Okay guys! I just finished my semester and I did really well in everything. Therefor, I am starting to write once again and especially this story that I have just neglected completely. I hope you like this chapter and I just want to thank you for sticking with me.

I do not own GMW


Maya stepped out of the cab completely zooned out as she arrived home, it had been a rough weekend and a rollercoaster of emotions that had clearly left Maya drained. She opened the door to her house, it was alone, maybe Katy had taken an extra shift but she was okay with it, she wanted to be alone for the moment.

Maya ran towards her room and simply collapsed into her bed, she really needed to rest. Although the last night on Texas had been fun and surprisingly without much tension between the friends, like before. Nonetheless, Maya couldn't stop feeling a knot on her belly because it had simply been too much for her or honestly anyone that would've gone through what she did: Riley and Farkle kissing, Lucas looking terrified when he imagined that Maya was gone, their second almost kiss on Texas, ring-powering everything.

It was too much and Maya knew, deep down, that sooner or later it would all blow on their faces.

But in this moment, she would follow Riley's plead and simply let everything flow naturally because she was too tired and confused to deal with anything like that. She decided that the moment was not appropriate to deal with her feelings and let alone the feelings of the others in the gang.

Suddenly Maya felt her phone vibrating on her pocket, she slowly and tiredly grabbed the phone and lazily looked who was calling.

It was Jordan.

Thankfully, Farkle indeed had managed to fix her phone therefor she wasn't that upset. She had almost forgot that they hadn't talk for like two days and this was the longest they had been without talking ever since they got together.

"Hey" Maya breathe out uneasily.

"Hey babe, am I interrupting something?" Jordan asked with that deep voice that made Maya have goosebumps.

"No, I'm just…tired from the trip." Maya answer, indeed she was tired by the long train ride but also because everything else that had been clouding her mind. "How was the concert and the camping?"

"It was actually really cool, I'm kind of bumped that you couldn't come but we can go to another one." Jordan said and then Maya heard some voices behind her, she easily recognized Thor as Jordan began to laugh and Nikki was screaming as well.

Maya heard some struggle between Jordan and Thor for a second as she sighed and closed her eyes, why couldn't she talk to her boyfriend by herself.

"Hello?"

"Maya, why didn't you come?" Thor's thick voice made Maya open her eyes again as she sat down on her bed.

"Hey, I had a trip to Texas with my friends." Maya answer as she heard Thor laughing.

"With your freshman friends? I almost forgot how small you are, so how was the seventh-grade road trip, any fun?" Thor laughed and Maya could feel her blood boiling.

It was a usual thing for Thor to do, he usually did that kind of jokes that would make someone feel bad- Maya had punched him more than once because Thor usually passed the limit of annoying to hurtful most of the time.

"It was actually great." Maya growled. "How was the kindergarten road trip though? Since you act like a five-year-old I figured you went too."

"Oooh, have I bothered you Mrs. Hart?" Thor laughed once again and Maya swore she was going to hang up.

Until she heard a struggle again.

"Hey babe- I'm sorry, Thor is just an ass" Jordan's voice sound again and made Maya calm down a bit.

"Yeah, I figured." Maya grumbled as she rolled her eyes.

"Are you sure you're okay?" Jordan asked once again, but this time his tone was more serious than before.

Maya wasn't okay and she didn't know if she would be anytime soon with everything that was going on but she knew that she couldn't really talk with Jordan about it.

"Yes, I'm just tired, I'll tell you everything when you come back" Maya said as she ran a hand through her hair. "When are you coming back?"

"Well, we decided to skip school for two more days but as soon as I get to New York I'll call you." Jordan assured Maya.

Maya breathe out in relief, she wasn't ready to see Jordan just yet and she needed a few days to get use to that knot in her stomach and hole in her chest.

"Okay." Maya said with a small smile. "I miss you, have a good time."

"Miss you too." Jordan answer and then hang up.

Maya stayed still for a few seconds, blinking slowly as she gazed at her phone, she quickly turned it off and tossed it to the other side of her bed, it fell off her bed but Maya couldn't care less. Her baby blue eyes felt heavy, Maya laid down again on her bed and she watched her roof and silence filled her mind.

