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**Everything has been fine in Mayaville. People started to forget about Missy's party and all was fine. Riley is still not in the picture.
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Office Lady: Excuse me Mr. Jackson.
Mr. Jackson: Yes?
Office Lady: May we please have Maya Hart to the main office for check out?
Mr. Jackson: Yes Ma'am.
Maya grabbed her things and headed out of class confused.
"Mom?" Maya said seeing her mom in the hall.
"Hey Baby Girl! Guess what?"
"What?"
"I got an acting job!" Katy said excited.
"Mom that's great!" Maya said excited for her.
"Isn't it though! Okayy, so are plane leaves tomorrow at noon so we have to get packing." Katy said walking Maya outside the school.
"Wait what?" Maya said stopping in her tracks. "Where's this acting job?"
"Oh… See that's the thing." Katy started.
"What's up? Are we ditching school?" Liz said walking up to them.
"No. I got a job! A real acting job!"
"Awesome!" Liz said.
"Mom, stay focused."
"I'm sorry baby girl, but were moving to California… tomorrow." Katy said looking at her.
"WHAT?!" Maya said completely shocked.
"Sweet! I've always wanted to go to Cali." Liz said.
"Liz!" Maya said looking at her.
"What?" Liz said confused.
"We can't just leave New York! This is my home!" Maya said getting upset.
"Baby girl. I'm sorry but we're moving."
"My life is here mom! My school, my friends, Lucas… It's all here!"
"Lemon-"
"No! I can't leave!" Maya exclaimed.
"I'm sorry baby girl, but you don't have a choice." Katy said. "I can't leave you here by yourself."
"I'm not leaving!" Maya argued. "I can't leave!"
"We'll talk about this later Maya. Now let's get home and start packing. Our plane leaves tomorrow at 12." Katy said walking away.
"I'm not going." Maya said walking the other way.
Liz was torn. She had never been attached to anything so being told she was moving wasn't upsetting.
Maya didn't text Lucas and tell her Katy checked her out so when Maya wasn't waiting for him at his truck after school he got worried.
Ranger Rick: Where are you?
No answer.
Ranger Rick: Maya?
Nothing.
Ranger Rick: Should I be worried?
Still nothing.
He decided to call… No answer.
He was getting frustrated. He called Liz.
She told him what happened. Maya freaked out and Liz hasn't seen her for hours.
Ranger Rick: Okayy, thanks Liz.
He hung up the phone. Normally he wouldn't do this, but he used his "Find Friends" app to find her.
"Maya!" Lucas said as he came up from behind her.
She just looked at him.
She was sitting on a park bench looking out on a lake.
"I texted you a bunch of times. You weren't at my truck after school."
"Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you." She looked down.
"Maya what's wrong?"
"My mom is back."
"Oooh. You have to go back home don't you?"
"Sort of. But I don't want to."
"We'll still see each other at school Maya. You'll just be back home and not at my house."
"That's not why."
"Okayy, I'm confused." Lucas said.
"She got a job in California. She says were leaving tomorrow and that I get no say."
Lucas didn't say anything.
"I don't want to go." Maya said looking at him.
Lucas took a deep breath. "I don't know what to say."
"I can't go. My whole life is here. School, my friends, you…" She looked at him with tears in her eyes. "I just can't leave, not now!"
Lucas took Maya's hands in his.
"Maya you know that I love you and I always will" Lucas started, "but I can't stand in the way of you and your mom."
Maya was on the verge of tears.
"Maya I am always going to love you no matter where you live. You and your mom are finally in a good place. Liz came around and brought you two closer together. How can I stand in the way of that?"
"But I don't want to go!" Maya said with a tear falling from her eye.
"And I don't want you to go!" Lucas said. "But I can't be the reason you and your mom part ways again."
Maya dropped her head and let more tears fall.
"Maya, please look at me." Lucas had tears in his eyes now.
She just shook her head refusing to look at him.
"Of all people I thought you would've been the one fighting for me to stay." she said taking her hands out of his and turning away from him. "Everything is finally falling into place and here is the rest of the world trying to break us up again!" She exclaimed getting up.
"Is this the world trying to tell me something? Am I not allowed to be happy?" she started to walk away.
"Maya." he said walking after her.
"Why is it that something is always vying against me?"
"Maya."
"Why can't the world just leave me alone and go destroy someone else's life?!"
"Maya!" Lucas said grabbing her arm.
"What?!" she said turning around.
He pulled her in for a kiss.
