At the hospital.
Maya sat beside Josh. Silence filled the room. "So, we're alone together. Again..." Josh said.
"Yeah... so, anyways are your friends gonna visit you?"
"Well, Andrew said he's free tonight so he's gonna visit me."
"That's good to know."
"What? You thought that I'm all alone and think that all my friends don't have time to visit me at all?"
"Hey. It's not like that."
Josh laughed. "I know, sorry."
Maya suddenly thought about Riley. She sighed. "Hmm? What's wrong, Maya?" Josh asked as he looked at Maya. "Oh it's just… I'm just thinking about my best friend." Maya replied.
"You mean my niece, Riley? What's wrong?"
"She… she seems to have a problem and has been acting strange today. When I asked her what's wrong she just avoid my question. She doesn't even tell me, her best friend, what's wrong. Does that means… she doesn't trust me to help her with her problem?" said Maya.
Josh looked at Maya. Then he patted her on her head. Maya seemed surprised of what Josh did to her. "Well… hmm… I don't think that she doesn't trust you." said Josh.
"Then what do you think? Tell me..."
"Maybe… maybe she needs some time to tell you. And why don't you try ask your other friends? They might know…"
"You think so? Because I don't like it if my best friend Riley told my other friends about her problem and not me. And I would probably hit their heads so hard until they tell me what's wrong."
"Wow. Isn't that's just too harsh? Doing that to your friends?"
"I still don't care. I'm gonna find out her problem no matter what." said Maya as she stood up from her seat. "Wait… Maya, you're gonna leave now? It's still early and you just got here, though… " said Josh.
'Uh Josh doesn't want me to leave? Meh, like I care about that. And… maybe I could stay here for a while. I don't have anything else to do' Maya thought. "Yeah you're right. It's still kinda early for me to leave." Maya said.
"Good. Actually, Maya… there's something I wanted to tell you." Josh said to Maya.
"What is it?" Maya asked curiously as she quickly sat on her seat. Her heart was beating very fast for some reason.
"Actually I wanted to go to the New Year's Party at Riley's apartment. And I also wanted to go to your middle school graduation to congratulate you. But I can't because of my work at NYU." Josh said.
Maya's eyes wide opened. Then she said, "You're busy even on the New Year's?"
"Yeah, believe me. College is hard. And-" Josh was cut off from Maya's phone ringing. Maya took her phone from her pocket and answered it. "Oh, really? Okay, I'll be there right away!" Maya said to her phone. "It's my mom. She said that there's an 'emergency' and I have to go home right now. I have to go now Josh. See you!"
Maya then walked away from Josh's room. Josh looked at Maya until she closed the door. He sighed.
"And at the graduation I wanted to tell you how I really feel about you. Unfortunately I can't. I thought now would be the perfect time…" he whispered to himself.