Saving Maya

Chapter 26. That One

Hey! Ok so three things before the chapter:

First, I'm sorry for any typos, my backspace key is broken

Second, I'm sorry I haven't updated since july, but high schools a thing so....

Third, I was pretty late to the hamilton train but im listening to it while im writing so if random lyrics show up that's why

I do not own gmw or bmw

Oh yeah also I don't know if I've mentioned Smackle during this entire story but she's gonna show up here so just letting you know she's still around and friends with the squad.

Enjoy!

Lucas POV

"You don't think..." Farkle starts.

"I don't know. I don't know what to do" I say. 

"Do you think we should talk to her?" Riley asks. I shake my head.

"No. If we talk to her she'll say she's fine like she always does." I say. "We need to talk to someone else. The question is who."

"I don't think my dad would be any help, and my mom's going out of town for work tomorrow." Riley says. "So that leaves Shawn."

"Ok, we'll go talk to Shawn then." I say. We get up and go back into the kitchen.

"Uncle Shawn? We need to talk to you." Riley says. He looks at her questioningly but nods. The three of us sit down.

"We think there's something wrong with Maya." I say.

"What do you mean?" He asks.

"She fell asleep so Lucas took her home and he says he thinks that his seven year old sister weighs more than her." Riley explains. "We don't know what to do." 

"Why didn't you talk to her first?" Shawn asks. 

"Because she'd deny it and tell us she was fine, like she always does. We'd get nowhere." I say.

"You're right. Just pay attention to her, I don't know. Riley why does your mother have to go out of town at the worst possible time. She went through something like this in college..." He trailed off, glared at me for a second,  then shook his head.  So I guess that's the plan? We're just going to watch her eat or something? 

 ////Time Skip////

Maya POV

     Wait a second, how did I get here? Oh yeah, Lucas brought my home. Cool. So now I have to get ready for school. At least junior year is almost over. Anyways, I get up and get ready for school, you know the drill, and go into the kitchen.

"Maya, muffin?" Shawn offers.

"I'm ok, thanks" I say. I'm not really a breakfast person.

"I wasn't asking" He says as he tosses it me. I catch it and give him a confused look. Normally he kinda just lets me do what I want when it comes to my breakfast, or lack thereof. I start to eat the muffin as I head out the door across the hall to get Riley. She see's me and she looks kind of... relieved? I'd think that was weird but that's kinda my life so I'm just gonna ignore it and hope that it doesn't come back later. I finish my muffin and throw the wrapper in the trash and we head to school.  We get to school and the morning goes pretty normally. Everyone seems kinda on edge though. Eh, I'm just gonna ignore that too. Right now I just want to go to lunch. I'm starving, and exhausted so yeah food would be nice about now. We get out of History and head to the lunchroom, get our food, and sit down. Normal stuff. What's really not normal is my friends very noticeably watching me eat.   

"Ok whats going on?" I ask the group. The all act like there's nothing going on, but there also all terrible liars. Except Zay and Smackle, they're pretty convincing. 

"You've been on edge all day and now you're all watching me eat" I say, turning toward Riley, Farkle, and Lucas. "What is going on?" The look at each other, then back at me, then at each other again. 

"We were worried about you" Riley says. "After Lucas took you home the other night, he came back to my house. He told us he thought you weighed almost nothing."

"So you what, thought I had an eating disorder because Lucas could carry me easily? I'm a small person." I say. 

"Maya, what concerned us was that I could carry you more easily than my seven year old sister." Lucas says. "We would have said something to you except you would have told us you were fine and that would have been the end of it."

"I thank you for your concern, but I do not have an eating disorder." I say before going back to my food.

"No Maya this doesn't just go away. Even if you don't have an eating disorder there's still no way you're at a healthy weight. It's your turn to tell us what's going on." Riley says. I look up at them and sigh.

"It may have something to do with the fact that I haven't been sleeping much." I say. They all look really confused. 

"Maya, why aren't you sleeping?" Farkle asks. 

"I can't. I can't remember the last time I slept through the night. The nightmares, they don't go away." I say.

"Ok but what would that have to do you not weighing anything." Riley asks.

 "Well because I wasn't getting any sleep I was actually gaining weight, because apparently that happens, so I decided to do something rather than just lay there and try to sleep. I started exercising, I didn't know what else to do."  I explain.

"Maya," Lucas says, "That's not healthy. If you're not sleeping then you need to see someone about it. Exhausting yourself is just going to make it worse." 

"I know, I don't know I just wanted to be..." I trail off.

"Wanted to be what?" Smackle says.

"I don't know. I just know that I'm never gonna be the smart one or the tall one" I say, gesturing towards Riley and Smackle. "I just wanted to be something."

"Maya you are something. I'm never gonna be able to draw or sing like you. You don't need to be any different than you are. We love you just the way you are. " Riley says. 

AN

Ok so I had a different plan for ending this but I don't know how to write it without it being super awkward and weird so I'm just gonna end it here. 

Can you guess which Boy Meets World episode I referenced? Extra thumbs up to you if you know why Shawn glared at Lucas. 

Hope you enjoyed!

BYE!