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With Ben In Between
"You what?" Alec whispered. Max felt tears brim her eyes, this painful, but the look on Alec's face was killing her.
"I lived with Ben in New York, we were in love. I was visiting Cindy, here, that weekend of the car accident. By time I got back, I heard you were in town to take care of his stuff. So I got all my stuff out and left the building and came back here and moved in with Cindy."
Alec stayed very quiet and still, Max fidgeted nervously and anxiously. She wanted him to do something.
"Ok," he said as if still trying to take everything in. "One question."
"What?"
"When we first met and started to date, were you dating me or Ben?" A simple question that needed a simple answer; if only it were that easy. She could lie and say that it was he and only he, or tell the truth and possibly lose him forever. Max felt a tear fall down her cheek, and that was his answer. Alec knew the answer, and it felt like a knife into his gut and heart.
"I-"
"I have my answer, I think you should leave." He cut her off abruptly standing up and walking to the front door, holding it open he refused to look at her. Thick tears fell quickly down Max's face at those words and his actions. Either way, she had lost. As if walking to her death she walked slowly to the door, but stopped in front of Alec. Leaning up she placed a light kiss on cheek and walked out.
She couldn't hold the sobs anymore; they racked her body and became harsher with each one. When Alec closed, slammed, his door, she fell to the ground and sat on the steps and just let all her emotions out. She didn't care if the other residents in building called the cops or complained, she couldn't move.
It wasn't until Cindy called her cell and came and picked Max up, that Max was able to move. Cindy didn't say anything, just held her as they walked to their apartment. To Cindy, Max was like a lifeless doll just doing as she was suppose to. It was Cindy who undressed Max and dressed her in her bedclothes and got her to her bed, and it was Cindy who walked back to Alec's.