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Maya arranged her ponytail as she gazed at herself in the mirror of the locker room with an absent expression drawn on her face.
She wasn't having a great day.
Lucas and Riley had been partnered up during history class and Riley had been beyond flirty with Lucas, Maya wasn't sure if Lucas had reciprocated the flirting since he had clearly stated to Farkle that he wasn't exactly planning to make any move on Riley- at least that was what Farkle told her during history since both of them had been partnered up. Yet Maya wasn't buying it and neither did Farkle who had the same annoyed expression as she had.
To be completely honest Maya knew about Farkle's feelings for Riley since they were on first grade and how he really tried to move on with Isadora by his side- but now that they weren't together, Farkle was rooting for Riley and she didn't notice him.
For a while everyone really actually thought that Farkle and Smackle were going to be soulmates since their skin hadn't showed any signs of other possible options, it seemed obvious. But it happened one day, out of the blue when Isadora saw some bruises, then she began to see some pen lines on her hand that she didn't draw and to finally confirm her hypothesis she decided to draw something on her hand and it dissipated quickly. But she soon realized that it wasn't Farkle.
Farkle had been sad but he understood when she decided to call it quits and they remained friends- either way no one was expecting Smackle and Farkle to stay together although they weren't soulmates.
Soon after finding out that she had a soulmate, Isadora as the brilliant person she was, decided that she wasn't going to let it flow as it was usually recommended and everyone did.
Therefor one day she simply decided to strike a conversation with her soulmate and her soulmate answer back, they wrote daily for a week on the others skin and would talk about infinity of things. But it didn't take long for Isadora to find out who he was and it actually surprised the whole group- but not those two, they had been getting those vibes from the other for a while now and they were okay with it.
Isadora and Zay were actually the soulmates of the gang and you couldn't have more opposite people in a relationship but it was actually the best relationship the gang had ever seen. It wasn't that they just were soulmates and that was it- they had so much chemistry and respect for the other, it had developed from a previous friendship in getting to know the other and then to a healthy relationship that it honestly made a lot of people jealous about them.
Sometimes, it made Maya feel that burning envy in her chest that she hated to feel because she wasn't brave enough to do what Smackle had done. Plus, her soulmate hadn't leave a trace on her body in a really long time- as Maya began to wonder that if she actually deserved what Smackle and Zay had obtained by their destiny. It was the same burning envy or annoyance that she felt when Riley flirted with Lucas. It wasn't that Riley was annoying Maya, Maya loved Riley and would do anything to conceal her feelings to make Riley happy- still, as much as she tried to avoid it she could still feel her heart sinking as she heard Riley's giggles accompanied by Lucas' laugh.
Maya couldn't avoid feeling hurt as she trembled with despair as she saw Mr. Perfect and The Princess hitting it off whilst she stood in the edge of the fairy tale- close enough to see it but not close enough to actually experience it.
"Maya, you okay?" Riley's voice snapped Maya out of the train of thoughts and turned around to see Riley wearing the yellow uniform for volleyball with a tight shirt and shorts along with some kneecaps.
Maya faked a smile.
"Yes, I'm just tired and awkward in this uniform." Maya replied as she walked towards her Honey and arranged her uniform- Maya felt like the short was a bit small for her but she tried to brush it off.
Riley gave her an odd look but soon it dissipated and was replaced by one of those characteristic smiles.
"Okay Peaches, come on."
Maya smiled to Riley and laced their hands together as they walked out of the locker room.
On Thursday, they usually had their volleyball practice, although Maya repeated that she really didn't liked sports and Riley was a superklutz- both of them had turned alright for volleyball and actually made it to the team the last semester of Freshman. Yet, there was a downside to this thing: on Thursday, they had to share the gym with the basketball team.
Due to some bad arrangements from the Abigail Adams High School- the volleyball team had half of the gym and then the basketball team would use the other one.
