Hey guys! Michael went out to go do... something... so I had some time... decided to go ahead and post the next part! Its not very long.. but hey! Whatever! The part after this was another one of my favorites... so it*ll probally be up soon as well! MamaDee! You best start writing us a fic.. or you*re gonna have a full-scale riot on your hands! *lol* Ok.. here ya go!
Part Twenty-One
It had been an hour since everyone left, and every five minutes someone called to check in. Liz sat on the couch and started at the scorched wall the entire time. Finally, she couldn’t take it anymore and got up and went in the kitchen to make some tea. She couldn’t calm down; couldn’t make herself stop shaking. She heard the door open and close, so she peeked around the corner to see Max standing in the living room, his back to her, staring at the newly decorated wall. Liz didn’t say anything, just went back to making her tea.
I don’t know what the hell to say, she thought. What is there to say?? ‘Thanks for making me a part of the club’?! No!! And, God, I have to explain the fight…
“Hello??” Max yelled, still not sure what to think about the wall.
“In the kitchen,” he heard Liz say. He walked into the doorway of the kitchen. She wouldn’t look at him, just concentrated on making her iced tea.
“What the hell happened to the wall?” he asked. Liz didn’t say anything, didn’t look up, and basically ignored him. After a few minutes, he reached out, took hold of her chin, and eased her to look at him. “Oh, my God” Max said, finally seeing her lip split, bruised cheek, and tears rapidly falling down her face. “What happened?” he asked again.
Liz broke down. She started bawling and her legs gave out. Max caught her almost instantly. Scooping her up, he had one arm around her back, the other under her knees. She clung to his neck, crying out all her problems. Max carried her to the couch, sitting down with her in his lap, rocking her back and forth. He shifted slightly to get his cell out of his pocket, dialing Isabel’s number. She answered after about half a ring. Max finally got her to stop screaming and said, “I’m at Liz’s, where is everyone? Whatever. Get a hold of them, and get back here.”
He hung up and within five minutes they all came bursting through the front door in a huge flock. They were all very surprised to see Max on the couch, and Liz curled up in a ball on his lap, asleep.
Zan’s jaw clenched as he made his way to the couch. Max scooped Liz up in his arms and stood to face Zan. “Here.” Max said, as he handed Liz to Zan, “Put your girl in bed. We all need to talk.”
Zan simply nodded, taking Liz in the bedroom. Max followed, but stayed in the doorway. Zan put Liz in bed, covered her up and walked to the doorway, standing next to Max. They looked into each other’s eyes. “What happened while I was gone?” Max asked.
“Well, Liz and Tess boxed, Kitten did real good… ya should see dat otha bitches face.” Zan said, crossing his arms across his chest, leaning on the door frame.
Max couldn’t stop a smile from crossing his lips. “Why’d they fight?”
Zan shrugged. “Neva gotta answa on dat ‘fore da wall got fucked up.”
“Yeah, who the hell did that?” Max asked.
Zan just looked towards Liz, then back to Max, raising an eyebrow.
Max stood there for a minute. He looked at Liz, and then back at Zan, then it suddenly hit him. His eyes went wide. “LIZ did that?! HOW?!?!”
Zan shrugged. “Dunno, duke. Dats why we alls went looking fo you… try’na figa it out.”
Max nodded. “Look, I’ll say it first, I’m sorry. And earlier, with Liz on my lap... she broke down…”
Zan cut him off, waving his hand. “I figa’d she’d wait to lose it til afta we dipped. And I ain’t worried, I know she's mine,” he said with a confident smirk.
Max crossed his arms and glared at Zan “Fine, King Max, I apologize, aight?” Zan said, holding his hand up in surrender. “Don’t shoot.”
Max held his hand out to Zan. Zan accepted, placing his hand in Max’s and shaking it. Zan’s other hand clasped onto Max’s shoulder, turning him and facing him toward the living room. “Now… lets collect da group and fix muh girlfriend.”
TBC…
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Ok guys... Michael went out for a second.. heres the next part... as usual.. lemme know what you think! I loved writing this.. hope it shows!
Part Twenty-Two
Liz leaned against the railing of the balcony, smoking a cigarette. It had been two days since the wall got its ass kicked and they’d pretty much figured out that since Max had healed her, Liz was different now. And they also assumed that extreme emotional stuff set her off. So now everyone walked on eggshells around her, always careful with their words and actions. Liz hated it. They made her feel like a child.
Liz took a long drag off her cigarette, holding it in a second, before slowly exhaling the smoke. She was so lost in her thoughts about everything and nothing; she didn’t even hear Isabel walk up next to her.
Isabel gave her a playful nudge and Liz jumped. “Oh, sorry. I thought you heard me.” Isabel said, leaning against the railing next to Liz.
Liz shook her head, taking another drag. “Nope, didn’t hear ya.”
“Sorry…” Isabel apologized again.
Liz waved her hand at her. “It's all good.” She looked down at her watch. “What’re you doin' here? Its 3 AM,” she asked, finishing her cigarette and flicking the butt over the railing.
“Couldn’t sleep…*Nothing* on TV, decided to come see if anyone else was awake. Alas, here I am.” Isabel smiled, sweeping her arms in front of her for dramatic effect.
Liz giggled. “Yes, here you are. In all your glory.”
Isabel smiled and nodded towards the pack of cigarettes Liz was turning over and over in her hands. “Those’ll kill ya. You know that, right?”
Liz looked down at them and shrugged. “Gonna die anyways… and when my dad sees all the metal in my face… these’ll be the last of my worries,” she finished, holding up the box.
Isabel rested her chin in her hand. “I can’t believe summer’s almost over. I mean, we leave here in two weeks, and school starts two weeks after that.”
Liz groaned, dropping her forehead on her arms, which were crossed on top of the railing. “I wish we could stay here forever,” she said, looking back at Isabel.
Isabel looked over at Liz. “Because you don’t wanna go to school? Because you don’t wanna face your parents? Or because you don’t wanna leave Zan?”
Liz took a deep breath. “All of the above…”
Isabel nodded, dropping down into one of the lawn chairs on the balcony. “Have you and Zan talked about it? I mean, about what’s gonna happen with you guys?”
Liz copied Isabel, dropping down into the chair across from her. “No…”
Isabel couldn’t help but ask “I mean, this is probably none of my business, but I’m curious. You guys haven’t…?” Isabel let the question hang, and looked at Liz.
Liz raised an eyebrow. “Gone beyond?” she said with a giggle, remembering Maria using that phrase to describe it one day at the Crashdown. Isabel nodded, laughing along with Liz. “No…” Liz started. “I guess we almost did though…”
Isabel sat up. “You guess?”
Liz shook her head. “No, its not like that… the night we went to Swamp… when me and Zan went in the bedroom we messed around. It didn’t go any farther than I woulda have allowed it to had I been sober, but he said that I said I wanted to, cause I don’t really remember much.”
Isabel’s eyebrows scrunched together in concern. “He told you that you said that? He could just be trying to get you in bed.”
“Iz… I don’t think he’d do that… I mean… don’t you think he’d be trying a little harder?? We’ve been together almost all summer, and we haven’t done all that much. I don’t think he’d do that. Besides, I do.”
Isabel gave her a sideways look. “Huh? You lost me.”
Liz sighed, rubbing her eyes. “I do want to…”
“Go beyond?” Isabel said, her eyes dancing with playfulness.
Liz giggled, “Yes, Thank you! But, there’s a problem…”
“Virgin status?” Isabel questioned. Liz took out a cigarette and lit it. “Didn’t you just smoke one of those?”
Liz took a drag. “It calms me down. Do you wanna fix another wall?” Isabel shook her head. “Didn’t think so. So get off me!” Liz said, laughing.
Isabel’s mouth dropped open. “Elizabeth Parker! I love the new you! We definitely gotta start hanging out more!” she said, laughing along with Liz. “But, back on topic… What’s the problem?”
Liz took a drag, preparing herself. “Well, as everyone in the world knows, I’m a virgin… and Zan… well, he isn’t.”
Isabel nodded. “No doubt, how many girls has he been with?”
Liz cleared her throat. “He guessed 13.”
Isabel sat up, crossing her legs underneath her, obviously very interested. “He *guessed* 13?!” she asked.
“Yeah,” Liz said, chewing on her lip. “He said he didn’t keep count.”
Isabel ran her fingers through her hair. “Oy vey… he… isn’t very bright… he’s lucky he’s pretty.” Both girls fell into a fit of giggles.
Isabel composed herself. “Shh! We’re gonna wake up the whole damn neighborhood. Ok, anyway… you’re concerned that you’re not gonna be good enough, right?” Liz looked down, nodding.
“Well…” Isabel continued, “I won’t be good for the sex tips and whatnot, but I can tell you this... You need to find out how he feels. You need to know if he loves you. And you need to figure out if you really love him. And also… if he loved any of those other girls. Because, from what I’ve been told… meaningless sex is nothing compared to if you really love the other person.”
Liz leaned over and embraced Isabel. “Thank you"
Isabel hugged her back. “Glad to be of service.”
Their bonding moment was broken up by a car pulling up out in front of the condo building. They both peaked over the edge of the railing, trying to see who it was, but not let themselves be seen. The headlights of the vehicle turned off and they could finally tell it was the jeep. They both looked at each other, not sure what was going on. Then, the drivers side door opened, followed closely by the passenger door. They watched as a girl stepped out and hurried over to Max, immediately grabbing him and pulling him into a steamy make-out session.
Isabel and Liz’s mouths dropped wide open. “Who the hell is that?” Liz whispered, careful not to give them away.
Isabel closed her eyes and shook her head, as if what she was seeing would suddenly disappear. She opened her eyes and looked again. “I have no clue! I didn’t even know Max was gone!”
They watched as Max lead his mystery girl to a car, opening the door for her, giving her one final kiss, and waving as she took off. They watched Max as he made his way up the stairs and to the front door of his condo with a huge goofy grin on his face. As soon as he was inside with the door shut, they both let out a breath neither of them realized they were holding.
“Omigod!” Liz said.
“Yeah... what the fuck just happened?” Isabel asked. She reached over and grabbed Liz’s cigarette.
“What’re you doing?” Liz asked.
“Calming my nerves,” Isabel said, before taking a drag and giving the cigarette back to Liz. “Yeah… that’s better,” Isabel said, smiling.
Liz laughed. “So… that…” she said, motioning to the place Max and that girl had been moments before, “...can’t be good. Why would he keep that from us?”
Isabel shook her head. “No, I don’t know… I’ll find out more tomorrow, but… I think you need to go have a chat with Zan.”
“NOW?!” Liz asked, a little louder than necessary.
“Yeah, why not?” Isabel said, giving her a look that said ‘I dare you to come up with an excuse’.
Liz sighed, taking one last drag. “Fine.”
Isabel stood up, smiling. “Good, I expect lots of juicy details tomorrow.”
“Ok.” Liz giggled. They said goodnight and Isabel left. Liz walked to her bedroom door and took a deep breath. “Here goes nothing…” she said to herself before opening the door and stepping inside.
TBC….[/i]
Part Twenty-Two
Liz leaned against the railing of the balcony, smoking a cigarette. It had been two days since the wall got its ass kicked and they’d pretty much figured out that since Max had healed her, Liz was different now. And they also assumed that extreme emotional stuff set her off. So now everyone walked on eggshells around her, always careful with their words and actions. Liz hated it. They made her feel like a child.
Liz took a long drag off her cigarette, holding it in a second, before slowly exhaling the smoke. She was so lost in her thoughts about everything and nothing; she didn’t even hear Isabel walk up next to her.
Isabel gave her a playful nudge and Liz jumped. “Oh, sorry. I thought you heard me.” Isabel said, leaning against the railing next to Liz.
Liz shook her head, taking another drag. “Nope, didn’t hear ya.”
“Sorry…” Isabel apologized again.
Liz waved her hand at her. “It's all good.” She looked down at her watch. “What’re you doin' here? Its 3 AM,” she asked, finishing her cigarette and flicking the butt over the railing.
“Couldn’t sleep…*Nothing* on TV, decided to come see if anyone else was awake. Alas, here I am.” Isabel smiled, sweeping her arms in front of her for dramatic effect.
Liz giggled. “Yes, here you are. In all your glory.”
Isabel smiled and nodded towards the pack of cigarettes Liz was turning over and over in her hands. “Those’ll kill ya. You know that, right?”
Liz looked down at them and shrugged. “Gonna die anyways… and when my dad sees all the metal in my face… these’ll be the last of my worries,” she finished, holding up the box.
Isabel rested her chin in her hand. “I can’t believe summer’s almost over. I mean, we leave here in two weeks, and school starts two weeks after that.”
Liz groaned, dropping her forehead on her arms, which were crossed on top of the railing. “I wish we could stay here forever,” she said, looking back at Isabel.
Isabel looked over at Liz. “Because you don’t wanna go to school? Because you don’t wanna face your parents? Or because you don’t wanna leave Zan?”
Liz took a deep breath. “All of the above…”
Isabel nodded, dropping down into one of the lawn chairs on the balcony. “Have you and Zan talked about it? I mean, about what’s gonna happen with you guys?”
Liz copied Isabel, dropping down into the chair across from her. “No…”
Isabel couldn’t help but ask “I mean, this is probably none of my business, but I’m curious. You guys haven’t…?” Isabel let the question hang, and looked at Liz.
Liz raised an eyebrow. “Gone beyond?” she said with a giggle, remembering Maria using that phrase to describe it one day at the Crashdown. Isabel nodded, laughing along with Liz. “No…” Liz started. “I guess we almost did though…”
Isabel sat up. “You guess?”
Liz shook her head. “No, its not like that… the night we went to Swamp… when me and Zan went in the bedroom we messed around. It didn’t go any farther than I woulda have allowed it to had I been sober, but he said that I said I wanted to, cause I don’t really remember much.”
Isabel’s eyebrows scrunched together in concern. “He told you that you said that? He could just be trying to get you in bed.”
“Iz… I don’t think he’d do that… I mean… don’t you think he’d be trying a little harder?? We’ve been together almost all summer, and we haven’t done all that much. I don’t think he’d do that. Besides, I do.”
Isabel gave her a sideways look. “Huh? You lost me.”
Liz sighed, rubbing her eyes. “I do want to…”
“Go beyond?” Isabel said, her eyes dancing with playfulness.
Liz giggled, “Yes, Thank you! But, there’s a problem…”
“Virgin status?” Isabel questioned. Liz took out a cigarette and lit it. “Didn’t you just smoke one of those?”
Liz took a drag. “It calms me down. Do you wanna fix another wall?” Isabel shook her head. “Didn’t think so. So get off me!” Liz said, laughing.
Isabel’s mouth dropped open. “Elizabeth Parker! I love the new you! We definitely gotta start hanging out more!” she said, laughing along with Liz. “But, back on topic… What’s the problem?”
Liz took a drag, preparing herself. “Well, as everyone in the world knows, I’m a virgin… and Zan… well, he isn’t.”
Isabel nodded. “No doubt, how many girls has he been with?”
Liz cleared her throat. “He guessed 13.”
Isabel sat up, crossing her legs underneath her, obviously very interested. “He *guessed* 13?!” she asked.
“Yeah,” Liz said, chewing on her lip. “He said he didn’t keep count.”
Isabel ran her fingers through her hair. “Oy vey… he… isn’t very bright… he’s lucky he’s pretty.” Both girls fell into a fit of giggles.
Isabel composed herself. “Shh! We’re gonna wake up the whole damn neighborhood. Ok, anyway… you’re concerned that you’re not gonna be good enough, right?” Liz looked down, nodding.
“Well…” Isabel continued, “I won’t be good for the sex tips and whatnot, but I can tell you this... You need to find out how he feels. You need to know if he loves you. And you need to figure out if you really love him. And also… if he loved any of those other girls. Because, from what I’ve been told… meaningless sex is nothing compared to if you really love the other person.”
Liz leaned over and embraced Isabel. “Thank you"
Isabel hugged her back. “Glad to be of service.”
Their bonding moment was broken up by a car pulling up out in front of the condo building. They both peaked over the edge of the railing, trying to see who it was, but not let themselves be seen. The headlights of the vehicle turned off and they could finally tell it was the jeep. They both looked at each other, not sure what was going on. Then, the drivers side door opened, followed closely by the passenger door. They watched as a girl stepped out and hurried over to Max, immediately grabbing him and pulling him into a steamy make-out session.
Isabel and Liz’s mouths dropped wide open. “Who the hell is that?” Liz whispered, careful not to give them away.
Isabel closed her eyes and shook her head, as if what she was seeing would suddenly disappear. She opened her eyes and looked again. “I have no clue! I didn’t even know Max was gone!”
They watched as Max lead his mystery girl to a car, opening the door for her, giving her one final kiss, and waving as she took off. They watched Max as he made his way up the stairs and to the front door of his condo with a huge goofy grin on his face. As soon as he was inside with the door shut, they both let out a breath neither of them realized they were holding.
“Omigod!” Liz said.
“Yeah... what the fuck just happened?” Isabel asked. She reached over and grabbed Liz’s cigarette.
“What’re you doing?” Liz asked.
“Calming my nerves,” Isabel said, before taking a drag and giving the cigarette back to Liz. “Yeah… that’s better,” Isabel said, smiling.
Liz laughed. “So… that…” she said, motioning to the place Max and that girl had been moments before, “...can’t be good. Why would he keep that from us?”
Isabel shook her head. “No, I don’t know… I’ll find out more tomorrow, but… I think you need to go have a chat with Zan.”
“NOW?!” Liz asked, a little louder than necessary.
“Yeah, why not?” Isabel said, giving her a look that said ‘I dare you to come up with an excuse’.
Liz sighed, taking one last drag. “Fine.”
Isabel stood up, smiling. “Good, I expect lots of juicy details tomorrow.”
“Ok.” Liz giggled. They said goodnight and Isabel left. Liz walked to her bedroom door and took a deep breath. “Here goes nothing…” she said to herself before opening the door and stepping inside.
TBC….[/i]
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Ok.. this part if for my girl Tanya! Cause she is freaking hilarious! Shes awesome to talk to... and yeah! *lol* Even though she left me with a bitch of a cliffhanger over at her fic.. this is still for her! *lol* Love ya, girl!!!
Ok.. I*m shuttin up now.. on with the show!
Part Twenty-Three
Liz shut the door behind her and looked towards the bed. Zan was sprawled out on his back with one hand behind his head, and then other resting on his chest. Liz couldn’t help but smile. That’s mine… she thought as she walked over to the bed and sat down. She stared at his face for a few seconds before she looked down. Ok…How am I gonna do this? What am I gonna say? Oh god, am I gonna have sex with him tonight??
Her thoughts were interrupted by Zan saying, “What’s on ya mind, sweets?”
She looked over at him and smiled. “Nothin' much. I’m sorry I woke you up.”
He sat up and gave her a kiss. “Its aight, I love wakin up ta you.”
Liz smiled and resituated herself so she was sitting Indian style facing him. She looked at him for a second and then started chewing on her lower lip.
“Now, I knows yous thinking ‘bout sumpin, cause you doin that lil’ lip chewin thang that is so damn ‘dorable.” He said, pushing a piece of her hair behind her ear.
Liz laughed. “Ok, yeah, I am thinking about something. Uhm, can I ask you a question?”
Zan nodded. “’Course, baby.”
“Ok, so… I just got done talking to Isabel.”
“At 3 AM?” He said, looking over at the clock.
“Well, yeah, she couldn’t sleep either. Anyways...” Liz said, pushing on with the conversation. “Me and her were talking about you, and what happened that night we went to Swamp, and what’s gonna happen, and I just think that we really need to talk about it.”
Zan rearranged the pillows and leaned back against the headboard. “Aight… I assume yous got a list’a questions… so g’head”
“Uhm… Ok… Well…” Liz stuttered. “Ok… First of all, we almost… you know. And you’ve already told me that none of those other girls, you know, those 13 or whatever, never meant anything to you. But… when you said that, you were trying to dig yourself out of a hole, so…”
“Aight… here's da truth. Most of em were just sex. Dats it. A few of em, I saw a couple’a times… nothing serious. There was one dat was serious. We saw each otha a lot, everyday, actually… we still do. And I love ‘er but I ain’t in love wit ‘er. She feels da same way.” He looked into her eyes, trying to judge what she was feeling.
Liz sat there and let all the information sink in. Then she leaned back a little “Wait… you said that you love her… as in, present tense.” He nodded and looked down a little. Liz lowered her head to catch eye contact, and then slowly lifted her head; his eyes staying locked on hers. “And you still see her??” She said. She sat there for a minute, then it hit her. “Oh… Ava.”
Zan nodded his head. “Yup… Ava.”
Liz sighed, running her fingers through her hair. “You know… this whole destiny bullshit, it's really putting a cramp in my love-life. At least you were honest with me.”
Zan leaned forward, cupping her face in his hands. “Kitten, I already said ‘dis… but I guess ya didn’t hear. I love Aves… but I ain’t in love wit her. I don’t love her like I love you.”
Liz looked up at him suddenly. “What?”
Zan slowly leaned forward, placing a soft kiss on her lips. He pulled back and looked deep into her eyes. “That’s right, Elizabeth Parker. I’m in love with you.”
Liz couldn’t stop it… her mouth dropped wide open. She moved her mouth to respond, but nothing came out. Finally, she closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She reopened her eyes and locked them on Zan's. “I’m in love with you, too.”
She had never seen Zan smile like he was now. Usually, it was just a cocky smirk. Occasionally, a small smile when something really amused him. But right now, he had the biggest, cheesiest smile on his face. Liz couldn’t stop herself from laughing a little. Zan pulled her on top of him, his lips fusing with hers. He ran his tongue over her lips, asking permission to enter. Liz quickly obliged, opening her mouth for him to invade. He caressed his tongue against hers, never, ever wanting to do anything ever again, besides kiss Liz.
A few minutes later, the need for oxygen forced them apart, both sucking in the much-needed air. Liz rolled off of Zan's chest, lying on her side next to him. He protested, trying to pull her back. “Nuh-uh! We’re so not done with our conversation. We can do more of that later!”
Zan sighed. “C’mon baby… ya’lready got me goin.”
She raised her eyebrows and gave him a look that clearly said ‘If you ever wanna get goin' again with me, you’re gonna wait until I’m done talking’. Zan groaned, and rolled so that he faced her. “Aight, continue."
Liz did a 180, so that her back was pressed up against his chest and she snuggled into him. He wrapped his arms around her and pulled her as close as he could.
“Ok… so back to the conversation,” Liz said, now that she was comfortably situated in a way that she wouldn’t be tempted to attack his lips every five seconds. “What are we gonna do?”
Zan thought for a minute. With all the declarations of love and the making out, he totally forgot what else there was to talk about. “Do ‘bout what?”
“US!” Liz said, giving his arm a little slap. “Please pay attention! I mean, pretty soon, I’m going back to Roswell, going back to my parents and back to the Crashdown Cafe…” she groaned at the thought “And you’ll be going back to New York; back to your life before me. I mean, long distance relationships are hard enough without worrying that some shape shifter or something has killed your boyfriend. What are we gonna do? Break up?”
She felt Zan's body go stiff against hers. It was silent for a minute before he finally responded. “I dunno, babygirl. I ain’t gonna lie ta ya… I have no clue wha’s gonna go down. All I knows right now… is that I still have two weeks wit you, and that’s what I’m thinking ‘bout. Lets worry ‘bout dat when its actually time ta leave. 'Cause I don’t wan’ ruin da time we got left worryin bout da future.”
Liz yawned as she thought about what he had said. “Ok, I guess we can worry about it later.”
After a few minutes, Zan felt Liz’s body relax and her breathing begin to steady. He sat up a little and gave her a soft kiss on the cheek. “G’nite Kitten, I love you.”
Liz smiled. “I love you too, Sparky,” she whispered, before sleep finally claimed her.
TBC...
Let me know!!! *hehe*
Ok.. I*m shuttin up now.. on with the show!
Part Twenty-Three
Liz shut the door behind her and looked towards the bed. Zan was sprawled out on his back with one hand behind his head, and then other resting on his chest. Liz couldn’t help but smile. That’s mine… she thought as she walked over to the bed and sat down. She stared at his face for a few seconds before she looked down. Ok…How am I gonna do this? What am I gonna say? Oh god, am I gonna have sex with him tonight??
Her thoughts were interrupted by Zan saying, “What’s on ya mind, sweets?”
She looked over at him and smiled. “Nothin' much. I’m sorry I woke you up.”
He sat up and gave her a kiss. “Its aight, I love wakin up ta you.”
Liz smiled and resituated herself so she was sitting Indian style facing him. She looked at him for a second and then started chewing on her lower lip.
“Now, I knows yous thinking ‘bout sumpin, cause you doin that lil’ lip chewin thang that is so damn ‘dorable.” He said, pushing a piece of her hair behind her ear.
Liz laughed. “Ok, yeah, I am thinking about something. Uhm, can I ask you a question?”
Zan nodded. “’Course, baby.”
“Ok, so… I just got done talking to Isabel.”
“At 3 AM?” He said, looking over at the clock.
“Well, yeah, she couldn’t sleep either. Anyways...” Liz said, pushing on with the conversation. “Me and her were talking about you, and what happened that night we went to Swamp, and what’s gonna happen, and I just think that we really need to talk about it.”
