authors note: sorry to keep you waiting!
Maya and Lucas stared at each other contently when the kiss ended, still standing very close to one and other. The heat was still there, even when the kiss was over for almost ten minutes.
"So now what?" The short blonde asked the tall handsome man as she looked at him still trying to catch her breath.
"Well what do you think now?" Lucas was never one to take charge, well actually he was kind of a natural born leader, just not in this situation.
Still standing gently on his toes from well she was attempting, poorly at that, to match his hight Maya arched her brow before her expression mellowed out. "How about this." She smiled leaning in again kissing him for the second time.
Before Lucas could react the door opened with Riley's following the noise. "MAYA!?" She yelled feeling tears already welling up in her eyes.
"Riley!" Maya and Lucas both shouted, Maya pulling away from Lucas's reach to face her best friend.
"Save it!" Riley cried running right out the door without saying another word.
There was a brief silence when Maya slouched down against the wall letting her body fall to the ground. She put her arms around her legs and shoved her face into her knees. "I'm such an awful friend!" She said without emotion.
"Shouldn't you go after Riley?" Lucas asked confused, they always chased after each other in these situation.
"You clearly haven't been around for a while." Maya rolled her eyes. "We've tried to separate a little, grow as individuals; either way when Riley gets mad at me she gets really awful... I don't want to face that."
"Well isn't she over me?" Lucas questioned. "It's been like a year and a half." He reminded her.
"You know how Riley is Lucas, you wouldn't know but she lost her virginity to you." Maya snarked. "She'll be into you for all her school years probably. At least a little."
"Well what does that mean for us?" Lucas asked her.
"Lucas there cannot, under any circumstances be an 'us'" Maya looked at him speaking seriously. "Ok?" Her look became a glare.
"Maya why? I like you a lot." He looked back at her with sad eyes.
"Lucas I don't want this to affect me and Riley and if end it is what I have to do then that's what I'm going to do, ok?"
"Maya I don't understand, she'd get used to it... No one can stay mad forever." He pleaded.
"I'm sorry Lucas." Maya looked at him and stood up. "Good bye." She frowned leaving.
Lucas had to think before he inevitably chased after Maya. He paced around the art room in deep thought for some time before he left the room and looked everywhere for the blonde.
He checked the gymnasium, she wasn't there... He checked the Tech Lab, she wasn't there... He even tried checking the girls bath room! Boy was it hard for some one who was as mannerly as he was. He had walked in with his hands over his eyes calling out for Maya, a shocked red head ushered him right out.
When Lucas was about to give up her slouched against a locker pouting like a puppy. Not only had he missed a class, and was about to miss another, but more importantly he made two girls sad. A girl he once cared for and a girl he now currently deeply cared for.
As he began to walk down the empty corridor popping his head phones in his ears one by one he heard some thing, a bang.
"Ouch!" Maya mumbled as her knee smacked against the inside of the locker door. She was trying to stay silent. She had heard some one but she wasn't sure who it was. Unfortunately for her it was Lucas, or possibly it wasn't to her misfortune?
"Maya?" Lucas asked as he slowly opened the locker door.
"Dammit Ranger Rick!" Maya yelled as the light entered the small locker compartment and she was exposed. "Can't you tell I wanted to be alone!? And this is such a Riley thing to do." She sighed.
"You don't have to be alone Maya." Lucas looked down at her. He didn't think she was overly depressed or anything he just wanted to let her know she could talk to him, that when Riley wasn't a viable option to speak with she wasn't completely alone.
"Look, Lucas.. I don't know what your not getting." Maya wanted to be nice to Lucas but she had to drive it into his head that they couldn't be together. "But I think I've been one hundred percent clear we cannot, under any circumstances, ever, ever, ever, date! Move on!" She rolled her eyes adding to her message.
" I'm afraid I won't take no for an answer Maya." Lucas grinned, he saw right through her phoney attitude. Taking her hand Lucas helped Maya up out of the locker on her feet, she didn't try to stay down so that was a good sign. "You like me Maya Hart." He smiled kissing her. This kiss was more personal, it was spontaneous and not full of angst and hormones to be taken care of. It was perfect.