So, here's the second chapter. Thanks for the feedback; I appreciate it so much. Also, I want to say that Alec didn't take Brain's apartment in Brainiac.
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Chapter 2: Roomies?!
"Hey big Fella!"
"Hi little Fella!"
Max had decided to go see Joshua; she needed to get away from her thoughts. She was trying not to think of Logan and everything that was happening to them. Suddenly, she noticed there was a sleeping bag on the sofa. Joshua followed her eyes.
"Alec and Joshua are roomies. Joshua have fun now."
Roomies? Fun? Like Alec could care about Joshua. He had tried to kill him; he sure would have done it if there has been a barcode on Joshua's neck.
"But Joshua, you know we can't trust him all the time, Alec is . . . Alec, and he doesn't care about us."
She didn't know why she was so hard on him but the whole situation with Logan was making her angry with Alec. After all, he was responsible for it, wasn't he?
"Thank you, Max."
She realised that Alec was right behind her and started to feel a little bit guilty. Don't be silly, it's Alec; things like that can't touch him, he's impermeable.
However, Alec was hurt, even after all this time, she didn't trust him. He should have let Max give the data to Logan. He hadn't knocked and he had found him in front of the computer. Logan was disappointed because Max wasn't there and was jealous because Alec had spent the entire evening with her, so he had taken the data and had "gently" kicked Alec out. All these efforts were for a trust that he would never get. Maybe he had screwed up her chances with Logan, and maybe he almost killed her and Joshua but he thought he had redeemed himself since.
Max waited a second for Alec's response but when she saw he wasn't talking, she decided to go back to her apartment. Maybe she could catch OC before she went to bed. She needed to talk to her. Also, she didn't want to spend more time with Alec than needed.
...
Unfortunately, OC was already asleep when Max entered the apartment so she was all alone. In the past, she had loved to be all by herself, but the situation was starting to bother her. Probably because now she couldn't go to Logan's anymore. She sighed and went to bed.
...
When she got up, OC was making breakfast.
"Hey Boo, what's up? I missed you yesterday. Sorry, I couldn't wait anymore, I was too tired."
"Oh, don't worry, I was upset and I wouldn't had been...well, I was really pissed and..."
"What did your boy do this time?"
"His not my..."
She caught OC's look and nodded; that wasn't the point.
"...he called Logan my boyfriend and I began to think about the damn cure."
"Still don't know how to find one?"
"Not even a lead."
It was so frustrating that they wouldn't find a cure before...well, it would be a very long while. What if Asha tries to seduce him? Would he choose her? She couldn't stand the idea of them together. They ate in silence, Max complaining to herself and OC trying to figure a temporary solution for the twist her boo was in.
"Are you ready to face Normal?"
"What, why... god, we're late!"
"Yep!"
They got out of the apartment and started to walk down the stairs. Accidentally, Max ran into a guy that was walking the other way.
"Excuse..."
She stopped suddenly, this was the guy she had put in the closet. He recognised her and his eyes opened widely. Damn, what can I do?
"Who the hell are you?" He was breathing loudly and sounded like he was this close to a panic attack. "Don't come back here again or close to any members of my family. I'll call the cops, I will. Damn if you ever show your face again I'll call the army. I'm not kidding." The guy was sweating like he was about to have a heart attack. Max couldn't try to scare him or attempt to bribe him while he looked like he was going to faint so she decided it was better just to let this go. The girls walked away, Max swearing under her breath.
She couldn't believe her bad luck. The guy was living in her block. What were the chances? OC gave her a questioning look. Max sighed and explained the whole story while they went to Jam Pony.
"Let me get this straight; it's Alec's fault because if he had shut his mouth up, the guards would never had seen you?"
"Exactly!"
"God Boo, you've got to give your boy a break from that kind of crap."
"He's not my...What?"
"Anyway, what are you gonna do about the apartment ?"
"Don't know. I can't go back there; if I do, I'll have White's men all over me again."
Alec chose this moment to show up and heard her.
"What happened, Max?"
She was about to yell at him when OC spoke.
"The guy who got his ass kicked by you two last night lives in the same block as us and he just saw Max."
"Wow, what were the chances?"
He said with a cocky grin. Max gave him a bad look. She was pissed by his smile but especially because he had thought the same thing as her. Probabilities were making her think about...
"But I guess Brain could have told you that, right Maxie?"
Exactly, Brain, she hadn't forgotten him. The truth was that she had put a lot of efforts in the not-forgetting-him thing and that was why she was still upset about it.
"So Max, guess we're gonna be roomies. God, Josh will be so happy!"
Max was about to hit him when she realised that he was serious. And even if she hated to admit it...he was right.