Trying For That Storybook Ending Part 1

AUTHOR: Sunnycouger

E-MAIL ME AT: [email protected]

CATEGORY: Stargazers but with a touch of the other CC's!

RATING: As low as it gets without being horizontal.... we'll say PG for arguments sake but probably lower.

DISCLAIMER: You all don't honestly think that I own any of this do you? Roswell and all its characters are property of Melinda Metz and Jason Katims... I just take them out to play sometimes....

DISTRIBUTION: If you want to put this story on to another site (please do!) will you please, please, PLEASE let me know first. Thanx!

SUMMARY: This is an Isabel POV fic and its her musings on Valentines day, her friends relationships and her feelings about a certain human.

SPOILERS: Umm, EOTW and it refers to Alex's trip to Sweden. Nothing major.

Hi everyone. My name is Isabel Evans and I'm 18 years old. I'm popular at school, and I'm beautiful. I also have a secret... well, I actually have lots of secrets but only two are relevant today. Number 1? Well- you aren't going to believe this but I'm an alien. No... no you heard right and I'm not crazy... so stop looking at me like that. I'm "not of this earth" to steal a phrase my brother uses. My brother's Max, I think you know him, he's the guy that stands alone in corners making googly-eyes at the brunette. But...(and you aren't going to believe this) he's also supposed to be the "leader" of the group of "aliens". You ask my opinion? - Bad idea. Do not ask an 18-year-old guy to make informed decisions when his love life is in tatters; they can sometimes be on the rash side. Anyway, other than Max, there's also Michael Guerin- he's supposed to be my "pre-destined mate" and I'm not supposed to consider him the brother we both thought he was. Yuck... I mean it would be like... yuck... We nipped that idea in the bud kinda sharpish. Other than Max and Michael there is my dear "sister-in-law" Tess Harding, Max's former stalker. I still don't know if I like her again- she's the one that screwed everything up with "destiny" this and "destiny" that. I wanted to "poof" her into outer space after she lied and manipulated us...but we had to play nice after the whole message in a cave thing. I guess I also kinda have a "biological mother" (well as much as a clone can have one) who is enslaved on another planet that only we, the "Royal Four" can liberate. Yeah- whatever. You think that's bad? How about the fact that we also have assassins after us who have been sent to kill us. The catch? They're not "little green men- they look normal- they could be anyone.

Anyway, I'm not completely alone in this world with only aliens for company. I have adoptive parents: Diane and Philip- who I love more than anything. Max doesn't know, but I'm going to tell them everything soon.... everything about us. Everything about me. I know I can trust her, trust them. And I need them. But not today, today is definitely complicated enough.

OK, other than that 5 other semi-regular people know about us. There's Sheriff Valenti and his son Kyle who Tess is staying with. She is having a real hard time dealing with the fact that she is falling in love with him.... Kyle that is...not the Sheriff. (That would be too warped even for her.) I'll fix that today if she can stop trying so hard to make herself believe that she should only be in love with Max. Next is Maria De Luca, Michael's on/off/on again girlfriend. He treats her like crap all the time despite really loving her and she keeps excusing him because she feels the same and is afraid of driving him away. I think that that too is fixable. The next person up is Liz Parker, the brunette I was talking about and the love of my brothers life. She broke both of their hearts to save the world because she thought she had too. She made sure that Tess would stick around and we all wouldn't die. She thought the lie would save everything. She doesn't know I know why she did it, but I'm determined to make things right. They both deserve it. Other than them the only other person that knows is Alex Whitman.

Alex.

Alex, was the best thing that happened to me last year- but it didn't last. Why? Well, see when I was listing my qualities? I should have added the fact that I can be a cruel, cold-hearted bitch when I want to be. I broke his heart, more than once actually, and I pushed him away every time he thought he had gotten close. I always thought he would try again and come back looking for me. I never thought I'd lose him. Why am I telling you this? Well, today is Valentines Day... and I'm terrified I've left it all too late to fix.... do you remember that I had two secrets? Well I just recently realised what the second one was... I'm in love with Alex Whitman.

I used to love Valentines Day- it's an ego boost that re-affirms your importance in society. I've been getting cards since I was 12.... not counting the ones that Daddy used to send me when I was younger. Anyway, every year I would get a card, amongst the many, which was anonymous stuck inside my locker, with a few words written inside.