I'm a big M/M fan so I'll put more M/M action in this story than anything
else. I'm not a very big dreamer, so, although they'll be together
eventually, I probably won't focus on the romance of Max and Liz too much,
sorry to all the Dreamers.
I don't feel too good about this chapter, so tell me what you think!!!
Chapter 3
The Next Day.
"Will you three hurry up? We're going to be late again," Max said as he waited for Alex, Michael, and Kyle to finish getting ready.
"Would you relax? Geez, it's not like we're going to meet the president; it's just school," Michael said walking out of his room.
"Well some of us like to be on time to get a good education," Max replied.
"Not some of us, Max - just you," Kyle said as he and Alex walked into their living room.
"Whatever. Can we go now?" he asked annoyed that he was going to be late once again.
"Sir, yes sir!" Alex said with a mock salute as they left their apartment.
"So I heard that you two finally got caught," Max said to Kyle and Michael from the driver's seat. "I told you that it was only a matter of time before Dad found you guys were skipping third period," he said while laughing.
"Yeah, laugh it up Maxwell," Michael said dryly. "Seriously, can you blame us? Who willingly exerts energy for something as stupid as gym class?" he asked, not really expecting an answer.
"Maybe people who want to graduate?" Alex said sarcastically.
"Whatever," Michael replied with a roll of his eyes. They pulled into the parking lot and headed into the building. After stopping by each of their lockers, they headed to their first period class, Physics.
Meanwhile.
"And that's it. Does anyone have any questions?" the principal asked. After realizing that they weren't going to say anything, Principal Anderson handed Maria, Liz, Tess, and Isabel their schedules. "You all have first period together, so I'll lead you there now," he said.
"I can already tell that this school year is going to suck," Maria said to Isabel as they walked down the hall.
"I know what you mean," Isabel replied, rolling her eyes at the alien stickers that she saw on some lockers.
"We leave New York to escape all of our problems, only to come here and have people mock our race. This town already sucks," Liz whispered to them.
"Here you are ladies," Principal Anderson said, opening the door for the girls. "Enjoy your day," he said before leaving.
"You must be the new students. My name is Mrs. Jackson, and I'll be your Physics teacher for the year," Mrs. Jackson with a smile as she ushered the girls into the room. "Would you girls like to tell us something about yourselves?" she asked.
"Sure," Isabel replied already putting up her cool, nonchalant exterior. "My name is Isabel Deluca, and these are my sisters Maria, Tess, and Liz and we moved here from New York with our mom," she said keeping her explanation as simple as possible.
"All right then," Mrs. Jackson said after seeing that Isabel wasn't going to say anything more. "Since you ladies have come here in December, I think it will be better if I pair you with lab partners who already know what we're doing," she said. Looking around the room, she tried to find her four best students to pair with the girls. 'There's Max Evans, Alex Whitman, Kyle Valenti, when he tries, and.Michael Guerin. As much as that boy annoys me, I can't deny the fact that he is one of my best students.' She thought to herself. Turning around, she spoke to the girls.
"Okay, I'm going to pair you girls with my four best students. Liz, you can go sit next to Max Evans. Please raise your hand Max," she said.
"I already know who he is," Liz said walking over to Max.
"I see. Anyway, Isabel you will be partners with Alex Whitman. Tess, you can sit with Kyle Valenti, and Maria, you and Michael will be lab partners," she said.
"Great," Maria mumbled sarcastically under her breath as she made her way over to Michael's table.
"You again?" Michael asked in an annoyed voice.
"This isn't exactly a bed of roses for me either," Maria said with a roll of her eyes.
"One thing we're going to have to get straight, I don't like to be annoyed. So if you just keep your mouth shut whenever you're around me, you and I will have no problems," he said.
"Well that's too bad, because I take orders from no one," Maria said staring at Michael. "So you'll just have to learn to respond to me whenever I ask you something, okay?"
Michael stared at Maria, slightly surprised by her attitude toward him. No one had ever challenged him or tried to order him around. 'Who the hell does she think she is?' he asked himself silently.
"Whatever," he said, not knowing what else to say.
"Good comeback," Maria said sarcastically before turning her attention to the teacher.
Behind them, Kyle and Tess were just settling down.
