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Chapter 1 Complications

"Hey whore! Turn the damn TV down." Kina yelled to Tana from the kitchen.

"Bite me!" Was the reply she got before the volume decreased.

"I'm going to laugh my ass off when you fall." Maia giggled as she watched Madysen lean on the barstool.

"I'm not going to so don't worry about it." Madysen said sticking her tongue out at her. Maia waited till she started leaning again and kicked the barstool out from under her. Maia nearly fell off her own stool with laughter as she hit the ground.

"Owww fucker!" Madysen groaned as she rubbed her tailbone.

"Oh wah! Shouldn't have been leaning. I warned you." Maia replied trying to stifle her laugh. Tana walked into the kitchen and head for the refrigerator like always.

"Trent just got here, he's walking his bike to the garage and he doesn't look happy at all.

Kina sighed and walked over to the sliding doors.

"Well if he didn't think he was Evil Knevil, this shit would never happen." She opened the doors and everyone but Maia followed her out. Maia watched them walk out, but turned away when she saw Kina and Trent kiss.

She stood up to walk outside when her cell phone rang. Her gut said it was Ray but she answered anyway.

"Hello?" She was right.

"Hey baby. Don't hang up." His slick voice crooned.

"Uhhh give me one good reason why I shouldn't." She sarcastically said as she paced back and forth in the kitchen.

"Because I still love you and I want you back. I'll have you back no matter what." She could practically hear the grin in his voice.

"Yeah gee let me think about that….NO… Fuck you." She all but yelled into the phone.

"Been there, done that. I'll be seeing you soon though. Very soon as a matter of fact." He quietly said before hanging up.

She was sitting at the table head in her hands when they all came back inside.

"Hey what's up?" Kina asked waiting for Trent to sit down so she could sit on top of him.

"Nothing just starting to get a headache." She forced a fake smile. Kina returned the smile but wasn't entirely convinced. Maia was always the one to hold back the truth and hide things. They were still sitting around the table and joking around when the doorbell rang. Tana jumped to answer it and they waited to see who it was.

"Fuck off faggot no one wants you here. So take that as a hint and leave." They all looked at each other before rushing to see who it was before Tana's mouth got her into trouble.

Maias' mouth dropped open when she saw who it was. Ray looked around Trent who had pushed his way to the front.

"Maia get in the house." Trent ordered folding his arms across his chest.

"No…." She whispered staring at Ray.

"Maia…." Ray said with a grin on his face.

"You look good baby." His face now held a look of disgust as he sized Trent up and down. If looks could kill Trent would be dead and buried.

"You broke our friendship up over a girl. You're pathetic. You really should watch your back." Ray gave a sarcastic laugh.

"No see that's where you're wrong. You're pathetic." Trent calmly replied before punching him.

"Fucker." Ray yelled as he got to his feet and pulled a gun out of the waistband of his pants.

"No stop!" Maia threw herself in front of Trent not willing to have any more of her friends hurt.

"Move this is between us. I don't want to shoot you, but I will." Ray cocked the gun.

"No. leave now please…" Maia quietly said as her eyes slowly filled with tears.

"Can't you leave me alone? Please Ray, you say you love me well if you loved me, you would leave me alone and stop putting me through hell." She told him as she tried to grasp at some sense of control.

He fixed a cold hard stare on her. "I do love you, that's why I can't leave you alone." He took a step towards her, his gun still on Trent.

"Just leave me alone. Please? For me?" She whispered feeling her resolve weakening.

"Ok. I will for now, but I will see you again soon and that's a promise." Ray blew her a kiss before turning to leave. Maia turned, pushed past them and ran up the stairs.

"Let me go talk to her." Kina stopped them from following her. She slowly walked into her room to talk to Maia who was sprawled on her bed.

"Why do I torture myself like this? Why do I still love him? WHY? I mean how much hell am I going to put myself through? Why can't I just let him go? After everything he's put me through, I still continue to love and miss him." Maia sobbed when Kina cuddled against her.

