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Mind Work
They were finally together to listen to Sketchy ramble on about his latest adventures when OC stormed into the place. "Damn it you two, I don't care what your problem is. I want you to apologize to each other RIGHT NOW!!!" She screeched. "Alec say sorry!"
He turned to Max bewildered "uh... sorry?" "Max?!" OC bellowed.
"yeah sorry." She said emphatically, trying hard not to burst out laughing. She settled for grinning like an idiot.
Alec was sharing the same grin. OC stared at both of their smiley faces and relaxed. She nodded proudly. "See, I knew I could fix whatever problem you two were going through." She collapsed into her chair. "Now give me a slice" she said indicating to the pizza that was sitting at their table. "A girl needs sustenance after that kind of hard work." She joked while wiping imaginary sweat off her head.
The three friends continued to laugh and joke, finally getting there lives back on track.
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Cindy realized that there were only four days of Max and Alec's dare left. She had hoped they'd already be together by now, but this challenge proved to be rather tough. Both of them were egotistically stubborn and refused to make the first move. She was starting to wonder if this dare was even going to work. Surely one of them is secure enough to make the first move? What could she do to give them a huge push? Something to vessel the final date, the finale. The date to conquer all dates? Okay that was going a bit far but damn this was hard. All the dates she had been sending them on were things that most people would enjoy. She had forgotten that these two weren't most people. That's it! She thought. A date, transgenic style. Now... what do transgenic's enjoy doing? And what could she do to finally push them together?
Max got up late again. OC wasn't home so she figured she was probably at work. She decided to go to work too. She wanted to see Alec. After lunch they had spent the rest of the day together laughing and joking and acting like chummy school buddies. She had missed him so much it was frightening. When they started acting civil to each other once more, it had felt like she had taken a party pill. She was instantly happy and active. After work that night all of them had met up at crash and had a couple of drinks. In total it was an uneventful night, but since she and Alec were on good terms again she didn't care.
Alec was talking to sketchy when Max came into work. When she started walking in his direction, he felt his pulse speed up.
"Hey" she said.
"Morning. On time I see?" Alec said smirking. It felt great talking to her again. Whenever he saw her now something funny happened to him. He felt giddy and oddly enough he felt like spreading joy. In fact since he was on talking terms with Max he had even felt pity for sketchy and offered to set him up with a date. He almost felt like he was getting a second chance. Like something important had been taken away from him and somehow he had managed to get it back. "Yeah, didn't want to give Normal a heart attack" Max replied. "Of course he always has YOU to keep him company." At his appalled look she laughed. "You know what I'm going to get him for Christmas? A gladiator suit!" Alec couldn't help it and burst out laughing. He knew he was supposed to act offended and scared but once again he was just to happy to be joking around with max to actually feel worried about normal. He hadn't forgotten what had happened on the cruise ship but like he had said to max, he was trying his best to pretend that never happened. He had fully realized that to feel the emotions he did so strongly, Max must mean something more then a friend to him. He had decided to flirt casually then on the last date let her know how he felt. He kind of wished that the pretending to be a couple could last a bit longer. He didn't want Max to treat him like dirt again. She had been amazingly nice to him since this dare begun. He was getting attached to this Max and even though he still respected and treasured the old Max he liked this one better. He hoped that once he told her how he felt he wouldn't scare her off. She wasn't dating anyone at the moment so he figured he might as well give it a shot. If she threw him down then well he could always move to Canada.
Normal watched the couple from afar. He still wished his golden boy wasn't with missy miss, but they honestly did make a striking couple. They were both stunningly good looking with their model looks. They both were witty and somehow both very fit. He could understand why his golden boy was fit but missy miss was a mystery. She must work out he thought. He was glad that he made them run together yesterday. They had apparently sort out whatever problem they had. Both of them looked human once more instead of the emotionless zombie figures they were before. He wasn't too upset that they were together. No not at all. He now had his sights set on a charming brunette who totally fitted the handsome stranger saying. His not very tall but dark and handsome stranger was called, Biggs!
OC was at a local internet café. They didn't have many these days and the ones they did have were in bad condition. That's why most people usually ended up buying their own cheap computers. Here even the manager knew barely anything about computers. Lucky for her, the girl who was on shift today looked about as intelligent as a lamppost. OC wouldn't be bothered by anyone, especially since she was the only one there. Good. Now she could break into Logan's account and take as much as she needed for the last date. As soon as she found out how much she had to spend she could send them on a date. OC typed in the password to access the account. A box appeared on her screen.
Access denied.