Maya slowly began to close her eyes, she figured she could use the sleep and so she curled into a ball. But as soon as she closed her eyes a pair of sea-foam eyes clouded her mind and Maya couldn't help but to see Lucas once again in her mind as she began to fall in a deeper sleep.

But it was not any Lucas.

And so, Maya began to recognize where she was as she zoomed out of those sea-foam eyes. It was Lucas on the deck, gazing at her like they were alone in the world, under the moonlight of Texas, in that camp, just a few days ago. Maya's heartbeat began to rise, she could see it so clearly that it gave her goosebumps, Maya began to hold her breathe as she felt the heat of Lucas' hand on her cheek and his breathe as he come closer to her.

"Lucas" Maya talked but it simply-there wasn't any sound- her voice didn't come out and the only sound that was surrounding them was the one of the water and their heavy breathings.

Everything was in slow motion. Maya could see it all and every detail: she could see his tanned skin, some freckles near his eyes, his large lashes as he was closing his eyes and the heat irradiating from his skin.

Maya tried to move, but she couldn't move and she knew that she had to move in that second because she could feel Lucas' lips ghosting over hers like she did that night before she jumped with Lucas to the water.

She watched the sky again, she could see brushes of a dark blue painted on the sky, everything on the background was painted, she didn't know by who but she could see the brushes so clearly, like it had been painted in a canvas.

Ando so, she turned her head back into Lucas, his fingers laced with her blonde hair, their bodies almost pressed up together and Maya almost losing her breath, watching Lucas slowly, her heart beating erratically and she took a hold of Lucas' hand that was laced with her hair.

Maya knew what was going to happened.

And yet she wasn't moving and Lucas was just getting closer to her, but it got into a moment when a second felt like an eternity that she decided not to move and she simply let go and Maya in that second that she was finally going to lock lips with Lucas.

But then a knock.

The whole blue sky began to crumble and everything stayed paused, the sky was falling and Lucas was just paused and Maya simply couldn't move.

Another loud knock again.

Maya began to see a blurry Lucas- paused in that eternal second where he was about to finally kiss her and she was going to kiss him too.

Knock.

And Maya opened her eyes with a jump, the light was turned off, she was over her covers and she was freezing now. She looked around at her room and she didn't saw anything unusual, she placed her hands over her face and sighed.

She was actually enjoying her dream and something just freaking woke her up.

But then, again, another knock that surely woke Maya up, she realized it came from behind her bed and so she sat down and stared at the window with curtains for a second.

Maybe it could be Farkle, he surely wanted to talk to Maya about him and Riley, yet she had accurately blown him off a number of times in the train. So maybe this was her friend once again trying to talk about everything, she looked at the clock on her desk it was 1:00 am.

Maya dragged her feet to her window and she opened her curtains up, imagining Farkle on her head but as she raised her head and watched outside the window, her heart stopped.

Maya really wished it was Farkle right now.

But it was Lucas, kneeled down on the fire stairs, his sea-foam eyes anxiously looking for Maya, his jaw was tense and Maya could simply get the vibe. Maya watched him carefully, he had his gray sweatpants and black sweatshirt and Maya knew he usually wore that black sweatshirt for sleeping.

But then her baby blue eyes went again to his sea-foam eyes and their gazes linked together for more than a second. Maya had still trouble believing that he was right there, at her window and she simply couldn't seize it yet.

"Could you maybe open up? Please?" Lucas finally whispered as he broke the silence.

He knew this was completely out of the blue and that maybe he shouldn't be doing this but he simply couldn't just forget everything that had happened in Texas. Not this time, this time he had been the one who confessed and he wouldn't let Maya just blew it off like this.

He hadn't been able to even sleep, they had arrived late that afternoon and he had been up all night wondering what Maya was thinking. That night in the deck, he knew she was confused and it hurt him, he didn't mean for that to happened. But after the hug, he was sure that it meant that she loved him too but as the other day passed and Maya quickly began to avoid him and not even being able to really look at him.

He knew that yesterday, he had decided just to stay on friends ground with her and everything but the feeling of being trapped between who he was and who he was supposed to be was simply bothering him like never before. Therefor he had found himself walking towards Maya's house, at 1:00 a.m. on a cold November night.

