Sorry about the confusion, sometimes i type quicker than i can think. Liz is having triplets, just to clear it all up. Earth2Mama
Ellie
begonia9508
syvlia37 - oops that was an accident, twins is correct
FSUMSW94
berhlyliz
BehrObsession
Mariael311
Behrsgirl1230
RASaero611
taressa05
linliz68
su-lyn - yes this is a different Michael that's for sure
Strawberry8
Jason's Lover
panda2001
vampyrax
NorafanofMaxandLiz
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g7silvers
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cherie
Part 20
“Oh my god, Liz are you ok?” she asked.
Liz looked up at the sound of Maria’s voice but straight away she knew it was a bad move and before long she was bent over the toilet again dry reaching.
Maria raced over to Liz and pulled her hair out of her face.
“Oh god what’s wrong are you sick?” she asked panicked, this was not the sight she expected to greet her by her best friend on her wedding day.
“No pregnant” Liz whispered in reply.
“Pregnant?” Maria’s eyes widened.
Liz nodded, she looked up at Maria then “what are you doing here so early?” she asked.
Maria frowned “what do you mean early the hair appointment is in 5 minutes”
Liz’s eyes widened in shock “Oh god” she said trying to stand up but she was too shaky too and if Maria hadn’t reached out and grabbed her by the shoulders she would have fallen.
“Liz are you sure your supposed to be this sick?” she asked worried.
“I don’t know” Liz whispered suddenly a little worried herself. “I need Max” she told her then.
Maria shook her head thought “You can’t see Max before the wedding, it’s tradition plus its bad luck” she told her.
“Screw tradition and fuck bad luck, I need Max” Liz said firmly, something wasn’t right, she hadn’t been sick in days. She reached for him through the connection but he was still asleep.
“Hand me the phone” she demanded from Maria.
Not wanting to argue with Liz in the mood she was already in Maria went to pick up the phone for her but it started ringing at the same time so she answered it.
“Hello?”
“Maria is that you?” Isabel said on the other end.
“Yes who is this?” she asked.
“It’s Isabel, where’s Liz is everything alright she was supposed to meet me at the hairdresser by now”
“Oh she’s sick Isabel, really sick. I think she passed out on the bathroom floor” she explained.
“Oh god, is she ok now?” Isabel panicked.
“She wants Max” she answered.
“Did you call him?”
“Not yet I was just about to give her the phone when it started ringing”
“Ok” she breathed out. “I’ll tell the hairdresser we’ll be an hour late and I’ll be over in a minute. Call Max if she is that sick” she explained.
Maria nodded “Ok”
She hung up then and passed Liz the phone and she dialled the familiar number.
***
Max slowly woke from slumber when he heard the tune of his cell ringing. He realised immediately that the tune was the one he had set for Liz so he snapped the phone into his hand.
“Hello” he said groggily.
“M-Max” she whispered out.
Max immediately went on alert at the sound of her voice and for the first time since he woke up he sensed her through the connection, she was sick and she was very scared.
He jumped up and pulled on pants “I’ll be there as quickly as possible” he assured her without her needing anything “your at home right”
“Yes” she confirmed. “Maria’s with me” she told him wanting to give him advance warning that they weren’t alone “Isabel is on her way” she said.
Max threw a shirt over his head and began racing out of the house the minute he snapped the phone shut.
Dianne frowned when she saw her son rushing like a bat out of hell “Max where are you going?” she asked but instead of answering he just continued rushing until he was behind the wheel of the jeep and on his way to Liz’s.
***
Isabel pulled up at the same time as Max and rushed to catch up with him.
“Max what’s wrong with her?” she asked.
“I don’t know” he shook his head as he pushed the front door open and began taking the stairs two at a time to get too Liz.
Liz’s eyes were on the door before Max even reached it and as soon as he caught sight of her he rushed towards her and took her into his arms. “You ok?” he asked kissing her and pulling her tighter against him.
Maria stood by with her mouth open in awe at the display that was Max and Liz. The way he handled her with absolute care and the exchange where little words were required.
“you didn’t close the connection did you?” he pathed, that was the only explanation he could think of.
”No I don’t this so” Liz replied “Max can you connect and make sure they’re ok” she asked slightly panicked that something might be wrong with one of the babies.
