Who: Michael and Maria What: they need to talk Where: Michael's apartment When: 4/13 Warnings: none really Status: ongoing
Michael didn't get it he'd been just fine pining over Alex since he'd gotten to Madison Valley and had even hooked up a few times with the hot blonde Maxxie having some fun and everything with the anniversary of his first kiss with Alex coming up and everything but when he'd seen Maria flirting with the new guy he'd felt a twinge of he didn't know what it was maybe it was jealousy...yeah that was likely what it was so he'd texted her as she was closing up the bar and asked her to come over wanting to talk to her about that.
He wasn't sure just where that would lead if anywhere or just where he wanted it to lead ok that was a lie if he was being honest he wanted it to lead to her canceling her date with the new guy and being with him but he wasn't holding his breath that it would happen. Sure they'd spent a lot of time cuddling but that didn't mean anything really. Hell, it could mean anything to Maria and she could turn him down in a heartbeat and leave him out in the cold. @Mylia
Maria had been worried about Michael when he found out about Alex, but he seemed to have found ways to soothe his heart and soul. She wouldn't deny that sometimes she felt a pang after she found out about them, but she wasn't jealous enough to stop the cuddle nights that they still had occasionally.
They had been together for a short time back home and then he and Alex had finally gotten together. Maria had been genuinely happy for them, but that left her out in the cold again. Then there was the threesome that they shared and her emotions were confused and a bit raw after that.
Once she was done closing up, she made her way over to Michael's place and knocked gently on his door.
Michael smiled when he heard the knock at his door and went answering it with a big grin on his face pulling her into a hug, "Hey there gorgeous thank you for coming over I needed to see you that was for sure and I wanted to talk to you about something pretty important. Don't worry it's not life-threatening or anything like that."
He smiled and stepped back pulling her into his apartment and over to the couch. Once there he sat down pulling her down with him and looked into her eyes trying to figure out how to bring up the subject of Jonothan. He finally just decided to come out with it, "I'm not gonna lie I'm jealous that the new guy gets to have a date with you this weekend. I want to be with you...I'm done sleeping around."
He watched her face and waited for her reaction to what he'd just said.
Out of everything that he could have said, that was something that she couldn't have guessed would come out of his mouth. She hadn't thought that he wanted to be with her or even anybody else. However, she also couldn't say that she hadn't wished that he would say something like this to her. She had just about given up on that and was moving forward.
"When you say you want to be with me, you mean together-together, right? An official couple that is monogamous and only doing certain things with each other?" She swallowed and gave him a soft look. "Because I need more than being a friend with benefits, Michael. I need... I need all in and both of us on the same page."
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"That's exactly what I mean darling I respect you way too much than to do the whole friends-with-benefits thing with you Maria. I wouldn't even suggest this if I wasn't ready to go all in with you and be in this one hundred percent with you ok? You mean way too much to me for me to risk our friendship with anything less,"
He knew this was probably coming out of the blue for her and he got that because last she'd known he was still heartbroken over basically losing the man that he'd been in love with since high school after they'd finally gotten their happy ending but he was at a point where he was ok with that and ready to be happy with someone again