Hey yall. I wrote this in less than an hour because I was on such a high because Florida beat Kentucky by 22 and for those who don't know that's huge. So yeah here's the next chapter.

Chapter 7

Maya's POV

We start walking back toward the hospital ward even though that's where he will be. And I don't really want to deal with him right now.

Oh crap, I need to warn Josh. We've reached the door. Zach is up front with Cory and Emma. Josh and I are a couple feet behind.

"Josh, hold on a minute," I tell him.

"What is it?" he asks, Zach stops.

"You all go ahead; we'll meet you in there." Zach nods and Emma, Cory and Zach walk through the doors.

"Maya, what's up?" he asks.

"It's Lucas. He's here." He takes a deep breath and looks down the hallway. "It's nothing to worry about, I just wanted to warn you."

"Okay." He's still looking down the hall. I make him look at me.

Lucas's POV

I'm standing inside Riley's room. She's asleep at the moment. This sucks. I told Zay I'd watch her while he went to do something real quick.

The door opened and Zay walked in.

"Thanks man," he says.

"No problem."

"Any change?" he asks sitting next to Riley.

I shake my head, "Sorry man." He just nods, not looking away from Riley. I don't blame him, had it been Maya I'd be the same way. I left.

I was about to walk out the doors when Macey stops me.

"You okay?"

"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?"

"Lucas…"

"No, my grandpa died, Eric's at base, Riley's in a hospital bed, and the person I love, loves someone else now."

"Luc…"

"Look," I say pointing out the door's window.

Macey looks out just in time to see Maya grab Josh's face to look at her and kiss him. When they break apart he has the biggest smile on his face.

I sigh and collapse into a seat.

"Listen Lucas, I've seen her around you, different pictures and videos your brother showed me. And I've seen her around Josh. There's no contest, she still loves you."

"How do you…"

"Well, there's a tattoo, apparently," I gave her a weird look, "Also, you should've seen her when she saw you look through those doors."

"I just don't like him, Macey." I see she's about to interrupt. "And it's not just because he's with Maya. I knew him back in Texas. He's Charlie's brother and crazier."

"What?" she whisper yells. I just nod. "Just don't hound her about it right now, she's going through a lot."

"What do you mean?" I asked concerned.

I didn't get my answer because Maya and Josh walk in.

Maya's POV

I walk in and see Lucas and Macey sitting next to each other, while Emma, Cammie, Farkle and Zay are sitting outside Riley's door.

"Zay, what's wrong?" I asked worried. The only time he's out of that room is if the doctor has to do something.

I walk straight to Zay, who has his head in his hands.

"It's…she…."

"She slipped back into a comma," Farkle says his voice cracking slightly.

"What?" I thought she was getting better. She was supposed to be released in a few hours after the doctor did a few more tests.

"Yeah, I was talking to her. She was being her normal self and asked if I was excited to start and new school and she just…I don't know," Emma explains.

"So I called for a doctor, they rushed in and made us leave," Zay finishes.

After a few minutes of silence Emma speaks up again.

"Can I go into town?"

"I'd ask Headmistress Morgan's permission first, but I don't have a problem with it," I said.

"She can go." I groan internally. When did he get here?

"I still think that she should check with Headmistress Morgan."

Lucas's POV

This guy walks in and Macey says, "Here we go."

"She can go," the man says. I see Maya stiffen.

"This is going to be good," Macey says under her breath. What? Who is this guy?

"I still think she should check with Headmistress Morgan."

"Alright, but it'll be a waste of time. It's the weekend and term hasn't started yet. You'll be allowed to go."

The little boy and guy that walked in with Emma came back from the bathroom. The little boy went straight to Maya. She picked him up as if she did it every day. Is he hers?

"Mom?"

"Go ahead," she tells Emma. I can see Macey is affected by Emma calling Maya mom.

"Maya," the older guy starts. She hands the little boy to Josh and walks out of the room.

"I'll go find her," Cammie says starting to get up.

"Do you think that's smart? Especially the reason she left. No offense, but that won't end well. I'll go find her," Macey says getting up.

Maya's POV

I find a space that doesn't seem like it gets used much. It looks like a miniature bay window. I sit in it and just look outside.

Macey walks up and leans against the wall.

"Hey, Macey," I say.

"What's going on, Maya?"

"What do you mean?"

"You know what I mean. You're not really mad at Cammie are you?" I stay silent. "Because she honestly didn't know until Christmas."

"I know, I'm not mad at Cammie. Everything is just hitting at once. And Lucas's is back and I'm just confused."

"Confused? About what?" I stay silent again, not wanting to admit it. "About Lucas?" I'm still silent. "Listen," she says crossing her arms, "I didn't want to tell you this because of everything going on, but Josh is still in contact with Charlie." This caught my attention and I looked at her.

"What?"

"We had Liz look into it because with Josh being Charlie's brother…We had a hunch for the bombing at the wedding. And Charlie knowing everything he did."