Zan rearranged the pillows and leaned back against the headboard. “Aight… I assume yous got a list’a questions… so g’head”
“Uhm… Ok… Well…” Liz stuttered. “Ok… First of all, we almost… you know. And you’ve already told me that none of those other girls, you know, those 13 or whatever, never meant anything to you. But… when you said that, you were trying to dig yourself out of a hole, so…”
“Aight… here's da truth. Most of em were just sex. Dats it. A few of em, I saw a couple’a times… nothing serious. There was one dat was serious. We saw each otha a lot, everyday, actually… we still do. And I love ‘er but I ain’t in love wit ‘er. She feels da same way.” He looked into her eyes, trying to judge what she was feeling.
Liz sat there and let all the information sink in. Then she leaned back a little “Wait… you said that you love her… as in, present tense.” He nodded and looked down a little. Liz lowered her head to catch eye contact, and then slowly lifted her head; his eyes staying locked on hers. “And you still see her??” She said. She sat there for a minute, then it hit her. “Oh… Ava.”
Zan nodded his head. “Yup… Ava.”
Liz sighed, running her fingers through her hair. “You know… this whole destiny bullshit, it's really putting a cramp in my love-life. At least you were honest with me.”
Zan leaned forward, cupping her face in his hands. “Kitten, I already said ‘dis… but I guess ya didn’t hear. I love Aves… but I ain’t in love wit her. I don’t love her like I love you.”
Liz looked up at him suddenly. “What?”
Zan slowly leaned forward, placing a soft kiss on her lips. He pulled back and looked deep into her eyes. “That’s right, Elizabeth Parker. I’m in love with you.”
Liz couldn’t stop it… her mouth dropped wide open. She moved her mouth to respond, but nothing came out. Finally, she closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She reopened her eyes and locked them on Zan's. “I’m in love with you, too.”
She had never seen Zan smile like he was now. Usually, it was just a cocky smirk. Occasionally, a small smile when something really amused him. But right now, he had the biggest, cheesiest smile on his face. Liz couldn’t stop herself from laughing a little. Zan pulled her on top of him, his lips fusing with hers. He ran his tongue over her lips, asking permission to enter. Liz quickly obliged, opening her mouth for him to invade. He caressed his tongue against hers, never, ever wanting to do anything ever again, besides kiss Liz.
A few minutes later, the need for oxygen forced them apart, both sucking in the much-needed air. Liz rolled off of Zan's chest, lying on her side next to him. He protested, trying to pull her back. “Nuh-uh! We’re so not done with our conversation. We can do more of that later!”
Zan sighed. “C’mon baby… ya’lready got me goin.”
She raised her eyebrows and gave him a look that clearly said ‘If you ever wanna get goin' again with me, you’re gonna wait until I’m done talking’. Zan groaned, and rolled so that he faced her. “Aight, continue."
Liz did a 180, so that her back was pressed up against his chest and she snuggled into him. He wrapped his arms around her and pulled her as close as he could.
“Ok… so back to the conversation,” Liz said, now that she was comfortably situated in a way that she wouldn’t be tempted to attack his lips every five seconds. “What are we gonna do?”
Zan thought for a minute. With all the declarations of love and the making out, he totally forgot what else there was to talk about. “Do ‘bout what?”
“US!” Liz said, giving his arm a little slap. “Please pay attention! I mean, pretty soon, I’m going back to Roswell, going back to my parents and back to the Crashdown Cafe…” she groaned at the thought “And you’ll be going back to New York; back to your life before me. I mean, long distance relationships are hard enough without worrying that some shape shifter or something has killed your boyfriend. What are we gonna do? Break up?”
She felt Zan's body go stiff against hers. It was silent for a minute before he finally responded. “I dunno, babygirl. I ain’t gonna lie ta ya… I have no clue wha’s gonna go down. All I knows right now… is that I still have two weeks wit you, and that’s what I’m thinking ‘bout. Lets worry ‘bout dat when its actually time ta leave. 'Cause I don’t wan’ ruin da time we got left worryin bout da future.”
Liz yawned as she thought about what he had said. “Ok, I guess we can worry about it later.”
After a few minutes, Zan felt Liz’s body relax and her breathing begin to steady. He sat up a little and gave her a soft kiss on the cheek. “G’nite Kitten, I love you.”
Liz smiled. “I love you too, Sparky,” she whispered, before sleep finally claimed her.
TBC...
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Part 24
Liz woke up to someone knocking on her bedroom door. She looked over and Zan was still asleep next to her. She smiled as she remembered what had happened last night. Slowly, she extracted herself from his arms and made her way to the door. She quietly opened it to see Isabel standing there. Liz slipped through the door, closing it behind her. She looked up at Isabel as she rubbed her eyes, adjusting to all the light in the living room.
“Good morning!” Isabel said, way too awake for 10AM.
“Morning” Liz mumbled, making her way to the kitchen to get a cup of coffee. Isabel followed her and stood near the entrance to the kitchen, just staring. “Iz… don’t think I don’t enjoy the time we spend together… but is there a reason you woke me up and are now following me around?”
Isabel rolled her eyes. “Details!!! You promised. So c’mon!”
Liz looked at her like she was a mental person. “You woke me up for that?!”
Isabel smiled. “Yeah. Oh!! And I got details for you! So, come on!! Tell me everything!”
Liz took her cup of coffee and went out on the balcony to smoke a cigarette and give Isabel all the details.
After Liz was done, Isabel jumped up and ran over to her, giving her a hug. “Omigod, that is the cutest thing I’ve ever heard! I’m so happy for you!”
Liz laughed. “Thank you,” she said, once Isabel had finally let her go and returned to her lawn chair. “You have details? Details of what?”
Isabel smiled, lounging comfortably in her chair. “Max’s girl”
Liz’s eyes grew wide. “What’d you find out?”
“Well… her name is Jocelyn Swords.” Isabel started. “I know they’ve been talking for at least two days, and that she's planning on coming over today.”
“Max told you all that?” Liz asked skeptically.
Isabel smiled. “No, he didn’t tell me anything… I just happened to answer his cell phone this morning. She said that she was gonna stop by later, and he had her number programmed in his phone.. thats how I got her name, and I checked his call log to see how long they'd been talking.”
Liz laughed. “He’s gonna be pissed, you know that, right?”
Isabel nodded. “Yeah, probably. But oh well, he should know better than to keep things from his beloved sister. I always find out what’s going on.”
Maria stumbled out onto the balcony. “Why are we awake?? It's summer… it's like, mandatory to sleep until noon. Why are we awake?!?”
“You know, you can go back to sleep, Maria…” Liz said, as Maria dropped down into a lawn chair near Isabel.
“No, actually, I can’t. 'Cause for one… Isabel woke me up with all that knocking shit. And for two… Alex is snoring and he sounds like a freaking train!” Maria said, grabbing Liz’s coffee and taking a drink.
The girls filled Maria in on what was going on and they chatted for a few minutes before there was a knock on the front door. They all looked at each other, then got up and went to the door. “No one knocks… Its like Monica and Rachels apartment on Friends.. you just walk in” Maria said as Liz went to open the door.
Liz’s mouth dropped open. It was that girl Max was with last night! Liz could see her a lot better now. She was taller then Liz, with dirty blonde, curly hair and hazel eyes. She had the kind of body that you only see on TV… practically flawless.
She gave them all weird looks and said “Hi... uhm... I’m looking for Max”
Isabel crossed her arms across her chest. “Are you Jocelyn?”
“Yes…” she said, obviously a little intimidated by Isabel, and with good reason. You do not mess with the Ice Queen. “Uhm… who are you guys?”
“I’m Liz, that’s Maria, and Isabel.” Liz said, pointing to the girls behind her.
“Alright… how do you guys know Max?” she asked.
“I’m his sister, I spoke with you on the phone,” Isabel said, giving her a fake smile. “And Liz… well, her and Max go way back. And Maria’s our friend.”
“Is Max here?” she asked.
“You can come in, if you’d like… I’ll go get him, he’s at his condo, which is next door,” Liz said, as she moved out of the way for Jocelyn to come in.
“That’s ok, I can just walk over there myself,” Jocelyn said, as she started to move away from the door.
“I wouldn’t, if I were you” Maria said. “Cause, if Tess answers the door, she’ll be beyond pissed.”
“Tess?” Jocelyn asked.
“Yeah,” Isabel said. “She's staying at our condo… she's absolutely in love with my brother, and if you went over there announcing you’re his girlfriend, or whatever it is that you are, she’ll probably kill you. And I’m not joking.” she said with a straight face.
“O...Ok…" Jocelyn said, stepping into Liz’s condo, obviously a little scared by all the information she'd just received “So, you’re gonna go tell Max I’m here, right?”
Liz nodded. “Yeah.”
Just then, Zan walked out of the bedroom, his black cargo pants hanging low on his hips. Liz drank in the sight before her, smiling. She was about to say something when Jocelyn suddenly said, “Wow… I didn’t know he had a twin brother.” Liz looked at Jocelyn and she was practically undressing Zan with her eyes. Zan gave her a weird look.
“Yeah, he does. That’s Zan… my boyfriend… so you might wanna divert your eyes, and stop drooling,” Liz said harshly. She walked over to Zan and gave him a kiss. “Good morning.”
Zan slipped his arms around her waist, taking hold on her right under her butt cheeks and slowly lifting her up so she had her legs wrapped around his waist, and she was eye level with him. “Good mornin, beautiful.”
They began to make out when Isabel cleared her throat, bringing Liz back to the present. “Oh, right,” she said, slowing sliding herself down Zan until her feet were back on the floor “I have to go alert Max that his girlfriend is here.”
Zan looked over. “Dat’s his girlfriend?”
“Uhm… I am right here…” Jocelyn said.
Zan shrugged. “Whateva. Don’t care. I’m gettin in da showa, kitten.” He gave her one final kiss and padded to the bathroom, closing the door behind him.
Liz walked past Jocelyn and out the door without another word. She knocked on the door of Max’s condo. The door opened to reveal Tess.
“Hi, can you get Max for me?” Liz asked.
“Why?” Tess asked, crossing her arms across her chest.
"Fine, whatever. Just tell Max that his girlfriend is at my condo.” Liz said, turning to leave.
"Uhm, Hi, What?!" Tess said, causing Liz to turn back around. Tess motioned for her to come in, so Liz walked into the living room of the condo.
Liz and Tess just looked at each other for a second, then finally Liz went on. "Yeah... so this girl just shows up asking for Max. Then, she starts drooling all over Zan... she's lucky she's still standing'" Liz said, leaning back against the wall next to the front door.
Tess raised her eyebrows' "She made eyes at Zan?? Huh.. I'm sure Max would LOVE to hear that." Tess said, laughing. "I uhm... I heard about everything that's going on, you ok?"
Liz stared in disbelief "Excuse me? Did Tess Harding just ask Liz Parker a question regarding her well-being? Am I hallucinating right now?" Liz couldn't stop herself from smiling a little.
Suddenly Max walked around the corner, and upon seeing Liz and Tess in such close proximity, he immediately went to put up a shield between Liz and Tess. But Liz was faster. Using her powers, she pinned him against the wall, lifting him up so he was pinned half way up the wall. He struggled against her powers, but couldn't break free. She'd been working with whoever was available whenever she had a free minute to try to control her powers, and was doing very well, as she was proving to Max at that moment. Liz slowly walked over towards Max, keeping him stuck to the wall. "What do you think you were about to do?" She asked, cocking her head to the side.
Max sighed, looking down at her. "Trying to keep you two from fighting again."
"Did it look like we were fighting? Did I appear upset? Did I seem hostile?" Liz turned towards Tess. "Was I hostile?"
Tess shook her head. "Nope, didn't pick up any hostility. We were just chattin'."
Liz dropped her hand, and her hold on Max. He fell to the floor with a thud. "Don't use your powers on me, Max. It makes me mad. You know what happens when I get mad, right? Remember the wall?? Now... I suggest you come get your girlfriend out of my condo before something happens to her. If she looks at Zan one more time..."
Max cut her off. "Wait... Jocelyn's at your condo? Why? Did she really look at Zan?" He said, jealously creeping into his voice.
Liz walked back to the door, standing next to Tess. "Well, first she knocked on the wrong damn door, not that bright, obviously.. I mean, the numbers *are* on the front door! And then we advised her not to come over here cause Tess might kill her."
Tess looked at Liz. "Was she scared?"
Liz smiled. "Shitless. And yes, she was practically drooling over Zan.. So please, please come do something about it!" she said, opening the door to leave, followed closely by Tess.
Liz glanced back and gave Tess a questioning look. "Hey.. just checkin' her out, seeing what's up... Besides, I kinda like the thought that she's scared of me... That's kinda fun." Tess said, smiling.
Liz shook her head. "Who woulda thought.. you and I... pleasant conversation... we seem to have found some common ground."
Tess nodded. "Yeah, weird, but... I kinda like it... Ya know, it takes a lot of energy to try to hate someone... and I'm just sick of it."
Liz smiled "I agree... so... we cool?"
Tess smiled. "Yeah... we cool!" Both girls laughed. Tess linked arms with Liz. "C'mon... lets go scare us a human!"
TBC....
Part 24
Liz woke up to someone knocking on her bedroom door. She looked over and Zan was still asleep next to her. She smiled as she remembered what had happened last night. Slowly, she extracted herself from his arms and made her way to the door. She quietly opened it to see Isabel standing there. Liz slipped through the door, closing it behind her. She looked up at Isabel as she rubbed her eyes, adjusting to all the light in the living room.
“Good morning!” Isabel said, way too awake for 10AM.
“Morning” Liz mumbled, making her way to the kitchen to get a cup of coffee. Isabel followed her and stood near the entrance to the kitchen, just staring. “Iz… don’t think I don’t enjoy the time we spend together… but is there a reason you woke me up and are now following me around?”
Isabel rolled her eyes. “Details!!! You promised. So c’mon!”
Liz looked at her like she was a mental person. “You woke me up for that?!”
Isabel smiled. “Yeah. Oh!! And I got details for you! So, come on!! Tell me everything!”
Liz took her cup of coffee and went out on the balcony to smoke a cigarette and give Isabel all the details.
After Liz was done, Isabel jumped up and ran over to her, giving her a hug. “Omigod, that is the cutest thing I’ve ever heard! I’m so happy for you!”
Liz laughed. “Thank you,” she said, once Isabel had finally let her go and returned to her lawn chair. “You have details? Details of what?”
Isabel smiled, lounging comfortably in her chair. “Max’s girl”
Liz’s eyes grew wide. “What’d you find out?”
“Well… her name is Jocelyn Swords.” Isabel started. “I know they’ve been talking for at least two days, and that she's planning on coming over today.”
“Max told you all that?” Liz asked skeptically.
Isabel smiled. “No, he didn’t tell me anything… I just happened to answer his cell phone this morning. She said that she was gonna stop by later, and he had her number programmed in his phone.. thats how I got her name, and I checked his call log to see how long they'd been talking.”
Liz laughed. “He’s gonna be pissed, you know that, right?”
Isabel nodded. “Yeah, probably. But oh well, he should know better than to keep things from his beloved sister. I always find out what’s going on.”
Maria stumbled out onto the balcony. “Why are we awake?? It's summer… it's like, mandatory to sleep until noon. Why are we awake?!?”
“You know, you can go back to sleep, Maria…” Liz said, as Maria dropped down into a lawn chair near Isabel.
“No, actually, I can’t. 'Cause for one… Isabel woke me up with all that knocking shit. And for two… Alex is snoring and he sounds like a freaking train!” Maria said, grabbing Liz’s coffee and taking a drink.
The girls filled Maria in on what was going on and they chatted for a few minutes before there was a knock on the front door. They all looked at each other, then got up and went to the door. “No one knocks… Its like Monica and Rachels apartment on Friends.. you just walk in” Maria said as Liz went to open the door.
Liz’s mouth dropped open. It was that girl Max was with last night! Liz could see her a lot better now. She was taller then Liz, with dirty blonde, curly hair and hazel eyes. She had the kind of body that you only see on TV… practically flawless.
She gave them all weird looks and said “Hi... uhm... I’m looking for Max”
Isabel crossed her arms across her chest. “Are you Jocelyn?”
“Yes…” she said, obviously a little intimidated by Isabel, and with good reason. You do not mess with the Ice Queen. “Uhm… who are you guys?”
“I’m Liz, that’s Maria, and Isabel.” Liz said, pointing to the girls behind her.
“Alright… how do you guys know Max?” she asked.
“I’m his sister, I spoke with you on the phone,” Isabel said, giving her a fake smile. “And Liz… well, her and Max go way back. And Maria’s our friend.”
“Is Max here?” she asked.
“You can come in, if you’d like… I’ll go get him, he’s at his condo, which is next door,” Liz said, as she moved out of the way for Jocelyn to come in.
“That’s ok, I can just walk over there myself,” Jocelyn said, as she started to move away from the door.
“I wouldn’t, if I were you” Maria said. “Cause, if Tess answers the door, she’ll be beyond pissed.”
“Tess?” Jocelyn asked.
“Yeah,” Isabel said. “She's staying at our condo… she's absolutely in love with my brother, and if you went over there announcing you’re his girlfriend, or whatever it is that you are, she’ll probably kill you. And I’m not joking.” she said with a straight face.
“O...Ok…" Jocelyn said, stepping into Liz’s condo, obviously a little scared by all the information she'd just received “So, you’re gonna go tell Max I’m here, right?”
Liz nodded. “Yeah.”
Just then, Zan walked out of the bedroom, his black cargo pants hanging low on his hips. Liz drank in the sight before her, smiling. She was about to say something when Jocelyn suddenly said, “Wow… I didn’t know he had a twin brother.” Liz looked at Jocelyn and she was practically undressing Zan with her eyes. Zan gave her a weird look.
“Yeah, he does. That’s Zan… my boyfriend… so you might wanna divert your eyes, and stop drooling,” Liz said harshly. She walked over to Zan and gave him a kiss. “Good morning.”
Zan slipped his arms around her waist, taking hold on her right under her butt cheeks and slowly lifting her up so she had her legs wrapped around his waist, and she was eye level with him. “Good mornin, beautiful.”
They began to make out when Isabel cleared her throat, bringing Liz back to the present. “Oh, right,” she said, slowing sliding herself down Zan until her feet were back on the floor “I have to go alert Max that his girlfriend is here.”
Zan looked over. “Dat’s his girlfriend?”
“Uhm… I am right here…” Jocelyn said.
Zan shrugged. “Whateva. Don’t care. I’m gettin in da showa, kitten.” He gave her one final kiss and padded to the bathroom, closing the door behind him.
Liz walked past Jocelyn and out the door without another word. She knocked on the door of Max’s condo. The door opened to reveal Tess.
“Hi, can you get Max for me?” Liz asked.
“Why?” Tess asked, crossing her arms across her chest.
"Fine, whatever. Just tell Max that his girlfriend is at my condo.” Liz said, turning to leave.
"Uhm, Hi, What?!" Tess said, causing Liz to turn back around. Tess motioned for her to come in, so Liz walked into the living room of the condo.
Liz and Tess just looked at each other for a second, then finally Liz went on. "Yeah... so this girl just shows up asking for Max. Then, she starts drooling all over Zan... she's lucky she's still standing'" Liz said, leaning back against the wall next to the front door.
Tess raised her eyebrows' "She made eyes at Zan?? Huh.. I'm sure Max would LOVE to hear that." Tess said, laughing. "I uhm... I heard about everything that's going on, you ok?"
Liz stared in disbelief "Excuse me? Did Tess Harding just ask Liz Parker a question regarding her well-being? Am I hallucinating right now?" Liz couldn't stop herself from smiling a little.
Suddenly Max walked around the corner, and upon seeing Liz and Tess in such close proximity, he immediately went to put up a shield between Liz and Tess. But Liz was faster. Using her powers, she pinned him against the wall, lifting him up so he was pinned half way up the wall. He struggled against her powers, but couldn't break free. She'd been working with whoever was available whenever she had a free minute to try to control her powers, and was doing very well, as she was proving to Max at that moment. Liz slowly walked over towards Max, keeping him stuck to the wall. "What do you think you were about to do?" She asked, cocking her head to the side.
Max sighed, looking down at her. "Trying to keep you two from fighting again."
"Did it look like we were fighting? Did I appear upset? Did I seem hostile?" Liz turned towards Tess. "Was I hostile?"
Tess shook her head. "Nope, didn't pick up any hostility. We were just chattin'."
Liz dropped her hand, and her hold on Max. He fell to the floor with a thud. "Don't use your powers on me, Max. It makes me mad. You know what happens when I get mad, right? Remember the wall?? Now... I suggest you come get your girlfriend out of my condo before something happens to her. If she looks at Zan one more time..."
Max cut her off. "Wait... Jocelyn's at your condo? Why? Did she really look at Zan?" He said, jealously creeping into his voice.
Liz walked back to the door, standing next to Tess. "Well, first she knocked on the wrong damn door, not that bright, obviously.. I mean, the numbers *are* on the front door! And then we advised her not to come over here cause Tess might kill her."
Tess looked at Liz. "Was she scared?"
Liz smiled. "Shitless. And yes, she was practically drooling over Zan.. So please, please come do something about it!" she said, opening the door to leave, followed closely by Tess.
Liz glanced back and gave Tess a questioning look. "Hey.. just checkin' her out, seeing what's up... Besides, I kinda like the thought that she's scared of me... That's kinda fun." Tess said, smiling.
Liz shook her head. "Who woulda thought.. you and I... pleasant conversation... we seem to have found some common ground."
Tess nodded. "Yeah, weird, but... I kinda like it... Ya know, it takes a lot of energy to try to hate someone... and I'm just sick of it."
Liz smiled "I agree... so... we cool?"
Tess smiled. "Yeah... we cool!" Both girls laughed. Tess linked arms with Liz. "C'mon... lets go scare us a human!"
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ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT!!!! *lol* I've been tryin to hold off postin this next part cause its the last new part I even have written up! I know, I know.. I'ma horrible slacker! I was gonna write last nite.. and then me and Linds distracted each other.. it was pure mad-ness! Lemme just tell you that! Ok... I sincerly apologize for not gettin this out sooner, and for not keepin myself writing! I'ma try REAL hard.. just for you guys! Ok.. heres the next part... Enjoy! Leave FB.. ESPECIALLY LINDS!!! (Cause I know you're lurkin, biatch! *lol*)
Part 25
Liz and Tess walked back into Liz’s condo and received weird looks from Maria and Isabel. Liz just shook her head a little, trying to make sure they didn’t cause a scene. She kept her arm linked with Tess as she looked over at Jocelyn. “Jocelyn, this is Tess…. Tess, Jocelyn” she said, introducing the girls.
Jocelyn cleared her throat. “N...Nice to meet you…” she finally spit out.
Tess couldn’t hold back her smiled. “Yeah, likewise, I’m sure.” She said, dropping arm with Liz's and slowly making a circle around Jocelyn. “So… you’re Max’s girlfriend, huh?”
Jocelyn stood perfectly still. “Well… we’re kinda seeing each other. Not officially boyfriend and girlfriend yet.” She looked at Tess finally “What happened to your eye?”
Tess reached up and touched the area around her eye that was still a little purple. She hadn’t fixed it with her powers… they were war wounds. Liz hadn’t fixed her lip either. “Oh, this? That’s just what’s left of a black eye. See? Her lips starting to heal? It got split open… Yeah… we got in a fight. Don’t mess with us,” Tess said, with a small smile.
Zan walked into the living room and started yelling. “’Ey! What da fuck are you doin ‘ere?!”
Jocelyn jumped and looked around, obviously scared to death. The girls giggled at her. “Don’t piss your pants, he’s yellin' at Tess. Ever since the fight, we’ve been separated” Liz said, then looked to Zan. “Which is no longer necessary.”
Zan raised one of his eyebrows and thoughtfully rolled his tongue ring across his bottom lip. “Aight, if yous say so, Kitten. But, ‘ey! Princess… Mouth, can I see yous in the bedroom real quick?”
They both nodded and followed him in there. Liz and Tess gave each other questioning looks when the bedroom door opened and Zan suddenly said, “Yo, Tess… get in here!”
Tess shrugged her shoulders and walked into the bedroom. Liz stood there for a second, and then looked at Jocelyn, giving her a fake smile. She grabbed her cigarettes and lit one.
Jocelyn stood by the door. “So, uhm… you and Max go way back… how exactly do you know each other?”
Liz took a drag and looked at her. “None of your damn business… I ain’t looking to exchange life stories with you… I don’t care where you’re from, what you’re doing here, how old you are… any of that shit. You mind your business, and I’ll mind mine. You stay outta my way and keep your eyes off my boyfriend, and I won’t beat your ass… Ya heard me?”
Jocelyn looked down, suddenly her shoes becoming very interesting. Max walked in the door and looked and Liz and then Jocelyn and smiled. “Hey” he said, giving Jocelyn a kiss on the cheek.
“Hi.” she said, smiling, looking very relieved that he’d finally shown up. “Are you ready?”
“Yeah, lets go” Max said, taking her hand and starting out the door.
“Max, hold up,” Liz said. “I wanna talk to you for a second.”
“Ok.” Max looked at Jocelyn. “You go get in the jeep. I’ll be right out, ok?”
She nodded and quickly walked out the door. Max closed the front door and looked at Liz. “So, what’s up?” he asked, shoving his hands in his pockets.
Liz smiled. “Thinkin' about sex again?” she teased. He removed his hands from his pockets and clasped them in front of him. “So… you found yourself a hoochie, huh?”
Max titled his head. “Excuse me? Jocelyn isn’t a ‘hoochie’ as you say… I really like her.”