"So, what do you think of Roswell?" Kyle asked.
"We haven't been here long enough to do any sightseeing," Tess replied looking at the teacher.
"I see. Well, if you want, I could show you around Roswell today after school," he suggested.
"No, no, that's okay," Tess said not wanting to form any attachments. "My sisters and I have to finish unpacking and I don't think I'll have time to do anything," she said.
"Well what about tomorrow?" Kyle asked, wanting to get to know one of the newest residents of Roswell.
"I really don't think it's a good idea. I'm really busy and quite frankly, I'm uninterested," Tess said rudely, trying to get Kyle to back off.
"Oh, ok," Kyle said, slightly hurt by Tess's rude tone to him.
"I'm sorry," Tess said feeling bad about what she said. "It's just, I'm really not looking for any new relationships right now," she said.
"That's fine," Kyle said deciding to let the subject drop, for now.
"I know we didn't really get off on a good start yesterday night, but I hope that we can good partners this year," Alex said to Isabel as she listened to the teacher.
"Sure, I could use an A this school year," Isabel replied not bothering to look at Alex.
"That's good," Alex said. "So, why would you guys leave New York to come to a hellhole like Roswell?" he asked.
"Do you always ask questions that aren't your business?" she asked turning toward Alex.
"Only when I feel like someone is going out of their way to hide something," Alex replied.
"Well maybe you should mind your own business and let it stay hidden," Isabel replied. "Not that I'm hiding anything," she added.
"We'll see about that," Alex said in a serious tone before turning back to the teacher.
"So.do you like Physics?" Max asked trying to start a conversation.
"Yeah, besides Biology, it's my favorite subject," Liz replied.
"Mine too," Max said.
"Cool," she replied. "Sorry about the way my sisters and I acted last night. We were all just tired and cranky. It was nothing personal."
"It's okay," Max replied. "Although, you may want to tell that to Michael. He wouldn't stop complaining about the way Maria talked to him," Max said with a laugh as he remembered Michael's complaints from last night.
"Yeah, Maria was the same way. She kept referring to him as 'the spiky haired one.'" Liz said with a laugh.
"Everyone always makes fun of Michael's hair," Max said with a laugh. "Hey, if you're not doing anything today, maybe you and I could go out after school," he said.
"I can't. I just got out of a long relationship and I'm not ready to date yet," Liz lied.
"Oh, ok," Max replied sadly. "Maybe another time," he said.
"Maybe," Liz replied turning away from Max.
"What's your deal anyway?" Michael asked Maria towards the end of the period.
"Excuse me?" she asked.
"Why are you so guarded? You've been closed off and suspicious of everything since we first met," he said.
"And you haven't?" she asked. "You've been looking at my sisters and I like we're the devil since we came here," she said.
"I'm just making sure that you guys don't bring any trouble. My dad is the sheriff, after all," he replied.
"Whatever, I really don't care," Maria said not believing him. Hearing the bell ring, she gathered her things and headed out the door with her sisters.
"They're hiding something," Alex said to his brothers once they were alone in the room.
"I know. I couldn't get anything out of Tess," Kyle said.
"Same here," Max and Michael said.
"We have to try harder," Michael said. "I don't know what their secret is, but I'm going to find out. You guys do your best, and I'll see what I can do with Maria," he said in a leadership voice.
"Okay," they replied before leaving the classroom and heading to their next classes.
It was finally lunch period and Maria was on a mission to find Michael. She had tolerated his interrogation last night, she tolerated his rudeness in first period, she even tolerated the pointless arguments he had started with her in all of their morning classes, but now he had gone to far. Spotting him on an outside table with Max, Kyle, and Alex, she made her way over.
"Guerin!" she yelled reaching their table and standing across from him.
"Yes?" Michael asked innocently.
"Don't try and act innocent with me, I know what you did," she said angrily.
"I have no idea what you're talking about," he said with a smile.
"Don't give me that! You took the last bagel in the cafeteria! You knew that I wanted it, and you took it!" she yelled.
"I had no clue that you wanted that bagel," he lied.
"Don't lie to me! You were right there when I told Tess that I wanted to eat a bagel for lunch."
