Nikki says: Thanks to everyone for the great reviews! You guys make me wanna go on with the story. I really appreciate you guys taking time to read and then review, thank you so much from the bottom of my heart! I never really expected any reviews so thank you! Ok, now to answer some questions. Yes, all the characters will be in although for some of them, they're not really dealt with in a lot of detail. Finally, I didn't wanna create another alien-human, inter-galactic Romeo and Juliet story so no; Max is NOT an alien in this story and neither are the characters who were originally from the pod squad. Sorry about it. Thanks again for all the reviews. Here's the next chapter!
Naima reached Greener about 5 minutes earlier and saw a few bouncers outside together with a blonde girl who kind of fit the description of Maria that Liz told her about. As Naima walked to get a closer look at Maria, Maria noticed Naima and found that she fit the description that Liz had told her about as well. "Do you happen to be Naima Lucas?" Maria asked, smiling. "And I guess you are Maria DeLuca," Naima said, smiling back. "Hi, it's nice to finally meet you," Maria said, giving Naima a hug. "It's nice to finally meet you too! Liz told me so much about you," Naima said, loving the fact that Maria was so friendly. "Really? She told me a lot about you too," Maria laughed. The two hit it off really well, just as Liz hoped they would. By the time Liz and Max came, Maria and Naima were already instant girl pals.
Liz and Max arrived in the limo when suddenly, the car door was opened. Max looked to see who opened it and realized it was Josh, his minder. His manager cum publicist and stylist Isabel was next to him. Isabel is Max's elder sister who worked in Night Stars, an artiste management company. It was Isabel who found out about a movie role that wanted a new actor. The producer and director of Carpool had a meeting at Night Stars where they wanted gave a description of the kind of guy they wanted for Carpool. Isabel suggested to her manager to let her brother be one of the five they were going to send to the audition as Max had been involved in almost all his high school drama productions. Her manager gave the green light and that was how Max got selected out of the five for the role.
Max helped Liz out of the car and she immediately saw Naima and Maria together. "Hey guys, come on here!" Liz said, all excited to see her two best friends. Max said hi to his sister and his minder and introduced Liz to them. "Isabel, Josh, this is Liz, my new girlfriend." "Hi, it's nice to meet you. I'm Josh, Max's minder." Josh said, shaking Liz's hand. "Hey there, I'm Isabel, Max's sister, manager, publicist and stylist. I guess you can say I do almost everything," Isabel laughed, shaking Liz's hand. "Well, I guess you both know I'm Liz," Liz said, happy to have met both Josh and Isabel. Naima and Maria then came over, all excited to meet Max. "These are my two best friends, Naima and Maria. Naima, Maria, this is Max, Isabel and Josh." Liz introduced. Everyone said hi and introduced themselves, getting all excited to head into Greener. As usual, cameras flashed everywhere as the whole group was heading into Greener. "Max, I have a surprise for you inside." Isabel said, with a mischievous grin. "I wonder what it is this time," Max laughed, knowing how Isabel always loved being a kid again by playing tricks for him and giving him the odd surprise.
They all went inside Greener where the resident deejay was spinning some great music mixes. "Hey Max, my man," came a male voice from the corner. Max got a huge shock and went over to the corner where the voice came from. "Michael? What on earth are you doing here? Izzy, is this your surprise for me?" Max was certainly surprised at seeing Michael, his best pal in Greener. Michael was busy studying at NYU in New York, which is also Max's hometown, and Michael wasn't a fan of traveling so it really shocked Max that he was right here in Roswell. "Yes little brother, this was my surprise," Isabel told Max, loving his reaction. "Max, my man, I hate riding on planes but Josh here told me there was gonna be a great party and hot girls, so I figured, why not come since I got a free ride?" Michael told Max, giving his best pal a buddy hug. "Speaking of hot girls, you got some right with you," Michael joked to Max.
"Well, you're gonna keep your hands off Liz. She's my new girlfriend. This is Naima and that is Maria, Liz's best friends," Max introduced. Naima loved meeting everyone, especially Maria. Maria loved meeting everyone too and she was kind of attracted to Michael's 'mysterious aura' with his chin-length hair. She'd never seen a guy with such long hair before and she kind of liked it.
"Liz and I are gonna go hang out, yeah?" Max told the group. He wanted some private time to talk to Liz. He led her towards the bar and orders two margaritas. "How did you know I like margaritas?" Liz asked, amazed at Max's knowledge of her. "I know what my girl likes," Max said, smiling mischievously. "That comment gets to me. Since when did I become your girlfriend or you girl? I belong to me!" Liz told him, a little bothered by what he said. "I was meaning to ask you, Liz," Max said, getting serious. "I'm really serious about you. I really do have feelings for you. I'm sorry I didn't ask you before. I know it's just like our second date but I really wanna be with you. So Liz Parker, would you be my official girlfriend?" Liz loved the way he was so gentle on her in every way; the way he touched her, the way he spoke to her and the way he handle her emotions whenever she let them show. "You know, you're like the sweetest guy I've ever met," Liz said, smiling at Max. "Does that mean you'll be my girlfriend?" Max asked; eager to know her answer. "Yes Max, I'll be your girlfriend. Truth is, I feel just the same about you." Liz answered. Max laughed, and then he kissed Liz. He couldn't be more ecstatic when she consented to be his girlfriend.
Just when Max 'took' Liz away earlier, Naima too got a little surprise. "Alex? What are you doing here?" Alex Whitman is Naima's close cousin who's a little older than her. Naima was an only child and so was Alex. Both were close friends besides being cousins as they grew up together. Since two years ago, Alex had moved to Los Angeles when he was offered a job at one of LA's leading law firms. They kept in touch once in a while but now, Alex was here! "Hey Naima," Alex said, giving his cousin a big hug. "I got back earlier this afternoon. I wanted to call you but I had to go back home. And then my friend who worked at Stars Night called me and said he had an extra pass for this exclusive party at Greener so I thought why not just come out and party? So yeah, I didn't expect to see you here." "My best friend Liz and Max Evans invited me along so yeah." Naima told Alex, elated that he was in town. They both got a drink and sat down to catch up with each other.
Michael found Maria looking at him and he saw that she was kind of cute. He loved the way her hair made her look like an all-American apple-pie kind of girl. "Hey, Maria, right?" Michael said to Maria as he stood by her. "Yeah, and you're Michael. I love your hair." Maria told Michael, hoping he wouldn't find her comment about his hair weird. "I like your hair too," Michael said, taking Maria by the hand and leading her onto the dance floor.
Isabel was busy saying hi to some important people she knew were going to be at Greener. She saw Max being all happy with Liz and thought to herself, 'Liz, darling, you don't know what real secrets Max has back in New York. It'll shock the guts out of you man.'