I don't own anything in this story but the plot. Other then that everything is owned by another person or peoples. This was written for blackrose because I've had this on my mind for a little bit and is for Blackrose to love and cherish or burn at her Berto alter (which ever she wants to do) This really sucks but i'm forcing people to read anyways...

Max had a secret.

Everyone at N-Tek knew this as a fact though no one knew just what this secret was. It had to be a good and happy one though because when ever one passed him in the hall he'd have a grin on his face, even if his eyes where glazed or gazing off into space. Then the smile changed a little bit, became a little bit softer. He'd been asked, even had someone attempt to blackmail him, but Max would just smirk then walk off and no one wanted to push.

Well they did, but as he was infused with nanoprobes no one wanted the young man after them. So Kat had set up a betting pool for the day they would figure out what it was.

"Come on Berto!"

"No, it's an invasion of pricy!" Berto pushed his glasses back up his nose and attempted to act like he was busy.

"Come on, you can't tell me you haven't wondered what Steel's been doing to make him this happy." Kat asked as she inched towards the on button of Berto's console but had her hand smacked away by the consol's guard.

"If it's what Cathy thinks, I don't want to see," was the reply as the techie grabbed a ruler and held it ready. Kat rolled her eyes then grabbed the ruler, they fought over it for a couple of seconds before the purple plastic thing snapped in half. Kat dove for the button again but was stopped by Berto tackling her.

"Come on, I need to have proof I'm right so I can get the pool money!" Kat attempted to look innocent but it didn't really work with the grin she gave. "And we need to make sure it's not drugs!"

Berto rolled his eyes back, "I promised him-"

At this she grinned even more evilly "You promised him, I didn't."

"Well...," He looked around to make sure no one was around, giving Kat time to rush to the button and press it. Both looked up as the screen was turned on then gasped in unison, jaws dropped. They stood like that, stearing at the screen for about three minutes before Kat came out of shock and turned the whole thing off.

"Woah... who would have thought that!"

Max paused in mid lick of his ice cream, feeling almost like someone was watching him. He looked around him but couldn't see anyone. Shrugging he looked back at his ice cream only to watch a chow take a huge bite out of the cone. It looked up at him and wagged it's tail

Someone behind him laughed before two arms wrapped themselves around him. "Having trouble?" The owner of them asked in a teasing voice as the dog finished off the ice cream cone.

"Not really," Max answered before turning around to kiss Psycho again.