AN: To the cutie who tried to flame me on Guest… Nice try. You made my happy by reviewing and you were sooo cute, telling me to stop writing. Please tell me why next time? I'm expecting your cute tush raging on me haha

To y'all other INNOCENT cuties haha, enjoy this. I think things might be escalating into some next shit from now on.

Chapter 7

It was just really awkward for both Lucas and Maya at this point. The twins really seemed to be enjoying their pasta bake, messing around a little with their food but abruptly stopping when Lucas gave them the glare. Maya couldn't help but throw him pity eyes a little.

"What?" He mouthed, annoyed.

"I'm sorry for earlier," She mouthed back. He waved his hand as a reply, as if what she said was nothing.

"You know-"She starts but Katy looks straight at her and she shovels food into her mouth.

"You know what… Maya? What were you about to say?" Katy asked, directing the entire table's focus onto her. She waved her hand as if it was nothing.

"Oh. Don't keep us out of YOUR secret conversations," her mother stated, nudging the boys. Maya would need to have a private word with her later about the arm nudging and the suggestive winking, as well as the plotting with the boys. In the meantime, she rolled her eyes.

What was so irritating also was the fact that Katy couldn't get the gist of which words to emphasise or whisper. It was Maya's source of embarrassment as a child.

"Honestly mom, there's nothing to worry about. It's really nothing. The conversation wasn't like even there… Like present or anything so," Maya mumbled, stabbing her penne pasta with her fork. Lucas nodded slowly, sipping his drink. He looked at the time and realised it was almost time for the twins to be in bed.

"Thank you very much for inviting us to this meal but we should really get going…" Lucas said. Katy's smile turned upside down.

"But we've only just eaten the dinner! What about the dessert?" Katy enquired. The boys nodded vigorously at the sound of the word 'dessert'. Lucas raised one eyebrow at the boys and the boys immediately stopped, wiping their mouths with the napkins and getting up to put on their coats. They got their book bags with the help of their father.

"Can you wait a minute so I can at least put the dessert away for you guys to take home?" Katy asked. Lucas smiled and shook his head.

"Honestly, there's no need. There'll be an event in the next couple of days which I'll text you about… It's a secret though so don't hint it out to those guys," Lucas whispered and pointed them out as the boys shoved each other playfully.

"Well, we honestly had a lovely time here, didn't we boys?" Lucas said quite loudly. The boys ran towards Maya and Katy and stuck out their hands.

"We had a lot of fun Miss Katy and Miss Maya," The boys said almost robotically, except that they were grinning and shook Maya and her mother's hand and then swapped so they could shake both her and her mother's hand. Maya ruffled their hair as Katy planted kisses on their cheeks. Max beckoned Maya to crouch down.

"Here's my favourite thing in the world. I want you to keep it safe for me," Max stated. Maya looked at him with curiosity.

"Why?" she asked. Max shook his head, smiling.

"You're the coolest person and woman I know! I'd like to think of someone like you as my woman if dad doesn't speed up his butt," Max whispered. He giggled into his hands as he covered his mouth and ran to catch up to his father and brother. Maya looked into her hand. It was a miniature dinosaur figurine kicking a football. She stood up and looked at her mother, showing her the little funny dinosaur and they laughed. She placed the little dinosaur in her pocket and closed the door.

Those little ones were really rubbing off on her.

Maya saw Lucas at college the next day and nodded as he walked by as acknowledgement and he smiled back. These two female classmates from another department cornered her.

"Hey… what was THAT?" The taller blonde asked, her grey eyes piercing into her. The black haired girl nudged Maya, trying to get it out of her.

"Honestly, it was nothing. He's just my mom's employee," She stated. They all stood in the queue for early morning coffee.

"Still, he's hot and you guys have a connection! He works for your mom so if you know him, invite him to the upcoming party this weekend! It's gonna be amazing," The blonde girl stressed, spooning her yoghurt down as soon as they sat down. She didn't drink anything with caffeine in it.

"Honestly Steph, I don't think he-" Maya tried to say but she got hushed by the black haired girl.

"What is it Hayley?" She groaned, rubbing the rib that Hayley rammed her elbow into. Hayley pointed at the front of the queue and it was Lucas collecting his coffee and sitting down somewhere not too far from them. It was quite rare to see him alone and unbothered by other people.

"Get up and ask!" Hayley and Steph hissed together. Maya rolled her eyes, taking her coffee and bag with her. She took slow, unsteady strides and sat in front of him. He unglued his eyes from his textbook and smiled.

"Huckleberry, there's a party this Saturday. Some people wanted to know if you are attending," Maya asked. Lucas could tell she was being impatient and seemed a little uncomfortable.

"Um, yeah. I'm fine thanks how are you?" He responded, closing his textbook after folding the corner of the page.

"Sorry. My friends really want to know…" Maya explained. He put his left arm on the table, put his right hand under his chin and looked up. He seemed to be mock thinking.

"Obviously I can't. What about Max and Larry?" He replied, putting his things away. Maya wanted to rip her hair out.

"Look, my friends won't leave me alone if you say no so please say something else?" She pleaded. Lucas smirked and took a sip of his coffee, before getting up. He put his bag on his shoulder.

"Hmm, how about Maybe?" He said, winking at her. She breathed a sigh of relief.

"Maybe's good enough for me," She stated and watched him leave. Her friends came running up to her, asking about what he said.

"Maybe he said… Maybe."

AN: Stay tuned. I promise the next few chapters won't be some cliché bullshit. Well I hope not.

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