Alec helped Max squirm out of being fired, like usual and helped with the extra packages she had to deliver due to her tardiness. At the end of the day, Max went to Crash, like usual and drank beer, played pool and talked the night away. Asha was waiting for Logan who wasn't coming. Max was happy to know that she was informed about this and not Asha. Alec was talking with some ladies, and a fire was burning in Max but she put it aside.

"Same discussion every day... same table, same people... Don't you ever get bored, OC?"

"No boo, why? Ain't our company good enough for you now?" She teased, or at least Max hoped she was.

"No... Got to go, tell Normal I'm not coming in tomorrow. Uhh... Tell Alec and Logan not to come over. Thanks OC."

She got on her bike and rode around Seattle, until she finally decided that enough is enough and went home. The apartments are dingy buildings, not much to look at. And they are squatters. The room wasn't much better, but either was the rest of Seattle. She walked up to her door, entered through stealthily. Cindy's room looked quiet, Max assumed she was asleep. She sat on the couch in a daze, trying to think everything through.

Everything is the same these days.

Max lounged on the couch, trying to think of some ways to make things more spicy. She went into a light nap, thinking everything over.

A strange awareness brought her too when she heard someone in the kitchen. Of course, Alec coming over to be the hero.

"Get out of my kitchen, Alec!" She smiled.

"What? Am sorry boo, just Cindy for a late night snack."

"Oh... Good night."

"Well, I figured since you had the day off that you'd do me a favor and check out this zoo. I know, but some people might put trangenics into a zoo, like they're animals." As Max turned to leave she heard his breath pause. Max smiled, like she usually did when Logan admired her.

"I know, be careful." She joked, smiling until she saw the reaction on Logan's face.

"Right, and please tell Asha not to wait for me next time because she wasted valuable hours and sleep waiting for me." He tried to smile but all he got back was a scowl.

"I'm sorry, she was at Crash last night? Must of missed her." Max turned around quickly and stormed out the door, before she could her anything else from Logan.

Max drove to the forest, silently screaming out her grieves. It felt like some twisted dream, dying to explode into reality. Logan fancied Asha, Max fancied Alec, Asha fancied Alec and who knows who Alec fancied. It was all so different, it wasn't usual... And Max despised it.

Maybe I shouldn't wish for different. Maybe I should be happy with usual...

A/N: Short but sweet. More soon. Need to fish out some ideas for where this is going =)