Hey y'all! I know I'm a horrible person for not updating in a long time, and I will continue to apologize for my inconsistency forever, but I will not just stop writing this. I love this story so far, and I hope y'all are too. I will be introducing new characters as well as more GMW characters in the future.

But for now, Lucas and Maya are still gonna be with this crazy B&B family for a little while longer.

It's still better than that motel. Right?

Enjoy!


I can feel myself waking up, though, I haven't opened my eyes. I wish I couldn't open my eyes because what I am looking at when I open my eyes scares the shit out of me. My eyes meet a pair of bright blue ones, but they don't belong to my new wife. They belong to the girl cutting my fingernails, which is probably the reason that I woke up in the first place.

"What the fuck are you doing?" I ask, quickly jerking my hand away from hers.

"I want your fingernails! I need them for my collection!" She yells pointing to a jar in the floor that was nearly filled with fingernails.

I feel nauseated when I see the jar sitting beside her on the floor. She grabs my hand and clips two more of my fingernails off and adds them to her collection. I start to gag from how sickening that is for me. I've never in my life, even as a detective at the NYPD, seen such a disgusting thing to collect from peoples' bodies.

"You how many serial killers would be sick because of something like that?"

"Thank you. Enjoy your stay," Matilda replies, ignoring my question, and slamming the door shut on her way out. I turn around and lay on my back to stare up at the ceiling.

"It's still better than that motel," I tell myself. The door opens again. I get scared for a second that it's Matilda coming back to cut my toenails. Luckily for me, it's Maya who walks through the door. She has an annoyed look on her face, and she plops herself down on the bed next to me.

"What's your problem?" She asks me before I get the chance to ask her.

"You mean besides waking up to a girl with serial killer-like tendencies cutting my fingernails and showing me her collection of the disgusting fingernails she's collected for God knows how long. You're luck that she didn't do th-"

Maya holds her freshly cut fingernails in my face.

"Oh..."

"Still better than the motel?" She asks.

I sigh and look back up at the ceiling. "That's what I keep telling myself."

"I just want to lay down and watch tv and do nothing all day," Maya admits. I couldn't agree more. It would be better than leaving the room to hang out with the insane family. I agree and hand her the remote control for the television.

"I don't want to worry about the road trip, our new lives, police business, so on... so forth...I just want to relax," She adds.

It isn't long into our relaxing day that there is a knock on the door. Maya gets up to open it.

"Good morning Mr. and Mrs. Walker. Is everything okay so far?" Claire walks in the door and lays some fresh towels on the dresser.

"Everything is fine so far. Thank you," I reply.

"Well, I'm happy to hear that. Breakfast is ready, would you like me to bring you your food?" She asks.

"No. That's okay. Lucas and I will come get breakfast in a minute. Thank you for offering though," Maya answers. Claire nods and walks out of the room.

Maya sits down on the bed again and sighs. She leans her head back on the pillow behind her and stares up at the ceiling. She stretches quickly before she sits up. She gets ready to go downstairs to get something to eat, but I have to ask her if she's okay.

"What's the matter?" I ask.

"It's nothing. I'm just struggling to deal with this new life," She says.

"Are you sure that's all? Because I know you. I can tell when there's more," I tell her.

Maya glares at me. I know that she hates it when I tell her that I know her because she wants to remain a mystery, but when you're in a relationship with someone for almost five years and live with them and share a space together, you get to know a lot about them.

"I always imagined people calling us Mr. and Mrs. Friar. I imagined it in my head for such a long time. I imagined what our life together could be like."

I honestly can't believe what Maya is telling me right now. That could've happened for us, but she was the one who messed that up. I don't want to start getting angry at her because I can't help but feel like she regrets what happened.

"But you turned my proposal down. If you imagined that for such a long time, then why did you turn me down?" I ask.

"It was after that. It was after we broke up. Some days I feel so stupid for turning your proposal down because I did want to marry you, but if I were to relive that day again, then I would turn you down again. And it's not because of you. I was just not ready to marry you yet. I've never been around a functional relationship. My parents split up when I was little, and I lost all hope for me to have a stable relationship. So, when you asked me to marry you, I got scared. And I turned you down."

I feel like Maya just dropped a bomb on me.

"Why didn't you tell me that? I would've understood!" I say. I can't stop myself from getting a little bit angry. And I try to not raise my voice, but at this point, I don't care. I want more answers.

"You never gave me the chance! You stormed out of our apartment before I ever got the chance to tell you that I would marry you someday. Then you went out with Tabitha, and I thought there wasn't any use in telling you anymore," Maya replies.

I don't know how to feel. I know that Maya turned me down for a pretty good reason. I mean, I shouldn't have pressured her into marrying me like I did. I thought for sure she was going to say yes. Then, I had to go and make the situation even worse by dating Tabitha. A girl that Maya worked with. What kind of asshole does that and expects to have a happy ending with the girl he really loves? Besides me.

Maya gets up and walks out of the room. I quickly follow behind her, and she walks down the stairs to the dining room where she makes herself a breakfast plate and sits down in front of Elizabeth, who is burping her baby boy. I sit down next to her.

I lean closer to her ear, "Are you mad?" I ask.

"No. I'm not mad," She mumbles. But she seems mad at me.

