AN. Well Maya hasn't died so Maradonia lives on! Thank you for all the reviews! Oh and we don't own Maradonia blablabla...
Maya was aware of only two things:
1. She was underwater
2. Her head hurt and sleep seemed like such a good idea even if it did mean that she would drown.
"Maya! Maya!" She heard voices calling, echoing faintly through the water. Go away, she told them. Let me sleep... She felt arms around her, pulling her upwards until her head broke the surface.
"Joe! I got her!" That sounded like Joey's friend... the one he actually spoke to at school...
"Maya!" That voice sounded like Joey's. A hand grabbed her arm and pulled her to edge of the pool and then out of it. Someone else wrapped a blanket around her. She tried to open her eyes but the light made her head hurt even more. She coughed a bit.
"My head hurts" Her voice was slurred.
"Should we call an ambulance?" Someone asked.
"Yeah- looks like she's concussed"
"How'd she end up in the pool?"
"Alana pushed her-"someone whispered but was then hushed by someone else. Maya was too tired to work out who the people were. The effort of staying awake was becoming too much so Maya let her eyes close and her head loll back...
"Maya! Wake up!" She felt Joey shaking her. "Is the ambulance on its way?"
"Lemme sleep..." She protested but Joey kept shaking her awake.
"Yeah- the guy said it should get here in a few minutes or something." Some of the crowd dispersed now that the exciting part was over and eventually it was just Joey and Derek and a few others who were wondering what to do about Alana in between trying to keep Maya awake.
"She could have drowned, Joe" Derek was saying.
"Do you want to try and get Alana to leave Maya alone? I tried before. It just got worse."
"I could try-"
"Don't bother. Alana will just start saying that Maya has two boyfriends and start goading her and all the crap that follows that."
Sirens were heard in the distance and Derek went out to the road to guide the medics in.
"She's here; we think she's concussed…"
One shone a light in Maya's eyes and she flinched away from it. "Looks like a concussion; we should get her to the hospital and check her out."
"Has anyone called her parents?" One asked Joey, whose arm was still around Maya's shoulders.
"Not yet. We called you and were trying to stop her from going to sleep…" They nodded.
"You should call her parents and get them to meet us at the hospital"
"Can I come with her in the ambulance? Just so she has a friend there- you know, to hold her hand…"
"Okay, but make sure that someone gets a message to her parents."
"I'll do it- what's her number?" Derek said and Joey rattled of the relevant digits before following the medics back to ambulance with Maya on a stretcher.
"We need to keep her awake" said a medic so Joey resumed poking her and occasionally shaking her awake until they got to the hospital.
Maya's mother was worried at first until she found out that her daughter would be fine. She met them at the hospital and fussed around Maya in front of the doctors and then praised Maya as soon as the doctors told her that she would be perfectly fine and they were safely in the car and going home.
"This is good! Something like this could be really-"
"Really what Mom?" Maya interrupted. "And how is this good? My head hurts and I had to be brought to hospital!"
"Calm down darling. This is good because it means that you're more well-known at school now. You can use this to finally get yourself higher on the social ladder!"
"Mom!" Maya wanted to shout at her mother.
"Well I'm glad you're ok." Joey interjected while trying not to glare at Maya's mother. "Thanks for the lift home by the way."
"Oh, it's nothing. Thank you for looking after Maya. Did you both at least have a good time before this little accident?"
"Yes, Mrs Roberts." Joey said though he felt a twinge of guilt. Had Maya had fun before Alana pushed her? He wasn't sure. He'd abandoned her even though he had been the one who had dragged her to that party.
He was still thinking later that night at home when he got a text from Derek.
Howz Maya? D. It read.
She's ok he texted back.
Good was Derek's reply. Joey lay back on his bed. Everyone knew that Alana had been the one to push Maya into the pool. Maybe this would finally get Alana off her back and for what seemed like the hundredth time Joey promised himself that he'd be a better friend to Maya at school.
This time, however, he really meant it.