
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters in the Roswell community.
Rating: Teen
Couples: CC
Summary: Starts after wipe out. Michael befriends Liz and it creates an interesting dynamic to the group.
Part 1
Michael watched as Liz wiped at the counter, the same spot. He just had this curious feeling. One he couldn’t just ignore. Maria and he had gotten back together, and that was a great feeling. Max was his best friend and he had confided in him about what happened with Liz. There was just something wrong here. He could feel it deep down in his gut.
“Hey Liz,” Michael approached her.
Liz woke up from her absentmindedness to see a concerned Michael before her. That was not a sight she was accustomed to. “Hi Michael,” She replied back in a friendly tone. Liz couldn’t help but wonder what was up with him.
He wanted to continue their conversation but he had to talk to Maria first. “I’ll be right back.” He then ran off to where Maria had just finished taking a table’s order and dragged her into the backroom.
“Okay…” Liz rolled her eyes, “he sure is acting weird.”
After a few minutes, the unlikely couple returned. Maria had this beguiled look in her eyes and both of her lips were sucked inside her mouth. She looked too giddy when Michael gave her a quick peck on the lips and headed back towards Liz.
“Um Liz,” Michael approached her again.
“Yes Michael.”
“I was just talking with Maria,” he gestured over at his girlfriend and her best friend who was watching them shamelessly.
“I happened to have noticed. Anything I need to know about?”
“Yes, um, well you see…” Michael couldn’t for the life of him for a coherent sentence. “Well I was wondering if you wanted to hang out tonight. I was just going to hang around here while Maria was working the late shift, but since you get off in half hour, I was wondering if you wanted to hang out, as like friends.”
Liz was stunned, absolutely stunned.
“Um, wow…okay, that’d be great.”
“Great, I’ll um just go sit and wait and keep Maria company until then.”
Seriously, what on earth had gotten into Michael? He was being so nice. That was a change.
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Max glared through the glass door window at the exchanged between his supposed best friend and ex girlfriend. They looked a little too cozy for his liking. So Liz slept with Kyle and now she thought she could move onto his best friend.
Max knew he was being ridiculous with his thought process, but the blood boiling through his veins were ready to listen to logic yet.
How could Michael do this to him?
Maria seemed pleased with their little pleasantries, he knew it was probably very harmless what they were talking about but it didn’t hurt him any less. He was going to get to the bottom of this. Michael and Liz were never friends.
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Isabel stared at the phone for the millionth time willing it to ring. She’d messed things up with Alex so badly. She tried to muster the courage to call him but she’s afraid he would just hang up on her at the sound of her voice. Deciding she needed to do something to occupy her mind, she scoured her selection of DVDs and settled on Pretty Woman.
Just when she was about to pop the DVD in her player, her clueless brother burst her locked door open with his powers invading on her self-pity party and privacy. “Max, what the hell are you doing?” She bellowed at him.
He looked so angry. “My life is falling apart Isabel. I feel as if I’ve lost everyone I love.”
Ridding herself quickly of any annoyance at her brother, she rushed to embrace fragile state, “Max, I’m here for you. I’m always here for you. Tell me what’s wrong.”
“Where do I start?”
“What’s been going on between you and Liz? You haven’t told me so far. You just stopped pursing her. Why Max?”
“Because…Because I saw her in bed with Kyle.”
Isabel’s jaw dropped, “Oh Max.” She engulfed her brother in a much needed hug.
“Now she and Michael are going out tonight,” Max added the final blow.
“What?” Isabel shrieked, standing up and knocking her brother off her bed in the process.
“Owe.”
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Kyle watched as Tess danced her way around the kitchen cooking dinner. He watched her shimmy her hips back and forth, which sent his pulse rocketing. How he wanted to tap a piece of that.
“See anything that looks good?” Tess asked over her shoulder.
Kyle choked down his bewilderment, while his face remained fixated and frozen on her. “What?”
She gestured to the steak, baked potatoes and rice she was cooking. She smiled knowingly back at him.
“Oh yeah, it all looks scrumptious,” Kyle said while licking his lips, his eyes still set on her.
“Good,” she replied.
“Did you want to hang out tonight Tess?” Kyle asked getting his hopes up
“I would, but I already have plans with Max.”
“Oh.”
“Maybe Liz is available,” Tess remarked, having turned her attention back to the blueberry pie she was putting into the oven.
“Yeah maybe…” Kyle replied crestfallen. He was about to walk off when he stopped to add, “Max told you that he saw Liz and I didn’t he?”
“Yes he did.”
“It’s not what…” Kyle tried to explain himself.
“It doesn’t matter Kyle. I belong with Max, so save it.” Tess though she sounded convincing, but if he’d seen the blurring tears escaping her lids, her cover would have been completely blown.
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“So let me get this straight,” Alex announced with the biggest giggly grin on his face, “Michael asked your permission to take Liz out tonight, strictly as friends because he thought it was about time he formed a friendship with her.”
“I know, I about slapped myself silly with giddiness,” Maria shrieked at Alex. She had pulled into the bathroom the moment he had step foot in the backroom. She just had to share this information with someone.
“Well let me finish now Maria, I want to make sure I’ve got all of this right,” Alex uttered from the toilet where he was sitting. “Michael stated that he knew he wasn’t the most emotionally and friendly person, but that Liz always seemed so nice and he never wanted to give her chance. He’s had a change of heart and sees that Liz could potentially be a terrific friend and it’s about time he had a heart to heart with her. Have I got it all?” Alex finished.
“Yes, I was flabbergasted, I didn’t know my spaceboy had it in him, my people skills must finally be rubbing off on him,” Maria sat in her aqua-green Crashdown uniform on the sturdy old sink, swinging her bare legs back and forth.
“That or perhaps hell as finally frozen over?” Alex offered as a serious thought.