Cliche's and familiarities

After Daimon put away the book that he'd gotten from Emily the date continued on likeit had before, although, two things had changed: Daimon would always hold on to Emily's hand and sometimes he'd pull her towards him just to kiss her. Contrary to how Emily usually felt aout PDA she was now perfectly happy with reciprocating. Maya didn't pay attention to any of that, her mind was racing. She couldn't wait to get back to her dorm room. Sure she enjoyed the date night, even though Josh made sure that he didn't go too far so that he didn't make Maya uncomfortable she still felt his eyes on her throughout most of the night. Now though for the first time since he'd told her that he loved her his gaze didn't make her uncomfortable, it made her feel good to know that he enjoyed being with her. She was determined to fix things now and she knew just how she was going to accomplish that.

"I'm really sorry if Emily made things weird by saying that this was a date Maya." Josh said. They'd ended up going to the bowling alley after they'd eaten and as Josh and Maya watched Daimon try to help Emily throw the ball Josh felt that he had to apologize.

"Oh you don'thave to be sorry about that, I know that this was all Emily and nt your fault. Besides, to them this is a date, I can't believe how cute that thing that Emily did was."

"Yeah, she is something, thanks for not being mad at me." he had to stifle a laugh when he saw how much Daimon screwed up when it ws his turn. "I'll be right back, I just have t go show my roommate how to do this." Maya smiled as Josh walked over to the lane when it was his turn. He took a deep breath and made the shot. Maya had to admit that Josh wasn't bad at bowling when she saw him pull of a strike.

"I really needed a date with you." she whispered to herself.

"So, I get the feeling that you've come to some sort of realization with how you're feeling towards Josh. Did my book help you?" Maya took a look around to see if Daimon was anywhere close by before answering.

"Well I've known for about a week now that I love him, but you certainly gave me an idea of how to show him that I really do feel the same way he does. I thought he deserved better, but now I see that I will never find anyone better than him so I'm going to do my best to show him how I feel. After that I'll just have hope that he will give me another chance."

"I don't think you'll have to worry about whether or not he's going to take you back. That guy would do anything for you."

"I kinda get the feeling that you're right. I'm just now realizing just how great he really is, and how much I'd be willing to sacrifice for him. The thing is though, he wouldn't let me sacrifice anything for him."

"I think Daimon is the same way." Emily put her arm over Maya's shoulder and pulled her close to her head on Maya's shoulder. "We really have great boyfriends."

"Okay, you need to get out of here Riley, I need to make something." Maya said as she entered the dorm room.

"What the? Maya? It's 10pm on a school night and you want to start painting now? I'm about to go to sleep now, where do you want me to stay for the night?"

"Sleep with your cowboy or something, please Riley I really need to make it. I haven't been painting for like five days, it's killing me!"

"Okay, I'm not okay with this, but I always sleep better with Lucas anyways so I'll manage somehow."

"Oh I bet you do." Maya commented, but she quickly fell silent when Riley shot her a dirty look.

"Don't push me now Maya, you're already threading on thin ice you know."

"Sorry Riley, just please leave now and I won't say anything else." Riley sighed and left the room leaving Maya with the room to herself. "Now, let's get busy."

Maya lost track of time as she worked on the painting, as usual she wasn't even conscious of what her hands were doing. Painting, drawing, it always came so naturally for her and some of her best work had been done without her even realizing it. It quickly became obvious that this was one of those cases. As the hours flew by Maya just lost herself to the painting and the music that she had playing in the background.

The painting felt so familiar, though it wasn't the same as she'd made a dozen times in the past. This one had Maya in it too, she was standing behind Josh. It was sort of a reverse of the cliché where the boyfriend puts a necklace around the girl's neck. The necklace though didn't have an M for Maya, instead it said I Love You Maya was whispering something in Josh's ear while she was grinning. After almost a week of fearing the word it felt strange that she now felt so comfortable with it. she knew she wasn't saying it, but as Emily had pointed out, she didn't necessarily have to say it. This was her way of showing that she felt just as strongly about him as he had told her he did. Now she just hoped that getting turned down hadn't changed everything.

"Now this, is perfect." Maya said smiling to herself. She put down the brush and pulled out her phone. "Yeah, 4 am seems about right I suppose." as she walked towards her bed she realized that she'd never been morecomfortable knowing that she was going to be feeling sleep deprived the next day.

Okay so so many of you asked what my mistake was, I actually had to copy the writing from Emily's book directly from the chapter where Daimon tells her he loves her. Which means that the part where Emily said she hadn't said she loved him was actually wrong because technically she had. I corrected the mistake as best I could and luckily none of you noticed so it seems I was lucky. It's also been 3 weeks since I last updated and for that I'm terribly sorry, I was home for 10 days which meant that I was gone for two weeks worth of updates. I had my computer with me, but catching up with friends back home was my main priority. I'm going to be posting regularly from now on so I'm hoping to slowly but surely make it up to you. I'm also wondering whether I should make a sequel now that the main plot of this story is coming to a close of if I should simply continue on with the same story and just expand it. Please tell me what you think.

As always, remember to give me your thoughts on the chapter, it really does help with my motivation to know that there are people out there who appreciate the hours I put into making the stories I write.