Liz nodded her head. “Ok… if you say so. But, if you really like her, you won’t bring her around here again, not that she’ll wanna come back” Liz said, laughing.
Max suddenly looked concerned. “What’d you do to her??”
Liz dropped her mouth open in mock surprise. “Max, how you could think that I did anything to her??” He crossed his arms across his chest. “Ok, I didn’t really do anything… Tess scared the shit out of her, and I told her that if she looked at Zan again, I’d beat her ass.”
“You what?” He asked, stepping towards her. “Are you trying to ruin my life?”
“No, I’m not trying to ruin your life, Max! How can you even say that?! I thought we were supposed to be friends. Do you not remember that conversation?! I could give two shits about who you’re fucking and who you’re not… just don’t bring her around here.”
Max shook his head. “Whatever, Liz… I’m sick of this! This whole… everyone can be happy except Max thing! It’s getting really old! And you know what… I wouldn’t even have Jocelyn around here if I still had you! But no. You found someone else, so I’m trying to do the same… trying to get over you. And trust me, its not that easy!” With that, Max walked out and slammed the door behind him.
Liz dropped back on the couch. “That went well,” she said to herself as Isabel, Maria and Tess emerged from the bedroom.
They all looked around and then at Liz. “What happened?” Maria asked.
“Nothing, me and Max just had an arguement,” she said, putting out her cigarette.
“What about?” Tess asked, taking a seat on the couch next to Liz.
Liz replayed the whole thing for them, and rubbed her hands with her face. “I suck at life,” she groaned.
The girls giggled. “Well… forget about that” Isabel said, a huge smile appearing on her face. “'Cause we’re gonna have a girls day! We’re gonna go shopping, and we’re gonna go lay on the beach, and we’re gonna go get massages, and facials… and all that stuff!”
Liz looked at her. “Why are we doing this?”
Maria slapped her on the knee. “Pre-birthday fun!”
“What?” Liz said, confused.
“Tomorrows your birthday… you do know that, right?” Isabel asked.
“Seriously?!” Liz asked, staring off towards the wall thinking. “Damn... time flies when you’re havin fun…”
“Ok… so, now… go in your room, get dressed, grab your swimming suit and tanning oil… and be ready to leave in 10 minutes!” Tess said.
“We really don’t need to go shopping.” Liz said. “We’ve been shopping almost every day we’ve been here!”
“And we still haven’t hit up every mall! Imagine that!” Isabel said, as her and Tess got up to go to their condo. “10 minutes!!!” Tess said as they closed the door.
Liz looked over at Maria. “Spill.”
Maria looked at her. “What?”
“Maria, don’t play with me! What’s going on?” Liz asked, crossing her arms across her chest.
“Fine, if you have to know! Zan told us to keep you busy today cause he's planning something special for your birthday and he wants you to be elsewhere. Happy now?” Maria said, sighing. “If he gets mad that I told, you tell him that you beat it out of me!”
Liz laughed. “It's not like you told me what he’s planning or anything” Liz said, looking at Maria thoughtfully.
“No, he didn’t tell us what he’s planning, thank god!” Maria said, getting up off the couch and reaching down to take Liz’s hands. “Ok… go get ready!”
The girls went in their respective bedrooms and got ready. “Where you goin?” Zan asked, from his reclined position on the bed.
Liz looked over at him. “I’m going out with the girls… ya know… so I’m out of your way today.”
He sat up suddenly. “Mouth told ya, didn’t she?!”
Liz laughed. “Yes, but don’t worry, I have no clue what’s going on… its all a surprise.” Liz went over and gave him a quick kiss. “I’ll be home… whenever I get home!” she laughed. “Call my cell if you need me.”
“Aight, Kitten” he said, lying back on the bed. “I love you.”
“I love you too, Sparky” Liz called as she and Maria headed out the front door. They quickly met up with Isabel and Tess and they all piled into Liz’s car and took off for a day of shopping and girl’s stuff.
TBC...
Part 25
Liz and Tess walked back into Liz’s condo and received weird looks from Maria and Isabel. Liz just shook her head a little, trying to make sure they didn’t cause a scene. She kept her arm linked with Tess as she looked over at Jocelyn. “Jocelyn, this is Tess…. Tess, Jocelyn” she said, introducing the girls.
Jocelyn cleared her throat. “N...Nice to meet you…” she finally spit out.
Tess couldn’t hold back her smiled. “Yeah, likewise, I’m sure.” She said, dropping arm with Liz's and slowly making a circle around Jocelyn. “So… you’re Max’s girlfriend, huh?”
Jocelyn stood perfectly still. “Well… we’re kinda seeing each other. Not officially boyfriend and girlfriend yet.” She looked at Tess finally “What happened to your eye?”
Tess reached up and touched the area around her eye that was still a little purple. She hadn’t fixed it with her powers… they were war wounds. Liz hadn’t fixed her lip either. “Oh, this? That’s just what’s left of a black eye. See? Her lips starting to heal? It got split open… Yeah… we got in a fight. Don’t mess with us,” Tess said, with a small smile.
Zan walked into the living room and started yelling. “’Ey! What da fuck are you doin ‘ere?!”
Jocelyn jumped and looked around, obviously scared to death. The girls giggled at her. “Don’t piss your pants, he’s yellin' at Tess. Ever since the fight, we’ve been separated” Liz said, then looked to Zan. “Which is no longer necessary.”
Zan raised one of his eyebrows and thoughtfully rolled his tongue ring across his bottom lip. “Aight, if yous say so, Kitten. But, ‘ey! Princess… Mouth, can I see yous in the bedroom real quick?”
They both nodded and followed him in there. Liz and Tess gave each other questioning looks when the bedroom door opened and Zan suddenly said, “Yo, Tess… get in here!”
Tess shrugged her shoulders and walked into the bedroom. Liz stood there for a second, and then looked at Jocelyn, giving her a fake smile. She grabbed her cigarettes and lit one.
Jocelyn stood by the door. “So, uhm… you and Max go way back… how exactly do you know each other?”
Liz took a drag and looked at her. “None of your damn business… I ain’t looking to exchange life stories with you… I don’t care where you’re from, what you’re doing here, how old you are… any of that shit. You mind your business, and I’ll mind mine. You stay outta my way and keep your eyes off my boyfriend, and I won’t beat your ass… Ya heard me?”
Jocelyn looked down, suddenly her shoes becoming very interesting. Max walked in the door and looked and Liz and then Jocelyn and smiled. “Hey” he said, giving Jocelyn a kiss on the cheek.
“Hi.” she said, smiling, looking very relieved that he’d finally shown up. “Are you ready?”
“Yeah, lets go” Max said, taking her hand and starting out the door.
“Max, hold up,” Liz said. “I wanna talk to you for a second.”
“Ok.” Max looked at Jocelyn. “You go get in the jeep. I’ll be right out, ok?”
She nodded and quickly walked out the door. Max closed the front door and looked at Liz. “So, what’s up?” he asked, shoving his hands in his pockets.
Liz smiled. “Thinkin' about sex again?” she teased. He removed his hands from his pockets and clasped them in front of him. “So… you found yourself a hoochie, huh?”
Max titled his head. “Excuse me? Jocelyn isn’t a ‘hoochie’ as you say… I really like her.”
Liz nodded her head. “Ok… if you say so. But, if you really like her, you won’t bring her around here again, not that she’ll wanna come back” Liz said, laughing.
Max suddenly looked concerned. “What’d you do to her??”
Liz dropped her mouth open in mock surprise. “Max, how you could think that I did anything to her??” He crossed his arms across his chest. “Ok, I didn’t really do anything… Tess scared the shit out of her, and I told her that if she looked at Zan again, I’d beat her ass.”
“You what?” He asked, stepping towards her. “Are you trying to ruin my life?”
“No, I’m not trying to ruin your life, Max! How can you even say that?! I thought we were supposed to be friends. Do you not remember that conversation?! I could give two shits about who you’re fucking and who you’re not… just don’t bring her around here.”
Max shook his head. “Whatever, Liz… I’m sick of this! This whole… everyone can be happy except Max thing! It’s getting really old! And you know what… I wouldn’t even have Jocelyn around here if I still had you! But no. You found someone else, so I’m trying to do the same… trying to get over you. And trust me, its not that easy!” With that, Max walked out and slammed the door behind him.
Liz dropped back on the couch. “That went well,” she said to herself as Isabel, Maria and Tess emerged from the bedroom.
They all looked around and then at Liz. “What happened?” Maria asked.
“Nothing, me and Max just had an arguement,” she said, putting out her cigarette.
“What about?” Tess asked, taking a seat on the couch next to Liz.
Liz replayed the whole thing for them, and rubbed her hands with her face. “I suck at life,” she groaned.
The girls giggled. “Well… forget about that” Isabel said, a huge smile appearing on her face. “'Cause we’re gonna have a girls day! We’re gonna go shopping, and we’re gonna go lay on the beach, and we’re gonna go get massages, and facials… and all that stuff!”
Liz looked at her. “Why are we doing this?”
Maria slapped her on the knee. “Pre-birthday fun!”
“What?” Liz said, confused.
“Tomorrows your birthday… you do know that, right?” Isabel asked.
“Seriously?!” Liz asked, staring off towards the wall thinking. “Damn... time flies when you’re havin fun…”
“Ok… so, now… go in your room, get dressed, grab your swimming suit and tanning oil… and be ready to leave in 10 minutes!” Tess said.
“We really don’t need to go shopping.” Liz said. “We’ve been shopping almost every day we’ve been here!”
“And we still haven’t hit up every mall! Imagine that!” Isabel said, as her and Tess got up to go to their condo. “10 minutes!!!” Tess said as they closed the door.
Liz looked over at Maria. “Spill.”
Maria looked at her. “What?”
“Maria, don’t play with me! What’s going on?” Liz asked, crossing her arms across her chest.
“Fine, if you have to know! Zan told us to keep you busy today cause he's planning something special for your birthday and he wants you to be elsewhere. Happy now?” Maria said, sighing. “If he gets mad that I told, you tell him that you beat it out of me!”
Liz laughed. “It's not like you told me what he’s planning or anything” Liz said, looking at Maria thoughtfully.
“No, he didn’t tell us what he’s planning, thank god!” Maria said, getting up off the couch and reaching down to take Liz’s hands. “Ok… go get ready!”
The girls went in their respective bedrooms and got ready. “Where you goin?” Zan asked, from his reclined position on the bed.
Liz looked over at him. “I’m going out with the girls… ya know… so I’m out of your way today.”
He sat up suddenly. “Mouth told ya, didn’t she?!”
Liz laughed. “Yes, but don’t worry, I have no clue what’s going on… its all a surprise.” Liz went over and gave him a quick kiss. “I’ll be home… whenever I get home!” she laughed. “Call my cell if you need me.”
“Aight, Kitten” he said, lying back on the bed. “I love you.”
“I love you too, Sparky” Liz called as she and Maria headed out the front door. They quickly met up with Isabel and Tess and they all piled into Liz’s car and took off for a day of shopping and girl’s stuff.
TBC...
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This part hasn't been beta-ed due to the fact that its a Friday, so I woulda had to wait until Monday to post it cause Mikeys gonna be home all weekend! So.. any and all mistakes are completely my fault!!! I'm not really feelin this part.. but I knew I had to get something done or Lindsay would beat me! *lol* Enjoy...
Part 26
Liz circled the racks of clothes at some trendy store in the mall, not really looking for anything in particular. She pulled out a few shirts and looked at them, holding onto the ones that she liked. Maria, Isabel and Tess were scattered around different parts of the store. Liz walked over to Isabel “Hey, find anything?”
“Yeah,” Isabel said, gesturing back towards the fitting room “I have a ton of stuff in there”
“Why are we shopping?” Liz asked, slowly following behind Isabel as she made another lap around the store “I’m so not in the mood for shopping”
Isabel whirled around “How is that possible!? I’m always in the mood for shopping!” Before Liz could say anything Isabel said “Why don’t you try to find something to wear tomorrow?”
Liz thought for a second, and then looked back at Isabel “What’s goin on tomorrow? Zan wouldn’t tell me anything.”
“He didn’t divulge any specific details but he said something about all of us goin to the club to party it up right for your birthday, I think you should find something to wear” She replied, pulling a dark blue tank top off the rack and holding it up to Liz. It looked just like a corset, had a low neckline and strings that laced up the back and held it together, with black lace overlaying the dark blue fabric. Isabel tilted her head and looked at Liz “Try this”
Liz took the shirt from Isabel and continued after her “But if we’re just going to the club tomorrow… why did I have to be gone today?”
Isabel stopped dead in her tracks causing Liz to run right into her and almost causing both girls to tumble to the floor. They composed themselves as Isabel said “Liz… he didn’t tell me anything except we’re going to the club tomorrow night… so how bout this? Stop hounding me for information that I don’t have and just find something to wear”
Liz sighed and walked into a dressing room to try on the shirt. She heard a knock at the door “Uhm... Yeah??”
“You got that thing on yet? We’re all waiting to tell you whether to get it or not” Maria yelled through the door.
Liz sighed, still trying to wriggle into the shirt “I’m trying Maria… this shirt is being really difficult!” Liz groaned and she finally got it on and adjusted the laces in the back “Did you guys find anything?”
“Yeah… we all got at least one outfit” Tess replied back.
“Ok, I think I finally got this!” Liz said, looking in the mirror. She studied herself, and she already knew she was gonna get the shirt. With the laces tightened her breasts were pushed up and threatened to spill out of the shirt at any second. She looked in the mirror for a second and then made a split second decision. She reached up and removed the bar from her chin and the barbell from her eyebrow. She looked one more time, satisfied that she wouldn’t miss those piercings. She smiled as she opened the door and stepped out. She did a little turn and then put her hands on her hips. “Well?”
All of the girls’ eyes got wide. “Damn” Maria spoke up “I don’t swing that way, chica… but looking like that… yeah, I’d defiantly make out with ya. You took that thing outta your chin! And your eyebrow!!”
Liz stood there for a second “Well… uhm, Thanks, I think… And yeah, those just weren’t working for me”
“I like it! You still got some… but their easily concealable so your dad won’t freak out! But anyways…Ya know, you wear that to the club, you might get a little somethin-somethin when we get back to the condo,” Maria said with a wink.
Liz rolled her eyes “Maria, come on”
“No, seriously! I mean, think about it! You and Zan almost did it anyway! And you said you wanna get it on with him… he sees you wearing that… its defiantly gonna happen!” Maria said, with a confident smile.
“I’m with Maria on that one” Isabel added. “You wanna do it… just… do it!”
“You guys just want all the details,” Liz said with a laugh.
Tess looked back and forth between all the girls “Wow… I really missed some stuff, huh?”
Isabel nodded “Oh yeah! But don’t worry; we have all day to fill you in. Now… everyone go look around one more time and get ready to check out because we have appointments to get our nails done in half an hour”
Liz went back in the dressing room and changed. They each picked out an armful of outfits and paid for them. Half and hour later, they were sitting in a row at the nail salon, each getting their acrylics put on, and filling Tess in on all the stuff that she’d missed out on while her and Liz were arguing. After that, they went to the spa and each got a facial and massages. Two hours later, they were all lounging on the beach, increasing their tans.
Maria sighed, “I love Florida.”
“Mm-Hmm” the girls all agreed.
“What do you guys think Zan’s planning for my birthday?” Liz asked, leaning forward from her lounge chair to grab a bottle of water from the cooler they’d brought to the beach with them.
“I think he’s gonna try to seduce you” Tess said, giggling to herself.
“That’s ridiculous” Liz said in reply. “He doesn’t have to try, I thought we went over this”
“He doesn’t know that though… so I’m gonna have to agree with Tess” Isabel said and she put on some more tanning oil.
“Well, its not…” Liz started saying before a football bounced at her feet. She looked down at it and over to the group of guys who had obviously lost it since they were all looking over there. “Ok… either someone’s got really bad aim, or they just wanted an excuse to come over here”
“I’m going with the second one” Maria said “Cause it doesn’t take all five of them to come get a football and here they come”
The guys walked over with huge smiles on their faces as Liz picked up the football. “Loose something?” she asked, holding out the football for them to take.
A tall blonde took it from her “Thanks, sorry about that, Jimmy doesn’t have very good aim” he said motioning to one of the other guys.
“Yeah, I’m sure bad aim is why that football ended up over here” Isabel said, her Ice Queen shining through, causing the other girls to smile.
The blonde faltered “You think that we threw it over here just to come talk to you?” he asked, then looked down “Are we that predictable?”
“Not only are you that predictable” Maria said, sliding her sunglasses down her nose to look at the guys “But we woman aren’t that gullible”
“Oh my god…” Liz said suddenly, although it had nothing to do with the conversation between them and the guys.
“What?” Tess asked, trying to follow where Liz was looking, suddenly finding what Liz was staring at “Is that Max??”
Isabel and Maria both looked over to where they were looking and found Max in the ocean, Jocelyn with her arms around his neck and they were making out.
“Oh god! I do not need to constantly see my brother do that!” Isabel said, quickly averting her eyes.
Liz quickly looked back to the guys that were still standing there “What’s up?”
The blonde smiled at her “Not much, just enjoying Florida, and the lovely ladies.” He said before he bent down and took Liz’s hand in his and kissed it “I’m Dustin”
“Aight, Dustin… take ya boys and start steppin” a voice sounded from behind Liz. She turned around and saw Zan standing there with his arms crossed across his chest, with Michael, Kyle and Alex in tow.
Dustin dropped Liz’s hand and sized up his competition “Why? You staked your claim on them or something?”
As Zan started stepping toward Dustin, Liz stood up between the two of them “Uhm, Dustin, this is my boyfriend Zan… Zan, this is Dustin… him and his boys threw their football over here to have an excuse to talk to us”
Zan looked down, taking note of the football in Dustin’s hands “Looks like yous got ya ball back… yous might wanna step ‘fore you loose two dat you can’t get back wit’out maja surgery, aight?”
Before Dustin could say anything back, Liz and the girls quickly said “It was nice meeting you guys” effectively dismissing them as Michael, Alex and Kyle came to stand by Zan, all with arms crossed across their chests.
Dustin and his guys slowly started walking away as Liz turned to Zan “What’re you doing here? I thought you were planning birthday things for me?” she said, as she wrapped her arms around his neck and placed a soft kiss on his lips.
“Don’t worry sweets, I planned some birfday thangs… big thangs, wow thangs,” He said, before giving her another kiss.
She giggled at him “You’re so excited about this, you’d think it was your birthday!”
“Well.. I’s neva had a girlfriend to spoil on her birfday… so you betta believe I’m goin all out. We’s was just out to pick some stuff up, and we knew ya’ll were gonna be down here around this time… so we came to see ya” he said, taking a seat in the sand next to Liz’s chair as she resituated herself for more tanning.
“Any hints as to what I can expect??” Liz said, giving him a sweet smile.
Zan sat back a second “You took out ya eyebrow ring and your labret”
Liz nodded “Yeah… I just figured that my dad would *KILL* me if I had visible piercings… do you like it?”
Zan nodded “Yeah… you don’t need none-a dat metal marrin your beautiful face”
Liz blushed, and then looked back at him “Don’t change the subject, Mister! Gimme a hint for my birthday surprise!”
Zan smirked and shook his head “No can do, Kitten… I want the surprise to... ya know… be a surprise.”
Liz stuck out her lower lip and began pouting, “Pleeeaaasseee?”
Zan stood up “Ah, damn, she’s poutin. C’mon guys,” he said motioning for the guys to get up from talking to the rest of the girls “If she keeps lookin at me like dat… I’ma end up telling her somethin… Lets go” he bent down and gave Liz a long kiss “Love you, Kitten” he said, when they’d pulled apart.
“I love you, too Sparky” Liz replied over her shoulder as all the guys fell into step together and started walking back to the car.
“Why’d they leave?” Tess asked, when Liz was done staring after Zan.
“Because I was pouting about him not giving me any hints about the surprise, and I gave him my best puppy dog face, and he’s such a sucker for that” Liz said, smiling as if proud of herself.
The girls all laughed and went back to their tanning. They laid out for another hour and a half and then went back to Isabel and Tess’ condo. Maria went to Liz’s condo and got some clothes for her and Liz and each of the girls took a shower and then ordered a pizza.
The girls all sat on the couch, waiting for the pizza to get there and flipping through the channels “I can’t believe its already 11 PM… where the hell did the entire day go?” Liz asked, sipping on her Mountain Dew.
“To quote you from earlier” Maria said, clearing her throat loudly “Time flies when you’re having fun!”
All the girls agreed and laughed. The pizza arrived and they finally decided on watching MTV’s ‘Viva La Bam’
As they ate, Liz watched as Bam and his posse started tearing down the front door of the house in order to make a drawbridge.
“How does he get away with this? If my child did that, I’d kick him outta the house!” Isabel said, shaking some more Tabasco on her pizza and taking a bite.
“Not if your child was the one that was paying for the house” Maria said with a mouth-full of pizza.
“Could you please swallow first?!” Tess grimaced, after seeing Maria’s half-chewed pizza “Say it… don’t spray it” She added, wiping some pizza off her arm.
Maria rolled her eyes and they went back to the TV. About an hour later, the phone rang and Isabel answered it. “Hello? Yeah. You did?? Ok. Ok. No. Yes. Yes… YES!!! Ok, Bye”
“Who was that?” Liz asked, finishing her drink.
“That was Zan, he wants us to go over there.” Isabel replied, heading for the door with everyone but Liz following.
“Ok, God! I’m coming! You coulda waited for me!” Liz said, scrambling off the couch to catch up with the girls, who were already in her condo. As soon as she walked in, she saw everyone, including Jocelyn and they all screamed “HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!”
Liz took a step back “No, guys… my birthday’s tomorrow!”
“Its 12:02 AM! Technically, it is tomorrow” Michael said.
“I don’t think its possible for it to be tomorrow… cause it’d be today… it can’t be tomorrow when its today, and its always today, its never tomorrow” Alex said, making everyone look at him with raised eyebrows “What? Think about it!”
Zan was standing by her stereo, and hit play. The music started playing and the whole group started yelling “Go, Go, Go, Go!” along with the song. Liz looked around at them and then they started singing the song “Go showty! Its ya birfday! We gon’ party like its ya birfday” as they all started dancing.
Liz threw her head back and laughed at how funny it was watching everyone dancing around her apartment to 50 Cent’s “In The Club.” She joined in and when the song ended, they turned down the music so that it was just background noise.
Liz walked over to Zan, smiling as she wrapped her arms around his neck “Hey there, sexy! You got a hair cut!” She ran her fingers through his hair, which was still spiked up, but was not considerably shorter.
“Yeah, I figa’d I was long ova due for one” He said, smirking “Ya likes?”
She giggled, giving him another kiss “I likes. Thank you for this, its amazing”
“Kitten, if you’s thinking it took me all day ta do dis, you’s crazy! Dis ain’t da whole surprise… I got more fo’ you… but you’s gotta wait for em”
Liz pouted for a minute, then said, “Fine, I’ll wait”
After a few kisses, everyone urging Liz to open her birthday presents broke them apart. After presents, she blew out the candles on her cake and went to the balcony to have a cigarette before she ate her piece. She sat in a lawn chair, looking up at the stars when the balcony door opened and Jocelyn walked out. Liz looked up at her, pinning her with a questioning gaze.
“I just, uhm… I wanted to come wish you a happy birthday. I know you probably don’t want me here, but Max insisted that I come. I also wanted to give you this.” Jocelyn said, producing a small box from behind her back and handing it to Liz.
Liz cautiously accepted it, looking up at Jocelyn “You didn’t have to do this”
She nodded, dropping down into a chair near Liz “I know, but I wanted to. Happy Birthday, Liz”
Liz smiled and unwrapped the present, then opened the box that was under the wrapping. She looked inside and pulled out a silver charm bracelet with about 10 charms on it. There was one of a heart, then the letters ‘L’ and ‘Z’ surrounding it, one of a kitten, one of an alien head, one with the numbers ‘17’ one with X’s and O’s on it, one of a shopping bag and a few other. Liz looked at her in shock. “How did you do all this? You just met me today… or yesterday, or whatever”
Jocelyn smiled, “Well… when Max insisted that I come with him tonight I wasn’t very well gonna show up without a present so I made him take me to the mall and I just picked out some cute ones, and I heard Zan call you ‘Kitten’ this morning… yesterday morning… God, I hate that!” she laughed, and Liz joined in “And I knew you were from Roswell so I got the alien one…” she trailed off.
Liz looked down at it again and smiled “Thank you. I love it. And… I’m really sorry about earlier today… I get really jealous over Zan. I make in known, in a rude way, that he’s taken. But it was unnecessary shit, I shouldn’t have acted that way”
Jocelyn waved her hand at her “No big, I shouldn’t have been gawking” she said with a smile. She then reached into her purse and pulled out a pack of cigarettes, taking one out and lighting it.
Liz raised an eyebrow “Does Max know you do that?”
Jocelyn laughed “Yes, and he’s so damn annoying about it!”
Liz snorted a laugh “You defiantly don’t have to tell me that”
They spent the rest of their time outside smoking their cigarettes in comfortable silence. When they were almost done, Maria opened the balcony door and stuck her head out “Hey! Smokey Smokerson! Get in here and eat a piece of your damn cake before the boys inhale all of it!”
Liz laughed and threw her cigarette over the railing “Alright!” She looked over at Jocelyn “If you’re sticking around, good luck with that one… she's a handful!”
