Discailmer: I own nothing...and you all know this...

Another's Note: So this is a happier, and I think funnier chapter. I giggled at least.

"So he just showed up and then left?" Liz asked, her voice somewhat distance on the phone.

"Yeah" Maria paused before putting on a smile "But enough about that. How's it going in Florida Chica?"

"Um, fine"

"I can tell" Maria said with doubt. She could tell what her best friend was thinking about, "He still loves you Liz."

Liz sighed before saying, "Maria I got to go. I'll talk to you later" and then all Maria heard was the beeping of the phone.

She put it back in its cradle with the slight shock of having her best friend hang up on her.

Amy DeLuca entered her house to find her daughter staring at the phone at the kitchen table with thought. "Hey Maria, how are you?"

"Oh," she looked up "hey Mom. I'm fine, just talked to Liz"

"And how is she?" she sat down across form Maria.

She frowned before responding; "Fine I guess" she blinked at the phone a few times but looked up at her mom in remembrance. "Um, is it ok if The IBD Club meets here tonight?"

"The IBD Club?" she echoed.

"Oh it's this club I'm apart of, 'The I've Been Dumped Club'." She clarified with a grin.

Amy's face creased with concern, "Maria I'm worried about you"

"Why?"

"You joined a club all about being dumped? I think you should try to focus on the positive" she punched the air with enthusiasm.

"I didn't join the club" Maria said in attempt to redeem herself "I'm it's founder and president" her face fell "That sounds a lot worse doesn't it?" Her mother nodded in agreement. "It's just me, Max and Alex getting together to try and get our minds off of our exes"

"Alright Maria," she patted her daughter's hand "but for my sake can you try to remember that girl you used to be? The one who wouldn't let a man control her life."

Maria just smiled and bit back her comment about her mother being hypocritical. 'She let's men rule her life all the time' she rolled her eyes once her mother was gone.

Later on that night Max and Alex sat in her living room. Alex brought a bag full of videos fully enjoying his employee's discount.

"What are we in the mood for?" he asked digging through his bag with a grin "Thriller, comedy, horror, action, new releases, family…" he continued to sort through the bag.

"Family?" Max asked throwing more popcorn into his mouth.

"I wanted to get something from every genre, considering how last movie night went"

Folding her legs under herself she smiled at Alex, "I'll be fine. How about you choose. You are the new movie working guy right?"

Alex got a wicked grin, "Horror it is" he brought out a tape and popped it into the player.

Two horror films later, the three sat on the couch each equally un-frightened. "I guess they just don't make them like they used to" Max said with a shrug.

"Yeah, and 'Bride of Chucky' was more of a comedy then horror" Maria pointed out.

"Well we could always watch 'The Little Mermaid'" Alex offered with a smile as he pulled it out of the bag.

Maria's mouth fell open; "I cannot believe you had the nerve to bring that here" she hit him on the shoulder, "To my home of all places"

"What?" Max asked through a confused smile.

"I used to have this thing about 'The Little Mermaid'" Maria shrugged, trying to pass it off as nothing.

"Oh, I'd call it more of an obsession" Alex clarified with a smirk. His eyes widened in realization "Wait, hold on. I'll be right back" he quickly got up and went over to the bookcase.

Maria followed behind him, "Oh no. Alex why would you do this to me?"

"I think Max deserves to know one of your deepest darkest secrets" he said skimming through the books on the self, "after all" he smiled pulling out a photo album which Maria tried to snatch away, "you know all of his"

"Ok, ok" she went over to the couch where Max sat with a curious look, "Before you see these you have to understand I was young. A girl of nine" she grabbed his shoulder "It was many years ago"

Alex let out a laugh, "Actually you were ten and it was only six years ago" he plopped the book down, open to a certain page, onto Max's lap.

Max began to laugh and Maria scowled at Alex.

"Is this from Halloween?" he asked still laughing.

