original_post:_12/28/2005____________________________ Frustrating people even more, Alli shoots down Max when he asks her out. They couldn’t just get back together after one try, could they? That would be too easy and I wanted to keep them apart until people went nuts. Max also needed to be shown that Alli was willing to move on. That even though he loved Alli, she wasn’t going to just accept him back that easily.