Max sat on a bench in the park. He heard a rustle in the bush behind him. He looked back. No one was there that he could see. Where was Liz? He suddenly thought. She had to know which bench he was talking about. He smiled as he remembered one of the best nights of his life. Then again, every night he spent with Liz was one of his favorites. He and Liz had spent hours on this bench gazing up at the stars after her mom had found them late one night on Liz’s patio. Since that night they had been constantly searching for more private places to meet. This had to be his favorite though out of all the other places in the city. He heard someone calling his name and immediately snapped out of it. Liz had come. He smiled and moved over so she could sit down. They sat there staring at one another, both at a loss for words. Finally Max spoke. “Liz you don’t know what these last weeks have been like for me. I haven’t been able to go out, laugh, or do anything remotely fun. I miss you and without you my life is worthless. I love you Liz and whatever step back I said I wanted to take, I want to take that many forward again. Please say you’ll come back to me. I love you.” Liz sat there taking in everything he was saying, and slowly she began to smile. She opened her mouth to tell him she loved him too, but no sound came out. Because at that moment, Max had just pulled her close to him and was kissing her like nothing else existed in the world. She threw her arms around him and kissed him back. Finally breathless they pulled away. They spent the next hour walking in the park before Liz remembered her promise to go to the movies. “I’m sorry Max, but we’re gonna have to finish later, I promised Maria that I’d go to the movies with her, Isabel, and Alex. I’ll call you as soon as I get home.” When Liz said this Max stopped and looked at her. “Maria, Isabel, and Alex huh?” he said. Liz thought she had offended him. “No, it’s not like that.” She said thinking that he was suggesting that she was just trying get away from him. “I told them two days ago that I…” “No, I wasn’t suggesting that,” Max said. They always had been able to tell what the other meant, even if they hadn’t said it yet. “It’s just that Isabel talked me into going to the movies tonight with her, Alex, and Michael” He grinned at her and she grinned back. “I think we were being set up!” She exclaimed. “You know what? I think you’re right!” As they walked toward the park entrance, they decided to please their friends. They would act as though they were still apart, and then make up during the night, hopefully leaving their friends with a sense of satisfaction that they had brought them together. “We can’t arrive at your house together. You go home right now, I have to stop by home first to change and catch up on some things I haven’t been doing lately.” She kissed him quickly and they set off in opposite directions.