OC tried again but the same thing happened. Shit! Logan must have found out that someone was stealing his money. No worries she thought as she tried other tricks she had learned. Nothing worked. She kept coming up with nothing. She tried a random password then another box appeared.
Access denied. To protect this account you will be given no more attempts to enter.
And just as the box had said, she couldn't even try anymore. The page would just come up expired. OC sat there frustrated wondering what the hell she was suppose to do when she noticed a small icon on the bottom right side of the screen, one that wasn't there earlier. She clicked on it and after decoding a few things found out that it was tracking. Shit! No! She shut down the computer and hurried to the bathroom.
Ok so, it would take Logan a bit of time to track and get here. He would probably look through other camera feeds too. The only way Logan could find out who she was, was if the girl at the counter gave him her description and if he saw her on camera. No doubt Logan would keep asking the counter girl until he got the full story. She decided her best tactic was to change her appearance so the counter girl would be confused... hopefully. She began applying a lot of makeup to her face. She had put so much foundation on that she didn't look negro anymore. She wet her hair with lots of water and then pushed it back into a neat bun that hid the fact that her hair was exceptionally frizzy. She noticed some thick black glasses on the floor. "Perfect!" she murmured to herself. Looking at her appearance in the mirror, she now resembled an Italian business woman. OC was glad that she was wearing respectable clothing today. She knew that in about an hour Logan would have pin-pointed the location of whoever was trying to hack into his account. He would probably come down here to find out who had been there today. Luckily for her to use the facilities in this place you only had to pay and the girl at the counter was as brainless as Barbie. She knew when the girl gave her description to Logan, she couldn't be mistaken for max because her hair held a few light-brown/blonde streaks that max didn't have. He wouldn't possibly think it was OC either because... obviously OC had dark un-Italian like skin and she barely ever had anything to do with Logan since he wasn't with Max anymore. Thank god for makeup thought OC. She just hoped the girl didn't notice what she had looked like before entering the bathroom.
When OC went to pay the girl she used a fake British accent to accompany her already out of place looks. "How much do I owe you?" she asked in a pompous snobbish voice. After paying what she owned she exited the place singing back a musical "Cheerio" with a wave of her hand. Now that she was out of there and pretty sure Logan wouldn't catch on to her. She took off the glasses and wiped off most of the foundation with a refreshment towel she had in her handbag. She cursed out loud. Damn it! Now she had very little money to send Alec and Max on a date with. She had about $30 dollars left from their last date... And that was all she had. She was willing to spend her own money on them except for the fact that she wasn't getting paid till next week and by then their two weeks would be up. She had already spent most of this week's pay too and she needed what was left of it to buy some groceries and some lunch for the rest of this week. Damn normal for paying her so little!
Alec had just come back from a run and was sitting down on the seats by the lockers. He was waiting for Max to arrive to see if she wanted to meet him and sketchy for lunch again. He could ask OC to come too. While he was sitting there he was wondering how he could break it to Max on the last date. Hopefully it was something spectacular and fun so she would be in a good mood when he broke it to her. He really hoped she wouldn't freak out and get pissed off. He felt he really needed to tell her his feelings and if she absolutely hated him afterwards... Canada would be looking exceptionally nice. If only he knew what the date was going to be! As he was thinking this he saw OC walk into Jam Pony scuffing up her hair which looked like it had been tied up. Funny, he thought OC never ties up her hair. A lot of things were changing.
He walked up to OC. "New hair cut?" "Nah." She replied. "Just didn't want the wind to puff it up." She said shaking off the need for any further explanations.
"So... this last date? It's going to be... spectacular? Just as much fun and as out going as your other dates? Right?" Alec asked with cheeky but hopeful eyes?
OC coughed. "Uh, yeah. Lots of fun. Breath taking even!" she replied sarcastically.
Alec failed to pick up on the sarcasm as he was too happy. "Good. I'll be looking forward to it! Knew I could count on you OC!" he gave her a brief hug then started walking away. Over his shoulder he shouted "Lunch at Mario's, k!"
OC smiled the whole time Alec was walking away then as soon as she lost sight of him, slumped her shoulders. Oh now the pressure was on. Damn her sarcasm. He was actually expecting something nice. He was honestly looking forward to it. What the hell was she going to do? $30 dollars. What can you do for $30 dollars these days? Well... not much. She took a deep breath, then went to make a phone call. She had to find out what could be done in Seattle for $30 dollars.
Everyone was at Mario's except OC.
