Author's Note: Greetings fellow readers! Did you enjoy the last chapter? It was rather sweet. (The date part) I will try to write more things like that. But by the end of this chapter I will have you saying "OMG I was not expecting this!" last chapter I was stuck on what should happen next but the idea soon struck me and I think you will like it and I will do two chapters tonight if I can, think of it as a possible bonus chapter. Many things will be happening and of course drama will take place. What would a good fanfic be without drama? Anyway enjoy this next little number. It's one of my favorites. Review or PM me with your thoughts and suggestions. (Sorry for any mistake those will be edited later) Thanks for all the sweet reviews, love each and every one of them! (:
Chapter 7
Maya's P.O.V.
That morning I woke up feeling great. Leaning over my bed I turned on my stereo and blasted music, jumping out of bed and began singing, even dancing. The memories of last night came rushing back and I couldn't help but smile. I was even feeling confident enough to actually put an effort into my outfit today. 'Oh god, Tori is starting to rub off on me! What the heck change is good.' I figured and viewed it as a little experiment to see how good I would look in clothes I would normally never wear. Rummaging through my clothes I found something in the very back that caught my eyes. It was a dress that was more revealing than I was used to. The green and blue pattern complimented the color of my eyes and once I tried it on I noticed that it hugged my figure in all of the right places. Pulling out a sky blue jean jacket to go with that, I soon found a pair of 2 inch strappy black heels. 'Okay this isn't too intimidating to walk in. Baby steps.' I thought myself. I applied my usual make-up, just adding slightly more eye shadow than I normally would. Gabbing the hair straightener from my dresser I quickly plugged it in and let it heat up. In the mean time I packed all my books into my pack and sat down near the mirror. Strand by strand I slowly straightened my hair and put my side bangs up with the help of some bobby pins. Rather pleased with myself I slung my backpack across my shoulder and made my way downstairs for breakfast. The second my mom and Katie saw me they began gushing about how beautiful I looked. "My babies are all grown up." My mom said wiping her tears away with the back of her hand. "Aw mom. We will always be your little girls." She smiled at my answer and opened her arms wide. "Come here and give mommy a hug girls." Doing so I felt like a kid again. "Okay you should get going soon, don't want to be late for school. Katie your father and I won't be home until Friday afternoon so you're in charge for the next three days." My ears perked up when I heard my mom say that. "Where are you guys going?" I asked out of curiosity. "We're going to your aunt's house. She is sick and needs someone to take care of her and drive the kids to and from school. Now both of you be good. Here is your lunch sweetie, have a good day and I'll see you on Friday." Taking the lunch from my mom I gave her one last hug and received a kiss on the forehead from her. Walking out the door I heard Katie whisper, "Yes. I am so throwing a party." Turning around I crossed my hands over my chest and glared at her. "Yeah, like you could pull that off." Staring back at me with the same look she said, "Oh calm down I'll let you invite your friends too. And mom and dad won't find out. You won't tell them right?" Almost pleadingly she hoped I would say yes. "Okay fine I won't tell." I can't believe I gave in to this. Oh well, there's no going back now.
At school…
The moment I stepped into school I earned a bunch of looks from guys who whistled at me and hooted in my direction. The smile on my face grew as I walked down the halls of Degrassi. An unusually hyper Tori greeted me at my locker, shortly followed by Tristan. They freaked out over my outfit. "OMG Maya you look great! Wait until Campbell sees you." Thanking her for the compliment I blushed at the thought of Cam seeing me in this outfit, it felt different, but in a good way. "How was your date last night?" I thought they would never ask. As I went on talking about every detail they cooed when I brought up the good-night kiss. "Sounds amazing. I wish I had a boyfriend like that." Tristan sighed and Tori patted him on the back. "It's okay Tris; you will find your prince in shining armor someday. Now let's go get our books, don't want to be late for algebra, Armstrong will kill us. Bye M see you in French." Waving at them I watched feeling amused as Tori dragged Tristan down the hallway as he looked longingly at Fabio, who was standing at his locker. Getting back to my stuff I peered down at my phone to see how much time I had for class. Ten minutes to kill. I would take that time to retrieve the tape of the practice and give it to Brook just to get it over with. Making my way in and out of the locker room was no trouble. I went down the sophomore hallway in search of Brook. With every step I took down the hallway everyone gave me unwelcoming looks. Shaking it off I kept going until I reached what appeared to be her locker. Tapping her on the shoulder I took a step back giving her a chance to see who it was. Without saying anything she turned around and looked me up and down. "Wow is that you Blondie?" I didn't pay attention to her looks. "Haha funny. Here just take your tape." Taking it from my hands she began fiddling with it. "Good you managed to follow instructions for once. No one saw you right?" Nodding my head she curved her lips into a sly smile. Oh no that's never good, looks like she has an idea brewing in her head. "So I hear you are throwing a party tonight." Looking at her in disbelief I couldn't think of a possible way that she would know that. "How did you know about that?" at first she didn't say anything, but soon spoke up. "Word gets around. Now I better get invited to that party or else I might tell a little birdie what you did yesterday." Oh she did not just use that card. "Come on you can't use that against me now. Fine you're invited here is my address." I said writing it on her wrist. "See you tonight." She victoriously said and snickered walking away with the tape still in her hands. I was in deep and I didn't know how badly. The warning bell rang and I practically ran to my first period class. As I walked past the rows of desks people gave me disgusted looks. 