(A/N) New chapter!
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After school Maya made her way to the Detention room, her soccer coach was the one in charge of Detention duty that day. Before she had entered he had confiscated pot from a student as well as took another students snack.
"Mr. Gleason, could I talk to you for a second?" Maya asked once she had entered the room.
"What can I do for you, Hart?" He asked as she approached him.
Maya stood beside him, making him turn his back to where Josh was seated on the left side of the room, "Um, sir I have some ideas on how we can improve the girls soccer team."
"Great! Let's talk about it later." He turns away from her to check something on his desk.
Maya took this opportunity to try and signal for Josh to make his way over to the window. He smiled at her, cocking his head to the side as he didn't know what she was getting at. She tried again but he only scrunched up his eyebrows at her. Maya tried again one final time, saying the word "window" a little louder so he would hear, doing this caused her coach to glance back at her in confusion.
She put on a fake smile as he turned to face her again, "As you know, we have a really big game-" She placed her hand on his arm to lean his body further away from the direction of where Josh was sitting, She exaggerated a gasp, "Your bicep is huge!" She grabbed the other one, "Oh my god, the other one is even bigger!" She let out a nervous laugh, "You don't take steroids do you? Because I've heard that steroids can severely disintegrate your... package... I mean, not that I'm thinking about your package... that's not the point."
"Let's hope not." Mr. Gleason deadpanned, suddenly hearing a creak behind him he begins to turn to the source of the sound.
Thinking on her feet, Maya quickly grabs his arms again and keeps his body facing her. "The point is! They kick our butts every year and I was thinking I had devised a plan that will enable us to finally defeat them."
"Which is?" He asks, another creak in the floor catches his attention again.
Maya, once more, grabs him to keep him away from Josh. "That thing that you taught us." She states.
"What thing?" He questions.
Maya stares at him for a moment, trying to figure out what to say, "Misdirection."
"I taught you that?"
"Yeah... you... or Siegfried, or Roy... anyway that's not important. Maya glances over Mr. Gleason's shoulder and sees that Josh is finally at the window and easinghimself out of it, she grabs Mr. Gleason's face to keep him from looking that way, scrunching up his lips in a fish-like form. "Think about it! Um... they're looking left and we're running right! Bang! We score, we win." Maya finished, moving his face from left to right to emphasis her point.
"Okay... but how do we get them to look left?" He asks.
The window squeaked as Josh tried to ease himself out of it, once more prompting Maya to keep Mr. Gleason's attention, "Um... like this!" She raises her shirt up and flashes him. The rest of the detention goers hoot and holler at her action and Josh easily slips out of the window, undetected.
"Okay..." She lets out a breath, "Well, now that you've seen... the plan... I'm gonna go and show the plan to someone else." She turns to leave the classroom, getting applause on her way out.
The two were laughing while they pedaled on their pedal boat, "I can't thank you enough for helping me sneak out of detention." Josh says to her. "Very cool."
"No problem." Maya says smugly.
Josh laughs, "I thought for sure I was busted when I was climbing out that window, I tell ya, so how did you keep him distracted?"
"I dazzled him with my... wits..." Maya laughs to herself.
Josh smiles at her before looking back over the water, "So what's your excuse?" He asks.
"For...?" Maya prompted.
"For acting the way we do."
"I don't like to do what people expect." She tells him, "Why should I live up to others people expectations instead of my own?"
"So you disappoint them from the start and then you're uh, covered, right?"
Maya looks at him with a small smile, "Something like that."
"Then you screwed up." He states.
"How?" She asks, slightly confused.
Josh bites back a smile, "You never disappointed me." He looks at her, seeing her face soften as she smiles back at him. Josh returns her smile and looks away for a moment, noticing something off in the distance, "Are you up for it?"
"Up for what?" She questions, not knowing what he is referring to. Josh points and she follows his finger to the direction of a paintball arena.
The two suit up in white coveralls, goggles, and her hair is tied back in a ponytail. Maya grabs a balloon full of paint and throws one at Josh hitting him right in the shoulder. Josh goes to fire one back at her but she hides behind one of the obstacles that has a window, she sticks her tongue out at him as he chucks the balloon and it splats against the window. She laughs, pointing at him in triumph that she tricked him, Josh takes that opportunity and throws another balloon at her stomach.
The two enjoy pelting each other with balloons, a rainbow of colours taking over their white coveralls, laughing and ducking behind obstacles to avoid being hit. They both hide on opposite sides of one of the obstacles, balloons ready in hand, they ease up until they see each other. Josh hesitates for a moment and Maya quickly splats a balloon on his head with a battle cry. She runs away with a laugh and Josh hits her in the back with his balloon.
Maya ducks behind another obstacle and Josh follows after her, chasing her down with a balloon in hand. She turns around with her arms up in surrender, Josh lowers his balloons and waves for her to come out, putting his arm around her shoulders and pulling her into him. A false sense of security though, as he takes the balloon and squishes it against the top of her head, splashing paint everywhere.
Maya pushes him away with a laugh and runs away from him, only to be caught by the waist and he dives them both onto the hay on the ground. Maya removes her goggles, still laughing, Josh does the same but he flings them off his face behind him and lets them go soaring, causing Maya to laugh some more. The two look at each other a moment, Josh slightly on top of her, he reaches his hand out and lightly strokes her rainbow coloured cheek before leaning down and kissing her. The kiss is reciprocated, Maya wanted him to kiss her, and this time she wasn't drunk and he didn't feel bad at all. They kiss a while more, deepening it and making it more passionate, Maya's arms come around his neck as he lowers his hand to her shoulders to encompass their bodies together.