"Don't do that!" she said pulling out of the kiss and pushing him away.
"I had to do something to get you to stop!" he smiled.
"Stop it! My world is falling apart here and you don't even care!" she exclaimed.
"Of course I care Maya! I am apart of your world too!"
"Well it doesn't seem like it otherwise you'd be fighting for me to stay!" she yelled back.
**Jump to Liz.
Liz was on the phone with someone.
Liz: Hi. I would like it if you could meet me.
Man: Why?
Liz: I need to speak with you about something.
Man: You're the one who left.
Liz: I know that, but this isn't about me.
The man fell silent.
Liz: Hello?
Man: Where?
Liz: Nighthawk Diner.
Man: Be there soon.
The bell on the door at the diner rang alerting Liz he was there. It was Kermit.
"Long time no see." She said.
"What do you want?"
"I wanna talk to you about them." Liz said.
"Why? I moved on."
"I've been staying with them. I like it here."
"What does any of this have to do with me?" Kermit said.
"Katy got a job in California. She wants to move. Maya wants to stay, and so do I."
"So you want to come back?"
"No. I looked into it. I am a ward of the state and I can legally care for me and Maya, but you and Katy will have to sign forms allowing it."
"And what if I don't want to?"
"Listen, I know you don't want anything to do with them, but their my family and I really like them. I am not asking you to do this for Maya. I am asking you to do this for me. I've made some really great friends here and I think this could be a good place for me, but I don't want Maya to leave. I just found her and I want to get to know her more." Liz pleaded.
Kermit was silent.
"You love me right?"
"Of course. I raised you." Kermit thinks raising her mean't giving her up. Liz knows he didn't but she doesn't object because if she does he won't cooperate.
"Then please help me do this." Liz pleaded.
Kermit didn't say anything.
"Dad, please." Liz said putting her hand on his arm.
He looked at her. "Fine." he said. "But I will not help you in anyway. I will sign whatever forms I need to, but I don't want to see either of them."
Liz smiled. "Deal!"
She pulled the forms out of her bag, Kermit signed his portion, and was on his way.
Liz just needed Katy to agree and then Maya would be so ecstatic that she didn't have to leave.
**Back to Maya and Lucas.
"Maya of course I want you to stay! I can't fight this because I don't want to be the reason that you and your mom lose touch again!"
"She doesn't care about me! She never did! She only showed emotion because Liz came around! She basically abandoned me for my whole life until Liz showed up!"
"She loves you Maya."
"If she loved me she wouldn't be doing this."
"She's doing this because she does love you Maya!"
Maya fell silent.
"She can finally give you a better home life in California where she has a paying job. She's making you go because she wants to give you what she couldn't before, a real home."
"What about us?" Maya cried.
"We're always gonna us! Nothing will change that."
"But I'll be a million miles away." Tears fell from Maya's eyes.
Lucas smiled. "Distance is nothing but a number." he wiped her tears. "I'm always going to be right here waiting for you. I love you Maya, no matter where you are." he reassured her.
Maya couldn't hold it in anymore. She burst into tears and ran into his arms burying her face into his chest. She just cried and Lucas just held her.
**Back to Liz.
"Katy can I talk to you?"
"Of course sweet heart."
"So I am a ward of the state, so technically I don't have to go with you."
"You want to stay?"
"No it's not that. I don't think now is the right time to leave."
"So you want me to turn down this job opportunity?"
"No no! You worked hard for this, you should take it!"
"Okayy, I'm confused…" Katy said.
"I did some research. I am a ward of the state because Kermit gave me up and the state has not put me in a foster home because I have been recognized as an "adult" who can handle my own."
"And?"
"And the research I did was for Lemon. I looked into it and if you just sign some papers I can be held responsible for her and she can stay here in New York…"
"You want me to sign my daughter over to you?"
"Yes." Liz said blatantly.
"I don't think so."
"Why not? Maya wants to stay here with her friends, and quite frankly I don't want to leave, but I want to be with her. Don't get me wrong, I like you and all, but I've never had real parents before and I'm almost a legal adult so why would I want to start now. Lemon is my sister and she loves it here. Her life is here. If you would let me be her guardian until she is 18 then she could stay here and her and I could become closer than ever, but that can't happen if you take her away from me." Liz explained.
"Lizzy-"
"Katy, please. Do this for Maya."
Katy took a second to think.
"Alright, fine."
Liz smiled huge. She pulled the papers out of her bag and gave them to Katy.
