Part 3

"Maria! Maria, wake up." Michael said while shaking Maria gently. Maria's eye's flew open. Maria gasped for air, Michael pulled her into a hug. Maria hugged Michael tighter than ever. "It wasn't real." Maria whispered. She thanked god that it was just a really really bad nightmare. "Shhh, are you okay?" He asked her. Maria pulled away and nodded her head. "Ya, what time is it?" She asked him as she wiped some sweat off her forehead. "It's 2:30. Maria what the hell happened to your arm?" Michael asked her. Maria gave Michael a weird look and then looked at her arm. Maria's eye's widen as she looked at the big bruise that was on her arm. She then thought back at her nightmare. flashback "This isn't real. This isn't real. This isn't real. THIS ISN'T REAL!" Maria screamed. Maria pounded her arm against the wall. end of flashback "I must have hit it against something." Maria told him. Michael gave Maria a weird look and then shrugged his shoulders as he sat down on the bed. "So are you going to stay over at my apartment tonight?" Michael asked her. Maria didn't answer him, she just kept staring at her arm. "Maria?" "Oh, umm, ya. I want to stay over tonight." Maria told him. "Oh, can't stand to be alone?" Michael asked with a chuckle. "More than you know." Maria told him. Michael smirked and gave Maria a kiss on the lips before he got off the bed. "Oh ya, Max wants to have a meeting tonight at 8:30." Michael told her. "Where?" Maria asked him getting off her bed. "My apartment. Don't be late." Michael told her. "Looks who talking." Maria said to Michael. Michael glared at Maria. "I won't be late because it will be at my apartment." Michael gave Maria one last passionate kissed before heading out of her window. Maria watched as Michael walked away from her house. She shut the window and headed to the bathroom. Maria walked into the bathroom and shut the door. She pulled her arm up and looked at it in the mirror. 'How could this be?' Maria asked herself. 'It was a dream. It wasn't real!' Maria yelled in her head. 'Maybe I hit it when I was sleeping.' Maria nodded her head. 'Ya, Michael's always telling me that I move a lot when I sleep. It probably gets worse when your having a nightmare.' Maria sighed. "It was just a dream." Maria said out loud. ---- Michael walked into his apartment and found Max sitting down watching T.V. Michael sat next to Max and took the remote from him. "So tell me again why you didn't just call Maria and tell we were meeting here?" Max asked Michael. Michael glared at Max. "I just wanted to see her, Maxwell. I'm sure if it was Liz you would do the same thing." Michael told him as he flipped through the channels. "So what's this meeting all about anyway? Are we in some kind of danger?" Michael asked him. "I'll explain everything at 8:30 tonight. If I thought we were in serious danger, I wouldn't waste anytime telling you guys. It's just something I need to say." Max told Michael. Michael shrugged his shoulders. "Whatever you say Maxwell." ----- Maria was putting some ice on her bruise. She was so tired but she didn't want to go back to sleep. She was afraid she would have another nightmare. A worse one than before. If there was anything worse than loosing the one you love most in the world. Maria sighed and sat down on the couch. She turned the T.V. on hoping it would keep her awake. Maria flipped through the channels and couldn't find anything to watch. She got off the couch and headed to her bedroom. Maria walked into her bedroom and shivered. 'Why is it so cold in here?' Maria looked around her bedroom and notice her window was open. Maria's eye's widen. She was sure you closed the window after Michael left. Maria walked over to the window, she peaked her head outside to see if anyone was there. Nothing, Maria sighed and shut the window. 'Your really loosing it.' Maria told herself. She walked to her bed and laid down. She was so tired, she just wanted to get some sleep. Maria's eye's started to get heavy. She closed them, but then quickly opened them. But she couldn't fight it any longer, Maria closed her eye's and drifted off the dreamland. Ring Maria opened her eye's. It was the phone, she moaned as she got up and answered the phone. "Hello?" "Hey Maria." "Hey Liz. What's up?" Maria asked sitting back down on her bed. "Nothing much. You sound tired did you get some sleep?" Liz asked concerned. "Just a little. But I'm still kinda tired." Maria told Liz. "Awww, poor thing. So did you hear about the meeting at Michael's?" Liz asked her. "Ya, what do you think it's about?" Maria asked playing with the phone cord. "I don't know. I hope it isn't about another star dying though." Liz joked. Maria giggled remembering the last time Max called a meeting out of nowhere. "Ya, me too. So how are you guys anyway?" Maria asked her. "We are so much better, now that my dad is cool with Max again. I'm just so happy, things seem to be getting better. I mean you and Michael are back together, me and Max are great. And there hasn't been any alien things going on lately." Liz told Maria. "Ya, I kinda miss though. I felt like I was in some T.V. show." Maria told Liz. Liz laughed. "Oh so you want some big adventure. Where we have to run out in the woods and hide of evil aliens." Liz said. "No way, I said I kinda miss it." Maria told Liz with a small giggle. "Well, I'm gunna go now and let you get some sleep." Liz told Maria. Maria looked down and noticed the broken picture flame that was on the floor. It was the same picture Michael had dropped in her dream. With the same shattered glass. The hairs on the back of Maria's neck went up. "Maria? Are you there?" Liz asked. "Ya, I'm here." Maria said. "Oh well, I'll see you tonight then. Bye." Liz said. "Bye babe." Maria said before she hung up the phone. Maria's hand was shaking as she looked at the picture frame that was broken. The phone rang making Maria dropped the picture. "Hello?" Maria answered the phone in a shaken voice. "Mariaaa," TBC