It's About Time (GMW - Joshaya)

Chapter 44

Maya's POV

"Really, Maya?" Lucas rolled his eyes at me.

"What?" Smackle ripped the paper out of his hands.

"I  have absolutely no idea what you are talking about," I pretended to be focused on my nails.

"You know exactly what I'm talking about," he shot me a look.

"Does someone wanna fill me in on what we are talking about then," she pried.

"Just keep looking," Lucas replied.

She scanned her eyes up and down until she figured it out, "A COWBOY HAT!"

"Hahuuuuurrrrr," I yelled in Lucas's face and then turned proudly to Smackle. "You are right on the money, Miss Smarty Pants!" I booped a finger on her nose.

"Okay, well as much as I love your little banter and set-ups to make fun of my wonderful and rich culture, we don't have time to get a cowboy hat from my place...so HA," he marked an 'x' on the paper to signal that we wouldn't be getting that item. 

"Fine, what else can we get?" I looked over at the paper which was still in Smackle's hands.

"Banana Peel!" I shouted in excitement. "We just bought some bananas the other day. Someone can eat one, and then we will have the peel."

The three of us hurried back up to the apartment to get our last item before we proceeded to do our Friendship Bonus Questions. Without even asking Lucas peeled back the banana peel and ate it in like three bites. 

"Damn, much practice, Huckleberry?" I teased

"I bet it was with Zay!" Smackle sucked in a fake gasp.

Lucas ignored our snide remarks. "Are you guys sure there is nothing else on the list that we can get?"

"I might have an old textbook tucked away somewhere in my room. I'll have to check. But other than that, I barely drive my car so I don't have any gas receipts, I threw away my leopard print bra like a year ago, and I never played sports so no trophies here," I began. "But wait a second. Smackle is that a funky animal print bra peeking out of your shirt? More specifically a feline animal more commonly referred to as a leopard."

"No," she quickly readjusted her shirt so that it wasn't visible.

"Tell you what. We will go through our questions and then you have to give it up. Smackle, we vowed to win this, no matter what it takes," I tried to reason with her.

"Fine, but I'm not going first with the questions," she negotiated.

"Deal! Lucas can go first." 

"What? Maya, that's not fa--"

"So what's your biggest fear?" I threw a hand over his mouth to quiet him. "And please don't tell me it's losing in a yodeling or cattle round-up contest."

Smackle and I laughed, but the look on Lucas's face stopped our mockery.

"Okay, so my biggest fear. I would say that would be turning back to the guy I used to be," he answered.

"Texas Lucas?" Smackle asked.

"Yea, Texas Lucas, but not just him. That includes a little bit of New York Texas: ya know when that whole triangle thing was going on," he avoided eye contact with both Smackle and me.

"But we established the fact that you didn't wanna hurt me and how it's always been Riley and it always will be. It's in the past Lucas--we both know we don't like each other like that, we never really did," I tried to ease his distress.