A couple of days later and Maya was still staying in the spare bedroom of Zay and Lucas' house. It's not that she wanted to stay; every time she had insisted she had to leave, Zay would convince her that leaving was a bad idea. She knew it was for the best but she never admitted it.
Maya and Lucas had not spoken to each other since their confrontation on Maya's first night. Maya wanted to speak to him, she feel partially guilty for his outburst and she wanted to apologise, but she was far too stubborn to initiate the conversation.
Stupid boys.
Maya was planning the next robbery. She figured that if she was trapped in the apartment she may as well do something productive. She figured that if she may as well do something productive. She pulled out a map of New York and started to pinpoint the positions of places that were worth stealing from; banks, wealthy companies and the streets of all the wealthy scientists and famous people.
Riley wouldn't approve of this, Maya thought. She thought about Riley a lot; it broke her heart that Riley had probably forgotten about her by now. Maya needed a way to make money, and now that she was a criminal, there was no going back.
"What's that?" Lucas sounded intrigued, he was leant against the door frame of Maya's room. Hastily, Maya pushed the map under he pillow, however, she was unsuccessful in her efforts as the majority of the map was still visible. She let out a sigh and retrieved the map once again, Lucas joined her on the bed. "Again? We just bagged ourselves $3million." Lucas protested; he fell silent when Maya rolled her eyes. It was funny to think that Lucas Friar was still scared of Maya. Maya Hart, just over 5 feet tall, could intimidate the fearsome Lucas Friar.
"It's not about the money, you can keep the money, I have a reputation to uphold." Maya stared at the map in front of her, it made her realise that she was never doing any of the crimes for the rewards, she was doing it because she didn't have anyone else to give her the attention she needed, so she relied on the media to fill that void. When did she ever become so lonely?
She was trying not to cry. She looked down at her map and tried to focus on where she should go next. Her eye sight was starting to become blurry. "Maya." Lucas turned so that his whole body was facing her, "You don't have to prove anything to anybody."
That was it. Maya had found her breaking point.
She pushed her head in to Lucas' chest, she could feel him shiver slightly as they first touched but she was too upset to question why. She cried for what felt like hours; in reality it was only 5 minutes. Lucas held her the whole time. He whispered soothing words and stroked the back of her neck with one of his hands whilst she released all the emotions she has contained for 2 whole years. For the first time in years, Maya felt safe.
It was weird how quickly Lucas and Maya had put their argument behind them, all it took was one small display of emotion.
Despite Lucas' initial objection, he decided to accompany Maya in her next criminal adventure. After all, Zay had spent a lot of the money they had stolen on new clothes for Maya, and for himself, of course. The had decided that they would raid one of the iPhone stores for some easy money before they planned their actual adventure. Even though it wouldn't pay as much money as their last expedition, but it was enough.
It was only an Apple Store, and yet Lucas insisted that they planned out what they were going to do. Such an amateur. The only time Maya would ever plan a robbery was if it was something big like an actual bank. Zay was in on the plan too, he wasn't in any way involved though; both Lucas and Maya didn't want to influence Zay to reach the point that they had. They both still had hope for Zay, he had an actual job and he was doing well for himself.
"So... you guys are just going to stroll on up, grab as much as you can and go?" Zay inquired, "That sounds like the most stupidest thing I've ever heard."
"Oh no, Zay I think there's one thing that might top that." Lucas chuckles, Zay waits for him to continue, however, he doesn't. Maya does.
"Most stupidest." She laughs, Lucas quickly joins in.
Zay smiles and walks into the kitchen. "The most stupidest thing I can think of is that they still act like that, and then they insist they don't like each other," he mumbles, hoping that neither Maya nor Lucas had heard him.
"So short stack, you're going to do all the talking?" Lucas nudged Maya's arm playfully. "You know, to keep up your reputation and all." Maya pushed Lucas back in response and tried her best to hide her smirk from him. She felt at peace knowing that Lucas was still someone she could talk to if she needed help. She felt a peace knowing that Lucas was still a Huckleberry.
"Well, I'd let you do that talking but I think you're better at being a hop-a-long." She turned to face him and awaited his response.
"Oh come on, I joined in one time!" Lucas objected, "Besides, you wouldn't have pulled it off without me"
"Oh really?" Maya mumbled. She stayed extremely quiet for a couple of minutes. Lucas wasn't sure how to respond but he could feel the tension rising by the second.
"Maya-"
Suddenly, Maya tackled Lucas and pinned him on the ground. She rested her knees on his arms so she could use her hands to gently pat his cheeks.
"You don't think I can do things for myself Huckleberry?" Maya teased. Lucas rolled his eyes, he slipped one of his arms from under Maya's knee and pushed her backwards. Maya knew what was coming next but she tried to resist. Lucas began tickling her and she started kicking wildly.
"Lucas stop" Maya screamed, "I can't breath Lucas!" Lucas didn't stop. Maya began to kick more violently and laughed even louder. Little did the both know, Zay had been watching them for several minutes. He smiled and shook his head, the most stupidest thing I ever heard.
