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She has to be incoherent. I watch her in sheer confusion.
She asks me which sink and then acts like I've lost my mind?
Shrugging, I help her into the cart and head towards the back of the store.
She's upset.
I begin to realize as she starts talking fast. Michael. She tries to play it off.. but I can tell by the way she keeps jumping from thought to thought... babbling... grabbing things along the way.
And then...
My heart stops.
For a split second I am completely lost on what to say as her glassy blue eyes stare at me.
Suffocating almost.
A highly uncomfortable moment to say the least. What do I do? What do I say? And I can see the faint sparkle in her eye. The one that looks like it's about to shed tears.
My forehead raises slightly as my hand reaches out to touch her shoulder asking,
"Are you okay?"
A faint shake of her head from side to side speaks a loud no as her eyes begin to glisten. It was a place I was never allowed to go before. Somewhere so deep down, so personal.
A place I was so unsure about. Small delicate teardrops begin to fall down her face and I am forced to speak,
"Hey... hey... it's okay. I understand. Really... I do. Come here..."
I help her out of the shopping cart and wrap my arms around her.
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She doesn't want to think about it, the pain and the hurt, but once the memory of Michael walking away from her comes clearly into focus again after shutting it out these past few hours, she can't stop the tears from flowing.
The strange part is being here, letting Max see her at her worst, holding her and soothing her as she cries into his chest and dampens his shirt with salty drops of water.
"I'm sorry, I don't mean to just burst into hysterics here, I'm probably making you feel really uncomfortable, I..."
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"NO... err... um, I mean No, not at all. I love that you're here with me. Out of everyone I've known, no one cared enough to be here with me, to worry about me... but you. I guess, I'm still surprised that you are even here right now... and... I know it hurts. I can feel it too."
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SpicyAlejandra
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"I'm sorry I intruded on your running-away plan, though, I guess I shouldn't have been so pushy... but you're right, I was worried. And I was scared... I was scared of being in Roswell, of being around Michael and I didn't want him to see me like this, like you're seeing me now. I was just... afraid."
She then whispers,
"Thank you."
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"Yeah... I know. Me too. Well... that and feeling a little lost. I think you know what I mean... "
She leans in and I can hear her whispering lightly in my ear *Thank you*. It tickles a little as I smile, whispering back,
"You're welcome."
My hands touch the back of her hair unintentionally, feeling the softness, and then I pull away. My fingers gently wipe the tears off her face I reply,
"But hey... you don't have to be afraid, okay?"
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SpicyAlejandra
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Max's touch is comforting, and she looks into his eyes again.
"But I am... I don't want to feel this way, and I wish I wasn't so upset by what happened, but I am, and it makes me angry at myself. For not seeing that he doesn't love me. Every day, I would watch you and Liz, and I would always wonder what I was doing wrong, why he couldn't feel the same way for me as you two do for each other. And it just hurts."
She then breathes in deeply, and exhales slowly.
"I don't want to talk about it anymore... and I think I'm gonna be sick."
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Fuck. This crap pisses me off to no end when it eats my post.  Okay, here I go again, all over again...grrr... I nod my head in understanding. Maybe she did get it. We were almost too much alike. I watch as she makes a mad dash for the woman's room. Breathing slowly, I whisper under my breath, "But it wasn't real. The one in my past life. The one I had left behind. The one who walked away from me. The one who had stated had never loved me... None of it. It was all an illusion." Sighing, I grab the pack of razors and cream and head into the other restroom. It was quiet as I stared into the mirror at myself. Smiling as I noticed the wet spot still lingering on my T-shirt. Maria.Slowly, I reach upwards taking it off as I turn on the running water. Sloaching down over the sink for a moment, holding onto it for support... breathing... trying... to get a grip. To push all these mixed feelings further down. Away. Standing, I lather up and begin to shave. Splashing water over my face and chest, I felt much better. I lean over and grab the shirt to dry off and throw it in the garabage on the way back out. I'll get a new one... I think to myself.
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 After about five minutes, when Maria's sure she won't be getting sick anymore, she slowly steps out of the stall and towards the sink to wash her mouth out with cold water. Ow, my head...Slipping out of the bathroom for a brief moment, she retrieves her purse from the shopping cart which had stopped only several feet away from the door, and hurries back inside to brush her teeth. As the toothbrush moves along back and forth against her teeth, she studies herself in the mirror. I look dead. Ew.
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As I walk out it's still empty.
What is she doing in there?
I think to myself. Realizing how tired I had become, I knocked on the woman's door and yelled to Maria threw it,
"Hey, I'm gonna go lay down over in the camping section, K?"
I could hear a faint okay threw the door and figured she would be fine.
A few minutes later after finding a new shirt, I laid down in the tent that I had set up earlier. Pulling the blanket up to cover the heat that began to rise up, I began to dream.
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SpicyAlejandra
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He's probably avoiding me. I don't blame him, after acting like such an idiot, I bet I annoyed the hell out of him.
"Okay," she murmurs after spitting toothpaste out into the sink. She washes her mouth out and pulls off her shirt slowly, examining her small, fair-skinned body. She begins to gently scrub her skin with a pink loofah, occasionally wetting it with warm water.
