"Maria, I don't care what you think. Your coming with me to the Crashdown until my shift is over. I don't want anything to happen to you." Michael yelled at her. They have been fighting for about a half an hour now. "Michael, nothing it going to happen to me. God, I just want to go home and take a shower." Maria yelled back. She really didn't want to fight, but she really didn't want to back down. Michael grabbed Maria's arm. "You are going to the Crashdown with me. And I don't want to hear anything else from you." Michael told her. Maria pulled her arm away from Michael. "Damn it, Michael. Please, just let me go home, get my stuff and then I'll come straight to the Crashdown." Maria then pulled Michael to her and started sucking on her neck, the way she knew drove Michael crazy. "Maria, don't do that." Michael told her, trying not to fall for it as he wrapped his arms around her waist. "What...... do....... you...... mean?" Maria asked while still sucking on his neck. Michael groaned. "You know what." He told her but she just continued to suck on his neck. Michael sighed, he knew he wouldn't win the fight. " FINE! But you have to promise you'll call me when you to your house." Michael told her, Maria pulled away from Michael and nodded her head. "Ya, I will." "No! I need you to promise me, Maria." Michael told her. Maria smiled at him. "I promise, Michael." She told her. Michael nodded his head and kissed her on the cheek. "Okay, now go and hurry up." Michael told her not wanting her to leave. "I will." Maria said as she walked out of his apartment. Michael sighed in fustration. He really needed to learn how to say no to her when she did that to him. She seemed to be using her charms against him lately. Michael then got his jacket and left for his shift at the Crashdown. ----- Maria sighed, she didn't think Michael would actually let her go home. He was so overprotected of her, and now that all these things were going on he was even worse. She smiled to herself, she loved him so much. Maria walked inside of her room and walked to her phone. She called Michael. "Hello?" "See, I made it home." "Good, now hurry up and get to the Crashdown." Michael told her. "Michael, I'm gunna take a nice long bath. So I might be longer than a hour." "AN HOUR? What the hell? Maria, why do you have to take such a long bath? You just get in wash yourself and then get out." Michael told her. "Michael, its a bath. Your suppose to relax and then you get. It's okay, I'll be fine. If it makes you feel better, I'll wear life jacket." Maria told him with a giggle. "Very funny Maria. Fine, whatever. Just try not to stay to long, Okay?" "Yes, spaceboy." "Okay, bye." "Bye." Maria was about to hang up but Michael said something. "Maria?" "Ya?" "I love you." Maria smiled. "I love you, too." She told him and hung up the phone. Maria walked to the bathroom and turned on the warm water. She started to strip from her clothes while the water got higher and higher. When the tub was full she turned off the water and got inside. Maria sighed when the warm water hit her body. She loved taking a bath. It was weird because when your younger you hated taking baths. She closed her eye's and let herself enjoy the warmth of the water. She then thought it was a bad idea to close her eye's, because she might fall asleep. Maria got out of the bath and change into some new clothes. She started to dry her hair with a towel while walking back to her bedroom. She opened the door and noticed it was really cold inside. She looked at her window but it was closed. She shook her head. 'It's probably cold I was because she was just in a warm bath.' Maria told herself. While sitting down and brushing her hair. Maria looked at herself in the mirror and saw something on her face. It looked like a bruise or something, Maria moved closer the mirror. She took her hand and wiped, what she thought was a bruise. But it was just some make-up. "I'm really loosing it. I just need to hurry up and go to the Crashdown." Maria told herself as she got her make-up out and started to fix herself up. The room seemed really quiet to Maria. Almost to quiet, kind of a scary quiet. Maria looked around her room when she thought she heard a noise. She shrugged and walked to the kitchen to get something to drink. When she finished her drink she headed back to her room. When she walked inside her room heat hit her body. "What the? Why is it so hot?" Maria asked out loud. She walked to the window and noticed it was open. Maria turned around and walked out of her bedroom. She had to leave now. She grabbed her purse and went out the door but she bumped into someone. "Michael, what are you doing here?" Maria asked him. "Your taking to long. So I came here on my break to pick you up." Michael told her. Maria glared up at him. "I think I'm a big girl, Michael. I can walk to the Crashdown by myself." Maria told him with a smirk. Michael pulled Maria into a hug. "I just want to keep you safe." He whispered in her ear. "Mariaaa." TBC

Part 12