“Thanks for the warning” Jocelyn said and followed Liz inside. They sat around for an hour or so just chatting and enjoying each other’s company before everyone started calling it a night. After everyone had left and Maria and Alex had turned in for the night, Liz and Zan sat on the couch talking.
“Ya want da rest’a ya surprise, Kitten?” He asked, looking over at her with a smirk.
Liz sat up, excited “Yes!”
“Aight, come here” Zan said, standing up, as Liz stood up with him. He swept her off her feet, literally, and cradled her against his body. “Close ya eyes”
Liz complied, tightly closing her eyes and burying her head in his neck to keep herself from peeking. She tried to figure out where he was carrying her to, but when she couldn’t figure it out she thought he was just wandering around the condo to throw her off. He slowly lowered her to her feet, and she kept her eyes closed. She could smell something familiar, but she couldn’t quite figure it out. It was a soft, sweet fragrance that made her smile. “Can I open my eyes now?”
She felt Zan wrap his arms around her and pull her in close to him. “Yeah, baby, Open em up”
Liz slowly opened her eyes and as soon as she saw her surrounding, she gasped, her hands flew to her mouth, and tears stinging her eyes. "Oh, my God..."
TBC…
I know, I'm an evil bitch! But what're you gonna do?! *lol* I'll work on the next part as soon as I can.. which will probably be on Monday (Lindsay... need you help on it, ya heard me?!) So.. yeah! *lol* Sorry to keep you in such suspense... lemme know what you thought!
Part 26
Liz circled the racks of clothes at some trendy store in the mall, not really looking for anything in particular. She pulled out a few shirts and looked at them, holding onto the ones that she liked. Maria, Isabel and Tess were scattered around different parts of the store. Liz walked over to Isabel “Hey, find anything?”
“Yeah,” Isabel said, gesturing back towards the fitting room “I have a ton of stuff in there”
“Why are we shopping?” Liz asked, slowly following behind Isabel as she made another lap around the store “I’m so not in the mood for shopping”
Isabel whirled around “How is that possible!? I’m always in the mood for shopping!” Before Liz could say anything Isabel said “Why don’t you try to find something to wear tomorrow?”
Liz thought for a second, and then looked back at Isabel “What’s goin on tomorrow? Zan wouldn’t tell me anything.”
“He didn’t divulge any specific details but he said something about all of us goin to the club to party it up right for your birthday, I think you should find something to wear” She replied, pulling a dark blue tank top off the rack and holding it up to Liz. It looked just like a corset, had a low neckline and strings that laced up the back and held it together, with black lace overlaying the dark blue fabric. Isabel tilted her head and looked at Liz “Try this”
Liz took the shirt from Isabel and continued after her “But if we’re just going to the club tomorrow… why did I have to be gone today?”
Isabel stopped dead in her tracks causing Liz to run right into her and almost causing both girls to tumble to the floor. They composed themselves as Isabel said “Liz… he didn’t tell me anything except we’re going to the club tomorrow night… so how bout this? Stop hounding me for information that I don’t have and just find something to wear”
Liz sighed and walked into a dressing room to try on the shirt. She heard a knock at the door “Uhm... Yeah??”
“You got that thing on yet? We’re all waiting to tell you whether to get it or not” Maria yelled through the door.
Liz sighed, still trying to wriggle into the shirt “I’m trying Maria… this shirt is being really difficult!” Liz groaned and she finally got it on and adjusted the laces in the back “Did you guys find anything?”
“Yeah… we all got at least one outfit” Tess replied back.
“Ok, I think I finally got this!” Liz said, looking in the mirror. She studied herself, and she already knew she was gonna get the shirt. With the laces tightened her breasts were pushed up and threatened to spill out of the shirt at any second. She looked in the mirror for a second and then made a split second decision. She reached up and removed the bar from her chin and the barbell from her eyebrow. She looked one more time, satisfied that she wouldn’t miss those piercings. She smiled as she opened the door and stepped out. She did a little turn and then put her hands on her hips. “Well?”
All of the girls’ eyes got wide. “Damn” Maria spoke up “I don’t swing that way, chica… but looking like that… yeah, I’d defiantly make out with ya. You took that thing outta your chin! And your eyebrow!!”
Liz stood there for a second “Well… uhm, Thanks, I think… And yeah, those just weren’t working for me”
“I like it! You still got some… but their easily concealable so your dad won’t freak out! But anyways…Ya know, you wear that to the club, you might get a little somethin-somethin when we get back to the condo,” Maria said with a wink.
Liz rolled her eyes “Maria, come on”
“No, seriously! I mean, think about it! You and Zan almost did it anyway! And you said you wanna get it on with him… he sees you wearing that… its defiantly gonna happen!” Maria said, with a confident smile.
“I’m with Maria on that one” Isabel added. “You wanna do it… just… do it!”
“You guys just want all the details,” Liz said with a laugh.
Tess looked back and forth between all the girls “Wow… I really missed some stuff, huh?”
Isabel nodded “Oh yeah! But don’t worry; we have all day to fill you in. Now… everyone go look around one more time and get ready to check out because we have appointments to get our nails done in half an hour”
Liz went back in the dressing room and changed. They each picked out an armful of outfits and paid for them. Half and hour later, they were sitting in a row at the nail salon, each getting their acrylics put on, and filling Tess in on all the stuff that she’d missed out on while her and Liz were arguing. After that, they went to the spa and each got a facial and massages. Two hours later, they were all lounging on the beach, increasing their tans.
Maria sighed, “I love Florida.”
“Mm-Hmm” the girls all agreed.
“What do you guys think Zan’s planning for my birthday?” Liz asked, leaning forward from her lounge chair to grab a bottle of water from the cooler they’d brought to the beach with them.
“I think he’s gonna try to seduce you” Tess said, giggling to herself.
“That’s ridiculous” Liz said in reply. “He doesn’t have to try, I thought we went over this”
“He doesn’t know that though… so I’m gonna have to agree with Tess” Isabel said and she put on some more tanning oil.
“Well, its not…” Liz started saying before a football bounced at her feet. She looked down at it and over to the group of guys who had obviously lost it since they were all looking over there. “Ok… either someone’s got really bad aim, or they just wanted an excuse to come over here”
“I’m going with the second one” Maria said “Cause it doesn’t take all five of them to come get a football and here they come”
The guys walked over with huge smiles on their faces as Liz picked up the football. “Loose something?” she asked, holding out the football for them to take.
A tall blonde took it from her “Thanks, sorry about that, Jimmy doesn’t have very good aim” he said motioning to one of the other guys.
“Yeah, I’m sure bad aim is why that football ended up over here” Isabel said, her Ice Queen shining through, causing the other girls to smile.
The blonde faltered “You think that we threw it over here just to come talk to you?” he asked, then looked down “Are we that predictable?”
“Not only are you that predictable” Maria said, sliding her sunglasses down her nose to look at the guys “But we woman aren’t that gullible”
“Oh my god…” Liz said suddenly, although it had nothing to do with the conversation between them and the guys.
“What?” Tess asked, trying to follow where Liz was looking, suddenly finding what Liz was staring at “Is that Max??”
Isabel and Maria both looked over to where they were looking and found Max in the ocean, Jocelyn with her arms around his neck and they were making out.
“Oh god! I do not need to constantly see my brother do that!” Isabel said, quickly averting her eyes.
Liz quickly looked back to the guys that were still standing there “What’s up?”
The blonde smiled at her “Not much, just enjoying Florida, and the lovely ladies.” He said before he bent down and took Liz’s hand in his and kissed it “I’m Dustin”
“Aight, Dustin… take ya boys and start steppin” a voice sounded from behind Liz. She turned around and saw Zan standing there with his arms crossed across his chest, with Michael, Kyle and Alex in tow.
Dustin dropped Liz’s hand and sized up his competition “Why? You staked your claim on them or something?”
As Zan started stepping toward Dustin, Liz stood up between the two of them “Uhm, Dustin, this is my boyfriend Zan… Zan, this is Dustin… him and his boys threw their football over here to have an excuse to talk to us”
Zan looked down, taking note of the football in Dustin’s hands “Looks like yous got ya ball back… yous might wanna step ‘fore you loose two dat you can’t get back wit’out maja surgery, aight?”
Before Dustin could say anything back, Liz and the girls quickly said “It was nice meeting you guys” effectively dismissing them as Michael, Alex and Kyle came to stand by Zan, all with arms crossed across their chests.
Dustin and his guys slowly started walking away as Liz turned to Zan “What’re you doing here? I thought you were planning birthday things for me?” she said, as she wrapped her arms around his neck and placed a soft kiss on his lips.
“Don’t worry sweets, I planned some birfday thangs… big thangs, wow thangs,” He said, before giving her another kiss.
She giggled at him “You’re so excited about this, you’d think it was your birthday!”
“Well.. I’s neva had a girlfriend to spoil on her birfday… so you betta believe I’m goin all out. We’s was just out to pick some stuff up, and we knew ya’ll were gonna be down here around this time… so we came to see ya” he said, taking a seat in the sand next to Liz’s chair as she resituated herself for more tanning.
“Any hints as to what I can expect??” Liz said, giving him a sweet smile.
Zan sat back a second “You took out ya eyebrow ring and your labret”
Liz nodded “Yeah… I just figured that my dad would *KILL* me if I had visible piercings… do you like it?”
Zan nodded “Yeah… you don’t need none-a dat metal marrin your beautiful face”
Liz blushed, and then looked back at him “Don’t change the subject, Mister! Gimme a hint for my birthday surprise!”
Zan smirked and shook his head “No can do, Kitten… I want the surprise to... ya know… be a surprise.”
Liz stuck out her lower lip and began pouting, “Pleeeaaasseee?”
Zan stood up “Ah, damn, she’s poutin. C’mon guys,” he said motioning for the guys to get up from talking to the rest of the girls “If she keeps lookin at me like dat… I’ma end up telling her somethin… Lets go” he bent down and gave Liz a long kiss “Love you, Kitten” he said, when they’d pulled apart.
“I love you, too Sparky” Liz replied over her shoulder as all the guys fell into step together and started walking back to the car.
“Why’d they leave?” Tess asked, when Liz was done staring after Zan.
“Because I was pouting about him not giving me any hints about the surprise, and I gave him my best puppy dog face, and he’s such a sucker for that” Liz said, smiling as if proud of herself.
The girls all laughed and went back to their tanning. They laid out for another hour and a half and then went back to Isabel and Tess’ condo. Maria went to Liz’s condo and got some clothes for her and Liz and each of the girls took a shower and then ordered a pizza.
The girls all sat on the couch, waiting for the pizza to get there and flipping through the channels “I can’t believe its already 11 PM… where the hell did the entire day go?” Liz asked, sipping on her Mountain Dew.
“To quote you from earlier” Maria said, clearing her throat loudly “Time flies when you’re having fun!”
All the girls agreed and laughed. The pizza arrived and they finally decided on watching MTV’s ‘Viva La Bam’
As they ate, Liz watched as Bam and his posse started tearing down the front door of the house in order to make a drawbridge.
“How does he get away with this? If my child did that, I’d kick him outta the house!” Isabel said, shaking some more Tabasco on her pizza and taking a bite.
“Not if your child was the one that was paying for the house” Maria said with a mouth-full of pizza.
“Could you please swallow first?!” Tess grimaced, after seeing Maria’s half-chewed pizza “Say it… don’t spray it” She added, wiping some pizza off her arm.
Maria rolled her eyes and they went back to the TV. About an hour later, the phone rang and Isabel answered it. “Hello? Yeah. You did?? Ok. Ok. No. Yes. Yes… YES!!! Ok, Bye”
“Who was that?” Liz asked, finishing her drink.
“That was Zan, he wants us to go over there.” Isabel replied, heading for the door with everyone but Liz following.
“Ok, God! I’m coming! You coulda waited for me!” Liz said, scrambling off the couch to catch up with the girls, who were already in her condo. As soon as she walked in, she saw everyone, including Jocelyn and they all screamed “HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!”
Liz took a step back “No, guys… my birthday’s tomorrow!”
“Its 12:02 AM! Technically, it is tomorrow” Michael said.
“I don’t think its possible for it to be tomorrow… cause it’d be today… it can’t be tomorrow when its today, and its always today, its never tomorrow” Alex said, making everyone look at him with raised eyebrows “What? Think about it!”
Zan was standing by her stereo, and hit play. The music started playing and the whole group started yelling “Go, Go, Go, Go!” along with the song. Liz looked around at them and then they started singing the song “Go showty! Its ya birfday! We gon’ party like its ya birfday” as they all started dancing.
Liz threw her head back and laughed at how funny it was watching everyone dancing around her apartment to 50 Cent’s “In The Club.” She joined in and when the song ended, they turned down the music so that it was just background noise.
Liz walked over to Zan, smiling as she wrapped her arms around his neck “Hey there, sexy! You got a hair cut!” She ran her fingers through his hair, which was still spiked up, but was not considerably shorter.
“Yeah, I figa’d I was long ova due for one” He said, smirking “Ya likes?”
She giggled, giving him another kiss “I likes. Thank you for this, its amazing”
“Kitten, if you’s thinking it took me all day ta do dis, you’s crazy! Dis ain’t da whole surprise… I got more fo’ you… but you’s gotta wait for em”
Liz pouted for a minute, then said, “Fine, I’ll wait”
After a few kisses, everyone urging Liz to open her birthday presents broke them apart. After presents, she blew out the candles on her cake and went to the balcony to have a cigarette before she ate her piece. She sat in a lawn chair, looking up at the stars when the balcony door opened and Jocelyn walked out. Liz looked up at her, pinning her with a questioning gaze.
“I just, uhm… I wanted to come wish you a happy birthday. I know you probably don’t want me here, but Max insisted that I come. I also wanted to give you this.” Jocelyn said, producing a small box from behind her back and handing it to Liz.
Liz cautiously accepted it, looking up at Jocelyn “You didn’t have to do this”
She nodded, dropping down into a chair near Liz “I know, but I wanted to. Happy Birthday, Liz”
Liz smiled and unwrapped the present, then opened the box that was under the wrapping. She looked inside and pulled out a silver charm bracelet with about 10 charms on it. There was one of a heart, then the letters ‘L’ and ‘Z’ surrounding it, one of a kitten, one of an alien head, one with the numbers ‘17’ one with X’s and O’s on it, one of a shopping bag and a few other. Liz looked at her in shock. “How did you do all this? You just met me today… or yesterday, or whatever”
Jocelyn smiled, “Well… when Max insisted that I come with him tonight I wasn’t very well gonna show up without a present so I made him take me to the mall and I just picked out some cute ones, and I heard Zan call you ‘Kitten’ this morning… yesterday morning… God, I hate that!” she laughed, and Liz joined in “And I knew you were from Roswell so I got the alien one…” she trailed off.
Liz looked down at it again and smiled “Thank you. I love it. And… I’m really sorry about earlier today… I get really jealous over Zan. I make in known, in a rude way, that he’s taken. But it was unnecessary shit, I shouldn’t have acted that way”
Jocelyn waved her hand at her “No big, I shouldn’t have been gawking” she said with a smile. She then reached into her purse and pulled out a pack of cigarettes, taking one out and lighting it.
Liz raised an eyebrow “Does Max know you do that?”
Jocelyn laughed “Yes, and he’s so damn annoying about it!”
Liz snorted a laugh “You defiantly don’t have to tell me that”
They spent the rest of their time outside smoking their cigarettes in comfortable silence. When they were almost done, Maria opened the balcony door and stuck her head out “Hey! Smokey Smokerson! Get in here and eat a piece of your damn cake before the boys inhale all of it!”
Liz laughed and threw her cigarette over the railing “Alright!” She looked over at Jocelyn “If you’re sticking around, good luck with that one… she's a handful!”
“Thanks for the warning” Jocelyn said and followed Liz inside. They sat around for an hour or so just chatting and enjoying each other’s company before everyone started calling it a night. After everyone had left and Maria and Alex had turned in for the night, Liz and Zan sat on the couch talking.
“Ya want da rest’a ya surprise, Kitten?” He asked, looking over at her with a smirk.
Liz sat up, excited “Yes!”
“Aight, come here” Zan said, standing up, as Liz stood up with him. He swept her off her feet, literally, and cradled her against his body. “Close ya eyes”
Liz complied, tightly closing her eyes and burying her head in his neck to keep herself from peeking. She tried to figure out where he was carrying her to, but when she couldn’t figure it out she thought he was just wandering around the condo to throw her off. He slowly lowered her to her feet, and she kept her eyes closed. She could smell something familiar, but she couldn’t quite figure it out. It was a soft, sweet fragrance that made her smile. “Can I open my eyes now?”
She felt Zan wrap his arms around her and pull her in close to him. “Yeah, baby, Open em up”
Liz slowly opened her eyes and as soon as she saw her surrounding, she gasped, her hands flew to her mouth, and tears stinging her eyes. "Oh, my God..."
TBC…
I know, I'm an evil bitch! But what're you gonna do?! *lol* I'll work on the next part as soon as I can.. which will probably be on Monday (Lindsay... need you help on it, ya heard me?!) So.. yeah! *lol* Sorry to keep you in such suspense... lemme know what you thought!
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Don't throw things! I'm back! *lol* I'm sorry, I didn't know that Gen sent the part back so soon or I'da already had it up! Please don't throw wet gerbils at me.. that may force me to kill you! *lol* Just playin.. but I will throw them back!!!! *looks around* Ok... 2 things I need to address before I go ahead and post thing...
First-- Gen(my lovely beta, I love you, girl!) pointed out that I didn't mention anything about condoms or anything. Well... I don't find it all that sexy when you gotta break up the action to write about dude puttin on a condom (I'm with you on that, Lindsay!) so we're just gonna say that he did! Ok?? Ok...
Secondly-- The song I use in this part.. most definatly not mine! Its called "Angel In My Eyes" and its sang by John Michael Montgomery... I have nothing to do with it! Ok... on with the new part...
Part 27
Liz felt a tear slowly slide down her cheek as she looked around the bedroom. Zan had at least twelve dozen white roses scattered around the room. The only light was that coming from the white candles that were scattered everywhere. Liz turned in Zan's arms, placing her arms around his neck. “You did all of this for me?”
He glanced around the room then back down at her, slowly lifting his hand to slowly wipe the tears off her cheeks. “Yeah, Boo, I wanted ya ta have da best birfday eva. Ya likes?”
Liz laughed, “Are you kidding me? I love it! It’s amazing! How many roses did you get me?!”
“One fo’ every time I thought about ya today.”
“You’re too much, Sparky!” Liz said, standing on her tiptoes and placing a kiss on his cheek.
“Well, I still got a present fo ya.” Zan said, as he grabbed her hand and led her to the bed. There was a small box in the middle of the bed with silver ribbon around it. He picked it up and handed it to Liz. “Happy birthday, baby.”
Liz smiled as she took the box from him and undid the ribbon. She opened the box, finding a smaller box inside. It looked to be a ring box. Liz slowly slid the smaller box out of the bigger one and opened it. Inside was a silver ring. It had a heart that was being held by two hands, with a crown on top of it.
Zan reached inside the ring box and grabbed the ring. “It’s a Claddagh ring,” he said, slowly sliding it on the middle finger of her right hand. “The hands represent friendship. The crown represents loyalty. And the heart represents love. If it’s worn on the right hand… it shows a special commitment to someone. I just wanted ya to have dis… kinda as a promise ring. That no matter what happens, how far apart we are… I’m always gonna love ya.” Zan placed his right hand over hers, showing a larger claddagh ring on his middle finger. “I got me one too. So dat wheneva I look at it… I’ma always think of you.”
Liz’s gaze slowly slides up from her hand to meet Zan's eyes. As the tears kept spilling down her cheeks, she leaned in and gave him a soft kiss on the lips. “I love you, Zan,” she said with a bittersweet smile, suddenly remembering that someday, they would part ways.
“I love yous too, Liz. But no tears, aight. We’s still ta’getha right now…” He slowly stood up and offered her his hand. “Will ya dance with me?”
She looked up at him confused, as he put his hand over a CD that was sitting on the nightstand hear the bed, and it glowed with a white light. A slow, soft melody echoed around the room as Liz took Zan's hand and stood up. Placing one arm around his neck, and one of her hands in his next to his chest, she rested her head against his shoulder as a smooth male voice started singing:
I watch her lying in bed asleep
And thank my lucky stars
For every second she's here with me
I wanna hold her in my arms.
She is my day she is my night
She is the breath that gives me life
Zan lowered his head so that his mouth was right next to her ear as he whispered the words of the chorus to her:
But sometimes we laugh and sometimes we cry
Sometimes we fight and we don't know why
But no matter what she believes in me
She's the closest thing to heaven I'll ever see
She'll always be an angel in my eyes
Liz looked up into his eyes as the second verse started, feeling herself becoming completely lost in their amber depths:
Sometimes I feel her by my side
Like she's watching over me
I get a chill running down my spine
That's all the proof I need
But she fills my heart she fills my soul
She's the half that makes me whole
As the chorus began playing again, Zan slowly lowered his mouth to hers, capturing her lips. He ran his tongue over her lower lip, slowly sucking it into his mouth, seeking admittance. Liz complied and opened her mouth, almost instantly their tongues met. Liz felt a surge of energy go through her at that first touch. As they kept kissing, the song slowly faded, but neither of them noticed. Soon Liz found herself dizzy and drunk from Zan’s kisses. Before she knew what was happening, Zan slowly laid her back on the bed, turning on another CD with his powers as they went. A soft piano melody filled the room and Zan went to pull his shirt off. As his hands reached the hem of his shirt, Liz stopped him.
She looked into his eyes as her hands took hold of his shirt. “Let me.” Zan's hands fell away from his shirt as Liz slowly pulled it up and over his head. She took her time, running her hands over his pecs, and his abs, over the tattoos on his arms, memorizing every little detail about him. Her hands came to rest on the button of his jeans. She tentatively looked up at him. He nodded to her and she slowly unbuttoned them and slid them down his muscular legs. He kicked his shoes and socks off, leaving him in just his boxers.
Zan turned to Liz and toyed with the hem of her shirt. He soon copied her exact movements to him, leaving her in her bra and underwear. As he took her lips in his again, he swiftly undid the clasp of her bra, the fabric quickly falling, forgotten, on the floor. His mouth left hers and began to leave a trail of wet kisses down her neck to her breast. He slowly slid his tongue all around it until he finally took one of her nipples in his mouth and swirled his tongue ring around it. Liz arched up into him and moaned. As his mouth continued sucking and nipping on one of her hard peaks, his hand massaged the other. He switched and continued his ministrations, giving the other breast the same attention as the first. He made his way down to her navel; he dipped his tongue inside before he took a hold of the hoop piercing her bellybutton, giving it a light tug. He fingered the band of her underwear, dipping his fingers under the band. He looked up into her eyes, “Can I?”
Liz slowly nodded and lifted her hips up to assist him in ridding her of the offending garment. When her underwear was on the floor, along with all of her other clothes, he slowly swept his gaze over her body. Liz felt herself blush under his inspection. All shyness faded away when he looked into her eyes and she saw the honesty in his words when he smirked and whispered, “You're perfect, baby.”
Feeling a little bold, Liz smiled back. “Now that you have me completely naked, what’re you gonna do with me?”
“I wanna taste you…” he says, drawing small circles on her upper thigh. Liz slowly opened her legs up for him so he could situate himself between them. She could feel his hot breathe on her as his mouth slowly descended and she closed her eyes in anticipation. She jumped slightly as she felt his tongue slowly slide over her slit. He repeated his actions, occasionally dipping his tongue into her hot center.
“God… Zan… Ohmygod… please…” Liz manages out between gasps. He finally complied, sucking her swollen clit into his mouth. Holding her hips down as she squirmed, Zan sucked a little harder as he inserts one of his fingers inside of her. He pumped slowly, and added another. As her moans became louder, he picked up the pace, feeling her walls clamp around him as he sent her over the edge screaming his name.
As she rode the last waves of her orgasm, Zan slowly slid his way up her body. He gave her a soft kiss on the lips, and lay down on his side next to her. “We don’t gotta do nothing else baby…” he started, but Liz cut him off by running her finger over the waistband of his boxer and licking his bottom lip.
She slowly pulled back and looked him in the eyes. “I think you’re a little overdressed, Sparky,” she whispered as she started pulling down his boxers. Once they were discarded on the floor, she raked her eyes over his erection, and couldn’t help but be a little scared. She reached down and grazed her fingers across it, tilting her head to look at it from different angles. She took his engorged member in her small hands and ran her hand up the length of it. She pulled back when Zan made a hissing noise “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean…” she said, as Zan placed a finger over her lips to quiet her.
“Don’t ya dare apologize for makin me feel good, ya heard me?” he whispered, running his fingers through her hair. He watched her as she continued to tilt her head and inspect him. “Not what ya expected, sweets?”
Liz glanced up, suddenly very aware that he’d been watching her. “No, its just… is it gonna fit?”
Zan couldn’t hold back a soft snort of laughter. “Yeah, I think its gonna be a perfect fit.”
Liz looked back down at his cock, and then up at him from under her lashes. “Can I kiss it?” she asked, chewing on her lower lip softly. Zan nodded, so she arranged herself between his legs as he’d done to her.
She slowly ran her tongue over the length of it and finally over the tip, tasting the drops of moisture that were there. She slowly took him into her mouth, and then pulled back. She started slowly, and then sped up a little as Zan's moans encouraged her that he was enjoying it. She swirled her tongue ring around the tip before taking all of him in her mouth, sucking slightly and then pulling back out. As she went to lower her mouth to him again, he framed her face with his hands and stopped her. Her eyebrows scrunched together in worry. “Did I do it wrong?”
