AN: Secret first date Part 2, requested by eclarexoxo, is a go.

"Hey Maya, didn't you say your cousins were visiting you today?" Cam shouted, slowing his swing to a full stop. Maya followed suit, sighing longly and overdramatically. He rolled his eyes playfully at her.

"Yeah. I'm supposed to be home soon." Maya groaned, leaning her head back. She and Cam had taken two adjacent swings hostage for awhile and it was honestly the best time she's ever had. Maya kicked at the ground with her shoe and... she was really sad that all things had to end. Even stays at an old park she had rekindled her love for. "But I don't want to."

Cam smiled, hovering on his swing. Maya started to swish her legs back and forth again, kicking the grass harder before her foot caught a stick. She tripped forward and landed on the grass. Cam was laughing and she could hear herself laughing, over him.

"The Matlin girls sure are clumsy." Cam teased her. She kicked at his leg, in hopes of getting him to fall. Humoring her, Cam fell to the ground beside her. Maya smiled brightly at him.

"I don't like nuts all too much. I mean some nuts are okay in small doses but they're not my favorite." Maya explained to Cam about an hour or two later, and she didn't know why or how the subject changed to nuts or what time it was. The sun was hanging in the distance, in between dropping and shining it's light.

They were walking down the street where her house was. His jacket was wrapped around her protectively. Her house was only about two feet in front of them, and she's never been so sad to see it. She was dragging her feet and walking really slow, as was he. Neither of them really wanted this night to end. Because at the end of it all, it was almost like it didn't even happen... like it didn't even matter.

But it did. It mattered a whole lot to Maya, and she hoped it mattered to him. She liked hanging out with him, she liked being able to hold his hand, and god knows she liked kissing him it was just... other people didn't like it. She didn't want his face to be smashed in everyday by and she really didn't want to lose Tristan as a friend, because if she lost Tristan she lost Tori and if she lost Tori, she lost Zig who was her bandmate and none of her other bandmates liked the Ice Hounds all too much and what if she got kicked out of Whisperhug or something and the-

"You're doing it again." Cam interrupted what could have been a mental breakdown.

"What?" Maya whispered, fear laced throughout her words.

"You're overthinking." he answered and Maya ducked her head down. It was true. Who knows what could have happened in her mind if he didn't stop her. She shrugged.

"I'm sorry... it's just that...we're in a really big mess, you know that? This whole secret is just one big mess and it's going to snowball out of control." Maya complained, feeling a bit whiny. She sat on her steps reluctantly, speeding up. Cam caught up with her and planted himself next to her, where it felt right.

"You know I feel the same way you do, right? I don't want to keep you a secret. I'd tell the whole world I'm dating Maya Matlin if you'd let me. And it sucks becsause I really, really like you." Cam wanted to make sure she knew all that. Maya turned pink as she turned to him.

"I like you too, Which is scary because I've never liked anyone the way I've liked you before so..." Maya whispered shyly. Cam picked some grass out of her hair, and that left Maya smiling at the memory of how it got there. "Look, I'm really scared that this is going to turn into something we're not even going to recognize, okay?"

"Understood." he whispered. Maya's breath hitched as his hand met hers again, unexpectedly. She should probably get used to the feeling, it made her heart race every time he did so. But he was her boyfriend... she was his girlfriend... it didn't even begin to feel real. That was the weird part.

"Your hands are cold." Maya commented.

He gave her an offended look. "Your hands are warm." Maya rolled her eyes at him.

"Hey... do you think this counts as our first date?" Maya said, smiling. Cam looked up at her and grinned the lopsided grin she liked so much. His eyes caught hers and she almost felt the need to look down at the intensity of it all. Oh God... it was tempting, but she didn't and she was proud of herself for it.

"I didn't even think of that." he admitted after a second. "I guess so. It was a pretty good one, wasn't it? Did you enjoy it?"

Maya sighed, pretending to look disappointed, and shrugged. However, the actual look of a hurt and kicked puppy was beginning to write itself all over his face so she laughed and shook her head, reassuring him that she was just joking.

"I did, promise. It was a pretty good one for me too. Thanks for taking me on it." She affirmed. "High five."

As they high fived, Cam blew a breath of relief. Good. Maya leaned forward to kiss him on the cheek and the scent of her just put his emotions in a frenzy. Pulling back from his cheek slowly, Cam's eyes caressed her face fondly. He snuck a gentle hand on her neck, and pulled her forward. He kissed her.

And it wasn't one of those gentle kisses like he'd been giving her all day either.

She tasted like peppermint and happiness and sunshine and rainbows and if someone asked him in this moment what the last thing he wanted to do before he died, he would say kiss Maya Matlin. She fell into the kiss and she fell into him, a bit usure but definitely willing. His hand cradled her jaw softly and she relished the feeling of his hand.

"I'm going to look for her outs-" the shrill and impatient voice of Maya's six year old cousin, who had just opened the door, was enough to make the couple part like the Red Sea. Oh God, this was it, they were going to die.

"Maya?" her cousin asked, "Who's that and why were you kissing him?"

Cam held his head between his legs, as if he was trying to see if he could disappear from these steps. Maya 's mouth spewed out all of the poor excuses her brain thought up with all at once, so it ended up sounding something between Italian and gibberish. After a second of this, Maya remained quiet. Emily however, did not.

"Aunt Margaret! Katie! Maya was kissing a boooyyy! A real one, too! On the lipsand everything!" her cousin entered the house and yelled as loudly as a first grader could and Maya's eyes widened as she pushed Campbell off her steps, hurriedly.

"What!" Katie's reply was heard through the house as Cam stumbled away from her yard. Maya gave him one last look and he grinned before Katie's pounding footsteps prompted her to shoo him away.

"Maya? What's Emily saying about you kissing a boy?" Katie hissed. "And with tongue?"

Maya shook her head and scoffed. "You believe Em?" There was no tongue! "She's delusional, Katie. I wasn't doing anything out here. Band practice ran late and I stopped on the park on the way home. Sorry."

"Maya?"

"Yeah?"

"Who's jacket is that?"

AN: That's better! Yay muse!

THIS EPISODE LIKE PUT ME IN A TRANCE. I could not even guys, I was on the floor screeeching about clover underwear.