Hey darlings! It's me, updating once again! I was trying to update my Owen/Tristan story and I got like over 2,000 words for the second chapter but I actually fell asleep on my laptop and I got up at like 4am in a panic thinking I'd get caught with my laptop that late on a school night and ended up actually closing the window without saving the document, so...I'll rewrite chapter 2 for that story probably tomorrow after school. But I'm going to update this story every night for you guys because I love it. This is kinda a filler chapter in my opinion, and it's short. But I'm sleepy, so... I love you. Bye :) R&R for a free puppy. Or a free new chapter. If puppies run out, chapters will be given.

(MAYA)

"No, you're cuter!" Maya giggled to Miles over the phone. It had been a while since she was this happy in any way.

"Who the hell are you calling cute at 1am? Go to bed!" Katie yelled from the other room... Katie. Ugh. The girl who was dating Owen Milligan. Maya's sister who probably had sex with Owen. 'Don't go out with jocks! They're total assholes!' Yeah, what a hypocrite. Owen was nicer than the average jock, but still.

"I gotta go." Maya whispered to the phone, and then made a kissy noise before she pressed the red 'end' button.

"At least I can stay in the house at night!" Maya called back, not even thinking. 'Oh, crap' Maya thought, knowing she'd just released information that she should not have known.

Katie barged into Maya's room, shutting the door tight behind her. "What did you just say to me?"

"I said...nothing." Maya shrunk into herself knowing she'd just gotten in deep trouble with her older sis.

"No, what did you say?"

"I said...at least I can stay in the house at night."

"Where did you get the idea that I don't stay in the house?"

"I-um, I saw you with Owen. In his bed. The night that I slept at Tristan's."

"Oh, my god..." Katie had her hand on her forehead and she was pacing.

"What, Katie? You can't think of an excuse for sleeping with my best friend's brother, who, happens to be a jock? You hate jocks, don't you? Then why are you in bed with one?"

Their argument was in whispers, but it was still bad.

"You have no idea what you're talking about!" Katie snapped back.

"Oh, yeah? I think it was self explanatory!"

"But it wasn't, you brat!"

Katie was actually close to tears... Maybe they hadn't hooked up... Or, they broke up? Maya knew it wasn't possible to get an answer out of Katie right away, so she knew she'd have to pry and beg a lot. But, surprisingly, she didn't have to pry at all. Katie sat down next to Maya and opened up.

"I relapsed on my addiction to pain medicine, and I called the Milligan house to get you since your line was busy, and Owen answered. I was crying so he figured it out and came and got me and I ranted in the car and he told me that his ex, Anya, a girl I knew kind of, was addicted to cocaine and though, of course pain killers and coke aren't the same thing...We ended up talking in his car for like an hour or two until I fell asleep and he carried me in and I asked him to stay with me. I'm not freaking dating him. I had a terrible night and he was there. He's not too bad, by the way..."

Maya had tears in her eyes now. Her sister had relapsed on her pain medicine addiction. Why?

"Why did you relapse?"

Katie shook her head. "I was just...I had a migraine and so I took some aspirin about a week ago and it just...got me thinking about a lot of things and then my knee started hurting for some reason so I figured I'd have to take some pain medicine for it and... I didn't realize what I was doing, and...I don't want to go to rehab again, Maya. I can't. It was hell there."

Maya nodded her head slowly.

"But are you going to need the help?" Maya questioned. She didn't want her sister in rehab again any more than Katie wanted to be in rehab, so, if Katie was going to be okay she didn't see a need to report it.

"I'm fine. I have Owen as support. A supportive friend. Nothing more. We just kind of got caught up in the moment and...I don't really have feelings for him...Okay, maybe I do, but he's absolutely head over heels for Anya still, so it wouldn't matter if I liked him or not."

Maya furrowed her brows and tried to decide if she would support Owen and Katie if Owen felt the way Katie apparently felt.

Maybe under the right circumstances.

The two sisters hugged for a couple minutes, then Katie pulled back and smiled. "So, who's the guy you've been spending time with and talking on the phone with non-stop?"

Maya rolled her eyes, "Was it that obvious?"

"May, you literally smile every time you look at your phone. I haven't seen you this happy since you were with..."

Cam. Cam was the finish to that sentence, but Katie knew Maya didn't want to hear that name out loud. Maya swallowed the thought of Cam like a spoonful of cinnamon, and decided to focus on the positive instead.

"His name is Miles. He's a sophomore at Degrassi like me, and he's gorgeous and sweet and I really care for him." Maya said, as she scrolled though her phone finding a picture of Miles.

"Oh my God, Maya! He's gorgeous! Is he wearing a suit? Are you dating a rich guy? Ooh, gold digger!"

The Matlin sisters erupted in laughter, obviously both envisioning Maya like the gold diggers in movies. Low cut shirts, plastic boobs, globs of makeup... Not cute, but... guys seemed to like it. Maya wondered if Miles was into that kind of girl. Apparently not since he likes a girl with the chest of a 9 year old who dresses in crew neck t-shirts that usually have to do with music.

"So, when are you gonna bring him for dinner?"

Maya hadn't even thought of introducing Miles to her family. She'd never had Cam over for dinner and her parents had only met Cam once and even that encounter was terribly awkward.

"I dunno. He has a lot of stuff going on right now with-uh, family and stuff.. So, maybe once that clears up..." Maya didn't think Katie needed to know about the stuff with Miles' dad.

"Okay, well, lets hope his personality is as good as his looks"

"I promise, it is. Now, you promise you're okay, big sis? I love you."

"I promise, little sis. I love you too."

Katie left the room with that, and Maya pulled out her phone and typed out a text message.

Would u want to meet my parents sometime soon?:) Dinner at Casa De Matlin or something?

It only took Miles about a minute to reply with...

Sounds splendid. Time and place, my sweetheart. Going to bed, sweet dreams beautiful.

Maya slept with a smile on her face.