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Chapter 2

"w w what? "

"I love you"

"What do you mean you love me" she screeches at him

Alec backs away pain flashing in his eyes before replacing it with no emotion. Max obviously not seeing the pain because she wouldn't have carried on saying "Why are you saying this to me? You're being selfish? Once again you're thinking about no-one but yourself, how typical of you, it's always about you, did you even think about how this would effect me or Logan or did that not even cross your mind." Alec stood there and listened to her ranting on every harsh word cracking his heart.

"Damn you Alec" she carried on clutching her handle bars so hard that her knuckles were turning white "I can't believe you, why the fuck didn't I let your head explode".

Alec could have sworn he heard his heart crack at her last words that he couldn't take it anymore.

"You think I wanted this to happen, don't you think I've spent sleepless nights trying to stop thinking about you, trying to convince myself that your someone else's girl, that I don't love you, that I don't want to wake up and see your face in the morning and that I don't want to spend the rest of my life with you" Max just stared at him shocked at his outburst, paling once his words had settled in. He was staring at her with intense eyes that were burning into her soul that she wanted to cry. 'oh my god, I can't believe this' she mumbled to herself 'girl don't front' the voice returned 'you know you been thinking about him too, you know you want him as you love toy' shut up' she scolded the voice 'I cant do this what about Logan' 'huh' the voice scoffs ' Logan? Your-not-like-that-boyfriend? Things are so over between you its not even funny' Max was so angry and revolted by her own thoughts that she wanted to escape. She didn't know how to act. She didn't know what to say, so she stayed quiet. She couldn't look at him in the eye because deep down she knew the voice was right, she had been thinking about Alec a lot lately and she knew her relationship with Logan was not going anywhere. She had been feeling very guilty about having these thoughts about Alec that she felt like she was betraying Logan.

He could see the anger and disgust on her face and knew that was the last straw "I'm sorry Max" he apologized "I'm sorry for feeling this way, I'm sorry for dragging you into my useless good-for-nothing life, I'm sorry I came back to Seattle because ever since I've been back I've only ruined your life. I'm sorry for being a screw-up. I'm sorry for hurting you Max, I'm sorry for everything".

When she didn't say anything or even look at him he hung his head, shame and hurt cursing through his body. He stood there staring at the ground waiting for her to say something-anything, he just wanted her to speak or better yet look at him, but she didn't she rode off into the night leaving him there feeling alone and broken. Defeated he turned and entered his block to his apartment. He had laid his heart out to her and she threw it back at him.

Max spent the next few hours riding around trying to clear her head until she finally gave up and went home. She walked into her apartment looking for OC only to find her not there 'she probably found herself a nice honey for the night, oh well at least she'll be happy' Max thought to herself. She walked into the bathroom, stripped down and stepped into the warm water flowing from the shower head. For a few moments she felt great, she felt as if the warm water was washing away her sins but then thoughts of Alec came into her mind bombarding her with questions. Frustrated she stepped out of the shower, walked to her bedroom and got dressed for bed. Once ready she slipped into the covers and lay there thinking about the things Alec had said to her. She agreed with what Alec had said about not being able to control who you fall for because in a way she knew it was true, because of the way she had been feeling about him lately. She lay awake for a while thinking about Alec and Logan until finally deciding to talk to Alec before making any drastic moves and finally fell asleep all the thinking having worn her out.

Jam pony

Max walked into jam pony on time for the first time since she first started working there wanting to catch OC for some serious advice before she got sent to go on a run.

"Well well well if it isn't missy miss at work and guess what on time for once" Normal shouted sarcastically. Max just walked past him without even acknowledging him and carried on her quest to find OC.

She saw her at her locker and walked up to her. OC saw her approaching and saw the look on her face and knew something was troubling Max, especially if she was on work on time then it definitely was a big thing. Max reached her and asks quietly "OC you got time I need some advice?" "sure boo lay it down for Original Cindy". But before Max could open her mouth Normal approaches shouting at all the employee's "come on people, place of business, get moving, we're a man down today, Golden Boy's sick so get moving now! Bip bip bip".

"Alec's sick?" Max asked him "that's what I said" he replied irritated "why can't you all be like Golden boy, he's worth ten of all you lazy bums" he mumble walking away.

Max looked crestfallen "he's avoiding me" she said in a small whisper that OC had to lean in to hear her, "why would he be avoiding you?" OC asked curious. Max looked up at her with tears in her eyes "I'm such an idiot OC, I really hurt him" OC looked very confused "hold up boo, why would you have hurt him, did something happen that Original Cindy should know about?" she asked "last night when I took Alec home" Max began "he told me he loved me" "ok" OC replied her suspicions being revealed. "what did you say" she prompted seeing her friend was in her own world. "well.. I basically had a fit at him calling him selfish and self-centered and saying I wish I had let his head explode" she finished off.

"Woah" OC said speechless, she knew Max sometimes wasn't the best person to spring such news on but at times like her boo was dense. "What did Alec say?" she asked not really wanting to know the answer. Max hung her head in shame and said "he apologized" "for what" a curious OC asked "for loving me" she replied sadly.

OC stared at her friend with pity in her eyes but once again Normal interrupted "What the hell is this? Do you want to carry on work here? Do I pay you to stand around and gossip? He threw rhetorical questions at them "bip bip bip" he yelled.

"Boo we'll talk later, come to crash after work ok!" OC said regrettably "we'll figure this bitch out" she smiled reassuringly. Max gave a small smile "ok see you at crash".

Then they both went their separate ways, both trying to escape Normal as he yelled them out of the building.

Logans penthouse (present day)

Max! Max? Logan called from across the table. She jumped "yeah?" "are you ok?" he asked looking very concerned. His sincerity hit her hard, guilt washed over her, she felt trapped, she needed an escape.

"Actually I'm sorry Logan but I'm not feeling that well, I think I should probably go" she said standing up. Logan stood up at the same time, his exoskeleton whirring sounding really loud in the silent penthouse, "are you sure? You could take a nap in the guest room that might help" he suggested desperately trying to keep her there.

Max knowing she was ruining the evening just shook her head, guilt once again washing over her. "I'm sorry Logan- catch you later" she said walking away and leaving the penthouse before he could reply.

"Bye Max" he whispered to the closed door.