"Hi, can I sit with you for a minute? that guy over there is giving me these super weird vibes." requests a perky looking brunette girl, as she plops down beside of Maya. "It's like a portion of the girl code, right? That when a guy is being creepy, girls come together to protect one another. That's one of the things that I like about being a girl, we all take care of one another and I think that it's cool. Oooh, what are you reading?" she rattles on, leading Maya to think that maybe this girl just talked on and on purely for the benefit of getting to hear her own brains knock around.
"The Hobbit." Maya replies succinctly.
"Like the book that all of those movies are based off of? I meant to read it before I went to see them, but I never got the chance. Oh, goodness, I never told you my name. Hi, I'm Riley Matthews." Riley introduces herself cheerily.
"Maya." Maya replies, offering up no other information or volunteering her last name.
"It's great to meet you, Maya." Riley says with a gentle smile that made Maya believe that this girl believed meeting her to be a 'great' thing.
"Thanks. It was great to meet you too." Maya finally smiles back at Riley, the brunette's charm was actually getting to her, as she escorted her off of the train, Riley looping an arm through Maya's.
"You should let me take you out to dinner as a thank you." Riley offers, not wanting Maya to go away.
"I couldn't let you do that, girl code, remember?" Maya answers, closing her book and passing it to Riley.
"Here, you said that you had been wanting to read it. Call me sometime."
Riley was about to protest that she didn't have Maya's number when she realized that it was written on the front inside cover under the name Maya Hart.
"Hart, huh? Well, she has a good one." she mumbles to herself before heading home.