Zan leaned forward and dragged her up the bed so she was laying next to him. “No, ya didn’t do it wrong. You… are amazing. Everything yous do ta me is like total ecstasy… I just don’t dis ta be ova before is starts.”
Liz lay back on the bed and pulled Zan on top of her. “Then lets start” she whispered, running her tongue along the outside of his ear. She heard Zan growl as she licked and bit lightly at his ear.
“Are ya sure? We don’t have ta…” He said, pulling back to look her in the eyes.
“I’m sure… I want you to be my first. Make love to me, Zan.”
Those words were all it took before he couldn’t hold back any longer. He took her lips in a long passionate kiss, running his hands all over his body, before positioning the tip of his cock at her entrance. He felt her stiffen underneath him, so he placed a light kiss on the end of her nose. “Dis is gonna hurt, baby. You gotta try’n relax, aight?”
Liz nodded, and Zan started pushing into her tight passage. He went slowly, until he reached her barrier. “Ya ready?” he asked.
She took a deep breath and bit on her lower lip. “Yeah, I’m ready.”
Zan pushed through until he was fully embedded inside of her and then stayed as still as possible. Liz was making little whimpering sounds as Zan stroked her hair “I’m sorry baby, it’ll only hurt fo’ a second, I promise. I won’t move til you’s ready.”
Liz took a few deep breaths and let herself become accustomed to Zan being inside of her. After a few seconds, the pain subsided and she moved her hips a little to signal she was ready. Zan slowly began pumping inside of her. But the slow movements were becoming quickly not enough for either of them. Liz raised her hips to meet his every thrust. Soft moans of pleasure for her were met with low growls from him. She raked her nails down his back, which made him drive harder.
“Oh god, baby, you’re so tight… you feel so good…” he murmured in her ear as he planted kisses all over her face.
“Ohh… God… Zan, don’t stop…” she begged, wrapping her legs around his waist so he could drive into her even deeper than before.
As their moans became louder, he could feel her inner walls start to contract around him. He pulled back, leaning on his elbows for balance as he continued to pound into her. “Just let go, kitten, I promise I’ll catch ya.”
That’s all it took to send her over the edge. She screamed his name, once again, as her orgasm took over her. Almost as soon as hers began, Zan's did too. Her inner walls milking him as he spilled his seed inside her.
He collapsed on top of her and it took them both a minute to regain their composure. With a content sigh, he rolled onto his side, pulling her with him so they never broke apart. He traced his fingers over her features, and leaned in to give her a soft kiss. “You ok, baby?”
Liz smiled at him. “Yeah… I’m great.” She couldn’t help but giggle at the lopsided grin he flashed at her. “I love you, Zan.”
He slowly extracted himself from her and pulled the covers over them. With a wave of his hand, all the candles went out and he pulled her in close to him. “I love you too, Liz.”
They drifted of to sleep in each other’s arms and with matching smiles on their faces.
TBC…
Lemme know!!!
Oh, and Chris... me and Lindsay have way too many inside jokes that we just post back and forth.. ignore us! *lol*
(Psst.. Lindsay! 'A snake?! Stop it!!'
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First-- Gen(my lovely beta, I love you, girl!) pointed out that I didn't mention anything about condoms or anything. Well... I don't find it all that sexy when you gotta break up the action to write about dude puttin on a condom (I'm with you on that, Lindsay!) so we're just gonna say that he did! Ok?? Ok...
Secondly-- The song I use in this part.. most definatly not mine! Its called "Angel In My Eyes" and its sang by John Michael Montgomery... I have nothing to do with it! Ok... on with the new part...
Part 27
Liz felt a tear slowly slide down her cheek as she looked around the bedroom. Zan had at least twelve dozen white roses scattered around the room. The only light was that coming from the white candles that were scattered everywhere. Liz turned in Zan's arms, placing her arms around his neck. “You did all of this for me?”
He glanced around the room then back down at her, slowly lifting his hand to slowly wipe the tears off her cheeks. “Yeah, Boo, I wanted ya ta have da best birfday eva. Ya likes?”
Liz laughed, “Are you kidding me? I love it! It’s amazing! How many roses did you get me?!”
“One fo’ every time I thought about ya today.”
“You’re too much, Sparky!” Liz said, standing on her tiptoes and placing a kiss on his cheek.
“Well, I still got a present fo ya.” Zan said, as he grabbed her hand and led her to the bed. There was a small box in the middle of the bed with silver ribbon around it. He picked it up and handed it to Liz. “Happy birthday, baby.”
Liz smiled as she took the box from him and undid the ribbon. She opened the box, finding a smaller box inside. It looked to be a ring box. Liz slowly slid the smaller box out of the bigger one and opened it. Inside was a silver ring. It had a heart that was being held by two hands, with a crown on top of it.
Zan reached inside the ring box and grabbed the ring. “It’s a Claddagh ring,” he said, slowly sliding it on the middle finger of her right hand. “The hands represent friendship. The crown represents loyalty. And the heart represents love. If it’s worn on the right hand… it shows a special commitment to someone. I just wanted ya to have dis… kinda as a promise ring. That no matter what happens, how far apart we are… I’m always gonna love ya.” Zan placed his right hand over hers, showing a larger claddagh ring on his middle finger. “I got me one too. So dat wheneva I look at it… I’ma always think of you.”
Liz’s gaze slowly slides up from her hand to meet Zan's eyes. As the tears kept spilling down her cheeks, she leaned in and gave him a soft kiss on the lips. “I love you, Zan,” she said with a bittersweet smile, suddenly remembering that someday, they would part ways.
“I love yous too, Liz. But no tears, aight. We’s still ta’getha right now…” He slowly stood up and offered her his hand. “Will ya dance with me?”
She looked up at him confused, as he put his hand over a CD that was sitting on the nightstand hear the bed, and it glowed with a white light. A slow, soft melody echoed around the room as Liz took Zan's hand and stood up. Placing one arm around his neck, and one of her hands in his next to his chest, she rested her head against his shoulder as a smooth male voice started singing:
I watch her lying in bed asleep
And thank my lucky stars
For every second she's here with me
I wanna hold her in my arms.
She is my day she is my night
She is the breath that gives me life
Zan lowered his head so that his mouth was right next to her ear as he whispered the words of the chorus to her:
But sometimes we laugh and sometimes we cry
Sometimes we fight and we don't know why
But no matter what she believes in me
She's the closest thing to heaven I'll ever see
She'll always be an angel in my eyes
Liz looked up into his eyes as the second verse started, feeling herself becoming completely lost in their amber depths:
Sometimes I feel her by my side
Like she's watching over me
I get a chill running down my spine
That's all the proof I need
But she fills my heart she fills my soul
She's the half that makes me whole
As the chorus began playing again, Zan slowly lowered his mouth to hers, capturing her lips. He ran his tongue over her lower lip, slowly sucking it into his mouth, seeking admittance. Liz complied and opened her mouth, almost instantly their tongues met. Liz felt a surge of energy go through her at that first touch. As they kept kissing, the song slowly faded, but neither of them noticed. Soon Liz found herself dizzy and drunk from Zan’s kisses. Before she knew what was happening, Zan slowly laid her back on the bed, turning on another CD with his powers as they went. A soft piano melody filled the room and Zan went to pull his shirt off. As his hands reached the hem of his shirt, Liz stopped him.
She looked into his eyes as her hands took hold of his shirt. “Let me.” Zan's hands fell away from his shirt as Liz slowly pulled it up and over his head. She took her time, running her hands over his pecs, and his abs, over the tattoos on his arms, memorizing every little detail about him. Her hands came to rest on the button of his jeans. She tentatively looked up at him. He nodded to her and she slowly unbuttoned them and slid them down his muscular legs. He kicked his shoes and socks off, leaving him in just his boxers.
Zan turned to Liz and toyed with the hem of her shirt. He soon copied her exact movements to him, leaving her in her bra and underwear. As he took her lips in his again, he swiftly undid the clasp of her bra, the fabric quickly falling, forgotten, on the floor. His mouth left hers and began to leave a trail of wet kisses down her neck to her breast. He slowly slid his tongue all around it until he finally took one of her nipples in his mouth and swirled his tongue ring around it. Liz arched up into him and moaned. As his mouth continued sucking and nipping on one of her hard peaks, his hand massaged the other. He switched and continued his ministrations, giving the other breast the same attention as the first. He made his way down to her navel; he dipped his tongue inside before he took a hold of the hoop piercing her bellybutton, giving it a light tug. He fingered the band of her underwear, dipping his fingers under the band. He looked up into her eyes, “Can I?”
Liz slowly nodded and lifted her hips up to assist him in ridding her of the offending garment. When her underwear was on the floor, along with all of her other clothes, he slowly swept his gaze over her body. Liz felt herself blush under his inspection. All shyness faded away when he looked into her eyes and she saw the honesty in his words when he smirked and whispered, “You're perfect, baby.”
Feeling a little bold, Liz smiled back. “Now that you have me completely naked, what’re you gonna do with me?”
“I wanna taste you…” he says, drawing small circles on her upper thigh. Liz slowly opened her legs up for him so he could situate himself between them. She could feel his hot breathe on her as his mouth slowly descended and she closed her eyes in anticipation. She jumped slightly as she felt his tongue slowly slide over her slit. He repeated his actions, occasionally dipping his tongue into her hot center.
“God… Zan… Ohmygod… please…” Liz manages out between gasps. He finally complied, sucking her swollen clit into his mouth. Holding her hips down as she squirmed, Zan sucked a little harder as he inserts one of his fingers inside of her. He pumped slowly, and added another. As her moans became louder, he picked up the pace, feeling her walls clamp around him as he sent her over the edge screaming his name.
As she rode the last waves of her orgasm, Zan slowly slid his way up her body. He gave her a soft kiss on the lips, and lay down on his side next to her. “We don’t gotta do nothing else baby…” he started, but Liz cut him off by running her finger over the waistband of his boxer and licking his bottom lip.
She slowly pulled back and looked him in the eyes. “I think you’re a little overdressed, Sparky,” she whispered as she started pulling down his boxers. Once they were discarded on the floor, she raked her eyes over his erection, and couldn’t help but be a little scared. She reached down and grazed her fingers across it, tilting her head to look at it from different angles. She took his engorged member in her small hands and ran her hand up the length of it. She pulled back when Zan made a hissing noise “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean…” she said, as Zan placed a finger over her lips to quiet her.
“Don’t ya dare apologize for makin me feel good, ya heard me?” he whispered, running his fingers through her hair. He watched her as she continued to tilt her head and inspect him. “Not what ya expected, sweets?”
Liz glanced up, suddenly very aware that he’d been watching her. “No, its just… is it gonna fit?”
Zan couldn’t hold back a soft snort of laughter. “Yeah, I think its gonna be a perfect fit.”
Liz looked back down at his cock, and then up at him from under her lashes. “Can I kiss it?” she asked, chewing on her lower lip softly. Zan nodded, so she arranged herself between his legs as he’d done to her.
She slowly ran her tongue over the length of it and finally over the tip, tasting the drops of moisture that were there. She slowly took him into her mouth, and then pulled back. She started slowly, and then sped up a little as Zan's moans encouraged her that he was enjoying it. She swirled her tongue ring around the tip before taking all of him in her mouth, sucking slightly and then pulling back out. As she went to lower her mouth to him again, he framed her face with his hands and stopped her. Her eyebrows scrunched together in worry. “Did I do it wrong?”
Zan leaned forward and dragged her up the bed so she was laying next to him. “No, ya didn’t do it wrong. You… are amazing. Everything yous do ta me is like total ecstasy… I just don’t dis ta be ova before is starts.”
Liz lay back on the bed and pulled Zan on top of her. “Then lets start” she whispered, running her tongue along the outside of his ear. She heard Zan growl as she licked and bit lightly at his ear.
“Are ya sure? We don’t have ta…” He said, pulling back to look her in the eyes.
“I’m sure… I want you to be my first. Make love to me, Zan.”
Those words were all it took before he couldn’t hold back any longer. He took her lips in a long passionate kiss, running his hands all over his body, before positioning the tip of his cock at her entrance. He felt her stiffen underneath him, so he placed a light kiss on the end of her nose. “Dis is gonna hurt, baby. You gotta try’n relax, aight?”
Liz nodded, and Zan started pushing into her tight passage. He went slowly, until he reached her barrier. “Ya ready?” he asked.
She took a deep breath and bit on her lower lip. “Yeah, I’m ready.”
Zan pushed through until he was fully embedded inside of her and then stayed as still as possible. Liz was making little whimpering sounds as Zan stroked her hair “I’m sorry baby, it’ll only hurt fo’ a second, I promise. I won’t move til you’s ready.”
Liz took a few deep breaths and let herself become accustomed to Zan being inside of her. After a few seconds, the pain subsided and she moved her hips a little to signal she was ready. Zan slowly began pumping inside of her. But the slow movements were becoming quickly not enough for either of them. Liz raised her hips to meet his every thrust. Soft moans of pleasure for her were met with low growls from him. She raked her nails down his back, which made him drive harder.
“Oh god, baby, you’re so tight… you feel so good…” he murmured in her ear as he planted kisses all over her face.
“Ohh… God… Zan, don’t stop…” she begged, wrapping her legs around his waist so he could drive into her even deeper than before.
As their moans became louder, he could feel her inner walls start to contract around him. He pulled back, leaning on his elbows for balance as he continued to pound into her. “Just let go, kitten, I promise I’ll catch ya.”
That’s all it took to send her over the edge. She screamed his name, once again, as her orgasm took over her. Almost as soon as hers began, Zan's did too. Her inner walls milking him as he spilled his seed inside her.
He collapsed on top of her and it took them both a minute to regain their composure. With a content sigh, he rolled onto his side, pulling her with him so they never broke apart. He traced his fingers over her features, and leaned in to give her a soft kiss. “You ok, baby?”
Liz smiled at him. “Yeah… I’m great.” She couldn’t help but giggle at the lopsided grin he flashed at her. “I love you, Zan.”
He slowly extracted himself from her and pulled the covers over them. With a wave of his hand, all the candles went out and he pulled her in close to him. “I love you too, Liz.”
They drifted of to sleep in each other’s arms and with matching smiles on their faces.
TBC…
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Hey guys! Finally back with the next part! I hope you guys like it... I'm not feelin it too much... it took me like 5 hours to get it done!! But-- I promised something... so here it is! As usual... lemme know what you think!
Chapter 28
"Thats total bullshit! That point so doesn't count!!!" Michael screamed at Kyle.
Liz turned onto her back in her lounge chair and glanced towards the pool. All the boys were playing basketball with one of those little basketball hoops you attach to the side of the pool, and obviously they weren't playing nice.
"Why doesn’t it count?!" Kyle yelled back, wading his way over towards Michael.
"You kicked me! It doesn’t count if you kick me!!!" Michael hollered.
"Boys!" Lonnie spoke up, lifting her head from its reclined spot on the lounge chair. When she was sure she had their full attention she slowly lowered her sunglasses. "Do not make me get off this chair."
The boys softly muttered apologies before going back to their basketball game. Liz smiled to herself as Zan guarded Max from throwing the ball in the hoop. Anytime she looked at him today, she couldn’t stop herself from smiling. The girls noticed it right away and dragged her out onto the balcony where they made her divulge every detail.
It was almost 4 PM and so far the day had been absolutely perfect. She’d woken up around noon to find Zan watching her sleep. They got up and Michael made everyone pancakes for breakfast and then they all came out to hang by the pool until it was time to get ready to go out for the night.
Liz’s cell phone started ringing and all the girls started bopping their heads to the beat of Outkast’s ‘Hey Ya.’ Liz giggled and answered her phone. "Hello?"
"Hey Liz! What’s up?"
"Hey Emily! Not too much, just sittin' by the pool with my friends."
"Wait… you’re still here, right?" she asked, not quite sure where all these friends suddenly came from.
"Yeah, all my friends drove out here from Roswell to hang out with me for the remainder of the summer."
"Ohh, Ok! Now I get it!" Emily giggled into the phone. "I wanted to come up to your place and say hi and all that… but I guess I can just walk out to the pool."
"You comin' out?" Liz asked, taking a sip out of her soda.
"Yeah, I’ll be out in a few," she replied.
They said goodbye, and Liz hung up the phone. Glancing over at Maria and seeing her questioning look, Liz told her Emily was coming out. No sooner had the words come out of her mouth, Emily walked through the gate that lead into the pool area. Liz watched as one by one, the guys stopped paying attention to the basketball game, and watched Emily walk across the deck.
Liz rolled her eyes. She could defiantly understand why… there’s no way Emily looked 15! She was about 5’9, with long legs, a fairly curvaceous figure, and long blonde hair. It didn’t help that she was wearing a tiny tank top, short jean cut off shorts, and high-heeled sandals.
Liz loudly cleared her throat and all the boys looked over. "Divert your eyes, please! This is my cousin, and she's only 15!"
Emily shook her head as she sat down on the end of Liz’s lounge chair. "Don’t freak out, Cuz! Jeez! I mean, seriously! You didn’t tell me you were holding a herd of hot guys at your condo this whole time!"
All the girls’ heads whipped in Emily’s direction. Liz laughed. "You might wanna watch it Em… every single one of those ‘hot guys’ is spoken for."
Emily shrugged her shoulders and popped her gum and she looked over the guys in the pool. "Hey… hold on! Isn’t that your ex-boyfriend?" She asked, pointing to Max.
"Yeah, that’s him" Liz said, casually.
"And… there’s two of them??" She asked, checking out Zan who’d just emerged from the pool to retrieve the ball that had landed outside of the pool due to a wayward toss towards the net from Alex.
"Uh-huh… That’s Zan" Liz already knew where this conversation was headed… so she was already prepared with a way to end it.
"And… that’s your new boyfriend??" Emily asked, raising her eyebrows.
"Em, it’s a whole big complicated situation. Honestly, it would probably take the remainder of my two weeks here to even try to explain it all to you. So if you don’t mind, can we just, not?" Liz said.
"Whatever you say… but when you end up on Jerry Springer, I reserve the right to no longer claim you as family." Emily said, crossing her legs and glancing behind her at the other girls. She said hello to all of them and then turned her attention back to Liz. "So?? How’s your birthday been so far?"
Liz glanced over at Zan, who was making his way to the net to score a point, even as Alex clung to his back, trying to stop him. "Perfect," Liz replied with a smile on her face.
Liz heard Maria groan and looked over at her. She was leaning towards Isabel and Liz heard her say "I think we need to have someone slap her to see if its even POSSIBLE to get that damn smile off her face…"
"I’m not that bad!" Liz said, trying to defend herself.
"What’s going on?" Emily asked, and then she looked back at Liz before saying "OH! Did little Lizzie get laid?!"
All the girls started cracking up, minus Isabel who spit soda all over herself and then began chocking. "EMILY!" Liz exclaimed, feeling herself turning 12 shades of red.
Liz glanced over towards the pool and seeing the looks of complete confusion on all the guys’ faces made her bust out laughing as well.
The girls all sat around chatting for another hour after all the guys went in to get ready. The girls eventually gathered all their stuff and made their way inside. Liz took a shower in the bathroom attached to her bedroom, and Maria showered in the other bathroom in the condo. After they were done with their showers, they both put on pajamas and met in Liz’s room to make final decisions on outfits, hair and make-up. Liz looked in the mirror and suddenly got an idea.
She started with her fingers on her forehead and ran her fingers through her hair. When she was done, her hair was completely dry. She shook her hair and laughed. "I’m starting to really like these alien powers!"
Maria looked up from the outfits laid out Liz’s bed. "Oh my god!" she exclaimed, "Did you just do that?!"
Liz nodded, looking very proud of herself. Not only had she managed to dry her hair, she managed to get it to curl the way she wanted it to. She looked over at Maria "You want me to do your hair?"
Maria quickly nodded her head. Her hair had gotten longer, just past her shoulders like Liz’s, so she could actually do stuff with it now. Liz ran her fingers through Maria’s hair, willing the ends to curl out, instead of under, like hers. When she was done, she stood back to admire her work.
Maria looked in the mirror and her mouth dropped. "Ok, from now on… you’re helping me get ready every morning!" Maria admired her hair for another minute before turning back to the bed. "Ok, so you’re wearing this top right?" she asked, pointing to the corset Liz bought the day before.
"Yeah, I just don’t know what to wear it with. I think if I wear a skirt, it might look to sluttish… Do you think it would work with jeans?" she asked, chewing on her lower lip.
"Yeah, it’d look totally cute with jeans! Oh, here! These are the ones that make you look like you have a nice butt!" Maria said, throwing a pair of jeans at Liz.
"I don’t have a nice butt otherwise?" Liz teased.
"You know what I mean! Put 'em on!" Maria said as she put on a pair of black leather pants.
Liz put on the jeans and looked in the mirror. Maria was right… her butt did look good in these jeans. Walking back over to the bed, Liz quickly changed shirts and glanced in the mirror as she adjusted the strings.
"Hot dayum!" Maria said, once she had put her shoes on. She’d also, somewhere along the line, put on a white tank top with slits all the way up the back. "You look HOT!"
Liz examined Maria’s outfit and Maria did a little turn. "Well, that’s a big ‘Ditto’ to you, Miss DeLuca!" Liz quickly put on her black boots and looked at Maria. "I guess all we got left now is make-up"
"You think you can handle doing make-up with your powers yet?" Maria asked, warily. She knew Liz hadn’t practiced things like that.
"Well, there’s no time like the present to try" Liz replied, looking in the mirror. Liz raised one of her hands, closed her eyes and slowly ran it across her face. When she opened her eyes, her make-up was completely done. A little silver eye shadow, mascara, blush and some pink glittery lip-gloss. She turned to Maria and smiled "Well?"
"I want mine to look just like yours" Maria said, stepping closer to Liz and closing her eyes. Liz ran her hand across Maria’s face, the exact same make-up showing up as she did. Liz dropped her hand and admired her work.
A knock on the door alerted them that they were probably causing everyone to run late. "HEY! Are you guys gonna be done getting ready anything this year?? Or should we just wait and then we can go out and celebrate Liz’s 18th birthday!" Michael growled through the door.
"Oh, don’t get your boxers all bunched up, Spaceboy! We’re ready!" Maria said as she opened the door.
Michael jumped back a little bit, but his mouth fell open when he saw Maria. "Wow… you look…"
"Amazing, I know" Maria said with a smile. She turned back to Liz "C’mon birthday girl! The party awaits!"
Liz followed Maria into the living room and everyone started whistling, "Damn, Liz!" Kyle exclaimed.
"Hey… watch it, Valenti!" Zan warned, making his way over to Liz. "You look…"
"Amazing, I know" she replied with a smile, winking at Maria. Both girls started giggling, as everyone started making their way out to the vehicles.
Half an hour, and a bunch of changed ID’s later; they were all sitting in ‘Swamp’. Liz glanced around the table and couldn’t help but smile. She just knew this was going to be the best birthday ever.
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"I think that I need to buy the birthday girl a drink," Alex said, offering his hand to Liz to help her from her chair.
Liz took his hand and followed him to the bar. They both ordered a tequila shot and chitchatted a little bit. When the shots arrived, Liz picked up her shot glass and raised it in a toast. As soon as Alex raised his, Liz said "Here’s to you, and here’s to me. The best of friends we’ll always be. But should we ever disagree… Well, fuck you! And here’s to me!" she tapped her shot glass against Alex’s, tapped it on top of the bar, licked the salt of the rim, downed the shot and put the lime wedge in her mouth. Only then did she notice that Alex hadn’t done his shot and was staring at her with his mouth wide open. "It’s a saying, Alex! Take the damn shot!" Liz laughed.
Alex took his shot and looked at her. "Lizzie, you’re turning into a regular party girl! You even know little… cheer... things and everything!"
A deep bass started pumping through the speakers as Montel Jordan’s "Get It On Tonight" started playing. Alex looked at Liz "Care to dance?" he asked, once again, offering her his hand.
"Definitely" Liz replied, grabbing onto Alex’s hand. They walked past the table and she nudged Zan. "I’m going to dance with Alex. I’ll be back, Ok?"
Zan nodded as he watched her make her way through the crowd with Alex towards the dance floor.
They made it to the dance floor and Liz and Alex faced each other as they both started moving their hips to the beat. "Whitman! For a white boy, you sure can dance!" Liz yelled, so he could hear her over the noise.
"Sweetie, you ain’t seen nothing yet!" Alex replied, closing the space between them, wrapping one of his arms around her waist and grinding against her.
Liz was a little surprised at first, but they both quickly fell into a rhythm as they slowly swayed together to the beat. Liz tossed a quick glance over her shoulder, noticing Isabel watching them with interest. Liz turned back to Alex "We seem to have an audience at the table… Let's show ''em how its done!"
Alex glanced at the table and smiled at Liz. With that, she quickly turned so her back was up against his front, as she put her hands on her hips and moved then in slow circles. Alex put his hands on her hips and slowly ran his hands up her sides. Liz bent her knees and bent down so her butt was touching the back of her feet before she slowly lifted her butt back up into Alex’s crotch, and then slowly brought herself back up and against him.
They danced until the music faded into another song. They glanced back at table, and saw everyone looking at them with wide eyes. "That definitely worked," Alex said as he put his hand on her lower back and followed her to the table. He pulled out her chair for her, and she sat down, thanking him. "No problem. Wanna drink?"
Liz nodded. "Sex on the beach." Everyone looked at her, eyebrows raised. "What? It’s a drink!"
