For You, Anything (GXG)

Chapter 2:

Traffic was a bitch heading back home. "Ma I'm home!" I yell from the door.

"In the kitchen sweetheart!"

I smile hearing my mom's voice.

"How was work?" I say kissing her cheek and rolling my sleeves more to wash my hands and start on dinner.

"Exhausting as always but eventful." She says sitting at the island on her laptop.

"Never a boring day at the office huh."
She scoffs. "Ha! Never."

We laugh and talk until we're interrupted by a familiar voice. "Knock knock! Knock knock! Your favorite person is here."

I roll my eyes. "Maya just because you say knock knock doesn't equal to you actually knocking you know that right?"

She laughs, kissing my mom on the cheek. "Well I didn't want to be rude despite you giving me a key." She comes beside me and leans in the counter staring at me hard and folding her arms.

"What?" I furrow my eyebrows.

She tilts my head to look at my neck. "Should I be jealous?" She said in a playful manner.

I tilt my head in confusion. "What are you talking about?" She takes a pic of my neck and shows it to me. "Shit. She marked me!"

Maya rolls her eyes and laughs with my mom who is shaking her head. "Who is 'she'?"

"Kayla." I said irritated that she left marks on me. They will stay there for days. And I don't wear makeup so I can't cover them.

"So I take it the date went well?" My mom says.
Maya turns back to me with a confused look.

"Date? Since when are you dating V?" She grabs a bottle of wine and glasses from the cabinet and sits next to my mom.

"First. I'm not 'dating'. And 2nd we actually didn't even go. She thought I was joking and told me she didn't want to ruin the fun by overthinking anything."

They look at each other confused still.

"So where the hickeys come from V?" Maya asked.

"Well-. She still wanted to sleep with me. And so we did." I shrugged.

Maya tilts her head as if to say 'go on'.

I roll my eyes. "In her car."

They both gasp.

"Mija! Now that's just low."

Maya is just laughing. "Wow I never thought you'd be a bigger slut than me."

My mom slaps her arm. "Language Maya." She said in a serious tone.

"Sorry." She says rubbing the sting from her arm.

"Anyway , enough about my sex life. Can we eat?"

Maya claps her hands together. "Yes please. I'm starving."

We all sit down and eat together and talk about our days.

"Thanks again for having me Miranda. It's always nice to be around you. Can't say the same about Ava." Maya says hugging my mom at the door to leave.

"By sweetheart. Be safe. Ava! Come walk Maya to the car!"

I chuckle. "I am Ma. I was just cleaning up. Let's go." Me and Maya walk out to her car.
"So I'll see you tomorrow night for the party?" Maya asks , settling in her car.

"I don't know I gotta work on those pieces or they won't get done."

She pouts. "I don't want you overworking V. If it's too much I can try to talk to them to limit it or extend the date.

I shake my head. "No, it's good. If I find a good stopping point I'll head your way alright."
She rolls her eyes sighing knowing I'll never find a good 'stopping point'. "I'll call you. I love you V."

"I love you too M." I say as she rolls her window up and drives off.

I make my way back in the house to tell my mom goodnight but she's already knocked out on the couch with her laptop on her lap.
I sigh. And quietly pick her up from the couch and carry her to her room.

"Good night ma." I kiss her head and close her room door and make sure the doors are locked around the house before heading to my studio in the back of the house.

I get in my bed and turn on my tv to put Bobs Burgers on. After an hour I begin to drift to sleep.

3 AM
Bzzz! Bzzz! Bzzz!
The continuous vibrating noise from my phone wakes me up and I try adjusting my eyes to see it's the security cameras from outside my studio. I wipe my eyes and grab my pistol from my nightstand and head downstairs.

A knock on the door makes me go slower and more observant. I peak through the peep hole and I see someone in a hood standing at the door.

I swing the door open when they go to bang on the door again scaring them to their knees and hands up.

"No no please! It's me Autumn! Please don't shoot!"