"Oh! That's right! It must have slipped my mind," he said with a smirk. "Look I was hungry, and I wanted a bagel. I didn't buy it just to piss you off, you're not that special," he said.
"Then why did you buy it? You hate plain bagels," Alex said with a smile, knowing that he had just ruined Michael's lie. Michael turned to glare at Alex while Maria reached over and smacked him on the back of the head.
"You jerk!" she said. She was about to smack his head again when Isabel, Tess, and Liz walked over to her.
"What's going on? Why are you hitting him?" Tess asked, seeing Maria hit Michael.
"Michael bought the last plain bagel!" Maria exclaimed as though it were the most obvious thing.
"Ohhh," they replied, as though it explained everything.
"Excuse me, but it's just a bagel, I don't see what the big deal is," Michael said.
"The big deal is that no one keeps Maria away from a bagel," Liz said. "She goes crazy if she doesn't have at least one bagel a day."
"Whatever, she'll just have to learn that she can't always get what she wants," Michael said.
"We'll see about that," Maria said before taking a seat next to Michael and taking half of his bagel from his hand. Before Michael could protest, she already had it in her mouth.
"Hey!" he exclaimed.
"Sorry, all gone," Maria said with a smile as she finished the bagel.
"You.you.cheesehead!" he stuttered.
"Cheesehead? Very original, dorkbutt," Maria replied sarcastically.
"Hey, let's try and act like mature teenagers," Tess said before Maria and Michael could get into another argument. She had had two extra classes, besides Physics, with Maria and Michael and had seen them argue all morning; she wasn't in the mood for another one.
"You owe me for that bagel," Michael said.
"I don't owe you a damn thing," Maria said as her sisters settled into seats around the table.
"And what the hell is this? No one invited you girls to sit here," he said.
"No one needs to, we invite ourselves," Isabel said.
"Obviously," he muttered to himself.
"What was that, Guerin?" Maria asked.
"Nothing," Michael replied, not wanting to hear another one of Maria's babbling sessions.
"Good," Maria said.
Alex, Max, and Kyle looked at Maria with shock evident in their eyes. How had she been able to get Michael to finally keep his mouth shut? However she did it, it was obvious that the outspoken Michael they all knew had finally found his match in Maria Deluca. What fun this would be!
I don't feel too good about this chapter, so tell me what you think!!!
Chapter 3
The Next Day.
"Will you three hurry up? We're going to be late again," Max said as he waited for Alex, Michael, and Kyle to finish getting ready.
"Would you relax? Geez, it's not like we're going to meet the president; it's just school," Michael said walking out of his room.
"Well some of us like to be on time to get a good education," Max replied.
"Not some of us, Max - just you," Kyle said as he and Alex walked into their living room.
"Whatever. Can we go now?" he asked annoyed that he was going to be late once again.
"Sir, yes sir!" Alex said with a mock salute as they left their apartment.
"So I heard that you two finally got caught," Max said to Kyle and Michael from the driver's seat. "I told you that it was only a matter of time before Dad found you guys were skipping third period," he said while laughing.
"Yeah, laugh it up Maxwell," Michael said dryly. "Seriously, can you blame us? Who willingly exerts energy for something as stupid as gym class?" he asked, not really expecting an answer.
"Maybe people who want to graduate?" Alex said sarcastically.
"Whatever," Michael replied with a roll of his eyes. They pulled into the parking lot and headed into the building. After stopping by each of their lockers, they headed to their first period class, Physics.
Meanwhile.
"And that's it. Does anyone have any questions?" the principal asked. After realizing that they weren't going to say anything, Principal Anderson handed Maria, Liz, Tess, and Isabel their schedules. "You all have first period together, so I'll lead you there now," he said.
"I can already tell that this school year is going to suck," Maria said to Isabel as they walked down the hall.
"I know what you mean," Isabel replied, rolling her eyes at the alien stickers that she saw on some lockers.
"We leave New York to escape all of our problems, only to come here and have people mock our race. This town already sucks," Liz whispered to them.
"Here you are ladies," Principal Anderson said, opening the door for the girls. "Enjoy your day," he said before leaving.
"You must be the new students. My name is Mrs. Jackson, and I'll be your Physics teacher for the year," Mrs. Jackson with a smile as she ushered the girls into the room. "Would you girls like to tell us something about yourselves?" she asked.
