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Chapter 3b
Max POV
"Max?" I turn my head towards the door in time to see Isabel poke her head through. "Can I come in?"
"Yeah, sure." I watch her as she moves in and shuts the door behind her.
"You know, I still think your room looks bigger than mine." Uh oh. We are not changing rooms again. Do you know how many times we've switched back and forth already? Hurry, think of something uh…
"I don't know; I'm pretty sure yours is bigger."
"Yeah, you're probably right." She agrees. Smooth Max, smooth. Isabel continues to walk around my room and stops in front of the window to look out. She starts playing with her necklace and I know she's still worried about fitting in here.
"It is going to be all right, you know that." I tell her. She stops fiddling with her necklace, looks at me surprised for a second and then turns fully to face me.
"Yeah, I know. Mom says we have a meeting with the High School tomorrow to register. West Roswell High. Go Comets." She says in a fake enthusiastic voice.
"What time is Dad getting here tomorrow?"
"He's driving the car down with the movers tomorrow and I think he's already recruited a brave young soul to drive your jeep down too." She says with a laugh.
"What's that supposed to mean?" I ask affronted.
"Dude, Max your jeep is an accident waiting to happen. It's already broken down on me twice."
"That's because you're not nice to him." I tell her seriously.
"Listen to yourself Max; you talk about that car as if it were a person." She tells me as if I'm the crazy one. Need I remind her of the whole Christmas Nazi incident?
"Yeah, and notice it hasn't broken down on me once." I say with a smirk.
"Whatever." She says walking to the door. "Get ready though. We're going out to eat."
"Where?" I ask. It makes sense that we're going out. I mean none of our stuff is here yet.
"I don't know, some place called the Crashdown Café. Mom said we passed it on the way to the house. Anyway, hurry up. We're gonna leave in ten minutes." She tosses over her shoulder as she leaves my room.
Liz POV
"What happened?" Kyle asks anxiously as I walk out. He must have seen the dazed and confused expression on my face. Did that really just happen? "What's wrong? Did they suspend you?" Kyle's really freaking out now, and if I wasn't so confused over what just happened, I'd use it to my advantage. Oh who am I kidding?
"Oh my gosh Kyle!" I say starting to hyperventilate and pouring out the fake tears. Okay, undivided attention, check.
"Liz, are you okay? What did the principal say?" Crazy with worry, check.
"Kyle!" I sob, throwing myself into his arms. "It was so sniff so sob horrible!" Officially uncomfortable with the whole emotional breakdown, check.
"Liz, um… geez what am I supposed to say?" He whispers to himself as he awkwardly pats me on the back. "Um…I'm sure it'll be okay Liz, just tell me what happened." I start crying harder and cling to his shirt.
"Liz… come on, I'll do anything, just tell me!" Bingo.
"Any- sniff thing?" I had to stifle a giggle.
"Well yeah…"
"Promise?"
"Yeah I promise…"
"Even sniff let me sniff borrow your car tonight?" I ask in my, what Maria calls, scared little girl voice. For a second I thought it wasn't going to work. Kyle loves that car more than anything-.
"Sure Liz, just tell me what's wrong." Kyle tells me getting frustrated. I don't even think he's fully realized that he agreed to let me borrow his precious car for the night. Bambi. Immediately I dried up the tears.
"Thanks Kyle! You can drop off the car after school." I tell him with a smile.
"Wait…Huh?" Kyle asks confused. Giving me this, what the heck just happened look. "So what happened in there?"
Flashback
"So, Ms. Parker, I assume you know why you're here." Mom's going to kill me.
"Yes Mr. Porter, if you'll just let me-."
"What I don't understand is why you're here. You're a bright young girl and you've never gotten in trouble like this before."
"Yes, I completely understand, but-."
"That's why I'm going to let this go with a warning."
"I'm sorry, I know I totally deserve- come again?"
"Liz, I know you're a good student and I'm willing to let this go but I need your help with something. There are two new students starting high school here tomorrow and I need someone to show them around. I would like you to show them around." That's it? No detention? No suspension? All I have to do is show some kids around school tomorrow?
"Sure Mr. Porter! Is that all?" I asked hopefully. This is great, wait till I tell Maria, she won't believe me.
"Yes Ms. Parker, you're free to go. See Evelyn on your way out and she'll right you a pass for class." I turn around relieved and quickly start to make my way out the door. "Oh, uh… Ms. Parker?" Oh no, he's going to tell me I really do have detention isn't he?
"Yes, Mr. Porter?" I ask, turning back to face him.
"Try to keep your thoughts to yourself." He tells me.
"Uh… sure thing Mr. Porter." I reassure him and quickly head out the door. Doesn't he know that's what I've been trying to all day?
End Flashback
"He let you off with a warning and all you have to do is show two new kids around school tomorrow!" Kyle asks skeptically.
"Yep." I tell him smugly. "And I get to borrow Bambi tonight." I add. Oh I am good.
"Wait, wait, wait… I agreed to that all under false pretenses." He tells me folding his arms across his chest.
