What is Love?

Chapter 7

"Thank you!" I thank Joe for holding the door for me. We enter the doors of Nandos and make our way to the front to order our food. "I'll just have a Ceaser salad." I pull out my wallet and hand the cashier a waded up 10 dollar bill. Now all I have to do is wait. The small group of 5 grab a circular booth near the back of the dimly lit restaurant. The table whips out there individual vlogging cameras and break into our own conversations. Zoe takes a sip from here water and turns to me.

"Did you really fall in the shower" she gave me a knowing look, like she could she right through my lies.

"...no. I didn't." I confess.

"I knew it!" she laughs.

I join her. "How did you know! I thought it was a pretty believable excuse!"

Zoe stops laughing and makes a face that reads Really.

"What?!" I chuckle.

"Okay" she places her drink down and shifts her body so she is completely facing me. " First of all you don't even own a shower"

Zoe: 1 Maya:0

"Second of all you were stuttering soooo badly you sounded  like a broken record!"  she starts laughing again.

"Okay! Okay! You caught me!" I raise my hands in surrender. "I usually dont lie. You know that! I try to keep it 100 all the time."

"Aww my sweet widdle innocent baby" Zoe pouts and pats my cheek lightly.

"Why does  everybody assume that I'm so sweet and innocent!?!"

"Do you think your innocent?"

"No! I'm the baddest of them all!" I jokingly scrunch my face up and scowl.

Not convinced she calls the tables attention. All heads and cameras turn to us.

"Maya here says she is basically the dictionary definition of a class A bad ass and-"

She wasn't even able to get the last part out before everybody burst into fits of laughter.

"Are you kidding me?" Louise says "You are literally the sweetest person I know"

"Like that one time me and you went to go get balloons for a video we were making" Caspar brings up "and at the check out line the cashier gave you 2 quarters extra. We were half way back to my place and you made me turn around so you could give it back. For 50 fucking cents!"

Cameras go to me.

"Yeah but-"

Joe interrupts me " Your face just gives off cute and pure."

I cross my arms over my chest and pout.

"See!" he gestures to my actions "Cute!"

Do I really give off that vibe? Yeah I do live by a treat people the way you want to be treated lifestyle. So I try to be nice to very single person who comes my way. I do admit. I have made a lot of questionable choices in the  past but I put that behind me so I can focus on the future. At times I wish that people wouldn't view me as such an innocent person cause then they attempt to run me over and use me.

" Quick. What is the worst think you have ever done?" Caspar challenges me.

My heartbeat increases. My hands start to sweat. There is no way in hell I'm telling them what I've done.

"Um... I ran over my neighbours cat once with my bike when I was 15" I state. It came out as more of a question then a statement even though it was true.

"Oh my gosh! Maya!" Zoe's eyes widen. Once again everybody booms into laughter.

"I'm just imagining that happening in my head." Louise gasp for air, wiping tears from her eyes. After the laughter dies down Joe raises his glass

"A toast to Maya for a great laugh" We all lift our glasses and clink them in one big circle.

I love these guys so freaking much.

I look across the restaurant and see an employee carrying a tray across his shoulder with meals that looks similar to what we ordered.

please oh please be ours please or please.

I cross my fingers and ask God to sends the waiter to our table.

The waiters eyes search the crowded restaurant for a matching booth number. When h  looks at our table his eyebrows lift and he smiles.

Yes! Thank ya Lord!

I silently celebrate

The waiter, whose name tag reads Craig, approaches the booth.We make room on the table as he places each meal in front of us. We thank him as he walks away and dig into our meals.

"Oh! The lady called me about the house and  said everybody should have their payments in by the end of the week." Caspar states. We all lift our drinks and cheer. Caspar had the idea that after Vidcon a whole bunch of us rent a big house in Miami. The house use  to be owned buy some self made billionaire who moved to a private area in the Netherlands. Zoe and I google searched the house and it is absolutely humongous! Since a lot of us will be staying in the house the weekly cost for the rent is about the same price a regular hotel room per person.

I take the last bite of my food and drop my fork in the empty bowl."Whose all coming again?"

Caspar looks up and thinks. "Lets see..." he counts on his fingers "Joe Louise Zoe Alfie Marcus Niomi Joey Oli Will Arden and-" he pause  and looks at me cautiously. "Dax."

"mmm. Okay" I ponder on the idea of having to spend a week in the same house as that jerk.

"yo that was intense back at the meeting!" Joe says biting into his chicken salad.

"Yeah! He actually tried to come for me and my videos! like who are you?!" I can feel myself starting to get worked up again.

"I just figured you already had beef with each other." Zoe says.

"That's the thing! today was the first time I had even interacted with him! Is he usually like that?," I ask Joe and Caspar because they are good friend with him.

"uhh..." they both say in unison.

"He is isn't he!"

"he's..." Joe searches for the right words to say. "He's not afraid to put you in your place if need be."

"Yeah I learned that the hard way."  I say.

"You just got to get to know him. He's actually a real chill guy."

"I don't know. From what I got today he seems like a dick!"

"Oh trust me he is. But he becomes less and less of one as time goes by."

I sigh. " I guess will find out in three weeks."

We sit in a comfortable silence.

"Quick question. Did the cat die?" Louise asks.

"...Yeah."

Laughter fills the air once again.