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Whose Who? -- Part 2

Justin POV

Yes, yes, I know; I shouldn't jump to conclusions so easily, but please, bear with me. First of all, I realize that I should have explained who Alex was talking to on AIM. He was talking to one of his best friends from Roswell, Maria Deluca. That's right, a girl, and guess who is his other best friend; you got it; another girl, her name is Liz Parker. So, here were the things that I knew at that point. Alex had not one, but two best friends that were girls. He never really talked about any other girls from Roswell, or anywhere else for that matter. Alex didn't date, turned down a date from Sally Wu, and I saw a suspicious looking IM conversation. What would you have thought? Yeah, I thought so.

Well, in my defense, at least I never placed my foot in my mouth like some other idiots in our hall. Remember Rick, the guy who "talked" to Alex after the whole Sally thing? Apparently, I wasn't the only one who thought that my roommate was hiding "in the closet" and decided to help the guy feel more comfortable about. It was a couple of days after I read the IM conversation, and I hadn't mentioned anything to anybody. So, it was a Friday night, and Alex was getting ready for a gig, oh, I guess I should mention that Alex has a band. He's the bass player and is pretty good; I've been to a couple of gigs. Anyway, he was getting ready when someone knocks on the door, since he was busy, I got it and Liz walks through the door. Liz goes to our neighboring school Harvard, and just to let you know, Liz isn't one of those geeky girls with the plastic rim glasses, pigtails, and dorky sweaters. Nooooo, she's a hottie to say the least, long brown hair, these exquisite chocolate eyes, a body that has just the right amount of curves and...goes off into fantasy land for a moment ...I'm a guy, what do you expect? Getting back to the topic at hand, I already knew Liz, how could I not, Alex, Maria, and she hang out a lot since they all go to school in Boston. Yeah, Maria is here too, she goes to Boston University, and she's also in Alex's band too. Again, off topic, so as I was saying, I let Liz in, and she's wearing a pretty trendy outfit which shows off her figure, but isn't over the top, you know. Well, since Alex was busy; I decided to casually, very casually ask about this "Space Boy" person to see if my suspicions were right.

"Spaceboy? Oh, you want to know how Maria chose her IM identity."

"Yeah," I hedged, hey I didn't want to seem stupid in front of one of Alex's best friends. "I kind of assumed that it was because you guys were from Roswell. I mean, Maria is Spaceboy's Girl, you're Alien Dreamer, and Alex is Stargazing Bass, all kind of outer space/alien themed."

She gave me this little half smile, "Yeah, kind of, um, you kind of had to be there with us in high school to really get it, but 'Spaceboy' is Maria's nickname for her boyfriend."

See, I was right; Space Boy was a guy. Then she continued. "Even though he didn't let anyone but Maria call him that, we all knew he was secretly proud of that name."

"So, you guys were close?"

"Well, except for a time when Alex belted him," I gave her a disbelieving look, Alex, violent? Yeah, like that happened. "Yeah, it's a long story, but needless to say Alex really did punch him. We were all pretty close. It was really hard for us to say good-bye at graduation." Her eyes got a little watery at that point. Oops, didn't mean to get her sad.

Before I could say anything else, Alex came out with his instrument in hand, and so the two of them left afterwards. I'm not sure when, but apparently Rick saw the two of them walk out together and it was the first time he had seen the lovely Miss. Parker. Kind of strange considering how often they hang out, but whatever. As I was saying, I guess Rick got the impression that they were together because the next day when Rick came over for study group he was congratulating Alex on "his hot date." Of course the two of us were confused, until Rick started to describe Liz, "Oh, come no need to be sly. The cute brunette wearing the hip huggers yesterday. Personally, I'm partial to blondes."

Alex shook his head, "That was Liz, one of my best friends. We're not together."

Rick gave him one of those "you've got to be kidding me" kind of looks. Then he got this look in his eyes, they soften a bit and seeing how it was only the three of us, he took Alex aside. "Hey, man I know people can be cruel, but it's cool with me."

"Huh?"

"Look there's no need to feel embarrassed by it. I mean; it must have been hard for you, growing up in a small town, probably a lot of small minds; they wouldn't have understood."

"Rick, what are you talking about?" Alex asked clearly confused.

"It's okay, Alex. You don't have to pretend between us; we're all friends; we'll understand."

Finally, understanding past through his eyes, and he pushed Rick away. "I'm not gay, Rick!"

"Sure, sure, I get it you're still in denial-"

Alex rolled his eyes and shook his head again, "I have a girlfriend, Rick. That's why I haven't been seeing anyone."

At this point I came into the conversation, shocked by Alex's admission. Hey, I was his roommate; I'm the one who is suppose to know little facts like that one. "How come you never talk about her?" I admit, I was a bit indignant.

Alex shrugged, "Well, no offense, but my love life is really no one's business."

"So what's she like? Does she go to school around here?" I asked. What can I say? I was curious, wouldn't you be?

Alex looked kind of nostalgic and melancholy then, kind of like Liz did when I talked to her the day before. "She's great. I can honestly say there's no one like her on Earth." Okay, clearly the guy had it bad. "But she had to leave the country for a while. Troubles at home, with the family, that kind of thing."

"Dude, I'm sorry; you must miss her." I said feeling sorry for the guy. No wonder he didn't want to be with anybody else. So it was a fairly good guy moment, not too awkward or cheesy, but then Rick had to spoil the whole mood by being an idiot again.

"Well, if you're not interested in Liz; do you think you could hook me up?" Like I said, idiot.