'What the heck is going on? Is there something on my face?' Maybe it was the new outfit; did it really look that bad? No it couldn't be that since many boys stared. Taking my seat in the very back I slumped in my seat feeling less and less confident. Just as the lesson started the intercom came on indicating that an announcement was about to be made. "Maya Matlin please report to the principal's office immediately." All eyes were on me and people started hooting. "That's enough class. Maya you better get on down there. You can borrow someone's notes or come after school for the work." Nodding my head understandingly I picked up my things and left the room as quietly as possible. The walk down the hallway was intimidating. By the time I reached the main office I was shaking. The secretary told me to sit in the waiting area until I was called in. After a few minutes Simpson opened the door ajar and yelled, "Come in Miss Matlin!" And I thought I was already scared. Once stepping inside his office the door slammed shut and I was told to sit in the wooden chair across from his desk. "Maya it has come to my attention that you have been meddling in the school's locker rooms." He looked at me with cold eyes then kept talking. "A student reported seeing you going in the locker room. We looked into it and saw that you were switching Mike Dallas's skates. When you weren't supposed to be in there! Watch this." Taking out a remote from his desk he turned over to a tv screen and turned it on revealing black and white footage of me going in the room and making the switch. "Do you have anything to say for yourself?" At a loss for words I tried putting sentences together but failed miserable. "I-I… uh… no sir." Dropping my head down in embarrassment I fought back tears. "Do you know why I called you here?" Shaking my head no Mr. Simpson's tone rose even higher. "Last night during the hockey teams practice, Mike Dallas was injured. He broke his arm and leg when he went out onto the ice. Those skates you put in his locker caused the fall." Suddenly jolting my head up I met his eyes. "What?" I squeaked out in shock. "Yes that's right. Everyone knows it takes at least two weeks to break in skates before you can use them properly. But since his were switched he fell during practice and won't be able to play for nearly 8 weeks. With the captain hurt we will have to find a replacement." My lip quivered as I started crying. "I had no idea. I'm so sorry sir." He shook his head in disappointment. "That is no excuse Maya. Now the team has no chance at the nationals, and you have cost us a lot of trouble. Dallas was the best player aside from Campbell Saunders. He is too young to captain the team and these athletes have come from all around the world to play here but they can't anymore, at least not for a while from this little incident. And that's not all I found." There was more? Oh god, I didn't know how much of this I could really take. "More?" I asked. "Yes, a video with your name on it." He said showing me the disk. "Where did you find that?" I asked him. "It doesn't matter. It's footage of last night's practice, and it has Dallas's fall as well. We are using it as evidence." What did he just say? "Evidence?! For what?" I blankly asked. "To add to your file, that you in fact were the cause of our distress. And furthermore, we will present this to the board and they will decide your full punishment. I read your little note on the back of the disk as well Miss Matlin. This is despicable." Never had I seen an adult so angry with me. The tears were falling down my face again and I didn't bother wiping them away. He slid me the disk and I read it to myself. It was in Brook's handwriting and it basically said I planned to sabotage the team and my name was signed at the bottom. And holy crap that looked like my writing too so there was no way to prove my innocence surely he wouldn't believe me now. "Actions such as these don't go unnoticed here at Degrassi Maya. You will serve one month's detention and you are banned from any extracurricular activities. I shook my head. "But you can't! I didn't do it!" I protested and I earned an annoyed look from him. "Well all the proof is here and unless you can prove otherwise I have to believe what is presented to me. Now I suggest you get back to class. We will discuss this further another time." I couldn't believe my ears. 'How did he find out?' Brook! Her name rang in my head and I cursed her for ratting me out. How could she do this to me? "Does that include band?" I asked and he nodded his head. That's when my heart really shattered into a million pieces. "I expected more from you Miss Matlin." He said practically in a whisper and crossed his arms over his chest. Sighing I walked out of there only to bump into Cam. I thought he would be glad to see me but boy was I wrong, he was fuming just as much as Simpson. Not him too!
Cam's P.O.V.
