“Liz, I’d don’t know how to say this nicely so I’ll come straight out and just say it, Everything I said today, well, I don’t know why I said it, but I know one thing for sure, I really don’t love you. I guess I felt guilty about breaking with you so suddenly that I wanted you to have a few moments of happiness before I totally left. Sorry if what I just did made it worse. I guess you see more in our relationship then I do. I used to think of you as a hot sexy chick, guess I’m tired of you now, sorry. Anyways, I saw Kyle giving you looks again yesterday, so why don’t you get to know him better again.

Max

PS. – I’m telling Isabel I can’t make it tonight so you’ll have to go alone. Poor, poor baby.”

Liz checked the address. Yeah it was from Max’s name, and he was the only one who knew about them getting back together. Why would he write something like this though? Especially the part about Kyle? Everything had seemed so right a little bit ago. Liz stumbled over to the phone and called Isabel figuring everyone would be there by now. No one answered. She described the situation to the answering machine and then hung up. Immediately she tried Maria. Damn, she had already left! Where was everyone? Still Liz decided to vent to her too, so she told Maria’s machine everything as well.

Meanwhile…

Max’s heart felt lighter then it had in days. He was finally with the girl he loved, and nothing could ruin his mood. He walked into his house grinning like an idiot. He was shocked however when four very angry people came running down the stairs bumping him and not saying a word. “Isabel! Michael! What’s wrong?” he asked. All Isabel did was throw him a nasty look and said, “Hmmmmmmmm I wonder!” before walking through the door and slamming it behind her. Max didn’t understand what was wrong. He ran upstairs and quickly changed into fresh cloths in case they were going out still, and then ran back downstairs. What was wrong? Had he and Liz gotten the times wrong or something? He had been trying to hurry so much that that it took him longer to get ready then it normally did. When he got outside he realized that they all had left already in Maria’s Jetta. They wouldn’t have gone to the movies yet, so maybe they want to Michael’s. He hopped into the Jeep and drove to Michael’s apartment. Strange, Max thought, there were no familiar cars in the lot, so they obviously weren’t here. Max backed up and headed toward the only other place he could think of, the Crashdown.

Isabel arrived at the Crashdown moments after she and her three friends had left her house. They were all really mad at Max, she could tell by the way Maria kept muttering under her breath and by the faces Michael was making. A few minutes ago, they had been in the kitchen when they heard her phone ring. By the time they got her phone though, the message machine had already recorded the message and the caller had hung up. After listening to a distraught Liz, they tried to call her back, but her line was busy. She couldn’t understand how her brother could do this to Liz, he was supposed to love her. If he really did, then why was he playing games with the poor girl’s head? Isabel parked the Jetta quickly and it wasn’t until she opened her door that she saw the strange black car. This was strange; the Crashdown was closed today. Why would some strange car be in the parking lot? She heard a scream and was almost trampled down by three other people as they all tried to get into the restaurant at the same time. Tables were toppled along with chairs and two strange men were standing over the fallen form of Liz. The men turned and saw them. They ran to attack them, and Alex yelled. But it was all useless, because at that moment 10 other men came from behind them and in no time at all, they were all unconscious on the floor.