"Emaya Forever Done Right"
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Rated M for Mature Content.
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Justin's touch brings Maya back to the Cliffs and her suicide attempt…the dream is coming true. And that's just it, she thinks she's dreaming…she has no idea that Emily is alive and she doesn't think Justin is really there…he tells her she is worthy of love with another person and that he knows getting high isn't who she is now. He even tells her that her true love Emily is alive and well and ready to be with her but Maya can't separate truth from fiction. She thinks that when Justin says she's ready to be with her that he means in spirit. That she too must die for their souls to reunite. Her thoughts fall deeper and deeper into her soul releasing her from her catatonic state, pushing her into a dream she cannot control…
I'm walking alone along the cliffs having lost everything. There's no one to turn to, it's just me and the ocean breeze. It's a loneliness that only someone who has loved and lost can feel. I stand high above the dark waters watching the waves crash below me. The air blows against my white satin robe, forcing it open revealing my white satin nightgown. My long dark tresses flow wildly behind me as the wind tries pushing me back but fails time after time. Why is this happening? Why can't I ever be happy? Why is everyone that I've ever loved being taken from me? Is it because I'm not worthy of love? I take a step closer, the sand shuffling with my stride, loosening the earth beneath me, causing the rocks to tumble over the edge, plunging into the blackness of the ocean…
Chapter 37: The Cliffs
Narrator POV
Maya sits up. She blinks her eyes once then stares out into the horizon hypnotized by the sound of waves crashing against the rocks below. Chelsea pushes Noel out of the way and quickly removes the connection to the monitor as though she actually cares about what's happening to Maya. This sends a signal to the house monitor sounding an alarm at Aunt Maren's indicating that Maya is in distress...
Aunt Maren, Frank and Eva are startled by the alarm. They rush into Maya's bedroom concerned about what that sound means. Eva calls the attending nurse while Frank tries to get the alarm to stop. When she finishes with the call, she informs Frank and Maren that the sound indicates Maya may be in distress. They drop everything to go after her but before they can rush out the door to find her, the Fields greet them with panic stricken eyes.
Eva St. Germain tries to burst through Pam and Wayne but they hold her back needing to know what's happening so they can help.
"It's the monitor. The alarm is sounding meaning that something's wrong with Maya! We have to get to her now!" she wails.
"We will, we will," Pam Fields holds her needing to calm her so they can do what's best for Maya.
"Stand back Wayne! My daughter is out there! She's in distress and we have to find her!" Frank St. Germain growls with a fierceness of a father about to do whatever he has to, to protect his daughter.
"Emily's out there too! But we need to do this right so that no one gets hurt, okay?" Wayne holds him back with his soldier's strength.
Eva takes hold of her husband's arm, "Frank, Frank, he's right."
"First we'll call the authorities and then we'll go looking for them," Wayne insists.
"I'll call 911," Aunt Maren volunteers.
"Okay, that's good. Now we'll all get in your car and search for them. I'll drive. Agreed?" Wayne eyeballs him, holding out his hand, making sure he understands him.
Mr. St. Germain reaches in his pocket and hands Wayne the keys. He takes them from him. While Aunt Maren speaks with the Emergency dispatcher, Pam, Eva, Frank and Wayne race off for the cliffs to find their girls hoping they are safe and sound...
Justin pulls his hand away quickly not knowing how to handle this. He takes a few steps back, "I'm sorry. I can't do this. I don't know what's going on but I do know I can't do this."
He runs to his car to escape Maya once again unable to handle this emotional turn of events. Noel runs after him trying to get him to stay but he slams the car door, starts the engine and races off into the imminent night…
Emily watches as Maya places her hands on the arms of her wheelchair still staring out into the ocean. Her legs move from the supports as she uses all of her strength to stand. She very weakly takes one small step at a time towards the edge of the cliffs. No one is moving because she's standing on her own! She's walking on her own! They're all in shock as she's finally broken from her catatonic state; at least they think she has. But Toby seems less shocked than the others as he begins to smirk while the scene plays out better than he could have ever imagined.
None of the others realize that the reason Justin was able to get Maya to react to his touch is that she thinks she's finally going to be with the love of her life, Emily, by ending her own life. She tried once before because of Justin and he reminded her that she is capable of doing it again but this time to be with her true love, her destiny, if only so she can be loved again…
It's not until her shuffling feet kick a rock over the side which cracks against another rock, do the others snap out of their shock.
"Maya!" Emily cries.
She runs to her holding her back from the cliffs ledge stopping her forward progress.
"It's too late Emily!"
Toby charges them both ready to push them over the side and watch them plummet to their deaths!
Chelsea observes everything around her but it's like it's happening in slow motion. She sees the girl she thought she loved about to be gone forever! She sees the love of Maya's life, Emily, alive and well saving Maya from an impending doom! And she sees Toby intent on ending their lives once and for all!
"No!" she screams!
Her scream startles Emily as she falls back with Maya in her arms landing on top of her!
Humanity resonates inside of Chelsea! She can't watch this any longer! She won't watch Maya face death again! She races towards them! Noel chasing after her from several yards back! She crashes into Toby who slips through the loose gravel tumbling over the ledge! But in a last ditch effort to save his own life, he grabs Chelsea knocking her down holding onto her ankle as his body weight drags her over the side with him! Noel dives for Chelsea's hand locking her wrist just in time as they dangle over the vicious, dark, unforgiving ocean! But her wrist is slipping! It slips through his grasp! He grabs her hand using every ounce of strength he has to keep her from falling but they're too heavy! He can no longer support the extra weight! He loses his hold of Chelsea! He loses Chelsea and Toby forever!
Emily POV
I hold Maya close against me.
"I'm never letting you go! You'll always be safe in my arms! I love you Maya!"
