Love is for Suckers (Joshaya)

Chapter 9

The day had ended and Maya was at home getting ready for her study session.  Josh was due there any minute and Maya found herself sitting on the couch feeling nervous for some reason. She had no idea why, she had no reason to be all he was doing was helping her with history. She tried to tell herself to calm down but she still felt her leg shaking impatiently as she waited for him. 

Soon there was a knock on the door and Maya quickly stood up but she tried to compose herself before she opened the door. She took a moment to take a deep breath and then walked over and opened the door.

"Hey" he smiled at her

"Hey" she tries to say as naturally as she can they stand there for a moment till Maya finally steps aside and lets him in.

Once inside Maya notices him taking in the whole apartment. As he did she for some reason felt self conscious, Her apartment was nothing compared to the Matthews, but it was big enough for her and her mother (when she was here) and that was all that matter.

"Nice place" he says.

"Thanks, so uh should we get started?" 

"Sure, where would you like to do this?" he asks her. 

"Uh, I guess the table"  she directs him to her small table where she had placed her bag. As soon as they sat down she takes out her textbook and she sees Josh take something out of his own bag.

"So Cory gave me your test so I could see what you're having trouble with" he explains. Maya nods and does as she is told when asked to open her book.

They  begin to go over the test and the questions that Maya got wrong, It's a little rocky at first but eventually Maya began to feel she was getting the hang of it.

Josh seemed to be very patient and happily repeated when Maya was not understanding which Maya was very appreciative of. Maya tried her best to pay attention but at times she found herself staring at Josh as he spoke and not paying attention to anything he said instead she payed attention to how his forehead creased when he was thinking  and how he used his hands for emphasis. Maya would shake the thoughts away and concentrate on the textbook instead.

"Well I think we did enough for today, see it wasn't as bad as you thought it was going to be" Josh  teases

Maya chuckles "No I guess not"

They stay silent for a moment neither knowing what else to say.

"Hope I wasn't too much of a pain to teach" she teases

Josh chuckles "Trust me no pain at all" he smiles at her and she gets goosebumps.

Josh looks at the clock "Well it's getting late, I should get back" 

"Okay" Maya says and for some reason she is kind of sad to see him go but she tries to hide it.

He packs up his stuff and Maya walks him to the door.

"So uh I won't be helping Cory  tomorrow but how about we have another study session tomorrow?" he asks 

Maya nods "Okay"

Josh smiles "Good, well I'll see you then. Night Maya"  he says

"Night" she says staring at those pretty brown eyes he had. She tries to snap herself out of it.

He leaves and Maya closes the door and leans her back against the door and sighs.

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"So how was the study date?" is Riley's first question when she sees her best friend at school the next day.

Maya rolls her eyes "It was not a date Riles" 

"Whatever, so how was it?" she asks

"It was okay, he's a pretty good teacher"  She couldn't help the smile that crept on her face.

"Yeah, I remember when we were younger I had trouble in Math so he spent all summer helping me" Riley smiles at the memory

 "That was nice of him"

"Yeah he's always had a big heart, always willing to drop anything to help someone"

Even though they had only known each other for only a couple days, she could tell that Josh was very sweet and kind, he seemed to really care about his family. Maya was so in her thoughts that she didn't realize they had arrived to their class till Riley snapped her out of it.

"What were you thinking about?" She asks smirking

Maya rolls her eyes and enters the class. As she sits down she gets text message

Can't wait for out study session later ;)

Maya tries to hide the smile that was forming