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Lucas and Maya were a couple for a while, but things didn't work out and both tried to move on.

This has nothing to do with this story but ... I'm already writing the first scene of the new chapter of "This is a love story. What? No, No Way!" And like, the first scene already has almost three thousand words. Yeah, I need to be more objective, but what I can say is that someone will argue with someone.

I need to watch more episodes of Anne with an E and I'm hoping that Netflix will renew it for another season.

I'll write this Wanderlust007 because maybe for some extraordinary reason he or she accidentally clicked here.

Wanderlust007 Please, come back!

It was past midnight and he was there, sitting in that armchair in the corner of his room lit only by the lampshade beside him. Sleep was gone as soon as he lay down in the bed, that had been happening so often in the last few days, Lucas had even forgotten when it was the last time he hadn't had to struggle to close his eyes.

His eyes went to his bed and for a few seconds he thought he had seen the soft, beautiful, blond waves scattered over his mattress as he had already become accustomed, but the reality hit him like a slap in the face when those blond waves who was scattered over his mattress became a perfectly, straight and black strand of hair belonging to the tiny figure hidden by his bed sheets.

Lucas rested his chin on his hands as he watched the unfamiliar curves of his sheets over her body, the body in which a few hours ago he had for himself and when he remembered what he has done he felt like a crap. She is just a replace and he hates himself for using her like that, for using her for the purpose of forgetting the Blonde beauty. He hates that kind of guy who deceives a woman, who makes her believe that he really likes her when in fact he doesn't, the kind of guy who uses without thinking or cares and in the end, he will hurt her, the kind of guy he is, the kind of guy he hates himself for being.

They tried, they had their chance and he'd ruined everything with his insecurity, his lack of time, his lapses, his damn genius. He had left her, he had promised that he would never leave her, but he left her and it hurts. It hurts to know that he had hurt her, that he had made her faced one of her greatest fears and now there is nothing else to do, she will never want to see him again and he understands it perfectly.

He really wanted to forget her at some point, he even deleted her number and all the messages that were sent and received, but everything in his place reminds him of her; the paintings on the walls, the paint stains around the house, the clothes in his closet, the paintbrushes on the table.

Lucas sighed as he got up from his armchair, his eyes went to the painting on the wall of his bedroom and he smiled seeing the fruits drawn with his face, she had painted it in middle school and had given it to him a few years ago because her roommate at that time, couldn't bear to look at it for thinking it was weird.

His footsteps stopped in front of his closet and Lucas slid the door gently so as not to disturb the brunette in his bed. He looked at the dresses that were right at the corner of the closet for days. He remembered the first time the brunette found them and he had lied when she asked who is the owner of the dresses, the safest answer to that question was Riley because she trusted in the brunette, she didn't even have the opportunity to meet the blonde, but she'd already heard conversations about her and about Lucas and her, so he'd said they belonged to Riley, that she left them there and that she'd be looking for them soon, something that never happened.

He took one from his closet, it was a simple red dress the last one she'd worn when she'd been there for the last time before it was over. Lucas caressed the fabric of her dress, it was not so interesting now that it wasn't sliding over the curves of her body, but her perfume still on it, which made him draw it close to his face and breathing in the perfume which she had worn it since he had known her and for a moment, just for a moment he could close his eyes and feel her there, there with him.

He felt a lump in his throat and his eyes filled with tears in a cry that he was trying to avoid for some time. It had been months since he had seen her, more precisely five months. She had been going to spend two months in France for a summer course she had got after an art department contest. In addition to the course, she also won the plane tickets, room, board and subway ticket. Knowing that Maya would go to France by herself, got Riley in tears because she wanted the first trip to France was with the two together and unfortunately, this was not going to happen anymore, but nothing stopped her from going to France two weeks after her Peach got there. He remembers how embarrassing the farewell was, Riley and Katy didn't give space to anyone when it was not one that was with Maya in her arms was the other one. She had not even said a goodbye to him because the break up was still very recent. Riley forced him to go, she said that before they became boyfriend and girlfriend they are friends and friends support each other during the good times and bad times.

