Hi! How are you guys?
I hope you guys had a great time back to school! (if you already went back to school or college).
Happy 1st anniversary of This is a love story. What? No, no way! It's been a year since I'm writing this and we only got 10 chapters, this is terrible!
Well, finally I finished this huge chapter! If you don't know, the events of the last chapters happened at the same day, it was to be a single chapter, but since I didn't want to post a HUGE chapter, I split it.
I'm going to apologize in advance because I didn't watch BMW, so I kinda don't know what happened at some characters' lives, I'm sorry!
From the room, she was able to hear the noise of the door being closed. In fact, the door had been slammed and the sound caused by the slam of the door almost made her scream with fright. Anne thought they were being robbed and in a not very smart move, she ran to the living room after taking the first thing that appeared in front of her: an umbrella. Upon getting in the live room she saw the dark-haired man in tears on the sofa and that made her freeze in place while watching Charlie's body tremble. In those more than twenty years of relationship, she had never seen him like that. Yes, she had seen him cry a few times for things that she considered stupid and for serious things as well, but she had never seen him cry so hard as now. Her heart aches at the sight of him so badly. Charlie hadn't even noticed her presence in the room yet, so she ditched the umbrella on the sofa and approached him:
"Charlie?"
"Please Anne, not now! Leave me alone. I'm begging you, please!
He said hiding his face on the sofa, to avoid her judgment. Anne shook her head negatively as she saw his attitude after everything they had passed through together.
"I'm not going anywhere, Charlie. I'll never go anywhere. Are you hearing me? I'm and I'll always be here for you.
She came over, sitting beside him on the sofa, wrapping her arms around him. Charlie tried to pull her away, but Anne wouldn't allow it so she hugged him even more tightly, which made Charlie stop struggling and hugging back Anne, surrendering into his moment of weakness.
After a few minutes of crying, Charlie began to calm down enough to say something. Anne stroked his hair while he kept his face in Anne's chest. He needs to take his time, whatever was that had happened, and she knew how to respect it. Charlie looked at the wall lost in his thoughts, silent tears rolled down his face with a little bit longer time between them and Anne laid a slight kiss on his forehead which made him open up to her.
"She doesn't love me, Anne!"
His voice showing how much he is hurt after he learned of it that early evening.
"So, you went to see Riley."
"She lied to me, Anne. She cheated on me, betrayed me, played with my feelings for all this time."
"What are you talking about, Charlie?"
Said Anne confused, no understanding what he was telling her.
"I looked for her so we could talk about everything that has happened in these last few days." Charlie seemed to be anywhere but there with her as he spoke. "I thought she still loves me, Anne. After everything that happened between us, but I was totally wrong. Riley doesn't love me, Anne. I don't even know if she really loved me or it was all lies.
"Why doesn't she love you, Charlie? Where did you get that from?"
"She told me." Charlie paused for a few seconds, remembering what had happened an hour ago in her apartment building. "She said she had wanted to break up with me for a while, but she didn't have the guts to do it. She said she's relieved that I broke up with her.
"What do you mean, Charlie? She kissed you!"
Anne said confused raising his face to see Charlie better.
"Because she kissed me, I thought there was still something, but no. She showed me that I was totally wrong."
"Sorry, but I can't understand that. She kissed you and then said she didn't want anything with you? What's wrong with this woman?"
"I didn't understand either. I asked her to be honest with me and she told me things that had happened in the past. She cheated on me, Anne! She had the guts to look at my face a few years ago and says that she had not had anything with those boys, that it was all in my head, but today she confessed to me that she went out with them. I can't believe I still love her, I want to hate her so much."
"What do you mean? Did she cheat on you? Riley doesn't seem to be that kind of person."
"I was thinking about it, too, but apparently she's pretty great at lying and cheating."
"I can't believe it, Charlie!"
"She made a fool out of me, Anne. She said she wasn't dating a guy this morning, but she actually slept with him and they are something now."
They grow silent for a few minutes and by the way Anne bit the corner of her mouth, he knew she was upset with what he had said to her. Anne patted Charlie's back so he could move and then she could stand up.
