Part12

�Here goes nothing,� Maria thought as she stepped through the doors of Miranda�s club. She looked around as she searched for the owner of this future to be best nightclub a small town like Roswell would ever have. Maria never thought that this old place would ever get to look this good considering how it looked like nearly a month ago. Miranda had literally turned the place up side down.

The walls were painted in a greenish blue colour and it gave both a darker and a bigger look to the room. The dance floor was painted in silver and when she looked up at the ceiling there were a billion or so stars shining down at her. It seemed like they were glow in the dark stars, just like the ones she had in her room. Tables and chairs were placed along the railing and it gave away a prefect view of the dance floor. Different kinds of lights were hanging from the ceiling and Maria could only imagine how the place would look like when they were actually on.

No matter what Maria might think and accuse Miranda of it would never be her taste in decorating. Standing at the centre of the dance floor she looked around the great room when she found her sitting at in a corner sofa with tons of papers in front of her. Miranda was still wearing the same outfit as earlier that day and even though Maria hated to do so she thought Miranda looked great. It was just too bad that she couldn�t stop worrying about her when it came to Michael. She knew he loved her and that Miranda was just a friend but she couldn�t help the way she felt like when the Miranda was around; plain and ordinary, while Miranda herself always seemed to look like some kind of goddess, even now when it was so hot and so fumed and Miranda was just simply sitting there with her hair pined up with one pen while she chewed on the other concentrating on the papers in front of her.

�Hope I�m not interrupting anything?� Maria said as she walked up to her. Miranda looked up at her, her brown eyes looking at her with a little confusion and just as quickly a smile spread across her face.

�Maria! You came.�

�Yes, I just thought you�d like a break and some company.�

�You couldn�t be more right, if I had to spend another second reading all these safety reports I think I would kill myself.� Miranda sighted out loud, she stood up and walked to the bar with Maria behind her.

�Would you like something to drink?� She offered.

�You mean like alcohol?�

�No I mean like some Lemonade, I made it myself.� The brunett replied. �But hey if you want something stronger I�ll totally comply, in a week or so, because I still haven�t got the delivery yet, so the only poison I have to offer is lemon.� Miranda joked.

�No that�s not what I meant, I just thought that, you�. never mind� Maria said and felt like a total fool, of course Miranda wouldn�t offer her alcohol after all they weren�t even legal yet. She felt herself grow tense under Miranda�s smile.

�Maria relax, I�m just kidding, here you go�, she smiled and handed her the drink. Maria took a sip and felt all the tension flow away, the cool effect of the beverage was so what she needed right now.

�So what did you have in mind me singing?� Maria asked.

�I have no clue, I was hoping you�d tell me, I�m afraid my music taste consist of anything I can beat the crap out of my boxing bag to� Miranda told the girl. �But I do have one request,�

�Whats that?�

�No boy or girl group�s sweet stuff crap, I am so allergic to all that, I love so baby be mine bullshit!� Miranda finished her drink and poured another glass. �All that teen crap makes my insides turn,� She told Maria.

�Okay,� Maria smiled �what do you like then?�

�Oh I don�t know; Marylin Manson, Sarah Macachlon, the Cult, the Tea Party, Garbage, Eminem, Metalica, Linkin Park, all that stuff, but then again I don�t really expect you to sing the kind of songs I like , more like what the crowd will like.�

Maria just stared at her a litlle,� that�s quite the musical appetite you�ve got there.�

�Oh yeah and Moby rocks too, but Usher are also pretty hot.� Miranda informed her. �And you�re so right; it�s quite the list.� She laughed a litlle. �I�m rambling aren�t I?�

�It�s okay your not that bad�. Maria told her �So what you�re telling me is that I have my hands free?�

�As free as you want them to be,� Miranda told her.

�Ok so I guess I could sing some of my own songs then?�

�You write music yourself?� Miranda looked surprised.

�Michael didn�t tell you?

�No, he just said you were a great singer.�

�And you just took his word for it? I mean most boyfriends say that about their girlfriends talents, it doesn�t mean you have to believe it,� Maria said.

�Yeah you�re right but then again Michael is not you�re average guy and I trust him,� Miranda told her. And that stung, like hell it wasn�t that Michael shouldn�t be trusted but to hear another girl say it was not music to her ears, especially when it had taken forever to finally get him too trust her. Miranda on the other hand just waved her hand and �puhfff� Michael trusted her. A shadow creeped across her face as the thoughts took over.

�Well how about a song? I really want to hear you sing Maria.� Miranda told her.

�Huh?? Oh that,� Maria looked around, anything to try to hide the embaresment that was written all over her face. �Yeah sure,� she said and walked up to the stage.

