Liz walked into UFO Center still thinking about Max. When she heard Kylie’s Minouge song she smiled to herself. ‘Yeah… Perfect’ She looked around the place. “Everything is about … aliens” she said to herself

“No kidding” Someone said and Liz felt stupid. She spun around and saw Max Evans smiling at her

‘Stupid. Stupid. Stupid’ She thought to herself “Hi Max! What are you doing here?” She tried to hide her embarrassment

“Working” Max pointed at his UFO Center waistcoat

“Oh” Liz felt like total idiot ‘STUPID!!!’ “Great” She said

“And you? What are you doing here? Do you want to know something more about aliens?”

‘No thanks. Got enough of it’ She thought ‘Or maybe I should ask him where can I find the Royal Four ‘Yeah You know, I must kill them’ She smiled at the thought. Then she looked at him. He was observing her. “I know that they are green with big eyes. It’ s enough for me” Max smiled. “Serious, I will work here too. I’m looking for a guy named Brody”

“Someone’s talking about me” Brody walked to them “I’m Brody and you must be Liz. Come with me. I will tell you what you have to do in here”

Max watched her go with Brody. ‘I must be dreaming. She will work with me! Oh My God. This is SO good’

*** Michael sat in one of the booths in Crash Down. He was waiting for Isabel.

“Hi Michael! What can I get you?” sweet voice asked

It belonged to Maria. He remembered it from the moment that they have met. He looked at her in amazement. He almost laughed at her antennas

She saw that“ Yeah I hate this uniform but when you live on your own you have to be ready to great sacrifices” She said jokingly “SO you and Isabel are together?” She looked at him provocatively

“Yes” was all he could say. He wanted to ask her out. But no word came out from his mouth. He immediately reminded himself that he couldn’t trust her.

“So…”

“So what?” he grumbled ‘You are an idiot, Michael’ he thought, when he saw her hurt face

“So what can I get you?”

“Coke and Tabasco”

“Okay”

“Hurry up! I don’t have all day, you know… “

She walked away. She didn’t want to show him her hurt face ‘Jerk’ she thought

‘Jerk. Totally Jerk’ Michael couldn’t believe what he did. Why it was so hard for him to be nice. Well he couldn’t let anyone get close to him. His destiny was Isabel. Nasedo said that. When they were ten he came to Roswell and he taught them a lot of things. He talked about their previous lives. About their destiny. Tess was the happiest one. She always wanted to be Max’s girlfriend. At the begging, it was hard. Being in relationship with someone, who could be your sister, wasn’t very encouraging. Michael didn’t love Isabel. And she didn’t love him. But they were supposed to be together. Nasedo said that love would come later so they were waiting. Well, now they were couples for three years and Michael still haven’t felt anything special for Isabel. She was his friend. He loved her but wasn’t IN love with her. And there she came. Maria. He wasn’t ready for that kind of feelings. In fact, he was afraid of what he was feeling towards the girl. He has never felt anything like it. He didn’t how to deal with it. Being ‘stonewall’ was the best way out of it. But why it hurt so much?

***

“Liz!” Max bumped into the girl. They were still in UFO Center. Liz was showing one of showcases to some tourists

“Oh hi” she said ‘Calm down, girl’

“How do you like the job?” Max asked. He desperately wanted to talk with her

“I like it. I think that Brody guy is kind of weird” She said. She felt she could tell Max everything. But she knew that what impossible. How would he react if he knew she was an alien? “But the tourist are nice”

“Yeah. I don’t know why people are visiting places like that. It’s kind of creepy. Afterwards you can get some nightmares about green creatures with big black eyes” He wanted to ask her out. But he didn’t know how to say it. She looked at him with these lovely eyes. He couldn’t take it anymore ‘What the hell‘ “What are you doing tonight?” he suddenly asked

Liz was surprised. Was she? “I don’t know. I think I will help my sister with whole this removal thing” She was VERY delighted and suddenly wanted to kiss him “But you know, I could go somewhere else… “

“Do you want to go out with me?” Max couldn’t believe that he said that aloud

“Yeah. Of course” But then it hit her. Her happiness was replaced by disappointment “What happened?” Max asked truly concerned

“Max. I can’t” Liz said with trembling voice “You have girlfriend, remember?”

He looked surprised. Then he realized that he was in long lasting relationship with his blonde friend. He didn’t know what to say “So lets go to cinema as… friends” It sounded ridicules but he couldn’t think of anything else for now