Chapter Six
Girl Talk
"I vote we skip going through the main room, why do you want to through the main room?" Max said as Cindy dragged her down the hallway outside of her quarter's.
"Because I want to show off my handiwork. Girl, you look hot."
"I look like I'm 14"
"Well that's 2 years older than you thought you looked a half an hour ago. We're making some progress. Anyway Logan was telling me all about Cale as we walked over."
Max laughed, "How's the little guy doing? Last time I saw him he still wasn't talking."
" Logan swears that any day the kid will start up again…Something about being traumatized from all the changes. So what's the deal with that anyway?"
Max shook her head, unable to provide an answer, "I don't really know, Logan and I are pretty busy doing our own things here. We just kinda see each other more in passing."
Original Cindy stopped, "What happened?" completely forgetting she had been asking about Cale and more interested in what was happening to the grownups in the situation.
Max stopped and turned, "Nothing happened, nothing changed. He still thinks I'm with Alec."
"What happened to all that hand holding?"
Max shrugged, tried not to look hurt, "We've gotta move on. I mean we can't be what we wanna be."
Max started to walk away, "Oh no missy, get back here."
Max turned back, her shoulders dropped, "Can we please not make a big deal over this? There is nothing Logan and I can do, we both need to just move on."
"No, you need to tell me what happened."
Max gave a sad shake of her head, "No idea. I knew it was coming though. I understood when I saw him with Cale. I mean he's never going to have any of that stuff…Not if we're both waiting for something that's never going to happen."
"How do you know it's never going to happen?"
"Seven months, seven months and what do we have to show for it? An hour? I mean come on."
"Max there are other docs out there."
"Not 'round here there aren't. It's over, they're gone. Me and Logan, we're gone."
"I don't believe that" Original Cindy said waving a finger, "You and him, you've gone through too much to just be over." She started walking again.
Max join in step, "We aren't over, I mean we're never really going to be over, I'm always gonna love him, but we both deserve something more than that. I mean hell the boy's got his legs back and he doesn't even get to put that action to use." Max froze and paled
"Just thought of your hot boy being someone else's hot boy?"
Max waved her hand "It's not like it's gonna happen overnight. I've got some time to get used to the idea."
"Max," Original Cindy could almost laugh at the absurdity of Max's words, "Asha," she said the name with emphasis, "you wanted that girl dead and she never even touched your man."
Max frowned, "If he touches her, he's dead along with her."
Original Cindy laughed as they approached the main room, "Don't worry boo, that blonde's just gonna look trashy when he sees this blonde."
-o-o-o-
"Boys do you ever do any work around here?" Original Cindy said approaching Logan and Alec on the floor playing with Cale.
They both looked up from the brightly colored pop up toy they had been playing with, Alec gave a fake look of outrage, "We're trying to develop Cale's verbal skills, if that's not worthwhile work, I don't know what is."
Logan laughed, "What happened to Max?"
"What do you mean what happened to me, I'm right here." Max said walking up from the side, just out of Logan's view; she had paused to talk to someone.
Logan's head turned and there was that smile, her smile, "Wow" he said taking in the newly shortened blonde locks, the almost non-existent cream eye shadow that just softened her eyes, the shimmery lip gloss. She was wearing an ash blue hoodie and dark jeans with sneakers.
"Good wow?"
"Oh yea good wow" Alec said across from Logan.
Max swallowed hard and realized she hadn't even noticed him there, he broke her and Logan's moment and she knew it was for the best. "I feel kinda foolish."
Logan shook his head, "No, it works. Original Cindy wanted to get you contacts, but I don't think you'll need them. No one should recognize you, especially considering they don't have a full shot of you."
Max nodded with an internal sigh thinking of how they lucked out. The news crews hadn't arrived when she pulled her hover drone stunt and she'd been mostly blocked out by OC and CeCe when they'd tried to get out. The one camera that had caught Logan fully during his stunt had luckily been manned by one of his informants, who had proved his loyalty to Eyes Only more than Logan had ever thought possible. He hadn't even hesitated, was never even asked to erase Logan's involvement, he'd just done it and thanked god they hadn't been live at that moment. Logan had been saved by a commercial break, sometimes you had to love this economy.
"Lo" a little voice from the floor called out, not appreciating losing his adoring public.
Logan turned immediately; "Haha, knew you had it in you." he picked up the baby from the floor and placed him on his lap.
"LoLo," the baby happy babbled; glad to have his attention back.
"We'd best be going, put all this work to the test." Max said needing desperately to get away.
Alec frowned, "Maybe you oughta take someone with you."
"Fool, what do I look like?" Cindy said cocking her head
The men both laughed, "Personally I'd be more scared getting on her bad side than any of the X-series." Logan smiled.
"Yea come to think of it, I think I'd rather face Mole in a dark alley."
"Okay" Max took Cindy's hand "Let's go before we have to put any of your skills to use."