50 miles later…

'hey guys we are here!!'  Maria half shouted half sung in the van.

 ' hey Liz this better be fun else I'm going to be pissed at the fact it took so long to get here for disappointment' oh yeah cause it takes a lot to disappoint Michael.   

'yeah cause Michael, you had a million better places to be' this got his attention, he wasn't used to me answering back 'and any way MICHEAL it wasn't my idea to come'

'yes it was' oh my god. How does Maria put up with this grr.

'No it was not'

'yes it was-'

'no it was not!'

'Yes it was.' Every body else in the van was just watching us, there heads swinging from Michael to me every time one of us spoke.

'Michael…look this is stupid, one of us has to be mature here,' I always am the mature one, I always back out, sod it. 'and you are mistaken if you think its going to be me!!  N-O-I-T-W-A-S-N-O-T!'

Hey hey, guys, chill rite? It was actually  my idea' Kyle said looking at me and raising his hand.

'yeah, and don't think I've forgotten KYLE.' I said bitterly, and shoot him a stay away from me cause your life depends on it glare

'Ditto' did Michael just say ditto

'Ditto? You didn't even know in the first place!'

'I did…I was just winding you up parker,' micheal filled me in with a little evil grin. 'you needed to let it out, you've been all stressed all the way here.'

'Bite me'

Just helping you out parker'

'Michael leave her alone god I swear sometimes you are so insensitive.' I smiled at Isobel to show my appreciation, and she smiled back. Could this be the beginning of me seeing the nice fluffy friendly side of Isobel Evans? Or was it that she was annoyed at Michael for hogging all the back sit space?  Hmmm yeah that makes more sense. 

with that I turned back to the road and saw that  we had reached the town centre. Wow it was nice to be back here. This place was like a second home, and there was so must more to do here then there was back in Roswell.

'Where shall we stop? Liz do you want to go to the perv-I mean your uncles' house first?

'No, I don't know about you guys but I'm hungry so why don't we stop and go to a café or some thing'

'well I  do with a decent meal and max is asleep but he told me before that he was hungry for some cake with a spicy topping, which sounds good to me as well. how bout you Michael?' max was asleep, he was completely gone in the side seat that was just behind me. I turned around, and pushed his hair to one side and out of his chocolate brown eyes. I smiled to y self over just how perfect he was, and he was mine, cause there's no way that  another Tess hardy is going to come out of the blue, literally, and steal him from me. My moment lost in thought was never meant to be, because I was pulled out of it by Michael giving a rather long answer to Isobel's question   

'I could do with a burger, fries shake onion rings and some of that cake with the spicy topping, oh and some pizza if they have any with out cheese….and a coke would go down nicely right about now

'Hungry?' Kyle asked sarcastically

'Come on lay off, I haven't eaten for hours!'

'So are you planning to blow all our money on your own food, or do we get some?' Maria asked Michael, unsure of his answer; she eyed him from the mirror in the front seat'

'no you can have-'

'Your leaf over's?' Kyle finished for Michael. Okay angry chart for Kyle: was 100% went down to 75% and continued dropping on the quite drive over here and got to a sound 50%. Then when Michael reminded me that Kyle is the reason we are here, so the rage went back up to 75%, but because he is a comical genius I think he should get a break. Rage down to 25%.... for now. Kyle's comical input made  himself me, and Isobel laugh, but the look on Michaels face when we started to laugh put the icing on the cake. A pure classic moment was about to begin.

'Look fine, laugh. I wont eat anything, I will starve'

'God Michael, how dramatic can one person be' and that boys and girls, came from the award winning drama queen her self =Maria. As soon as the words left her mouth I knew that Kyle wouldn't be able to resisted a dig at her, and to tell the truth I was finding it hard to hold a comment back, but had to cause she was my best friend, and there is plenty she knows about me that is Kyle knew, he would drown in the verbal comments.

'God Michael, if Maria ever said that to me, id really be worrying'

And what exactly do you mean by that?

'Oh nothing Miss. A puppy laughed at me cause of my shoes.'

'Okay so you believe in a big fat guy that meditated…a lot…'

'Maria before you continue I just want to tell you that he is called "Buddha"'

Ok fine what ever but you can't believe in a puppy that has a good fashion sense and was able to pick up on my fashion disaster and then laugh? Is that what you are telling me? Huh? She said in a voice that said 'I dare you to say yes'

'well yes, I think I can safely say yes' his quick blunt straight to the point answer made Isobel laugh, and you know how on your own you can keep it in, but when some one else gives in to the bubbling laughter inside, you instantly give in as well and then it become impossible for any of you too stop? Well that's what happened. I saw Isobel cave then I did and then was shortly joined by Michael. But then I remembered how bitterly cold Maria gets when you get on the wrong side of her, and stopped laughing and looked up to find that Maria was not at all impressed. Just the as if on clue…max jumped in his sleep and then shouted out

'I'm drowning in coupons!!' then he woke up and had full attention of every body in the van.

Hey, something you want to explain Maxwell?' max then rubbed his eyes shifted consciously in his seat then looked at me to the side of him

'Weird dream'

'Figured that much' Kyle added, prompting a more detailed explanation, which max did not intend to give him

'sooo, anyway what did I miss?' when he asked this question we all looked at each other, not knowing where to start

'This and that' Isobel responded, releasing the pressure from every one else from saying someing first.

'nothing important' I said looking in to his eyes

'are you sure' he said looking at me, I would have responded by softly nodding to him but once again Michael answered for me

' you didn't miss a thing okay Maxwell? Now I'm hungry s I was wondering is it still up for discussion if I eat or not? What do you reckon parker ?

'why you asking me?

Then I could see a mischievous glint in his eye ' because parker, it was your idea to come.'

Oh god here we go again' Isobel let out and then fell against the padded seat. But instead of getting angry I found this amusing. Michael and my eyes were locked and I could see that he wanted to laugh. So did i

'You know what? Since you are so entertaining Mickey, I will let you eat.'

 He gave out a little laugh 'Your all right parker'

I laughed too. Hey, maybe there was a nice side to Michael.

'thank god I thought you too were going to have a show down, and its not fair. Why should you have all the fun. '

'Don't worry Kyle, if that's what you call fun, then you are going to have plenty.' Oh god it's the mr. fluffy scene all over again  

'Huh. Nothing seems like a lot'.