Chapter 20

The next morning Maxie woke up to find herself in the same position as she was the night before with her head rested on Cooper's chest. She smiled slightly and decided to go back to sleep not wanting to ruin the moment. Just as she was about to go back to sleep Robin and Patrick came in and that caused Cooper to wake up.

"We have your release papers," Robin said.

"That doesn't mean you can get up and go back to work right away though," Patrick added.

"I know," Cooper replied.

Maxie let her eyes dance between Patrick and Robin, The whole family knew how their break up had affected Robin but they still didn't buy why she broke up with Patrick it just didn't make sense. Cooper noticed Maxie glancing between Patrick and Robin and wondered what it was about but he decided to ask her after they left.

"Okay so I think you're good to go now," Robin said.

After that Robin and Patrick left the room and Maxie heard them bickering about something, she just wasn't sure if that was a good or bad sign.

"What was that about?" Cooper asked once Robin and Patrick were out of earshot.

"Patrick and Robin? They're broken up because Robin is claiming she's in love with Nikolas Cassidine and it doesn't make any sense what so ever,"

"Why not?"

"It doesn't make any sense because the week before this thing with Nikolas started Robin couldn't have been anymore in love with Patrick, but Mac says Georgie and I can't play matchmaker because they're too stubborn to listen and have to figure it out themselves," Maxie explained.

"Speaking of Mac, won't he be mad you didn't tell him where you were last night?"

"Don't worry about it, I'll take care of it then I'll meet you back at your place at Kelly's and make sure you do what Robin and Patrick told you to do,"

"Oh, I like the sound of that," Cooper said smiling.

"I thought you would," Maxie said kissing him before leaving.

Maxie walked through the front door bracing herself for the third degree from Mac.

"Where were you last night Maxie?" Mac asked as soon as Maxie walked into the living room.

"I was at GH…one of my friends that go to PCU and work with me got sick and didn't have anyone to stay with them so I offered to stay,"

"Why didn't you call---" Mac was cut off by Georgie who heard the conversation as she came down the stairs.

"Cooper had to stay at GH? What happened?"

Maxie cringed she could've came up with an excuse and gotten away with it but not now.

"So this "friend" was a guy?" Mac asked.

"Yes," Maxie said shooting Georgie a look.

"You know the rules Maxie,"

"I know but---" Maxie was again cut off by Georgie.

"Mac, I've seen Cooper and Maxie together at Kelly's and it seems like he makes her really happy and haven't you noticed how she's been trying harder here lately? She didn't start doing all of that until she started hanging around with him; he makes her want to do better,"

Maxie smiled at Georgie and Georgie smiled back.

Mac sighed.

"Georgie does make a point, if you like Cooper and he's helping you this much I don't see a problem but, I want to get to know him better,"

Maxie nodded.

"What do you want to do?"

"I think he should come over for dinner tomorrow night,"

Maxie wanted to roll her eyes because she thought Mac was so old fashioned sometimes but she just nodded.

"Okay I'll talk to him about it,"

Mac nodded and Maxie headed up the stairs with Georgie behind her.

When they were halfway up the stairs out of hearing distance Maxie stopped Georgie.

"Hey, thanks for covering for me downstairs,"

"No problem, it seems like you really care about Cooper and I didn't want you to get in trouble,"

Maxie smiled and then she and Georgie went separate ways, Georgie to her room and Maxie to hers so she could get ready to go to Kelly's.

Cooper walked up to the door of his room at Kelly's. He had been able to leave GH shortly after Maxie. He started to unlock the door when he spotted an envelope with his name on it in front of the door. He bent down to pick it up and then opened the door. Once inside he sat on the bed and tore open the envelope and started to read the letter:

I know who you are. Meet me at the docks at 7P.M. and not a minute later. If you neglect to meet me your cover will be blown.

Cooper read the letter again. The only people that knew about his role in the hostage crisis were Maxie and Craig and Craig had to be far away from Port Charles. Before he could think about it anymore he heard a knock on the door. He hide the letter under some clutter on the nightstand and went to the door. He opened it to find Maxie standing in the hall.

"Hi," He said kissing her once she got into the room.

"So did you get the third degree from Mac?" Cooper asked once they pulled away.

"Almost. Georgie covered for me but…" Maxie let her sentence trail.

"But what?" Cooper asked.

"He wants you to come over tomorrow night for dinner because he want to get to "know you better" but if you don't want to do I can try and get you out of it,"

"No it's fine you don't have to get me out of it," Cooper said sitting on the bed with Maxie.

"Are you sure because I mean Mac will probably do the whole ask one question after another because we're dating thing and if you don't want to do that--" Maxie was cut off by Cooper leaning down and kissing her.

"I told you it was fine, I want to go okay?"

"Okay," Maxie said as Cooper kissed her again causing her to lean back on the bed.

"So you guys are good now?" Kristina asked after hearing Chasity explain the whole thing with her brother.

"Yeah, you're not mad I told Spencer first are you?"

Kristina shook her head.

"Not at all, I can understand why you went to Spencer he's always been good at just sitting there and letting you vent and still throwing his two cents in,"

Chasity nodded as they came up the stairs of the hallway where all the rooms were at Kelly's.

"Let me go check on Coop since he just got home and I haven't really gotten to talk to since last night and then we can go, okay?"

"Yeah that's fine with me," Kristina said following Chasity.

Chasity gently knocked on the door and then opened it a little.

"Hey Coop Kristina and I are…" Chasity let her sentence trail when she saw Cooper and Maxie were in the middle of a make out session.

Cooper and Maxie both looked up to see Kristina and Chasity in the doorway.

Before Cooper or Maxie could say anything Chasity cut them off.

"We see that you guys are busy, continue on just ignore the fact we were here," Chasity said exchanging glances with Kristina as they tried to hold back laughter.

With that both girls left the room and busted out laughing.

Back in the room Cooper and Maxie exchanged glances and shook their heads and laughed silently as they heard the girls laughing in the hallway.

"What's so funny?" Spencer asked when Kristina and Chasity met him at the Pizza Shack.

"Just what happened in Cooper's room before we came here," Chasity said.

"What happened?" Spencer asked.

"We caught my brother and Maxie in the middle of intimate moment I guess,"

"I think her face turned five shades of pink," Kristina said laughing a little.

"Can we just drop the subject please?"

Spencer nodded.

"So you guys are…" Spencer said letting his sentence trail unaware that Kristina knew all the stuff about Chasity and Cooper.

"She told me all of it, it's okay," Kristina said.

"So you guys are okay now?"

Chasity nodded.

"Yeah, we're good now,"

Spencer and Kristina nodded know Chasity probably didn't want to talk about it too much.

After that they just talked about not wanting to go back to school.