"Maya you don't have to push me away. I have been there for you through all of this, please just let me stay so we can talk about this." Riley said fighting against Maya who was pushing her out the door.
"Fine, if that will make you leave faster we can talk." Maya was just so tired, tired of fighting against her memories, against Riley. It felt like she was fighting against the world.
"Can I talk to Lucas first? I have a few things that I need to talk to him about. I think that if I get some closure between us it will be easier on me to accept the two of you." Riley said, with that Maya opened up the bathroom door were Lucas was hiding behind. Silently Riley walked in and shut the door behind her. She needed to face this, to face the fact that her feelings were one sided. It would hurt to know that Lucas didn't want her the way that she wanted him but she would do it in the hopes of getting Maya back.
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"What are you doing here Riley? I know that you are Maya's best friend but if you are here to hurt her or to try and stop our relationship I am going to have to ask you to leave." Lucas said standing up from where he was sitting on the counter. He didn't care that Riley was Maya's best friend, if anyone tried to hurt Maya they would have to go through her.
"I am here to try and accept what is between you and Maya. I want to be there for her if she will let me, but I think that I have to sort through my feelings for you." Riley said finally making eye contact with Lucas, it was then that she realized he wasn't wearing a shirt. She noticed right away the muscles across his body.
"I am sorry if I hurt you Riley, but I have to tell you that I have never had feelings for you. After the ninth grade you and I barely spoke." Lucas said feeling slightly uncomfortable with what was going on between him and Riley. He didn't want to be mean or to hurt Riley, but he wanted to make it clear that he had no romantic feelings for her.
"I'm sorry, I know that my feelings are one sided but I couldn't help but feel like there was something between us. I guess since my parents had their own epic love story I just wanted my own." Riley said, there was a lot of pressure she placed on herself to find her own love story that would match the one of her parents.
"You will find someone Riley, but for right now at least, the love story is between Maya and I." Lucas had never admitted to anyone before that they liked them let alone loved them. However, he knew that he had feeling for Maya. Lucas understood that it was best if he kept them quiet in order to keep Maya and not scare her off.
"You really like her don't you? I want you to know that Maya needs someone there for her though. She won't admit it but those scars run a lot deeper than she lets on." Riley could see that Lucas ha his feelings written all over his face. Even if she still had work to do to repair the friendship between her and Maya, Riley wanted to know that Lucas wasn't going to hurt her.
"She is everything I never knew I wanted. She can drive me up the wall but I would also do anything for her. I know that she is hurting but I would do anything that she needs me to do in order to help her" Lucas said knowing that Maya was a very independent person he hoped that one day he would be able to be the person that she would lean on.
"Did she tell you about the nightmares?" Riley knew that Maya would probably be mad at her for talking to someone about this, but Riley knew that Lucas needed to know. He needed to understand what was going on with Maya in order to help her.
"I've been with her for all the ones that had happened since we've been together. They are terrifying to watch, it is like she is fighting with everything that she has but I don't know what she is fighting against." Lucas said, he knew that Maya had been hurt by someone, her scars was proof of that. Yet he had no idea how those scars got all over her skin.
"I can't be the one to tell you what happened, that is one thing that Maya has to do herself. Just know that you need to be there for her, whatever she is fighting against is probably bigger than either of you expect." Riley said, she hoped that Lucas would be the one who would help Maya face her past. She also knew that Lucas need to be prepared for what was haunting Maya at night.
"You know what happened to her don't you? You know things that she doesn't even know?" Lucas asked, the little Maya had told him about what happened never made complete sense. All her memories were split, she could recall a piece here and there but nothing that informed her about what really happened.
"The doctors told me a few things right after it happened, the police and I are still in contact with what is happening to try and catch the guy." Riley said, she was glad that Maya had found Lucas. She also knew that with time she would be able to heal the wounds on her heart that her one sided love had caused. Just as she walked in, Riley exited the bathroom silently. She hugged Maya then left the apartment.
"He's still out there?" Lucas asked himself, he knew that someone was responsible for what happened to Maya. However, he always thought that they were locked up and Maya was safe from the man coming back.
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"How did it go with Riley?" Maya asked when Lucas came out of the bathroom shortly after Riley.
"I think that finally understood that I didn't mean to hurt her when I fell for you. There was just no chance that her and I would be together after I met you." Lucas said, he had the desire to ask Maya about the man who had hurt her but he also knew that Riley told him those things about Maya in confidence.
"You sound like such a huckleberry when you say those things." Maya said smiling, she was glad though. She had a fear that Lucas would figure out how great and happy Riley was and fall for her instead. Maya just didn't think that she could handle Lucas leaving her the way that her father left her.
"I only say them because they are true. You should know that Maya, you make me feel more alive than anyone else I have ever met. Because of you I have discovered so much more of the world. You have changed me so much in the short time we have been together." Lucas so badly wanted to confess how deep his feeling ran for Maya but at the same time had the fear that she wouldn't say those things back.
"Lucas you say the cheesiest things, who would have guess that the school's bad boy would have a soft spot for little old me." Maya laughed then pulled Lucas in close to her. She could feel his heartbeat under his skin. It was that noise alone that could calm her during the worst of her nightmares.