk to you while we go there." She offered.
Alec said nothing and just grabbed the packages and shoved them into his back pack.
"Bip! Bip! Bip!" Normal's usual annoying tone rang out. "Don't just stand around here people. I didn't hire you to be here and make my life miserable by making my business a failure!" He yelled out. Someone mumbled that it already was but Normal just shot at glare at the closest people who happened to be Max.
Max rolled her eyes at Normal and followed Alec. This sure was going to be tough.
"So how's Logan?" Alec asked as if he gave a damn about the guy who he honestly thought was making Max's life miserable.
"He's okay, I guess." She replied, not sure what to say.
"Good." Alec said.
Max sighed as they rode their bikes. "Alec, can we please stop this?" She asked. She could only take so much from him. It was already hard enough that she had to be the one to instigate their "talk" and he was avoiding it altogether.
"Stop what?" He asked innocently.
"Stop playing games." She said through gritted teeth as she gripped the handle on her bikes tightly. He was definitely pushing her buttons.
"Games! I'm not playing any games. I can't say the same for you though." He said icily.
"What the hell is that supposed to mean?" Max demanded angrily, stopping her bike in the middle of the crowd.
"You know damn well what it means." Alec glared at her.
"Actually, I don't. I don't understand why you're so angry with me and why you've avoided me for a whole week now." She declared. Alec was really starting to irritate her. Here she was trying to make peace with him and all he was doing was making it worse.
"Do not stand there and act saintly and innocent, Max. You know damn well why I'm pissed as hell at you." He hissed angrily.
"Alec-"
"No, you listen! I have taken a lot of crap from you, Max. I have tolerated you blaming me day in and out for every single bad shit that happens to you but DO NOT blame me for the mess that you've created because we slept together." He said as he glared at her icily. Alec knew that was going off on her and that perhaps he shouldn't be but he was so damn hurt that he just wanted to lash out at her. Make her hurt a little and maybe, just maybe, Max would understand what he was feeling. "In your mind, you're always right Max. It's alright that you use me for just cheap sex and leave it at that. You act like it means nothing. It doesn't work like that." He said growing quiet.
"Bullshit! You do exactly the same thing, Alec. You screw anything with legs and breasts. And like always, it means nothing." She retorted furiously. A crowd was beginning to watch them, curious at the rather heated and controversial argument. "What's so different now?"
Alec wanted to tell that it was different because it was her. She was Max and meant that sex wasn't just nothing. But instead, his ego got the better of him and he yelled, "I am not the one who claims to be in love with someone else!"
"This has nothing to do with Logan." She argued.
Alec groaned furiously. "Yes it does, Max. It has everything to do with Logan. You claim to love him and yet you're not faithful. Explain that to me."
Her eyes softened as she tried to find and explanation. "Because with you it's different." She replied but the anger in Alec's face remained.
"How?" He asked incredulously.
"I don't know. It just is. It's not always nothing. It means something too. You mean something." Max explained.
"I think you lie to yourself so much that you actually believe them now." He said.
"I am not lying. I am trying to tell you the truth here." She protested.
"No, you're not. You're trying to relieve yourself of your guilt so that if and when Logan finds out about this, you can honestly say that it was 'my' fault." He argued stubbornly. "And don't give me that speech about me meaning something to you. When it comes down to it, Logan will come first before everything. Before yourself, your friends and me."
"That's not true." She said unconvincingly.
"Believe what you want. Do you honestly know why I'm so angry at you?" He asked as he shifted his weight from one foot to the other. She nodded. "When we slept together, you called me Logan. Me! And when you couldn't pretend anymore, you just said nothing and did not look at me."
The deed was done and damage already created.
She loved Logan. Plain and simple and that hurt him. She meant a lot to Alec but Logan would always come first. No one would measure up to Logan.
"You couldn't touch him so I became the replacement. Each time you touched me, you were dreaming of Logan."
Alec looked so hurt that Max wanted to step forward and hug him just to ease the pain even for a fraction of a second. But instead she glared back him and stood her ground. "I never did that." She said defending herself.
"Forget it then. You're never going to accept the fact that you were wrong but I guess 'wrong' depends on who's judging the situation." Alec said as he suddenly looked very weary. He had enough of this. "It happened once Max. Just once but that was enough for me."
"I'm-"
"Don't. I really do hope that you and Logan are happy Max." He said sincerely and with that said he straddled his bike and drove away from her.
Max stood in the middle of the crowd, her cheeks burning red from the slight embarrassment of making a scene and from the fact that she was holding back tears. Swallowing hard, she kept her eyes on Alec until he vanished into the crowd.
"That's the problem. I don't want to be with Logan anymore." She whispered but even with Alec's enhanced hearing, he was too far gone to catch what she just said.
~*~
A/N: WELL THAT WAS A LOT OF PROFANITY. BUT HOPEFULLY I DID ALRIGHT ON PORTRAYING THEIR ANGER. THERE WILL BE MORE ANGST, I ASSURE YOU.
SO COME ON, TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK.
THANKS FOR READING.