Chapter Eleven;
The end of camp had arrived, and everyone had packed up their belongings ready to head out of camp and back to their respective homes, some of the campers to different states even. Maura sat across from Jane in the bunk and she sighed as she curled up, playing cards, 'Snap' on her own. Jane knew her parents would be there at any moment to collect her and her brother, Frankie first probably since he hadn't ended up in the isolation camp for the sixth summer in a row, but she looked over to Maura and frowned a little, "Maura, would you still like to come and stay with us?"
Maura stopped and froze, like a cat pretending she was invisible, before she looked up at Jane and swallowed, "You know it would be a bad idea."
"I do?" Jane asked her and stood to move closer to Maura's bed, to talk with her and try to convince her of the advantages of staying with the Rizzoli family. She took a seat on the end of Maura's bed and looked to the young blonde, "Look, Maura...I'm sorry about everything that's happened over the last few days, but I can't take them back. If I could, I would, but I can't. Can't you just forgive me or something?"
"Jane, I already have, I just don't want either of us to get hurt." Maura told her.
"We won't!" Jane replied, a smile so bright etched into her face, "We have airmail...we have the telephone..." she pointed out, "Okay, the phone may be a little expensive for international calls while you're over in Paris, but the mail's a good option, if it is a little slow..."
Maura smiled and nodded a little, "Well, I have your address, so I can write to you."
"Good, now come on, stop mopin' my Ma and Pop'll be here any second, they wanna meet you." Jane told Maura and smirked a little.
"What did you tell them, Jane?" she asked, seeing Jane's smirk as she tidied away her cards into her shoulder bag.
"Nothin'. Just that I was moved to Isolation and that I made a friend, and we're close..." Jane replied, moving back over to her own area before she turned around and quickly pressed her lips against Maura's in a surprise-possibly final kiss.
Maura gasped and quickly blushed, pulling away from Jane, "Jane! Your parents could have walked in at any second! What are you doing?"
"Maura...relax okay?" Jane smirked and chortled a little before she swallowed, "I think Ma has an idea that I like girls. I think she caught me and Tommy looking at a magazine once, and my eyes were fixed on this woman's t-"
"Okay!" Maura quickly cut Jane off and blushed before she stood and straightened out her clothing, looking around her area, "Your mother and father are both coming here?"
"Yeah, why? Who's coming for you?"
"I'm not sure. The maid, possibly my father." Maura replied, feeling a little flushed at the sudden questioning from Jane.
"Maura, are you alright?" Jane raised a brow as she watched the blonde faffing around with shoving the cards back into their wallet and she moved around the bed to her trunk to put them inside before closing it securely.
"I'm fine..." she muttered, it came out as a whisper, to which Jane caught on.
"You're obviously not, Maura. Something's bothering you."
Maura plopped herself down on the bed and she sighed slowly, letting most of her air drain out before she paused, thinking of what to say to Jane. The blonde looked up and she bit her lip a little, "Jane, I don't know who's picking me up from camp. I don't know if it'll be my father, the maid, someone else...I never know these things." she whimpered a little, "I always have to get the car sent to me at the airport when I come home for the Holidays or Summer...because my parents are out on vacation..."
"Maura, I'm sorry...are they on vacation now?"
"I don't know." Maura whispered, "I try not to get in the way of my parents. They like it when I achieve something and then I get on with what I'm doing."
"They're always at parties?"
"Yes, my father is a professor, he's into Science like me...and my mother, she comes a wealthy family, so they can afford all of these holidays all the time, so they go away a lot. I don't think it's that they don't love me, because I know they do. I just don't think they were very happy to have an only child." she sighed.
"You think they would have wanted another child?"
"I do. I would have loved a younger sibling." Maura smiled softly.
"Hey, you're welcome to Frankie..." Jane chuckled a little try and cheer up Maura as she wrapped her arm around Maura's shoulders protectively.
"Knock, knock...Janie! You in here?" Angela Rizzoli called out through the screen door, inside the bunk.
"Yeah Ma, I'm here..." Jane called back and stood, "Come on Maura, time to meet my family. Brace yourself..."