Author's Note: ok uhh so hey again. I know it's been a while but I hope it was worth it. Thanks to Sam for the support and Danser for the extra nudge to get me going again. Please go ahead and read, more chapters soon I hope.

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Max shuffled into crash in Courtney's really uncomfortable shoes hoping that Alec had chosen a table so she could slip the shoes off without Alec seeing. Or was that considered sexy? 'Who cares' she thought as she tried to find her date.

"Glad to see you finally made it." A very familiar voice said from behind her.

"Brad, look I…" Max was about to tell him to push off when Alec turned up.

"Hey Max, what's going on here?" Purposely ignoring Brad, Alec pushed himself into the conversation.

"Alec…. Hey…. Hi…what are you doing here? … I mean … uhh… How are you?" Max spluttered.

Alec laughed at her incompetence and suggested they leave, as Crash was a little crowded and they go somewhere to eat. She agreed graciously and blushing slightly as Brad glared on at the whole procedure. As Alec started to manoeuvre Max out of Crash he looked back to give Brad one of his dazzling smirks. Only Max caught him doing it shook her head grabbed his jacket and dragged him out into the cool afternoon. Unfortunately this only helped Alec's gesture but he'd sort out Brad when he got home, his time now was for Max only.

Once outside they finally got a chance to look at each other. Max studied Alec in his black boots, tight jeans, pass the fitted navy blue t-shirt and worn leather jacket to look at his handsome features and stared right into his sparkling eyes. Alec could tell she was uncomfortable in her shoes as her ankles were wobbling were he could see them under the long length skirt, that sat on her rounded hips. She had a high riding top that showed her midriff. And he just wanted to run his hands all over her body and learn the very shape of her. When he raised his stare to match hers she blushed, to hide it she put her arm around his waist and hid her face in his shoulder. Alec was surprised but placed his arm around her shoulders as he started to lead her to a place where he could guarantee there would be no more interruptions.

As soon as Max stepped into the clearing she loved it. It was only a few trees in from the local park but it seemed like different world. The trees gave enough privacy from the park. The trees gave the clearing a glittery effect like a mirror ball in the daylight. The soft grass was dry and the scent of flowers and earth that made them feel like the only ones on the planet. Max did what felt right; she slipped her shoes off and lay down in the middle of the clearing looking up at the sun between the trees. Alec joined her, at first they lay in silence and then they began to talk and talk about everything and nothing. Until, what seemed hours later, when they fell into silence holding each other.

Sat in silence, Alec was stroking Max's hair while she stoked his arm in a synchronised fashion. Until the loudest rumble of the earth put there rhythm out and Alec exclaimed "Whoa! Max, when was the last time you ate?" She blushed he kissed her on the head he launched himself onto his feet and started to make his way out of the clearing leaving a very confused and hungry Max behind. After about 5 minutes she was about to make her way to find him or go home, she started to pull her shoes on when Alec reappeared with 4 hot dogs loaded with all the toppings balanced in his hands.

A wide cat like grin appeared on Max's face as she got up to help Alec. "No Max these are all mine I'm just starved" Alec said ignoring Max's reach for the hot dogs. He began to laugh heartily at her pout and gave her 2 of the hot dogs. She smiled and ate them almost immediately. "You knew I couldn't resist that pout didn't you?" Alec asked. "What pout? This one?" She repeated the same thing but because she had been eating the hot dogs a little bit of mustard was at the side of her lip. Alec couldn't help but laugh as he tried to point it out to her, she didn't understand so Alec just bent down to her height and kissed it off for her. This put them into an awkward position where neither one of them knew if they should close the gap between there lips. In the end it was a mutual movement as they met in the middle for a mind-blowing kiss. After several moments of what seemed like forever they both pulled back unsure of how to react. It felt like one of those bolt of lightning realizations or the butterflies fluttering in your stomach and although neither could make sense of what just happened the matching smiles between them was all that was needed to make them repeat the act.

When they both settled into there own bodies again. Max checked the time and had a wicked idea. She left Alec's warm arms and confused gazed to put her shoes back on before dragging him out of the clearing into the dying day. She pulled him down the high street stopping only to buy ice cream, as a girl needs her sugar. When they came to an abandoned plot, abandoned by the pulse, she found a bit of opened fence and they both climbed through and they made there way up the stairs just in time to watch the sun set and finish the ice creams on the top of the space needle.

This time when they lay down they watched the stars talked, held each other and kissed passionately until the early hours of the morning.

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