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I call a taxi to bring me back to Queen Street, where Tristan said he'd meet me. Moments after I seat myself in the cab, I get a call. Maya Matlin. I answer it frantically.
"Maya! Where have you been, I've spent-" I hear her sobbing. "Maya? Are you... are you crying?"
"Can you meet me at Queen Street, Cam? Please, Cam, I..." She rambles off, speaking far too rapidly for me to understand through rugged breaths from her crying.
"Slow down," I say.
"Yes, sir," the cab driver says with a Hispanic accent.
"No, not you," I tell him.
"What?" Maya gasps on the other line.
"Maya, hold on, please," I say, frustrated.
"Bring me to Queen Street. I need to meet someone on Queen Street." I lean forward to speak to the small Mexican man driving. He nods. I sigh and bring my phone back up to my ear.
"Maya, what were you saying?" I say. No response. "Maya?" I repeat. "Maya? Is everything okay?" I hear low male voices throbbing in the background. The phone hangs up. "Oh my God." is all I can muster.
"Tristan!" I call, waving him over. He seems confused and runs down the Degrassi steps and to me.
"Is everything okay?" He asks, sounding alarmed.
"Maya called me." I say.
"So she's okay? Is she home?" he asks. I shake my head. "Then what? Cam, tell me what happened." he says, quite sternly, actually.
"She was crying and she sounded terrified and then I heard...I heard two dudes in the background. And then it hung up. I have no clue where she is, Tristan. Help me."
"Did you go to her parents?"
I shake my head. "There's no way she could have gotten there so quick. I went to Katie and Jake's, they hadn't seen her. What if someone took her?"
"Cam, you're thinking of the worst. She probably just got lost. Just go home, I'm sure she'll be there soon." Tristan assures me. I nod and we part. I go to the bus stop and call Dallas to come pick me up. He interrogates me over the phone, but I don't want to really talk about it over the phone, or in a publice place; you never know where the press creeps are hiding.
About ten minutes later, Dallas pulls up in his car. I get in and he immediately starts with the questions.
"So little Saunders calls me out of the blue to pick him up from Degrassi and I don't get a single word of explanation?" Dallas starts.
"Sorry, I just don't want to go home right now," I say. I really don't; I know that Maya won't be there and I can't stand spending time alone any more.
"You just got back, and now you don't want to be home? Fight with the little blondie?" Dallas jokes.
"Yeah, that's the thing," I say.
"Oh," Dallas says, "well, you're always welcome to stay with the Furious Pregnant Alli and me. Fighting with your girl is hard, I know it, Birdman. She'll come running back in no time. But for now, a change of scenery at the Dallas household could do you some good."
"Alli's pregnant?" I ask. It's news to me.
"Oh, yeah," Dallas smirks. "You didn't know that?"
"No, I've been a little out of touch with the latest buzz." I say.
"Don't worry, life will get back to normal before you know it."
"I don't know if it was ever normal before." I say under my breath.
"Jeez, kid, you're really harshing my mellow." Dallas says, turning into a nice-looking neighbourhood.
"Sorry. It's just not knowing where my girlfriend is kind of sucks."
"Just forget about it for a while," he says.
"But what if something hap-"
"I said don't worry," Dallas says, pulling into the garage of a large brown house. "We're here."
We get out and go into the house. Alli stands in the kitchen with her arms folded across her chest. She's definitely pregnant. She looks angrily at Dallas.
"Where were you?" Alli asks Dallas.
"Picking up Cam, he needed to come here." he says.
"Needed to come here? You couldn't have run it by me first?" Alli asks. I guess she's the moody pregnant.
"You were asleep when I left, I didn't think I needed to!" Dallas says, raising his voice a little. Now I feel awkward, witnessing a married couples' fight. Alli starts crying. Dallas sighs and walks to Alli, taking her in an embrace and kissing the top of her head. I realize how much taller Dallas is than Alli. They part and Alli looks up at him and smiles as she wipes her tears from her face. They share gentle whispers of words I cannot understand. I wish Maya and I could resolve our fights that easily; just an embrace and a few gentle words. Dallas walks back to me.
"Me and little Cam are going to have a little bit of a guy's night; is that fine?" Dallas asks her.
Alli nods and smiles. "Yeah. I was going to go to Clare's in a second, anyway. Have fun, you two." she says, picking up a bag and car keys. Alli leaves and Dallas says an excited yes. I laugh at his excitement. Quite the interesting father, he would be.
"So what exactly does this 'guys' night' mean around here, Dallas?" I ask him. I've decided to forget about the shit in my life right now, and forget the fact that I have not the slightest idea as to Maya's whereabouts. Dallas isn't all that bad.
"Whatever you want it to be, Birdman. I want to enjoy my one month freedom while it lasts, before there's a little Dallas kid running across these floors." he says, plopping himself onto the overstuffed couch in his living room.
"So, do you know what it is yet? The kid, I mean." I ask.
"Nah, Alli insisted we wait 'til it's born to find out. But let's forget the women; tonight is the night for men. We can drink beers and watch football or whatever." Dallas says. I laugh.
As nice as it is to try and forget everything, I can't stop thinking about Maya.
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