"Peaches" she hears her perky brunnete friend as she approaches her at her locker.
"hi sweetie" the blond smiles at her best friend since kindergarden
"today is going to be a beautiful day" Riley says happy and in her own little world
"riles, it's high school, not Disneyland" Maya tries to bring her back to reality
"oh come on Maya you can never see the bright side of anything" her best friend has been telling her that ever since she could remember.
But it s so easy for riley to say that. She has grown up in happy world.2 parents who love her and a cute little brother who looks up to her. Everything in her world is just sunshine and daisies. Riley has never had to face the all the hardships maya has. The abandonment of her father when she was just a lttle girl and it doesn't help that her mom is hardley ever home. For maya seeing the bright side of anything was very hard.
" I think your just excited because you love looking at lucas" maya accuses
"maybe" Riley blushes
Riley has had a crush on the new kid lucas friar ever since he transferred from texas at the beginning of the year. But she has never had the guts to talk to him. She had her chance once, we were on the subway one time and she accidently landed on his lap when the train stopped suddenly but she quickly apologized and got up and she has tried to avoid him ever since.
"why don't you actually talk to him?" maya asks her
"no way he probably thinks of me as that freak that landed on him on the subway" Riley sighs
they make their way to their class
"maya we need to find you a guy" her best friend says as they take their seats in class
"yeah worry about yourself first sweetie"
"can you imagine if we both had boyfriends, we could go on double dates" she says excitedly
"yeah like that's gonna happen" maya chuckles
"come one peaches don't you want a nice boyfriend?'
Maya hasn't really ever dated. Shes been out with 1 or 2 guys but it never went as far as the 1st date. She has only had 1 real boyfriend his name was micheal, they were in 9th grade and after a month of dating he cheated on her with some sophomore.
"no thanks" Maya says
"come on maya, we can find you a great guy, maybe pete from the baseball team, he's cute."
"riles no set ups, I'm not interested in dating" she tells her friend for like the millionth time. She is always trying to set her up with someone but maya always turns her down.
"you are impossible" riley sighs
"that's why you love me" maya smiles sweetly
riley rolls her eyes and smile. The teacher walks into the classroom and class begins.
Later that day Maya was on the subway
Maya hated the subway, she hated having to be surrounded by a bunch of rude people who have no manner and just shove eachother. But unfortunately living in New York meant having to take the subway a lot.
She especially hated it when she was without Riley. She apparently had to head staright home because her family was coming to town and her mom wanted her to have everything ready for them. so she couldn't stay in art club after school with maya like she usually does. So maya was left to fend for herself.
There was no room to sit so she was left to stand up and hold on to a pole as she made her way home.
As she waited for her stop she felt someone come stand next to her
"hey baby, hows it going?" a tall dark blonde guy looks at her with a sleezy smirk.
"don't call me that" she tells him
"oh come on, I'm just trying to be nice, listen my place is at the next stop what do you say you and me get off and head over and have some fun"
"not interested" she says and starts to walk aways but they guy grabs a hold of her wrist.
"hey don't you walk away from me" the guy says very aggressively
"let me go" she demands as she tries to pull his hand away but his grip only tightens.
"let her go"
maya turns to look at who the voice belonged to and she saw a tall guy with
a leather jacket and a beanie standing in front of them.
"and who's gonna make me" the blond asks
"she says shes not interested now let her go and just walk away and no one gets hurt" the guy in the beanie says
"are you threatening me" the blond asks
"I don't make threats " beanie guy says
both guys have a stare down, the blond lets go of maya just to throw a punch at the other guy but before his fist could connect with his face beanie guy grabs his fist and twists it until blond guy is kneeling on the floor.
"ow ow ok I'm sorry man let me go" the blond practically begs
beanie guy lets go and then the subway stops
"get out of here" he tells him
the blond gets up and runs off the subway defeated
beanie guy looks to the girl he just helped
"are you okay" he asks her
maya simply nods "yes I'm ok, thank you"
beanie guy just smiles at her "no prob,"
"so do I get to know the name of the pretty blond I saved" he asks
maya rolls her eyes " I don't really talk to strangers"
he laughs "that's a pretty good rule , a lot of psychos out there"
maya tries to look any where but at the guy and waits for him to just leave but instead he stands next to her.
"I just got rid of one stalker I don't need a new one" maya tells him
he smirks "don't flatter yourself, theres no where else to sit"
maya simply looks the other way trying to ignore him
"so you visiting or do you live here?" the guy asks
"if I don't tell you my name what makes you think I'm going to tell you that kind of information, for all I know you could be some stalker who follows me home and grabs me and takes me into a dark allyway and kills me, then chops my body up and puts it in a trashbag and then just dump it in the nearest trash can, you'll take my wallet and they'll never be able to identify me" she finishes her rant
the guy just stares at her for a moment then begins to laugh"wow you are a very paranoid person"
"well this is New York, its not that far fetched" maya point out
"true" the guy agrees
the subway comes to another stop and beanie guy starts to leave the train but before he gets off he turns to maya
"take care of yourself gorgous" he winks and walks off
maya rolls her eyes but she couldn't help the smile that crept on her face.
She had to admit beanie guy was cute. But she had to realistic, she was probably never going to see him again