Saving Maya ~ Rilaya [DISCONTINUED]

Chapter 16

"Riley..uh hey. What's up?"

Maya interrupts my gaze. I shake my head back into reality.

"Maya do you know what you're taking there?"

She furrows her brows, confused.

"Well.. not exactly."
I walk over, setting my purse down and pick up the bottle of pills and turn them around so I could see the label.

Pradaxa?

I turn to the nurse.

"Why the hell does she need Pradaxa?! Are you insane?!"

I look over to Maya, she looks more confused than I am.

"Yeah nurse, fill me in please." Maya says with a harsh tone to her raspy voice.

I turn back to the nurse.

"Why..why would she even need this?.. is there something wrong with her heart?"

Pradaxa is a blood thinning drug for people with severe irregular heartbeats. Can cause severe internal bleeding.

"Girls, calm down. " the nurse attempts to reassure.

It's not working.

"This is a small dosage of Pradaxa, her heart and nerves are still in shock and her heart is beating irregularly, but only minorly. This is just to calm and settle things down in her system. There is nothing to be worried about!"

I don't trust this lady.

My glare still stands.

"I'm sorry-" Maya interrupts.

"But for one, why didn't you tell me this..or anything for that matter. And two, if my nerves are still in shock, they will still calm down as long as I remain calm and get rest. I shouldn't have irregular heart rates or any sort of medicine, a nurse would have told her patient to just..rest."

My eyes widen in how Maya actually knows any of this.

"Either way-" the nurse attempts to speak but I interrupt.

"Either way, Maya you're allergic to this. It contains tartaric acid."

The nurse turns to me with an annoyed look.

"Tartaric acid.." I roll my eyes.

"It's contained in grapes. It's a natural acid and in Maya's rare condition she cannot eat anything that contains it."

The nurse sighs.

"Alright, thank you for telling me. I will talk to the doctors."

And with that she walks out of the room.

Maya snorts. "Tartaric acid? Cmon riles I eat grapes all the time."

A smirk appears on my face and I chuckle under my breath.

"I may have fibbed a bit."

"Good thing you're a science nerd. But..why didn't you want me taking those exactly? What was the big deal anyway?"

I sigh and sit down across from her in the hospital bed.

"I had another dream."

Maya's eyes peak with interest.

I continued to tell her about my weird dream and the phone and the allergic reaction to the pills.

"You know, that could have all just been a stupid dream."

I rub my arm and look down sheepishly.

"I..I know I just didn't want to take any chances Maya."

I look in her eyes once more.

"I don't want to lose you."  I say, staring.

She smiles and looks down.

She's playing with her bracelet..she only does that when she's nervous.

Why would she be nervous?

She looks back up at me and we sit in silence for a few moments until we are looking directly into each other's eyes and I don't notice her moving closer to me.

Soon enough I'm caught off guard with a pair of lips brushing up against mine.

Maya was kissing me.

It took me a moment to actually realize what was happening and once it hit me, I quickly kissed her back and intertwined my hand into hers.

I wanted this moment to last forever. Her lips were so soft and perfect. Perfectly fitted with mine.

And then she pulled away.

"I - I'm sorry" she spit out as she was looking down at our hands. "I shouldn't have done that. "

"Maya.."

"No." She cut me off.

"I'm sorry, I really shouldn't have done that...you should go, really. Please. I need some rest."

I try to hold back tears as I slowly pull my hand away from hers.

"..okay, I'm.. sorry." I get up and grab my back and without
looking back, I walk out the door.

What the hell did that mean?

As I get out the hospital doors the traffic still seems to be bad so I just decide to walk home, it was a nice fall day anyway.

To distract myself, I pull my phone and earbuds out of my bag and start playing some music.

As the music plays, my mind starts to wander.

She wouldn't even look at me after the kiss...

Did I do something wrong?

She probably just did it for my sake. She has a boyfriend..

I don't think I like this whole friends with benifits thing.

I want to either be Maya Harts girlfriend or just her friend. No inbetween.

I start to tear up at the fact that..I think she realized she didn't like me or..

My mind kept rambling. I couldn't think correctly. At all.

I emerged onto my apartment doorstep and walked into the large building. Climbed up the stairs to my specific apartment and unlocked it with the key in my bag.

As I walk into my small apartment, I pull the earbuds out of my ears gently And wrap them around my phone, then place them back into my bag.

Nobody seems to be home.

And I don't really feel like going to school today.

I walked back into my room and flopped onto my bed.

Maya hart, what are you doing to me?