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Time must have flown by as I yawned, rolling over my arm drapping over warmth.
And then-
My eyes flew open in hysteria as I realized it was her. Maria.. Oh God..
Frozen for a moment, unsure of how I landed in the position- I slowly removed my arm and snuck out of the covers to a standing position. An excruitating position at that, as I tried to refocus quickly.
Glancing around for the nearest clock, I began to panic as I realized it was almost morning.
We have to get out of here.
I glanced back down at the slender warm body that was in a deep sleep. Bending over I gently touched her shoulder as I whispered,
"Maria..."
And again...
"Mariaaaa... come on... "
And then I began to panic a little as she didn't budge. Was she okay? Oh God... I shoved her a little harder this time and screamed in her ear-
"MARIA?!"
She flung violently into an upright position, scared to death, coming nose to nose with me. Really close. Our eyes stopped dead, cold, unmoving as they locked for a split second in time as she replied...
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As she is jerked violently awake from her sleep by a loud voice in her hear, Maria comes face-to-face with Max.
Oh, god... we're still in the...
"What time is it?"
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"Time to go... now... we don't have much time..."
I lower my voice as I begin to pull away. The close proximity was making me a little anxious.
Stop thinking about it.
I reminded myself.
I turned away as she began to stand saying something about the huge mess all over the store.
She was right.
We couldn't leave it like this. We weren't even supposed to be here. I watched as she began to fold things and straighten up the blankets and gadgets around us.
We didn't have enough time for this. I began to wave my hands over a few things. Still... not enough time. I could see her look at me, almost that silent wish that she could do it the easy way. Likewise, I watched her and always wondered why I couldn't do things the hard way for once.
Sighing, I spoke-
"Come here..."
I motioned for her to come over and continued,
"Hold out your hand..."
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This is insane. We'll never get it all cleaned up fast enough. If only... and here I am back again at the nervousness. What is wrong with me? It's just Max.
Then Max says something to her, and hesitantly, she steps closer to him and holds out her hand, waiting for whatever it is he's going to do.
"What are you..."
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She holds her hand out slowly... unsure. I turn to stand behind her, my hand gently turning her hand over so it faces down, my fingers lightly entertwining them into hers as my eyes close.
My mouth inches from her right ear, I can smell the light scent that is intoxicating, it's almost too much... and then I whisper silently to her...
"Close your eyes... concentrate... focus on every part of the store we were in... "
I tried to breathe... to focus... it was rather difficult to do so myself. Inhaling, the energy began to flow steadily.
A razored light escaped from our hands and spread threw the store, quickly fixing all that was damaged instantly.
And then it stopped, and I slowly let go. She turned around, smiling, her eyes so wide and full of life that it was hard for me not to fall into her spell.
I managed to choke out,
"Fixed. "
She smiled again and I couldn't help but to smile back.
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"Oh my god! You... we... did it!"
She jumps towards him and hugs him excitedly.
"I so didn't need to go to jail," she murmurs, a wide grin still adorning her face.
How did that happen? I don't have... maybe, he channeled some of his energy into my body and so I was able to help... whoa.
She pulls away from the hug slowly, and looks at his face again.
"You are going to have to explain to me what I just did right there, but save it for the jeep - because I think we should really get out of here. You think there's a back door we can sneak out of?"
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My body stiffens slightly as she jumps onto me into a hug. I can feel her body sticking to me, the curves of the small frame pressed firmly against my stomach. I wince slightly as I stand unable to move an inch.
And then she pulls away smiling.
I must have done something right.
I think to myself as she starts talking about a back door.
"Yeah... you're right- come on..."
I catch myself quickly as I am about to grab her hand and then second guess myself. No. Don't do that. Instead I begin to walk towards the back of the store.
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Maria follows Max to the back door and watches intently as he waves his hand over it, causing it to unlock instantly. He tells her to go out first so he can make sure no one saw them, and she quietly slips out and into the darkness, although it's nearly six in the morning. She walks casually over to the jeep, and leans against it, waiting for Max to unlock the car door. "Hey, can I drive?" 
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AN: Firstly, sorry for the delay in this part.  And question: Do you still have that banner you made of Maria and Max? I thought it would be cute to put it on the first page of this story.  ~ Quickly, I lock the place up and run towards the Jeep. *Can I drive?* She asks with a little pout on her face. It was almost hysterical the way her mouth tried desperately to make a sad frown as her lips twisted almost like a fishy-face. "Sure." I couldn't help it as I tossed her the keys and she squealed in delight. Not a moment later as I stood on the passenger side of the car waiting for her to unlock my door, the engine roared to life. *Varroooooommmmm* "Maria? MARIA!" I screamed as she took off in the Jeep without me. Damn her anyway. What the heck was she doing? I watched as she drove off, not stopping apparently. My attention was directed to the loud sirens that started to wail in the silence of the night from the alarm on the store. Two men had just shattered the freaking door and were running around back with bags of something. "What the heck?" I spoke to myself as I wondered how they got in there. And what were they doing? And then I froze. Cops. "OH. Great! This is just freaking great!" I spoke sarcastically. Two guys were getting away and here I am standing here like a moron with no car and cops about to pull up. Terror began to cross over me as I screamed, "MARIA!"
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