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kissing booth

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"Hakeem and Kordell, you may now sit down." Kordell read as everyone was still in silence.

Chime

Everyone looked at Hannah unsurely. "Leah and Hannah, you are now single and vulnerable. #MovingOn." Maia wanted to cry for her friends. She immediately went up to Leah. "Taking her up to 'soul ties' is crazy." Leah said and Maia shook her head.

The girls all walked up to the makeup room and Leah went off. Maia knew this side Leah would come out if Rob hurt her.

"Everyone should be scared. Because I've been behaving myself so fucking well. And look where it got me."

"So don't behave no more." Hannah spurred her on which Maia thought wasn't the best choice.

"He is so, like, theatrical. Oh, my God, the drama." Leah went on. "He waited!" A few girls said. "It's so calculated. It's so weird. He knows what he's doing. And it's, like, so embarrassing. I feel like I have a weight lifted off my shoulders. And then she makes him feel like they're in high school and they're, like, fucking 30 years old."

Maia shook her head, hiding a laugh.

"I don't give a fuck. That's my thing. I don't think anyone understands that. After I saw him crying like a bitch on the floor yesterday, I literally got the ick. I couldn't even sleep next to him because of it. You're crying to me?! I should be the one crying! Fuck you, bitch!"

"Leah..." Maia sighed, and all the girls looked at her. "Your feelings are completely valid. I'm not saying they aren't." She prefaced. "But please think about what you are saying, it doesn't matter that its Rob, it could have been Hakeem and I'd still say this, but in a few days or weeks, if someone were to show you this back, how would it make you feel?"

Leah took a deep breathe and simply nodded. Maia laid her head against the table.

Later Maia was down in the kitchen with Ezra and some more people when Liv and Hakeem went for a chat. She minded her business simply chatting away with Ezra. "Want to tell me why you didn't stand up?"

Ezra released a deep breath. "You know, I've wanted Leah from the start." Maia hummed in agreement. "I thought Andrea was a good person, but everytime we spoke I kept asking myself, 'if she does pick you, will that ruin your chances with Leah?' and of course it would. Leah was already feeling like a second choice to Rob, that's what she told me." He said before sighing again.

"I didn't want to go up there, especially knowing Rob was going up, not get picked and then come crawling to Leah like a second choice." Maia cooed. "You really like her!" She poked him endlessly.

"Yeah, I do." He smiled.

"FUCK OFF, YOU'RE ACTUALLY A PIECE OF SHIT."

Everyone's heads turned at Liv's raised voice. "So I'm immature, yet you're--."

"Yes you're immature!"

"--You're yelling and walking off."

"Because you can't get it through your thick head."

Maia chuckled at that. And watched Liv walk away. Hakeem kept going on and on. "You are literally the most negative person in the house, and you're the root of a lot of problems here." Maia flipped around on him quickly.

"What we aren't going to do is yell at women because we can't get our way." Everyone's eyes flipped to her as she spoke her normal softness but with so much force than anyone had heard. "You are not going sit here and berate Liv or anyone in this villa. You can say what you feel and how you feel without coming for someone's character. You are only proving Liv's point further by acting like a fucking child. So either apologise or walk away, because no one wants to hear you any more."