New school - same situation. Maya is the new girl. Doesn't attract friends easily. Gets all the hoots and hollers from guys as she walks through the halls. Gets at least 3 phone numbers without saying a word. Goes home. Does it all again the next day.


"I'll be back to pick you up a 3pm." Kermit says before Maya gets out of the car.

"Whatever."

Maya is still sour about the move. Kermit drives off and Maya is left standing alone.

She finds her way to the front office to fill out the paper work and get her class schedule.

The bell rings and Maya is beyond lost in this school, Jefferson High. The halls clear instantly and Maya is left alone again.

"Locker 329 hallway E." she says to herself.

Just because of Maya's luck that happens to be on the other side of the school.

"Great." she says walking off to find it.

Maya finds her locker finally. She puts the code in, but it doesn't open. She tries again and again but nothing.

"Dammit!" she says aloud banging her hand on the locker.

"Need help?" a voice says behind her making her jump. "Sorry. Didn't mean to scare you." he smiles.

"I thought I was alone." Maya says.

"Not in this school. It's too small to be alone yet just big enough to seem alone." he says.

"Well I would love some help." Maya says.

"Which one?" he says.

"329."

"Oooh." he moans.

"What?"

"329 is just about the worst locker in the school."

"How do you know?"

"Well I mean for one it doesn't open easy because you have to fight with it."

"Noticed."

"Yeah, it was mine last year." he says getting the locker open for her.

"Thanks." she says.

"Anytime. I'm Lucas."

"Maya."

"You new?"

"No. We've been in the same class for 6 years." she says with a serious tone to screw with him.

"Oh." was all he said.

"Relax huckleberry. I'm just messing with you." she smiles.

"Good. Cause I'd never forget a face like yours." he says making things awkward.

"Well, I guess I better go find this class now." Maya says looking at her schedule.

"Want some more help?" Lucas offers.

Maya nods and hands over her schedule.

"Ahh. Math with Mr. Raceson. That's in hall A."

"Of course it is." Maya says putting her book in her backpack.

The bell rings.

"And I guess I just missed it." she says not all surprised.

"Don't worry. He's cool. He won't mind since your new."

"Awesome. Could you tell me where my next class is?"

"Sure." he smiles. "Science, Mr. Thompson. Hall G."

"So my first two classes of the day are 6 halls apart. Just my luck." Maya says grabbing her schedule from Lucas.

He chuckles.

"My friend Zay is in that class. Give me like two seconds and I'll get him to lead the way. I'd take you but now I have math in hall A."

"Okayy, thanks." Maya says.

Lucas walks away and comes back with another guy.

"Zay - Maya, Maya - Zay."

"Nice to meet you." he says holding out his hand.

"Like wise." Maya says.

"Maya is new and has your science class now." Lucas says.

"Really." Zay says his face lighting up.

"Really. So you show her that way and don't scare her off." Lucas says.

"I don't think I want to."

Maya blushes.

"This way to class Miss…"

"Hart." Maya finishes for him.

"Hart." he say holding out his arm.

Maya takes it and they walk off down the hall.

Zay's phone buzzes in his pocket and they stop so he can look at it.

"Not this one." the message read.

"Seriously!" Zay says turning around.

Maya was confused but she didn't question it.


The day droned on forever.

Maya had lunch with Lucas and Zay and their friend Vanessa and also last period, History, with Lucas and Zay.

3:45pm.

Maya was still sitting outside of the school waiting for Kermit to show. She would've walked but she didn't know the way.

4:45pm.

Maya was beyond pissed. She knew he forgot. It was no shocker. She may not have known him for long enough to remember things when she was little, but there were little things she did like when he was abusive or he'd never show to get her from school and her teacher would take her home. This was no shocker to Maya.

"Hey." a voice came from behind Maya.

"Hi." Maya said. "Vanessa right?"

"Yea that's me! What are you still doing here?"

"Oh. You know waiting for my ride that is never gonna show." Maya said angrily.

"What?" Vanessa said confused.

"Just waiting for my ride. Although it's 2 hours late so I doubt it's coming."

"Oh well do you want one home?"

"I don't know…" Maya said doubting the offer.

"Come on. I won't bite." Vanessa joked.

"Alright." Maya said jumping down off the wall.

"So where do you live?"

"Ummm." Maya pulled a paper out of her pocket."1245 Cherry Tree Lane."

"Ooh. That's not actually on my way." Vanessa said stopping.

"Oh." Maya muttered.

"But wait. I know who lives that way…" Vanessa said a light bulb going off in her head.

"Hey Lucas!" she yelled to him across the way.

Vanessa made her way over to him leaving Maya.

Vanessa talked to Lucas for a second before they both came back over to Maya.

"So you need a ride?" Lucas said.

"You don't have to offer one if you don't want to." Maya said.

"Non sense." Lucas smiled. "Right this way!" he said leading her to the biggest truck she'd ever even been near.

"Wow." she said simply.

"You like?"

"It's kind of ginormous." Maya said.

"Nahh. This is small compared to my dads." Lucas smiled.

"I'd hate to see your dads then." Maya joked.

Lucas took her bag and put it in the back seat for her.

"Umm… do you have like side steps or something?"

"No. Why?" he asked.

"Well, you see I'm a midget compared to you and your truck."

"Ahh. Here." he said lifting her into the truck.

"Thanks." Maya said shocked by the whole thing. She wasn't expecting to be lifted.

"So where to?" he asked getting in the drivers side.

"1245 Cherry Tree Lane.'

"Oh that's only 10 minutes from me." he said turning out of the school.

The car ride was long and mostly silent.

"So. What brings you to Austin, Texas? I mean you seem not like a country girl at all…" Lucas said breaking the silence.

