A/N: Alright, even though I didn't get at least 3 reviews, I followed the advice of Anon and not relied on reviews to continue my own stories. So thanks so much Anon ;) Ok so meanwhile, when Cam's family visits them the story goes on after that. Oh, this chapter is a little different because I have both Cam's and Maya's pov. So you can tell me whether I should continue this way or stay with Cam's pov. Happy reading.
It was either the shock of seeing his family or the earlier depression that caused Cam to have a delayed reaction to his family.
"Cam? Are you gonna just stand there? Give us a hug." His mother said, opening her arms wide.
He released himself from the trail of thoughts in his head and did as his mom told him
"What are you doing here?" He asked.
"What? Is it so bad that we can't spend the whole week with our favorite son?" His dad replied. Justin cleared his throat
"Oh wait, I mean second favorite son." Cam and Miranda laughed. (A/N: Miranda is Cam's sister and Justin is Cam's brother) After some laughs and jokes, Cam's parents were talking with Cam's billet family.
"Apparently, you will not be with the Clarksons. You'll be staying with us. We already have a house ready for you." His dad said.
"I thought you were going back to Kapuskasing after your week visit with me."
"We thought after a week, we would just go back and let you live with the Clarksons. But I still can't get over the fact that I sent my sixteen year old son to live with a billet family."His mom exaggerated.
"Besides, Miranda and I will be going to Degrassi with you." Justin said.
Like a big happy family. Cam thought.
"So you'll be staying permanently?" It didn't seem like Cam needed to ask the silly question.
Without responding, the family hugged.
At least I'm happy for now. Cam thought.
The next day, the Saunders we are getting ready for school and the two siblings were eager to meet Cam's friends and hockey team.
Riding to Degrassi, Justin, Miranda, and Cam walked the halls; each separating to their own lockers. Again Zoe annoyed Cam to no end.
"What happened hockey player? Why didn't I get your number?"
"Listen, I have a girlfriend, so can you just back off." Cam said calmly, not wanting to be rude.
"What's your girlfriend's name?"
"…Maya, Why?"
"Ok locker buddy." Off she went lost in the crowd again.
What did I just do?
Justin went to his locker seeing Cam's distressed face.
"Hey little bro, you gonna introduce me to your little friends?" Strangely, Justin reminded Cam of Luke Baker.
"Do you have French with me?" Cam asked.
"Yeah…"
"Then you'll get to meet them there."
Smiling, both boys went to class.
Maya's Pov
Maya was getting ready to go to school and Katie was preparing as well.
"Katie, where are my glasses?"
Lost, Maya hinted down her room for her glasses. She was as blind as a bat. Katie went over and laughed at her sister.
"You doing squats Maya? Are you constipated?"
She laughed her head off.
"Of course not Katie. Just find my glasses."
"Ok." Katie giggled. Finally Katie lent Maya her glasses and staring at the clock they realized they were late.
"Katie! Katie! We're late! Hurry and get your lazy butt to the car!" Katie hurriedly grabbed her stuff, pulling Maya into the car.
Arriving to Degrassi, Maya went searching for Cam until a girl blocker her way.
"Maya Matlin, right?"
She nodded curious about what this girl wanted.
"I'm Zoe—"
"Yeah, yeah I know, why stop me?"
Suddenly Zoe was in her face both their noses almost touching.
Geez. This girl's got some major proximity issues. Maya thought.
"You're dating Campbell Saunders, so listen Matlin, you spend any more time with him, I'm gonna make your life a living hell."
"Why should I stop hanging out with Cam just because you say so?" Zoey immediately stomped on Maya's foot.
"OWWW!" Maya screamed.
"Like I said, I'll make your life a living hell. It can start now, if you don't listen to me."
Desperately Maya wanted so much to hurt this girl, but remembered her consequence. It's better not to mess with her.
"Fine, Rivas But one exception."
"What?" Zoe said defiantly.
"Don't have any physical contact with my boyfriend."
Gladly." She said grinning widely. Zoe released her face from Maya and ran to her first class. It seems like she won't keep that agreement. Maya sighed. Things just got a whole lot messy.
Cam's Pov
At math class, Cam began to get twitchy and impatient for his French class to see Maya. He still had to apologize to her for ignoring her text messages. Dallas saw him blinking uncontrollably.
"What's wrong Rookie? Something going on with your eye? Or are you just faking so the teacher will let you out of class like you did with one of our hockey practices?"
"What? There's nothing wrong with my eye." He said, still blinking.
"Really? Then I'm just seeing things?"
"Yup. You're just seeing things."
"Yeah really funny Rookie." Honestly, he was blinking continuously; it just wasn't any of Dallas's business. Laughing, Dallas turned around before murmuring,
"I'll just find out from your brother or your sister. I bet they'll tell me."
"You've met them already?"
"Uh yeah. You're brother told me real funny stories about you. You're sister oh my gosh she's a killer of a comedian. What happened to you Rookie? What went wrong with you?" Cam felt the anger build up in him again. Dallas realized this too and backed off a little bit.
