A/N: You guys did so amazing at giving me tons of awesome reviews for the last chapter! Hope you don't feel like you have waited too long…

PLEASE READ: you all have been so nice and incredible this whole story so far and this is the big reveal chapter of what is going on with Lucas and you guys have been waiting this whole time for it and I just really am scared that it won't live up to your expectations… It would crush me if I were to let you guys down after you have said so many nice things for the past 9 chapters. I just wanted to get that off my chest because I'm still insecure about my writing.

Ok I've kept you waiting long enough! Here it is, the next chapter! I hope you enjoy!

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Chapter 10: "Reasons and Explanations"

After what felt like a decade of waiting, the door flung open. There stood Lucas. His face was just as nervous as hers if possible. Maya tried to find words, but couldn't. She just looked at Lucas, eye contact and all.

"Hey," Lucas said breaking the silence. His voice was soft and quiet, which Maya chose to echo.

"Hi." Maya walked inside the apartment and made her way to Lucas's room, not even knowing if he was following behind her. She stepped into his room, placing her bag down on a chair. She looked at the bed. The bed she so often had laid on right when she walked in. It only scared her now. She stood in the middle of the room and turned to Lucas, who was standing in the doorway. Neither of them spoke. Maya figured she should just jump straight into it before the silence gave him the chance to say something she didn't want to hear. She walked over to him slowly, closing the bedroom door. She placed her hands on his sides, her breath hitched as she touched him. The small blonde brought her lips close to his, his hot breath on her lips. Their lips were brought together and Maya deepened it quickly, not wanting to waste any time. Maya's hands reached for Lucas's and brought them up to the buttons on her shirt, beginning to undo them. Lucas suddenly ended the kiss and stepped back, shocked.

"Maya what are you doing?" He didn't sound angry. Maybe worried, but definitely surprised by his girlfriend's sudden eagerness.

"Giving you what you want," Maya's voice was almost defensive. She couldn't take what was going to happen. In her mind, it was clear this wasn't going to be fixed. Lucas looked at her in awe. His jaw dropped as he took a giant step back.

"Maya! Why would you think this is what I want?" Maya didn't like the way his voice had raised. He seemed more offended than angry but Maya, on the other hand, was getting closer to angry.

"Because you've barely looked at me for the past week! You don't want to talk to me and when you do it seems like it's some chore that you have to do! It's just all awkward and messed up and I just thought that-"

"That I was being like that because you weren't having sex with me?" Now he sounded angry. "Maya do you even know me!?"

"Apparently not because the Lucas that I know wouldn't treat me like this! So I don't know what's going on! Why don't you tell me Lucas," Maya yelled. At the same time, Maya couldn't hold it back anymore. The tears she had been choking back all week rolled out of her glassy eyes and down her cheeks. Lucas was silent. "You tell me why you've been acting the way you have." Lucas stared at her, then down at the floor, then back up at her. His eyes stayed on her. He stared at the little crystal tears that were slowly dropping out of her blue eyes. This seemed to go on for hours to Maya. In reality, it was only minutes.

"Lucas!" Maya yelled.

"I can't," Lucas said, his voice stern and angry. Maya had had enough. Whatever was going to come would come. She could tell what he wanted. He was too good of a guy to tell her, but she knew.

"You tell me why or I'm walking out and I'm not coming back," Maya's voice hitched with almost every word. Just thinking about not being with Lucas was killing her, but this wasn't their relationship anymore. This was a mess. This was heartache.

"Maya come on," Lucas pleaded.

"No. No Lucas I can't do this. Whatever has been going on with you for the past week doesn't seem like it's going to end anytime soon. And I can't do it anymore alright?" Maya sniffled as she prepared herself for what was going to be said next. "So either you tell me what the hell is going on with you…or we are over." Lucas looked as if his heart would break, but Maya was too busy feeling hers break to notice. Several seconds of silence happened before Maya realized Lucas was probably going to just keep saying nothing. She grabbed her bag and walked over to the door. As she walked through the doorway and out towards the apartment door, Lucas angrily hit his fist against the wall. He ran after Maya.

"Maya don't go!" Maya didn't bother to turn around and just kept walking towards the front door.

"Why shouldn't I Lucas?"