"Go take a good shower and relax a little. I'll meet you in a couple minutes!"
She said going to the kitchen. Charlie went to his bedroom and resisted the urge to crawl into bed and stay there forever, so he walked into the bathroom. After a few minutes with the hot water running through his body, he stopped in front of the mirror noticing that he had been looking a little careless in the last few days something that would probably get him some complaint at work, so he opened the bathroom cabinet in search of a razor, but his eyes stopped in the colorful packaging of cosmetics scattered all over the shelves. Of all the things that were there, only a couple of those packing who are tight at the corner of the shelf belonged to him. Charlie took a deep breath when the urge to throw it all out almost overcame him. Charlie closed the bathroom cabinet giving up on taking care of his looking and left the bathroom.
Charlie slipped into the covers, the only thing he wanted was to be there enjoying his blue by himself, but he knew Anne wouldn't leave him and as soon as he thought of her the door opened. Anne came into the bedroom with two cups in her hands and smiled at him.
"Guess what I got here?" as she didn't get an answer Anne approached and left one of the cups on the nightstand "A nice cup of tea because tea heals almost everything! Okay, it doesn't cure anything, maybe it helps in a cold, or cramps... anyway let's pretend it does miracles."
She said kneeling in bed.
"Sit down!" Charlie obeyed your command. "Charlie, do you remember when we were kids, and we found Mr. Nick dead in the cage? I cried a lot and you promised me that we were going to buy the biggest ice cream they had at the ice cream store for us, but you only had five dollars that's meant that you could only buy two scoops of ice cream, so you bought me those two scoops of ice cream and refused to share the ice cream with me. Well, I never thanked you for that. So, thanks, Charchar!
"Charchar not, please!"
He said rolling his eyes at the childhood nickname she had given him.
"Charchar!" Anne said laughing because she loved it annoying him "Do you remember when my parents decided to get divorced and my mom let me stay at your home for a couple days until things get better at my home? Do you remember that you convinced your mom to make brownie for me because I was feeling down?" Charlie nodded as he remembered that complicated phase she'd gone through when she was just a little girl. "And since then you've always gotten me brownie when I'm going through those difficult times. And even though I was on the other side of the ocean I knew when I was feeling down I would still have my piece of brownie right there waiting for me at home to remind me that wherever I was and whatever happened to me, you always would be there with me supporting me and caring about me, so thank you for look after me for all these years! Well, I have here, "she said, holding out the cup to him. "Microwave brownie with extra chocolate, covered in whipped cream because I know you like it and with a cherry on top because I know you hate cherry then that means you'll be forced to share it with me."
Anne held a spoon with a playful smile and Charlie opened his arms in a silent invitation for her to approach. Anne sat down beside him, placing her legs over his, Charlie keeping one of his arms around her as he took the spoon from her hand and laying a kiss on her forehead.
"Don't think that I forgot that you lied to me when you said that Mr. Salmon would go to sea so he could swim with the other fishes while you flushed his lifeless body in the toilet. Did you know that tell lies to younger people is something ugly to do?"
She said playfully making him smile.
"Thanks, Anne!"
"You know I love you, don't you?"
"And I love you, too!"
"Then never forget that I'll always be here. I'll always intrude, so don't you dare in tell me to stay out when something is hurting you. Are you hearing me?"
She said seriously and Charlie nodded at what made her smile and lay a long kiss on his cheek.
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"So, you rode a sheep!"
She laughed outrageously and Lucas felt his ears warm as he heard her mocking him. Repentance was coming, Lucas didn't know why he had told her about that, now she had more ammunition to use against him. Lucas moved his head negatively as Maya held her belly that already ached with all her laughter.
"Yeah, I did it!"
He said looking at his ice cream.
"And you could not stay on top of the sheep!"
"I was a kid, give me a break!"
"Nah! Papi Joe must have been so proud of his little grandson taking his first steps in the rodeo's world.
"How did you know about it?"
"I know what?"
"How did you know that my grandpa's name is Papi Joe?"
"I didn't, it was just a guess!"
"Zay told you, didn't he?"
"Sincerely, I don't know! I just thought the name matches with you, Ranger Rick."
