"Max, I want you to live with me. I can help you with the baby, even if it's just getting things and making dinners." Logan smiled, awaiting her answer. Max let out a huge sigh and smiled.
"Does that mean yes?" Logan's eye went wide, and full of hope.
"Logan, I love you, but I don't want to risk hurting you again…with this virus." Seeing that he was hurt, she continued, hoping it would take some of the pain away, "I just don't want to hurt you or risk what we have. Please don't be mad, I just love you to much, I don't want us to drift or hurt each other." Max answered filling her eyes well up with tears. Logan looked up in surprise, having never seen Max be emotional at all, he wasn't really sure what to do; he couldn't even hug her or hold her. Will it be too hard if we live together? Will I forget and just hug her or hold her?
"I know, I thought about that too, but I figure if we really love each other that much, then shouldn't we be together?" He posed.
"I don't know, maybe if I had found a cure in Alec's blood or a more permanent cure. I wouldn't hesitate if I had a cure. I just don't want to hurt you." Max panicked, not knowing whether this conversation was going to drag out or be answered today.
"I know, I don't care anymore, I just want to be with you."
"I want to be with you to."
"Does that mean yes?"
"Yes." Max smiled. Logan grinned from ear to ear, "Max, I love you."
Back inside Jam Pony, Max was explaining to O.C what had happened between Logan and her. O.C was ecstatic, hugging Max tightly.
"O.C you're hurting me!" Max mumbled with a small breath of air.
"I'm sorry," O.C, said letting go, "I'm just so happy for you."
"I'm glad too, now I just have to tell everyone else…including Zach and Alec." Max dropped her head in worry again, now because of how they were going to react, because she knew how both of them felt about her, especially Zach, he admitted his love for her and Alec…well she knew Alec cared for her and felt like she was a sister to him as far as she knew. Shaking her head to get the thoughts out for the meantime, she lifted her head and got her deliveries to start with.
Crash
Max, Alec, O.C and Logan were all at Crash that night and we hanging out. With Logan there and Alec still not knowing what was going on was making Max nervous, nervous that Logan would blurt something out. She wanted to tell him in her own time. When Logan had gone to say hi to someone else and O.C went to get another pitcher of beer, Alec and Max were left by themselves at the table. Looking around Max tried to avoid the topic altogether, but without much success.
"How come you aren't drinking Max? Is something wrong?" Alec had noticed.
"Well I uh…I'm still just a little sick and I don't want to risk it."
"Risk what?" Alec cocked his eyebrow in confusion. How sick is she?
"Alec, I don't really want to talk to you about this right now, I'm sorry." Max dropped her head, trying not to let her emotion take over again.
"Oh all right, well you know I'm always here if you need me right?"
"Yeah, thanks." Max smiled and felt nauseous moving up again. Swallowing, she refused to give into her pregnancy.
Max and O.C's apartment
"So when are you moving out anyways?" O.C asked as she got a cup of coffee.
"I don't know, we didn't really talk about that." Max shrugged with confusion on her face, "I am really wondering if this is what I want."
"Are you still wondering about that?" O.C smiled in reassurance.
"Well yeah, I mean we haven't even been on a proper date and now all of a sudden he wants me to move in with him, what would you say?"
"I guess you have a point, but gurl you both love each other, I mean would dating really have mattered that much?"
"I guess not. I guess I'm just worried about touching him if we are going to be around each other all the time I mean."
"But you won't be around him all the time. You'll be at work most of the day and at night you will be sleeping in a separate rooms, right?"
"Yeah I guess." Max thought about it, But what about the baby? Is he going to be able to hold the baby? Max swallowed hard and closed her eyes.
The hospital
"Hey Max, what are you doing here so late?" Zach asked, lying in bed, he just tilted his head to look at Max standing by the door.
"I wanted to talk to you about the other night." Max said, grabbing a chair, she put it beside the bed and sat down.
"What about that night?"
"I uh…well about that whole coming back for me." Swallowing and taking a deep breath, she continued, "I'm so happy to see you, I'm glad you are back, but something happened when you were away…I'm still with Logan, you know that, but what you don't know is that we found a temporary cure for this virus that usually keeps me away from him, what I mean is I can't touch him. White had shot me a month ago and Alec gave me his blood in the hospital, which had the cure, but it was only temporary. We didn't know about it at the time and we spent that night together…I just found out 2 days ago…Zach, I'm pregnant." Max watched bravely for his reaction as she took another deep breath.