"What's keeping OC?" asked Max
"Normal probably put her out on another run" said Sketchy "Or she decided to re-do her makeup. That always takes time."
Max laughed at Sketchy. "Don't let OC hear you say that." "Hey here she comes." Announced Alec.
OC walked up to there table and said her hello's to everyone. "Hey boo, Alec, rag muffin." Said OC
"Why is it me you always insult?" asked Sketchy.
"It's simple. Because Max is ma boo. Alec is a Smart Alec and so you're the rag boy!" OC exclaimed "see simple"
Sketchy glared at her.
"Hey you guys ate all the pizza." She passed ten dollars to sketchy "Go get me a Hawaiian sketch" she said.
"Why do I have to get it? Go get it yourself." He replied
"I said go get my food, fool!" she snapped her fingers "Now!"
Sketchy got up and went to order a pizza for OC.
"Damn right! Now that he's gone, your last date is set for tomorrow." Said OC. "It's umm... well you'll have to see. You two will be going out for lunch. I was late because I had to convince normal to give you an extra hour for lunch. But that's all I could do.... So you have 2 hours tomorrow ok. You'll have to get back from your runs at least ten minutes before so I can give you the uh... things you'll need."
"Thanks OC." said Max "So tomorrow will be our third date huh? And then we'll only have 3 more days of the week to go. Wow.. it's certainly been an experience." She said laughing.
"Yeah" OC agreed smirking.
"Well anyway guys I got to go and check on Joshua and take him some stuff. So Laters" max saluted as she was getting up to exit.
"See ya boo." Said OC.
"Bye" Alec said with a wave of the hand.
As soon as max had left, Alec asked. "So can you let me in on what it is?"
"haha." OC said sarcastically. "no, no... I wont give you the ups and not my boo. Fair is fair." She said.
Alec grinned at her and then seeing Sketchy about to return decided to stop taking about it. "You're right. I bet it's going to be a blast." He stated happily.
"Oh... yeah. A blast." OC smiled weakly.
Man this story has been going on for ages. I really shouldn't commit myself to something I likely won't finish... It was only supposed to be like 5 chapters long... and now look at it. Well... hopefully I'll be ending it soon and then maybe I can start something new... and I'll try not to wait too long but again... no promises. I unfortunately have a busy (I said busy... not enjoyable) schedule...
well, be nice and review!
Mind Work
They were finally together to listen to Sketchy ramble on about his latest adventures when OC stormed into the place. "Damn it you two, I don't care what your problem is. I want you to apologize to each other RIGHT NOW!!!" She screeched. "Alec say sorry!"
He turned to Max bewildered "uh... sorry?" "Max?!" OC bellowed.
"yeah sorry." She said emphatically, trying hard not to burst out laughing. She settled for grinning like an idiot.
Alec was sharing the same grin. OC stared at both of their smiley faces and relaxed. She nodded proudly. "See, I knew I could fix whatever problem you two were going through." She collapsed into her chair. "Now give me a slice" she said indicating to the pizza that was sitting at their table. "A girl needs sustenance after that kind of hard work." She joked while wiping imaginary sweat off her head.
The three friends continued to laugh and joke, finally getting there lives back on track.
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Cindy realized that there were only four days of Max and Alec's dare left. She had hoped they'd already be together by now, but this challenge proved to be rather tough. Both of them were egotistically stubborn and refused to make the first move. She was starting to wonder if this dare was even going to work. Surely one of them is secure enough to make the first move? What could she do to give them a huge push? Something to vessel the final date, the finale. The date to conquer all dates? Okay that was going a bit far but damn this was hard. All the dates she had been sending them on were things that most people would enjoy. She had forgotten that these two weren't most people. That's it! She thought. A date, transgenic style. Now... what do transgenic's enjoy doing? And what could she do to finally push them together?
Max got up late again. OC wasn't home so she figured she was probably at work. She decided to go to work too. She wanted to see Alec. After lunch they had spent the rest of the day together laughing and joking and acting like chummy school buddies. She had missed him so much it was frightening. When they started acting civil to each other once more, it had felt like she had taken a party pill. She was instantly happy and active. After work that night all of them had met up at crash and had a couple of drinks. In total it was an uneventful night, but since she and Alec were on good terms again she didn't care.
Alec was talking to sketchy when Max came into work. When she started walking in his direction, he felt his pulse speed up.
"Hey" she said.