"Oh. This and that. Being a foster kid means lots of moves and this just happens to be one." Maya said.

"Oh. I'm sorry."

"Don't be." Maya said. "I'm not ashamed to be an orphan or anything."

"Well good for you." Lucas smiled.

Lucas then turned up his music and the rest of the car ride was silent.

"Here we are." Lucas said getting out to open her door.

"Thanks." she said as he set her down on the ground.

"No problem." he said grabbing her bag.

Maya smiled. She didn't know why but this boy just gave her butterflies.

"Well, I guess I'll be seeing you at school?" Maya said

"Yea and if you need a ride just let me know."

"Will do." Maya said. "Well, thanks again." Maya said before walking into the house.

What was going on with her? She was never so giddy around guys. This one was different. He was a gentlemen. He was polite and he didn't even hoot or holler at her or force his number on her. Could she have possible made a friend on her first day this time?


"Where have you been young lady?" Annabelle said as Maya walked through the door.

"School?"

"School got out at 3. It's 6pm."

"Yea well I was waiting for a ride that never showed." Maya said shaking off her politeness from when she was talking to Lucas.

"What?" Annabelle said.

"Kermit didn't show. But hey, that's nothing new to me." Maya said all sassy.

"What do you mean he didn't show?"

"Let me spell it out for you. H-E D-I-D-N-T S-H-O-W."

"There's no need for your sass." Annabelle said annoyed.

"Yea well this is nothing new. He never picked me up from school when I was little so why would he start now." Maya said before going to her room angrily.


In her room she found 3 cans of paint and a note that read "Go Crazy."

She knew it was from Kermit because it was black and white paint.

Maya didn't hesitate to use it. She changed into an older shirt she paints in, pulled her hair up, and laid the newspaper down. She started to paint the walls black. She didn't know what she was gonna do with white yet so she just set it aside.

"What do you think your doing?!" Annabelle said walking into her room turning down her music.

"Painting." Maya said.

"Not in my house. This room is to be pink and pink only!"

"There was a note. It said go crazy so I am. Now if you'll excuse me I have some painting to do." Maya smiled knowing it'd make Annabelle mad and closed the door in her face. This time she locked it and turned her music up louder.

"This isn't over!" Annabelle yelled from the other side of the door.

"What's going on?" Kermit said coming down the hall.

"She's painting the room black."

"And?"

"And I don't want a black room in my house!"

"Our house." Kermit said.

"Well it's morbid and depressing." Annabelle pleaded.

"It's her room. Leave her be. She's a teen, it's a phase."

"Ughh." Annabelle moaned before storming downstairs.

"Maya?" Kermit said knocking on her door.

"What?" Maya said opening it.

"Nice. Solid." Kermit said looking around.

"Thanks. Need something?"

"I'm sorry I didn't pick you up from school. I got caught up in something."

"Yea? Well whatever." Maya said starting to close her door.

"Aren't you gonna ask what I was doing?" he said stopping her.

"I couldn't care less." Maya said.

"Follow me."

"Why?" Maya questioned.

"Just do it." Kermit said going downstairs and out the front door.

"Ugh." Maya moaned turning off her music and going downstairs and out the door.

There Maya was surprised with a black car with a giant red bow on top.

"A car?"

"Your car." he said.

"You got me a car?" Maya questioned.

"Well I figured a 16 year old didn't need her father driving her around."

"So you got me a car?"

"And it's black. Your neutral color." he smiled.

"I see." Maya really hated the color black.

"Do you like it?" he asked.

"I mean it's a car. Looks like every other car." Maya said. She was playing hard to please even though she was jumping up and down inside. She never had anything this nice but her phone. And it wasn't even a nice phone at that.

"Well it's yours to take and drive whenever and where ever." he said tossing her the keys.

"Whatever." Maya said going back to her room and locking the door.

"You got her a car?" Annabelle asked.

"Yea. She can't have her dad driving her around. She's practically an adult."

"I think you give her to much trust." Annabelle said walking away.


Maya showed up to school the next day in her type of style.:

-Jet black shiny car.

-Blue jean booty shorts with a black crop top, black sunglasses with diamonds across the top, and black high top converse. Her hair was silky blonde with an abundance of curls (lots of volume) and it was majorly soft. Maya was fucking fine.

Maya pulled up with her music blaring with no care in the world. She was at school and she knew she wouldn't get in trouble there, after all she was new.

Maya walked down the halls with pride. She didn't care that she was being whistled at today. She felt like fire.

"Woah." Zay said as Maya passed him, Vanessa, and Lucas and made way to her locker.

"Is that the girl we met yesterday?" Vanessa asked.

"Yeah." Lucas said in a state of shock. A good state.

"You like her." Zay said.

"What? No."

"Dude. I know what you in love looks like, and this is it."

Lucas didn't say anything. Instead he walked over to Maya.

"Hey."

"Sup Ranger Rick."

"Need help with your locker? Looks like your struggling from where I was standing."

"Sure." Maya said removing her sunglasses.

"There." Lucas said getting it open.

"Hi Maya!" Vanessa said joining them.

"Hi." Maya said.

"You look great!" Vanessa said.

"Thanks. I just threw this on." Maya said playing it off.

The bell rings.

"Well as much fun as this is we have class." Maya said closing her locker.

"Wanna sit with us at lunch again?" Lucas asked.

"Sure." Maya said. She was low key relieved to know she didn't have to sit alone.

"Well, gotta run." Maya said walking away.

"You love her." Zay said.

"Shut up." Lucas said walking away.

You can't fight the truth!" Zay shouted before he and Vanessa made their way to class.


Maya's life in Austin, Texas would be very interesting…


A/N: Let me know how I am doing! I have all the way through chapter 11 planned so be ready for a wild ride! Also please check out my other stories! Enjoy!