"It's the concept of love, no matter what when you love someone as much as you loved him it's nearly impossible to just stop. No matter what you do, it's hard to lose someone you love. You just have to go on and remember that you will be okay. You don't need him in order to go on. Eventually the love will die away as long as you keep in mind that no matter how hard it is he's not right for you. I mean for god sakes Maia he beat you…….. I wish that I could……I wish that you would just forget him." Kina smoothed Maia's hair out of her face.

"It's not that easy….Like you said it's hard to just stop loving someone. I know what he did to me, but I still love him. I'm fucked up this I know." Maia whispered.

"It will happen we will help. I think what you really need is to get away. I think we should take a vacation." Kina suggested sitting up.

"Ya think so?" Maia wiped the tears from her eyes.

"Yeah we should. Hey guys come here!" Kina yelled for them.

"What?" Madysen asked as they filed into the room.

"Maia and I have come to the decision that we should take a vacation.

"Where would we go?" Tana questioned perching on the edge of the bed.

"Who invited you?" Maia weakly joked. Tana just stuck her tongue out and repeated the question.

"We should go to Los Angeles." Trent suggested. "I've always wanted to go there."

"Where would we even stay? How long would we stay?" Maia asked.

"I don't know. A week…2 weeks." Trent wondered aloud.

"Well then ya know what I'll call my friend he'll let us stay with him." Tana excitedly bounced off the bed.

"Alright sounds like a half-baked plan. Go call him." Trent ordered.

"Yes sir." Giggling Tana saluted him and ran out of the room when he started towards her.

"Alright you guys go pack." Trent turned to them.

"Yes slave master." Kina laughed and saluted him also. She shrieked as he tackled her.

Tana got on the phone and the others excluding Maia went to pack.

"He said it's cool." Tana grinned.

"Alright well I'm gonna go home and pack." Maia replied grabbing her keys.

"Are you gonna be all right by yourself?" Madysens' face was screwed over with worry.

"Well dumbass I'm 22 I should hope so." Maia joked.

"Alright anything happens call." Madysen gave her a quick hug.

"You're so fricking weird." Maia muttered before leaving.

"Meet ya'll back here." She called over her shoulder.

"Where she's going?" Tana asked watching her leave.

"To pack."

"She alright?" Tana questioned watching her peal out of the driveway.

"No, but she's pretending to be. Like always cracking jokes to cover it all up." Madysen frowned.

"Yeah that's my cousin for you." Tana flopped on the bed and flipped through a magazine.

An hour later

You guys all packed." Trent asked.

"Yup." Tana calmly said still thumbing through a magazine.

"No…" Madysen grumbled from her room as she rushed around.

"Why are we always the first done?" Trent laughingly asked Tana.

"Cuz we don't give a shit." She replied not taking her eyes of the page.

"All too true."

10 more minutes

"Now are you ready?" Trent yelled up the stairs.

"Yeah….We think." Kina and Madysen called back as they lugged their stuff down.

"Should we go to Maia's? Trent asked when they finally came down.

"No she said she'd meet us back here." Tana replied and stretched out on the couch.

"Alright I suppose." Madysen sat down, with a worried look on her face.

After five minutes of silence she asked.

"Do you think she'll be okay?"

"Yeah of course. Ray's to dumb to try two things in the same day." Tana said trying to convince herself rather than the others.

"Yeah. She'll be fine." Trent smiled. They sat in silence and tried to keep distracted.

"What time is it?" Madysen impatiently asked.

"About 6 something." Tana replied still flipping through yet another magazine.

"Did anybody think to call work?" Trent asked.

"Shit! I'll just call my mom and just explain about Ray." Tana jumped up. They all currently worked for Tana's mother at her restaurant slash bar. Everyone worked there doing odd jobs except Madysen who didn't have a job.

"Can she honestly do with all of you?" Madysen questioned.

"She'll manage, besides look how many people she has working there. I think she has us all work there because she feels obligated." Tana laughed as she waited for her mom to answer so she could explain.

"Its cool she said that Barb and Jack have been complaining for more hours anyway just she would like more warning next time. I do believe she said like a year warning, I couldn't tell if she was joking though." Tana resumed her place on the couch.

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