"Morning. On time I see?" Alec said smirking. It felt great talking to her again. Whenever he saw her now something funny happened to him. He felt giddy and oddly enough he felt like spreading joy. In fact since he was on talking terms with Max he had even felt pity for sketchy and offered to set him up with a date. He almost felt like he was getting a second chance. Like something important had been taken away from him and somehow he had managed to get it back. "Yeah, didn't want to give Normal a heart attack" Max replied. "Of course he always has YOU to keep him company." At his appalled look she laughed. "You know what I'm going to get him for Christmas? A gladiator suit!" Alec couldn't help it and burst out laughing. He knew he was supposed to act offended and scared but once again he was just to happy to be joking around with max to actually feel worried about normal. He hadn't forgotten what had happened on the cruise ship but like he had said to max, he was trying his best to pretend that never happened. He had fully realized that to feel the emotions he did so strongly, Max must mean something more then a friend to him. He had decided to flirt casually then on the last date let her know how he felt. He kind of wished that the pretending to be a couple could last a bit longer. He didn't want Max to treat him like dirt again. She had been amazingly nice to him since this dare begun. He was getting attached to this Max and even though he still respected and treasured the old Max he liked this one better. He hoped that once he told her how he felt he wouldn't scare her off. She wasn't dating anyone at the moment so he figured he might as well give it a shot. If she threw him down then well he could always move to Canada.
Normal watched the couple from afar. He still wished his golden boy wasn't with missy miss, but they honestly did make a striking couple. They were both stunningly good looking with their model looks. They both were witty and somehow both very fit. He could understand why his golden boy was fit but missy miss was a mystery. She must work out he thought. He was glad that he made them run together yesterday. They had apparently sort out whatever problem they had. Both of them looked human once more instead of the emotionless zombie figures they were before. He wasn't too upset that they were together. No not at all. He now had his sights set on a charming brunette who totally fitted the handsome stranger saying. His not very tall but dark and handsome stranger was called, Biggs!
OC was at a local internet café. They didn't have many these days and the ones they did have were in bad condition. That's why most people usually ended up buying their own cheap computers. Here even the manager knew barely anything about computers. Lucky for her, the girl who was on shift today looked about as intelligent as a lamppost. OC wouldn't be bothered by anyone, especially since she was the only one there. Good. Now she could break into Logan's account and take as much as she needed for the last date. As soon as she found out how much she had to spend she could send them on a date. OC typed in the password to access the account. A box appeared on her screen.
Access denied.
OC tried again but the same thing happened. Shit! Logan must have found out that someone was stealing his money. No worries she thought as she tried other tricks she had learned. Nothing worked. She kept coming up with nothing. She tried a random password then another box appeared.
Access denied. To protect this account you will be given no more attempts to enter.
And just as the box had said, she couldn't even try anymore. The page would just come up expired. OC sat there frustrated wondering what the hell she was suppose to do when she noticed a small icon on the bottom right side of the screen, one that wasn't there earlier. She clicked on it and after decoding a few things found out that it was tracking. Shit! No! She shut down the computer and hurried to the bathroom.
Ok so, it would take Logan a bit of time to track and get here. He would probably look through other camera feeds too. The only way Logan could find out who she was, was if the girl at the counter gave him her description and if he saw her on camera. No doubt Logan would keep asking the counter girl until he got the full story. She decided her best tactic was to change her appearance so the counter girl would be confused... hopefully. She began applying a lot of makeup to her face. She had put so much foundation on that she didn't look negro anymore. She wet her hair with lots of water and then pushed it back into a neat bun that hid the fact that her hair was exceptionally frizzy. She noticed some thick black glasses on the floor. "Perfect!" she murmured to herself. Looking at her appearance in the mirror, she now resembled an Italian business woman. OC was glad that she was wearing respectable clothing today. She knew that in about an hour Logan would have pin-pointed the location of whoever was trying to hack into his account. He would probably come down here to find out who had been there today. Luckily for her to use the facilities in this place you only had to pay and the girl at the counter was as brainless as Barbie. She knew when the girl gave her description to Logan, she couldn't be mistaken for max because her hair held a few light-brown/blonde streaks that max didn't have. He wouldn't possibly think it was OC either because... obviously OC had dark un-Italian like skin and she barely ever had anything to do with Logan since he wasn't with Max anymore. Thank god for makeup thought OC. She just hoped the girl didn't notice what she had looked like before entering the bathroom.
