#25
"I thought you were dead"
She was so tired. It was the week before finals and she was trying to spend as much time as she could studying math, which meant that most nights she was up much later than she should be. But when Lucas had offered to help her study for English she jumped at the chance instead of going home for a quick nap.
So here she was laying on his bedroom floor trying to stay awake as he read the prompts to her from their English packet.
After realizing he hadn't heard anything from the small blonde laying next to him on the floor he put the packet down and looked at her. He noticed the slow up and down movement of her chest and then saw her eyes were in fact closed and her mouth hung open a little.
"Maya," he said poking her cheek.
When he got no response he smiled a little.
"Yo Shortstack. Mama made tacos," he said seeing if the promise of tacos would wake her.
She gave no response to his words. So he slowly got up as to not wake her and picked her up before placing her on his bed. As soon as her body hit the mattress she curled into the pillows and blankets.
He knew he couldn't possibly give up this chance to draw on her like she had done so many times to him. Going over to his desk he found an old crayola marker and smiled in success. Cursing he remembered his Mama was home so he couldn't draw what she usually drew on his face. Shrugging his shoulders he laid on his side so that he had access to the half of her face that wasn't on his pillow.
He spent the next ten minutes drawing flowers and vines on her face. Just as he had put the marker back in his desk drawer she started to groan as she woke up.
"I thought that you were dead," he told her laughing as she sat up in his bed.
"What time is it?" She mumbled as she stretched.
"Almost six thirty. You not sleeping again Shortstack?" He asked as he went back to laying next to her on the bed.
"Late night studying," she mumbled as she laid on her head on his chest.
They stayed like that till his Mom came and told them dinner was ready.
"Lucas James, does she know what you did to her face?" Leena asked smacking him upside the head after Maya left the room to go to the bathroom.
"YOU ARE A DEAD MAN LUCAS!" Maya yelled before Lucas had a chance to answer.