Upstairs (gmw/Lucaya)

Chapter ten

"Hey!" I say, climbing up to the roof.
"How'd you know I was up here?"
"Because you always tell me when you leave."
"Mr.Matthews told me to just incase something were to happen."
"Is it that or just because I always catch you on your way down?"
"Both." I sit down on the edge of the building with her. I'm terrified but her calmness calms me down.
"You packed for New york?"
"Ya." She looks down at her feet with a sullen look on her face. Then she looks back up giving a small smile.
"Don't let me jump." I grab her left hand and put it under mine.
"I'm as strong as a horse." She looked me in the eyes.
"Bill cheated on my dad. I caught him fucking a women in the bathroom at his office. She was his girlfriend too."
"Did you tell your mom?" She looked back off the roof.
"Ya. She didn't care. She thinks thats fine. I found the woman. She dumped him and a week later he proposed to my mom."
"Oh. That's why you don't like him. I thought it was just the usual daughter hating the stepdad thing."
"Well, theres a new man their father should be."
"Let me guess. Now you're gonna ask me a personal question."
"And you're gonna feel obligated to answer it."
"What happened between you and Riley?"
"I told yo-"
"In detail."
"We were dating and we were talking normally. We didn't really notice it at first but the relationship was slipping. There was a different feeling to it from the beginning."
"The reason you don't want to date a lot of girls? You get that feeling?" I nod.
"But how do you know that that feeling is different if you don't know what it feels different from."
"But I do. When I dated you." She looks up at me surprised. I start to move my hand of off hers to wrap around her.
"Don't move it." She says quickly.
"Are you afraid of heights?"
"I'm afraid of killing myself. And I don't want to die now."
"What?"
"I have no control over myself." She leans in and kisses me. I kiss back and and we lean onto our backs and pull apart, laughing. I move her hair from her face.
"You are beautiful."
"You're supposed to say that."
"No, I mean it. There is so much more to you than there is on the surface. I am so glad that I got to be one of the few that got to know about the mysterious Maya hart and I am always going to be searching for more."
"And I will always be searching you."
"But You're harder to tame."
"Damn right, I am." She gets up and runs across the roof as I chase her. Once I catch her I tackle her to her back and tackle her to her back and then sit on top of her.
"I win!"
"Horse."
"Lion." She laughs and I kiss her.