When OC went to pay the girl she used a fake British accent to accompany her already out of place looks. "How much do I owe you?" she asked in a pompous snobbish voice. After paying what she owned she exited the place singing back a musical "Cheerio" with a wave of her hand. Now that she was out of there and pretty sure Logan wouldn't catch on to her. She took off the glasses and wiped off most of the foundation with a refreshment towel she had in her handbag. She cursed out loud. Damn it! Now she had very little money to send Alec and Max on a date with. She had about $30 dollars left from their last date... And that was all she had. She was willing to spend her own money on them except for the fact that she wasn't getting paid till next week and by then their two weeks would be up. She had already spent most of this week's pay too and she needed what was left of it to buy some groceries and some lunch for the rest of this week. Damn normal for paying her so little!
Alec had just come back from a run and was sitting down on the seats by the lockers. He was waiting for Max to arrive to see if she wanted to meet him and sketchy for lunch again. He could ask OC to come too. While he was sitting there he was wondering how he could break it to Max on the last date. Hopefully it was something spectacular and fun so she would be in a good mood when he broke it to her. He really hoped she wouldn't freak out and get pissed off. He felt he really needed to tell her his feelings and if she absolutely hated him afterwards... Canada would be looking exceptionally nice. If only he knew what the date was going to be! As he was thinking this he saw OC walk into Jam Pony scuffing up her hair which looked like it had been tied up. Funny, he thought OC never ties up her hair. A lot of things were changing.
He walked up to OC. "New hair cut?" "Nah." She replied. "Just didn't want the wind to puff it up." She said shaking off the need for any further explanations.
"So... this last date? It's going to be... spectacular? Just as much fun and as out going as your other dates? Right?" Alec asked with cheeky but hopeful eyes?
OC coughed. "Uh, yeah. Lots of fun. Breath taking even!" she replied sarcastically.
Alec failed to pick up on the sarcasm as he was too happy. "Good. I'll be looking forward to it! Knew I could count on you OC!" he gave her a brief hug then started walking away. Over his shoulder he shouted "Lunch at Mario's, k!"
OC smiled the whole time Alec was walking away then as soon as she lost sight of him, slumped her shoulders. Oh now the pressure was on. Damn her sarcasm. He was actually expecting something nice. He was honestly looking forward to it. What the hell was she going to do? $30 dollars. What can you do for $30 dollars these days? Well... not much. She took a deep breath, then went to make a phone call. She had to find out what could be done in Seattle for $30 dollars.
Everyone was at Mario's except OC.
"What's keeping OC?" asked Max
"Normal probably put her out on another run" said Sketchy "Or she decided to re-do her makeup. That always takes time."
Max laughed at Sketchy. "Don't let OC hear you say that." "Hey here she comes." Announced Alec.
OC walked up to there table and said her hello's to everyone. "Hey boo, Alec, rag muffin." Said OC
"Why is it me you always insult?" asked Sketchy.
"It's simple. Because Max is ma boo. Alec is a Smart Alec and so you're the rag boy!" OC exclaimed "see simple"
Sketchy glared at her.
"Hey you guys ate all the pizza." She passed ten dollars to sketchy "Go get me a Hawaiian sketch" she said.
"Why do I have to get it? Go get it yourself." He replied
"I said go get my food, fool!" she snapped her fingers "Now!"
Sketchy got up and went to order a pizza for OC.
"Damn right! Now that he's gone, your last date is set for tomorrow." Said OC. "It's umm... well you'll have to see. You two will be going out for lunch. I was late because I had to convince normal to give you an extra hour for lunch. But that's all I could do.... So you have 2 hours tomorrow ok. You'll have to get back from your runs at least ten minutes before so I can give you the uh... things you'll need."
"Thanks OC." said Max "So tomorrow will be our third date huh? And then we'll only have 3 more days of the week to go. Wow.. it's certainly been an experience." She said laughing.
"Yeah" OC agreed smirking.
"Well anyway guys I got to go and check on Joshua and take him some stuff. So Laters" max saluted as she was getting up to exit.
"See ya boo." Said OC.
"Bye" Alec said with a wave of the hand.
As soon as max had left, Alec asked. "So can you let me in on what it is?"
"haha." OC said sarcastically. "no, no... I wont give you the ups and not my boo. Fair is fair." She said.
Alec grinned at her and then seeing Sketchy about to return decided to stop taking about it. "You're right. I bet it's going to be a blast." He stated happily.
"Oh... yeah. A blast." OC smiled weakly.
Man this story has been going on for ages. I really shouldn't commit myself to something I likely won't finish... It was only supposed to be like 5 chapters long... and now look at it. Well... hopefully I'll be ending it soon and then maybe I can start something new... and I'll try not to wait too long but again... no promises. I unfortunately have a busy (I said busy... not enjoyable) schedule...
well, be nice and review!