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Title: Love, Secrets and Strawberry Pies
Author: mmcherron AKA Lissalou72
Disclaimer: The characters of "Roswell" belong to Jason Katims, Melinda Metz, WB, and UPN. They are not mine and no infringement is intended. I’m just borrowing them for a few so please don’t sue me because I have nothing to give.
Couples: M/L Mostly
Rating: Mature to maybe Adult
Summary: Liz feels like she will never met the right man. It was a blow to her when she found her mom and her boyfriend sleeping together, even worse he is her step father now.
Maria secretly puts her in this Love connection show to try to get her to meet mister right. What will happen? Will Liz finally meet the Man that will sweep her off her feet? Will she find that true love she so needs and wants?
A/N: Hi everyone yes it’s me again getting another one of my many fics out. This one is a fluff Challenge that Believer2 wrote up for me because she says I write to much angst. So Please be kind this is my very first try at it. Feedback is always wanted thank you. I’m going to be posting this one once a week too I will come up with the day later this week.
I would like to thank my beta and challenge writer Believer2 for all the hard work she has been doing and putting up with. I tend to drive her nuts because I’m never sure about it…LOL smooches girl you are going to need it.
I would also like to thank my support group and very dear friends Roswellianpricess16 AKA Selena, vegas312, ilyme you are the best and I’m not sure I would have kept writing if it weren’t for you. I also want to thank all the readers who are still out there reading my stuff.
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Prologue
Have you ever had a day that started out with smiles and happiness only to end up being crushed and heartbroken? Well, I had one of those days. In fact, it was about a month ago to this day. Yes, I remember that it was sunny and warm- I thought that nothing could bring me down from my natural happy high, but boy, was I ever wrong.
I bet you are all wondering what exactly happened right? Do you really want to know? Because I’ll tell you and it isn’t pretty. It started out as one of the happiest days of my life…
~Flashback~
I’m so happy that this week is finally over! I swear it was dragging out just because I have plans for the weekend. Anything and everything that could go wrong for the week at work did - just to spite me. I think that there was someone out to get me. But I did get through it, with flying colors, and I even got out early.
So, what’s so special about this weekend? Well, let me tell you: this weekend I’m finally going to lose my virginity. I thought I would never get to this point in my life. I’m 24 years old and for the first time in my life, I’m in love. Ok, I know you all are laughing at me, but I always believed in waiting to have sex for the right time and the right person.
My life-long best friend Maria Deluca is always laughing at me and giving me shit about my love life, like she doesn’t have problems of her own. She is always telling me that I’m wasting my time waiting for the knight and shining armor type because it simply doesn’t exist. What can I say? I’m a romantic…A big nerdy romantic. I believe in soul mates, forever, and happily ever after. One of my favorite movies is Pretty Woman-gotta love the ending.
In school, I was always the geeky girl that sat under the tree with her best friend studying. Or I was in the lab or library. My studies always came first, no matter what, and now my job has my first priority. I never dated in high school-I was never popular. I was the flat chested girl that everyone made fun of. Don’t get me wrong, I have friends and a social life, sometimes. But, my job… I have my dream job, the one that I spent my whole life working towards….I am the youngest Head Research Cancer Biologist at Harvard Medical Center. I love my job, its my whole life, or at least I thought it was until I met Adam.
While I love my job, my personal life does come first, sometimes. Like this weekend. I got off early so I can get ready for my wonderful trip to Colorado Mountains. I even stopped at Victoria’s Secret for a special negligee for THE night. I picked out a red lace babydoll with matching panties that I hope will drive my boyfriend absolutely crazy. My boyfriend.
His name is Adam Shallow. We met in college while we were in English class together, and he was in my study group. Adam is tall with blonde hair and blue eyes. I never thought of myself falling for someone who looks like that because I was always attracted to tall, dark, mysterious, slightly nerdy types, but Adam never let up on asking me out. I thought it was really quite romantic, so I finally said yes to shut him up and we have been together ever since. Funny, if you look at us, we’re complete opposites with hardly anything in common. He’s the guy that every girl stares at, the guy that can charm anyone, anytime, while most people don’t even see me.
I knew Adam was special but it wasn’t until I told him that I didn’t want to have casual sex, and that I was waiting for the right time and person. At that moment I knew how special he was. He was so understanding, so sweet, he told me he was fine with waiting until I was ready - talk about a heartbreaker right there. You can’t find very many guys that are even remotely interested in your feelings about sex, but Adam did.