She said taking another spoonful of her ice cream, Lucas crossed his arms and leaned his weight on the table analyzing her, she seemed to be telling the truth. Maya raised her eyebrows at him, Lucas leaned his back against the back of the chair.
"You make it so easy, Huckleberry!"
Maya said referring to future jokes and nicknames as she took the opportunity to steal a spoonful of his ice cream.
"Hey, that's mine!"
He said pretending to try to get her spoon and Maya laughed trying to put the spoon in her mouth. Lucas rested his face on his own hand taking the opportunity to look at Maya enchanted, he could tell she was having a great night and the reason had nothing to do with him. He was just with her when the doors opened again for her. This happiness fits so well on her, Lucas had never seen Maya shine like as now and that was dangerous because of every laugh, smile or look of her it has an effect on him and he didn't wanna think about that effect for a long time.
"I really like that passion fruit ice cream flavor, but the girls think that it's disgusting."
They were interrupted by the ringing of Maya's phone, she looked at it and a curious expression appeared on her face, she took it in her hands and answered the call:
"Hello?"
A smile appeared on her face as she recognized the voice on the other side, but the smile soon died and a worried countenance took its place.
"I'm going! Don't go anywhere, don't talk to anyone. Did you hear me? In a couple minutes, I'll be there."
She hung up and looked at Lucas.
"Well, thank you for the night, Lucas! It was ... nice and interesting, but I have to go somewhere now." She stood up and took her purse. "See you at work!"
She turned in her heels and walked to the door, Lucas got up quickly to accompany her. Maya looked up and down the street as he caught up with her.
"Where are you going, Maya?"
"I have to meet someone in a certain place."
Her voice showed concern, something serious had apparently happened.
"I can give you a ride to where you need to go."
She stared at him for a moment taking stock of her alternatives.
"Thanks!"
She walked forward with her quick footsteps and Lucas had to fight a bit to catch up her, he wondered how she wasn't afraid to walk like that with that high heel.
Maya led him to a strange, public square, it was badly lit, and there was hardly anyone there on these hours. Lucas parked his car fearfully and Maya quickly took off her seat belt in a hurry.
"Thanks for the ride, Lucas! You can go now. I'll ask for a taxi later. Bye!"
She left quickly without waiting for his reply. Lucas watched her disappear into the trees, being enveloped by the dim light of the place. He could just turn on his car and go home, but leaving Maya there, in that place, by herself, it wasn't in his plans. Lucas couldn't be fine with himself if he did that, so he found himself taking off his seat belt to follow her.
Lucas thought he had lost Maya in that square, his eyes traveled all sides in an attempt to find her. A grimy wall with a graffiti written hope caught his eye. The graffiti was made at least about nine years ago because its colors had faded due to the passing years and climatic influences. A move a few meters from him caught his attention and Lucas decided to follow whatever it was.
He saw several small trees appear in his field of view leaving the place darker. There were a few half-moon benches beneath the trees, which should be a nice place to spend some time during the day, but at night it gets you a feeling of insecurity as the trees ended up reducing the field of view of the people.
The sound of Maya's voice caught his attention as it came from behind one of the trees, Lucas could approach, but doing it would be a very rude attitude because his mom had taught him not to listen to other people's conversation; and if he became visible to they he would ruin the moment between Maya and the other person who he quickly recognized, for that voice he had heard a few days ago was the unmistakable voice of May, and ruin they siblings moment would be something he won't forgive himself, even if he didn't understand what a little girl like May did alone in a place like that.
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When Maya heard the unmistakable voice of May calling her at that hour of an unknown number that now wasn't so unknown to her as soon as her sister had said where she was; Maya remembered the times when she had used that pay phone to play prank calls when she was a kid. But May's crying voice had caught her attention, May, as well as the other two Harts, she wasn't much a crying person, when Maya listening to her voice she knew something was really off.
Maya was scared, Maya was frightened to think of every minute that May passed by herself in that badly lit public square, someone with bad intentions could find her and try to do some harm to the girl. She could ask Lucas to speed up the car, but she didn't want him to get into her business so the only thing left was to pray, something she would learn from Riley when they were finishing their middle school, praying for the streets to be empty which would make them get there faster.
