100 reasons to love Maya

Girl Meets First Date ~ Chapter 7

"Some opposites attract, others don't." ~ Riley Matthews

Maya's Point of view-

"Maya, I just want everything to be perfect." Riley told me. We were standing by the restaurant that Riley and Lucas were suppose to have their first date. Riley was wearing a floral dress and had her hair curled like she normally does and she had white flats.

"Everything will be perfect. Just be yourself without embarrassing yourself, okay? Can you do that?" I asked her. She really didn't have any reason to be nervous, I mean this was Lucas. Lucas, our friend, who wouldn't hurt her or ditch her or make her feel bad in any way. She really didn't have a reason to be nervous

"I can do that. Oh here he comes! Leave, now! I'll text you when we can meet by the subway. Bye."

"Bye, I want a full report when we meet." Then I turned and left.

.... some time later......

"How'd it go?" I asked Riley.

"We aren't meant to be."

"Riley don't say that."

"No, no it's alright. We both agreed. He kissed my cheek, we held hands, we stared into each others eyes, but the attraction simply did not exist."

"What? Riley? Aren't you two opposites? Don't they attract?"

"Some opposites attract, others don't." She said. She didn't seem to be sad or anything like that. She seemed really happy to be honest.

"Why are you being so calm about this," I said "doesn't it bother you?"

"I don't feel attracted to him anymore and he says he likes someone else anyways," she continued as we walked onto the subway, "He said he was going to make his move tonight and he needed my help."

"Did you agree to help?"

"Yes I did, I'm helping right now." Before I could respond I felt a tap on the shoulder, it was Lucas. Farkle was standing right next to him.

"Hey Maya."

"Hey cowboy." I replied.

"So what's going on?"

"Um... nothing. Lucas, you okay?" He was acting odd, he was kind of nervous. I didn't understand why.

"Look Maya, there's something I need to tell you, something I've wanted to tell you for a while now." He said this while looking into my eyes.

"Okay... what do you have to tell me?' I asked. Right before he replied he looked into my eyes a little different than he had before, I couldn't find a way to describe it, he just looked different.

"I like you."

"What?"

"Maya, your beauty can not compare to the stars. It would be deception not to call you beautiful right now. I like you, Maya Hart, I like you a lot." He said this so passionately. It gave me a wonderful, yet nervous feeling inside. He was confessing his feelings towards me but did I really like him? I mean he's a great friend and I do care about him but I don't know if I like him in that way.

     Before I could get another thought through my head, I was being kissed. I was being kissed by Lucas Friar, my friend Lucas Friar. The country, Texas lovin' Lucas Friar that we've all come to love and know. When his lips touched mine it only took me a split second to relize that I liked him too. I kissed him back and felt the grace of his lips and how he seemed to cherish this moment. We both pulled bvack because we realized we should take this slow and also because people were giving us stares.

When the subway stopped I saw a familair face: Joshua.

"Josh?" I call out, but he doesn't seem to hear, or maybe he just doesn't want to speak to me. Either way I still chase after him. I leave Lucas, Farkle, and Riley behind and I catch up to Joshua.

"Josh. Hey what are you doing here? Wait, are you crying?"

"Yes, I am." His eyes were watery and he had some tears strolling down his cheeks, his eyes weren't red yet.

"But why?"

"I don't know it's just when someone you care a lot about kisses else it can effect you." He said.

"You care about me?"

"Well... yeah, I do."

"Thanks, but if we could never be together than why is this effecting you so much?" I asked him. It hurt to spit the words out 'we could never be together.' But I guess things are the way they are, kind of like how people are the way they are.

"I don't know."

"Oh. Why are you in town anyways?" Normally I would've heard from Rileyy or saw for myself that he was in town but this time I had no idea.

"Oh, Topanga and I ate dinner together for my birthday."

"You have a birthday on Valentines Day?"

"Yeah."

"Well, happy birthday."

"Thanks." By now we had found a bench outside and we were just sitting and talking.

"Are you better now?" His tears had faded and he seemed to have better spirit.

"Sort of. Can I be honest with you?"

"Um, sure." I didn't really know what he meant by that but I still said yes.

"Well you know how you like me and I like you?" He admitted it. He's never directly told me he liked me until now.

"Yes."

"Well, I think we should forget about us. You know? I mean you're in 7th grade I'll be off at college soon, it;s not right. We'd never last together. Our age would always get in the way. I think we should get over us." Even though I knew this was the truth, it still stung.

"Yeah, I agree."

"Friends?" He asked.

"Friends." I agreed.

"Good."

"What do you eman you'll be at college soon? Don't you have another year left?"

"Well I might not. I got an audition for Julliard and if they like me I can finish school there."

"Wow, that's wonderful. Congrats."

"Thanks. This has been really nice, but I have to go. Bye Maya." After he left I went to find Lucas. He was sitting outside a resturaunt at a table. I told him how I felt about him and how I wanted to date him too and how I felt something in that kiss. We both agreed to date. We bot agreed we felt something.We both agreed that we were no longer going to talk, we going to kiss. We kissed until the moonlight fell upon the city then we went our seperate ways agreeing to meet before school on Monday.

    As I walked away I couldn't help to think about not only Lucas, but Josh too. Were we really just going to get over eachother? Was it even that simple? I didn't know. Maybe it was impossible to answer questions like that. Pherhaps I should just move on with life, and my new boyfriend. Whatever my future holds, I hope it's good, very very good.