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On Our Own

Chapter 6=Going Downhill

Kai was in trouble which was very rare, Max was in trouble, Ray wasn't really in any trouble but he still had a dilemma. Tyson had surprisingly slipped past any possibilities of trouble a long time ago. It was weird since he was usually the first and his disaster would've taken the cake. 'What a summer THIS is turning out to be.' Max thought to himself.

"Whoa! Max what the hell happened to your mom?" asked Michael. Max sighed and shook his head at what he never even thought could happen to his mature mother. Or before his 'mature' mother fell head over toes for a major ass.

Judy was laughing and flirting with Jim as well as some of the other scientists at lunch. The strange thing was she was wearing JEANS as well as a green top that revealed her stomach. To top if off she had her golden hair in a ponytail. Without such baggy clothes as she usually wears, Judy could've been mistaken as a slim 20 years old woman. "How should I know?"

"She's your mother!" Eddy supported Michael.

"Well she NEVER dressed like that not even when she was in her 20's. This is really whacko to me too!" Max defended himself.

"Knock it off guys! Remember Dr. Judy was going to give Max a tour around the new section of the research lab! We shouldn't waste their time." Emily suggested getting off topic. Max secretly thanked her for that.

"It's not our fault that Judy has decided to turn into a hippie!" Steve pointed out. Max ignored him.

"Hey Mom are you coming?" Max asked hopefully. His mother had promised him in the morning that she would go give him a personal tour.

"Oh! I'll be right there Maxie! Alright then see you later Jim!" Judy planted a kiss on his cheek before running after her son.

Max groaned and started walking ahead of his mother not waiting for here to catch up. Now that she had jeans, she wouldn't have any problem getting to places a lot faster right? Especially getting to JIM, "Slow down honey I know that you want to tour around the new facility but please you'll get lost!" Max stopped and turned around while watching his mother catching up.

"Sorry Mom, I guess that the idea of touring the facility had gone into my head." he lied. It wasn't touring the facility that mattered. He wasn't interested in it to begin with but his main reason was to spend more time with his mother. Wasn't SHE the one who promised to spend more quality time with her son?

While walking through the facility, Judy explained everything about the new building and the new equipment that they managed to buy. Max asked her a lot of questions about the uninteresting machines. He knew that if he let her stop for even one second, she would start bragging about how wonderful JIMMY was. Max already took caution of that in the beginning of the tour.

"...And the steak was the most expensive in the restaurant! That restaurant was VERY expensive you know! Oh he was even sweet enough to buy me some very beautiful roses as well. He really did make me feel like a queen on our first date! Oh Max that man was absolutely wonderful!"

"Uh, yeah Mom whatever you say. Hey! Could you tell me more about that bazooka over there?"

"Oh certainly Maxie well, that BAZOOKA is really a... um, a laser with about 10,000 or was it 100,000 volts?" Max sighed and decided to move over to something less strenuous for her. Gees, even though they say love could make people do the craziest thing, but this was more than ridiculous! Now that she had finally found another boyfriend possibly Max's new stepfather, she had nearly forgotten everything about the lab. The blonde attempted to refresh her memories but to little avail.

"Oops! Sorry Maxie but it seems that it's quittin' time. Don't worry, we'll finish up our tour later! Right now let's go home!" she smiled happily and led Max out the door.

"Quittin' time?" Max raised an eyebrow. Since when did his mother start talking like she was a cowgirl?

"It's an old expression in Mississippi when Jim gets off work. He used to live in Mississippi did I tell you that?" she explained cheerfully.

"About a hundred times." Max muttered. He didn't say it out loudly. It wasn't for Judy's benefit anyway. It was for his.

Once they three of them went back home. Judy immediately started flirting with Jim again as if nothing happened. Jim had valiantly tried to get Max in the conversation but without any success. Max was already more than happy to go back to his room. He had no intention on staying to watch his new mother and her new boyfriend flirt.

It was completely unlike Max, he had promised himself after his parents' divorce that he would respect their future girlfriend or boyfriend. Since his father wasn't interested in getting into a relationship again, Max never really thought that it would be THIS terrible especially with his mother. Max suddenly felt tired, not that tired to make him fall asleep in bed. He was tired of EVERYTHING happening in America. Max was beginning to wish he had never left Tokyo and joined Kenny in computer camp.

Or possibly beg Ray or Tyson to go along with either one of them on their trips. Another option but definitely not worth thinking about is to bribe Kai to take him along to Russia. Then again, Max figured out that he might not have that much fun in Russia with the walking statue. Even America being completely ignored by his mother and her boyfriend sounded a lot better.

RING!

Max moaned and shoveled out of bed, he had an empty stomach and a major headache.

RING!

One thing was for sure, it was NOT his alarm clock. He walked down the stairs and found the white phone on the wall ringing like hell. "Mom?" No one answered. "Jim?" Again no response. His blue eyes wandered around the kitchen until his eyes settled upon a yellow post it note on the table.

"Dear Max,
I'm sorry that I didn't wake you up and tell you but Jim and I thought about spending the day together last night. I wanted to tell you and ask you along but it seemed like you were pretty tired so I didn't want to bother you. Please understand. In the meantime, I called Emily and asked her if you could spend the day at her place if you want. She said yes but it's up to you. Her phone number is: (647)-502-2638 I'll pick you up from there!
Love, Mom"

Max crumpled the post it note and threw it in the garbage. So that's where his mom went to spend time with Jim! But wasn't this vacation supposed to be a mom-embarrassing-the-son vacation? In other words, a mother and son time this was very rare for Americans.

Judy had no intention of asking Max along. Even if she did it sure didn't feel like she wanted to. That was how Max took it. Maybe it wasn't supposed to be like that but that was how he thought it was supposed to be.

RING!

"Oh dammit!" Max snarled. Yes, he had gotten out the wrong side of the bed alright. A beep was heard from the answering machine,

"Hi Dr. Judy, this is Rebecca! Listen today we were planning on having an experiment with the new facility's laser! We're trying to test the defense of our prototype beyblade and the metallic alloy of it. Of course since this is a short notice I won't blame you for not showing up though. Anyway, please call back!"

Max deleted that message. He could just tell Judy about it. After all, wouldn't want this message to take up space in the answering machine in case Jim would happen to leave a few hundred. Max mentally grimaced at the memory when Judy told him about it. He dialed Emily's number from memory and asked her about staying over at her place. Emily was more than happy to agree and told him she'd drop by to pick him up. Michael had BARELY passed his driving lesson about a year ago so now he could drive the All Starz to exceptional places that the research facility's driver couldn't Emily and Steve were first afraid of going in the same car with him but they got used to the driving after about five runs.

Yes, five runs crashing into fire hydrants, some trees but only leaving a dent, and nearly running over a few old ladies on the sidewalks. Eddy and Michael found it amusing not to mention funny.

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chicmagnet: hey Kai! got ur letter! -

Hiwatari phoenix: don't even THINK about showing ne1 or else...

chicmagnet: dun worry Kai, I won't even think about it

Hiwatari phoenix: I hope - -'

TyMister: wat u guys talking about?

Hiwatari phoenix: Tyson? wat r U doin' here?

chicmagnet: I c that chic didn't kill u YET

TyMister: haha, very funny. neway, I guess u guys didn't notice me adding u 2 my convo.

Hiwatari phoenix: No, we didn't.

TyMister: wat have u 2 been talking about?

chicmagnet: nothing really.

TyMister: Ray...

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