"Sure," Isabel replied already putting up her cool, nonchalant exterior. "My name is Isabel Deluca, and these are my sisters Maria, Tess, and Liz and we moved here from New York with our mom," she said keeping her explanation as simple as possible.
"All right then," Mrs. Jackson said after seeing that Isabel wasn't going to say anything more. "Since you ladies have come here in December, I think it will be better if I pair you with lab partners who already know what we're doing," she said. Looking around the room, she tried to find her four best students to pair with the girls. 'There's Max Evans, Alex Whitman, Kyle Valenti, when he tries, and.Michael Guerin. As much as that boy annoys me, I can't deny the fact that he is one of my best students.' She thought to herself. Turning around, she spoke to the girls.
"Okay, I'm going to pair you girls with my four best students. Liz, you can go sit next to Max Evans. Please raise your hand Max," she said.
"I already know who he is," Liz said walking over to Max.
"I see. Anyway, Isabel you will be partners with Alex Whitman. Tess, you can sit with Kyle Valenti, and Maria, you and Michael will be lab partners," she said.
"Great," Maria mumbled sarcastically under her breath as she made her way over to Michael's table.
"You again?" Michael asked in an annoyed voice.
"This isn't exactly a bed of roses for me either," Maria said with a roll of her eyes.
"One thing we're going to have to get straight, I don't like to be annoyed. So if you just keep your mouth shut whenever you're around me, you and I will have no problems," he said.
"Well that's too bad, because I take orders from no one," Maria said staring at Michael. "So you'll just have to learn to respond to me whenever I ask you something, okay?"
Michael stared at Maria, slightly surprised by her attitude toward him. No one had ever challenged him or tried to order him around. 'Who the hell does she think she is?' he asked himself silently.
"Whatever," he said, not knowing what else to say.
"Good comeback," Maria said sarcastically before turning her attention to the teacher.
Behind them, Kyle and Tess were just settling down.
"So, what do you think of Roswell?" Kyle asked.
"We haven't been here long enough to do any sightseeing," Tess replied looking at the teacher.
"I see. Well, if you want, I could show you around Roswell today after school," he suggested.
"No, no, that's okay," Tess said not wanting to form any attachments. "My sisters and I have to finish unpacking and I don't think I'll have time to do anything," she said.
"Well what about tomorrow?" Kyle asked, wanting to get to know one of the newest residents of Roswell.
"I really don't think it's a good idea. I'm really busy and quite frankly, I'm uninterested," Tess said rudely, trying to get Kyle to back off.
"Oh, ok," Kyle said, slightly hurt by Tess's rude tone to him.
"I'm sorry," Tess said feeling bad about what she said. "It's just, I'm really not looking for any new relationships right now," she said.
"That's fine," Kyle said deciding to let the subject drop, for now.
"I know we didn't really get off on a good start yesterday night, but I hope that we can good partners this year," Alex said to Isabel as she listened to the teacher.
"Sure, I could use an A this school year," Isabel replied not bothering to look at Alex.
"That's good," Alex said. "So, why would you guys leave New York to come to a hellhole like Roswell?" he asked.
"Do you always ask questions that aren't your business?" she asked turning toward Alex.
"Only when I feel like someone is going out of their way to hide something," Alex replied.
"Well maybe you should mind your own business and let it stay hidden," Isabel replied. "Not that I'm hiding anything," she added.
"We'll see about that," Alex said in a serious tone before turning back to the teacher.
"So.do you like Physics?" Max asked trying to start a conversation.
"Yeah, besides Biology, it's my favorite subject," Liz replied.
"Mine too," Max said.
"Cool," she replied. "Sorry about the way my sisters and I acted last night. We were all just tired and cranky. It was nothing personal."
"It's okay," Max replied. "Although, you may want to tell that to Michael. He wouldn't stop complaining about the way Maria talked to him," Max said with a laugh as he remembered Michael's complaints from last night.
"Yeah, Maria was the same way. She kept referring to him as 'the spiky haired one.'" Liz said with a laugh.
"Everyone always makes fun of Michael's hair," Max said with a laugh. "Hey, if you're not doing anything today, maybe you and I could go out after school," he said.
