Disclaimer: I do not own the characters of Roswell obviously or I would be rich and I wouldn’t have to put my ideas down in the form of fanfic
Category: Kyle/Maria
Summary: I think you should just read to find out
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A/N: It starts the summer after Destiny.
Rating: ADULT eventually
Chapter 1
Maria rolled out of bed and smacked her alarm clock off. Since Liz had gone to Florida after all the Destiny crap, Maria had become Jeff Parker’s bitch and was working sun up to sun down practically. It was nice though to have a distraction from the events of late with Michael. The only problem was that at least half the time she was working, so was Michael. Oh well, she was not going to let him get to her.
Maria quickly took a shower and got dressed. She was running a little late, so she skipped breakfast and headed straight to work. She could get something there.
The work day went by rather quickly. It was busy because there was a convention of sorts in town that week. It wasn’t until 3:00 when Michael got to work that Maria’s stomach began to churn. She could handle this. She only had 2 more hours to go and then she could get the hell out of there, and away from him.
The Crashdown crowd had died down and, 15 minutes after Michael got to work, there were only 2 people in the whole resturante. Just her luck. Michael shows up and suddenly the place is slow.
Maria’s luck didn’t change either. As she leaned agaist the bar, Mr. Parker called her into the back room. She went to see what he wanted. “Maria, I need you and Michael to take these boxes to the Lift-off for me,” Mr. Parker said.
Maria silently groaned. “I could go myself. I mean you need someone to work the grill.” She did not want to be in a car with Michael. Well, she did, but not the way he was acting as of late.
Mr. Parker cuckled. “The place is dead, plus those boxes are heavy. It will be fine. I’ll work the grill.”
Maria waited for Mr. Parker to go into the kitchen and talk to Michael, and then she audibly groaned. It would be 30 minutes, alone, in the car with a man that was repulsed at the sight of her. Great, that was really what she needed after a heard days work.
Michael huffed out of the Kitchen and walked outside toward the Jetta without so much as a word.
Lovely to see you too, Michael. Maria thought and rolled her eyes. She got into the car and started it up. He didn’t say a word or glance he way.
Finally, Maria could take the silence no longer. “Michael, what is wrong with you?” she asked. She had a pretty good idea, but she wanted him to say it.
“What are you talking about,” he growled.
“Don’t play dumb, Spaceboy. I know that you’ve decided that I’m not worth your time as a girlfriend. But why are you being such…Such and ass?” Maria said her voice raising.
“I am not being an ass!” Michael said. “I’m just sick of hearing you talk.”
Maria had to admit, that was a little harsh, and it stung. “Michael, I havn’t talked to you in 3 days.”
Michael just grunted and rolled his eyes. This was killing Maria. He was so mean to her. What the hell had she done to make him like this? Yeah, he had a destiny. And she could even understand his need to be single right now. But she did not understand why he seemed to be TRYING to hurt her feelings.
“Whatever,” she said in a huff. The rest of the trip they were silent.
When they got back, the Crashdown was still dead, so Mr. Parker let Maria off early. She really only had about an hour on the clock anyway.
When Maria left, she really didn’t want to be alone. Liz was away. Max usually listened to her bitch about Michael, but she didn’t want to put him through that right now with Liz gone. Isabel didn’t really listen. Alex was out with his dad. Then Maria suddenly thought about Kyle. Maybe she should talk to him. He had been recently thrown into the alien abyss. Maybe he needed a human to talk to about it.
Before Maria knew what she was doing, she was pulling into the Valenti’s driveway. She knocked on the door and waited. A few minutes later, Sheriff Valenti answered the door. “Hi, Maria.” He said in what seemed to be an overly chipper mood. She didn’t dwell on it though.
“Hi, Is Kyle home?” She asked.
“Yeah, common in.” He said. “You know, he’s been taking this ‘aliens are among us’ thing a little hard. Maybe you could talk to him.”
Maria smiled. She figured. “Sure thing.” She said.
Valenti yelled for Kyle and he came down the stairs. He sort of did a double take when he saw Maria. “Hi,” he said.
Maria smiled. “Hi. I was just thinking we could talk.” She said. She didn’t know what to say. She and Kyle had not really hung out much. Yeah, he dated her best friend and they went to the occasional party together, but they didn’t really hang in the same social circles.
Kyle didn’t smile, but nodded and led Maria to his room. Maria sat down on his bed and began talking. “So, I just firgured that you could use someone to talk to. You know about the whole…thing.”
Kyle looked down to the ground. “Well I’ve kinda found Buddah,” he said. He didn’t know why he was telling her this. He didn’t want to have anything to do with the alien-conspiracy, “You know, you didn’t have to come over. I’m not going to tell anyone your boyfriend’s little secret. So, you don’t have to be nice to me.” He said. He figured she was here to save Michael, Max, Tess, and Isabel’s ass.
Maria looked like she had been slapped. What was this. Be a dick to Maria day. Well, she didn’t have to deal with this. “You know what, never mind.” She said with tears in her eyes, and she ran down the stairs and out the door.
Jim saw this and cursed under his breath. He was going to kick Kyle’s ass. First, he picked up the phone and made a call.
TBC...