After You Left (Lucaya)

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A/N: And were back! Sorry I've been so distracted the past few days with things, but I have been writing in between things. It's even a little bit longer for you guys! Hope you enjoy it! There's much Lucaya at the end, what you've all been waiting for!

Maya's POV

When I got off the phone with Riley when I was heading home from work there was a note on my door and it almost made me panic a little before I saw what it said. I was very questionable about what could be behind my door. I thought about leaving because part of me was scared. I went with my gut and slowly opened the door. When I peeped inside I saw Lucas sitting in a chair at the kitchen table.

"Lucas?" I raised my eyebrow in question.

"Hi Maya." He smiled at me.

"Did you do all this yourself?" I asked him looking at the dinner he had prepared for two. I was starting to put together why Riley was being sketchy earlier.

"I did. I wanted to do something nice for you since we really haven't had much one on one time to talk." He replied as he stood up and pulled out a chair at the table for me to sit in. I just went with it and sat down.

"You know that comes with having a kid right? You barely even have time for yourself let alone other people." I retorted.

"Yes I understand that and I'm ready for that, but there's things we haven't fully discussed about what happened after I moved." I wasn't sure where this was going. Does he know? It started to make me a little nervous.

"What do you mean?" I asked. "I told you what happened, I got pregnant, had Claire, raised her til now and now here we are. I don't know what else there is to discuss about it." I tried covering it up, but I don't think he's buying it.

"Maya.." he sighed. "I know what happened, not in full detail, but I know enough to know that you need to be the one to tell me the rest."

"How about after we eat?" I suggested.

"That's fine, but you aren't getting out of it so don't think I'm going to forget." He replied and I just nodded at him, this was the one thing I never wanted him to find out.

After we got done eating our tacos, which was quite delicious, we moved into the living room so we could have this conversation. I was dreading this throughout the whole dinner. Everything else was honestly great though, I couldn't complain. After we sat on the couch I brought my legs up to my chest and just kinda sat there for a minute trying to render what I was going to say and how I was going to say it.

"Maya I can sit here all night if I need to, but you're going to have to tell me." Lucas finally spoke up which made me look directly at him.

"I honestly don't know where to begin Lucas.." I said quietly because I was trying to hold back tears.

"I thought this all stopped back when we first got together, we got you through all that. I know depression is a tricky thing, but you came so far to slip back into that." He replied with the look of concern on his face.

"Yeah, but then you left me.. then I found out I was pregnant at 16 years old. It was too much. I didn't know how to handle it. I needed you and you weren't there when you said I could always count on you." I said to him the best way I could and I could feel the burning of the tears building up in my eyes.