"Nope" Alex said, and Maria groaned, "she just used to wear this around her house" Alex began to laugh at the memory "and sing the songs," he started gasping for breath "she knew them all off by heart"

By then Max was grabbing his stomach as the laughter bubbled out of him, and the photo album fell to the floor still open on the page. Maria peered down and saw her younger self look back at her with a wide grin, wearing a green towel around her waist, a purple bathing suite top, a long red wig with a seashell glue on it's side. To top it all of she was holding a little stuffed toy crab and standing by a fishbowl where a tag 'Flounder' was taped on and a little fish was swimming around.

The next movie night Maria had a plan. After they watched yet another un-scary, scary movie she pulled out a tape and went over to the TV.

She faced the two sitting on the couch. "This particular meeting of The IBD Club is very special" she began and put the movie in. Holding up the remote with a smile, "Last movie night Max was able to see one of my little embarrassing secrets" the boys began to laugh again and once they were done Maria continued "Tonight it's Alex's turn"

"What?" he asked, his smile gone.

She sat down on the couch and hit play. "You'll see"

They looked at the screen, one with a triumphant smile, one with curiosity and the other through the gaps between his fingers that were covering his face.

A little Maria in the mermaid costume walked into the camera's lens and began to sing 'Part of Your World', even back then she had a beautiful voice.

"Are you sure you're showing the right video?" Max asked.

"Oh no" Alex moaned from beside him.

Maria smiled "I'm sure"

Then a little Alex walked in wearing a flowing, too big, women's white blouse and women's black leggings. "Ariel!" he squeaked and went over to Maria, "I am here to save you!" he put out his arms in a dramatic gesture.

"Erick!" Maria giggled, "Save me from what?"

Alex then jumped off camera and a while later, with Maria giggling the whole time, appeared again this time wearing a women's black long gown, the skirt cut up into eight strips, and a purple turtle neck.

He tried to make his voice menacing "From me, Ursula the sea witch"

"Eeep!" Maria screamed through her laughter. "Not Ursula!"

Max was already going red from trying to hold back his laughter and watch the rest of the video. Alex was whimpering with embarrassment as Maria smiled on, "Oh he's just getting started"

Then younger Alex began to sing, in an off tune, squeaking, voice "Poor unfortunate fools", missing words and skipping verses as little Maria began to giggle again.

"Alex" Max asked through his chuckles "are you wearing red lipstick?"

From underneath the pillow he was hiding his face in he responded, "Yes"

"Oh no!" young Maria said, once Alex had finished his number, "Erick you must save me"

Alex bounced off the screen and they could hear fumbling then a loud thump.

"What was that?" Max asked with a laugh.

"That would be Alex falling over"

"Oh"

Little Alex popped back into view, again in his Erick costume and still wearing the red lipstick, this time with a slight limp. "Don't worry. I know what to do!"

"What?" Maria giggled.

"I'll call on my friend to help us!" Alex pointed to the air triumphantly before disappearing from view again.

"This is quiet the production" Max commented with a wide smile.

Maria nodded in agreement "Yep, written and directed by Alex Charles Whitman himself"

Alex groaned again as little Alex came back on screen.

"Is that…?" Max began to ask.

"Why, yes it is" Maria answered laughing again.

"How does that fit in with 'The Little Mermaid'?"

"The beauty of it all is that it doesn't, Alex just had a great imagination."

From under the pillow they heard Alex whimper, "I want to die"

Younger Alex had come back dressed as the blue power ranger and began kicking around squealing 'Hi-yah' and 'Take that!'.

Pulling up the towel Maria went over to Alex and whispered, "I forgot my line"

He whispered it back, "Oh Blue Power Ranger you're my hero and so much better then Red"

"Really?" Maria asked with slight disgust.

"Yes, now say it"

She went and looked into the camera rolling her eyes, "Oh Blue Power Ranger you're my hero and so much better then Red". In the background they were able to see Alex continue to fight the air around him. He then stopped and went to turn off the camera.

The screen was blank for a second and then little Maria appeared and with Alex beside her back in the Ursula get-up. They were bowing.

"Why did you change back?" Max asked still laughing.

Alex slowly lowered the pillow and peering over the edge mumbled, "Because it was my favorite costume"

Black and white fuzz played as Max and Maria laughed and Alex went back to hiding.

A/N: Now that ended on a happy note, compared to my last few chapters. I hope you had as much fun reading it as I had writing it.