And best of all, he asked me to marry him. A few months ago, we were at my favorite pizza restaurant. He called attention to every one in the restaurant, got down on one knee, and asked me to marry him. I had the whole restaurant waiting for my answer. I have to say that it was one of the most embarrassing moments I ever had but yet the sweetest too.
The only problem here is my best friend Maria. She really hates Adam. I’m really not sure why though. Maria and I have been best friends since pre-school. We were in the same class and I was being picked on by this little girl named Pam Troy. Maria told her to get lost and leave me alone and ever since then, we have been together through thick and thin.
Maria was there for me when my parents went through their messy divorce. I was a basket case for a few months. My mother was consistently yelling at my dad, telling him that he was no good and that he made her cheat. She was trying to get me to lie to the judge saying that my dad was a wife beater. I’m not sure I would have finished my senior year without Maria.
Every time I have to deal with my mother, I have to have Maria close by for moral support. Nothing is good enough for that woman. I swear, I fight with her about everything. If it’s not my job, it’s my relationship, or what I wear, or what I don’t do for her. I never got along with my mother. I have always been a daddy’s girl, but ever since dad died, she has been on my back more often. He made me promise to be good to her and try to work on our relationship the night that he died. I have been trying ever since.
I knew it was a big mistake after I told her I was getting married to Adam. Because ever since then, she’s been driving me crazy with wedding plans. And I should have listened to Maria’s warning about giving her a house key. Because she is always here whether I’m home or not. Gods know what she is doing. Or doing it with. Maria is always right about things and sometimes I hate having to find out the hard way.
I remember the day that Maria met Adam. She told me that she didn’t like him, that he reminded her of her ex-boyfriend. She told me that his eyes weren’t true, that he was hiding something. I went to the kitchen to get the drinks and I heard Maria screaming at him that if he hurt me, she would make sure that he would pay for it in body parts, if you know what I mean.
I should have listened to Maria.
As I pull up to the house I notice that Adam’s car is already there. I wonder what he is doing here so early. I am sure that he told me that he wasn’t going to be here until 5PM, and I told him I wouldn’t be able to get home until about that time away.
But my boss let me out early today. I heard something in the bedroom and thought that maybe he was trying to take a nap or something. I slowly open the door, not wanting to wake him if he was asleep. But, I could have sworn I heard someone else in there too. I look in and my heart shatters. There’s Adam. And my mother. Having sex – together. In my bed. I think I have to burn my eyes out of my head.
~Present~
I was such a fool! How could I believe that a guy could be so sweet and patient about waiting to have sex? No, wait, I’m such a blind fool because I didn’t realize that Adam and my mother have been sleeping together for the past year. No wonder she’s been acting so nicely to me this past year.
I hate men! I really hate my mom! To think that I actually thought she was happy for me and wanted to be a part of my life – god, what a fool! That night, the night my life was shattered and my hopes for a happy future went down the drain, there was only one place left for me to go. Maria’s.
Maria was right about him, he is evil and you want to know what is even worse then finding out my fiancée and my mother were sleeping together? I haven’t been able to go home. I bought that house after I got my job, hoping to one day raise a family there. But now, I can’t get the vision of my mother and Adam naked in my bed out of my mind. I went back once with Maria to pack a few clothes and personal things, and I haven’t been back.
I now have the house and all of its contents for sale. I’m starting over. I live with Maria in her house that she bought at the same time I bought mine. She lives only a block away because it seems like we can’t live too far away from each other. She makes good money writing songs. Writing music was her life long dream, and she is great at it.
I’m so happy that Maria lives close by because I would have lost it for sure if I had no one to turn to. Maria is my back bone, and I love her like a sister. She has once again gotten me out of my shell. I remember the school counselor would call it “Stepping out from behind the tree”. I’m learning to cope with the betrayal of my fiancée and my mother. And maybe one day, I will finally get over all of this.
But, right now, I’m trying to get my life back in order before the other shoe drops. With Maria’s help I’ve purchased a whole new wardrobe and a brand new bed. Since all of this has happened, I have never looked better. I lost about 20 pounds and I’m starting to feel better with Maria’s help. She went and took me to a weekend get away spa treatment after I lost the weight. I look and feel like a better person. Day by day, I am putting the pieces of my life back together. And I thought I was doing a pretty good job. At least, that is what I thought before I got the mail today.
Just guess what I got today, you’ll never guess….a wedding invitation. To my mother and Adam’s wedding.
Ohhh is that the other shoe dropping….
Isn’t life great?
TBC…..