Alex went up to the bar and got their beverages, handing Liz hers. He sat down next to Isabel and he could feel her looking at him. "Why are you looking at me like that?" Alex asked her, never once actually looking in her direction.
Isabel was caught off guard by his attitude, but she found herself liking it. "No reason, I was just wondering when you were gonna ask me to dance" she replied coolly, resting her chin in her hand.
Alex glanced over at her. "Didn’t think you’d be interested" he said, taking a sip of his beer.
Isabel slowly looked him up and down. "Oh… trust me, I’m definitely interested" she purred.
Alex had tried to remain calm, cool, and collected, but that was his undoing. With that, he stood up and looked down at Isabel. "Dance with me?"
"About time" she replied, standing up and taking his hand, following him towards the dance floor.
Liz watched them go, looking towards Maria. "That’s an interesting development."
Maria simply nodded, downing the rest of her drink. As she stood up to go get another, Michael put his hand on her shoulder. "I’ll get it for you" he said, standing up and walking towards the bar.
Maria looked after him, then back to Liz "Well… I guess wonders never cease, do they?"
Liz smiled as she took another sip of her drink. She felt Zan’s arm slide around her shoulder, pulling her closer to him. "You’s tryin' ta make me jealous out there?" he asked.
"Not at all… just tryin' to help Alex out… and it worked, so yay for me!" she said, leaning over and giving him a soft kiss on the lips before replacing the straw from her drink in her mouth and taking another long drink.
Liz noticed Michael sit down next to Maria and the two fell into some kind of conversation. Knowing those two, Liz really didn’t care to hear what it was about. She wondered where everyone else had gone to… Max and Jocelyn wandered off right when they walked in… Kyle and Tess wandered off shortly after… Lonnie and Rath were making out on the dance floor… and Ava was MIA.
Hearing a sudden ruckus off to her left, Liz looked over just in time to see Rath punch some guy in the face and for him to go sprawling out on the floor. Zan and Liz both jumped up. She handed Zan the keys to the Mustang and her cell phone. "Get them outta here! I’m find everyone else and call you when we leave… we’ll meet up somewhere! GO!"
Zan gave her a quick kiss and ran over to Rath, grabbing him off the guy and grabbing ahold of Lonnie at the same time. "Lets go... NOW!" They all quickly took off and Liz turned around, bumping right into Max.
"Are you ok? What happened?" Max asked, looking at the guy on the floor with blood gushing out of his nose.
"I’m fine. Rath got in a fight and Zan took off with them so they wouldn’t get in trouble. We gotta get everyone else and get outta here."
Max nodded. He took off in one direction, Liz and Jocelyn in another to avoid unnecessary pick up lines from random guys. About 10 minutes later, they were all casually making their way back out to the cars. Ava took the longest to find, she was off in a corner making out with some random bartender on his break.
As they made their way to the far end of the parking lot, they were surprised to find the Mustang still there, Zan leaning against it.
"What’re you doing? You were supposed to take off!" Liz scolded as she stood in front of Zan with her hands on her hips.
"Relax, they're hidin' out in the backseat. We’s all good, babe. No worries." He said as he pulled her to him and gave her a kiss.
"So now what?" Maria slurred, as she started falling over. Luckily, Michael was right next to her and caught her on the way down. "Thanks Spaceboy… Couldn’t have done it without you," she said, readjusting her top.
Michael looked at everyone, trying to figure out what she just said. They all just shrugged at him.
"Hey, guys?" Isabel said, looking down the street. "I have a really bad idea…" They all looked in the direction she was and within 10 minutes they were pulling into the parking lot of a less-than-stellar looking karaoke bar.
As everyone emptied outta the cars, Zan caught up with Isabel. "Dis is a really bad idea, Princess… drunk people and karaoke… dey don’t mix…"
TBC…
Chapter 28
"Thats total bullshit! That point so doesn't count!!!" Michael screamed at Kyle.
Liz turned onto her back in her lounge chair and glanced towards the pool. All the boys were playing basketball with one of those little basketball hoops you attach to the side of the pool, and obviously they weren't playing nice.
"Why doesn’t it count?!" Kyle yelled back, wading his way over towards Michael.
"You kicked me! It doesn’t count if you kick me!!!" Michael hollered.
"Boys!" Lonnie spoke up, lifting her head from its reclined spot on the lounge chair. When she was sure she had their full attention she slowly lowered her sunglasses. "Do not make me get off this chair."
The boys softly muttered apologies before going back to their basketball game. Liz smiled to herself as Zan guarded Max from throwing the ball in the hoop. Anytime she looked at him today, she couldn’t stop herself from smiling. The girls noticed it right away and dragged her out onto the balcony where they made her divulge every detail.
It was almost 4 PM and so far the day had been absolutely perfect. She’d woken up around noon to find Zan watching her sleep. They got up and Michael made everyone pancakes for breakfast and then they all came out to hang by the pool until it was time to get ready to go out for the night.
Liz’s cell phone started ringing and all the girls started bopping their heads to the beat of Outkast’s ‘Hey Ya.’ Liz giggled and answered her phone. "Hello?"
"Hey Liz! What’s up?"
"Hey Emily! Not too much, just sittin' by the pool with my friends."
"Wait… you’re still here, right?" she asked, not quite sure where all these friends suddenly came from.
"Yeah, all my friends drove out here from Roswell to hang out with me for the remainder of the summer."
"Ohh, Ok! Now I get it!" Emily giggled into the phone. "I wanted to come up to your place and say hi and all that… but I guess I can just walk out to the pool."
"You comin' out?" Liz asked, taking a sip out of her soda.
"Yeah, I’ll be out in a few," she replied.
They said goodbye, and Liz hung up the phone. Glancing over at Maria and seeing her questioning look, Liz told her Emily was coming out. No sooner had the words come out of her mouth, Emily walked through the gate that lead into the pool area. Liz watched as one by one, the guys stopped paying attention to the basketball game, and watched Emily walk across the deck.
Liz rolled her eyes. She could defiantly understand why… there’s no way Emily looked 15! She was about 5’9, with long legs, a fairly curvaceous figure, and long blonde hair. It didn’t help that she was wearing a tiny tank top, short jean cut off shorts, and high-heeled sandals.
Liz loudly cleared her throat and all the boys looked over. "Divert your eyes, please! This is my cousin, and she's only 15!"
Emily shook her head as she sat down on the end of Liz’s lounge chair. "Don’t freak out, Cuz! Jeez! I mean, seriously! You didn’t tell me you were holding a herd of hot guys at your condo this whole time!"
All the girls’ heads whipped in Emily’s direction. Liz laughed. "You might wanna watch it Em… every single one of those ‘hot guys’ is spoken for."
Emily shrugged her shoulders and popped her gum and she looked over the guys in the pool. "Hey… hold on! Isn’t that your ex-boyfriend?" She asked, pointing to Max.
"Yeah, that’s him" Liz said, casually.
"And… there’s two of them??" She asked, checking out Zan who’d just emerged from the pool to retrieve the ball that had landed outside of the pool due to a wayward toss towards the net from Alex.
"Uh-huh… That’s Zan" Liz already knew where this conversation was headed… so she was already prepared with a way to end it.
"And… that’s your new boyfriend??" Emily asked, raising her eyebrows.
"Em, it’s a whole big complicated situation. Honestly, it would probably take the remainder of my two weeks here to even try to explain it all to you. So if you don’t mind, can we just, not?" Liz said.
"Whatever you say… but when you end up on Jerry Springer, I reserve the right to no longer claim you as family." Emily said, crossing her legs and glancing behind her at the other girls. She said hello to all of them and then turned her attention back to Liz. "So?? How’s your birthday been so far?"
Liz glanced over at Zan, who was making his way to the net to score a point, even as Alex clung to his back, trying to stop him. "Perfect," Liz replied with a smile on her face.
Liz heard Maria groan and looked over at her. She was leaning towards Isabel and Liz heard her say "I think we need to have someone slap her to see if its even POSSIBLE to get that damn smile off her face…"
"I’m not that bad!" Liz said, trying to defend herself.
"What’s going on?" Emily asked, and then she looked back at Liz before saying "OH! Did little Lizzie get laid?!"
All the girls started cracking up, minus Isabel who spit soda all over herself and then began chocking. "EMILY!" Liz exclaimed, feeling herself turning 12 shades of red.
Liz glanced over towards the pool and seeing the looks of complete confusion on all the guys’ faces made her bust out laughing as well.
The girls all sat around chatting for another hour after all the guys went in to get ready. The girls eventually gathered all their stuff and made their way inside. Liz took a shower in the bathroom attached to her bedroom, and Maria showered in the other bathroom in the condo. After they were done with their showers, they both put on pajamas and met in Liz’s room to make final decisions on outfits, hair and make-up. Liz looked in the mirror and suddenly got an idea.
She started with her fingers on her forehead and ran her fingers through her hair. When she was done, her hair was completely dry. She shook her hair and laughed. "I’m starting to really like these alien powers!"
Maria looked up from the outfits laid out Liz’s bed. "Oh my god!" she exclaimed, "Did you just do that?!"
Liz nodded, looking very proud of herself. Not only had she managed to dry her hair, she managed to get it to curl the way she wanted it to. She looked over at Maria "You want me to do your hair?"
Maria quickly nodded her head. Her hair had gotten longer, just past her shoulders like Liz’s, so she could actually do stuff with it now. Liz ran her fingers through Maria’s hair, willing the ends to curl out, instead of under, like hers. When she was done, she stood back to admire her work.
Maria looked in the mirror and her mouth dropped. "Ok, from now on… you’re helping me get ready every morning!" Maria admired her hair for another minute before turning back to the bed. "Ok, so you’re wearing this top right?" she asked, pointing to the corset Liz bought the day before.
"Yeah, I just don’t know what to wear it with. I think if I wear a skirt, it might look to sluttish… Do you think it would work with jeans?" she asked, chewing on her lower lip.
"Yeah, it’d look totally cute with jeans! Oh, here! These are the ones that make you look like you have a nice butt!" Maria said, throwing a pair of jeans at Liz.
"I don’t have a nice butt otherwise?" Liz teased.
"You know what I mean! Put 'em on!" Maria said as she put on a pair of black leather pants.
Liz put on the jeans and looked in the mirror. Maria was right… her butt did look good in these jeans. Walking back over to the bed, Liz quickly changed shirts and glanced in the mirror as she adjusted the strings.
"Hot dayum!" Maria said, once she had put her shoes on. She’d also, somewhere along the line, put on a white tank top with slits all the way up the back. "You look HOT!"
Liz examined Maria’s outfit and Maria did a little turn. "Well, that’s a big ‘Ditto’ to you, Miss DeLuca!" Liz quickly put on her black boots and looked at Maria. "I guess all we got left now is make-up"
"You think you can handle doing make-up with your powers yet?" Maria asked, warily. She knew Liz hadn’t practiced things like that.
"Well, there’s no time like the present to try" Liz replied, looking in the mirror. Liz raised one of her hands, closed her eyes and slowly ran it across her face. When she opened her eyes, her make-up was completely done. A little silver eye shadow, mascara, blush and some pink glittery lip-gloss. She turned to Maria and smiled "Well?"
"I want mine to look just like yours" Maria said, stepping closer to Liz and closing her eyes. Liz ran her hand across Maria’s face, the exact same make-up showing up as she did. Liz dropped her hand and admired her work.
A knock on the door alerted them that they were probably causing everyone to run late. "HEY! Are you guys gonna be done getting ready anything this year?? Or should we just wait and then we can go out and celebrate Liz’s 18th birthday!" Michael growled through the door.
"Oh, don’t get your boxers all bunched up, Spaceboy! We’re ready!" Maria said as she opened the door.
Michael jumped back a little bit, but his mouth fell open when he saw Maria. "Wow… you look…"
"Amazing, I know" Maria said with a smile. She turned back to Liz "C’mon birthday girl! The party awaits!"
Liz followed Maria into the living room and everyone started whistling, "Damn, Liz!" Kyle exclaimed.
"Hey… watch it, Valenti!" Zan warned, making his way over to Liz. "You look…"
"Amazing, I know" she replied with a smile, winking at Maria. Both girls started giggling, as everyone started making their way out to the vehicles.
Half an hour, and a bunch of changed ID’s later; they were all sitting in ‘Swamp’. Liz glanced around the table and couldn’t help but smile. She just knew this was going to be the best birthday ever.
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"I think that I need to buy the birthday girl a drink," Alex said, offering his hand to Liz to help her from her chair.
Liz took his hand and followed him to the bar. They both ordered a tequila shot and chitchatted a little bit. When the shots arrived, Liz picked up her shot glass and raised it in a toast. As soon as Alex raised his, Liz said "Here’s to you, and here’s to me. The best of friends we’ll always be. But should we ever disagree… Well, fuck you! And here’s to me!" she tapped her shot glass against Alex’s, tapped it on top of the bar, licked the salt of the rim, downed the shot and put the lime wedge in her mouth. Only then did she notice that Alex hadn’t done his shot and was staring at her with his mouth wide open. "It’s a saying, Alex! Take the damn shot!" Liz laughed.
Alex took his shot and looked at her. "Lizzie, you’re turning into a regular party girl! You even know little… cheer... things and everything!"
A deep bass started pumping through the speakers as Montel Jordan’s "Get It On Tonight" started playing. Alex looked at Liz "Care to dance?" he asked, once again, offering her his hand.
"Definitely" Liz replied, grabbing onto Alex’s hand. They walked past the table and she nudged Zan. "I’m going to dance with Alex. I’ll be back, Ok?"
Zan nodded as he watched her make her way through the crowd with Alex towards the dance floor.
They made it to the dance floor and Liz and Alex faced each other as they both started moving their hips to the beat. "Whitman! For a white boy, you sure can dance!" Liz yelled, so he could hear her over the noise.
"Sweetie, you ain’t seen nothing yet!" Alex replied, closing the space between them, wrapping one of his arms around her waist and grinding against her.
Liz was a little surprised at first, but they both quickly fell into a rhythm as they slowly swayed together to the beat. Liz tossed a quick glance over her shoulder, noticing Isabel watching them with interest. Liz turned back to Alex "We seem to have an audience at the table… Let's show ''em how its done!"
Alex glanced at the table and smiled at Liz. With that, she quickly turned so her back was up against his front, as she put her hands on her hips and moved then in slow circles. Alex put his hands on her hips and slowly ran his hands up her sides. Liz bent her knees and bent down so her butt was touching the back of her feet before she slowly lifted her butt back up into Alex’s crotch, and then slowly brought herself back up and against him.
They danced until the music faded into another song. They glanced back at table, and saw everyone looking at them with wide eyes. "That definitely worked," Alex said as he put his hand on her lower back and followed her to the table. He pulled out her chair for her, and she sat down, thanking him. "No problem. Wanna drink?"
Liz nodded. "Sex on the beach." Everyone looked at her, eyebrows raised. "What? It’s a drink!"
Alex went up to the bar and got their beverages, handing Liz hers. He sat down next to Isabel and he could feel her looking at him. "Why are you looking at me like that?" Alex asked her, never once actually looking in her direction.
Isabel was caught off guard by his attitude, but she found herself liking it. "No reason, I was just wondering when you were gonna ask me to dance" she replied coolly, resting her chin in her hand.
Alex glanced over at her. "Didn’t think you’d be interested" he said, taking a sip of his beer.
Isabel slowly looked him up and down. "Oh… trust me, I’m definitely interested" she purred.
Alex had tried to remain calm, cool, and collected, but that was his undoing. With that, he stood up and looked down at Isabel. "Dance with me?"
"About time" she replied, standing up and taking his hand, following him towards the dance floor.
Liz watched them go, looking towards Maria. "That’s an interesting development."
Maria simply nodded, downing the rest of her drink. As she stood up to go get another, Michael put his hand on her shoulder. "I’ll get it for you" he said, standing up and walking towards the bar.
Maria looked after him, then back to Liz "Well… I guess wonders never cease, do they?"
Liz smiled as she took another sip of her drink. She felt Zan’s arm slide around her shoulder, pulling her closer to him. "You’s tryin' ta make me jealous out there?" he asked.
"Not at all… just tryin' to help Alex out… and it worked, so yay for me!" she said, leaning over and giving him a soft kiss on the lips before replacing the straw from her drink in her mouth and taking another long drink.
Liz noticed Michael sit down next to Maria and the two fell into some kind of conversation. Knowing those two, Liz really didn’t care to hear what it was about. She wondered where everyone else had gone to… Max and Jocelyn wandered off right when they walked in… Kyle and Tess wandered off shortly after… Lonnie and Rath were making out on the dance floor… and Ava was MIA.
Hearing a sudden ruckus off to her left, Liz looked over just in time to see Rath punch some guy in the face and for him to go sprawling out on the floor. Zan and Liz both jumped up. She handed Zan the keys to the Mustang and her cell phone. "Get them outta here! I’m find everyone else and call you when we leave… we’ll meet up somewhere! GO!"
Zan gave her a quick kiss and ran over to Rath, grabbing him off the guy and grabbing ahold of Lonnie at the same time. "Lets go... NOW!" They all quickly took off and Liz turned around, bumping right into Max.
"Are you ok? What happened?" Max asked, looking at the guy on the floor with blood gushing out of his nose.
"I’m fine. Rath got in a fight and Zan took off with them so they wouldn’t get in trouble. We gotta get everyone else and get outta here."
Max nodded. He took off in one direction, Liz and Jocelyn in another to avoid unnecessary pick up lines from random guys. About 10 minutes later, they were all casually making their way back out to the cars. Ava took the longest to find, she was off in a corner making out with some random bartender on his break.
As they made their way to the far end of the parking lot, they were surprised to find the Mustang still there, Zan leaning against it.
"What’re you doing? You were supposed to take off!" Liz scolded as she stood in front of Zan with her hands on her hips.
"Relax, they're hidin' out in the backseat. We’s all good, babe. No worries." He said as he pulled her to him and gave her a kiss.
"So now what?" Maria slurred, as she started falling over. Luckily, Michael was right next to her and caught her on the way down. "Thanks Spaceboy… Couldn’t have done it without you," she said, readjusting her top.
Michael looked at everyone, trying to figure out what she just said. They all just shrugged at him.
"Hey, guys?" Isabel said, looking down the street. "I have a really bad idea…" They all looked in the direction she was and within 10 minutes they were pulling into the parking lot of a less-than-stellar looking karaoke bar.
As everyone emptied outta the cars, Zan caught up with Isabel. "Dis is a really bad idea, Princess… drunk people and karaoke… dey don’t mix…"
TBC…
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:waves: Hey guys! I'm back! Don't faint or anything! Yes, its true! I'm back already! *lol* This part was actually really easy to write, even though I'm not too sure about it... Gen, my lovely and wonderful beta, has assured me that it was just me being crazy... so.. yeah! *lol* Heres the next part, as always... Lemme know what you think! *Hugs*
Oh, and I have nothing to do with any of the songs or movies mentioned in this part, Thank you and Have a Great Day!
Part 29
The group sat down at a large table in the corner of the karaoke bar and couldn’t contain their laughter as a pair of girls did their best in singing the latest pop princess song. Liz looked around the bar at everyone that was there. Considering the fact that there was a huge, popular dance club right down the street, the place was pretty full. Liz and Maria went up to the bar to get drinks and chat.
"So, what’s up with you and Michael?" Liz asked, after placing her drink order with the bartender.
"I have no clue! He’s being weird tonight" Maria replied, glancing back at the table, where Michael was watching her.
"He’s Michael… he’s always weird." Liz pointed out.
"Yeah, but he’s being weirder than usual! I mean, you saw him at Swamp! He got me a drink! What was that?! He never does stuff like that…" Maria said, staring off into space. "Its like he suddenly realized that that’s the way a guy should act! Its very disconcerting."
"Did you just say ‘disconcerting’? Seriously, you’re both acting weird tonight" Liz said, picking up her drink that the bartender had just brought back, and taking a sip.
"Whatever." Maria huffed, glancing at the girls on stage. "God, I could do so much better than that!"
"Maria, this is karaoke… you’re not supposed to be good! That’s the fun." Liz laughed.
"Ohmigod! Liz! We should totally do karaoke! And don’t you even think of saying no to me! It's me, babe! Your bestest friend in the whole wide world! Do not deny me!" Maria rushed out, in typical Maria fashion.
"Let's just say I’m willing to go along with this… which is highly unlikely, cause I’m not *that* drunk yet… what would we sing?"
"Uhm... OH! I know!" Maria said, quickly telling Liz about her idea.
Liz’s eyes lit up at Maria’s suggestion. "Ok, I’ll do it… but you gotta get me drunk first!"
"YAY! Ok, that’s a deal!" She called the bartender back over. "Can I have 2 Cowboy Cocksuckers, please?" she asked in her sweetest voice.
The bartender nodded and walked away. She turned back to Liz to see her eyes wide. "It’s a shot!! My mom loves em! Its just Butterscotch schnapps and Baily’s Irish Crème; its really good."
Liz rolled her eyes. "Ok, anyways. I don’t even remember the lyrics to that song… it’s been forever since I’ve heard it… and it goes really fast. What makes you think we can pull this off?"
"Well, for one… because the freakin lyrics are gonna scroll across a TV screen right in front of us… and I’m positive that once we start, it’ll all just come back to us. Besides, this is just for fun, right? Who cares if we mess up?!" Just as Maria finished her speech, the bartender returned with their shots. They quickly tapped them together, tapped them on the bar and downed their shots. As the bartender started to grab the glasses and walk away, Maria quickly said, "Excuse me…"
"Josh" he added in for her.
"Josh, ok. Well, Josh, I have a question for you." Maria smiled at him.
"And hopefully I’ll have an answer for you," he flirted.
"Where would one go, should they decide they needed to be involved in the karaoke goin' on here tonight?" she asked.
"Ya’ll gonna do some karaoke?" He asked. Both girls nodded at him "Alright, well… you just walk over there and talk to Rich." He pointed to a guy over by the stage. "He’ll get you all set up."
"Thanks, sweetie" Maria replied, grabbing hold of Liz’s arm and dragging her over to talk to Rich. Liz quickly looked over at the table to see everyone looking rather confused. She smiled at them and followed Maria. About three minutes later, the girls were on stage, microphones in hand. Before the song started Maria quickly said, "We would just like to dedicate this song to our best friend, Alex! And he’ll know why!"
The girls started laughing as the beginning notes of the song began playing. No one really caught on to what the song was, so they just sat there, looking confused. As soon as the first lines hit, both Maria and Liz said "Ice, Ice Baby" into the microphone and everyone in the bar went crazy. They all started cheering, except Alex, who began turning every possible shade of red.
Liz found that as soon as the song started playing, all of the words just came flooding back to her. She and Maria repeated the first verse, word for word, flawlessly into the microphone. As the end of the first verse neared, the both looked at each other, instantly knowing what they were going to do.
"If there was a problem, Yo I’ll solve it, Check out the hook, while my DJ revolves it." After they said that line, they both held out their mics and everyone in the bar started screaming along with the chorus.
They sang along and danced with the rest of the song. At the end they both looked at each other and went, "Yo, Lets get outta here! Word To Your Mother!" and walked off the stage. They handed the mics to Rich, and walked back to their booth.
Everyone in the bar was cheering for them, including everyone at the table. Maria and Liz both looked at Alex. "That… was not funny," he said, trying to remain serious. It didn’t last long, soon they were all laughing.
By midnight, karaoke was over and everyone who was drinking was either tipsy, or totally drunk. Maria dragged Michael over to the jukebox to help her pick out some songs to play, while everyone laughed at Alex and Kyle’s banter.
A slow song started playing and Zan stood up, looking down at Liz. "Dance, kitten?"
Liz nodded, and stood up, following Zan onto the dance floor. They swayed to the music as Jessica Andrews sang. Liz laid her head on Zan's shoulder and sang along with the chorus.
"When you’re holding me like this, I’m carelessly lost in your touch. I’m completely defenseless, Baby, it’s almost too much. I’m helplessly, hopelessly, recklessly falling in love."
Zan kissed her on the forehead. "How's it possible that I got so lucky?"
Liz looked up into his eyes. "What do you mean?"
He smirked. "How’d I get so damn lucky that you put up wit my bullshit?"
She giggled back at him. "I have no clue."
The song ended and they started walking off the dance floor when Max stood up from the table and walked over to them. "Can I have a dance with the birthday girl?" he asked, more to Zan than to Liz.
Liz looked up at Zan, who just nodded and replied "Sure thing, but don’t think you’s getting ta dance with my girl without me getting ta dance with yours"
Max smiled. "Good luck with her, she's pretty drunk."
Zan rolled his eyes. "Go figure." He kissed Liz quickly on the lips, patted Max on the back and walked over to the table to try to help Jocelyn out of the booth.
Max looked down at Liz. "Dance with me?" he asked, holding out his hand.
"I’d love to" she replied, taking his hand and following him back out onto the dance floor just as the fast song that was playing abruptly cut off and a slow song began playing. Liz immediately recognized the song as Sheryl Crow's "I Shall Believe". She looked up at Max. "You did that, didn’t you?"
He smiled shyly. "I know how much you love this song… and slow songs are the only songs I can dance to."
They danced for about a minute before Liz started laughing and nodded her head in the direction of Zan and Jocelyn. Zan was doing his best to deal with her, even though she was obnoxiously singing as loud as she could.
Liz looked up at Max and saw him trying to contain his laughter over the situation. "So, you and Jocelyn…" she started "What’re you guys gonna do when we go back to Roswell?"
