New chapter! This one looks more into themother-daughter relationship of Katy and Maya Hart. In the next chapter, Maya and Lucas have another moment, and Riley reacts to Lucaya winning Favourite Couple in the Yearbook ;)
"If only I could read the signs in front of me
I could find the way to who I'm meant to be"
~ Dove Cameron as Mal in Disney's Descendants: If only
"Where'd Lucas go?" Uh-oh. I know what's going to happen now.
"He left to get ready for school," I tell Mom.
"Ah..." she says, a look entering her eyes. Oh no. "So now we can talk." UH-OH.
She eyes me with a look on her face. Then she puts on a slysmile and points at the door.
"So... You and Lucas, huh? He ask you out yet?" I expected it. But I couldn't stop my face from burning and turning red.
"No, Mom, we're not...a...thing... It's him and Riley remember?" Mom's eyebrows lift up.
"Come on, Maya.I can tell. A mother knows!" I turn an even deeper shade of red just thinking about what she could mean. Her eyes twinkle.
"Mom..." I groan. I suddenly becameconscious of all the times I spent with Lucas. What did it mean that he spent all day with me and not Riley? Was his hand positioning charade meant totell me something? Why did he offer to piggyback me? Did I give him the wrong idea when I kissed his cheek?
I bury my face in my hands. A few words from my mother was not going tochange my relationship with Lucas. We're Maya and Ranger Rick, and that's how it's always going tobe.
"So...?" she prompts. "What are you?"
Three words. That's all it took to crumble the words in my mouth. Say it. Say that we're just friends. Do it. Come on.
All that came out was, "I don't know,"