As soon as I got to school that morning I learned what happened to Dallas. When I learned that it was Maya I couldn't believe it. My heart broke and thought how someone as sweet as her could have done this. Just the other night we had a great date. How could she have looked me in the eye and lied all night? She did that to Dallas well knowing how I would feel about it and did it behind my back and when I asked her if something was wrong she said nothing! Oh how I felt like a fool now. And I looked pretty guilty too considering she was my girlfriend. I was getting dirty looks and people actually thought I was in on this. When I saw Dallas he and the team started flipping out at me but I insisted I had no idea and was just as furious as them. I had come to Degrassi in the first place to play hockey. And now our chances at nationals were gone since our captain could no longer play and I being the second best player was too young to be in charge. It was too late to replace Dallas so we were screwed. How could Maya do this to me, us, the whole team? They were just starting to get along (strangely enough) but she just had to blow it. Boy did I have a thing or two to say to her the next time I saw her. And here was my chance seeing as she just came out of the office crying. I was not focused on that I just wanted to know what drove her to do this. "Hey…" She said not meeting my eyes. "How could you do that Maya! To the team, they were just starting to get along with you and then you had to do this." She looked like she wanted to say something but was holding back. Here we go again. "I didn't do it! I swear." I wished I could believe her but all the odds pointed to her doing it. "I wish I could believe that you were telling the truth." A little voice inside my head told me to calm down and that I was over reacting and that I should give her a chance to explain, my mouth had other plans. I was angry after all and didn't have control over what I said. "Come on Cam. You know me!" Shaking my head I said, "No I don't not anymore, maybe I never really knew who you were from the start. Our whole relationship is probably based off of one big lie. How can I trust you anymore?" This hurt so much. I loved the girl for crying out loud. How could someone so innocent do something so diabolical? It didn't seem like her. "Cam, please don't say that. Give me a chance. That's all I ask." Maya said coming closer to me trying to touch my arm. "Don't touch me!" I yelled rather loudly. "Cam…" She whispered and cried jumping back in fear. This was really starting to kill me inside seeing her cry this much and not being able to hold her. I literally had to scold myself from running to her and holding her in my arms and whispering sweet nothings. But I couldn't for the sake of the team. "I can't believe you." She said to me which threw me over the edge. "You can't believe me?! You don't have a right to accuse me of anything; this is your entire fault. We were so close and then you had to hurt poor Dallas. HE WAS THE ONE WHO DEFENDED YOU WHEN EVERYONE ON THE TEAM MADE FUN OF HIM MAYA!" This I screamed at the top of my lungs. "I-I" She began but I cut her off. "Don't, just don't. We are done for good and I mean it. I don't want you around me or any of my friends anymore. Don't come to my games, don't call text or email me. Just pretend I don't exist. I sure won't have a problem doing that. Just stay out of my life!" Maya choked on her tears and turned away from me for a minute. "Okay if that's what you want, fine I won't ever bother you again." With that she walked away and that was the hardest moment of my life. Seeing the love of my life walk away just like that. I so badly wanted to run after her and take back everything I said and make it better. But what's done is done I couldn't take any of it back as much as I wanted to. I kept my stance and watched her figure disappear down the hallway.
Maya's P.O.V.
I could not believe any of what just happened. Cam had said all those things to my face and he looked like he meant it. I couldn't blame him for being mad. Dallas was like a big brother to him and they knew each other long before we started going out. He felt like he had to protect him and had every right to be mad at me. This was all Brook's fault. But I mostly blamed myself for going along with it so willingly. I had lied to him when I should have just told him from the start. But no I just kept my big mouth shut. And now this happened. Cam basically broke all that was left of my already shattered heart. No matter how much I wanted to pick up the pieces and put them back together I didn't have the strength and just gave up. The words rang in my ears; he wanted me out of his life forever. "We are done for good and I mean it. I don't want you around me or any of my friends anymore. Don't come to my games, don't call text or email me. Just pretend I don't exist. I sure won't have a problem doing that. Just stay out of my life!" His last words stuck in my head. My tears were blurring my vision and I had no idea where I was going. Anywhere away from him and everyone. I curled into a little ball in a corner and cried my eyes out. My other friends, Tori, Zig, and even Tristan had turned their backs on me. They too thought I was in on it. I did do it but I didn't know what would happen. Brook said no such thing. It seemed so easy and not dangerous, but boy was I wrong. I wanted all the pain to stop and go away. Looking around I spotted a broken piece of glass. Grabbing it I cut at my wrists a few times and watched in satisfaction. It felt so good to watch the blood ooze down my arms. My crying hadn't died down it had began once more and soon I felt nothing. The numbness took over the pain for the time being. Never did I think I would be one to cut. It just seemed like the only way to deal. The only reason I knew about how to cut because I once had an older friend that did and I helped her get out of it. Now I was in that same spot and didn't know what else I could do. Drastic times call for drastic measures.
Author's Note: Sooo… what did you think? Feedback is always good so be sure to leave that in your reviews my lovelies! You're probably thinking why I wrote it this way… I don't know it just came to me and I thought it would make an unexpected twist which is even better; a few surprises are great to have. Before I go, there is one thing I want to address. Someone asked me why I write everything in italics. It's because I love love that font and write everything in it if you haven't noticed. Haha sorry, if you can't read it just let me know and I will change it for you. And someone else asked if I took requests. Of course any ideas you have PM me and I will do my best to write it. Thanks again keep being awesome!
P.S. That was intense! It will be more relaxed in the next chapter. I hope you guys don't hate me too much for writing this, it's all a part of the plot though it will get better I promise!