"you're a worthless little bitch just like your mother!" He hit her again and again. She was trying not to cry but the tears were just burning to get out.
"You were a mistake!" by then, Maya had already given up. This man who she guesses is her father is abusing her till she can't feel anymore and he's calling her all these things. He was right. She is worthless. She is a mistake. Maya just accepted this after that and let him abuse her. As bad as it sounds, there's nothing else she could've done.
"So Maya works at a bakery?" Zay says uninterested. Riley, Farkle and Lucas stood by Zay's locker telling him the news they just found out about Maya's and her new job.
"Yes! Are you not surprised?" Lucas replies still a little shocked.
Zay looked at him amused, "Lucas, Maya's like what, sixteen? Seventeen? It's normal for a teen to have a small job or something like that. besides I actually knew this for a while now. I always go to May's Homestyle Bakery in the morning for breakfast"
"That's what I said!" Farkle cut in, "And How come you weren't there yesterday?" He questioned.
"yeah and how come you never told us!" Riley added.
Zay only shrugged, "I wasn't there yesterday because my mom wanted me to help out with the decorations for Christmas. Also, I didn't think it that big of a deal to tell you guys."
"When it comes to Maya you should tell us everything!" Riley grabbed him by his shoulders and shook him frantically.
"Alright alright calm down. You guys know I don't get in the way of anyone's business when it comes to talking about their personal life. If I know something, then I won't say it"
"Zay is right, but having a job isn't really too personal of a thing." Lucas looked at him curiously.
"Like I said, it's not a big deal." Zay repeated. "Just be happy she's not a stripper or something. Now that would be something to keep secret."
"Ok. yeah, we get that but weren't you the one who told Riley, Maya and I about Lucas' fights back in Texas?" Farkle interrogated him. He was hoping to get Zay caught up in his words. He was oblivious once but he isn't going to be oblivious now.
"Yeah, I did. But that was in middle school. We're in High School now." Zay tried to reason with them.
Lucas was about to tell Zay about her bandaged hand but the bell rung for them to head to 1st period.
"I'm heading to class, y'all come back to me when something important is actually going on with Maya." Zay finished before walking away to his class.
"He knows something" Lucas tells them. He knew he was right at the library. Zay knows everything.
"He knows something we don't know" Riley adds.
"Guy's I am very much aware, you don't need to point out the obvious" Farkle looks at them flatly.
"We can talk about this during lunch, Maya might not be at lunch with us like she usually is so it gives us time to talk about this."
"Now that just sounds terrible, 'Maya might not be at lunch with us like she usually is so it gives us time to talk about this', Does that make any sense" Lucas sighed. "Guys what are we doing. Do you even hear what you're saying Farkle."
"Farkle is fine, we need to talk about this. Talking about it with her won't exactly be smart now would it, Lucas." Riley raised an eyebrow.
"You know what, fine. We can go with Farkle's idea. Only because Zay knows something we don't and I have a lot to ask." Lucas surrenders.
Though he still feels like this is a bad idea he keeps that thought to his head and watched a as Riley and Farkle walked off to their classes. Wait a minute... why hasn't anyone even asked WHERE Maya was? Hell why didn't I even bring up the question!, He face palmed himself for being so stupid. The 2nd bell rang for 1st period. Damn, I'm gonna be so late.
Even if Maya hated math, she was surprisingly good at it. She was placed in an honors class that she didn't even want to be in because that would mean more work, more math work. Aunt May was always an honors student, so helping Maya with her homework wasn't so much of a problem like it was in middle school. If she wanted to joke about it, she would say that these honors classes, or AP classes or whatever were ruining her "street cred".
A boy leaned over to Maya's des, "Hey, Hart. You got an extra pencil?, I broke mine"
Maya snorted, "What did you do now Owen? break another one because you couldn't figure out a problem?" She snickered.
Owen always broke his pencils when he couldn't figure his way out of a difficult equation and you know it was difficult if he of all people in the class couldn't solve it. She wasn't going to judge since their math teacher, Mrs. Bridges, taught math terribly. She either went too slow, or too fast or she would always get something wrong in her work and the class would already be ahead.
"No..." He began. Maya looked at him knowingly.
"Yesss." He admitted. "Can I have one?" Owen begged. He liked to get his work done before the teacher so that he can get to the homework for the night and leave quickly.
"Alright alright hold on" Maya went to grab her pencil case before-
"Ms. Hart, Mr. Carson. Is there something you'd like to share with the class?" Mrs. Bridges looks at the two with a raised eyebrow.
"Yeah, I would. I need a pencil because I broke mine" Owen said and Maya went back to her pencil case.
"Here." Maya whipped out a mechanical pencil, Owen gladly taking it from her hand.
"Why thank you, Miss Hart." He said in an accent. Maya smirked.
