Authors note:
Hello my fellow readers, or at least the five of you that reviewed, I'm so glad that you enjoyed the first chapter of my story and I hope that you followed it or favorited it so no one misses out on any key chapters! I hope you all love this chapter, it will be written in Josh's point of view. Don't forget to review to post your thoughts and ideas on the story, enjoy!
Josh's POV:
It could have been worse, Maya was shot in her right rib cage which broke two of her ribs and the three bullets that Kurz shot did damage her lungs but, nothing that could kill her. Even if he wanted to, nothing kills Maya.
I watch Maya sleep in her hospital bed for the 23rd hour. I don't want to leave her side, considering I feel like this is partly my fault. Riley and Lucas are tired, they say they want to sleep but I can't sleep even if I wanted to. How could I sleep when one of my friends has been shot and unconscious for 23 hours?
" Hey ducky." I whisper taking her hand. " You were real brave, you know that? I'm so sorry, you took that bullet for me, I would have never made you do that."
Ducky is the nickname that I made for Maya in the 2nd grade. She always wore these duck feet slippers on pajama day so the nickname just kind of became its own thing. I thought it was cute.
" Come back to us." I plead to her. " Please, I'm so sorry."
" You don't have to be sorry, twin brother." Riley says walking into the room. " She was doing her job, as were you. Josh, we're spy's! Do you honestly think that no ones going to get hurt along the way? Maya's strong and she's not going any where."
" Riley is right." Lucas agrees as he walks into the room and makes his way behind her. " We know Maya, she can take this."
" Glad to hear that you guys are so fond of me." A soft voice says. I whip around to see Maya sitting up with open eyes.
" Hey ducky!" I exclaim and wrap my arms around her. " I missed you."
" Um, Josh I'm so glad to see you and I missed you too, but I've got two broken ribs under this blanket so you're going to have to be a little more careful." She says with a painful laugh.
" Sorry, I'm just glad you're okay." I sigh in relief.
" We all are." Lucas says stepping in to give Maya a hug. Riley pushes Lucas aside with force and he goes stumbling to the side. We all laugh. Riley takes a seat onto the bed next to Maya.
" If you ever, ever, ever let my egg head brother," Riley begins to Maya giving me a nudge. " Put you in the hospital again I myself will murder you both, is that clear?"
" That's a bit aggressive no?" I ask her with a laugh.
" You think I'm kidding, but I will murder you." She exclaims. " You put my soul sister in the hospital and you're laughing."
" Cool it, Riles." Maya says in an effort to calm her down. " It's not like Josh asked me to take the bullet for him, it was a decision that I made for myself."
" Yeah an extremely dumb one!" Riley says with annoyance.
" Twin sister?" I ask. " Are you saying that you would have rather had me get shot than Maya."
" No!" Riley replies. " Well, at least not out loud."
" Oh my god!" I snap. " Lucas let's get out of here these females are driving me nuts."
" Yeah, man, let's go." He responds with a chuckle. " I can't breathe this, female, air anymore."
" Oh pleeaaassseee do, twin brother." Riley snaps back. " Leave this female infected area."
" Watch me." I say.
" Fine."
" Fine."
" Fine."
" You two act like three year olds." Maya says laughing so hard that she had to hold her stomach.
" That's fifty percent true." I agree. " And the other fifty percent is one hundred percent twenty-six year old."
" You two are ridiculous." Lucas groans. " Come on, dude, me should go and get you a coffee you haven't gotten a wink of sleep. You've been watching Maya all night and most of today. Can't believe that you're the only one of us that didn't leave the room."
" Josh, is that true?" Maya questions. " You stayed with me the whole time?"
" Where else would I go?" I smile at her and then exit the room with Lucas.
Maya's POV:
As Josh leaves the room with Lucas I start to realize something, I love him even more than I did the second I saved him, because he knows how to care, and that's more than good enough for me.
" So?" Riley asks me.
" So? What?"
" So, are you finally going to tell him?"
" Who Josh?" I ask.
" Yes, Josh, who else?" She says as if it were obvious, which it was.
" I don't know." I sigh. " I don't even think he feels the same way, and if I say something and he doesn't feel the same way, everything will be ruined. Our friendship, our team work, our everything."
" But if you don't do it then you'll never know what could've been." She says. " I want you to be happy Maya and Josh can give that to you, I see the way you are around him, you light up like a christmas tree. You love him. Tell him how you feel, but don't do it for me. Do it for you."
" Riles, I don't know, I'm scared." I say, she leans in right to my ear.
" And that's the best part." She whispers. " None of us know what's going to happen next."
With that she plants a kiss on my forehead and leaves the room, and at that moment I made a decision for myself. I, Maya Hart, promise that the next time I see Joshua Mathews I'll tell him that I love him, plain and simple.
