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fourty-two | 'you're a disgusting creature!'

MAYA CONT.

I would be lying if I said I was happy about the man barging in. I mean, obviously, I would be mad because he literally pushed me to the wall.

But on a more serious note, I wasn't happy about the man.

"What the hell, you asshole?" The brown-haired man punched Lucas in the gut as soon as he stopped in front of him after barging in.

"Ow!" Lucas groaned in pain as he fell to the ground, grabbing his shirt.

Both Mrs Friar and I rushed up to help Lucas up and she started to lecture the man.

"Josh, why did you do that!" As soon as I heard Mrs Friar mention his name, I looked up to see someone I never wanted to see again.

"J— Josh...?" I stammered. "Wha... what are you doing here?"

"Oh, great! Luci's new girlfriend is here, too. Didn't see you when I was coming in," he snorted at me.

"I— wh— oh my god," I simply said, still feeling shocked on the inside at the sight.

Lucas, who was now sitting on the chair, stood up, moaning in pain. After several attempts and me helping him up, he finally stood up and put his face near to Josh's.

"Why the hell did you come in and punch me? Especially after you left us years ago," Lucas glared at him, as if he were challenging Josh.

"Why can't I come back to my own home?" Josh laughed. "I can't believe you got together with my girlfriend while I was away. I saw your Instagram post, Lucas. And I flew back. I flew from New York."

"Well... Josh dear, firstly. You are definitely NOT my boyfriend anymore. I want nothing to do with a love relationship with you anymore. Secondly... nobody forced you to come back here but you did it anyway... I wonder why?" I said.

What came next was nothing like I had ever expected from a guy I once dated.

"You're a disgusting creature!"

His hand came flying across and it hit the right side of my face, hard.

I immediately brought my hand up to my cheek, tears rushing out of my eyes. "I— I..."

"Josh!" Mrs Friar, who had been quietly watching from the side, shouted at the top of her lungs. "Get out of my house!"

I ran as fast as I could back to my room and closed the door.

"Maya!" Lucas was chasing after me despite his injury, but I closed the door before he could enter. I sat on my bed, crying as I tried forgetting about the pain excruciating through my cheek.

I heard Josh shout back at Mrs Friar, "Whatever, you never liked me anyway, MUM!"

And then the door slammed.

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1 hour later

"Maya? Are you okay?" I heard Lucas' gentle voice as he knocked on the door for the tenth time after the incident.

I knew that he was sitting outside, waiting for me to come out as I could hear him cough a few times already, plus he kept knocking and talking to me, with me ignoring him.

"Maya... I know that must have hurt. But he's gone, now. And he won't be coming back because we no longer welcome him home." Lucas reasoned.

He continued, "Please, I want to know if you're okay. Please come out, Maya."

I had been sitting on my bed, hugging my knees to my chest. I wasn't crying because Josh didn't like me or looked down on me. It was because of what he said.

'You're a disgusting creature!"

Did everyone think of me that way? They probably did. I'm broke, my parents hated me so much they left home or beat me up, my first boyfriend hated me and looked down on me... did Lucas even really like me?

"Maya, please," Lucas pleaded.

I finally got off my bed and walked over to open the door, before walking back to my bed.

His eyes lit up as soon as he saw me, but I could see disappointment in his eyes when he saw me in this state.

He walked over to where I was and sat down on the bed. He pushed a strand of my hair back and used his gigantic thumb to wipe the tears on my face off.

"Hey, Maya."

"Lucas... do you really love me?" I mumbled.

He turned my head to make our eyes meet and said, "I love you with all my heart."

"Really? J... Josh called me disgusting, my parents left me... how could you still like me?"

He dropped his hands to my lap and held mine. "Maya, no matter what other people think of you or what happened to you in the past, I'm always going to accept you just like you accepted me. I love you, and that's all you and I need to know."

I cried harder, and he pushed my head to his chest. "There, there... Mayas don't cry, remember?"

I laughed despite the tears and wrapped my arms around him, still lying on his chest.

Thank you, Mrs Friar, for giving birth to an such an amazing man.

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ooh damn is the lucaya drama over I wonder 🤗🤔🤔 (ps. would you guys like to see zayadora or riarkle next?????)

anyway!! I just wanted to say that I absolutely LOVE writing this book and it's literally the first book I've ever written so I'm glad I've made it here HAHA

but do you guys actually like this book?? bc I feel like idk if my writing is super bad and I wanna know so please comment hehe thank uuuu 💙