"I can't. I just got out of a long relationship and I'm not ready to date yet," Liz lied.
"Oh, ok," Max replied sadly. "Maybe another time," he said.
"Maybe," Liz replied turning away from Max.
"What's your deal anyway?" Michael asked Maria towards the end of the period.
"Excuse me?" she asked.
"Why are you so guarded? You've been closed off and suspicious of everything since we first met," he said.
"And you haven't?" she asked. "You've been looking at my sisters and I like we're the devil since we came here," she said.
"I'm just making sure that you guys don't bring any trouble. My dad is the sheriff, after all," he replied.
"Whatever, I really don't care," Maria said not believing him. Hearing the bell ring, she gathered her things and headed out the door with her sisters.
"They're hiding something," Alex said to his brothers once they were alone in the room.
"I know. I couldn't get anything out of Tess," Kyle said.
"Same here," Max and Michael said.
"We have to try harder," Michael said. "I don't know what their secret is, but I'm going to find out. You guys do your best, and I'll see what I can do with Maria," he said in a leadership voice.
"Okay," they replied before leaving the classroom and heading to their next classes.
It was finally lunch period and Maria was on a mission to find Michael. She had tolerated his interrogation last night, she tolerated his rudeness in first period, she even tolerated the pointless arguments he had started with her in all of their morning classes, but now he had gone to far. Spotting him on an outside table with Max, Kyle, and Alex, she made her way over.
"Guerin!" she yelled reaching their table and standing across from him.
"Yes?" Michael asked innocently.
"Don't try and act innocent with me, I know what you did," she said angrily.
"I have no idea what you're talking about," he said with a smile.
"Don't give me that! You took the last bagel in the cafeteria! You knew that I wanted it, and you took it!" she yelled.
"I had no clue that you wanted that bagel," he lied.
"Don't lie to me! You were right there when I told Tess that I wanted to eat a bagel for lunch."
"Oh! That's right! It must have slipped my mind," he said with a smirk. "Look I was hungry, and I wanted a bagel. I didn't buy it just to piss you off, you're not that special," he said.
"Then why did you buy it? You hate plain bagels," Alex said with a smile, knowing that he had just ruined Michael's lie. Michael turned to glare at Alex while Maria reached over and smacked him on the back of the head.
"You jerk!" she said. She was about to smack his head again when Isabel, Tess, and Liz walked over to her.
"What's going on? Why are you hitting him?" Tess asked, seeing Maria hit Michael.
"Michael bought the last plain bagel!" Maria exclaimed as though it were the most obvious thing.
"Ohhh," they replied, as though it explained everything.
"Excuse me, but it's just a bagel, I don't see what the big deal is," Michael said.
"The big deal is that no one keeps Maria away from a bagel," Liz said. "She goes crazy if she doesn't have at least one bagel a day."
"Whatever, she'll just have to learn that she can't always get what she wants," Michael said.
"We'll see about that," Maria said before taking a seat next to Michael and taking half of his bagel from his hand. Before Michael could protest, she already had it in her mouth.
"Hey!" he exclaimed.
"Sorry, all gone," Maria said with a smile as she finished the bagel.
"You.you.cheesehead!" he stuttered.
"Cheesehead? Very original, dorkbutt," Maria replied sarcastically.
"Hey, let's try and act like mature teenagers," Tess said before Maria and Michael could get into another argument. She had had two extra classes, besides Physics, with Maria and Michael and had seen them argue all morning; she wasn't in the mood for another one.
"You owe me for that bagel," Michael said.
"I don't owe you a damn thing," Maria said as her sisters settled into seats around the table.
"And what the hell is this? No one invited you girls to sit here," he said.
"No one needs to, we invite ourselves," Isabel said.
"Obviously," he muttered to himself.
"What was that, Guerin?" Maria asked.
"Nothing," Michael replied, not wanting to hear another one of Maria's babbling sessions.
"Good," Maria said.
Alex, Max, and Kyle looked at Maria with shock evident in their eyes. How had she been able to get Michael to finally keep his mouth shut? However she did it, it was obvious that the outspoken Michael they all knew had finally found his match in Maria Deluca. What fun this would be!