"Because I love you!" Lucas yelled out. Maya stopped dead in her tracks in the middle of the living room. She turned around slowly to see him standing in the hallway looking at her. His face had lightened and he didn't look angry anymore.

"What?" Maya asked in a low voice. If the room hadn't been so dead silent, Lucas probably wouldn't have even heard it. Lucas took a few steps towards her, but stopped about halfway. She could tell he was trying to find his words.

"That's why I've been acting the way I have," he explained. Maya just looked at him, her brows furrowed, confused.

"You've been acting like an ass and treating me like a pile of shit because you love me? How the hell does that work Lucas?" Maya's words were filled with anger and rage. She was unable to put this together. Love seemed like the furthest thing from his mind the past few days. Lucas was frustrated, unsure of how to explain himself.

"I wanted to tell you for a while now. And I thought it would perfect to do it for our anniversary. But I freaked out and I couldn't. And I've been trying and trying. But I would get scared every time I tried." Maya was listening intently, eyes glassy but no actual tears coming out. "Then I was going to tell you last week on our date when I gave you your anniversary present but I- I don't know."

"Lucas why is that so hard for you to say?" Maya asked. Less angry now, she took a few steps closer to him, letting them be separated by only a couple feet now. Lucas shook his head.

"I don't know. I've never said that to a girl before. I've never even felt that about a girl before, not even Riley and I didn't know if you would say it back. Then after I chickened out that night I could see how upset you were. And I knew I caused it."

"So why wouldn't you just say it then?" Maya said defensively.

"Because you're not supposed to do that to people you love! I could see it get worse and worse every day that I didn't say it and all I could think was how I didn't deserve to love you if I was doing that to you." Lucas's voice trailed off into sadness. He looked at the floor, ashamed. But Maya's eyes didn't leave him.

"You don't think you're good enough for me?" Maya emphasized the words "you're" and "me" as much as could. That was the craziest thought she had ever heard: Lucas Friar not good enough for Maya Hart. He was too good. She always believed that.

"I tried to ask you to come over or I tried to walk you home, but you kept saying no. And I just thought about how much I screwed up by not telling you I love you since the moment I knew it. Which was a long time ago," Maya looked up at Lucas in disbelief.

"You realize I spent the entire week losing my damn mind about what could be wrong with you? With us? I have spent every second trying to figure out what I did wrong!" Maya noticed she was basically screaming at him at this point. She calmed down before continuing. "I spent the entire week thinking you didn't want to be with me Lucas." Lucas cupped Maya's face with his hands, stroking her cheek with his thumb.

"Nothing in this world is ever going to make me not want to be with you," he said. Maya quickly pushed his hands away.

"Well what the hell was I supposed to think Lucas? You don't do that! Ok and it's a shit excuse that you gave me." Maya looked away, unable to see the sadness in Lucas's eyes. She could tell he was sorry, but she didn't want to forgive him. Not after the feeling he put in her this past week.

"I'm sorry. Maya I'm so sorry!" Lucas begged her. Maya brought her eyes back up to his.

"I know." They stood in silence for a while, until Lucas broke it.

"Where did you get the idea that I didn't want to be with you because we don't have sex?" Lucas asked, still slightly offended that Maya thought that could the kind of guy he was.

"Rebecca," Maya answered.

"And you listened to Rebecca?" Lucas said, slightly smiling, just trying to lighten the mood. Maya let out a small laugh, then went back to her previous sad face. Lucas held out his hand towards her. "Can we please go talk in my room?" Maya stared at his hand, unsure of whether or not to take it. "Please?" She looked Lucas in the eye. He was sincere. He was the same boy she fell in love with. She took his hand and he led her back to his room. She made her way to the bed as Lucas closed the bedroom door behind him. He found his way to the bed, sitting right beside her.

No one talked. They just sat there. Lucas knew how bad he screwed up. But he wouldn't let his blonde beauty get away. He would go to the end of the earth for her. He was ashamed of his actions from the past week, but he was determined to make it right. Not knowing how, he sat next to her and watched as another tear came down her cheek.

A/N: Did you like it? Did you hate it? I'm actually incredibly proud of this story and how it turned out so I hope you guys like reading it as much as I liked writing it! I want a lot of reviews so I can know what you guys thought of the reveal chapter, and there is still more exciting things to come in this story so I'll get the next chapter posted soon if I get enough reviews:)

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