"A pleasure, Mr. Carson" She replied playing along. Owen looked back at Mrs. Bridges.
"Carry on" He waves her off, Maya trying to hold in her laugh.
"Is there something funny Ms. Hart" Maya shook her head smiling.
"No sir- I mean ma'am". The class laughed and She snickered at Mrs. Bridges.
"Ms. Hart, Mr. Carson. I want to see you both after class" She went back to teaching.
"Sure thing teach" Owen saluted her.
After class was over she called the two to her front desk.
"I'm not going to put you two in detention, because you two are my favorites." Maya and Owen smirk at each other.
"But I don't want the both of you getting into too much trouble or I might actually have to put you in detention. Am I clear?" She looked at the two sternly.
"As a crystal" Owen salutes her again.
"Good, I'm going to write you two a pass and you can head to your next class." She dismissed them as they walked out to head to the lunch room.
"Oh no need, Teach. It's just study hall we're going to." Owen assured.
"Are you guys sure?" She asked to make sure but Owen just waved her off again.
"Yeah no need." He took Maya's hand and pulled out the door.
Mrs. Bridges looked at them and just shook her head, "see you two tomorrow and please behave for your other teachers!"
"Im skipping study hall to join you and Zay at lunch."
"Don't you want to get your homework done?" Maya replied faking seriousness. Owen stopped walking and looked at her incredulously.
Maya busted out in laughter, "I'm just fuckin with you O, I don't care if you skip." He laughed too.
"Sheesh Hart, nearly gave me a heart attack." He looked down noticing her hand, "Yo Hart?"
"Hm?"
"What up with the hand?" He pointed to the stitched up bandaged hand, Maya sighed.
"I ran into some drunk idiot one night and let's just say he wasn't a nice one. He tried to hit me with his beer bottle and he missed. When I got home I was cleaning out my hair and cut my hand on the glass." Maya replied, she unwrapped her bandage to show him the wound."
"Ouch, if I was there I would've kicked his ass." He said.
"If you were there you probably would've tried to have sex with him." Maya laughed as he nodded in agreement.
"Probably. But I don't do drunk guys." He played along.
"Is that so?" She arched an eyebrow. "Well I took care of him anyway. I kicked him in his dick" Maya smirked in accomplishment.
"Nice!" Owen replied with a high five.
"Yo! Owen!" Zay shouts from his locker, calling him over.
"Oh shit." Maya frowns.
"What's wrong?" Own questions.
"I just remembered Riley, Farkle, Lucas and Zay all sit at Lunch together."
Owen looks at her confused, "your rowdy group of friends? Don't you sit them too?"
"O, did you forget that I haven't ate in the cafeteria in literally 2 months?" She says flatly.
"Oh right. Well come on, you're not gonna die if you sit with them again." He pulls her over towards Zay.
"What's up" Owen says as he approaches the table with Maya, him and Zay do a fancy handshake.
Maya rolls her eyes, "you guys are such dorks."
"Oh Maya! you going to join us for lunch now?" Zay questions, looking sternly at Maya. She chews on her lip defensively.
"Join who?" Owen looks at Maya curiously.
"Riley, Farkle and Lucas. Like I said earlier." She reminded him.
"Oh right. Why exactly did you stop eating with them?" Owen asked.
"Don't worry about it, Owen." She sighed.
"That's not fair, how come you told Zay!" He frowned
"She didn't tell me anything, I just happened to be somewhere at the right time" Zay tried to help Maya out of the blame.
"Doesn't matter, I already told you enough. But for now let's just meet up with the rest of them at lunch, ok?" Maya finalized as she headed to the cafeteria.
"Yes ma'am" Zay and Owen followed after her.
"So it's obvious Zay knows something about Maya that we don't, how are we going to get him to spill the beans" Farkle says as he take a bite of his food.
"Knowing Zay, I'm sure he'll tell me so you don't have to worry Lucas says smugly, though he wasn't really all that confident that he would.
"There's nothing more than getting him to do anything for you if you bribe him with food" Hopefully it'll work at least, he thought.
Riley stays quiet, thinking about his none of this would ever work. She should've figured something was wrong with Maya that one time when they had binged Netflix and Maya had held onto her strangely held onto her side that whole night.
"Ok ok ok I got the popcorn!, Start Stranger Things we got all night to do this!" Riley was feeling rebellious. Staying in her room to binge watch Stranger Things, on a school night may she remind you, with Maya was making her feel all giddy inside. She's never seen it and though she wanted to watch Red Planet Diaries for the umpteenth time, Maya had basically broke her door yelling about this new show on Netflix that they needed to watch.
"Good, just set it on the table. You're going to love this!" Maya said.
"Is it scary Maya because if it is I won't-" Maya put her finger to Riley's mouth.
