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Like Jessica Rabbit she collects bad habits
Gets her drinks for free
Animated vixen stole Cupid's arrow and came to rescue me
In the blink of an eyelid
My lid opened up and I could see
That she'd come to rescue me
~Rescue~Eve6~
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Max dropped a particularly heavy box and it hit the floor with a resounding thump.
"I said you could sleep on my sofa not knock down the house," Alec shouted from the ajoinging room. He had agreed to let Max move in with him for appearances sake. They had decided to go all out in their little charade and then break it off in front of everyone in one big loud finale. Alec clompped into the room and shuffeled though her boxes.
"How bad was it exactly?" he asked. Though he hadn't stated it Max knew what he was talking about.
"Like they were trying to lick each other's toes through their mouths. Full frontal snogging." she said with a grimace, "Now please stop I'm trying to repress."
Alec laughed and Max looked up for the first time since he entered the room, "Where'd your shirt go?" she askednoticing that he was clad only in jeans, "You walk around like that often?"
"Why?" Alec asked with a smirk, "S'bother you?" Max took in the lean cheast and decided that it definatly didn't bother her but she decided to reply with a noncommital grunt instead.
Alec flopped down on the couch and flipped on his T.V.
"That's my bed now," Max reminded him.
"Before it was your bed it was my couch," Alec deadpanned and fixed his attention on the screen. Max glared at his back before getting back to the chore of unpacking her belongings. She had fed OC the same line that she had fed the others. I'm living with Alec now. We've been secretly dating for months and we just can't keep it a secret any more. Max oculd hardly keep herself from gagging when she said this but judging by everyone's reaction she made a good actress. The only one left to find out was Logan. And he was going to find out the hard way. Not by being nicely informed.
"You know it wouldn't kill you to get of your sorry ass and help a little," Max growled at the blonde on the sofa.
"Wouldn't do me a hell of alot of good either would it," Alec replied, "And you may wanna be careful Maxie. You seem awful fixated on that portion of my anatomy. Keep it up and I may start to think you really like me."
"What are you talking about?" Max asked suspiously.
"My ass," Alec clarified, "You're gonna smack my ass, kick my ass, force me off my ass...... really making me wonder."
Max let out a sharp bark of laughter, "Like you?! I like you about as much as I like a cockroach!"
"Look at that I'm moving up the foodchain. Last week I was a maggot," Alec sneered.
"Keep it up and you might find yourself back at that level," Max warned.
Alec ignored her last comment, too engrossed in trying to see his ass. "I can see why you like it so much," he said with a grin, "It's just so damn sexy."
"You're a potato!" Max shouted, "Now you're a potato! I think that's about as low as you can get on the foodchain don't you?"
"Do you like potatos" Alec inquired.
"Only mashed."
"Am I mashed?"
"No but keep it up and you may be bloody." Alec pursed his lips and walked over grabbing a box picking it up and setting it down in the next room exaggerating all his movements much to Max's annoyance."
"Look who's helping," he said dryly.
"Good now shut up and we might actually finish before bed," Max snapped
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Max and Alec sat in a fastfood resturant on their first pretend date. They had finished Max's unpacking relatively quickly after they had stopped talking to each other and Max had suggested the outting as a practice before they went out with their friends.
"Behave will you," Max pleaded noticing that Alec was beginging to get antsy.
"I don't like sitting still this long," he said, "can't we just eat and leave?"
Max sighed and went up to order their food while Alec made a tower out of the sugar packets.
"Quite the talented little man aren't we," Max teased when she came back.
"I thought so," he replied eyeing his creation proudly, the sarcasm zooming over his head. Max shoved the large meal he had requested in front of him and cringed as he began to wolf it down.
Alec noticed her reaction and shook his head slowly, "You're not going to criticize my table manners are you? 'Cause if you are I'm gonna start the whole breaking up scene a couple weeks earlier than planned."
"I'm not," Amx said defensively, "I was just going to suggest you eat one thing at a time. You know so you don't CHOKE!"
"Are you always this controlling?" Alec demanded letting his burger fall to the tray, "'Cause if you are I'm starting to see why you can be gorgeous and still fail to get laid."
Max sat fuming silently when an elderly couple approached them.
"Relationship problems?" the woman asked Max sympatheically.
"Oh no. No! Alec and I we're- we're very much in love just practicing for a-uh a debate! Isn't that right honey?" Max prompted, staring pointedly at Alec.
"Oh uh yeah a debate-," Alec stammered shooting Max a what-the-hell-is-your-problem-you-spaz look. Max stommped on his foot and he winced "Uh - fuzz muffin he added quickly."
The couple gave them strained smiles and quickly hurried off.
"What the hell was that about? We didn't have to pretend for them!" Alec shouted, reaching down to massage his sore foot.
"If we can't fool a pair of strangers how are we going to fool our friends?" Max pointed out.
Alec shrugged and picked up his burger again. The pair finished their meal in silence and got up to leave.
Alec held out Max's jacket and she stared at him questioningly.
"I'm playing the model boyfriend aren't I?" he asked with a smile.
Max returned his smile and slipped her arms through the sleves.
They had reached the door before Max finally spoke, "Fuzz muffin?" she asked with barely concealed amusement. Alec shrugged apoligetically.
"I panicked," he said defending himself but humor was evident in his voice. Max laughed and slid her hand into his as they headed towards his apartment.