Maria ran up the stairs to her bedroom and shut the door behind her then flounced onto the bed. She sighed deeply then leant over to her dressing table to retrieve her phone. She pulled her legs up to sit cross legged then placed the telephone in- front of her and dialled Alex's familiar number which was answered with a grumpy hello from him after three rings.

"Alex!" She snapped sharply. On the other end of the line Alex shot up into a sitting position in bed at the sound of Maria's voice and glared at a sleeping Liz curled up in a sleeping bag. He braced himself for the berating which quickly came.

"What the hell were you thinking? Your supposed to be my best fiend and as my best friend you shouldn't have done what you just did!"

"What was that?" He questioned playing dumb.

"Don't make it worse for yourself Alex. I swear to god when I see you next I'm gonna kill you!"

"Okay I deserve that, I do. But I was acting with your best interests at heart, I will be doing something similar to Liz would you like to participate?" He asked in a chirpy voice.

"No Alex I would not. You know why? Because it's awful that's why. And as for acting with my best interests, how do you figure that one out? I'll tell you what Alex I just made things fifty times worse with Michael because I was stranded with him, because of you, and little Miss Parker."

"How'd you manage that?"

"I'm to tired to get into that with you right now, but since you made me stay awake till four am I thought it was only a fair punishment to make you suffer to. Oh yeah, and tell Liz she's not getting off Scot-free wither. Oh no, she's in for it to, not as bad as you because I feel this was mostly your doing, but as she was an accomplice she will go down. Goodnight." Maria exclaimed slamming the receiver onto the hook and flopping back onto her bed and placing her head on a pillow and drifting off into a troubled nights sleep.