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Chapter 1 - Celebration

Phoenix yawned loudly as he slumped further into the soft cushioned chair. He was sitting at a well known restaurant celebrating the success of his case.

It had obviously not been him who had thrown the party, straight after winning the case Edgeworth had decided to get better acquainted, this mainly caused by the power of persuasion that both Maya and Pearl's puppy dog eyes held.

Edgeworth being tired after a particularly long case had not bothered to argue and went along with the girls. Both him and Phoenix were currently really tired and were not up for a party but clearly their friends seemed to be and they decided to stay out of this for once.

Phoenix frowning looked to his side to check if Edgeworth was actually enjoying himself, he smirked as he saw that his guess was right, there was just no way Edgeworth would enjoy anything but trampling on people's confidence.

However Edgeworth right now, looked as if he was regretting his decision for a so called celebration as his bill kept piling up, with every three course meal that Maya ordered and surprisingly ate.

Edgeworth sensing Phoenix's look, turned to face him and turned slightly pink as he noticed the smirk on Phoenix's face,

"Unlike you, Wright I can back up my idea with money." Edgeworth smirked seeing Phoenix scowl and turned away.

"You're right Mr. Edgeworth, Nick only takes us out to Burger joints,not that they're bad but nothing as fancy as this." Maya spoke with her mouth full, and started ordering more food. Edgeworth sighed as he realised that he would probably be bankrupt by the end of this 'celebration'.

Remind me again to change my partner. Phoenix thought. He was about to fall asleep when he felt something very wet and sticky on his chest. He opened his eyes when he noticed that the table had gone very quiet. He saw that everyone was waiting for something, the three feaster's hands poised.

He felt everyone's gazes on him and looked down on his chest to check exactly what they were looking at. His eyes widened as he saw that a piece of chicken with quite a lot of gravy was right now sliding down his chest, marking his crisp white shirt with trails of brown gravy.

He raised an eyebrow and looked at the three with forks. Gumshoe smiled apologetically.

"Sorry pal. Didn't mean to ya know? The chicken here is too hard. Gravy's quite nice though. You should try some pal!"

"I'm not sure I like your idea of offering me some food to taste, Detective." Phoenix said irritated. He looked beside him to see that Edgeworth still had his serious expression on his face but the sides of his lips were twitching as if they were being restrained from laughing out loud.

"It suits you just Wright, it expresses exactly how much of a fool you are, Wright." Edgeworth said, finally unable to hold back his amusement, his smile broke through to the surface, annoying Phoenix to a greater length.

"That's it! I've had enough, I'm leaving. I need to get some rest." Phoenix said getting up.

"For once you actually are Wright. I have to get going too. I have to leave for Germany in two days." Edgeworth said rising to his feet, meeting Phoenix's tired gaze.

"Stop the bad puns on my name already." Phoenix said without much vigour.

"No wait; I'm not done yet Nick, Mr Edgeworth! Please wait!" Maya cried also getting up her knife poised, her companions in food also got up.

"Yeah, please wait, we have to try the desert!!" Both Pearl and Gumshoe cried in unison. Phoenix and Edgeworth merely shook their heads tiredly and started to leave, Maya, Pearl and Gumshoe latched themselves onto the pair trying to get them to stay.

They had earned themselves quite a number of onlookers when,

"Is that you Maya?" Asked a gentle male voice from behind them.

They all stopped arguing and turned to look at the questioner. Maya gulped down the food in her mouth and turned slightly pink from either choking on the food that she was hurriedly swallowing or probably from the looks that she got from everyone as they saw their questioner was a young man probably in his late teens.

"Um...uh...hi...um...Matt..." Maya said quietly. At this point everyone jerked their heads sharply towards Maya, it was unknown for Maya to ever be this quiet, and it was not natural.

Note to self: invite this boy to the office everytime Maya wants watch the Steel Samurai. Phoenix thought quickly smiling seeing the effect the boy had on Maya.

Note to self: invite this boy to every celebration party that I throw that involves Maya, would save money. Edgeworth thought both he and Phoenix shared a knowing glance; they shook their heads and cleared their throats.