She had not even given him chance to say goodbye before closing the door, her feet guided her through the familiar place. Maya had spent much of her childhood in that square because the old apartment that her mother shared with her grandmother was only two blocks away. Her alarmed eyes ran through all the benches looking for her sister until a thought crosses her mind. It was just a guess, but there was a special place in that square she liked the most because it was more reserved, that is, that place didn't allow people to see who was there. In that place, the little Maya had cried over her father's abandonment; over her grandfather's passed away, the fact that she just had a half-mother for most of her life, and other difficult moments of her life, but it was also one of the places that inspired her most.
Maya wasn't surprised to see May sitting alone on that cold bench in wearing only her pajamas. Her mother may not have even noticed that her youngest daughter isn't in her bedroom because one of the things the Harts are really good at is sneak out without getting caught. May was sitting on the bench hugging her legs and when Maya was only a few steps away from her, she noticed that the younger girl was crying.
"May, what happened? Why are you crying?"
She said worriedly as she getting down on her knees in front of the younger girl who seems just noticed her presence right now. May opened her arms and hugged her sister tightly. Maya took May in her lap and sat on the bench stroking her sister's hair.
"Why are you crying, May? What happened?"
Said Maya, she was scared of something very serious had occurred to her sister while she wasn't there, she looked for some bruise but didn't find anything.
"He left, Maya. He left!"
"Who left, May?"
Maya said confused.
"Daddy, He left us!"
Maya tried to create a distance between them so she could see her sister better, but May didn't allow it.
"What do you mean Shawn left, May?"
"Mom and he were arguing pretty bad a few hours ago, they even went to the bedroom and after a few minutes he came out with a suitcase. Daddy was upset, he gave me a kiss and walked out the door. I went to see Mom after a few minutes and she was crying in bed. He left us, Maya!"
"May, Shawn wouldn't abandon you, he loves you two so much!"
"Your daddy left you and mommy after arguing with our mom. He did that like your daddy, Maya!"
"Shawn is not like my dad, May. Never compare Shawn to him!"
May stepped away from her sister so she could see Maya better.
"Shawn would never leave you and mom as my dad did to mom and me."
"Why are you so sure?"
"Because I know Shawn and he knows what it's like to be abandoned, what it's like to have a broken family and he wouldn't want anybody to go through that. Shawn would never do that because he knows how much it hurts and he doesn't want you to go through that pain, May."
"I didn't know that, Maya. Daddy never talks about his family besides Uncle Cory, Aunt Topanga, Grandma and Grandpa Matthews."
"Because he thinks you're too young to hear about adult problems, May. Talk to him, really talk to him."
"Maya, I heard them fight, it was scary."
"I know, May. You know, when I was younger than you, sometimes I'd turn up the TV volume so I wouldn't hear Mom fighting with my dad. Sometimes I would cry alone in my bedroom when they thought I was asleep. Sometimes I would find Mommy crying and she would tell me it was just a speck in her eye that had just come out because specks hurt. May, couples have arguments, all couples argue. There are no couples that don't fight, at some point, it is going to happen. The important thing is what you do after these fights. It is very important to apologize when you hurt someone. It's important to know how to listen and talk, we have to be careful about what we said to people because our worst weapons are our words they hurt right here, "Maya said pointing to May's heart," and sometimes the hurt is so deep that we will never be able to cure it. Dad and Mom had a fight, yeah, they did but that doesn't mean he doesn't love her anymore, it may be just because Mom thinks one thing and Dad thinks something completely different and once he gets home they'll be fine."
"So, he's coming back home?"
May said hopefully.
"Of course, he'll come back, May! Shawn will always come back to us!"
She said, wiping her sister's tears and laying a kiss on May's forehead.
"Do you swear?"
"I swear it! Let's go, if mom doesn't find you in bed she's going to be crazy!"
May stepped out of Maya's lap and offered her hand to Maya helping her to get up from the bench, they stepped out of the hiding in the trees and found Lucas walking toward them.
"Oh, you're here!"