Maya took a second or two to finally open her window, she was in a way shocked by Lucas sudden appearance, she thought that they had somehow managed to stay in the friend-ground while hoping everything resolved by itself.

She wasn't ready to handle her feelings but she couldn't keep Lucas out either.

Therefor Maya opened it slowly, she hoped her mother was at work but she was scared that she would arrive at any moment.

"What are you doing here?" She managed to whisper as Lucas jumped into her bedroom trying to be silent.

Maya felt a shrive down her spine as Lucas stood up strong in her room just in front of her, she was still in her shorts and her sweatshirt from the trip and she rubbed her hands together because of the cold.

Lucas turned around before he spoke again and closed the window as he saw that Maya was freezing and more importantly he did it to gain more time, he needed a second before he could face Maya again.

"We need to talk" Lucas breathe out and Maya remained silent, she glanced at him and she knew this was no good to her plan.

"Huckleburry, it's 1 a.m. and we have to go to school tomorrow" Maya said as she passed Lucas dragged herself back to bed.

But she also knew Lucas wouldn't simply go without a conversation about them- but she could simply try.

"I didn't think it would bother you after the many nights we've spent talking, up until 4:00 a.m." Lucas teased smoothly as he walked towards Maya's bed again and sat down at the corner of her bed.

Maya grumbled, he knew her too well to avoid this- he knew every trick to avoid him, therefor she simply sat down and sighed.

"What do you want?" Maya growled exasperated, her baby blue eyes glanced at Lucas who was silently looking at her.

Lucas felt his blood boiling.

"You are avoiding me like I'm the plague or something." Lucas growled back at her, his hands forming fists because it annoyed him so much when Maya acted like this.

"I mean you are like the plague, you can't even let me sleep, can you?" Maya mocked Lucas as she tried to avoid his gaze.

Lucas' sea-foam eyes took a dangerous glimpse, she was irritating him. Not because of the mocking, he knew she liked to mock him, but once again she was using it to avoid a confrontation between them and Lucas was simply growing restless.

"Would you stop?" Lucas growled as he stood up from the bed, his fists tight and he began to get closer to Maya.

And Maya grew afraid of what would happen if he got too close to her.

"Look Ranger Rick, I don't know what you came here to talk about but I'm not in the mood to talk about anything today." Maya snarled at him as she tried to avoid his gaze and tried to move a bit closer to the wall so she could have more space from him.

But Lucas wasn't going to let this happen again.

"Stop playing stupid." Lucas hissed.

Maya swore she began seeing red, her brows bumped together in a scowl and a scoff escaped her mouth.

"Excuse me?"

At least that got her attention, Lucas thought and a smirk was drawn on his face.

"You are just going to forget or avoid about what happened that night at the lake?"

Maya remained silent for a second or two, she was unsure of what to say to that because she had actually just dreamed about it. But she couldn't be so careless, she just simply couldn't deal with it at the moment.

Maya rolled her eyes and sighed, completely unsure if she should say something or dismiss Lucas like she always did. She grabbed her legs and rubbed it as her mind rambled, she should be honest but if she was she would hurt the people she loved the most in the world.

"Look, Huckleburry…" Maya began with an apologetic tone but Lucas knew what was going to happen- she would push him away once again, like she always did.

And in that second Lucas snapped.

"I fucking told you that I love you Maya."

His breathe uneasy as he gazed down at her- Maya on the other hand looked terrified, she knew it and she knew she had to bite her tongue not to say it back because it simply wasn't the right thing to do. Lucas saw that, the way she dropped her gaze to the ground, unable to see him and it just made him burn with rage.

But Lucas lost it.

And in one swift motion Lucas climbed into Maya's bed and grabbed her face with one hand, her hair tangled with his hand and he pulled her closer to him. Maya could've sworn that she was completely breathless.

Lucas was completely mesmerized by Maya- during the day her eyes always seem to be such an intense baby blue color but with this shade they seemed blue and grey at the same time, he could slowly see some freckles under her eyes that she always hid with make-up now but Lucas thought they were beautiful and her lips looking so kissable for him that it made his mouth go dry. Lucas could hear his heart pounding so hard that it made him a bit restless and nervous, but the fire in his chest and the desire to do what he really wanted to do were bigger.