"Wait." Katy said stopping as she looked through them. "Kermit signed these?"
"Well, that was the other thing. Maya was technically half his, so I had to get his consent too."
Katy looked angry. "I don't want Maya anywhere near him."
"I know that. We agreed he'd do this for me so I could get to know Maya. We would get no help from him or even contact him. That was are agreement."
"Okayy." Katy sighed. She signed the papers and Liz took them and ran off.
"Thank you!" she screamed before she was totally out of the apartment.
**Back to Maya and Lucas.
They were still standing in each others arms. Maya had stopped crying.
"Ranger Rick?" Maya said breaking the silence.
"Yea?"
"I don't make friends easily. What if I get there and no one even speaks to me?"
"You'll have Liz."
"I'm pretty sure Liz is staying here."
"What?" Lucas said releasing the hug to look at Maya.
"She's a ward of the state. She can do whatever she wants because they've recognized her as an adult. They basically pay her money to be an adult and she can do or go wherever she wants."
"You don't think she'd go with you?"
"No. She loves it here. She loves our friends. She's never had anything like this so why would she leave it now."
"I don't think Liz would leave you. Not now. You two are closer than ever."
"No we're not." Maya said.
Lucas smiled. "Yes you are. I see the way you two are with each other. You love each other."
"I don't know about that." Maya said. "We've only known each other for like half a year."
"You're good for each other." Lucas interjected.
Maya was silent.
Her phone began to ring.
Liz?
Lemon! I need to tell you something.
Okayy?
No. Not over the phone. Where are you?
Central Park…
Perfect, don't move!
Liz what's going on.
I'll be there shortly.
"What's going on?" Lucas asked.
"I don't know, but she's coming here."
"Well did she sound okayy?"
"She sounded strange. She said she has something to tell me but couldn't over the phone."
"Odd." Lucas said.
Silence as hey sat on a bench.
"Shall we get some ice cream while we wait… and since this would be our last chance for a while?" Lucas asked.
"Don't remind me." Maya said.
He took that as a yes, stood up, and put out his hand. She put hers in his and they walked to the ice cream stand.
"LEMON!" Liz yelled.
"Liz? What's up? Why are you running? Is everything okayy?" Maya walked towards her as Lucas paid for the ice cream.
"Lemon! I have news. I'm not going with you."
"I knew you wouldn't." Maya said with a little let down in her voice.
"No you don't get it Lemon. I'm not going with you because I can't. I have something holding me here."
"Like what?" Maya asked.
"Like you."
"What?"
"Katy signed some papers and I own you now Lemon."
"What? What does that mean?" Maya said really confused.
"It means I am legally responsible for you!" Liz said getting all excited.
"Then that means…" Maya started.
"It mean you get to stay Lemon. Stay here in New York!"
Maya was speechless.
"Lemon?"
"You're not screwing with me? This is for real?" Maya said getting serious.
"100%" Liz said smiling.
"We get to stay together Maya." Liz said grabbing her arms.
Maya's face lit up with tears. She grabbed Liz and pulled her into a HUGE hug.
"What's going on?" Lucas said as he walked up to them.
Maya released her hug with Liz and turned to him tears were in her eyes. She was still in shock.
"What's going on?" Lucas asked again.
"I'll take those." Liz said taking the ice creams from him.
"Maya?" he said getting concerned.
"I'm staying." she said low trying not to cry.
"What?" he said confused as if he heard her correctly.
A small smile grew on her face. "I get to stay." she said a few tears falling onto her cheeks.
"What? Is this for real!" Lucas exclaimed.
Maya just shook her head with her smile getting bigger.
Lucas didn't know what to say. He was beyond happy because he knew fate wouldn't allow them to be apart.
With no second wasted he picked Maya up and twirled her around.
After all the excitement died down for a minute it finally hit Maya.
"Wait." Maya said. "Where are we going to stay?"
"Well I figured you could just stay at cowboys here like you had been. I already have a permanent place at Missy's."
Maya was beyond happy.
The group wasted no time getting Maya's stuff from the apartment to Lucas's. His mom was more than happy to let Maya stay with them. The guest room was now her room, although she really didn't stay in it much, but Lucas's mom knew that would happen.
Maya was feeling like her life was at an all time high right now. Nothing could drag her down from cloud 9.
A/N: This chapter actually is a lot shorter than I imagined. I am going to post another tonight as well because I felt that the story line I created would fit this and Girl Meets True Maya.