Fate

Chapter 10

Maya POV

After arriving at the airport Lucas made me get out of the car with him so he could say good-bye to me. I waited as he got his luggage out of the trunk Mom said that she was going to drive to a near by Starbucks to get a coffee and to text her when we were done. It didn't take him long to check both his bags in which made it a lot easier for him to get through TSA. Plus he found out his flight was going to be delayed by an hour so that gave us a lot more time. I texted Mom to let her know and she told me that was perfectly fine to spend as much time as I needed that she was just sitting in Starbucks reading an EBook on her iPad. 

Lucas grabbed my hand after I got done texting Mom. "Come with me, I want to talk to you." 

"Where else am I going to go?" I said sarcastically and he rolled his eyes at me. 

"At least you haven't lost your sense of humor in all that sadness." he replied back. 

We took a seat on a near by bench away from everyone. He never let go of my hand.

"What did you want to talk about?" I curiously asked. 

"Maya, I know how hard this is for you that I'm leaving soon. It's killing me seeing how distraught you are over it. I want you to be strong for me though. I have faith in us that we will make this work. I love you and no one else. It's going to suck being so far away from you but we have FaceTime, we have text messages, and we can do that all the time no matter what. Text me, call me, or  FaceTime me whenever you want but just promise me that you'll be okay?" 

I started crying again which I hated to do because I knew he hated when I cried, "I promise I'll try to be strong for you but this is so hard, Lucas. But I've never fallen for any other boy like I have you. And if that scares you away I get it." I admitted. 

Lucas put his hand under my chin and tilted my face up so I was looking at him "Maya, I want you to look at me." 

I closed my eyes as another tear ran down my cheek but I looked at him. "I'm sorry." 

"First off nothing you could do would ever scare me and to be quite honest with you I'm shocked you didn't go running for the hills after that whole Santa Suit fiasco." and when he said that I actually laughed for the first time since last night. 

"I don't know what the hell possessed you to do that." I giggled. 

"It's good to hear you laugh Maya.  Your laughter is music to my ears." 

"Yeah it kind of felt good to laugh." I sniffled. 

"But to finish what I was saying, I have fallen hard for you too. No other girl compares to you. I've never felt this way about any other girl before. I love you Maya. Please promise me though that you will try to get through this?" he asked. 

"I will try, I don't want to make any promises because I know as soon as you have to go that I'll be crying again." 

"Okay I'll give you that because you said you were going to try for me." he said with a smile. "I love you." 

"I love you more." I replied. 

"Nah you don't." 

"Don't fight me, Huckleberry." I said giving him a small smile. 

"I've got to get going, Maya. I need to get in the TSA line and get to my terminal." he sighed. 

"Okay. I'll text Mom and tell her she can come get me. The Starbucks she's at is right here so it wouldn't take her long." 

Lucas and I stood up, he finally let go of my hand and I tried really hard to fight away the tears, "I'll FaceTime you as soon as I get to Texas. My flight is only an hour and half." The tears started running down my cheeks and he wiped them away.