(my immortal- Evenescense)

i'm so tired of being here
suppressed by all of my childish fears
and if you have to leave
i wish that you would just leave
because your presence still lingers here
and it won't leave me alone

these wounds won't seem to heal
this pain is just too real
there's just too much that time cannot erase

when you cried i'd wipe away all of your tears
when you'd scream i'd fight away all of your fears
and i've held your hand through all of these years
but you still have all of me

you used to captivate me
by your resonating light
but now i'm bound by the life you left behind
your face it haunts my once pleasant dreams
your voice it chased away all the sanity in me

i've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
and though you're still with me
i've been alone all along

Miranda listened as Maria sang those words, they were so true, to her life. And in a way it was like all the daggers fell from the sky and pirced her right through her heart. Very smoothly she reached up and whiped away the singel tear that had escaped her eye and cleard her trought as she started clapping her hands.

�Well now I can really say you rock Maria,� Miranda told the girl. �You know a part of me did think that Michael was exadurating about your singing, but damn, how come you haven�t gone professional with this?�
Maria smiled. �Thank you but I just don�t think so.�

�Why you�re really great,� Miranda said her voice filled with admiration. Put aside the whole Michael thing and Miranda really is a cool chick Maria thought to herself. They walked over to the sofa and sat down.

�Thank you Miranda that�s really nice of you to say,� Maria told her.

�Well I never lie Maria, if I don�t mean something I don�t bother saying it.�

Maria just looked at her. �I�ve never met anyone like you before,� Maria told her honestly.

�What do you mean?� Miranda wondered, worrying her lip a little.

�It�s just the way you are, so honest and totally out there. Don�t take it the wrong way but these past two years of my life have been mostly about secrets,� Miranda fidgeted slightly, if she only knew what a fort knocks of secrets her life really was, just one big secret wrapped up in a great lie, with a big bow of daily deceit.

�Except with Michael, I mean considering how much he loves you, you guys probably have no secrets between you,� Miranda commented slightly. Maria found it hard to look her in the eye. The only truthful thing between Michael and her was that everything was a secret. Everything about him his life, this not to mentune the past one was all just that, a big secret.

�Maria?� Miranda brought her back from her thoughts.

�Hmmm? � oh yeah of course,� Maria answered, and looked at her again. Miranda looked at her so intently Maria thought that she could see right through her, as if she was made out of glass. All right Miranda thought to herself, it was the time to ask that same old question and put the poor girl mind at ease. It wasn�t that she thought that she was all that, it was just that these kind of things happened all to often that Miranda had just grown accustomed to it. Honestly she herself couldn�t understand why all the girls ever reacted to her this way? She wasn�t even that good looking. I mean she was a brunette, with brown eyes and sure she was a bit tall but she had nothing going on in the hips department, and her breasts were nothing to brag about, everything about her was normal, well as normal as she could be that is.

�Maria? What�s wrong? Please tell me?� She asked the girl.
Maria let out a breath; it was now or never, just take the bull by the horn, or something like that.

�Miranda I�� she started.

�Maria please I know we don�t know each other very well, but I can see that there�s something bothering you, so just tell me,� Miranda told her.

�You know what there is something bothering me Miranda, and as great as you are I just�I really need to know what�s going on between you and Michael?�

�Maria�. Miranda began. �I know this might sound like a complete clich� but Michael and me are just friends Maria, that�s all�� Nothing felt better than hearing Miranda speak those stupid litlle six words and for the first time since Miranda moved to Roswell Maria felt like she could breathe again. �I can honestly say that he loves you so much, that no other girl could ever compete with that ever.�

�I know,� Maria confessed �but I�ve always had this fear that one day he would wake up and realize that I wasnt a part of his destiny,� Maria told her.

�Maria I don�t know much about destiny, if anything I�m not even sure it exists, as far as I see I�d like to think that we have just that much power to create our own destiny, nothing no matter who or what we are can change that,� Miranda told her honestly, well as honest as it could ever be.

Maria shook her head a little, �you have no idea how much I would like to believe that, that it was that easy, but it�s not that simple Miranda.�

�Nothing worth fighting for ever is Maria that�s why they call it true love.�

�You speak as out of experience, have you ever loved somebody that much it just made you want to scream?� Maria asked her.

Miranda looked at her with a strange look in her eyes.
Had she? She had the distinct feeling in her heart told her that she did, once a long time ago, she had indeed loved fully and completely. It was that very gut feeling that had sent her on her way to find that something that reminded her of something she knew she had felt so long ago, something that made the air spark just like Michael had made her feel�. but it couldn�t be, could it?

�Miranda?� Maria�s voice brought her back.

�Yes?� And then her question came back to her �uhhm I �� then all at once she saw Tac�s face. �Once� she told her.

**********

�Kyle where are you taking me?� Miranda half laughed, half yelled at him while sitting in the passenger seat in her car going 80m/h down the desert road.

�Has anyone ever thought you the meaning of a surprise? You�ve been asking me that very question ever since we got in the car,� Kyle teased her. Miranda gave him a fake glare, trying in her very best way not to smile.

�Patience my dear, patience and you�ll see,� Kyle told her. When Kyle had swung by the club suggesting that they should go for a ride it hadn�t sounded bad.

****FLASHBACK****

She had been hot as hell, this hot New Mexico weather was not something to play around with, sure she loved the hot climate but this was just as much as she could bare.