After that day, he never saw her again, she had come back a few weeks before the start of the last school year and by coincidence just the day he would be at the clinic all day in his summer internship, so Riley could not make him go to the airport or the welcome party she had thrown for Maya. Maybe that was the reason she was never in the same place he was and that upset Riley, her smiles became a bit sad and he knew it was because she missed her best friend by her side, so he had decided to step aside a little with the intention of not forcing Riley to have to choose between them and this separation led him to have that brunette in his bed.

They never talked about Maya when they were together and he thinks she does the same when she's with her He did not know anything about her current life, the only thing he knew was one day when Katy had approached the table where they were sitting while he and Riley talked about their post-college plans and Katy innocently asked Riley If she knew if her uncle would be at Maya's house that night, Lucas saw her friend turn red, her was staring at the table while she played nervously with her hands avoiding looking at him and she let out a low I do not know. Katy jokingly said that she was thinking of going to visit her daughter, but she did not want to interrupt them, she said winking and went back to her place behind the counter.

They grew silent after that revelation. He knew that this would happen, they were very close in the last few years and Josh had never said he did not like her, he just didn't try anything because she was underage and now there was no obstacle between them, it was normal for them to try to stay together. That dark side inside him told him that he had warned him about it, had warned him that she was into Josh and Josh was so into her; That Lucas was only a hindrance in their way; That all those moments when Josh and Maya were together without the company of their friends was just a rehearsal for what was to come next. He could see every time she said that's nothing happing between them and never gonna happen, that they were just friends and that's all; That he was the only guy in her mind; That crush she had on Josh was over years ago. Everything was a lie.

When Riley finally took the courage to face him she was sad to see his accusing look on her, so she told him what she knew. She told him why she had not wanted him to go to the airport with her and the reason was that Josh was going with his niece to France, and that was kind of a demand from her father who did not trust Riley in a strange country with unknown people who do not speak her language, or rather he did not trust his daughter alone with a Frenchman miles away from his eyes. She had chosen not to tell him because she knew it would get Lucas angry and that really did, and she was sorry for it. Riley told him that Maya was a bit reluctant about Josh's presence at first, but then everything went back to the way it was before, they even went out by themselves when Riley was too tired to accompany them and maybe that was what got them together at the end.

He was angry at them, he was angry at her for not telling him about it, so he left her alone at Topanga's and Riley understood him perfectly when he went days without receiving her texts and calls. Lucas had a terrible night on that day, he forced himself to not shows up to Maya's house because he knew that if he were he would yell at her and Lucas did not like it, he did not like that feeling inside him that he had always tried to control since he had come to New York.

It had been two months since he'd got that news. The fact that she had moved on and he did not have, it was perhaps one of Lucas's reasons for having that brunette in his bed now. She is nice, they met in one of their classes this senior year. She was the first to take the initiative and call him to drink in a bar near the college, Lucas didn't have reason to say no to her and he found himself since that day almost every weekend at her side, whether at parties or cozy in his place or hers.

They did not argue for anything, Lucas practically decided everything about their relationship, she was not jealous, she is very respectful and nice to his friends from the first time she had met them and Lucas remembered what he had accidentally heard when he approached the counter where there were Zay and Riley that day, he'd told her,

"Nah, that's not going to last!"

And from that day on he had tried to show that his friend was wrong, but deep down he knew he was right because you can't force your heart to love someone, especially when he already does it for someone else.

He felt unhappy as he felt her kisses as he yearned for others; when he feels her touch on his body that did not get him the same sensations as Maya's touch; he feels unhappy to think of Maya's body while he watched her getting undressed in front of him trying to seduce him with her biggest seductive smile. He felt filthy to think that every time their bodies joined, it was Maya who was in his head, it was his need of her that made him reach the end every time.

He put the dress back in his closet next to the others ones, Lucas grabbed one of his shirts putting it on while taking one last look at his bedroom leaving the brunette alone there. His footsteps led him into the living room lit only by the city lights and the full moon, his hand groping for the light switch, when he got it he turns the light on. The light filled the room making him blind for a few seconds, his eyes blinked a few times to get accustomed to the sudden clarity in the room and ironically his gaze stopped at a frame on his bookshelf.

