Chapter three of My Princess! I hope you guys are liking it so far. In this chapter we are going to learn about Maya's life in the castle, with Riley, Topanga, and Cory. Have fun reading.

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Disclaimer: I do not own GMW, but I sure do wish I did.

Cory's grip on my arm was tight as he guided me back through the castle to my room. I stayed silent, knowing there was no point in trying to talk to him right now. No, I would just wait until we were back in my room and he could start his big speech on how I scared the hell out of him and should never have left the castle. But when we got back to my room Cory was silent.

"What?" I asked slowly. "What happened?"

"We need to wait till Topanga and Riley get here." Was all he responded with for 15 minutes. In all that time waiting for Riley and Topanga, I just got more restless and panicked.

By the time Topanga and Riley finally arrived, I was pacing the room and cursing under my breath. A wild haired Riley barged in without knocking, and when I looked at her closer I saw that her eyes were wide, and mouth turned down in a frown. That scared me even more than Cory's silence.0 Topanga came in right after her with the same look on her face.

"Okay, now will you please tell me what is going on!" I exclaimed in a high pitched voice, that didn't even sound like my own.

Cory hugged Topanga tightly before coming over to me and putting his hands on my shoulders.

"Maya…." He said in a tight almost sad voice.

"Will you just spit it out!" I cried.

"Maya, your-your mother. She has died." His voice was strained and there were small tears in his eyes.

I don't remember much what happened after that. All I can really recall is that I fell on my knees and stopped trying. Stopped fighting for my breath as tears slid down my face. My arms out in front of me stuck in that position, as my brain cleared any coherent thought. Riley tried to hold me from the side, but I just couldn't respond. Not to her touch, not to Cory's voice saying "Maya? Maya? What happened?". Not even to Topanga's calm voice in her ear saying it was going to be alright.

Third person POV

They kept her in bed for a two weeks after that. All she could do was lay there thinking. She never spoke a word, never moved a muscle. She just listened, and thought with a blank look on her face and dull eyes. She thought about Topanga's words, and wondered how such a nice woman could lie to her. It was not going to be alright. Her mom was not going to ever speak to her again. She would never see her mother's proud smile like when Maya showed her the newest sword technique she had learned. She will never hear her mother singing around the castle about her lost love, and new life. She would never even get to see her mother's disappointed look when she learned that Maya had taken one of the horses and ran off one day, again. Sometimes when she was thinking a few tears would find their way out of her eyes, but she never touched them, or even acknowledged them, really.

People were very worried about her. Riley visited her every single day for several hours, trying to get some sort of response from her best friend. Riley would sit at the side of her bed and tell her about anything and everything that had happened that day while holding her hand. She always looked kind of afraid, but always told Maya before she left that she was never going to stop waiting for Maya to respond. A few times she got angry and had to be taken away by the doctor, but the day after she would come in apoligizing and saying she just couldn't take it. Once Riley came with Farkle to see Maya they had both started crying, sobbing even, asking for their best friend back.

Farkle visited Maya a few times too, holding her hand just like Riley had, but instead of telling her what happened each day he described the city outside. Each day describing a new place to her, always in the most theatrical way, in true Farkle fashion.

Maya had heard, from people passing her door that Farkle and Riley had become good friends from spending so much time together, worrying about Maya. That made Maya happy, she was glad that someone had found something good out of her misery.

One day Maya just got up.

It was a dreary day when Maya finally decided it was time to get up. It was her favorite kind of day. Dark fluffy clouds, with fat raindrops pounding on the castle wall. It was calm, but not very special day as Riley was telling another one of her stories.

Maya just slowly shifted and strained to get up, asking Riley with her eyes for help. Riley gasped and started to help her up. When Maya was in a sitting up position, she hugged Riley with all the strength she could muster. Riley started laugh-crying while she was hugging Maya and said with her through closing up. "I missed you, Peaches."

With a rough, raspy, and quite disgusting voice Maya said " I missed you too, Riles."