Maya tries to get away from me but I have her held securely.
"Maya, it's me, your Emily."
She looks at me. Her pupils widen. She recognizes me I can tell!
I smile. She smiles.
"Emily? Emily?"
"Yes, yes Maya, it's me Emily!"
"Are we…"
"No babe, no. I'm alive. You're alive."
"Oh, oh Emily!" she falls into me crying.
I'm crying! I'm so happy!
"But you're mad at me. You left me."
"I was wrong to leave you. And I'll never leave you again."
She lifts her head tilting it to the side just like Maya does. I sweep her hair behind her ear and she kisses me. We can't stop kissing each other. Tears are streaming down my face. Tears fall straight down from her eyes onto my lips. We kiss salty kisses. We giggle. We smile. We kiss some more until we hear sirens blare in the background…
Maya catches her breath still lying on top of me looking at me so seriously making sure it's really me.
"How? Emily, how are you alive?"
"I was never on that plane. My mom surprised me at the last minute. We flew to Texas to see my dad."
"Oh baby, thank God for your mom and your dad."
"I know, right!"
She kisses me softly.
"I love you Emily. You will always own my heart."
"I love you too Maya. I will always belong to you totally and completely."
We kiss some more and I keep on holding her not willing to let her go, not even for a second…
Narrator POV
Maya and Emily's parents are passed by a car on the opposite side of the road driving really fast away from the cliffs. Eva St. Germain looks to her left out the backseat passenger window as the car goes by. The driver looks at their car as it passes and continues speeding away…
"Hey, hey, that was Justin!" she raises her voice.
Pam who is sitting next to her in the back says, "Justin? Who's Justin?"
"It's Maya's ex-boyfriend. And he's driving like a maniac away from the cliffs! Oh Frank, this can't be good," she fears.
"I know Eva, I know," he agrees with a worried tone.
"Why? I don't understand. Please Eva what's going on?" she pleads.
"Maya and Justin used to date. She got in with the wrong crowd and was smoking a lot."
Wayne makes eye contact with Pam through the rearview mirror.
"He had enough and broke up with her. Then one night they both showed up at a party but he was with another girl. This devastated Maya because she really thought she was in love with him. So she wandered off to the cliffs and decided she wasn't loveable and…"
"Eva, it's okay. We understand," Pam takes her hand consolingly.
"It's just that, Chelsea was the one who stopped her. She convinced her not to jump. She saved our little girl's life," she cries.
"Oh Eva, Frank I'm so sorry you had to go through all that," they sit in uncomfortable silence for a few minutes before Pam clears her throat to ask, "So why do you think they're at the cliffs?"
"I just have this feeling," she looks out into the darkening skies.
"Look, Maya got the help she needed and she's well again. You don't have to worry about Emily," Frank says, actually, he needed to say that.
"Oh, I wasn't thinking anything," Pam assures. "I just want Emily and Maya to be safe."
"We all do dear, we all do," Wayne needs to convince himself that they will be okay.
"There! Over there! I can see flashing lights in the distance!" Frank points out towards the cliffs.
Wayne speeds up.
"Wayne, no! Slow down the road has only loose gravel over it! If you go too fast you might not be able to stop in time!" Frank yells.
"Okay, okay. Look over there! I can see some people but I can't make them out," Wayne points out.
"Where?" Eva asks feeling scared yet excited.
"There!" Pam cries.
Wayne slams on the brakes as everyone gets forced forward and then thrown back into their seats by their seatbelts.
"Sorry! Is everyone okay?"
"We're fine. Let's just get to them!" Frank commands…
Noel is face down in the gravel carefully inching his way to the edge. He looks over to see if he can spot Chelsea and Toby. He needs to be closer so he pushes himself even further passed the ledge so his head and shoulders are now over the cliff. He uses his core to keep him balanced. He sees something! It's Chelsea! She's caught between a rock and a lower ledge but she's slipping! He hears the sirens getting closer and when he sees the police cars, fire trucks and ambulances come to a roaring halt; he carefully crawls away from the edge calling them to help.
He yells, "There's a girl who fell over the side of the cliff and she's barely hanging on!"
All of the Emergency personnel ready themselves for a daring rescue…
"Oh my god! Emily! Maya!" Mrs. Fields yells in excitement.
Emily and Maya stop kissing to look up at who that voice belongs too.
"Maya baby girl!" Mrs. St. Germain cries out to her daughter.
"Mom! Dad!"
Emily and Maya help each other to their knees but before they can get up Eva and Pam fall to their knees grabbing their daughters hugging them, not letting go.
"Hey give the old man a chance," Frank says over his girls.
He helps them both to their feet giving his daughter the biggest bear hug you could imagine! And in turn Wayne helps his wife and daughter to stand up hugging them as well.
"Maya, you, you're our Maya again?" her mom asks with uncertainty in her voice.
"It's me mom. It's me."
The families hug each other as they walk away from the cliffs to the car. They stand huddled together as the emergency crews try to save Chelsea while a paramedic hurries over to make sure Emily and Maya are okay…
The officers and firemen grab some tools and hook up a safety harness to the fire truck and rush over to Noel. He gets on his hands and knees to show them where she is.
He lowers himself to his stomach terrified, "There, there she is!"
And while the professionals begin Chelsea's rescue, Noel searches for any sign of Toby. And just as he's about to give up he sees it! It's the black mask he wore that was attached to his hoodie! It's caught on a tree branch jutting out from the side of the cliff! But with all the activity surrounding Chelsea's rescue, and the strong ocean breeze, it gets blown from the branch, fluttering slowly down towards the violently crashing waves…
Gone is any sign of Toby and gone is any sign that –A ever existed…
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To Be Continued…
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