Maya's Promise

CHAPTER 5

Well yesterday was a very eventful day. I found out that for the past two weeks I've been talking to a crazy person whom i have shared everything with and I cant talk to my best friend because I still feel terrible about making out with her boyfriend who is also my friend so basically I have no one to talk to, except for my therapist but she doesn't count, she's kinda old and smells like peanut putter.......I hate peanut butter.

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I arrived at school the next day and was greeted by Patrick and Ashley "oh great" I whispered to myself.
"Hey Maya, I heard what happened yesterday." Oh my gosh she knows we kissed, she is going to hate me forever.
"It's ok. No one knew he was crazy" a sigh of relief left my body.
"Oh that's what you know?"
"Yeah what else is there?" Patrick looked at me and mouthed don't tell her.
"Nothing " I replied.
"Ok I gotta get to class but we'll talk later so bye guys " she kisses Patrick and walks away.
"How do you do that? How do you look her in the eye?"

" I just do, I still feel guilty but...." I cut him off and said "Guilty? I'm going through a lot right now and I can't talk to my best friend about anything because I FEEL GUILTY "
"You can talk to me" he comes close to me and tries to hug me but I push him away,"Talking to you is what got me into this mess in the first place" He looked at me with sincerity in his eyes and said, "I'm sorry that you feel guilty for the kiss that I instigated"

"I don't feel guilty because you kissed me , I feel guilty because I let it happen and because part of me wouldn't mind if it happened again". We stared into each other's eyes for a few seconds and then I walked away. School had just begun but I couldn't go through a whole day of this so I left.
I went to my car and opened the door which was then closed shut from behind me by.....JOHNATHON!!

"WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?!?!" I exclaimed unsure whether to be scared or angry.
He on the other hand looked confused and worried.
"I'm sorry if I scared you but I haven't seen you since yesterday"
He said with an innocent look in his eye.

" I saw your parents yesterday" his face then changed, he then understood why I was at such unease.
"Please Maya, let me explain "
Part of me said no but the other part of me said "Get in".
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We've been driving for about 10 minutes and we have not yet spoken with each other until I pulled over and chose to break the silence .
"She was scared...... She was frightened....... She's your mother .......what could u have done to her to make her feel that way?"
"I can exp........" I interrupted before he could finish.
"I'm not done. You were in a mental hospital which I don't care about but most of all YOU LIED TO ME.....I TRUSTED YOU AND YOU LIIIIEEEDDD TO ME!!!" there was so many emotions going into those words and before I knew it..I was crying.

"Please don't cry Maya, I can explain it all"
"THEN EXPLAIN WHY THE HELL YOU WOULD PRETEND TO GO TO MY SCHOOL, PRETEND TO LIVE IN THAT HOUSE AND PRETEND TO GET CLOSE TO ME.....EXPLAIN THAT JOHNATHON..EXPLAIN!!!!"
Instead of talking though, he does something I didn't expect.... He hugged me. I wanted to push him away but instead I ended up hugging him back and crying in his shirt. Even after all I found out about him, he's still the same guy I've grown to love and trust. A few seconds later he lifted my head and said "Switch seats, I need to show you something " and without question I did just that.
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About 40 minutes later he pulled up to a beautiful house that looked familiar but I couldn't put my finger on it. He then exited the car and I followed.
"Where are we?" I asked
"This is my home..my real home."
"What?" This is it...the truth is about to come out or I'm about to be murdered.
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We're now inside and drinking some tea that Johnathon made.
"So ....go ahead " I said trying to hurry things along.
"Ok. I was raised in this house by my parents but 3 years ago me and my mom got into an argument which got really heated; she ran up the stairs and grabbed me so I could cool down but then I pushed her.......she then fell down the stairs and she........well....died." Omg he killed his mother. "It was ruled an accident because it was. I would never purposely do such a thing to my mother, but my father didn't believe me. Each day after her death he scorned me and treated me like a criminal in his own house. He even reassured me that I am not his child and that I was just someone living in his house. The next year though I went home from a day of hanging with friends and he was dead. He killed himself and left a note that said 'I'm sorry world for leaving so soon but I had to see my wife again, I missed her too much. Tell my son John,wherever he may be, that I loved him even though I didn't want him. And to Johnathon, I hope you rott in hell for not only killing one parent but two.' Needless to say that crushed me and I was in a terrible condition after that. The next thing I knew John's adopted mother which is the lady claiming to be our real mother, came to the house to try to get me to move in with her and John. I said no but she insisted, because of the state I was in, I lost it. I grabbed a knife and pointed it at her and told her if she ever comes for me again I'd kill her and John. That's why she's scared of me and that's why I was institutionalized up until last month. I was troubled and I did a lot of stupid things but I've grown so much. John is all the family I have left and when I met you I didn't want to scare you off with my story. So that's my story, you scared of me yet?"

I could only sit there in silence. His life is crazy and I'm starting to believe that so is he.
"Why weren't you and John both raised in by your parents? "
That seemed to be the only thing I could ask because it made no sense for them to take one and not the other.
He replied by saying, "Our parents didn't want kids, they wanted a project and that's what I was. I was born different than any other child so they took me to try to fix me and mold me into what they wanted."

"What'd they want? " I asked.
"They were suppose to tell me when I turned 18 but I guess now I'll never know. "

"Does John know anything? About you or his real parents?"

"No......as far as he knows, he's an only child who lives with both his parents. That's why I came here, to tell him everything "

"YOU CAN'T!!!! you'd be tearing his world apart. You have to find a way to tell him about you and nothing else. No one deserves to learn that their entire life is a lie and that their birth parents didn't want them and oh yeah ARE BOTH DEAD!"

"What do you suggest I do?"he asked.
"I don't know. Tell him you were raised by someone else and that you don't want to explain. I don't know what your gonna say just don't tell him the truth, please."

"You really care about him don't you?"

"No, I just don't think anyone should be told all that."

"Ok. So where does that leave us?"

"I'm still here, because apparently I'm a little crazy too" he then gives me a big hug and whispers in my ear,"Thank you and please don't tell anyone"
I squeezed him tighter and said

"I promise ."
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