"Good morning! How are all of you?" A cheerful Luke walks into the dining room and sits beside Elizabeth. He gives her a long peck on the lips and offers to hold Sebastian.

"We're good," Maya replies. "We got a nice breakfast in a nice home. It's way better than that motel we stayed the night in."

"In what way?" Luke asks.

"Well, the beds were really dirty. The floor had some questionable stains. The bathroom was crawling with cockroaches and has stains on the walls and bathtub that you don't even want me to begin describing. The service was horrible, but I think it was because the phone line from the room to the front desk had been cut. It was really disgusting," Maya explains.

"Wow. That sounds unsatisfying," Elizabeth comments. She looks at Maya's hands and shakes her head. "I see Matilda got into your room this morning?"

"How can you tell?" I ask.

"Your fingernails are gone as well as Maya's. Honestly, I don't see why that girl loves fingernails so much," Elizabeth says. Luke chuckles and makes a funny face at Sebastian.

"So, what are you guys in town for? If you don't mind me asking," Elizabeth asks.

Maya and I look at each other, searching for an answer before anything looks suspicious. Luckily, Maya comes in with the save as she looks back at Elizabeth and smiles.

"Well, Lucas and I are going to L.A. for our honeymoon slash job opportunity. We've been married for nine months, and you would think that we would've been able to go on a honeymoon, but money was tight. Now that we have it, we want to finally have a nice honeymoon. We decided to go to L.A. to relax, but also to look for a job in the police force over there," Maya explains without faltering.

"Aww that's nice. You two look really happy together, and I hope that you both have a great honeymoon. Luke and I haven't been married for too long, longer than nine months, but not too much longer. We got a nice honeymoon in Tahiti. It was so beautiful and calm," Elizabeth says.

She looks at Luke. I can't help but notice the true love between them. The way they smile at each other and look into each others eyes. She lays her head on Luke's very broad shoulder. It reminds me of how Maya and I used to be. The looks. The kisses. The eyes. The small gestures. What can I say? I'm a hopeless romantic.

"I love that we're going to L.A., but I would really love to go somewhere like Tahiti or St. Vincent and the Grenadines," Maya says.

I always knew that Maya wants to go to those places. I've just been so busy with work that I've never gotten the chance to take her to those places. I hope I get to one day. I hope I get to make things right between us again.

"Those are beautiful places. Luke and I love to travel. Before we had Sebastian we got to go on a lot of those trips, and we're excited to take our son on those trips with us someday," Elizabeth responds.

"You two look so happy and sweet together. How do you guys do it?" Maya asks.

Luke looks up from the baby in his arms and looks at Elizabeth. Elizabeth, with a smile still on her face looks at Maya. I can't help but wonder the same thing.

"Well, Luke and I met when I was five. He was twelve, and they moved in next door to us. My parents are friends with his parents so we'd go to each others houses a lot. At that time he wasn't interested in girls or girls that were five. We kind of kept our distance until he graduated college. I was seventeen, and he was 24. I had just gotten out of a terrible relationship, and Luke comforted me. We talked all night. Eventually, our attraction towards each other grew. After I turned eighteen, we got together. We were together for year before he asked me to marry him. We had Sebastian three months ago, and things are amazing right now," Elizabeth says.

"Yea. When we found out she found out she was pregnant, I bought this house for us. My parents and sister moved in after their house got infested with termites. My mom wanted to open a Bed and Breakfast here because the house is so big. I thought it'd be great business, " Luke says gesturing to the house we are currently staying in.

"Wow. You guys did move fast. But as long as y'all are happy, then that's all that matters," Maya says. I was confused for a second about the timeline of the story. They got together when she was eighteen and got married when she turned nineteen, but she's nineteen right now. I just forgot that everybody has a birthday, and she must be ready to turn twenty years old soon.

"We're really happy. I mean we do argue, and I know that we're not perfect, but we talk to each other and work things out. We just know that we really love each other, and we really love our tiny family," Elizabeth replies.

"I know it's harder for some couples to talk to each other when they get mad, but if they actually tried it, then most couples wouldn't break up," Luke adds.

It's like they heard the conversation between Maya and me before we came downstairs. But they were right. I glance at Maya who is pulling at the hangnails on her thumb. She looks over at me and nods.

"That's true," Maya replies. "I'm not very hungry anymore. But what I did eat tasted fantastic. Please tell Claire that I said thank you for the breakfast. And thank you both for talking to us," Maya says before standing up from the table and going back upstairs.

"Will do," Luke says. He stands up with his son in his arms. "C'mon mama, We've got to get Sebastian ready to go to grandma and grandpa's house."

Elizabeth and Luke walk out of the dining room, leaving me by myself. I know that I shouldn't have stormed out of our apartment that night Maya rejected my proposal. I guess I was just so shocked and embarrassed that she said no that I didn't know what to do.

I get my Maya is so mad at me now. And I need to fix it.


Okay! That's all for this chapter! I hope y'all enjoyed it. I know this isn't that long of a chapter, but things are going to get more and more interesting from here. I just wanted to take this chapter to go into the story of how Lucas and Maya broke up. I hope y'all liked the beginning part. And I also hope that y'all liked the story of Luke and Elizabeth.

Lucas and Maya are headed back onto the road, but just because they are leaving the Hamby House, doesn't mean that we'll never hear of them again. Just wait and see.

Love y'all!