AN: Well, here's a new chapter. A special thanks goes to DarthSidious04 for kickin' my butt into posting. (: The next chapter belongs to Angelica... I just hope her character seems correct... Anyways, enjoy!
Maya McNaulty.
August 29th 2009
It's about 4 in the morning when I get home from the impromptu trip to IHOP I took with Charles, Suzie, and Kimi. It was a lot of fun. Kimi even seemed like she was keen on giving me a chance when she'd come off so bitchy at first. I guess I can understand her attitude, what with Tommy and all. Even if she doesn't quite know he's cheating yet, I have a feeling she has an idea.
Walking through the doorway, I feel some amount of guilt weighing down on me but I swallow it as soon as it arises. I don't want to get myself consumed by these people and their problems. That'll only cause more trouble on my own behalf.
As soon as I think this, someone knocks quietly at my front door. I let out a heavy sigh. I don't even have to open it to know who it is. I even think twice about answering but the knocks start to get louder and I don't want Lil waking my dog up (or my parents, for that matter), so I run up and answer it.
Lil is standing in the doorway with tears streaming down her cheeks and her arms wrapped around herself. I'm so used to this, I don't say a word and step aside, letting her into the house. She opens her mouth, but before a word can escape her, I'm pointing downstairs to my bedroom before she starts bawling. "Maya... I- I," she starts babbling, and I quickly shuffle to her side and guide her down.
When we reach the bottom, I cross my arms and don't say a word to her until she stops. "You need to be quiet," I say sternly, grabbing a t-shirt on my way to the bathroom. I shut the door and start to undress myself when I hear Lil in the other room talking. Her voice is shaking with tears. I wonder for a second who she's talking to, but I'm too distracted trying to get myself ready for some shut eye. I take off my beanie and my button down, then my tanktop and throw the 2 sizes too big tee over myself and pull it over my head. I'm about to change my shorts when my phone dings. I reach down for it, but stop when I recognize the number. It's Tommy. Who'd of thought he'd even still be up? I finish changing and dip out of the bathroom to see Lil on the phone, begging someone to come over.
Right at that instant, I look down at my phone. Tommy's text reads 'Lil keeps asking me to come to your house :/'
I look up at her and roll my eyes. "Who are you talking to?"
For some reason, she decides to act as if she isn't on the phone. Stuffing the phone in a pillow case, she looks up at me and says, "What?"
"Hang that up." I say, pointing at the pillow case. "Tommy isn't coming over tonight. He's drunk as fuck. Do you want him getting into an accident?"
She looks up at me, as if she wants to ask how I knew who she was talking to, but refrains and takes the phone out of the pillow case. "Bye Tommy, I have to go..." She mumbles. "I love you." And she presses the red 'END' button, dropping the phone off of my bed.
As I watch her hang up, I can't even believe what I just heard come out of her mouth. "Why would you tell him that?" I blurt, remembering what Tommy, Dil, and Charles were saying last night. The boys see Lil as a total joke and that little stunt right there wasn't going to make it past any of them. Lil wasn't the sharpest girl, but I wanted to avoid allowing her to be made a fool out of, being my friend and all.
"Because I meant it," Lil jabs back, defensively. "I do love him, Maya. I just wish that he would love me too..." I can hear the tears weighting down her words and before she can start with the waterworks, I sigh and crawl into bed beside her. "I've always loved him, for as long as I could remember."
I pull Lil into my arms and smooth down her hair with a hand. "I know, I know. Shhh..." I whisper. Inside, I'm sort of laughing to myself. I'm always comforting Lil from tears. And it's not because I'm a good friend, either. I just don't know what to do when she starts. I guess for awhile it was because I didn't know anything about the Tommy situation. But now it's because I'm tired of hearing it. Seeing things from both of sides, I know that Tommy is a hormonal teenage mess, like the rest of us but that he's still a good guy. Probably not good enough to be so smitten with, but I guess I can see how she's so attracted to him.
Then again, she's a mess on her own. Lil's never had luck with guys because she's always busy running back to Tommy. I truthfully don't know if he has any legitimate feelings for her but if he doesn't, I hope one day he finds the nerve to tell her that the feeling isn't quite mutual.
As Lil's tears start to soak into my shirt, I realize that school is starting next week. I realize that everything will most likely be thrown into full swing around then; all the drama, the fighting... everything. And I'm kind of upset about it because I told myself that I would focus more on my grades this year to make up for last year... and all of this could pose as a huge distraction.
Living in LA was much worse. At least I was out of my rough neighborhood. My parents weren't fighting about bills anymore since my dad found a good job here. But the way my parents talked about this town, it was damn near perfect. It was safer, the schools were immaculate, so on and so forth.
Hm. It sure doesn't seem so perfect anymore.
