Roswelllostcause: Of course Liz and Max loves each other. That's how the universe works.
Natalie36: Yup
L-J-L: I think that their insecurities will be explained later.
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Liz looks around her “Everybody here? Noone left by the tents? Good” She claps her hands together and giggles “Oh, this is gonna be so much fun”
Sean, Kyle and Alex is standing together “And me think it's time to be a bit scared now” says Kyle.
“What? I can't wait to find out what they have planned for us” says Alex.
“You can't be serious. Don't you remember that time when we almost got lost because of Liz” whines Kyle
“Sure. But remember all the good times we had with her planning” says Sean “I'm looking forward to this”
“Soooo.... Who's our drivers?” asks Max
“That would be me, Tommy and Pam” says Kyle
“Good. Now.....” Max looks at Liz and smiles “I think you explain it better then me so go ahead”
“Thanks bestie” says Liz and smiles “Right. We are gonna send you out on a treasure hunt”
“Treasure hunt!” shouts Isabel “Isn't that like.... kids play?”
Tess shakes her head at her “Isabel... Is... Please. If you don't know that any age can have a treasure hunt I feel sorry for you. We used to play it in the dorms. Superfun” She turns to Liz again “How are we gonna do this?”
“I was coming to that and thanks” says Liz “You have your teams? Great. Now we will send you off to the cars. On the windshield on three cars you will find what to get and where to get it. That will be your first pit stop. When you are there you will get another note and so on. When you arrive to the last pit stop you will be told to get back here with your collected stuff as fast as you can”
“Why can't we get a list of everything from the beginning?” asks Vicki
“Because it will be no fun. This way you won't know what to expect or where to get” snickers Max “And you won't start at the same place so you can't cheat if your ways are crossed.”
Everyone is looking at each other “What are you waiting for? Off you go” says Liz and shoves at them.
“Wait” yells Maria “What are you gonna do when we are off on this?”
“We” says Max “are gonna set up a surprise for you when you get back”
“Right” says Maria and wiggles her brow at Liz “Surprise”
“Yes Maria. A surprise” sighs Liz “Frankly I don't care if you believe me or not. But you will see for your self when you return”
“Come on. Let's go” says Michael and pushes Maria in front of him. “You will find out later”
Liz watches them leave and sighs. Max walks up and stands behind her. He puts his arms around her waist and nuzzle his nose in her neck. Liz sighs “Sometimes I can get so mad and irritated at Maria. Why does she always have to question everything?”
“It's because she suspects something. You know how she is. The best bloodhound has got nothing on her. I bet that she is snoop better then any searchdog in the whole US”
Liz laughs “You're right. It's just.... Well, sometimes it just gets to me you know”
“I know, love. But it will be over in a few hours”
“Are you so sure it's over? I think it will only be the beginning” sighs Liz and turns around in his arms so she can seek out his lips for a long and tender kiss.
“It looks like we are going to meet Mr Parker” says Kyle “You?”
Tommy and Pam read their notes “Flower shop for us” says Pam. “Mr Turner at the supermarket” says Tommy.
“Ok. So I guess we will see you later. May the best team win. Even if it will be us” says Kyle as he jumps in the car and speeds off down the road.
“What are you waiting for” yells Pam “Get in the car”
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“Uhm... Liz... It's almost 2.30. Shouldn't they be back soon?”
Liz takes a look around the beach. They have worked hard to get the beach to look exactly the way they want it to be. She takes a look at her phone “No messages so I don't think they had any problems. Let's go to the parking to wait for them”
They walk up Max's jeep and hops up on the hood. “Did we finish?” asks Max
Liz nods her head “Yeah, the stuff that is missing the others will bring. It was part of their treasure hunt you know”
Max laughs “You didn't”
“Sure did” she giggles “I can't have our parents bring everything for this surprise. I think our friends should work a bit too” She has just finished that when they here some highspeed cars approaching. “But I didn't think it would turn in to a race” she sighs.
“Well, boys will be boys”
One car is in front of the others and it comes so a screeching halt. The cardoor opens and Pam jumps out with her hands in the air “I won. I won” she yells and jumps around.
Liz turns to Max “You were saying?” Then she walks up to Pam to give her a hug. “Congrats. Your team won” She takes a look inside the car and sees Paulie hold the handle with a firm grip. In the backseat Alex is very pale and Isabel looks a bit green. She can her her mumble “I think I'm gonna be sick”
Kyle and Tommy parks their cars and walks up to Pam “Where the hell did you learn to drive like that?” asks Kyle with admiration.
Pam shrugs her shoulders “What can I say. When you were away I used to drive out to the desert and just drive. It turned out to be really fun so I have had some races with the high schoolers that think they are all that”
“Gather around” yells Liz “I have the lists here with everything you were to collect. Let's see if you made it”
Everybody helps to unload the cars. “Why did you want us to get all this?” asks Vicki
“Some of it are just for fun and some of it is part of the surprise” says Max
“Ok. We start with Pam's team since they got here first” says Liz “Let's see what you've got”
Pam looks down at the stuff “20 Cherry Cola. 10 pink tulips. 50 hamburger buns. 50 hot dogs. 1 speaker. 5 bottles of white wine. 10 boxes of chocolate and white socks” she counts it off.
“That was right. You got it all” smiles Liz and turns to Kyle “What do you got?”
“I got 40 bears, 5 bottles of red wine, 75 cupcakes, 50 hot dog buns, 2 white shirts, 10 white roses, 4 bottles of ketchup, 10 big garbage bags and 20 orange soda”
“Yup. Tommy. Show me what yours” smiles Liz.
“Right. Even if I don't know what you will do with this I think it starts to look like a party”
“Patience. Soon. Very soon it will be reveled to you” smiles Liz and holds her pen up.
“Ok, checklist.... We've got 40 bears, 50 hamburgers, 4 bottles of mustard, 4 bottles of dressing, 1 bag with onions, 4 pair of black shoes, 12 sunglasses, 6 secret gift-bags and 15 bags of chips and popcorn”
“Yes! You got everything” shouts Liz “You are the best treasure hunters there is”
Tess snorts “Wasn't too hard since we got pretty good clues everywhere we went. But can you please tell us now what to do with this?”
“Come on. Let's carry this down to the beach” says Max and grabs some sodas and walks away.
The rest is following with all the stuff and soon they can see what Max and Liz have done. They come to a halt and just stares with open mouths. On the beach there are several blankets on the ground. They have dug out a pit in the sand and collected a lot of wood for a fire later on. On the side there is four grills waiting to be lit. They have made a kind of table with the help of some rocks and a big peace of wood that they have tried to flatten out. And to top it off, all around the beach they have placed out lanterns with candles in them.
“You can put the hamburgers and hot dogs over there with the grills” says Liz “And the rest of the food goes up on that – table – or something”
“Where do you want to flowers” asks Isabel.
“Oh, wait a minute” Liz turns around and looks for a container “I had it here just a minute ago.... Where did it go?”
“Is it this one?” asks Michael and holds up a big tin can.
“Oh, you found it. Good” smiles Liz. She arranges the flowers and puts them on the table. Then she looks at her phone.
“Max, buddy. What is this all about?” asks Sean.
“You will see in a minute. Just wait a little bit more” He has just said that when they can here several voices and all of their parents walks out to the beach.
Kyle groans and turns to Max “What is this. Why are they here?”
Liz smiles widely “They are here because we thought it would be fun to have a big barbecue together. We haven't had that since our graduation and now we wanted to have that again.