- Inside my Mind Part 5 –

-Deluca/Parker residence 4:30AM-



"Oh god you have the check list." Maria said as she noticed Liz with pad and pen in hand.

"Hey, there are certain things we need to do before we just pick up and leave. Like call Alex, and work, and ..."

"And here I was thinking for once in your life you were actually being spontaneous." Maria said rolling her eyes and putting her last bag in the trunk of her 92' red Volkswagen Jetta that her Mom had finally given to her when she moved out of the house.

"Ok Liz, what is on there that I have to do?" Maria asked now looking over Liz's shoulder at the list.

"You, need to call Alex and leave a message on his machine, since we both know the phone will not wake him up, and if it does we will get an hour long lecture about road safety. Also you are to call your Mom tell her that we are going on a mini vacation and that if she needs you to call the cell.... I think that's it for you." Liz said as she left Maria and went to her duties that she had to get done before they could leave.

Liz went to her room and sitting at her desk pulled out some paper and started to write Sean a letter. She didn't want to just up and leave with out any explanations, but she couldn't exactly tell him the truth either. So she settled for the in-between, how she felt about their situation before everything with Max came into the picture.

Dear Sean,

I know things haven't been exactly going great with us lately. Some fights have gotten out of hand, and I know that we have both said things that we didn't mean. But I think that the best thing for both of us right now would just be to take a break from this, give us both a chance to get some space. I hope you understand why I have made this decision, and that we can come to be friends later on in life. Thank you for all of the wonderful times we did have, I take those memories to heart.

Love,

Elizabeth Parker



Liz sat back to read over what she had written, once satisfied she took the letter and laid it on her pillow. Hoping that when Sean did come to the apartment next he would find her letter.

Now that that was taken care of Liz went onto her next task at hand calling her and Maria's boss.

1 'RING, RING, RING'

"Hello". asked the person on the other line.

"Oh, Mrs. Vandermeir I was hoping to get your machine. But I'm afraid that Maria and I won't be able to make it into work till next Friday. You see my Aunt, that Maria and I are very close to has fallen deathly ill and is in the hospital down in Roswell. We were hoping that if it was Ok with you that we go be with her one last time, and to say our good-byes."

"Oh Liz, dear. I'm so sorry to hear that. Yes. Of course you and Maria go down and see her right away. You two girls be safe on the way there and I'll see you next week. Give your aunt my best."

"Thank you, Mrs. Vandermeir. Will do." Liz said as she hung up.

"Ok Maria we have the next week off from work, I figure that should give us plenty of time."

"Yes, Alex I understand that you think that two young women should not be traveling by themselves.... No I promise that we won't stop at any rest stops along the way." Maria said in her most annoyed voice possible as she walked into Liz's room talking to Alex on her cell phone.

"What happened to just leaving a message." Liz taunted as she knew how protective Alex could get over them.

"I KNOW" Maria mouthed to Liz as she was still being lectured by Alex on the other end of the line.

"But, Alex what if the hitchhiker is really, really hot." Maria teased.

"I DON'T CARE IF HES HOT OR NOT NO HITCHKIERS!" Liz could hear Alex yell through the phone.

"But I said really, really hot." Maria teased back.

"MARIA!"

"Alex, calm down Liz and I are going to be fine on this trip. Promise. And every time we even think of stop to go pee we will remember your warning and stay in the car.... I love you too, we'll call you when we get there." Maria finally hung up the phone and turned to Liz.

"We ever go out of town with out him again YOU are the one calling to tell him."

"Promise." Liz said with a sympathetic smile.

"Ok everything is in the car except for us. So lets get out of here."

"Yeah I'm right behind you." Maria said as she followed Liz out the door and to the car. Liz getting in the passenger side and Maria in the drivers seat. Both putting on their seatbelts and ready to go.

"K remind me again why we are doing this." Maria said turning to look at Liz, for the final answer before they left to follow her best fiends dreams to Roswell.

"Because if we don't I will never have closure in my life. I need to go there to meet him and find out why and how this happened, I believe that Sean would do that and I curse my self for having to have a complete stranger tell me before it hit me. But I need to know how he knew if he doesn't even know me." Liz said all in one breath finally getting it all out.

"Right." Maria said as she took the final step and turned the key in the ignition and pulled out of the apartment complex onto the open road heading towards Roswell, New Mexico.

TBC