�If I�m not interupting anything, that is?� He had asked.

�No, not at all I was just going home anyway,� Maria had said.

�No, you don�t have to,� Miranda told her.

�No, is ok Miranda I should get going Im heading over to Michael�s anyway, I think he�s making my favorite tonight,� Maria told her with a little smile.

�Oh whats that Michael on a silver platter,� Kyle joked, and then winced out in pain, ouch rubbing his side that Maria had pinched.

�Carefull Kyle,� Miranda warned hi; But he just kept on grinning.

�Bye Miranda,� Maria said as she walked out.

�See ya.�

�So what was that all about?� Kyle asked her.

�What do you mean?� Miranda wondered as she gathered the papers of the table.

�You, Maria, the fact that there�s no blood shed around here,� He joked.

�And why on earth would there be any bloodshed Kyle? Maria and I were just getting to know eachother and we went over some songs that she�s gonna sing at the opening in two weeks.�

�So she got the job huh?�

�Yes of course she did, God that girl sure can sing,� Miranda said.

�Yeah tell me about it, man you should�ve seen her on the stage two years ago, boy she shone like a real star, Alex too,� Kyle told her remebering the image of the two of them togeather, during that blind date radio thing, he had got so drunk mooning over Liz, Max had to, only in the end Max ended up kissing Liz whyle he had puked his guts out.

�Alex?� Miranda asked, her quastion bringing back his attention. �Isn�t he the guy who died in that terrible car crash Michael told me about?�

�Yes it was, Maria and Alex were in a band, and they did all that stuff together.�

�Oh it must�ve been hard on her,� Miranda said softly.

�It was hard on everybody,� he said and for a minute there he could feel the waight of Alex�s lifeless body in his arms. He shook it off quickly, that wasnt the reason he had come here.
Miranda looked at him, some thing was seriously wrong with this picture, first Michael whom had more or less blamed himself for what had happened and now Kyle, no matter how hard he tried to hide the guilty look on his face he just failed misserably, it was as if the air around him itself just tenced up and it made her skin crawl.

�So what do you say?� Kyle asked.

�About what?�

�About us going for a ride?�

�Oh that ...oh I don�t know Kyle, I really want to do is go home and take a long and a very cooling shower,� she told him, �this heat has really drained the life out of me and if I don�t take a shower I think I�m gonna melt.�

�Only witches melt,� Kyle told her.

�Well what do you know I might just be one,�

�Ha ha very funny, come on,� he grabbed her by the hand and started leading her out.

�But what about my shower?�

�What about it, what I have in mind is a hell of alot better then any shower,� he told her. �Now get in,� he told her smiling from ear to ear.

****END OF FLASHBACK****

Yeah it was fun going so fast with the roof down, in the midlle of some empty road, with nothing but the cool breeze chilling her skin, and running through her hair, and a clear sky filled with stars, staring down at her, but the suspence was killing her, she never did like surprises, none of them had ever been anything but bad, she just hoped that the wait would end soon.

�Kyle come on,� she was just about to protest again whan he suddenly stopped the car and parked it. Turning of the engine he turned and looked at her.

�Well we�re here�

�Here where? Kyle I don�t see anything.�

�Well then come with me and take a look around,� he told her and the got out of the car. He helped her to get out as well. There was nothing, but a cilffrock formed mountain of some kind and then as she walked on holding Kyle�s hand she came to the outlook point she�d been on last night overlooking the Crater Lake.

�It beautiful, Kyle it really is, but I�ve already seen this place� She told him.

�You have?�

�Yes, I was here yesterday when I took aride. But I didn�t see this though, I must�ve been on the other side of the cliff�, she said pointing at the cliffrock. Kyle turned and looked at the cliff, the very cliff that held hidd the ruins of what use to be the granelith chamber and the ship that Tess had escaped with.

�It�s beautiful�, Miranda said, her eyes sparkling a little.

�Yes it is,� and in a way he wasn�t lying, it was beautiful, and yet filled with bitterness. �But that wasn�t why I brought you here,� He told her.

�Then why did you?� She asked him.

�Well, I thought you�d like to take a swim.�

�Where?� She looked arond, �You mean here?� She pointed at the Crater Lake.

�Yep,� Kyle said and started walking down some trail, obviously leeding down to the lake.

�But I can�t, I don�t have my bikini or anything�, she exclaimed.

�So? I don�t either and that�s not stopping me�

�You mean you�ve took me here to go skinidipping with you?� She asked sarcastacly.

�Either that or in your undewear, it�s your choise and really no business of mine,� he said in a very oh-i�m-so-cool-kind of way.

�Kyle sweety, as much I�d like to fufill your fantasy, it�s just isn�t going to happen,� She said sickly smiling.

�Thought you might say that, so I guess you can just stand there and sweat or you can come and join me, either way, you�r gonna have to wait till I�m done cuz guess what?�

�What?� She asked.

�I�ve got the keys darling� he said and waived them in the air.

TBC

Part 12

Confrontation