Chapter 2

Later that evening Cooper was sitting at one of the tables at Kelly's listening to Chasity complain about how stupid it was that her computer teacher was giving a quiz already. Maxie had to work later than he did that night so Maxie agreed to meet him at Kelly's.

"Okay what does Auto fill do?" Cooper asked looking at the definition in Chasity's computer textbook.

Chasity thought about it for a minute but came up blank.

"I don't know,"

Cooper sighed.

"You are my little sister and I know you bust your butt in school but I have to ask do you pay attention in computer class?"

"I pay attention…Somewhat,"

"But I don't know all of the technical stuff so I don't know how well I'm going to do on this quiz," Chasity said.

"Well I don't know half of this stuff either so I don't care about the grade on it as long as you tried on it," Cooper said looking up from the textbook.

Chasity smiled slightly.

"I used to be able to do well on tests without studying, what happened?"

"You entered the wonderful world of high school," Cooper replied.

"I really hope you're being sarcastic because wonderful is the last word I would use to describe school,"

"Of course I was being sarcastic,"

Before Chasity could respond Maxie walked through the door.

"I think that's my cue to exit," Chasity said gathering up her books and notes and passing Maxie as she walked out the door.

When Maxie sat in the chair across from Cooper she glanced back at the door and then focused her attention on him again.

"What was that about?"

"Chasity wanted me to help her study for a quiz she has coming up in her computer class,"

Maxie nodded.

"So you guys didn't talk about---" Maxie was cut off by Cooper.

"No we didn't talk about what happened or what's going on now, Chasity has a tendency to concentrate on something else when something happens that she's having a hard time dealing with but, she eventually starts wanting to talk about it if you don't push to hard," Cooper explained.

"So this all comes back to her trying to protect herself,"

Cooper nodded.

Maxie could understand that to a certain extent, Chasity was trying to protect herself in case something happened to Cooper. Maxie could understand that because of how she was with her mother she would always push her away so it wouldn't bother her so much when she left again. But Maxie learned the hard way---it never worked.

"So just bring it up occasionally to see if she'll talk about it?"

"Yeah because if you push to hard it will make it even harder to get her to talk about it,"

Maxie nodded.

"Hey do you want to go up to my room and watch Greys Anatomy up there?" Cooper asked trying to change the subject.

Maxie smiled.

She had completely forgotten that it was on but, then again she'd had more important things on her mind.

"Sure," Maxie said getting up and following Cooper up the stairs.

Kristina, Chasity and Spencer were all sitting up in Kristina's bedroom trying to study for the computer quiz.

"What is a row and what is a column?" Spencer asked looking at the textbook in front of him.

"A row is the boxes going across and a column is the boxes going down, I think," Chasity said.

"Huh?" Kristina said pulling the ear buds from her ipod out of her ears.

Spencer rolled his eyes.

"At least someone is paying attention and trying to study," he said looking at Kristina.

Kristina just rolled her eyes and mumbled "Whatever" under her breath.

Chasity looked at the digital clock on Kristina's night table. It read: 9:00 P.M.

"Hey guys do you want to take a break and watch Greys Anatomy?" Chasity asked since all three were tired of studying, plus Greys Anatomy was her favorite show. Kristina just smiled and turned on the TV.

Spencer rolled his eyes at the girls.

"Do you two have to make a commentary every five minutes?"

"Yes we do what fun would watching Greys Anatomy be if we didn't do that?" Chasity asked.

"Well, we could hear it better,"

Chasity just rolled her eyes and slapped Spencer's arm playfully.

"I really like the George Izzie thing and I didn't think I would like it," Kristina commented.

"I'm still kind of indifferent about it; I might not have been if it hadn't been for the adultery thing but also because they're best friends things could get complicated,"

"Yeah well even if they were in a relationship and weren't best friends things could get complicated," Spencer commented.

Chasity looked at him slightly surprised since he had been teasing both her and Kristina for the commentary thing.

"That's true but if they broke up it might be hard to go back to just being best friends after being in a relationship,"

Kristina let her eyes dance between Chasity and Spencer there was something more going on between them. The way he looked at Chasity was all the proof Kristina needed.

Back up in the room above Kelly's Maxie and Cooper were snuggled together while watching Greys Anatomy. Maxie sitting between Cooper's legs with her body rested against his while he rested his head against the wall. Maxie smiled slightly. She remembered one of the many times they laid cuddle together on her bed while Cooper was still hiding in her bedroom…

"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.

Maxie's thoughts were interrupted when she felt her cell phone vibrate in her pocket. She pulled it out to see she had a new text message. It read: Where are you? Mac's going to flip----Georgie

Maxie rolled her eyes and quickly replied telling Georgie to cover for her because she was staying at Coop's place again.

Cooper had his head rested against the wall as he and Maxie watched Greys Anatomy. He suppressed a laugh as he remembered a conversation he and Maxie had one time while watching Greys Anatomy…

"If I had to work with a woman like that it would drive me insane," Maxie said referring to the resident that was taking Bailey's place.

"Why?" Cooper asked.

"Because, there is happy and then there's obnoxiously happy, that's obnoxiously happy,"

"Okay but that still doesn't explain how it would drive you insane,"

"Well as you have seen this week I'm not the perkiest person in the morning plus, I've had teachers like her before," Maxie explained.

"Well, I personally think your morning crankiness is cute, now what teachers have you had like that?"

Maxie smiled at the crankiness comment.

"My sophomore year at PC high, Ms. Crostone she was the social studies teacher and I ended up having her first period. She was obnoxiously happy and in the morning all I usually wanted to do was go home and stay in bed until at least nine o'clock,"

Cooper laughed.

Cooper yawned fighting back sleep but ultimately sleep won over.