Maya, on the other hand, felt beyond dizzy and she was sure that she wasn't breathing and the way Lucas' sea-foam eyes that drove her insane were looking at her, she knew it was love and she couldn't avoid it anymore, she could notice his sandy blonde hair that she loved because it reminded her of the first time she looked at him on the subway. She felt gain that rush and that helplessness she felt in Texas. She could notice his strong shoulders, his other arm creeping behind her back pulling her body closer to him, feeling the heat of his body- his breathing and Maya knew she was way gone.

Both of them began to lean in, careless of anything else, the tension that had built up once again was crumbled into just a moment. They both wanted it so bad because it felt so right for them to finally do it- to kiss the person they had been having feelings, such strong feelings for a long time and they simply knew it was right. Suddenly, Maya was gone and so she grabbed his sweatshirt and began to pull him closer to her and Lucas knew this was it, she wanted it too and so he began to close the space between their lips, ghosting over hers and closing his eyes for a second. Maya saw this and closed her eyes as well, she could feel it- it was finally going to happened and as both of them, foreheads pressed together and lips almost locked in a kiss.

There was a loud sound- a door closing.

"Maya, are you home?" Katy's musically voice sounded in the hallway.

Maya and Lucas then gazed at the other and both of them know this won't look good-Maya in tight shorts, Lucas over her, in her bed and barely kissing, legs spread- it simply didn't look good.

"Fuck" Maya and Lucas cursed at the same time as they saw each other.

Maya literally pushed Lucas away with one hand as she ran to her door to try to put the lock on it. Maybe this would buy them some time, she then gazed back and the scene was a bit funny and a smile drew on her face: Lucas in her room, completely disordered and also with a bit of exasperation and disillusion on his eyes, his cheek quite blushed and just blinking trying to make sure this was really happening. And so, she began to giggle a bit- Lucas in the other hand was utterly shocked by Maya's reaction, the scene was pretty funny: Maya in her shorts, completely blushed as she began to giggle even making her bend down, a hand on her mouth as she laughed against her door- it was impossible for Lucas to

But then, Maya heard steps getting closer to her room and her stomach sink.

"Okay, you got to go right now." Maya whispered as she placed her hands in his chest and began to push him towards the window. "You really need to go, if my mother see's you here she's going to kill me."

Lucas began to go willingly because he was sure that Maya couldn't push him that hard, he smiled but then he just remembered that they hadn't talked about anything just yet.

"But Maya- "Lucas protested as Maya began to open her window and the continue to push him.

"What Huckleburry?" Maya snarled as she began to push him once again for Lucas to get out of the window. "You really need to go Ranger Rick."

"Maya?" The voice of Katy coming just outside Maya's door.

Their gazes linked with fear.

"NOW" Maya growled and Lucas began to climb out the window.

Lucas managed to stand in the stairs but he quickly turned around and with one hand stopped Maya from closing the window in a split second.

"Maya wait." Lucas managed to get out as he struggled to keep the window open.

"Go away Huckleburry" Maya snarled as she tried to push Lucas' hand away from the window.

"Maya? Are you there?" Katy said and the doorknob began to move. "Why is your door closed?"

"Maya, tomorrow we are going to talk about everything- promise me." Lucas grumbled.

Maya gazed at Lucas for a few seconds, doubtful because she knew that if they got together like this again they might end up in the same position, she gazed back at the door.

"Maya" Katy and Lucas said at the same time.

Maya needed to make a choice in that second- during that whole second there was a flash to every moment with Lucas and Riley and Jordan. Lucas felt that second like an eternity, would she reject him again? Or what else

"Okay, fine- tomorrow at the same time." Maya finally spilled out and Lucas smile so bright and he let go of the window.

Maya closed the window with strength and stared at Lucas with that bright smile, then he began to descend the fire stairs and Maya felt her heart beating fast again.

Maya knew what this meant- no more running, they needed to talk and they were going to- she couldn't hide or avoid her feelings for Lucas anymore.