They were Riley, Farkle, Zay, Maya and Lucas in their high school graduation in that frame. All wearing their cap and gown smiling at the camera, happy to have completed one more step in their lives and unlike them middle school graduation, no concern among them. Maya was in his arms and he could see a little bit of red on her cheeks, Lucas felt his mouth curl into a smile as he remembered why she looks like that. Her cheeks were blush because it had been the first time he had hugged her in public. Not that he had not done it before because he had already hugged her several times, but that day was different, those blushed cheeks were the result of what had happened a few hours earlier. Everything was changing in those last days of high school, everyone was under pressure, nerves on the edge, some decisions to be taken and Lucas had two decisions to take. One of them was whether he would stay in New York or he is up to a scholarship with everything included in Texas something that didn't please their friends at all, but this was an easy decision to make with Maya's help, more specifically, with the help of her lips on his as she said goodbye to them art room, away from everyone's eyes. The second was how to make it official, they had that thing between them going on in the last few months and Zay had even put Lucas against the wall the day before, he told him that it was now or never that he had to do something before someone show up and take Maya from him. The plan was prom, unlike other couples planning something involving sex and/or alcohol, Lucas was planning on how to ask Maya to be his girlfriend.

He turned to his coach, Lucas slides his hand through the dark gray fabric stopping on the yellow ink stain, one of the clues she had been there and he could see her there by his side. Her legs on the back of the sofa, her sketchbook resting on her thighs as she tried to draw something, her hair in a long ponytail touching the ground, her mouth moving excitedly as she was telling him about her day as a tutor in a kindergarten, her eyes sparkled with emotion when they turned to look at him and suddenly she was gone.

Lucas got up and went to the kitchen, he needed some cold water and didn't bother to turn on the lights, Lucas picked up a bottle of water when the peach scent hit him like a slap in the face. It's been a while since the last time he felt the smell of peaches through his kitchen. Lucas turned back to the kitchen and he had to blink several times when his eyes stopped at that figure on his counter. Her legs danced in the air as she stared at the window, she was wearing only his blue striped shirt that ended in the middle of her thighs, her hair was a mess between a nearly undone bun and several strands of hair scattered. Lucas found himself approaching her slowly in fear that she would disappear, she turned to him apparently noticing his presence just now and her lips curls at a naughty smile. Lucas stopped in front of her and she raised one of his eyebrows questioning him.

"What is it, Huckleberry? Have you never saw me?"

She was not real, her voice could sound perfectly as he remembered and he could feel her warmth from there, but she is not real.

"You are not here!"

He said to himself and watched Maya roll her eyes when she heard him.

"No, I'm just a ghost and I've come here to haunt you. Boo!"

She said playfully and for a moment he was confused, wondered if he had been dreaming and all those bad feelings, the breakup and the fact that she was with Josh was just a very bad dream that was over when he got up from the bed. But he hadn't gotten up from his bed, he was in the armchair and he hadn't slept.

"I'm hungry! Aren't you going to cook something for me? You know, after everything we've done, I need to recharge my energy."

She said winking at him, Lucas looked at her seriously and Maya raised her eyebrows asking him to say something, but he didn't say anything.

"What is wrong? You're weird!"

Lucas looked at the bottle in his hand wondering if anyone had put something in his water or in his food a few hours ago because it was not possible that she was there. Maya looked at him patiently, waiting for him to say something.

"You aren't real!"

He saw Maya's smile disappear, she frowned and her eyes became sad as she heard his words.

"Lucas, I..."

"You are not here! You are not real!"

He closed his eyes tightening for a moment taking deep breaths and that didn't help at all as those deep breaths brought yet more of the scent of peaches to his lungs. Lucas opened his eyes after a few minutes and she was no longer there, he needed to find the source of that scent and finish it off. Maya had bought that specific scent as a joke so he could remember her when she was not there, something he had enjoyed at that time and that he had hated after the end of them relationship and even more so when he found out about her new relationship. Lucas found the new refill, surely the brunette had brought it thinking that the lack of it was due to the fact that he had not had the time or was procrastinating to buy it. He threw it in the trash so he could take out the trash on next morning.

He couldn't get the image of her on his counter wearing only his favorite shirt in the minutes after it happened. After Lucas had let slip that shirt was the one that made her more attractive to him, Maya wear it with a certain frequency laughing at the effect she had on him every time, when she left him speechless with his eyes fixed on her

Lucas went back to his living room, his wallet was lying open on the floor close to the couch probably he had dropped it without realizing it, Lucas go it and his eyes stopped on a strange piece of paper in his wallet, he took it out and unfolded it, a well-known calligraphy appeared in the paper.