There were two problems about this for Maya: Lucas was on the basketball team and, although she always tried to constantly avoid it, couldn't look away when Lucas was playing- it simply ooh her, like when she saw Texas Lucas scratching the New Lucas surface, there was something dangerous and exciting in those sea-foam eyes that drove her crazy. But the last problem was the one that annoyed Maya the most, Riley would do almost anything in her chance to be in contact with Lucas, such as: Cheering him and not paying really any attention to their volleyball game, she would sometimes miss the ball on purpose and throw it to the other side of the gym so that maybe Lucas could throw it back and she could just say thanks or something.
It annoyed Maya to the very core.
"Riley! Watch out!" Maya yelled as she pushed her best friend aside to receive the ball.
But Riley didn't mind as she gazed insistently at Lucas who was talking with his teammates.
"He looks so good in that red uniform" Riley said as she examined Lucas who was wearing a sleeveless red shirt with the number six on it and a matching more or less long short. "Doesn't he Maya?" Riley said as she gazed back at Maya that was glaring at her.
"Riley, stop stalking Lucas" Darby barked annoyed as she received the ball from the other side of the court.
Riley quickly got in the game, as her cheeks began to get red since Darby's scream had been heard in the other side of the court.
Funny thing was that Lucas had certainly heard Darby and incredibly had the same issues as Maya. Lucas felt like he would be stalking Maya as he saw her training and it was something that he could not control, his breathe would be taken away to see how focus and passionate she was in the field and he simply love to see that glimpse of spark on her baby-blue-grey eyes. Moreover, for Lucas surprise, not really- Riley's efforts to flirt with him where quite obvious for Lucas and although he really cared about Riley as a friend, he couldn't feel anything else but awkward when she began to hit on him, in such an obvious matter.
"Matthews! Get your head in the game!" Coach Kelly yelled as Riley had, once again, deviated the ball to the other side of the gym.
Riley's eyes widened scared by the sudden snap from the coach and gave her a timid smile she turned around and began to walk towards the basketball team- yet the coach's voice stopped her once again.
"Matthews stop right there!" The coach snarled with her eyes narrowed. "Hart, go and get the ball."
"But Coach-" Maya protested as she saw the ball getting slowly near the line of the basketball team had to make some hoops.
"Hart!" The Coach yelled once again without even looking at Maya.
Maya rolled her eyes as she tightened her ponytail and began jog towards the other side of the gym, she tried to place her gaze down so she wouldn't call too much attention to the basketball group- especially the girls from the basketball team were annoyed at them for the different stranded balls that ended up in their part of the gym.
But for Maya's infortune, the ball had landed exactly at Lucas' feet who had just made it to the end of the line because he had just made the shot.
"Fuck" Maya cursed under her breathe as she tried to make her heart beat less erratically.
Lucas felt a soft push on his right leg and as he looked around he gazed at the volley ball. Lucas then turned around, expecting to find Riley's doe eyes but instead he found himself looking at a very pissed off Blonde Beauty and now he was the one with doe eyes. Everyone in the basketball team, especially in the guy's locker room, would laugh at his extreme goofiness when Maya was around. He was embarrassed he became this goofy and embarrassing thing that couldn't sometimes even talk to her or stop smiling- even when she would make fun of him, but he couldn't avoid it.
And this moment was no exception to Lucas' permanent goofiness when Maya was by his side.
Lucas quickly tried to lean down and pick the ball but instead with one swift move he pushed the ball to the other side, like far away from where they were and Maya was just arriving to pick it up. Lucas gazed at her and quickly gulped as Maya brows bumped together in a scowl.
"Really Huckleburry?" Maya snarled at him but only managed to get a terrified expression from Lucas- she couldn't deny it almost made her smile but she brushed it off as she began to jog where the ball was.
But Lucas, trying to be the gentleman that he was, ran faster than her to get the ball and so they find themselves jogging together to get the volley ball. Maya didn't know what Lucas was doing, sometimes he used to act so weird around her or others he would just smile and not talk to her- Maya found it odd and extremely disappointing since sometimes it seemed like he would not have any reaction towards her.
Lucas quickly ran and stopped the ball with his right foot at the same time Maya arrived and leaned down to get it. He had this big smile and his sea-foam eyes were sparkling as he stood up straight and exuding proudness for catching the ball- Maya couldn't avoid smiling because he was this huge Huckleburry Dorky Cowboy.