Maya saw his face a bit red as if he had been caught in something he shouldn't have done, Lucas scratched the back of his neck. May ran up to him, her arms outstretched and Lucas lifted her up and gave her a hug keeping her in his arms after that.
"Hi, May!"
"What are you doing here, Huckleberry?"
Maya said crossing her arms
"I wouldn't leave you alone in this place even more at this hour!"
"So, you and Maya went out?"
May said more as an affirmation than a question.
"We went to see some paintings.
"Yay!"
She said hugging him even more pleased that he and her older sister had gone on a date, maybe they would even be dating right now or almost it.
"Ok, let's go!"
Lucas and Maya started their walk to the car, but May stopped them near the wall that had caught Lucas attention a few minutes ago.
"Did you see that drawing?"
May said pointing to the wall, Lucas turned to the Wall and said:
"Yeah, I did. It is pretty beautiful!"
"Do you know who painted it, Huckleberry?"
Maya shot at her sister a scolding look.
"No," he said laughing "Do you know?"
"Yes, it was Maya who painted it. Mom told me that and also told me to never do something like that, never!"
"It is really beautiful Maya, it should be even more when you painted it."
"Thank you, Huckleberry!"
She said walking again. They arrived at Maya's mother's home in a few minutes since they were still living in the neighborhood. May slept in the car then Lucas offered to take May to the bed, as Maya had a spare key she didn't bother to warn the mother of their arrival, as soon as the door opened she saw the older blonde leave worriedly from one of the bedrooms.
"Maya, May is missing!"
She said desperately, Maya gave Lucas room to walk in her mom's apartment with May on his arms which made Katy sigh with relief.
"Where was she?"
"She was in the square!"
"Where can I put her, Mrs. Hunter?"
"It's Katy, honey! At the next door "she said, pointing to the hall "when she wakes up we'll have a good chat!"
She said mad, Lucas walked to the bedroom and left them alone.
"Thank you, Maya! I don't know what she was thinking! She could get hurt!"
"She was scared! May told me she heard you and Shawn fight."
"Oh!"
Katy said sadly.
"She thought he'd left you guys like my father did."
"She thought? Shawn just got a last-minute work in Utah and I was upset because we had something planned, it was nothing so serious. We're good now."
"Talk to her."
"Thank you for bringing her safe and sound, my baby girl! I'm sorry, this ruined your date with Lucas!"
"Mom, there isn't a date! We just went to the same place and he's giving me a ride.
"Call it whatever you want, but this will still end with a kiss!"
"Mom!" She said upset with her mother for insisting on the idea of Maya and Lucas "Well, I got a new job today!"
"Did you get? Oh, my baby girl! "she said hugging Maya "I'm so happy for you!"
"Thanks, Mom!"
"I'm glad things started to work out for you! Maybe that's a sign."
"A sign? A sign of what?"
She said, moving away from her mom.
"That..." she said pointing backward "he is the right one!"
Maya saw Lucas approaching, he smiled not aware of what they were talking about.
"Ok, that's enough!"
"Thanks for bringing her home, Lucas! Thanks for keeping my two girls safe!"
Lucas smiled at Katy and looked at Maya.
"Okay, it's time. Good night mom!"
"Night, baby girl!"
She said kissing her daughter's cheek, Maya stepped away and Katy hugged Lucas and gave him a kiss on his cheek.
"Good night, Lucas! Take my baby girl home and be careful! I'm still too young to have grandchildren.
Lucas blushed at Katy's mischievous tone.
"Mom!"
Maya said a little loudly.
"Bye, could you lock the door when you leave? Thanks!"
After twenty minutes Lucas parked the car in front of the girls' apartment building and even with the protests of Maya, he walked her to the door of her apartment because as he had taken her there so he would leave her there.
"We are here. Look, follow me was completely unnecessary. I can take care of myself."
She said facing him as she unlocking the door.
"I don't doubt about that, Maya but I wanted to make sure you'd be fine."
"Ok! Let's see, there are two legs, two arms, a head, I think I'm good!"
She said dramatically and turned to him. Maya leans against the door and Lucas laughed to see that she was in her normal mood after that worried hour.