Happy 3rd Anniversary!

I know, this sounds stupid right now, it's Riley's fault, she said I have to be cute with you and write beautiful things that neither boyfriends did in the past and blah, blah, blah ...

You and I forever. Are you in?

( )Yes ( )No

( )You could have written something better.

Lucas turned the paper over and there was something else written:

I hope you have chosen yes or rather the option you could have written something better or even better I hope you ignore this and burns down this paper so no one can prove that it really existed.

Happy Anniversary! I know I haven't been the best girlfriend of all, who could be better and more of a womanly for you. Because you, Huckleberry is the best boyfriend in the world. I still can not understand how we last that long; How you can be interested in a short stack of pancakes full of fears, insecurities and with a messy life like me instead of a real loving sunshine with fewer problems and insecurities.

I love you!

He had missed it and he knew that rather than be upset Maya had been relieved that he had not found it or had not said anything about it. The note was dated six months ago and she had hidden it very well with the intention of never finding it and he found himself smiling at another proof that they had existed.

Lucas took a picture off his wallet, his mother had fallen in love with that photo at first sight. That photo was taken at Prom where Lucas had Maya in his arms while she rested her face on his chest and her eyes were closed, just minutes before he asked if she wanted to be his girlfriend in the silence of the square where she used to go when she was a kid. He could not remember if Farkle or Riley had been responsible for capturing that moment, but he knew this was one of his favorites and he had several copies of it around.

He missed her. God, he misses her so much! He would give everything to have her there around him even if she chooses to ignore his presence. He would be glad to at least see her for a moment. Lucas wonder about what she was doing at that moment, Maya is creative at night so she would probably be working on some new painting or she or she could... And when the possibility of her being in Josh's arms went through his head, he grew crazy just picturing that Josh would be touching her body right now, the two of them alone in her bedroom with no one to disturb them.

Lucas closes his eyes and took a deep breath to calm himself laying down on his couch. And he felt her, he felt the weight of her body on him, he felt her lips slowly tracing a trail of kisses over his skin, her perfume all over the couch, he could even hear her chuckled as she whispered slowly his name, but at the moment he opened his eyes he saw that there was no one there, he was alone in the living room and her perfume was all around him.

What's wrong with him? It was that he was going crazy or his abstinence to her was at such critical levels that he was able to see her anywhere and feel her just to make up for her absence. He couldn't stay like that for another minute, so he found himself picking up his wallet and keys and leaving the apartment.

He shouldn't do this, he shouldn't go after her, he had no right to do it after everything that happened. Lucas was in a relationship now, in a relationship that served to tell him that Maya is still gone and he still lonely; A relationship that reminded him of how good they were before he screws up everything; A relationship that makes him miss the excitement, the arguments, the madness, the frustrations, the nicknames, the kissing, the caresses, the silly things, the nonsense, the laughter, everything he had before with Maya.

He saw some of her apartment lights on and he felt himself freezing next to the door of his car when he realized he didn't know what to say to her. After a few minutes stopped in front of his car, Lucas saw a group of girls get out of a car that had just parked in front of his, one of the girls turned to him and elbowed one of her friends. She is saying something to her and her friend turned to him and as she recognized him she smiled

"Hey, Lucas! Did you come to visit Maya?"

She said as if it were normal for a person to visit someone at two o'clock in the morning. Lucas gave her a bashful smile and apparently that was the answer, for her, so she waved for him to join them. They got in the apartment block and the girls said goodbye to him at the first door of Maya's floor. Lucas walked to the door of Maya's apartment, stopping a few feet from her door.

She was right there, on the other side of the door and he just needed to be noticeable by knocking on her door, then he grew nervous. What to say? Would she receive him at her place? Would she listen to him? What if Josh was there and he was a fool? Does she miss him? Would she forgive him? What if she wanted to get back what he would do? What if she did not want to? What if she said that everything was in the past and she's happy now with someone else?

Lucas took a step toward the door, but the fear made him take two back and turn again to the empty hallway. His hands were sweating from his nervous state, and he wiped them on his pants taking another deep breath. This was the first time they had been so close and what could happen afterward frightened him so much that he saw her door get further and further away.

Goodbye!

Have a great weekend!

I'll see you around!