Max nodded but he knew he couldn’t do it with Maria in the room so he turned and faced “Can you get Liz some water please, they’re should be a bottle downstairs in the fridge” he asked.
Isabel was standing at the door too watching everything unfold “I’ll start some toast too, it might help to put something back in her stomach” she suggested and followed Maria out of the room.
“I told her” she whispered then and Max looked up surprised “she walked in on me and I was so sick Max, she would have called an ambulance if I didn’t”
Max smiled “it’s fine sweetie, you would have wanted to tell her eventually anyway” he whispered.
He placed his hand on her stomach then and opened their connection to their children, they were all their but there was some slight distress, they missed their father and they were taking so much of Liz’s energy that she couldn’t keep up. They explained to him what they needed and Max gave it to them.
Liz began to panic when Max stayed in the connection with his eyes closed for so long but when he finally opened them he was smiling.
“Is everything ok?” she asked.
“it’s fine” he said kissing her gently “they just need more of me than I’m giving” he explained disappointed in himself that he didn’t realise sooner.
“What do you mean?” Liz asked confused.
“They don’t like it when I’m not around you or them, when we touch they absorb my energy, when I’m not they have no choice but to use yours and your body cant take it, one maybe but not three” he told her.
Liz smiled in relief, she was already feeling better.
Max stood up and kissed her button nose “Why don’t you go grab a shower, and I’ll go tell Isabel to make that toast with eggs and bacon too” he suggested.
Liz nodded “thank you” she whispered.
Max grinned “You welcome, besides I cant have my future wife passing out when she reaches me at the alter can I?”
“No” Liz smiled and shook her head “you cant and you wont” she told him
He pulled Liz close to his body then “I am a King you know so you my darling should look like a queen” he whispered in her ear.
“I feel like a queen” she told him.
“Really?” he asked happily.
“Really” she assured him kissing him soundly on the lips.
When Liz entered the bathroom for her shower Max reluctantly walked down the stairs.
Isabel and Maria looked up surprised “How’s Liz?”
“better” he assured them “but Isabel toast wont be enough, maybe eggs and bacon”
“Are you sure?” Maria asked concerned.
“Very, she’s starving” he said. “she’s having a shower and she’ll be down”
Isabel nodded and got to work finding all the things she needed in the fridge.
Max and Maria stood staring at each other then “can we talk?” Max finally asked “out side”
Maria nodded and followed him onto the front porch and took a seat beside him on the step.
“So I’m hoping that you being here means that you’re here for Liz today?” he said breaking the silence that had descended.
Maria nodded “if she still wants me to, yes” she confirmed.
Max nodded and smiled slightly “You mean so much to her, do you know that?” he asked her.
Maria fidgeted nervously “she means a lot to me too, I don’t deserve a friend like her and the way I treated her was terrible” she whispered.
Max nodded “I’m sorry that I’ve come between the two of you. If I was any kind of man I would have stepped out of the picture but I just couldn’t do that Maria. Liz is like air to me. I love her with everything that I am and every breath that I breathe and as selfish as it sounds, I wont give her and especially now my children up for anything or anybody”
Maria nodded “and you shouldn’t have too” she told him.
“So you can accept all this because I don’t want to see Liz get hurt again?” he asked.
Maria looked up at Max then her eyes locking with his beautiful ambers ones and she realised something, he was a stranger. He was not her Zan and he never would be, Zan was gone and for the first time since he had taken off out of her life she realised something, that she was ok with that, that she could live with that.
“It’s not going to be great between you and me over night but it will be, I want us to be friends because just like you Max, Liz is the most important person in my life too and I’m not giving her up either” she smiled through her tears.
Max leaned in and wrapped an arm around Maria then and pulled her to him slightly before kissing the top of her hair “Thank you” he whispered.
Maria nodded and smiled too.
Max stood up then “I should go before my mum sends out a search party” he chuckled.
“Good idea” she said wiping the last of her tears away.
Max took a step back but then stopped “I’m sorry I hurt you” he said, and he was. Maria was a wonderful person and he regretted the way he treated you.
Maria nodded “I know” she said, because she finally saw what everyone else saw about Max Evans and that was how much he loved her best friend.
TBC......Friday
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