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Chapter 2 – Is that Tess?

Roswell

Max was laying on his bed, thinking about Liz and what they have been through. The worst thing he could think about was how he felt Liz's pain when he kissed her after Liz, Alex, Maria, Michael, Isabel, Kyle, and Sheriff Valenti saved him from the FBI's Special Unit Experiment room. The whole time being locked in there he thought that only one person was worth living for: his love Liz.

Even though he also thought about Isabel and Michael, his friends, and everyone else, his friends, he couldn't take his mind off of Liz.

Now he was laying in bed trying to forget these terrible things but starting to fell much closer to Liz. What in the long run was what he wanted. As close as possible to his Liz.

'Why did Liz leave me?' and 'Why does she believe I should be with Tess if I love her with all my heart?' Those were the only things that were running through his mind.

"Max come down, dinner is ready" his mom called in the direction of his room.

Max didn't answer he just went into the dining room and sat down, without saying a word.

Isabel had left with Alex a couple hours earlier. They said they were going to Los Angeles but Max didn't believe it. He hoped they would meet or visit Liz somewhere... anywhere and tell her that he still wants to be with her, that he still loves her.

During dinner Diane Evans suddenly said into the silence, "I hope Isabel and Alex are going to get through to LA without being stuck in traffic."

Nobody said anything until dinner was over and the kitchen was cleaned. Then Max went back into his room and lay down.

Suddenly someone was knocking on Max's window. He hoped it was Michael because he didn't want to have to talk to Tess again.

Instead of staying in bed what was his first thought, he got up and went to the window to open it, when he saw that Tess was standing in front of the window. Max opened the window to tell Tess to go to the front door where he would be in a second. He closed the window again and hoped that he was dreaming. He went to the front door to let Tess in so she could tell him what she wanted from him. Instead of Tess standing there he found her running to the door from her car.

Tess jumped around his neck and started kissing him wherever she could find some flesh.

But Max just pushed her off of him and said, "Why can't you leave me alone? Don't you know that I never loved you and never will?"

"Yes I know but I don't care I just want to kiss you and no I can't let you alone because we are destined to be together. You heard what your mom from Antar said. 'Your wife' Don't you remember?"

"Of course I do. That was the day Liz left me. Why can't you understand it? Let me alone, please. I don't love you I will never love you the way I love Liz. Just like Michael and Isabel will never have a different relationship than friendship, we won't either. Believe it or not, that's reality. Now let me alone" With that Max closed the door right in front of Tess, who was standing there not believing what she just heard.

Max was standing behind the door leaning with his back against it, trying to calm down and forget who was still standing on the other side of the door. "I will become your wife, Max. Someday... I hope." With that Tess left.

Max heard these words and short after the door to Tess's car slammed shut. Max was so relieved to hear Tess leaving that he didn't hear another vehicle pull up the driveway.

He was still standing behind the door when the doorbell rang. He was so surprised that he just opened the door without thinking.

The Luck was on Max's side because Michael was standing in front of him. "What's up, Maxwell? Are you alright? You look like you just had your worst nightmare ever!" "I did." "What?" Michael asked in disbelieve that he was actually correct in his statement.

"Tess came by and started... emmm yeah." "Oh... well... then I got the right thing for you. Come on get your jacket. I'm gonna take your mind away from everything."

Without any hesitation Max took Liz's favorite jacket and followed Michael to his motorcycle.

Max didn't care where Michael took him at least it was a different place than his room, the pod chamber, school, the CrashDown café or the UFO museum.

Michael pulled up his bike next to Kyle's mustang and Maria's Jetta. When Max got off of Michael's bike he realized that he was at the new bowling center.

"Maria and Kyle are already inside. Let's go and have some fun!" They went to the line where their friends were already playing.

After a few rounds, Maria says, "Isn't that Tess?" "Where?" Kyle asked. "Last bowling line." "Oh, I see her but I don't think that is Tess, because that chick back there has piercing all over her ear. Tess only has one on each ear." "Yeah you're right, but lets go there and see if it is Tess. If not then we just come back, otherwise we ask her if she wants to join us, okay?" Michael suggested. Max 'I hope it's not her.' He lets out a sigh but agrees if he can stay in there line to make sure nobody takes it.

Michael stays with him.

Kyle and Maria go up to the girl and say "Hello, this is Kyle and I am Maria. Sorry to bother you but you look like a friend of ours. Maybe you know her. Her name is Tess. What's your name?"

"My name is Ava and this is my best friend Dan. No, I don't know a girl called Tess. We just came here yesterday trying to get away from New York City. Can you believe it? Probably not, because everybody wants to go there but we wanted to get out."

"Yeah I can believe you, because I want to get away from Roswell, New Mexico sometimes, but I still want to stay because this is the place where I grew up. Do you guys wanna join us?"

"Is that okay with the guys standing in your line and looking here as if we will blow up the city?" "Yeah it is, they came up with the idea to invite you to play with us." "Then yes. Thank you!" Dan replied.

Max didn't want to believe that Maria and Kyle were bringing Tess back to their line. But the closer 'Tess' came, the more Max thought that it wasn't Tess and Michael was thinking the same thing. 'How can they look so alike, but still look so different?' Max asked himself.

"Hello, I am Ava. This is Dan, my best friend. Nice to meet you." "Nice to meet you too. My name is Max and this is Michael." "Hi" what was Michaels only response to meeting the two people.

Maria asked, "Are you two dating?" "No, we just like to travel together" Dan said with a shy smile on his face.

Kyle immediately asked, "Dan, do you have a girlfriend?" "No not at the moment. Why?" "Oh, just my curiosity when I meet new people."

The rest the night they were talking about boyfriends and girlfriends, and in the end Max told them his story about Liz leaving him because she wanted him to follow his mothers wishes. Michael and Maria told them all about how they met and started dating.

At 2 o'clock in the morning they got thrown out of the bowling center. They exchanged telephone numbers and addresses and promised to meet again soon.

The next morning Max was back in his depressed state of mind. But now he was not only thinking about Liz he was also thinking about Ava. 'Why does Ava look like Tess? Or why does Tess look like Ava?" The same questions bothering him were: 'Why did Liz leave me?' and 'Why does Liz believe I should be with Tess if I love her with all my heart?'

He stayed in his room the whole day, talking to no one, and eating only the things Diane brought him into his room.

Even when Michael knocked on his window he didn't open it, so Michael went to the front door and rang the bell. Diane Evans told him that Max didn't speak to anyone yet.

When Michael heard that he left the Evans' and drove back to his apartment and called, "Isabel Evans."

"Hi Iz, it's Michael. Sorry to bother you now but Max isn't speaking to anyone and he behaves like he doesn't care at all, worse than before you left."

"Make me worry even more, won't you?." Isabel said with an ironical undertone.

"Sorry"

After some time of quit Isabel replied, "No I am sorry, it's not your fault. I am just edgy. We are on our way to Liz's. We should be there by tomorrow afternoon. I will call you when we get there."

"Okay, bye"

"Bye Michael."

Author's Note: Hoped you liked it! If you have any ideas where to take it please contact me via review.

Aligewe