"Uh uh Kyle." I tell him shaking my head. "A promise is a promise besides aren't you always saying material possessions only clutter the mind anyway?" Ha ha ha! He has no answer for that. Bet he didn't expect his words to come back and bite him in the butt. "Just drop the car off at the Crashdown later." I tell him, walking out of the office door.
"But wait, Liz! How am I supposed to get to the party tonight?" He shouts after my retreating figure.
"Just catch a ride with Michael!" I shout back. And with that said I head back to Psychology.
Max POV
The bells above the door ring as we walk through the doors of the café. I've got to say that I've never been in an alien themed restaurant before. We've only been here two hours and already I'm starting to notice the glaring differences between Roswell and Albuquerque, but already I find myself liking Roswell.
"Wow this is nice." My mother says leading us over to a booth and sitting down. Isabel sits next to her and I take a seat across from them. A tall middle-aged man walks up to us to take our order.
"Hello, I'm Jeff Parker. I'm the manager of the Crashdown café. One of our waitresses called in sick so I'll be taking your order today. Uh… shouldn't you kids be in school?" He asks taking in the sight of Isabel and I sitting with our mother.
"Nice to meet you Jeff. This is a nice place you have here. I'm Diane Evans and these are my kids Max and Isabel. We just moved to Roswell."
"Oh, well welcome to Roswell." Jeff says smiling warmly.
"Thank you. Yes, actually Max and Isabel are starting school at West Roswell High tomorrow."
"Oh really? My kids go there." Jeff said laughing. "I have a son and a daughter about your age." He says, addressing Isabel and I for the first time. "Oh I'm sorry, you guys must be hungry, let me get your orders." He turns to look at me. "So what'll you have?" I take a moment to peruse the menu and tell him my order.
"I'll have a galaxy sub with space fries and a cherry coke." He turns to face my mom and Isabel.
"And for you ladies?"
"I'll have a Sigourney Weaver with an alien blast." Isabel answers while closing her menu.
"And I'll have the Will Smith burger with a…cosmic cola." My mom says laughing. "This really is a great place you have here."
"Thank you, I'll be right back with your drinks." Jeff says heading in the direction of the kitchen but turning back he says, "Hey, I have an idea, why don't you kids come back tonight and you can meet kids? Huh?" I turn to look at Isabel. Before she can hide it I see the insecurity on her face. She quickly masks the insecurity and turns to face Jeff nodding her head in assent. She's trying.
"Sure." I find myself answering. My mom smiles at me.
"Okay then, I'll see you kids around five." He says and then retreats to get our drinks.
"Well that went well." My mother says happily from her seat.
West Roswell High
Lunch time
Maria POV
I stealthily make my way down the deserted hallways making sure no one sees me as I slip into the eraser room. As soon as I enter, two strong arms wrap around my waist and turn me around. Soft lips attack mine in the dark and I use all my will to push the owner of those lips away.
"Wait, we need to talk. Liz, Serena and Alex almost found out about us today."
"What!" He exclaims. He steps fully away and folds his arms across his chest. "What happened?" He asks.
"Well, Liz found the note you wrote to me, asking me to meet you here." I tell him, waiting for another explosion. He surprises me though and when he asks softly,
"What did you tell them?
"I told them that I was feeling lonely and depressed lately and I was writing love notes to myself to cheer me up."
"And they believed that?" He asked surprised.
"Well no… but it was the only thing I could think of at the moment." He starts to laugh and pulls my body back towards his for another kiss. Again I push him away. "You know eventually we're going to have to tell them, and I'd like it to be before the wedding." That got his attention, he pushes me away and looks at me like I'm crazy.
"What! We've been going out for two weeks and already you're planning our wedding?" He asks in horror.
"No you idiot, my mom's wedding!" Geez. Some guys are just dense. "I want you to be my date for the wedding. I want to be able to dance with you." I say pulling him to me for another kiss.
"Okay, I promise, we'll tell them before your mom's wedding." He tells me running his hands soothingly up and down my arms.
"Really?"
"Yeah."
"Thank you." I tell him. I look down at my watch. "Crap, I gotta go. Liz is probably wondering where I am." I kiss him quickly on the cheek and rush out of the room. I only hope Liz doesn't figure out where I've been.
Just as I'm walking out the doors to that lead to the quad I see Liz walking towards me.
"Maria, where have you been? Lunch is almost over." Uh… hurry Deluca. Think of something good.
"I had to finish something for my chemistry class in the library." I tell her. And the lies just keep on coming. I hope she believes me. "So, how'd it go with the principal?" I ask her hoping to distract her.
"You're not going to believe me." She tells me with a smile.
"What?" I ask. I'm definitely interested now. She was supposed to go to the principal's office because she was in trouble but she's smiling. She proceeds to tell me the whole story.
"You're right, I don't believe you." This is so unfair.
"Yeah and the best part is we get to borrow Bambi tonight." Wait a minute.
"Kyle let you borrow Bambi?" I ask in disbelief. Kyle loves that car.
"Let me borrow, tricked him into letting me borrow it, same thing. Either way, tonight we ride in style.