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Confrontation
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Alec: So what do you think she is?
Max: I don’t know! Why do you always ask me?
Alec: ‘Cause you’ve been in this world longer! You’ve seen more stuff than me.
Max: That makes no sense.
Cindy: Nothin’ does comin’ from his mouth suga!
Alec: Who cares about her! I just want Alexia back!
Max: Ya know what? I don’t like you hanging around her! You’ve changed Alec. Your not a pig anymore, your acting like she has you hypnotized.
Alec: So?
Joshua: Little Fella, nothing like her made by, Father. Alec saw neck. No barcode.
Alec: Yeah! Thank you, Joshua. No barcode! So, there goes your reason to kill her.
Max: I don’t want to kill her Alec! I want to know why you love her so much?!
Alec: Why do you love Logan?
Original Cindy shoved her right index finger and thumb in her mouth and blew so a loud whistle interrupted them…
Original Cindy: Joshua needs to get home. Clubbin hour starts in twenty minutes.
Max: OK. Alec…
Alec: Yeah, yeah. I know. We’ll finish this later. Josh! Let’s go.
Joshua walked over to Max and hunched over a little.
Joshua: Alec and I blaze?
Max: Yeah. Bye big fella.
Joshua: Bye, little fella.
Joshua put a helmet on and Alec and him left.
Original Cindy: So, I got diss hottie who can hook me up to get into that new club on Oceanna. Wanna come with me?
Max: No thanks. I’m gonna stay here and… I don’t know ponder, I guess.
She nodded and left.
Around midnight, Max heard a knock on the door.
Max: Did you forget your keys again?
She pulled the door open and saw Alexia. She shoved her hands deep into her back pockets.
Alexia: Can I come in?
Max: Depends? Are you going to hit me again?
Alexia: I need your help.
Max: What’s wrong?
Alexia: I’ll explain. Will you just let me in?
Max thought about it for a minute then nodded. She stepped aside and let Alexia pass by her into the apartment.
Alexia: Thank you.
Max: So what do you need my help with?
Alexia: It’s more of a question that I need you to answer.
Max: Well what…
Alexia: Why don’t you want Alec to be near me? Is it because you don’t want him to be happy if your not? Or you’re jealous because maybe you love him?
Max: What! I don’t love Alec. I love Logan!
Alexia: Really? Then why don’t you touch? You act like if you touch he’ll die.
Max turned away from Alexia so she didn’t see her tears.
Max: It’s complicated. And what makes you think I don’t want Alec to be happy? At least he can when I cant.
Alexia: Then why did you plant suspicions in his head about me?
Max: What are you talking about?
Alexia: He hasn’t trusted me that much lately. And I thought the Queen of Non-Trusting might’ve planted something in his mind that down graded me to something I’m not.
Max: What are you rambling on about?
Alexia: You hate the fact that Alec is happy when your not!
Max: What!
Alexia: Max, your jealous! That we had something real, and you don’t!
Max: Get out!
Alexia: What!
Max: GET OUT!
Alexia: Don’t come near me again. You know… I’m pretty sure at one point over the last seven months, I thought of you as a friend. But now I know that you’re a heartless bitch who wants to make other happy people suffer because you’ll never be happy.
Alexia’s head flew to the side as Max slapped her hard across the face.
Max: You had that coming. I’m not the heartless bitch. You are.
Alexia: This isn’t over, Max.
Max: Good. Bring it, bitch!
Alexia left the apartment. Leaving Max behind…
Max: What have I done?
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Maria shot up in her bed.
Maria: What have you done, Alexia?
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Alexia straddled her motorcycle.
Alexia: I’m so dead. What was I thinking? Challenging Max? Smart one, Alexia.
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Max pulled off on to the side of the road. They were about three hours away from Seattle. If Kyle hadn’t insisted on getting a Super-Monster-Coke at that last stop they would be in Seattle by now.
Isabel started groaning in pain.
Max: Iz? … Izzy? … Isabel!!
She shot up with her hand raised.
Isabel: What? Are we under attack?
Max: What are you talking about? Kyle had to go to the bathroom.
Isabel: Again!
Isabel pushed her fingertips through her long blonde hair.
She had used her powers to turn it back to elbow length blonde hair. She looked younger and attractive with her blonde hair again.
Isabel: I swear… that boy has a bladder the size of Texas and California put together.
Kyle walked up and hopped into the car.
Kyle: Ha, ha. Very funny, Isabel. Or is it Princess Isabel now?
Isabel: Do you want to keep your hair or shall I turn it into a green mow- hawk?
Kyle gulped. Just five hours earlier he had woken her up by poking her in the back repeatedly and she gave him purple hair with yellow patches.
Kyle: Max, do you want me to drive? You’ve driven all the way up here.
Max: I’m fine, Kyle.
Kyle: But Max, you’ve got to be tired. Just let me drive for…
Max: I’m fine! Really. Besides. We should be in Seattle by sunset tomorrow. That’s counting your bathroom breaks, food stops and stretch stops.
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Maria sat down with a cup of hot chocolate.
Alexia closed the door quietly.
Maria: Where have you been? It’s five am!
Alexia: After talking with Max, I went for a drive and I needed to think.
Maria: Where’d you go?
Alexia: The Space Needle. I go there sometimes to think.
Maria: Oh. Whoa! What hit you?
She stood up and tilted Alexia’s face so it hit the light.
Alexia: Max’s hand. She said I deserved it. And I did.
Maria: Want me to heal it?
Alexia: No! That’ll look a little suspicious. I mean look at this. Do you actually think this wouldn’t be here tomorrow without some supernatural mojo?
Maria: Your right.
Alexia: Go back to bed. I don’t sleep much at night anyway. Nightmares and all.
Maria: ‘K. But, if you need anything, I’ll be in that room.
She walked into her room but stopped before entering.
Maria: Alexia? What you said earlier. Vice-versa.
Alexia: Huh?
Maria: No matter what happens, I’ll always be here for you. For now and for eternity.
Alexia: I love you, Maria!
Maria: I love you too, Alexia.
Alexia had walked over to her and hugged her. She pulled back and kissed Maria’s cheek.
Alexia: We’re family now.
Maria: Yep. You know. It’s pathetic!
Alexia: What is?
Maria: Those we love abandoned us. Do our lives suck or what?
Alexia: Yeah!
Maria: Wake me up in three hours, ‘K?
Alexia: ‘K.
Maria: G’night.
Alexia: G’night.
Maria’s door closed and Alexia turned around. She let tears slip down her face.
She finally had the one thing she ever wanted. A sister.
Alexia heard a faint knock on the door. She wiped her tears and went to the door and opened it. She gasped seeing the last person she expected.
Alexia: Zane?
TBC
