New Years (Joshaya)

Chapter 8

Maya's POV

Today was Friday, which meant it was game day for Zay and Lucas. As a ritual, Zay and Lucas always let Riley and I wear their practice jerseys to school. Riley's has 'Friar' on the back of hers and mine has 'Babineaux' on the back.

Obviously Lucas lets Riley wear his jersey for romantic reasons. He wants everyone to know that she is his.

Zay and I on the other hand did it at first to mock Riley and Lucas. Then it just became a daily thing. It wasn't weird for us considering he was my guy best friend and I was his girl best friend.

Riley and I walked down the hallway together sporting our jerseys.

"So Maya" Riley starts.

"So Riles" I copy.

"Does Josh like how close you and Zay are?" She asks

"I don't know. He never mentioned it, neither have I. I doubt he cares, he should know that Zay is one of my best friends," I shrug

"What if he gets upset?" She asks

"He won't." I reassure her.

We walk into history class and there stood Mr. Matthews and Josh. Is him being here becoming a regular thing?

I smile at Josh but he doesn't return it. Instead his eyes are glued to the jersey I'm wearing. Oh boy.

We sit down in our seats and I turn to Riley.

"What is he doing here?" I whisper

"I don't know! He didn't have school again so my dad just invited him. Apparently whenever he's here you're on your 'best behavior' or something," she whispers back.

"But I'm wearing Zays jersey!"

"I know!"

"Ahem" Mr. Matthews gets everyone's attention.

"As you know today is game day," he begins but is interrupted by the boys in the class cheering. "Anyway, I figured today we could do something fun."

"Matthews your definition and our definition of fun is very different" I say

"We are having a scavenger hunt" he smiles

The whole class perks up.

"You will be separated into teams of four. Three people will go find what's on the list while the fourth person stays in the class to stay with the objects. The fourth person also reads what's on the list," mr Matthews explains.

"I assume you can create your own groups," he says

"Us four" Riley says turning to Lucas, Zay and I. We all agree.

"No choose your jobs"

"Maya you should be the one who stays here!" Riley says.

"No way! Boing will talk to me!"

"You have to deal with it eventually," Riley says and I sigh.

I nod my head in agreement.

Everyone stands up and moves the desk out of the way, but into groups of four. I sat on top of the four desks.