"Right, seeing that you've got company, I'll make my leave. I have to prepare my journey." Edgeworth said, tossing a pay check towards the waiter and leaving.

"Wait sir, I'm coming as well. I don't want to pay extra!" Gumshoe shouted and left after Edgeworth, abandoning his half-eaten food.

"Well then, I guess I have to go too. I'll meet you back at the office Maya." Phoenix said getting ready to leave.

"Oh wait, I didn't mean to interrupt, I just heard Maya's voice and wanted to check if it really was her. I'm Matt Henderson by the way, trainee lawyer. I was Maya's senior by two years back at school." Matt said extending his hand. He was quite a good looking young man with dark brown hair and brown eyes.

"Phoenix Wright, attorney at law. Good to meet you."

"Mr. Wright?! Wow, I really hadn't thought I would meet you here of all places! I've heard of all your cases! Wow, Maya I didn't know that you were with one of the best defence attorneys in the city!" Matt said with excitement.

Maya blushed under his intense gaze and murmured slowly,

"Um...yeah...uh...Nick ...was...Mia's...assistant..." She said shyly. Phoenix's eyebrows went right past the 'shocked' line to 'beyond shocked' line. He had never in a million years expected Maya to murmur anything; he didn't even know that this word even existed in her psychological dictionary!

"Uh, right! I guess I have to get going now, can't keep my clients waiting." Phoenix said cheerfully if I had any at all, he thought sourly and started to move.

Suddenly Maya's face took on a look of panic, she looked at Phoenix and then to her left at Pearl, who had already moved towards Phoenix.

"Uh, uh, I have to go too!IhavetohelpNick!!" Maya spoke very quickly.

"Huh?" the other three asked in unison since they didn't understand a word she just said.

"I-I have to go. I...have...to...help...Nick...sorry..." Maya said shyly. Phoenix looked at Maya, and then down at Pearl who had an eyebrow raised, clearly she hadn't seen this side of her cousin before either.

"Hey, no problem. It's good to see you though Maya, it's been ages! Mr Wright you will have to help me sometime, I'm training to be a lawyer as well, hopefully I will get to a good standard like you." Matt said cheerfully.

Hopefully you won't go broke like me either. Phoenix thought smiling.

"All right see you then. Maybe we can meet up sometime later Maya. Goodbye Mr Wright, and um, little girl." Matt said and left.

The minute he left, both Phoenix and Pearl turned to look at Maya, who was still red from hearing Matt's departing statement. Phoenix smiled sinisterly and crossed his arms.

"So, Maya who is he? By looking at your face right now I would say that you know him very well."

"No, no, no, he really was my senior back at high school! He knew Mia as well, and he even told me that Mia inspired him to become a lawyer. I'm not sure if he knows that Mia's dead...he'd be heart broken though if he knew...he really liked Mia even if she was seven years older than him..." Maya said sadly.

"Mystic Maya I thought Mr. Nick was your special someone!Why are you going red when that man is around?!" Pearl asked angrily, her cheeks puffed out.

Phoenix laid a hand on Pearl's shoulder and laughed lightly. Bending down to Pearl's level, he whispered slowly in her ear,

"That's because that man is her special someone, I'm just her special friend and you're her special cousin." Phoenix said smiling.

"That's not true!! Matt isn't my special anything! I'm going home!" Maya said reverting back to her old self, her cheeks puffed out she started to walk towards the door.

"Hey Maya, wait up!"

Maya turned around to see Matt running towards her, her usual stance had given way to a shy demeanour. Matt caught up to her and panted. After a few seconds he straightened up and smiled at Maya.

"Maya, it's been a long time since we've seen each other right? So I was thinking that maybe we could meet up some where some place later. So...maybe we could exchange numbers?" Matt asked helplessly, sporting a lightly pink face.

Hesitantly and shyly Maya and Matt exchanged numbers and departed their own ways. Phoenix had been watching all of this and smiled. Looks like little Maya's all grown up. Hmm, I wonder if I have to pay for the wedding? Better contact Edgeworth first!I might go broke to the extreme! Phoenix thought rubbing his chin.