"shhhhhhh, just watch. It'll leave you speechless"
The whole night she was fine, but towards the end Maya was holding her sides. Riley just thought that the door knob may have jabbed her ribs and decided to bite her back later that night so she dismissed any other thoughts and continued to watch the show.
When they got through all the episodes Maya was right, It did leave her speechless.
"When is season 2 coming out" Riley said drastically.
"Sorry Hun, but ya gotta wait another year" Maya said sadly shaking her head.
"Aww whyyy. This is torcher!" She knows she was being dramatic. 'how can anybody possibly wait this long' she thought.
"Yeah I know it sucks, but anyway it's late I gotta head home." Maya got up, wincing in the process. Riley looked at her with furrowed eyebrows.
"Are you ok, Peaches?" Maya shook her head absentmindedly.
"Yeah yeah I'm fine, just feeling pain from the door knob earlier" oh. So she was right. Or so she thought.
Riley... Riley..." Farkle waved his hand side to side in front of her face. Riley shook her head frantically.
"I'm good, I'm awake. Sorry I was just thinking about when Maya and I-"
"Aye! look who finally decided to eat with us" Zay shouted at the three as he reached their table with Maya and Owen.
"Peaches you're here!" Riley got up and hugged her tightly. Maya winced a little but quickly covered it with a small smile.
"Riles, if you don't let go, I'm gonna stop breathing" Maya patted her back.
"Oh, right" she laughed nervously letting go.
"Who are you?" Lucas looked at Owen cautiously.
"Who lil ol' me?" He placed his hand on his chest, "Well if I must introduce myself. My name's Owen. You must be the cowboy ridin' buffalo soldier Zay had told me about" Zay snickered but dropped it as soon as Lucas glared at him.
"Yeah, but just call me Lucas. Only Maya can call me a cowboy." Owen furrowed his eyebrows but he wasn't very confused. Zay already let him in the triangle nonsense and what was going on. He definitely knew that the green eyed Texan had a thing for Maya.
"Yeah and I'm still wondering why you let her tease you, Lucas." Zay comments. Maya shook her head at Lucas.
"I'm not calling you anymore nicknames Lucas." Lucas' face faltered at that.
"You can call him whatever you want Owen. You'll get a kick out of his reaction." Maya winked at him.
"So what are you doing with Maya... and Zay" Lucas glared at him.
"Well I'm in Maya's Algebra II class and I've been friends with Zay for a while now."
"Yup, met him at basketball tryouts, dude can cross anybody up like it's his business" Zay brags.
"Alright alright, no need to talk about me I just came to tag along not to be interviewed" he said before taking a seat, Maya and Zay sitting on either side of him. Riley smiled fondly at Owen before greeting him.
"Well it's nice to meet you Owen, I'm Riley"
"Pleasure to meet you Riley" he greeted back.
"So what were you guys talking about." Maya questions the three.
"Oh well we were actually just talk about y-" Lucas covers Farkles mouth quickly before he says anything stupid.
"We were talking about nothing really. Just about school and about how my daddy dropped coffee on Mrs. Carter. She cursed him out bad" Lucas sighed with relief when Riley decided to start talking about her life before Maya can catch what Farkle was going to say.
"But enough about that, Maya, how's your hand?" Riley asked.
"Oh yeah. They doctor stitched me up see." She showed them her hand. "Good as new."
"Next time you'll know not to pick up glass with your bare hands." Farkle smiled at her, she chuckled.
"Yeah that was my fault." She shook her head at her carelessness.
"I thought-" Owen started to speak but Maya quickly shut him down.
"Just gotta make sure the clumsy waiter doesn't drop more plates next time" she smiled at him tightly. His eyes widened as he got the memo and kept his mouth shut.
Feeling like he was being watched, he looked around but then noticed Lucas was staring at him.
"Is cowboy ok?, He keeps watching me cautiously and giving me death glares." Owen whispered to Maya and Zay who shook his head out of disappointment and leaned over to whisper to Lucas.
"Lucas buddy, you gotta calm down you're making things blatantly obvious." Zay eyed him.
"Sorry I'm just wondering how long you known Maya cause I've never seen you hang out with her before." Lucas spoke out loud, raising an eyebrow and looking directly at Owen.
"Lucas..." Maya warned.
"No he's right. How come you never introduced us to your friend Maya?" Riley jumped in.
Maya sighed in defeat, "He was too irrelevant to bring up." She joked.
"Wha! H-hey!" Owen said offended. Everyone at the table laugh, save for Lucas who found it anything but funny. Attention was directed towards Zay as he began to talk about a Global History test that was 'biting him in the ass'. Lucas stared at Maya quietly letting her know that he knows somethings up, her only response being a simple shrug.