The Four Lovers.

Chapter 28

ERMAHGERD! Genius *round of applause* Thank you peasants! LOVE YOU ALL! ENORMOUS HUGS FOR EVERYONE XOXOXO -Maya

Breathe. Breathe. Okay, I can’t contain my excitement any longer. When Phil leaves to go to the bathroom, I jump up and down repeatedly for the remaining time until he returns. Then, I reach for my iPod and plug it into the speakers that are conveniently placed in the living room, which is the biggest room in our tiny flat. 

I hand Phil the iPod with an amused expression. “Pick a song.” Looking baffled, he can only scroll through the music and finally he came to a decision. 

“Poor old Johnny Ray, sounded sad upon the radio, but he moved a million hearts in mono.” Come On Eileen starts to play really loud. This song is my jam! 

“Come on Eileen, oh I swear what me means...” I begin to sing, while I dance around our living room. In the process, Phil is watching me while he rearranges our furniture so we have space to dance. I thank him and then when the song returns to the chorus he gets up and dances along side me. 

We both jump around, lip singing the lyrics while doing the running man and pumping our fists in excitement. Phil is possibly the most horrible dancer on the earth. I laugh at him while I glide around the floor and belch the lyrics into a pen microphone. 

Just as the song ends, Dan and Elena enter our house, each with their hands behind their backs. Suspicious, I dance over towards them while my iPod now plays Safety Dance. They put down gift bags on a table and we all dance in the living room. We form a circle of dancing insane people, whilst I am in the middle dancing my feet off. When the song ends we all laugh and take a moment to catch our breaths whilst the iPod plays Dancing Shoes by Arctic Monkeys. 

“You are amazing Maya.” Elena says to me with a huge smile on her face. I chuckle at the remark and just collapse on the floor. Phil joins me on the floor. Then Dan, and finally Elena so we are all lying on the floor. 

“Yes, I am amazing.” I respond and smile. The three of them start to laugh their butts off. “Now bring me my gifts!” I order no one imparticular. Elena grumbles something, but makes her way towards the gift bags. 

“A simple please would suffice.” She complains and hands me the wrapped gifts. 

PHIL’S POINT OF VIEW

Maya carefully unwraps her presents. She has tried to do it without tearing the delicate wrapping paper, but it is no use. In slight frustration she rips the packaging off. 

“No!” Maya cries out all of a sudden. “You got me this?” She asks when Elena lets on a smile. “I freaking love you!” She screeches and gave her best friend a huge ol' hug. Dan and I chuckle at their insanity.

“Well, show me!” I demand. The curiosity of the present is weighing me down. She runs over to me and shows me a record player. It is gorgeous, with a wooden base, with intricate designs running along it. Inside the record player is the Yellow Submarine album of the Beatles ready to play. What a fantastic best friend. 

“Wow, I want one!” Dan whines from his place standing next to me, looking over my shoulder. Maya lets out a good loud laugh and glances at me. Her eyes twinkle with amusement, a speck of green in her eyes catching the light and glittering. I haven’t noticed the green in her eyes until now. When she smiles two dimples form on her face, one to the right of her lip on the corner, the other on the opposite cheek. Her dimples are amusing and extremely noticeable, though that may be because she smiles so much. Her short pixie hair cut looks perfect on her. She is wearing an olive green dress that stretches right above her knee. She is wearing burgundy tights with no shoes. 

Suddenly, Maya is standing next to me, where Dan was with her arms around me. I chuckle and hug her back. Sadly she is about the same height as me, so I don’t have the taller advantage. Quickly, Maya presses her lips to mine and then pulls away just as fast. Smiling, I watched her join Elena in a wiggle dance where the two of them just sort of wiggled around looking like funny idiots. In a good way. Suddenly the door rings. Maya immediatly shrieks, “I got it!” and runs towards the door. 

MAYA’S POINT OF VIEW

When the door swung open, I swallowed hard and stared the visitor right in the face, even though that goes against everything I know. Guilt immediatly rises in my stomach and I feel sick to the bone. 

“You okay there?” Liam offers to me probably because I look like I am going to throw up. Stop being such a wimp, I tell myself. 

“I am just groov-dandy.” I immediatly change my sentence aware of the person in front of me. Liam lets out an awkward cough before I remember my manners. “Come on in.” I say and open the door wider to let him in. When he enters the flat, a silence creeps in and consumes all of us. We all kind of just stand there staring at Liam. 

Swallowing hard, I offered Liam tea and go to the kitchen to make a fresh pot for the group. Behind me, I can see Phil staring Liam down with a glare that, well, everyone but me could read. Elena sighs and Dan does a little dance to break the awkwardness, which unfortunately only makes everything a little more uncomfortable.