Part 41
“Liz where do you want these boxers?” Alex yelled as he walked through the front door, his arms piled with boxers.
“Um let me see” she rushed towards him and read the labels.
“They’re all kitchen,” she informed him.
Today Liz and Max were moving into their new home and Liz could hardly believe it. You couldn’t wipe the smile off her face.
She stood in the middle of the large living room which was full of windows so that which ever way you looked you could see Parkers.
“You’ve got a beautiful view”
Liz started at the voice and turned to smile at her sister in law. “No boxers?” she teased her.
Isabel and Alex had been married for three months now and only days earlier they had announced that Isabel was pregnant. Everyone had been over the moon for them.
Isabel rolled her eyes. “They won’t let me carry anything,” she told her.
“How’s that honeymoon baby coming along?” Liz continued to tease. The truth was she was excited about becoming an Aunt. She thought Isabel would be a wonderful mother.
“She’s fine” Isabel smiled. “And cut out that honeymoon crap. How do you know we didn’t conceive her before the wedding?”
Liz laughed, “well nothing would surprise me with you two but something tells me that you were too busy organising your wedding to make babies”
“Oh shut up” Isabel playfully hit her.
“Tell me Liz” Maria walked in the room then. “Where did all this stuff come from?”
Maria couldn’t believe how much stuff Liz and Max had for two people who had always lived at home. She knew that Dianne and Nancy had bought them a few things but they hadn’t been that generous.
“Oh you know mum’s been putting things away for me since I turned sixteen” Liz replied. “You know a glory box”
Maria looked confused, ‘You don’t have one?” Isabel asked surprised. She knew what Liz was talking about because she had also had one that her mother had started for her.
“No but then again when has Amy Deluca done anything by the book” Maria sighed.
“Have you told her yet?” Liz asked amused.
Maria sighed and shook her head.
“What are you so scared of?” Isabel asked the younger blonde.
“You’ve met my mum right?” Maria replied.
“Sure, Amy is a pussy cat” Isabel grinned.
“To you maybe” Maria grumbled.
“Isabel is right Maria, what are you scared of?” Liz asked her best friend.
“That she wont approve” Maria frowned. “Then what am I going to do?”
“Your mum loves Michael,” Liz pointed out. “If I’m not mistaken she’s been known over the past couple of months to favour Michael over you in most of your fights,” Liz reminded her. Maria had whined enough about the way her mother liked Michael so much that she kept taking his side in arguments, something that she found infuriating.
“Just tell her, the band aid affect is best, believe me” Isabel told her.
The girls moved aside then to make way for the guys who were carrying in Liz and Max’s brand new sofa.
Liz grinned as she saw it placed in the middle of the room, near the fire place. She imagined many nights in her future curled up by the fire in the arms of Max.
“Perfect” she grinned at Max.
Max smiled back at her.
“I’m so glad we don’t have to do this” Michael commented then as he moved towards Maria wrapping an arm around her waist.
Liz bit her bottom lip to stop herself from laughing. “No you just have to get through telling Amy Deluca that her unmarried daughter is moving in with you”
Michael glared at Liz before turning to Maria. “I thought you were going to tell her last night,” he said pointedly.
“I got distracted” Maria lied.
“Right” he frowned. “I don’t know what the big deal is. You’re moving in with me, it’s not like we’re never going to get married,” he grumbled.
That’s right Michael and Maria were moving in together.
Three months ago, no one would have guessed that the two of them would take such a giant step in their relationship but they had.
Flash Back
“I love you Michael,” Maria said then making Michael stop and stare in shock.
Silence greeted Maria and soon tears started to fall down her face. It wasn’t like she really expected him to return her words, that’s wasn’t why she has said them but deep down she had hoped that maybe he had felt something stronger for her too.
“Um I don’t know what to say,” He finally said.
Maria shifted away slightly. “You don’t need to say anything” she replied.
Michael could tell he had hurt her.
“I’m sorry,” he told her. “You just took me by surprise”
“A good surprise?” Maria asked hopefully.
