Chapter 10

Cooper opened his eyes when he felt another piece of crumpled up notebook paper that had missed the trash can hit his head.

"Maxie," Cooper said in attempt to get her attention.

"Huh?" Maxie asked pulling the ear buds from her ipod out of her ears.

Cooper didn't have to answer because Maxie noticed all the crumpled up notebook paper near where Cooper usually slept.

Maxie bit her bottom lip and smiled slightly.

"I'm sorry,"

Cooper waved his hand dismissively.

"Don't worry about,"

Cooper climbed up on the bed next to Maxie.

"So you can't think of anything huh?"

"I can't think of anything, I'm good at mixing and match outfits and telling people why they should wear something, I'm not good at writing about it,"

"Well the professor said it had to be like a magazine article right?" Cooper asked.

"Yeah,"

"Well maybe you could make it like a fashion advice column or something," Cooper advised.

Maxie smiled.

"That could definitely work; you're good you know that?"

Cooper smiled.

"You could use a break though couldn't you?"

"Oh, what would make you think that?" Maxie asked teasingly.

"I don't know maybe the fact you've been working on this since you got home and that was eight o'clock and now it's twelve thirty,"

"Well what did you have in mind?" Maxie asked.

"We could watch Greys Anatomy," Cooper suggested.

Maxie gave him a puzzled look.

"But on Sunday nights it on at eleven and it doesn't come on again until Thursday,"

"It's not going to be on Thursday so they decided to put a new one on tonight, I checked,"

"Well turn it on then," Maxie said eagerly.

Cooper laughed and turned on the TV.

"I'm not sure if I'm going to like that," Maxie said referring to the talk of Izzie having feelings for George.

"Why not?" Cooper asked turning his attention away from the TV and looking at Maxie.

"Well because they have a really good friendship and if they get romantically involved and it doesn't work out that could ruin the friendship,"

"So are you saying that friends shouldn't ever get involved romantically so the friendship stays intact?" Cooper asked.

"Well, no I'm not saying that, it depends on the friendship, a friendship like theirs could get ruined if they got involved romantically if it didn't work out because they've know each other for so long. But maybe a friendship where the two people were still close and trusted each other could work if they decided to be more than just friends," Maxie explained knowing they weren't talking about George and Izzie anymore.

Without realizing it the space between them had closed and their lips were inches apart. They were almost kissing when Maxie pulled back.

"We can't do this, not until you decide where I fit in," Maxie said firmly.

Cooper nodded.

He didn't want to lead her on; he would wait until he broke things off with his girlfriend.

"Okay, I understand,"

"We should go to bed," Maxie said looking at the clock and seeing it was almost two o'clock.

"Okay," Cooper said getting off the bed and lying back down on the rug.