Max looked down at her "I could ask you the same question about you and Zan."
Liz glanced at her right hand, which was currently being held by Max as they danced, and looked at the ring on her middle finger. She couldn’t stop herself from smiling. "Yeah, we haven’t really decided yet."
Max, in a surprise move, released his grip of her waist and spun her around, bringing her back to face him. As he slipped his arm back around her, she snorted in surprise. "Wow, Evans! I am impressed!"
"Yeah, well, that’s the only move I’ve got, so don’t get too excited. I’m no Alex Whitman or anything…" he said, smiling.
Liz’s eyes lit up. "Oh! I know! I think everyone was quite surprised by that! Especially your sister…" she trailed off as she looked back at the table. Alex and Isabel were seated close together, talking. As were Maria and Michael, and Kyle and Tess.
"It’s like stepping back in time… back before everything got all screwed up." Max said, unable to hide the sadness in his voice.
"Max…" Liz started.
"No" he cut her off. "We don’t need to get into that discussion tonight. Just dance with me."
Liz slowly nodded. "Ok." Max looked at her, surprised at her eagerness to drop the conversation. "We can just dance" she said, before pulling him a little closer and staring off at something over his shoulder. The song soon ended and the walked back to the table and sat down to enjoy the rest of the night.
About two hours later, everyone who had been drinking was drunk and the bar was closing. They all piled into the cars and headed back to the condo.
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The next day was a designated beach day. After everyone was awake, they gathered up all their stuff and made their way to the beach. As usual, the girls lay in lounge chairs, tanning and gossiping, while the boys either played football, or argued about football teams.
"Can you guys even believe how fast this summer has gone by?" Tess asked.
"I know!" Isabel agreed. "Just imagine… two weeks from today… we’re gonna be on our way back to Roswell."
All the girls groaned at the idea of going back to Roswell and leaving summer, and Florida behind.
"What’re you and Zan gonna do?" Lonnie asked, glancing over at Liz.
Liz sighed, "We don’t know yet… I mean, we’re gonna be on total opposite sides of the country. Long distance relationships are hard enough without all the other stuff that me and Zan would have to worry about."
"What other stuff?" Jocelyn asked.
Liz suddenly remembered that she was there, but quickly covered up "Oh, it's nothing really… just some dumb little things. Nothing big. What about you and Max?" Liz quickly tried to get the conversation going in another direction.
"We’re gonna break up" Jocelyn said, as if it were nothing "Its not like we’re really boyfriend/girlfriend or anything like that. We’re just dating… or whatever you want to call it. Max has told me from the very beginning that this wasn’t gonna be anything serious. He’s still in love with some girl from Roswell."
All the girls, minus Jocelyn looked over at Liz, knowing that she was the girl from back home that Max was still in love with. It was obvious to them that Max had kept what had gone on between him and Liz a secret. Liz was just happy Jocelyn hadn’t been at the pool the day before to hear Emily announce it.
Quickly changing the subject yet again, Liz asked "So, what’re we gonna do tonight?"
All the girls sat for a moment, thinking about what they could do. "We could do movie night, since it didn’t work out last time" Maria suggested, then realizing that Jocelyn was there, she added "Or we could try, and hope that everyone stays home instead of everyone running off in different directions."
All the girls agreed, and also agreed that it would be girls pick since the boys had nothing to do with deciding what was going on that night anyway.
"Ok, so, anyone got any suggestions about what movies to get?" Ava asked, rummaging through the cooler in search of a soda.
"We have to get a girly movie to make the boys suffer… 'cause it's just fun." Isabel said, smiling.
"And then we can get one that everyone’s gonna like." Lonnie added.
"Ok… so, once again, any suggestions?" Ava asked, sitting back in her lounge chair and taking a long drink of her Dr. Pepper.
"Movie everyone will like…" Maria tapped her chin in thought. "Oh, how about ‘Cruel Intentions’? The girls like it cause we get to see Ryan Phillipe's ass, and the guys’ll like it cause theres lots of sex and violence and stuff."
"Ok, that’s settled. Now… girly movie?" Tess asked.
Liz and Maria looked at each other and responded at the same time. "Steel Magnolias."
"Oh man! That movie always makes me cry!" Isabel whined "But I love it… so it's ok… everyone just remember to put on waterproof mascara! Cause if you don’t, believe me, you will regret it!"
All the girls laughed, but agreed with her. "Hey." Ava spoke up "Is it aight if I invite someone?"
They all looked at her in surprise. "Like… a boyfriend or something?" Maria asked.
"Not really a boyfriend… but a guy, yeah" she said, trying to remain as mysterious about it as possible.
"Spill, Aves. Don’t even think ‘bout hidin shit" Lonnie said.
"There ain’t nothing ta spill! His names Travis, he's a bartender at Swamp, and he gave me his numba. That’s all I know so far. Ya’ll dragged me outta there before I could talk to him."
"Didn’t look to me like ya’ll were doin' much talking" Jocelyn added in quickly.
"Mind your business." Ava clipped out, before turning her head away from the group and acting as if they weren’t there.
The guys wandered back to the girls after they got tired of football and sank down into the sand near them. "What's goin' down tonight?" Rath asked, after giving Lonnie a kiss.
"Movie night" Maria said, giving Michael a death look as he took her water. "And don’t any of you think of falling asleep or leaving!"
"What’re we watching?" Kyle asked, almost scared to hear the answer.
"Cruel Intentions and Steel Magnolias" Isabel replied.
All the guys groaned at the mention of the chick-flick, knowing there was no getting out of it, and no way the girls would let them sleep through it.
After gulping down a few sodas, the guys went to get in another game of football before the chick-flick marathon.
An hour later, they were all gathering their stuff and making plans to meet at Liz’s condo in another hour. That left enough time for showers, getting dressed, ordering a pizza and for Liz and Maria to run and grab the movies.
Maria glanced over at Liz as she drove to the video store. "You really don’t know what you and Zan are gonna do after we go back, do you?"
She watched as an a handful of emotions crossed Liz’s face at the thought of leaving Florida and leaving Zan. "No, we really don’t know."
"I don’t wanna pry, Liz… but you’re my best friend. I don’t want you to get hurt. I mean, I know that you guys are in love because there’s no way you woulda had sex with him if you weren’t… but I think you guys should break up." Liz’s head whipped in Maria’s direction. "I’m just saying. You had a point earlier. Its gonna be hard enough to be on the opposite side of the country… but add all the alien chaos on top of that…"
"Can we just not talk about this right now?" Liz asked quietly as the tears began gathering in her eyes.
Maria chanced sides glance at her best friend, seeing the impending heartbreak playing across her face. Maria reached over and intertwined her fingers with Liz’s. "I’m always gonna be here. No matter what." Maria said, giving Liz’s hand an extra squeeze before placing her hand back in her lap and staring out the window.
Liz reached up and wiped the tears that had managed to spill from her eyes off her cheeks. She took a long breath, checking her face in the mirror. She knew that these next two weeks were gonna go by all too fast, and then she’d be heading home… and away from Zan.
TBC…
Oh, and I have nothing to do with any of the songs or movies mentioned in this part, Thank you and Have a Great Day!
Part 29
The group sat down at a large table in the corner of the karaoke bar and couldn’t contain their laughter as a pair of girls did their best in singing the latest pop princess song. Liz looked around the bar at everyone that was there. Considering the fact that there was a huge, popular dance club right down the street, the place was pretty full. Liz and Maria went up to the bar to get drinks and chat.
"So, what’s up with you and Michael?" Liz asked, after placing her drink order with the bartender.
"I have no clue! He’s being weird tonight" Maria replied, glancing back at the table, where Michael was watching her.
"He’s Michael… he’s always weird." Liz pointed out.
"Yeah, but he’s being weirder than usual! I mean, you saw him at Swamp! He got me a drink! What was that?! He never does stuff like that…" Maria said, staring off into space. "Its like he suddenly realized that that’s the way a guy should act! Its very disconcerting."
"Did you just say ‘disconcerting’? Seriously, you’re both acting weird tonight" Liz said, picking up her drink that the bartender had just brought back, and taking a sip.
"Whatever." Maria huffed, glancing at the girls on stage. "God, I could do so much better than that!"
"Maria, this is karaoke… you’re not supposed to be good! That’s the fun." Liz laughed.
"Ohmigod! Liz! We should totally do karaoke! And don’t you even think of saying no to me! It's me, babe! Your bestest friend in the whole wide world! Do not deny me!" Maria rushed out, in typical Maria fashion.
"Let's just say I’m willing to go along with this… which is highly unlikely, cause I’m not *that* drunk yet… what would we sing?"
"Uhm... OH! I know!" Maria said, quickly telling Liz about her idea.
Liz’s eyes lit up at Maria’s suggestion. "Ok, I’ll do it… but you gotta get me drunk first!"
"YAY! Ok, that’s a deal!" She called the bartender back over. "Can I have 2 Cowboy Cocksuckers, please?" she asked in her sweetest voice.
The bartender nodded and walked away. She turned back to Liz to see her eyes wide. "It’s a shot!! My mom loves em! Its just Butterscotch schnapps and Baily’s Irish Crème; its really good."
Liz rolled her eyes. "Ok, anyways. I don’t even remember the lyrics to that song… it’s been forever since I’ve heard it… and it goes really fast. What makes you think we can pull this off?"
"Well, for one… because the freakin lyrics are gonna scroll across a TV screen right in front of us… and I’m positive that once we start, it’ll all just come back to us. Besides, this is just for fun, right? Who cares if we mess up?!" Just as Maria finished her speech, the bartender returned with their shots. They quickly tapped them together, tapped them on the bar and downed their shots. As the bartender started to grab the glasses and walk away, Maria quickly said, "Excuse me…"
"Josh" he added in for her.
"Josh, ok. Well, Josh, I have a question for you." Maria smiled at him.
"And hopefully I’ll have an answer for you," he flirted.
"Where would one go, should they decide they needed to be involved in the karaoke goin' on here tonight?" she asked.
"Ya’ll gonna do some karaoke?" He asked. Both girls nodded at him "Alright, well… you just walk over there and talk to Rich." He pointed to a guy over by the stage. "He’ll get you all set up."
"Thanks, sweetie" Maria replied, grabbing hold of Liz’s arm and dragging her over to talk to Rich. Liz quickly looked over at the table to see everyone looking rather confused. She smiled at them and followed Maria. About three minutes later, the girls were on stage, microphones in hand. Before the song started Maria quickly said, "We would just like to dedicate this song to our best friend, Alex! And he’ll know why!"
The girls started laughing as the beginning notes of the song began playing. No one really caught on to what the song was, so they just sat there, looking confused. As soon as the first lines hit, both Maria and Liz said "Ice, Ice Baby" into the microphone and everyone in the bar went crazy. They all started cheering, except Alex, who began turning every possible shade of red.
Liz found that as soon as the song started playing, all of the words just came flooding back to her. She and Maria repeated the first verse, word for word, flawlessly into the microphone. As the end of the first verse neared, the both looked at each other, instantly knowing what they were going to do.
"If there was a problem, Yo I’ll solve it, Check out the hook, while my DJ revolves it." After they said that line, they both held out their mics and everyone in the bar started screaming along with the chorus.
They sang along and danced with the rest of the song. At the end they both looked at each other and went, "Yo, Lets get outta here! Word To Your Mother!" and walked off the stage. They handed the mics to Rich, and walked back to their booth.
Everyone in the bar was cheering for them, including everyone at the table. Maria and Liz both looked at Alex. "That… was not funny," he said, trying to remain serious. It didn’t last long, soon they were all laughing.
By midnight, karaoke was over and everyone who was drinking was either tipsy, or totally drunk. Maria dragged Michael over to the jukebox to help her pick out some songs to play, while everyone laughed at Alex and Kyle’s banter.
A slow song started playing and Zan stood up, looking down at Liz. "Dance, kitten?"
Liz nodded, and stood up, following Zan onto the dance floor. They swayed to the music as Jessica Andrews sang. Liz laid her head on Zan's shoulder and sang along with the chorus.
"When you’re holding me like this, I’m carelessly lost in your touch. I’m completely defenseless, Baby, it’s almost too much. I’m helplessly, hopelessly, recklessly falling in love."
Zan kissed her on the forehead. "How's it possible that I got so lucky?"
Liz looked up into his eyes. "What do you mean?"
He smirked. "How’d I get so damn lucky that you put up wit my bullshit?"
She giggled back at him. "I have no clue."
The song ended and they started walking off the dance floor when Max stood up from the table and walked over to them. "Can I have a dance with the birthday girl?" he asked, more to Zan than to Liz.
Liz looked up at Zan, who just nodded and replied "Sure thing, but don’t think you’s getting ta dance with my girl without me getting ta dance with yours"
Max smiled. "Good luck with her, she's pretty drunk."
Zan rolled his eyes. "Go figure." He kissed Liz quickly on the lips, patted Max on the back and walked over to the table to try to help Jocelyn out of the booth.
Max looked down at Liz. "Dance with me?" he asked, holding out his hand.
"I’d love to" she replied, taking his hand and following him back out onto the dance floor just as the fast song that was playing abruptly cut off and a slow song began playing. Liz immediately recognized the song as Sheryl Crow's "I Shall Believe". She looked up at Max. "You did that, didn’t you?"
He smiled shyly. "I know how much you love this song… and slow songs are the only songs I can dance to."
They danced for about a minute before Liz started laughing and nodded her head in the direction of Zan and Jocelyn. Zan was doing his best to deal with her, even though she was obnoxiously singing as loud as she could.
Liz looked up at Max and saw him trying to contain his laughter over the situation. "So, you and Jocelyn…" she started "What’re you guys gonna do when we go back to Roswell?"
Max looked down at her "I could ask you the same question about you and Zan."
Liz glanced at her right hand, which was currently being held by Max as they danced, and looked at the ring on her middle finger. She couldn’t stop herself from smiling. "Yeah, we haven’t really decided yet."
Max, in a surprise move, released his grip of her waist and spun her around, bringing her back to face him. As he slipped his arm back around her, she snorted in surprise. "Wow, Evans! I am impressed!"
"Yeah, well, that’s the only move I’ve got, so don’t get too excited. I’m no Alex Whitman or anything…" he said, smiling.
Liz’s eyes lit up. "Oh! I know! I think everyone was quite surprised by that! Especially your sister…" she trailed off as she looked back at the table. Alex and Isabel were seated close together, talking. As were Maria and Michael, and Kyle and Tess.
"It’s like stepping back in time… back before everything got all screwed up." Max said, unable to hide the sadness in his voice.
"Max…" Liz started.
"No" he cut her off. "We don’t need to get into that discussion tonight. Just dance with me."
Liz slowly nodded. "Ok." Max looked at her, surprised at her eagerness to drop the conversation. "We can just dance" she said, before pulling him a little closer and staring off at something over his shoulder. The song soon ended and the walked back to the table and sat down to enjoy the rest of the night.
About two hours later, everyone who had been drinking was drunk and the bar was closing. They all piled into the cars and headed back to the condo.
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The next day was a designated beach day. After everyone was awake, they gathered up all their stuff and made their way to the beach. As usual, the girls lay in lounge chairs, tanning and gossiping, while the boys either played football, or argued about football teams.
"Can you guys even believe how fast this summer has gone by?" Tess asked.
"I know!" Isabel agreed. "Just imagine… two weeks from today… we’re gonna be on our way back to Roswell."
All the girls groaned at the idea of going back to Roswell and leaving summer, and Florida behind.
"What’re you and Zan gonna do?" Lonnie asked, glancing over at Liz.
Liz sighed, "We don’t know yet… I mean, we’re gonna be on total opposite sides of the country. Long distance relationships are hard enough without all the other stuff that me and Zan would have to worry about."
"What other stuff?" Jocelyn asked.
Liz suddenly remembered that she was there, but quickly covered up "Oh, it's nothing really… just some dumb little things. Nothing big. What about you and Max?" Liz quickly tried to get the conversation going in another direction.
"We’re gonna break up" Jocelyn said, as if it were nothing "Its not like we’re really boyfriend/girlfriend or anything like that. We’re just dating… or whatever you want to call it. Max has told me from the very beginning that this wasn’t gonna be anything serious. He’s still in love with some girl from Roswell."
All the girls, minus Jocelyn looked over at Liz, knowing that she was the girl from back home that Max was still in love with. It was obvious to them that Max had kept what had gone on between him and Liz a secret. Liz was just happy Jocelyn hadn’t been at the pool the day before to hear Emily announce it.
Quickly changing the subject yet again, Liz asked "So, what’re we gonna do tonight?"
All the girls sat for a moment, thinking about what they could do. "We could do movie night, since it didn’t work out last time" Maria suggested, then realizing that Jocelyn was there, she added "Or we could try, and hope that everyone stays home instead of everyone running off in different directions."
All the girls agreed, and also agreed that it would be girls pick since the boys had nothing to do with deciding what was going on that night anyway.
"Ok, so, anyone got any suggestions about what movies to get?" Ava asked, rummaging through the cooler in search of a soda.
"We have to get a girly movie to make the boys suffer… 'cause it's just fun." Isabel said, smiling.
"And then we can get one that everyone’s gonna like." Lonnie added.
"Ok… so, once again, any suggestions?" Ava asked, sitting back in her lounge chair and taking a long drink of her Dr. Pepper.
"Movie everyone will like…" Maria tapped her chin in thought. "Oh, how about ‘Cruel Intentions’? The girls like it cause we get to see Ryan Phillipe's ass, and the guys’ll like it cause theres lots of sex and violence and stuff."
"Ok, that’s settled. Now… girly movie?" Tess asked.
Liz and Maria looked at each other and responded at the same time. "Steel Magnolias."
"Oh man! That movie always makes me cry!" Isabel whined "But I love it… so it's ok… everyone just remember to put on waterproof mascara! Cause if you don’t, believe me, you will regret it!"
All the girls laughed, but agreed with her. "Hey." Ava spoke up "Is it aight if I invite someone?"
They all looked at her in surprise. "Like… a boyfriend or something?" Maria asked.
"Not really a boyfriend… but a guy, yeah" she said, trying to remain as mysterious about it as possible.
"Spill, Aves. Don’t even think ‘bout hidin shit" Lonnie said.
"There ain’t nothing ta spill! His names Travis, he's a bartender at Swamp, and he gave me his numba. That’s all I know so far. Ya’ll dragged me outta there before I could talk to him."
"Didn’t look to me like ya’ll were doin' much talking" Jocelyn added in quickly.
"Mind your business." Ava clipped out, before turning her head away from the group and acting as if they weren’t there.
The guys wandered back to the girls after they got tired of football and sank down into the sand near them. "What's goin' down tonight?" Rath asked, after giving Lonnie a kiss.
"Movie night" Maria said, giving Michael a death look as he took her water. "And don’t any of you think of falling asleep or leaving!"
"What’re we watching?" Kyle asked, almost scared to hear the answer.
"Cruel Intentions and Steel Magnolias" Isabel replied.
All the guys groaned at the mention of the chick-flick, knowing there was no getting out of it, and no way the girls would let them sleep through it.
After gulping down a few sodas, the guys went to get in another game of football before the chick-flick marathon.
An hour later, they were all gathering their stuff and making plans to meet at Liz’s condo in another hour. That left enough time for showers, getting dressed, ordering a pizza and for Liz and Maria to run and grab the movies.
Maria glanced over at Liz as she drove to the video store. "You really don’t know what you and Zan are gonna do after we go back, do you?"
She watched as an a handful of emotions crossed Liz’s face at the thought of leaving Florida and leaving Zan. "No, we really don’t know."
"I don’t wanna pry, Liz… but you’re my best friend. I don’t want you to get hurt. I mean, I know that you guys are in love because there’s no way you woulda had sex with him if you weren’t… but I think you guys should break up." Liz’s head whipped in Maria’s direction. "I’m just saying. You had a point earlier. Its gonna be hard enough to be on the opposite side of the country… but add all the alien chaos on top of that…"
"Can we just not talk about this right now?" Liz asked quietly as the tears began gathering in her eyes.
Maria chanced sides glance at her best friend, seeing the impending heartbreak playing across her face. Maria reached over and intertwined her fingers with Liz’s. "I’m always gonna be here. No matter what." Maria said, giving Liz’s hand an extra squeeze before placing her hand back in her lap and staring out the window.
Liz reached up and wiped the tears that had managed to spill from her eyes off her cheeks. She took a long breath, checking her face in the mirror. She knew that these next two weeks were gonna go by all too fast, and then she’d be heading home… and away from Zan.
TBC…
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Ok, so sorry it took me so long to get this out. When I wrote the first half of this... I was in a really depressed mood... there was some shit goin down.. and it really shows in the first part of this... when I read back through it, I still can't believe that *I* wrote it... but I did, I promise! *lol* Lemme know what ya'll think...I'm not too sure about this one. I'll try to get the next part out ASAP. Thanks for your patience! On with the show....
Chapter 30
"Liz…" Someone whispered in her ear as they tried to shake her from her sleep. "Liz, wake up…" Maria gave her another shake, and then began bouncing slightly on the bed.
Liz groaned and buried her head further into her pillow before she muttered "Liz is sleeping" At Maria’s persistence that she get up, Liz lifted herself up onto one of her elbows while rubbing her eyes. She glanced over at the clock to see it reading 11:45 AM. God, I gotta stop sleeping so late, its gonna be a bitch to get up for school in a few weeks Liz thought as she looked back at Maria "Can I help you with something?" she asked, annoyed.
Maria nodded. "Yes, actually. You can wake up and take a shower and get ready for today. I’ve been up for like an hour! ME! I mean, c’mon! I never wake up early!"
"So why are you up early today? And why do you feel the need to wake others who don’t want to get up early?"
"Two reasons." Maria said, situating herself on the bed to face Liz. "One… I wanted to let you know that everyone’s gone except Isabel and I. Zan left you a note on his pillow, by the way. And two… Isabel and I are going to get a latte and we’re taking you with us. We’ll be over at her place when you finish getting ready; Iz wanted to get a head start on packing. So get the fuck up, get in the shower, and lets go!" Maria said, swatting Liz on the butt before she bounced out of the room.
"Yeah, like you need more caffeine" Liz said to herself after Maria left. Liz glanced over at Zan's side of the bed and saw the note Maria was referring to. She picked it up and unfolded the paper, reading what it said.
Hey Kitten,
Me and Rath went to get something to eat and hang out for a little bit. Mouth said she was draggin' you to go get coffee or something with her, so I should be home before you. I’ll see ya later.
Love, Zan
Liz sighed as she refolded the piece of paper, and stuck it in the top drawer in her nightstand. She slowly climbed out of bed and made her way to the bathroom for a shower.
As she showered, a million thoughts ran through her head. Isabel was packing right now. She hated to think about it, but she was going to have to do the same thing tomorrow. Tomorrow was their last full day in Florida; they were all leaving early the next morning. Liz had decided to drive back with them, seeing no point in flying back just to have no one to hang out with.
Thinking back to Zan’s note, she realized that he’d written, "I should be home before you." Home. It was weird, but the condo had become like home to them, and they were like one big dysfunctional family… Liz wouldn’t have had it any other way. She’d grown to love all of them, even Tess, and she hated to see them have to go off their separate ways.
Liz got out of the shower and quickly dried off before walking to her closet to find something to wear. She pulled out a long khaki skirt with a slit up the back that went to her knees and a white v-neck tank top with a pink floral pattern. She dressed and walked back into the bathroom. She ran her fingers through her hair, instantly drying it and curling the ends out before she waved her hand over her face, soft, subtle makeup suddenly appearing. She glanced down at her top, picking out a light pink color and making it appear on her acrylic nails before she made the same color appear on her toenails. She went back into the closet and put on a pair of pink sandals before going back into the bathroom to look herself over. She shook her hair slightly, tilting her head to the side in examination. She put her hands back up to her head, once again running her fingers through her hair. When she was done, all traces of highlights were gone, and her hair was a few inches longer than it was at the beginning of the summer. "Well… back to boring Liz Parker," she said, out loud, as she sprayed on some perfume and turned to leave.
"You never have been, nor will you ever be, boring" she heard Max’s voice from the bedroom doorway as she gathered her cell and everything to go in her purse.
"I thought everyone was gone," Liz said, glancing over at Max.
"I just got back from the airport." Upon her questioning look, Max added, "I dropped Jocelyn off, she's on her way back to Chicago."
"Oh, Max… I’m sorry" Liz said, forgetting all about getting ready to go for coffee and turning her undivided attention to Max. "Are you ok?"
Max shoved his hands in his pockets and shrugged. "Yeah, I’m fine. Why wouldn’t I be?"
Liz sat down on the end of her bed, facing him. "You can’t tell me that you’re not gonna miss her. I’ve seen you two together, Max. She made you happy. You know you’re gonna miss her, so don’t bother denying it, I know you too well."
Max shifted uncomfortably under Liz’s watchful eye before looking up; locking his gaze on hers and saying "She never made me as happy as you did. And being without her is nothing like being without you."
Liz self-consciously tucked a piece of hair behind her ear before rising off the bed and throwing some last minute things in her purse. "I’m sorry, Max, but I just can’t talk to you about this now… not with everything that’s gonna be going on in the next two days. I have to get going, I’m going out with Maria and Isabel if you need us" she said, trying to slip by him without so much as looking him in the eyes again.
He stopped her, lightly grabbing a hold of her arm. She slowly lifted her head to look at him before he said "Not now, not tomorrow…. But sometime soon, you know we’re gonna have to talk about everything, right?" Liz slowly nodded, chewing on her bottom lip before slipping out the door and rushing over to Isabel’s condo.
