Young Love {LUCAYA}

Chapter 12: Cheerleading

"Maya get up." Riley demands while shaking her friend who has her blanket basically glued to her body.

There's a muffled 'no' in response and Riley takes a deep breath before pushing Maya off the bed.

"You've been inside this burrito blanket everyday after school ever since you dumped Nathan and shut out Lucas!" Riley exclaims.

Maya doesn't respond until she hits the ground and in monotone says, "Ow"

"I think you should come to my cheerleading practice. Macy broke her leg after falling off the pyramid and needs a replacement. Plus it would be a good distraction for youuu." Riley informs. The brunette then unrolls Maya until she's completely free from the blanket.

"Uck!" Maya shouts as soon as she seeings Riley looming over her. Riley smiles and pulls Maya up. "Also you could flaunt yourself in front of Lucas while wearing the cheer uniform."

"If I go, will you stop bugging me?" Maya asks and Riley nods her head eagerly.

"Okay get me some clothes to wear, we both know I live off of your stuff." Maya directs and Riley digs into her dresser and pulls out black spanks and a bright blue sports bra.

"Riley, what are those?" Maya asks and Riley cocks her head to the side, "What you're practicing in?" She replies.

"Those are clothes, those are what I wear under my clothes." Maya tells her and Riley rolls her eyes. "Stop being a baby and put them on.

Maya goes into the corner of the room to change, "and it's cold outside." She whines.

Riley throws a sweater at Maya before walking out the door, "HURRY UP. MISSY IS WAITING."

Maya rolls her eyes, grabs her converse, and runs outside to meet up with the other girls.

When they get to the gym, the first thing they do is stretch.

"Are you still flexible?" Riley asks Maya who shakes her head, "I don't think so. It's been years since I've been able to do my little tricks." Maya informs.

"Lets just stretch you as much as possible and see what you can do." Riley advises.

After stretching, Maya almost manages to completely do the splits, can do a cartwheel, but when she did a front or backflip, she'd fall on her butt. Luckily she's small, which is the primary reason why Missy is allowing her on the team.

"Kick higher!" Riley shouts and Maya glares at Riley, wiping the spit from her face.

Maya can somewhat pull her leg to her head, but not completely.

"If you wanna stay on this team, Hart, you've got to give this sport 1000% of hard work and focus." Riley shouts.

"Jesus." Maya whispers.

By the end of practice, the blonde feels exhausted. Riley hugs Maya, "You survived! Congrats!" She sings.

Maya glares at her, "Anything else you want me to do, captain?"

"Actually, you should probably stretch, regain your flexibility."  Riley tells her before skipping again.

Maya sighs and does a side-lunge to stretch her thighs which at this point, are extremely sore.

"Hey look!" Someone says immediately as they enter the gym. "A new cheerleader."

Maya looks over her shoulder at the jocks entering the gym.

"Maya?" Nathan says her name with disbelief. She stands up straight and walks over to him, "Hi."

"W..where are your clothes at?" He asks and she gives him a fake smile, "Probably next to Jade's." She replies and he scoffs as he makes his way toward the weight room with the rest of the guys.

"Nice..." Lucas tells her and she turns the other way, refusing to make eye contact with him.

"Did you do this to impress me?" He asks softly in her ear. She rolls her eyes and exchanges a glance with Riley who is waiting for any sign to save her.

"Still not talking to me? Come on Hart, it's been like three weeks." He says and places a hand on her waist.

Even though her heart is racing, she bites her lip to stay calm and crosses her arms. She lets out a deep breath that hitches as soon as she feels the warmth of breath on her neck.

She looks at Riley again who starts to make her way toward them both, but Lucas can clearly see Riley and pulls away from Maya and slips away into the weight room.

"I don't know what's wrong with me." Maya whimpers and Riley pulls her into a tight, safe hug. 

Hot tears fall from her cheeks, "I have all these feelings of anger and hate built up inside and then he makes me feel nervous when I'm around him and then I feel sad because we aren't who we used to be." Maya admits and Riley reassures her that it's okay.

"You're just confused." Riley tells her gently, "and that's okay. I mean some people get confused about who they are, what they're sexuality is, and you just need to figure out how to express yourself and your feelings."

Maya nods and slides her jacket back on before walking home with Riley. "Want some hot chocolate?" The brunette asks and Maya nods, lost in her thoughts.

(A/N: sometimes my emotions are wacky like this so yeah. You're probably like why tf is she crying? And I'd be like IM EMOTIONAL OKAY!? Anyhow, thanks for reading. I wrote this in like an hour so I hope you enjoy. If you think this chapter sucks, I can redo it.)