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nine.

Maya Winter

As the weeks pass on, Abby pushes me further and further away from Tyler. She even started sitting in between us at lunch, and then when one of us starts to say something to the other, she starts her own conversation with Tyler.

It's making me extremely angry, but I can't say anything. Who would I say it to? Cierra is the only one I can really think of, and she's been friends with Abby way longer than she's been friends with me. How could I tell her what's happening?

Though, at this point, I'm closer to her than I am to Tyler. Which has started to mean that people have been kind of noticing me. Weird, isn't it?

I haven't been able to work on my drawing of Tyler as much, as I'm afraid that Abby might see it. It's September, so I still have time.

On the bus ride home, I decide I should actually talk to Tyler. "Hey, do you wanna come over after school?" I ask him timidly.

"Where did that come from? You haven't said anything to me in the past week," he states somewhat bitterly.

"Sorry. It's just...Abby..." I trail off softly. He raises an eyebrow. "You don't have to be scared of her, you know."

"Well, she's scary. I can't help it. Besides, you haven't said anything to me either," I shoot back defensively.

"True. I guess we're both to blame aren't we sunshine?" he says, lightly elbowing my side.

"Yeah, I guess," I respond submissively. The bus reaches our stop.

We get off quickly, and as I'm starting to walk home, I hear footsteps following me.

I turn around to see Tyler, who starts to say something, then shuts his mouth again as a droplet hits his face and rolls down his cheek. It looks like he's crying from where I'm standing, but I look up, and the clouds are dark and gray.

Rain starts to sprinkle on my head. We make eye contact, realizing in unison it's probably going to start raining harder.

"Want to go inside?" Tyler asked me. I grin. "You don't want to get wet, kitty cat?" I tease.

"Oh no, I just thought the princess wouldn't want to," he poked back.

"I'm not scared of a little rain, blondie," I challenged, letting my bookbag slide off my shoulder and hit the ground. He got as close to a giggle as he could get, letting his bag fall on the ground as well. "Who are you calling blondie, Repunzel?" he says.

Twirling my long blonde hair, I reply, "You do have a point..." And then, as the rain starts to come down harder, I turn around, and begin to walk.

"Hey, Maya, where are you going?" he calls out behind me. "I'm taking a walk, you twat," I respond through a smile in my best British accent.

He walks up next to me. "Then I guess I am too," he tells me.

We walk together, talking about stupid things. Not talking to him for a week was incredibly hard. You could say that this is making up for what I missed.

After a while, I realize I don't know exactly where we are. "Hey, Ty? Where are we?" I ask quietly, with nerves biting at the edge of my voice.

He smiles at me. "It's ok. We're not lost. I know my way around here." I nod, wanting to trust him.

With a minute of walking in silence, I feel his hand brush against mine. It startles me a little bit. "Sorry," I squeak.

He looks at me with an unidentifiable emotion in his eyes. "Oh no, that was me," he assures me in a soft voice, now purposely moving his hand towards mine.

I start to get a little nervous for some reason, but he seems perfectly calm. He grips my smaller hand and holds it in his.

At first, thoughts flood my mind of not wanting to betray Cierra in any way, but then I ridicule these thoughts. He's only holding my hand. Friends do that, right?

Now I just feel like I'm trying to be oblivious. Oh well. I decide to just leave it. If he wants to hold my hand, then so be it.

I sigh internally at the fact that I'm over here practically fainting and he's perfectly collected. Get it together, Maya.

I giggle at myself out loud. He looks over at me. "Something funny?" he asks with kindness in his voice instead of the usual sarcasm.

"Nah. I'm just...happy. Yeah, I'm happy."

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A/N
YAY FOR FLUFF <3 I had so much fun writing this chapter omg. I hope you that much fun reading it >~< See you next time bebes :3

(If you sneezed while reading this, bless you X3)