"I'm glad you are good! Well, thank you for the night, Maya. I really appreciate your company!"
"You weren't that bad, Huckleberry. Thank you for the opportunity, now I'm a woman with a real job again!"
"I think we'll miss you."
"Ok, there's still a few days for me say goodbye."
"Well, I'm going home!"
Maya walked over to kiss him goodbye on the cheek, but Lucas got surprised and moved his face, the kiss on his cheek turned into a light touch of Maya's lips on his lips. It was a few seconds, but she felt something strange in her body that made her move away from him quickly, Lucas watched her for a few seconds trying to understand what had happened there.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to. You just turned your head at the wrong moment."
Said Maya, her cheeks were flushed.
"It's ok, no problem! I have to apologize for moving."
He said flushed as well, they stared at each other for a few minutes in silence.
"Well, I..." Lucas said, pointing behind his shoulder toward the hallway. "I'm... I'm going. Have a great night, Maya!"
"You too, Huckleberry!"
She said opening the door and waving at him, Maya watched him leave the hallway and came into her apartment. The TV was turned on illuminating the empty room, Riley was in the kitchen closing the freezer with a pot of ice cream that Maya could bet it was chocolate, as this was Riley's blue ice cream. When you live with a person for so long as they do, there are some dialogues are unnecessary, even if in this case the dialogue had already happened a few hours earlier. Riley smiled at her best friend as she noticed her presence.
"Missy wanted to stay awake until you get in, but in the middle of the movie was already drooling in me so I said to her go to bed because there was nothing in our contract talking about carrying one of us to the bedroom."
"You didn't have to wait for me, Riles!"
"Actually, I can't sleep."
She said sitting on the sofa, Maya joined with her friend who had got two spoons from the kitchen.
"Too much to think?"
"Yeah, but let's talk about your date first." Maya glared at her friend. "Ok, so how was your ride with Lucas?"
"It was good! We had lasagna from that place that I like so we went to the gallery and then we had ice cream."
"Tell me details!"
Riley demanded and Maya laughed.
"In the gallery, we bumped into Huckleberry's ex-girlfriend and that created a bad atmosphere so we went to the ice cream store to chill a bit."
"Really? What does she look like?"
"She's a blonde who got her blonde hair from a pharmacy, not at all nice, I don't know what Ranger Rick saw in her! Maybe she was acting like that because I was there with him."
"Yeah, maybe she was jealous of seeing you two together. What else?"
"Maybe. Did you know that Huckleberry was a mini-cowboy when he was a kid? He even rode a sheep."
She said amused and Riley laughed, knowing her friend so well as she does, she knew that Maya will be making fun of about it in the next few days, Riley was already feeling pity for Lucas.
"So, you're making fun of him?"
"Almost, I didn't have much time, May called me right after."
"May called you?" Riley found the attitude of the little girl a bit odd "What happened?"
"She left the house and went to that small square I used to attend as a child, without my mother knowing about it..."
"Oh, she's just like you!" Riley said interrupting her friend "Sorry! Was she in that square where you spray graffiti on that wall in our last year of middle school?"
"Yep. I found her there alone. I can't believe she walked around the neighborhood by herself at that time of night! She was very irresponsible!"
Said Maya disapproving of her sister's attitude and Riley laughed at her friend's attitude.
"She's a kid, May can still be irresponsible. I don't know why you're so upset about it, you did the same thing when you were a kid!
"Is different!"
"It's, now you're an adult and right now you realize how much your mom always worried when you disappeared like that. May is a Hart, she will always be fine! But what was she doing there?
"She thought Shawn was leaving, like my father."
"Why would she think that?"
"Shawn and my mom had an argument and got mad at each other, Shawn had to go do a job in Utah and when he came out with a suitcase, May thought he was leaving, she thought he was abandoning them like my father did.
"Oh, she must have been so afraid of it!"
"I asked my mom not to talk about it with her, but she didn't listen to me."
"It is May's right to know the history of her family."
"Well, let's stop talking about me and talk about you. How are you feeling?"
Maya said resting her head on Riley's shoulder filling her scoop of ice cream.
