Blank Slate Part 5

Max was lying on his bed pitying himself.

I should have known. How could I ever think that I

even could have had a chance with her before all of

this happened? But should this matter? She cares

about me now, so it shouldn't matter to me. Plus, I

broke up with her, so it's better this way.

Max was trying to convince himself that Liz turning

him down doesn't matter. Except he was going to use

this opportunity to finally decide if it was meant to

be. If she said yes then it was meant to be, if she

said no, then it wasn't. He had been trying to

convince himself him and Liz weren't meant to be

together for awhile, but everything seemed to point in

the other direction. But not any more. This proved

it to him. The thing he realized though was that he

didn't want to be proven right. He wanted to be

wrong. He wanted her to say yes more than he had ever

wanted anything else in his entire life.

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Liz had no idea how to tell Kyle she wanted to go out

with someone else. Sure, Kyle was a nice guy and all

of that, but he just didn't do it for her. She liked

hanging out with him, but she didn't want anything

serious. She just didn't want to hurt him. But

she could not pass up this opportunity to go out with

Max Evans. She still couldn't believe he asked her

out. Max Evans had asked her out. She has liked him

for years, but he has always been so quiet and he

never showed an interest in her.

"Ok, what's wrong Liz?" Kyle asked

Liz was brought out of her thoughts. "What?"

"Well, you didn't really pay attention to the movie

and you haven't hardly said two words to me on the way

home."

"I'm sorry, Kyle. I just... have something to tell

you."

"What?"

"Well, you know that we left things casual and I ...

want to see other people."

"You want to see other people?" Kyle repeated slowly.

"I'm sorry Kyle. I.."

"Like who?" Kyle couldn't believe it. Well, yeah, he

could. Him and Liz were just casual and he knew the

day would come where she wanted to date other people.

So many guys had a thing for her. He was surprised

that it took this long.

"That's not important, I just ... we are not

exclusive, so.."

"Liz, that's fine. I understand. I'm just glad that

I had you for a little while." With that he left. (I

just had to make Kyle a nice guy!)

Liz suddenly just felt this need to talk to Max, to

tell him that her answer was yes. She had wanted him

to ask her out for so long, that she couldn't wait

another minute to tell him yes. She ran up to her

room and found his number. She had got it from him

when they became lab partners just in case she had

questions about class. She dialed his number.

Who could be calling me at a time like this, a time

when my entire world has crumbled around me? Max

thought.

"Hello?"

"Hey, Max. It's Liz."

"Oh...hey." I guess she came up with her excuse

earlier than she thought.

"Um... yeah, well, you know that question you asked me

in class today?"

Oh great, here goes. "Yeah, Liz I..." Before he could

finish, she cut him off.

"Yes."

"Yes?"

"Yes, I would love to go out with you some time."

Max couldn't believe it. Was he dreaming? Did Liz

Parker really call him and just say that she would

love to go out with him? "But what about Kyle?"

"Well, that's why I waited so long to tell you my

answer. I didn't wanna agree to go out with you

before I told Kyle that I wanted to see other people.

It wouldn't have been right."

She broke up with Kyle for me. Just to go out with

me. He couldn't believe it. Liz would have went out

with him before the shooting happened. She really did

have feelings for him before the shooting. Maybe they

were really meant to be.

"Max?"

"Yeah?"

"Just making sure you were still there."

"Yeah, so...." Now what? It was too late to go out

tonight, but tomorrow she would remember everything.

Well I guess I still have to make plans just so I

don't throw her off. "So, do you want to go out

tomorrow?"

"Yeah, that'll be great."

"Ok, well see you tomorrow."

"Good night."

"Good night"

They both hung up smiling. Max because now he knew

his Liz had noticed him before he saved her life and

Liz because her crush had finally asked her out.