Loan Shark

LS - Chapter Six ~ The Start of Something New

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|~ Chapter Six

~ Him ~

"Tell him that he only has one month to get in contact with the boy! If he asks why, tell him because I said so and if he doesn't do what I ask within a month tell him the debt will go up! If he then asks by how much, tell him he doesn't need to know that much detail! Any other problems tell him to get in contact with me..." He explained to the man in front of him; Joe.

The guy knew that Joe wouldn't argue with him, that he was too wise to do anything. He also knew that Joe knew if he didn't then he would be the one paying for the rest of Mike's debt.

"Okay..." Was all Joe answered before turning on his heal and left him alone in the office.

In reality he had given up on Mike. He just used it as a threat to keep Joe working for him because he was close to Maya and Liam, and soon Liam's Dad, so they would be easy targets.

~ Aaron ~

Tap! Tap! Tap!

Aaron drummed absent-mindedly on the table that Maya and he sat at.

"Would you stop drumming your fingers on the table already..." Maya tried to keep her tone of voice steady, as she placed her left hand over her older brother's to stop his fingers from tapping a toneless tune on the wooden table.

"Sorry," Was all Aaron mumbled. He wasn't in the mood to be talking to anyone, much less these people that were invading his home. He couldn't understand why they were here, just because he and Maya were technically orphans now, it didn't give them the right to take Maya away.

Of coarse they were to take her away, she is only 17, and needs 'proper care and attention' Aaron thought, bitterly.

"Don't worry, they won't take me away, and if they do I will beg them to let me stay at Katie's or someone's house so we can still see each other," Maya whispered to Aaron.

Oh yeah because they would allow that to happen wouldn't they?

"Maya, we have little income, only a little more than enough to pay the bills, put food on the table and buy clothes… And would they really allow you to stay at a friends house near me…? They are controlling people, they don't reason with anyone…" Aaron argued with his sister. He didn't like this sort of people. He'd had a friend who went off with them, Aaron still saw him, but his friend hated the new temporary family.

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"We need to talk!" A voice made both Aaron and Maya turn round to look at a tall, skinny man with a reasonably tidy haircut, dressed in a navy suit holding a laptop bag in one hand.

Yeah, more like you talk and we listen to everything you say with no argument…

"Maya could you please leave us alone for a moment…" The man turned to Maya.

"No!" Maya answered back.

Aaron noticed this confused the man greatly so decided to explain, "This conversation we are going to have is about Maya so she wants to know what is going to happen to her…"

"Maya, you can't stay here, go watch tv for a minute!"

Aaron was getting fed up of this guy talking down to his sister now, did he know she was 17 and is quite capable of talking them people as well. Aaron watched as his sister and the guy had a staring contest before Maya stormed out slammed the door shut and yelling fine!

"You have to put the children in their place, because they cannot sit and listen to the boring conversations about money and where they're going to live!" The guy sat down where Maya had been a few seconds ago.

Ignorant posh git in a suit! Maya can sit and listen to those conversations because she is seventeen not fucking two!  And she will have a say in where she lives, if you 'have the right to take her away from me!' Aaron decided to bite his tongue if he wanted any chance of Maya staying with him…

"I know, she has a mind of her own so she does!" Aaron told the worker what he wanted to hear.

~Maya Hayes~

It is my life, and yet I can't have a say in where I live? They are most likely going to take me from Aaron because he is only nineteen so 'can't look after both of us properly'… So thank you Mike, for practically ripping this family apart!

Maya had always hated those kind of people. They had often come in when her Mum was ill when Maya was 14, and her Dad went away for weeks. However she had never met one that was as rude.

Maya wandered to the edge of the town, wondering whether or not to walk the ten minute walk to the graveyard. Deciding not to go, she turned on her heel an headed in the direction of the park.

I wonder what Aaron and the Social worker are talking about…? I'm not leaving him, he walked out before Mum died, but he came back to me, I will not leave him now, especially seeing as it's only the two of us now.

Maya gently swung back and forth thinking about how she was going to decide where she lived regardless of the worker.

What happens if they make me leave…? Maya started to doubt herself. Liam! I will have to find a way to stay, to see what happens with-

"What's up with you?" Liam snapped his fingers in front of Maya's face.

"Oh... Heya, sorry I was just, um, thinking about... Well, things..." Maya stuttered, not wanting to tell him the truth about the fact she might be leaving in a bit.

"What is it...? And don't tell me nothing because I can read you like a book Maya!" Liam sat on the swing next to Maya.

Maya shook her head at the question. How could I tell him that they have come to take me away because Mike left us, and how supposedly Aaron can't look after a 17 year old and look after himself properly... Well I wasn't going to! I can't. He still thinks we have a chance, and so did I, but not now...

"Well, let's just say… If I were to go away, what would happen…?" Maya asked, not letting Liam know the whole truth but a fragment of it.

"Why? What's happened?" Liam started, but Maya just stared at him. "Well, we would make it work, we have only just got this working so I'm not going to let the fact you are moving away stop us!"

Maya stared at Liam. She couldn't believe that he wasn't going to let distance stop them! She could feel a smile forming as butterflies started in her stomach.

Why am I feeling this way? Do I actually still love him? He did save my life, and he did fight to get me back, even if it was a year after…

Maya couldn't help herself as she pulled Liam up into a hug before pulling him down and kissing him.

~ Liam Taylor ~

Liam was a bit stunned by the kiss. He didn't think she felt this way, seeing as it took him roughly a year to get her back into his life.

Maya pulled away, "Sorry I shouldn't have done that! I was stupid and you probably don't-" Liam pressed his lips to her soft ones to atop her talking. Wrapping his arms round her waist he pulled her closer to him, as she snaked her arms round his neck, and running her fingers through his hair.

"Don't ever say that again!" Liam pulled away from the kiss, to tell Maya she was silly for saying sorry.

"I love you!" Was all Maya replied as she rested her head on his chest, wrapping her arms round his waist.

"I love you too, May!" Liam kissed the top of her head.