"Please, don't mess my hair with ice cream!"
"Actually, the clumsy and dorky person here is you, not me!" Riley shoved her shoulder, but Maya sank her head even more in Riley's shoulder. "So, how are you?"
"I'll be fine, Maya!"
"So, now it's over for good?"
"Yeah, Maya. We're done for good. I can't believe I ever liked him!"
"You say that as if you suddenly stopped liking him and had not cried for hours about him."
"I really want, Maya. not to like him, but that's not how things work, you can't just cut someone out of your life in a snap of your fingers. It's not that easy. Charlie hurt me a lot today and apparently, I did too, according to Missy. I know that Missy has a point about that woman, I should inform me about her, but at the same time, I don't want to know the truth. I don't want to hear that they're getting married in a few days. Anyway, Charlie broke up with me, we had to stay in the past and it's better to us move on, meet new people ...
"How dare you talk without me?" Said the sleepy voice at the door, Maya and Riley turned to Missy "plus eating ice cream without me!"
"You haven't been sleeping?"
Riley said and Missy shrugged.
"I was asleep, not deaf."
Missy said throwing herself on the couch between her friends.
"So, you kissed Lucas?"
Maya felt her cheeks burn as soon as those words left her friend's lips, Missy took the spoon from Riley who shot a deadly look at Missy who didn't pay attention as she watched Maya.
"You kissed him, didn't you?" She saw her friend's face turn even redder. " Yeah, you did!
Missy laughed
"Sorry, What?"
Riley said with her mouth open.
"It was accidental!"
"How dare you leave it out, Hart!"
Said Riley feeling outraged.
"There is no accidental kiss with Lucas Friar! So, you Think he's attractive and interesting..."
"Stop it! It was just embarrassing. I just... I was about to kiss his cheek but he turned and suddenly the kiss on his cheek became a quick peck on his lips"
Maya said interrupting Missy.
"So, you wanted to kiss him?"
She said mischievously and Riley smiled as she saw her friend turn even redder.
"I was just saying goodbye!"
Maya said starting to get annoyed with her friend.
"And how it was?"
"How did you feel?"
Her friends questioned her.
"I don't know, it was awkward!"
"It was... good?"
"Let's stop talking about it!"
Maya said hiding her face with her hands.
"Oh, she's embarrassed!" Missy said laughing "Something tells me that Lucas is walking in that inhospitable cave also known as Maya Penelope Hart's heart."
"So, how about we talk about your love life since you love to take care of other people's love life?"
"Why would we talk about something so horrible?"
Said the brunette sighing, putting a spoonful of ice cream in her mouth after.
"Remember, she only had two or three boyfriends, but only one was the serious one?"
Maya said challenging the brunette.
"Shut up, Hart!"
Missy said upset by the topic of the conversation.
"Do you forgot we can't talk about that guy?"
Riley said looking at the other brunette.
"Ok! Sorry for talking about him?"
Missy rested her head on the blonde's shoulder.
"Do you remember Missy's first kiss?"
Riley commented, and a smile appeared on Maya's face.
"The cauliflower boy! I would never forget that boy."
Maya laughed as she remembered the boy her friend had kissed in their fourth grade.
"I can't believe Missy kissed him just because of those girls..."
Riley cut herself off because she didn't want to offend the girls even if they hadn't been friendly people.
"Nasty girls, sluts, among other great qualities. You didn't have to do that."
Maya said
"And I'd chicken out? It was just a peck to shut their mouths. That wasn't even that big deal! I bet they hadn't kissed too! And since you brought it up. How about we talk about the pretty face you kissed in the library, Miss Matthews?
Thank goodness, it is over! *Happy dance*
Let's write another chapter because someone is coming in to mess with someone's story here.
Why does Missy not like to talk about one of her ex-boyfriends?
In the next chapters, Maya will have a surprise coming directly from the past. She will learn that all our choices have good and bad consequences, and with that, she will have to deal with them. I want to see Maya using her older sister's role more often.
Riley and Charlie: Is it time to move on?
I have the feeling that I am definitely disappointing you, I'm sorry!
Have a good week!
See ya!