"Are you finished?" Yelled a Maria DeLuca from her boyfriend Michael Gurein's apartment. "No I'm not. No where near ready!" "Michael! Your being ridiculous! Grow up! Its just dinner!" Maria replied. "Yeah dinner with your mother!" Michael yelled from the bathroom. "Stop being such a baby and come out, so I can see what your wearing" she yelled through the bathroom door, "and make sure it's not going to offend my mother" she added to herself.

He finally came out 5 minutes later. He was clean. He was decent. He had that cute, worried expression on his face. God how she loved that expression on him. It made him seem… human. She loved that he could seem human. Especially since he worked so hard not to be. He looked almost romantic when he acted human. Sometimes she forgot that he was an alien, he was just her rude boyfriend, that she wouldn't change for the world.

"Oooohhhhh" she said, with a little worried note in her voice. "What? What is it? Is my shirt not clean enough? Cos I scrubbed it. I swear. I even ironed it." He managed to work himself into a panic with that one sentence. Maria started giggling uncontrollably. He stopped and looked at he. "There's nothing funny about this, every time your mother and I have met, I've done or said something wrong. It can't happen this time. I won't let it." Michael said this with a straight face and was very serious. So Maria giggled harder. Now her was giving her the serious 'stop-messing-with-me' look.

"Oh, come on, your killing the buzz." Said Maria smiling a seductive smile that made Michael stomach squirmy. He hated it when she did that. The problem was, that, she knew it happened. Every time. "Well. What's wrong with what I'm wearing?"

"Nothing, it's just, you don't look like you. Mess the hair." Said Maria very seriously. "Are you kidding? It took me half an hour to get it to sit this way," said Michael, causing Maria to giggle… again. "You can stop now." Said Michael. "I'm sorry, but… you just sounded so… gay." Said Maria. A stream of giggles followed that one sentence. Causing Michael to look at her and mess his hair. She did it again! She got her way again! Damn her and her cuteness. Like usual she knew what he was thinking. "I'm not cute." She said. "Now go and get in the jetta, while I go pee." She said already half way to the bathroom.