Yet she tried to avoid his insisting gaze as she leaned down to get the ball- her gaze focus in the volleyball but as she slowly raised her head- she found something odd in Lucas' leg:
Lines and circles somehow really similar to the ones that she had drawn on her leg that very same morning, just above the knee.
Maya swore she stopped breathing as she couldn't keep her gaze away from Lucas' leg, she felt sick to her stomach and her face turned rather brooding as she realized that those were exactly the same drawing she had done that morning to see if her soulmate would appear or send a sign that he was a life. Maya's hands began to sweat and she was sure that her heart was going to fly away for how rapidly her heart was beating, she couldn't move her gaze from those lines and circles that she was sure she had drawn herself and she couldn't believe that those were on Lucas' skin- that was the real deal: Lucas' skin was showing that they were indeed soulmates.
This cannot be happening, she thought to herself.
"You okay, Short stack?" Lucas asked Maya with a fixed expression on her- she had turned pale from one second to another and he didn't know what she was seeing so carefully.
Maya quickly snapped out of her trance and her baby blue-grey eyes linked with Lucas' sea-foam green eyes. Maya swallowed as she was sure that the pressure on her chest was going to kill her, she couldn't speak a word as she watched Lucas faintly.
Does he know? Maybe I'm just crazy and those are not mine? But why are they exactly like mine? What does this mean? Should I tell him something? Maya's thoughts were stumbling against the other, she didn't know how to process what the hell was happening and how that very same morning she was desperate to know who her soulmate was and how the hell it turned out to be no other but Lucas Friar.
"Hart! Come on!" Coach Kelly's voice scared Maya as she gazed back at the other part of the gym where her teammates where playing with another ball- and Riley was eyeing them with suspicion.
Maya gazed back at Lucas with a glazed expression as she turned around and began to jog away from him.
Lucas found it odd as he stood there for a minute or two watching Maya walked away with such an eerie feeling, he cocked his head as he tried to figure out what he did wrong but in that second a cold tremble traveled through his body as he recalled that he hadn't completely washed off the drawings that Maya had done that very same morning and so he quickly looked at his leg and there they were- those lines and circles that she had done where on his skin.
"Fuck…" Lucas breathe as he swore he was sweating cold.
She had seen him but she couldn't see that he was her soulmate just yet because maybe she didn't like him and now this would ruin everything because she would felt bound to him.
"Friar!" Zay yelled at him and Lucas snapped out of it as he saw his best friend waving at him to come since they were going to practice another exercise.
Lucas ran but he couldn't let go the fact that Maya had realized that he was indeed her soulmate.
In the other hand, Maya was still trying to process what she had seen.
Maya walked on the court as she fidgeted with the ball and tried to brush it off- there was no way that Lucas was her soulmate, right?
"Maya!" Riley shouted at her best friend but Maya was still rambling in her own thoughts.
"Hart!" Coach Kelly yelled again and Maya raised her head slowly as the whole team was watching her carefully. "Throw the ball and let's play again."
Maya nodded and threw the ball to the other field as she walked towards her position in the court. Yet, Maya didn't have her head in the game and instead she found herself trying to look at Lucas in the other side of the gym.
Maya needed to check his leg again, she needed to be sure of what she had seen because it would probably be a mistake- this should be a mistake. How on earth would Maya get what she wanted? She never got what she wanted like ever and this would be terrible too if she was right, how would she tell her best friend that the love of her life was actually Maya's?
"Are you okay, Peaches?" Riley's voice appeared but Maya had her gaze glued to Lucas who felt Maya's insisting gaze burning therefor he turned around and gazed back at her.
Maya felt like her breathe was taking away as their gazed linked together and Lucas swallowed hard- because both of them knew that there was something more there but Maya couldn't actually figure out if this was even real.
"Maya!" Everyone screamed but she didn't look away from Lucas.
Although she should've had because in that second the volley ball hit hard her head making her fall on her back and haul in pain.