Lucas's POV

I was sitting in a chair by myself super confused. Josh came over and sat next to me.

"You look confused, Friar."

"I am. What just happened?"

"Well that man is Joe Solomon, a teacher here. But he's also, as Maya knows him, Kermit. And Cammie," he says pointing to the girl who had volunteered to go find Maya first, "is who Maya spent a lot of time in Texas with, but also turns out to be Joe's step daughter, aka the new family he stayed with." I was trying to let it sink in without getting too mad. I couldn't believe it. Poor Maya.

"What about the kid? Is he Maya's?"

"Basically." We were silent for a bit.

"So, you and Maya, huh?"

"Yeah and she's never going to know what hit her. What we have planned is worse than what's already happened. This has been nothing." I knew it. I was in too much shock to speak though. He smiles evilly at me.

Maya and Macey walk through the door.

Maya looks mad and directly at Josh, Josh looks terrified and Macey's trying not to laugh.

"You…" Maya started, but was cut off when the door opened and the doctor walked out.

"How is she?" Zay asked.

"She's stable, but in and out of consciousness," the doctor replied.

"Can we see her?" Maya asks all anger gone, replaced by concern.

The doctor nodded. "Two at a time though."

The doctor walked down another corridor.

Maya and Zay were about to enter the room when, "What happened?" Shawn asks entering the hallway/waiting room.

No one answered he looked around; he saw me and was shocked for a second before his eyes landed on Maya. He walked over to her.

"Hey kiddo, what's going on?"

"Kiddo?" Joe asks.

"Really? I don't have time for this. I want to go talk to Riley." She turns toward Shawn, "Dad, Riley woke up," Shawn looked relieved and happy, probably because she called him dad. Joe, however looked confused. She turned to Joe, "I'll explain stuff later." Her and Zay walked into Riley's room.

"Dad?" Joe asked turning to Shawn.

"Yeah. I married her mom and adopted Maya, since her no good dad left her."

"Um, Shawn," Zach starts.

"Yeah?"

"He is Maya's dad."

"What?" Shawn questioned.

"Yeah, he's Kermit."

Shawn pushed Joe up against the wall.

"What? How could you do that? No kid deserves to go through that! Were they just a mission to you? How could you do that to Katy? To Maya?! She was just a kid! She grew up thinking she did something wrong! That it was her fault that you left! How could you do that?!" Shawn was inches from Joe's face.

Maya's POV

"Peaches," Riley says, tilting her head toward the door and smiling, when she saw me walk in.

"Hey, how you feeling?"

"I've been better," she replies.

"Yeah," I say quietly looking around. I didn't like being in rooms like this. Too many bad memories.

"So, what's new?" Emma was right, same old Riley.

"Well Huckleberry's back." She chuckles a bit, so does Zay.

"Yeah, he came earlier. How are you doing with that?"

"Alright, I guess. I don't know. I love Josh and being with him," I twist the ring on my finger, "but then I saw Lucas and I don't know."

"Awe Maya," Riley starts, but was cut off.

Shawn was yelling outside. What the heck?

"I'll go check," Zay started.

"No, Zay, stay here I'll go check." I exit the room to see Shawn having Joe pressed against the wall, the way Lucas had Billy against the gym wall when he was making fun of Farkle.

"Shawn," I say. Shawn releases Joe and walks backward, hands up. "How about you go put Cory down for his nap, he looks like he's about to fall asleep on a sleeping Farkle."

Shawn nods and takes Cory.

"Maya?" Liz says entering.

"Yeah?"

"Headmistress Morgan wants to see you."

"Okay." I leave.

Emma's POV

Town was cool. I found a couple of places me and dad could hand out at. It also has some really cool skateboarding places without having an actual skate park.

I felt like someone was following me, so I decided to head back. I was heading back to my room when I heard a door open and close. I saw my mom leaving the Headmistress office and Josh stopping her.

They start walking toward me, so I slip into a secret passageway Maddie had shown me.

"What's up, Maya?" Josh asked.

"You lied to me." What?

"What do you mean? I haven't lied to you."

"You told me you were no longer in contact with your brother. I know he's contacted you."

"I'm not, I swear. What brought this up? How do you know he's called me? Did you check up on me?" he asked, shocked, hurt and a little mad.

"No, Macey told me. She's been working on the bombing and said you were looked into because Charlie's your brother." What? I start shrinking back. It's getting harder to breath. She's engaged to his brother and didn't tell me.

"Did you look at it?" Maya shook her head. "If you had, you would've seen I didn't answer. I rejected every single call. He's even blocked. Look," he shows her his phone.

"I'm sorry."

"I would never lie to you." He hugs her and kisses her head.

After they break apart, the go in different directions and I emerge from the secret passageway and run to my room, still in shock.

She's engaged to Charlie's brother and never told me?

I have to hurry up and get to my room.

That's it. Let me know what yall thought of this chapter.