"Hey man, I'm just joking with you." Immediately Cam's anger diffused. Class went on the usual without any disruptions from Dallas, except from Cam's excessive impatience's.
Finally French came and Cam met with Justin ready to introduce his friends and his girlfriend to him. He and his brother were the first to be in class before any of them came. Later, he spotted Tori, Tristan, and Maya. He grinned at her, but she cut her eyes to the floor. What's wrong with her? Along with Maya was a guy named Miles with her. They were both talking obviously more engrossed in what they were talking about instead of French class.
"So bro, your friends, where are they?"
"They're here just not all of them."
"What are you talking about Cam? Tristan, Maya and I are here." Tori said joining the boys.
"Ah so who's this?" Justin said.
"This is Tori, that's Tristan, and the girl over to the way end is Maya."
"Huh. You got good looking friends bro. Nice job." Cam rolled his eyes still trying to get the attention of his girlfriend.
They all shook hands being generous to one another talking about where they came from and blah blah… you know the usual things new people talk about. All through their conversation, Cam stood up going to sit with Maya.
Even before Cam could get 2 desks to her, Maya saw him and bolted for another desk with Miles in tow. He frowned and grabbed Maya by the arm. She tried hard to break away from his grip but since he was a hockey player and he was ten times stronger than her, she knew she had no way of fighting it.
"Look if you're mad at me for ignoring your text, then I'm sorry. I was going through a hard time." And by hard time he meant ignoring her because his family came out of nowhere and surprised him.
"I'm over that I knew you would have a good reason, but let me get back into class." She tried hard to pull from his grip again but he didn't resist.
"Wait, who was the guy you were linking arms with?"
"His name is Miles." Whatever Maya was about to say was going to leave Cam heartbroken even though it wasn't true.
"I'm dating him. I don't love you anymore. Please it's for the best." She hated herself for finally spitting out a lie just to do as Zoe said. Maya had an uncanny sense of someone watching them, so she turned around and stared at a pair of eyes that belonged to Zoe herself. She smiled, but at the moment the only one happy was her and neither Cam nor Maya could ever feel happy ever again.
Finally, Cam released her and allowed her to get to French. Cam joined seconds later sitting as far away from Maya as possible. Tristan, Justin, and Tori were completely clueless as to what just happened. Maya linked arms with Miles again and leaned her head on his shoulder. He looked on with admiration, but from a distance, Cam didn't look all that happy.
Hockey practice came yet again. Same old practice, same old teammates and same old loser wanting attention.
"Hey Saunders, why you feeling blue? Does your mommy have to come here to give you a little cheering up?" Luke said making crying noises. Richard joined along.
"I don't understand how you got a player with no self esteem for himself. What a douche." Richard replied to Luke's comment.
The boys all agreed wondering why they had the odd Campbell Saunders on their team. Sometimes, they just didn't know how he ended up on the team in the first place.
Questions were floating in Cam's head about Maya. It was always about Maya.
What does she mean she doesn't love me?
Why would she date a guy so weird as Miles?
Why was she ignoring me all of a sudden?
Am I finally losing it again?
After every question he took a breath. Dallas ordered every player to get out on the ice and put on their skates. Instead, Cam was left behind. He went into the locker room, stripped his shirt and threw his skate on the ground. He screamed his heart out.
"Why? Why? Why?" he looked up at the ceiling while saying those words.
Even though his family came to stay with him permanently, the feeling of pressure, contempt, and sadness always brought him down. Therapy sessions weren't helping. The stupid pills he was drinking weren't working. He just wanted it all to go away. His girlfriend left him for some other idiot.
I always thought Maya would be my strength in all of this. I guess I was wrong.
After practice, Cam went home along with his siblings. They all discussed about their first day, the people they met and what subjects they were taking. Cam was the last to speak making his a little shorter than his brother and sister.
During dinner he lost his appetite and left to cuddle on his bed with a little stuffed animal as Maya had instructed him to have some time ago. He stared at pictures of the two of them.
She would never betray me like this. There's gotta be some reason why she's pushing me away. I love her she loves me. What's going on Maya?
Immediately, he drowned into sleep but a text alerted him about something interesting. Please don't be Dallas, Tristan, or Tori please please please. He thought. Opening his phone he was shocked at who wrote the text
I can't ignore this no matter who says we can't be together. Listen I've got something to tell you. Please Cam, can you meet me at Little Miss Steaks.
Xoxo
Maya
Tears of joy streamed down his face. He was ready, to see his girlfriend and kiss her and her with no end. Getting out of bed, he stole the keys of Justin and when everyone was asleep he took the car for a spin to Little Miss Steaks, feeling that twitchy feeling we call Love.
Alright please don't hate me for what I did to Camaya. But I can't always claim them to be perfect, there's gotta be some flaws in their relationship. Well, I introduced Miles for the first time. Tell me guys what you think is gonna happen next. Spoiler: I may be twisting it a little bit more than what you expect. Ok tell me what you guys think -_-