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Liz sipped on her chilled vanilla mocha and stared at the people walking through the shopping center. The three girls had decided on a small coffee shop with a small outside patio area. Isabel and Maria were gossiping about, Liz had no clue what; she’d tuned them out about 10 minutes ago. Thoughts sped through her head at a million miles an hour. Thoughts of leaving Zan, thoughts of returning to Roswell, thoughts of what she would say to Max, thoughts of what was going to happen to all of them.
At the beginning, it was easy to pretend that they had all the time in the world to hang out, the end of summer seeming so far away. But now, as it loomed on the horizon, Liz realized just how scared she was. Since leaving Roswell, Liz had done a complete 180. No longer was she the shy, meek little girl that everyone in Roswell had come to know. She had spent the summer growing up, learning to stand up for herself, and learning who she wanted to become. Not only that, she was going back to Roswell, full of metal, with a whole new wardrobe, a new boyfriend that she knew her parents would have instantly disliked, even if he didn’t look just like Max, and to top all that off, she now had alien powers.
Liz almost laughed out loud at the pity party she was throwing for herself in her head. It had all suddenly hit her… she was leaving, and Zan wasn’t coming with her.
"LIZ!" Maria screamed, giving Liz’s chair a little kick. When Liz looked over Maria scoffed "God, about time! We’ve been trying to get your attention for seriously, like a minute! What the hell were you thinking about?"
Liz took a long, slow drink of her coffee, as if that would cease the impending conversation. Glancing back and forth from Isabel to Maria, she could tell they weren’t giving up without an answer. Liz schooled her features to look nonchalant as she set her coffee down on the table, pulling her cigarettes out of her purse. She placed one in her mouth and lit it up, inhaling deeply. As she exhaled, she rolled her eyes "What? I know you wanted to know something. Ask."
Isabel glanced at Maria and then back to Liz "Are you ok?"
Liz actually did laugh out loud this time. "That’s the most ridiculous question I’ve heard all day. Of course I’m not ok. Would you guys be ok if you were in my position?" she asked, her eyes darting back and forth between the girls. "Somehow, I really doubt you would be. But you don’t have to worry about that, your boyfriends are coming back to Roswell with you" Liz bit out, suddenly wondering where all this anger and pain was coming from.
Denial. Plain and simple, but it hit her like a ton of bricks. This entire time, she’d been denying that the ending would actually happen. She truly believed, deep in her soul, that if she willed it enough, the end of summer would never approach. They could all stay in Florida together, and her and Zan would be happy… and they would be together.
She looked up from her lap, to Isabel and Maria, tears pooling in her eyes. "I’m a crazy person, aren’t I?" Liz asks quietly before one of the tears escaped her eyes and slowly slid down her cheek. The girls were instantly on either side of her, moving their chairs in close to comfort her.
"Liz, look at me" Isabel said, turning to face Liz head on. "You are on the strongest person I have ever met. You’re not crazy… not in the least. Considering how fucked up everything’s been the last year, I’d say that you’re doing just fine… that we all are. I’m not even gonna pretend to understand what you must be going through right now, and I don’t envy you for being in this position." Isabel took a deep breath, taking one of Liz’s hands in her own "Its all finally hitting you, isn’t it?" Liz just nodded. "I really wish I knew what to say. I guess the only thing I can say is that… if you ever need anyone…" Isabel let the sentence hang, looking meaningfully into Liz’s eyes for a second before giving her a small smiled and pulling her into a hug.
Maria stepped up behind Liz, wrapping her arms around Liz and Isabel. "I think it goes without saying that I’m always here," Maria said into Liz’s shoulder. She felt Liz nod, and Maria let go of the girls and stood up. "C’mon, lets go back to the condo"
Two hours later and Liz was still sitting on the same swing she’d been sitting on since they returned back from the coffee shop. She told them she just needed a little time by herself, so she walked across the parking lot of the condo building and into the small playground that was set up. She sat down on a swing, and as of yet, couldn’t make herself get up. She knew that no matter what, she was going to have to eventually get off this swing, walk into that condo and deal with everything.
Liz glanced up as Alex and Kyle walked over to her, sitting on the swings on either side of her. They didn’t say anything for a good minute, not sure what to say, since they didn’t even know what was wrong.
"I love you, Liz" Kyle said suddenly.
Both Alex and Liz looked over at him with matching confused looks on their faces, to which he simply said "What? I had to start the conversation somehow!"
Liz laughed and shook her head. Leave it up to Kyle to say something retarded, just because he didn’t like the silence.
"You wanna talk about it?" Alex asked.
"It's nothing…" Liz said "Well, not nothing, but its just dumb"
"C’mon now! You’re talking to two males who are here with you on this whole ‘I’m dating an alien’ venture. Spill." Kyle said.
"It's like… I dunno." Liz started "It's like I just realized that summer was ending and I was leaving Zan." She looked back and forth between the guys "I love you both, really, I do… but you guys just won’t understand this shit."
"Ok, I hate to sound like a total bastard, but this is just me being honest with you, Liz. I’ve never not been honest with you, so I’m not gonna start now" Alex began, waiting for Liz’s signal to continue. After she nodded her head, he went on "Ok. Maybe we don’t understand what if feels like for you. You just found Zan, and you obviously love him if you had sex with him. But… and this is where I’m gonna sound like a bastard, by the way… you knew what you were getting yourself into when you started going out with him. You knew that Zan lived in New York, and I’m fairly certain you knew that you lived on the other side of the country. You’ve known this was going to happen the entire time. So, this is my advice. Get over this little pity party, get off that damn swing and go enjoy the last two days with Zan. You may not have much longer to spend with each other… but no ones gone anywhere yet. Don’t ruin the last of your time together by worrying about what’s gonna happen in the future."
Liz nodded her head and looked back up at her condo, seeing people walking around in there… not really looking at who they were "What’s everyone doin?"
"We’re getting ready to watch a movie, and me and Alex just went and purchased some alcohol… we’re just gonna hang out" Kyle said, as he swung as high as he could.
"No one wanted to bother you… you looked real pissed off at the world, but me and Kyle decided to risk it, being the big, buff guys that we are" Alex added, puffing out his chest.
Liz couldn’t help bursting into laughter. She laughed so hard she actually fell off the swing and started crying. She looked up and saw the looks of confusion on the guys’ faces, clearing her throat; she stood up and brushed herself off. "Sorry, but I needed that"
"Yeah, I’m glad you find us humorous" Kyle said, jumping off the swing and turning to face them. "If you’re ready to go inside now, the girls are postponing the movie for you… not that any of us guys mind… they rented ‘Ghost’"
"Oh man!" Alex groaned, "THAT’S what they rented?! Great… now all you girls are gonna be crying all night! Just what I wanted to deal with!"
Liz shook her head, putting an arm around Alex’s waist and leading him towards Kyle, where she did the same to him. She gave them both a little squeeze. "Thanks, guys."
Both the guys just nodded as the three of them made their way back to the condo.
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Liz watched the television screen through blurred vision as Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze said goodbye to each other. The notes to ‘Unchained Melody’ were being played in the background by some kind of string instrument, only making the last scene of ‘Ghost’ sadder. Liz took a quick glance around the living room, finding all the girls in the exact same position: clutching onto the closest male, hands over their mouths, with tears leaking out of their eyes.
Liz leaned closer into Zan as the credits began to roll on the screen. Lonnie lifted her arm towards the light switch, and the light turned on, causing them all to squint a little. The girls quickly wiped their eyes, sniffling as the guys stretched and thanked God the torture had finally ended.
"I’m beat" Kyle announced, dragging Tess off the ground with him as he stood to go back to the other condo. "What’re the plans for tomorrow night?"
Everyone glanced at everyone else, really not knowing what they should do for their last night together. "We could just hang here," Liz offered, "Get some hamburgers, cook out, and just… hang out"
Everyone nodded and made their way to wherever he or she had decided they were sleeping that night. Liz had changed into a pink tank top and matching shorts set and was lying in bed when Zan came out of the bathroom in nothing more than his boxers. She smiled up at him as he got into bed with her. "Whassup, Kitten? What's on ya mind?"
Liz nibbled on her lower lip as she ran her fingers over the defined muscles of his abs. "Just thinking about everything. It really… Really sucks"
Zan scooted down in bed and pulled her in close so she was nestled right against his side. He lightly brushed his fingers up and down her back and kissed the top of her head "I know, baby, but we both knew dis was gonna happen when we got together."
"That doesn’t mean that it sucks any less" Liz whispered, trying to hold back the tears that threatened to spill out of her eyes at any second.
Zan picked up on her tone and lifted her chin to look at him "I don’t want you cryin, ya heard me? I’m still here, I ain’t gone yet, so don’t act like I went and died like that pretty-boy on dat damn movie ya’ll forced us men to watch"
Liz couldn’t hold back a giggle. "We women folk sincerely apologize, I assure you. We didn’t mean to threaten your masculinity by forcing you to watch a movie… a movie that is a classic, by the way"
"Whateva, its ova. Lets neva speak of it again, aight?" Liz nodded, stretching up to place a soft kiss on his lips. "Ya wanna have dis convo now… or put it off til tomorrow?" he asked
Liz sighed, rolling onto her stomach and propping herself up onto her elbows. "I guess we should just go ahead and get it over with. What do you think we should do?"
Liz looked Zan directly in the eyes, feeling herself being pulled into their amber depths, the same way she always had been. In that moment, they both knew what they had to do. They had to break up. There wasn’t the need for words, or explanations as to why it was going to happen; they both just knew it was for the best. Liz blinked back at her tears and whispered thickly "I’m really gonna miss you"
Zan nodded, "Yeah, I’ma miss you too, Kitten. C’mere" He said, pulling her into a tight hug, rocking her back and forth when she started crying.
After awhile, her tears subsided to occasional sniffles. Zan laid her down gently on the bed, before propping himself up on an elbow, hovering over her face. "You aight, baby?"
Liz took a deep breath "No" she whispered, glancing up to meet his eyes. "I’m not alright. I don’t know if I can do this. I don’t know if I can just walk away from you."
"Like I already said, I ain’t gone yet. Don’t worry Kitten. Just… enjoy bein with me now, aight?"
Liz nodded as Zan brought his lips down to meet hers. The kiss started off soft, sweet and full of love. Soon, the kisses became more demanding. They both wanted desperately to escape the reality of the situation they were in: being very much in love, and having to leave each other far too soon. They made love all night, forgetting about everything except how much they loved each other.
TBC…
Chapter 30
"Liz…" Someone whispered in her ear as they tried to shake her from her sleep. "Liz, wake up…" Maria gave her another shake, and then began bouncing slightly on the bed.
Liz groaned and buried her head further into her pillow before she muttered "Liz is sleeping" At Maria’s persistence that she get up, Liz lifted herself up onto one of her elbows while rubbing her eyes. She glanced over at the clock to see it reading 11:45 AM. God, I gotta stop sleeping so late, its gonna be a bitch to get up for school in a few weeks Liz thought as she looked back at Maria "Can I help you with something?" she asked, annoyed.
Maria nodded. "Yes, actually. You can wake up and take a shower and get ready for today. I’ve been up for like an hour! ME! I mean, c’mon! I never wake up early!"
"So why are you up early today? And why do you feel the need to wake others who don’t want to get up early?"
"Two reasons." Maria said, situating herself on the bed to face Liz. "One… I wanted to let you know that everyone’s gone except Isabel and I. Zan left you a note on his pillow, by the way. And two… Isabel and I are going to get a latte and we’re taking you with us. We’ll be over at her place when you finish getting ready; Iz wanted to get a head start on packing. So get the fuck up, get in the shower, and lets go!" Maria said, swatting Liz on the butt before she bounced out of the room.
"Yeah, like you need more caffeine" Liz said to herself after Maria left. Liz glanced over at Zan's side of the bed and saw the note Maria was referring to. She picked it up and unfolded the paper, reading what it said.
Hey Kitten,
Me and Rath went to get something to eat and hang out for a little bit. Mouth said she was draggin' you to go get coffee or something with her, so I should be home before you. I’ll see ya later.
Love, Zan
Liz sighed as she refolded the piece of paper, and stuck it in the top drawer in her nightstand. She slowly climbed out of bed and made her way to the bathroom for a shower.
As she showered, a million thoughts ran through her head. Isabel was packing right now. She hated to think about it, but she was going to have to do the same thing tomorrow. Tomorrow was their last full day in Florida; they were all leaving early the next morning. Liz had decided to drive back with them, seeing no point in flying back just to have no one to hang out with.
Thinking back to Zan’s note, she realized that he’d written, "I should be home before you." Home. It was weird, but the condo had become like home to them, and they were like one big dysfunctional family… Liz wouldn’t have had it any other way. She’d grown to love all of them, even Tess, and she hated to see them have to go off their separate ways.
Liz got out of the shower and quickly dried off before walking to her closet to find something to wear. She pulled out a long khaki skirt with a slit up the back that went to her knees and a white v-neck tank top with a pink floral pattern. She dressed and walked back into the bathroom. She ran her fingers through her hair, instantly drying it and curling the ends out before she waved her hand over her face, soft, subtle makeup suddenly appearing. She glanced down at her top, picking out a light pink color and making it appear on her acrylic nails before she made the same color appear on her toenails. She went back into the closet and put on a pair of pink sandals before going back into the bathroom to look herself over. She shook her hair slightly, tilting her head to the side in examination. She put her hands back up to her head, once again running her fingers through her hair. When she was done, all traces of highlights were gone, and her hair was a few inches longer than it was at the beginning of the summer. "Well… back to boring Liz Parker," she said, out loud, as she sprayed on some perfume and turned to leave.
"You never have been, nor will you ever be, boring" she heard Max’s voice from the bedroom doorway as she gathered her cell and everything to go in her purse.
"I thought everyone was gone," Liz said, glancing over at Max.
"I just got back from the airport." Upon her questioning look, Max added, "I dropped Jocelyn off, she's on her way back to Chicago."
"Oh, Max… I’m sorry" Liz said, forgetting all about getting ready to go for coffee and turning her undivided attention to Max. "Are you ok?"
Max shoved his hands in his pockets and shrugged. "Yeah, I’m fine. Why wouldn’t I be?"
Liz sat down on the end of her bed, facing him. "You can’t tell me that you’re not gonna miss her. I’ve seen you two together, Max. She made you happy. You know you’re gonna miss her, so don’t bother denying it, I know you too well."
Max shifted uncomfortably under Liz’s watchful eye before looking up; locking his gaze on hers and saying "She never made me as happy as you did. And being without her is nothing like being without you."
Liz self-consciously tucked a piece of hair behind her ear before rising off the bed and throwing some last minute things in her purse. "I’m sorry, Max, but I just can’t talk to you about this now… not with everything that’s gonna be going on in the next two days. I have to get going, I’m going out with Maria and Isabel if you need us" she said, trying to slip by him without so much as looking him in the eyes again.
He stopped her, lightly grabbing a hold of her arm. She slowly lifted her head to look at him before he said "Not now, not tomorrow…. But sometime soon, you know we’re gonna have to talk about everything, right?" Liz slowly nodded, chewing on her bottom lip before slipping out the door and rushing over to Isabel’s condo.
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Liz sipped on her chilled vanilla mocha and stared at the people walking through the shopping center. The three girls had decided on a small coffee shop with a small outside patio area. Isabel and Maria were gossiping about, Liz had no clue what; she’d tuned them out about 10 minutes ago. Thoughts sped through her head at a million miles an hour. Thoughts of leaving Zan, thoughts of returning to Roswell, thoughts of what she would say to Max, thoughts of what was going to happen to all of them.
At the beginning, it was easy to pretend that they had all the time in the world to hang out, the end of summer seeming so far away. But now, as it loomed on the horizon, Liz realized just how scared she was. Since leaving Roswell, Liz had done a complete 180. No longer was she the shy, meek little girl that everyone in Roswell had come to know. She had spent the summer growing up, learning to stand up for herself, and learning who she wanted to become. Not only that, she was going back to Roswell, full of metal, with a whole new wardrobe, a new boyfriend that she knew her parents would have instantly disliked, even if he didn’t look just like Max, and to top all that off, she now had alien powers.
Liz almost laughed out loud at the pity party she was throwing for herself in her head. It had all suddenly hit her… she was leaving, and Zan wasn’t coming with her.
"LIZ!" Maria screamed, giving Liz’s chair a little kick. When Liz looked over Maria scoffed "God, about time! We’ve been trying to get your attention for seriously, like a minute! What the hell were you thinking about?"
Liz took a long, slow drink of her coffee, as if that would cease the impending conversation. Glancing back and forth from Isabel to Maria, she could tell they weren’t giving up without an answer. Liz schooled her features to look nonchalant as she set her coffee down on the table, pulling her cigarettes out of her purse. She placed one in her mouth and lit it up, inhaling deeply. As she exhaled, she rolled her eyes "What? I know you wanted to know something. Ask."
Isabel glanced at Maria and then back to Liz "Are you ok?"
Liz actually did laugh out loud this time. "That’s the most ridiculous question I’ve heard all day. Of course I’m not ok. Would you guys be ok if you were in my position?" she asked, her eyes darting back and forth between the girls. "Somehow, I really doubt you would be. But you don’t have to worry about that, your boyfriends are coming back to Roswell with you" Liz bit out, suddenly wondering where all this anger and pain was coming from.
Denial. Plain and simple, but it hit her like a ton of bricks. This entire time, she’d been denying that the ending would actually happen. She truly believed, deep in her soul, that if she willed it enough, the end of summer would never approach. They could all stay in Florida together, and her and Zan would be happy… and they would be together.
She looked up from her lap, to Isabel and Maria, tears pooling in her eyes. "I’m a crazy person, aren’t I?" Liz asks quietly before one of the tears escaped her eyes and slowly slid down her cheek. The girls were instantly on either side of her, moving their chairs in close to comfort her.
"Liz, look at me" Isabel said, turning to face Liz head on. "You are on the strongest person I have ever met. You’re not crazy… not in the least. Considering how fucked up everything’s been the last year, I’d say that you’re doing just fine… that we all are. I’m not even gonna pretend to understand what you must be going through right now, and I don’t envy you for being in this position." Isabel took a deep breath, taking one of Liz’s hands in her own "Its all finally hitting you, isn’t it?" Liz just nodded. "I really wish I knew what to say. I guess the only thing I can say is that… if you ever need anyone…" Isabel let the sentence hang, looking meaningfully into Liz’s eyes for a second before giving her a small smiled and pulling her into a hug.
Maria stepped up behind Liz, wrapping her arms around Liz and Isabel. "I think it goes without saying that I’m always here," Maria said into Liz’s shoulder. She felt Liz nod, and Maria let go of the girls and stood up. "C’mon, lets go back to the condo"
Two hours later and Liz was still sitting on the same swing she’d been sitting on since they returned back from the coffee shop. She told them she just needed a little time by herself, so she walked across the parking lot of the condo building and into the small playground that was set up. She sat down on a swing, and as of yet, couldn’t make herself get up. She knew that no matter what, she was going to have to eventually get off this swing, walk into that condo and deal with everything.
Liz glanced up as Alex and Kyle walked over to her, sitting on the swings on either side of her. They didn’t say anything for a good minute, not sure what to say, since they didn’t even know what was wrong.
"I love you, Liz" Kyle said suddenly.
Both Alex and Liz looked over at him with matching confused looks on their faces, to which he simply said "What? I had to start the conversation somehow!"
Liz laughed and shook her head. Leave it up to Kyle to say something retarded, just because he didn’t like the silence.
"You wanna talk about it?" Alex asked.
"It's nothing…" Liz said "Well, not nothing, but its just dumb"
"C’mon now! You’re talking to two males who are here with you on this whole ‘I’m dating an alien’ venture. Spill." Kyle said.
"It's like… I dunno." Liz started "It's like I just realized that summer was ending and I was leaving Zan." She looked back and forth between the guys "I love you both, really, I do… but you guys just won’t understand this shit."
"Ok, I hate to sound like a total bastard, but this is just me being honest with you, Liz. I’ve never not been honest with you, so I’m not gonna start now" Alex began, waiting for Liz’s signal to continue. After she nodded her head, he went on "Ok. Maybe we don’t understand what if feels like for you. You just found Zan, and you obviously love him if you had sex with him. But… and this is where I’m gonna sound like a bastard, by the way… you knew what you were getting yourself into when you started going out with him. You knew that Zan lived in New York, and I’m fairly certain you knew that you lived on the other side of the country. You’ve known this was going to happen the entire time. So, this is my advice. Get over this little pity party, get off that damn swing and go enjoy the last two days with Zan. You may not have much longer to spend with each other… but no ones gone anywhere yet. Don’t ruin the last of your time together by worrying about what’s gonna happen in the future."
Liz nodded her head and looked back up at her condo, seeing people walking around in there… not really looking at who they were "What’s everyone doin?"
"We’re getting ready to watch a movie, and me and Alex just went and purchased some alcohol… we’re just gonna hang out" Kyle said, as he swung as high as he could.
"No one wanted to bother you… you looked real pissed off at the world, but me and Kyle decided to risk it, being the big, buff guys that we are" Alex added, puffing out his chest.
Liz couldn’t help bursting into laughter. She laughed so hard she actually fell off the swing and started crying. She looked up and saw the looks of confusion on the guys’ faces, clearing her throat; she stood up and brushed herself off. "Sorry, but I needed that"
"Yeah, I’m glad you find us humorous" Kyle said, jumping off the swing and turning to face them. "If you’re ready to go inside now, the girls are postponing the movie for you… not that any of us guys mind… they rented ‘Ghost’"
"Oh man!" Alex groaned, "THAT’S what they rented?! Great… now all you girls are gonna be crying all night! Just what I wanted to deal with!"
Liz shook her head, putting an arm around Alex’s waist and leading him towards Kyle, where she did the same to him. She gave them both a little squeeze. "Thanks, guys."
Both the guys just nodded as the three of them made their way back to the condo.
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Liz watched the television screen through blurred vision as Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze said goodbye to each other. The notes to ‘Unchained Melody’ were being played in the background by some kind of string instrument, only making the last scene of ‘Ghost’ sadder. Liz took a quick glance around the living room, finding all the girls in the exact same position: clutching onto the closest male, hands over their mouths, with tears leaking out of their eyes.
Liz leaned closer into Zan as the credits began to roll on the screen. Lonnie lifted her arm towards the light switch, and the light turned on, causing them all to squint a little. The girls quickly wiped their eyes, sniffling as the guys stretched and thanked God the torture had finally ended.
"I’m beat" Kyle announced, dragging Tess off the ground with him as he stood to go back to the other condo. "What’re the plans for tomorrow night?"
Everyone glanced at everyone else, really not knowing what they should do for their last night together. "We could just hang here," Liz offered, "Get some hamburgers, cook out, and just… hang out"
Everyone nodded and made their way to wherever he or she had decided they were sleeping that night. Liz had changed into a pink tank top and matching shorts set and was lying in bed when Zan came out of the bathroom in nothing more than his boxers. She smiled up at him as he got into bed with her. "Whassup, Kitten? What's on ya mind?"
Liz nibbled on her lower lip as she ran her fingers over the defined muscles of his abs. "Just thinking about everything. It really… Really sucks"
Zan scooted down in bed and pulled her in close so she was nestled right against his side. He lightly brushed his fingers up and down her back and kissed the top of her head "I know, baby, but we both knew dis was gonna happen when we got together."
"That doesn’t mean that it sucks any less" Liz whispered, trying to hold back the tears that threatened to spill out of her eyes at any second.
Zan picked up on her tone and lifted her chin to look at him "I don’t want you cryin, ya heard me? I’m still here, I ain’t gone yet, so don’t act like I went and died like that pretty-boy on dat damn movie ya’ll forced us men to watch"
Liz couldn’t hold back a giggle. "We women folk sincerely apologize, I assure you. We didn’t mean to threaten your masculinity by forcing you to watch a movie… a movie that is a classic, by the way"
"Whateva, its ova. Lets neva speak of it again, aight?" Liz nodded, stretching up to place a soft kiss on his lips. "Ya wanna have dis convo now… or put it off til tomorrow?" he asked
Liz sighed, rolling onto her stomach and propping herself up onto her elbows. "I guess we should just go ahead and get it over with. What do you think we should do?"
Liz looked Zan directly in the eyes, feeling herself being pulled into their amber depths, the same way she always had been. In that moment, they both knew what they had to do. They had to break up. There wasn’t the need for words, or explanations as to why it was going to happen; they both just knew it was for the best. Liz blinked back at her tears and whispered thickly "I’m really gonna miss you"
Zan nodded, "Yeah, I’ma miss you too, Kitten. C’mere" He said, pulling her into a tight hug, rocking her back and forth when she started crying.
After awhile, her tears subsided to occasional sniffles. Zan laid her down gently on the bed, before propping himself up on an elbow, hovering over her face. "You aight, baby?"
Liz took a deep breath "No" she whispered, glancing up to meet his eyes. "I’m not alright. I don’t know if I can do this. I don’t know if I can just walk away from you."
"Like I already said, I ain’t gone yet. Don’t worry Kitten. Just… enjoy bein with me now, aight?"
Liz nodded as Zan brought his lips down to meet hers. The kiss started off soft, sweet and full of love. Soon, the kisses became more demanding. They both wanted desperately to escape the reality of the situation they were in: being very much in love, and having to leave each other far too soon. They made love all night, forgetting about everything except how much they loved each other.
TBC…
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