Michael smiled. “Definetely a good surprise” he told her leaning in and kissing her softly.
That was enough for Maria. She could wait until Michael was ready to say the words.
***
She didn’t have to wait long.
A month later they were lying in his bed after making love when Michael’s voice broke the silence in the dark.
“I love you Maria,” he whispered.
“What?” asked shocked, she wasn’t quite sure she had heard him right.
“I said I love you” he replied.
“Oh Michael” she whispered.
“I don’t have much to offer you….” He started then.
“I just need you” she interrupted him.
“Good” he smiled.
“Michael?”
“Yeah”
“I love you too,” she told him again.
That night was the best night of her life and a month later in the midst of Max and Liz packing Michael asked her if she wanted to move in. At first she had been surprised but soon she realised that it was the next logical step for them, she was spending most of her time there anyway and with Max moving out in the next few weeks it seemed perfect.
***
That night was the first night Max and Liz spent in their new home.
Not everything was unpacked, nor was all the furniture moved in but their first bed together was and that was all they needed.
They moved together in perfect sync. Like two lovers who had been together a hundred times before.
“Yes Max” Liz moaned as Max thrusts increased.
They had barely waited until their friends and family were out the door before they got to work on to christening their house.
They started in their ensuite bathroom, fogging up the large shower screen as they washed away the days sweat and grime.
“Oh god Liz you feel so good” Max whispered in her ear.
The room was bathed in light from the moon; there were no curtains on the windows yet. Max’s body was slick with sweat.
“You too” she panted.
“Rise up” he whispered then and helped Liz raise her back off the mattress so that they were both sitting in the middle of the bed.
Max continued to thrust in and out of Liz and Liz met every thrust.
“I’m so close,” she cried.
Max’s hand grasped her hips and he slammed her body down on his over and over again until Liz was crying out her release.
“Yes Max…..ahh!”
“Oh god baby, yes, yes” Max groaned as he felt his own orgasm approaching and with a final jerk he emptied his seed inside of her.
Their hands roamed the others body as they came down from their high.
“God I love you,” Liz whispered. It awed her sometimes how being with Max made her feel.
“I love you too” Max replied kissing her face, then her neck.
“I have to touch you right now,” he confessed.
“Me too” she agreed snuggling closer to his body until her breasts were pressed against Max’s chest.
They sat kissing and touching for hours afterwards before falling onto the bed.
Max moved to get up from the bed then and Liz instantly reached up for him.
“Where are you going?” she asked.
“I’ll be back,” he promised.
True to his word, a few minutes later Max, still naked, returned and crawled back on the bed by Liz’s side.
“Remember the night of Alex and Isabel’s wedding?” he asked her.
He was referring to the conversation they had as they lay in bed together.
“Yeah” Liz nodded.
“We talked about our hopes for the future” he said, “a future together,” he added.
Liz smiled remembering the things they had both admitted to wanting with each other. “Yes”
Max opened his hand then and revealed the black ring box he’d left the bed to retrieve.
“Max?” Liz questioned nervously.
Max grinned as he popped open the box. He felt like he’d been waiting forever to do this. From the first moment had laid eyes on Liz parker again after almost 16 years he knew that she was the women for him, and now he intended on making it official.
Liz gasped as the ring was revealed to her.
Her ring. Everything about it was perfect for her, like it had been made for her finger.
“Liz Parker, I want nothing more in this lifetime than to have babies with you, and to grow old with you,” he told her tears in his eyes.
Liz was almost sobbing but there was a brilliant smile on her face.
“Will you do that? Will you grow old with me as my wife?” he whispered.
“Yes” Liz replied quickly. “I want nothing more in this lifetime either Max”
They’re mouth sort each other out quickly and when they pulled back Max slid the ring on Liz’s small finger.
It fit perfectly. Just like this did.
They gravitated back towards each other then as they celebrated their future together.
In the house that love built, on the land they both loved, the two lovers celebrated the greatest joy in their lives, and in their friends and families lives. To love and to be loved.
The End