Learning To Fall

Chapter Two

The first thing the girl woke up to a text with heart emojis with the name "Rileyyyy" beside it. It took a moment to adjust to the lighting of the screen, but finally, she did, propping her elbow on the bed to get a better view of her phone. She was expecting some kind of picture of the ocean or something that was "very tumblr", as she'd put it, but instead, to her surprise if was Riley's very excited reply, which she could imagine her little butterfly saying, at this very moment:

MAYA I'M HOME COME JOIN ME FOR BREAKFAST

MAYA! I KNOW YOU'RE READING THIS ANSWER ME!

MAAAAAAYA PANCAKES I KNOW THEY'RE YOUR FAVORITE!

MAYA YOUR HUSBANDS HERE! JOSH IS HERE. ABORT ABORT

wait not abort.... I mean come over now!!!!!!!

Then a text sent an hour from those text at 8:45:

you missed breakfast.

Though it was quite a shame that she missed breakfast, Maya couldn't help but smile at her best friend's excitement to be back home, her excitement to see her. Just earlier this week she was talking about how badly she wanted to move to Florida. That it was beautiful, the ocean was beautiful, and that though she loved the Knicks and the celebrities when it came to New York, but there, it was a win win situations. "Plus there's extremely hot guys Maya. I mean, hot hot." She said one day when they were talking on the phone and Maya replied with an, "Don't tell me that, you're going to make me all jealous!" It was true. Maya never really been outside of New York, unless you counted Shawn taking her along with the Matthews about once, but besides that, that was about it.

And about Josh...

She really had to talk to him about that kiss.

It was 9:30 now. She wondered why Riley thought that she'd be up that early, especially when the girl didn't fall asleep to around 3 am when she was too tired out to cry anymore. She hadn't heard it from Peter, she didn't see him when she went back to gather her chips. But that didn't matter, she thought. She disliked him anyway. As long as he wasn't hurting her mom physically or mentally, she was staying out of his way at all means possible.

Hitting the reply button, the girl began to type up a reply to her best friend:

You should have known I was asleep, Riles. It's summer there's nothing else better to do when you're not here. But i'm omw.

It didn't take long for her to get an all capped response:

YOU BETTER BE OYW!!!!!!!!!

Maya rolled her eyes, slipping out of her bed, looking through her closet for clothes that would be wearable. Eventually, she came across a semi-long sleeved checkered shirt that came to her elbows and a pair of knee length shorts. She did her usual. Hopped in the shower, since she hadn't taken one last night, brushed out her hair, and brushed her teeth. In the course of twenty-five minutes, she was all ready to go to finally see her best friend, who seemed to be gone forever.

Maya are you coming it's almost ten this is a bunch of ridiculousness!

Maya typed in a quick reply while she slipped into her silver flip flops that were strewn in her room, got five dollars, and headed towards the door.

I'm coming, peaches. Chillax.

Maya headed out of her the building and started to walk towards the Matthews side. It wasn't that long of a trip, just about a three to five minute walk depending on if you were stopping to wait and get ice cream or not in which Maya did, using the money she got before she left her house, getting two vanilla ice cream cones and as she headed towards the Matthews, began to lick away at her own. By the time she got there, all she had was the cone left on hers. She took the chance to finish it off so she had a free hand and soon enough she was finally in the Matthews hallway, opening the door.