Maya

"I don't like you like this. You're not you." Riley blurts out while jumping off of my bed and stands with her arms crossed in front of me.

"What?" I ask back, caught off guard by her sudden hostility. "What are you talking about?" I rephrase myself as I raise my eyebrows and grip the edge of my bed to keep myself braced for whatever is about to come my way.

"This relationship with my uncle, it has changed you. You refuse to talk about what's going on with you to me and instead you go straight to Josh. Why don't you go to me anymore? Like when you found out that your dad died, you didn't come to me,
you just went straight to my Uncle Josh's apartment. You hid out for days in his apartment. Your personality has changed since you've been dating my uncle. I feel like I don't know you anymore." Riley lists off and tears spring into her eyes
as she talks.

" I thought you were happy about Josh and I's relationship. I thought you were happy for me." I howl back as I hold onto my bed sheet beneath my fingers with a death grip. "I cannot believe the words I'm hearing come out of my best friends
mouth right now..."

Josh

Once Maya and I enter my apartment, she goes straight into the kitchen and opens the cabinet that holds the liquor and I flashback to the night she came over when she got the news that her father passed away. I stand at the counter and watch as Maya takes
out the bottle of Jameson to place it on the counter in front of her and then take out a glass from another cabinet and place that next to the bottle. Neither of us speaks a word as I watch her pour the amber liquid into the glass, throw back the
drink into her mouth and wipe away any that may have escaped from her lips. I want to take the bottle away from her, but I'm afraid we'll reenact the same scene from that night she showed up at my door with her duffle bag in hand and the same expression
on her face.

My heart aches at the sight before me, but I won't know how to help the situation until Maya opens up to me and gives me more information. This fight that Maya and my niece had must have been so catastrophic for Maya to say to me that the both of them
are over. I just wish I knew what went down between them.