Roswell1999

[Liz is on the roof]

Max:
Liz!

[She walks to the edge and looks over]

Max:
I have to talk to you.

[She lets him in]

Max:
I can't imagine how you must feel right now, I mean, I've thought about telling you a thousand times.

Liz:
You have, me?

[Max smiles]

Liz:
What?

Max:
Sorry, I just , uh, I just keep picturing you in that dress, with the, uh, the cupcakes... on it.

Liz:
What?

Max:
Forget it, it was a long time ago.

Liz:
[Realizes what he is talking about] Oh my God. That's, that's right. I can't believe I actually wore that thing! [Realizes something] I had that dress in kindergarten, I didn't know you until the third grade. Did you like, read my mind or something?

Max:
No, I-I don't read minds. When I healed you, I made this, this, I don't know, this connection. And I got this rush of images... An image of that dress flashed into my mind, and, I knew how you felt about it.

Liz:
How did I feel about it?

Max:
It was the single supreme embarrassment of your life. But your Mom made it for you, she was so proud of it, she'd never made a dress before, so you wore it. For her sake.

[Liz nods in shock]

Max:
I've never tried this before, but maybe I can make the connection go the other way. So you can see, you know that, that I'm still me.

[He advances until he's in front of her]

Max:
I have to touch you.

[Liz nods]

[Max puts his hands on both side of her head]

Max:
Now just take deep breaths and try to let your mind blank out.

Liz:
[Liz gets a rush of images, Max and Isabel walking down the road and the Evans finding them, Max on the first day, and how he sees her. In the halls at school talking to Maria, and since they were in third grade] VOICE-OVER: I could feel everything he was feeling. I could feel his loneliness. For the first time I was really seeing Max Evans, I saw me as he saw me, and the amazing thing was, in his eyes, I was beautiful.

Max:
[Max pulls away] Did it work? [Liz nods and Max looks at her embarrassed]