A Year Without You

Chapter Eight

Maya's Pov

After I left the baseball field, I found myself just driving around the city my phone going off with calls and text from Carina. Hitting ignore I just keep driving until I got to Deans house, I knocked on the door thankfully Jack and Travis were there to cause I need to vent to people that anything I said wouldn't get right back to Carina, it was nothing against Andy or Vic, but I knew that anything I said to them would get right back to Carina as soon as I said it. Least with the guys they had to follow the "Bro Code", so it was safe. "Hey Maya, what you doing here?" Dean asked as I walked in the door "I just had full on fight with Carina and I had to get out." I grabbed a beer out of the bucket on the counter "Ok what happened exactly?" Jack said as I sat down "Yeah what could have been that bad you had to walk out" Travis looked at me concerned putting his hand on my knee. I took a sip of my beer "She apparently had a drunken one-night stand with Gabriella" all the guys looked at me like I had thirty heads "Are you sure we're talking about your Carina? Carina DeLuca who is loyal as hell to you?" Dean asked me in shock. "Yes! Miller my Carina the woman who I love more then anything in this whole fucking world! She cheated on me!" I yell waving my beer around in the air I point at Jack who was about to open his mouth to speak. "You say one word Gibson I will kick you in the balls" Jack shut his mouth and didn't say a word because I knew what he was going to say and that didn't matter because I thought me and Carina, we're solid enough I didn't have to ever worry.

Travis and Dean stifled their laughs because I had yelled at Jack like he was a little kid. Groaning I put my head in my hands "What am I going to do?" my voice muffled by my hands covering my face, Travis puts his hands on my shoulder from behind and squeezes them gently "Well only thing I can suggest is that you make Carina remember who can..." Travis hand gestures now standing in front of me "How do I put this" I look at him "Travis spit it out" I lean back in the couch my hands on my thighs. Dean cuts him off cause clearly Travis can find his words "What Travis is trying to say is that you go home and march right up to Carina and you ..." Dean goes silent "Oh for Christ sake will one of you spit it out" Then out of no where Jack pipes in getting to the point "You go home and drag Carina into the bedroom, and you remind her who is the only person that can satisfy her and make her never want to have sex with anyone else again" I sit up " So I just march in there and take charge?" Jack nods "just walk right into your apartment and take what's yours Maya make her not even want to think about Gabriella ever again like that part of her life never happened" Travis pipes in next "Yeah basically turn your hot Italian top into a bottom Bishop" Dean adds in "You got to try something Maya or if something else happens you might lose her" I take a drink of my beer and think.

Carina's Pov

"I got to get out of here" I watch Maya grab her keys tears running down my face, she opens the door "Where are you going? Maya?!" I yell as Maya slams the door on her way out. I fall on my knees crying what had I done I betrayed the only women I have ever really loved. Picking up the shattered picture off the floor all I can do is look at it "I'm sorry" my voice manages to get out I stand up and put the picture down on the kitchen table. I look at my phone and it starts to ring again and I see it's Gabriella again I pick it up "Hello" she starts talking a mile a minute trying to apologize once again and that is when I feel my blood boil she ruined everything, she may have destroyed everything that Maya and I had worked so hard to build that is when I snap, I begin screaming at her in our native tongue just laying into her no holds barred rage just spilling out. I hang up the phone grab the plate on the table and just start smashing that one plate along with a few others just angry at the world at Gabriella at myself for what I had done. I keep smashing dishes tears running down my face, I sweep all the books and things off the table in the living room I scream in frustration.

I look around at the aftermath of me finally letting out all my bottled-up anger and sadness at the whole situation running my fingers through my hair moving it out of my face. I take a deep breath and sniff grabbing the broom I start to clean up putting the books and other items back in their proper places then sweeping up all the shattered glass. I pick up the picture of Maya and I sighing I put it down. The fact that everything happened the way it did was messed up and now Maya was only god knows where and everything we had worked so hard to built up to this point may have just been blown apart because I got so drunk and screwed the one person that Maya worried about me around. The year apart from Maya was in sufferable yes but I should have known better then to let happen what happened. I sit on the couch with my head in my hand's tears running down my face I pick up the phone and try to call Maya, but she keeps sending me to voicemail over and over. When that doesn't work, I try to text her and still nothing no response. I am in a full-on panic now all the thought's running in my head of what this could mean for Maya and myself? if this were the end of us? that in one night of lonely drunken stupidity everything has now been ripped to shreds and damaged beyond any hope for repair? Was I really about to lose the love of my life?