After You Left (Lucaya)

14.

A/N: kind of a filler. some drama is gonna hit next chapter, prepare yourselves. thank you for keeping up on this and my other ongoing story, means a lot you guys like what I put out. love you guys ❤️

Maya's POV

When we all got home I got to making dinner right away. I would be lying if I said I wasn't nervous about telling Claire. I know she'll be happy about it, but the anxiety inside me is literally screaming. I just let Lucas and Claire bond so I could try to get through the anxiety I was having without him noticing. I figured I would make tacos tonight, it's my favorite and to be honest I'm always down for tacos. Claire loves them too so it worked out. I felt strong arms wrap around my stomach and a kiss on my neck.

"Maya everything is going to be fine." He said in a calming voice that put my anxiety at ease.

"What if she sees us?" I asked looking around.

"She won't, she went to take a quick shower before dinner." He replied as I turned around. He could see the nervousness flush over me. "Maya, are you okay? There's no reason to be nervous. We got this." He smiled at me.

"I'm just anxious. This is a big change for everyone." I replied.

"Why are you so anxious? It's not like I'm moving in. It's not that much of a change, except Claire has her dad and you have me, always." He smiled and I couldn't help, but smile back at him.

"Well, I hope you'll want to move in eventually." I responded.

"Of course I will, but I want Claire to get used to having me around and I also want you to get used to us being together again." He smiled. He leaned forward and kissed me softly on the lips and I gave in quickly washing away the anxiety. He pulled away with a big grin on his face.

"What? Why are you looking at me like that?" I asked him.

"You're anxiety's gone. Just like that." He smiled at me. He wasn't wrong though.

"You just have that affect on me huckleberry." I said as I gave him a hug. He has been making me feel so much better about things lately. "So.. I was thinking, maybe you could stay the night tonight?"

"I would love nothing more Maya." He replied.

Shortly after our little talk, Lucas had set up the kitchen table for me, which really helped me out. Claire had come out of the bathroom not 10 minutes later and sat in the living room with her dad while I finished up making dinner. I got everything together and sat it on the table. I went out in the living room to go tell them dinner was finally ready.

"Hey guys, dinner is ready." I spoke up after watching them for a minute. It was so cute seeing Lucas helping her with her homework. I always knew he would be an amazing dad.

"Okay mom!" Claire looked up from her worksheet and smiled at me. Halfway through dinner is when we decided we would bring up everything to her.

"So Claire, your father and I have something we wanted to talk to you about." I said to her causing her to look up from her dinner.

"Is something wrong mom?" She asked concerned.

"No, no baby, quite the opposite actually." I said and Lucas smiled at me.

"You got this Maya." I heard Lucas whisper.

"Do you like having your dad around?" I asked her on a serious level.

"At first I didn't, but now that I've been getting to know him, I really do like having him around, I just wish he was around more." Her saying this warmed my heart, and I know it warmed Lucas's too. "Why are you asking?"

"How would you feel if your dad and I got back together and he was around so much more?" I asked as Lucas grabbed ahold of my hand and she got this cute little smile on her face.

"I would love that mom!" She said all excitedly. "Does that mean he's moving in?"

"No, not yet anyways." I replied to her, I laughed a little at her excitement.  "We're gonna wait a bit so you get to know him better, but eventually, yes he will."

The conversation went over way better then I had anticipated that it would. It honestly made me so happy that she was happy with it. As I cleaned up the dishes and put leftovers away, Lucas helped her finish up her homework for tomorrow and then we decided to sit on the couch and watch a movie together. I cuddled into Lucas and Claire cuddled into me. It actually didn't take Claire long to fall asleep. Around 9pm is when the movie ended and when I sat up and looked behind me Lucas was sleeping too. I quietly picked up Claire and took her into her room and tucked her in. When I walked back out in the living room, Lucas was still assed so I took advantage of this opportunity. I crawled on top of him and kissed him softly on the lips after a few seconds he started to wake up and gave into the kiss deepening it. I pulled away after a few minutes and smiled at him.

"I'm proud of you Maya." He said while putting his hand up to my face and running his thumb across my cheek. "You didn't second guess yourself one bit. I told you, it would go well and it did."

"I feel so much better now that everything is out in the open." I smiled. "I look forward to whatever is going to come next, we really can get through anything and I see that now."

"I've been telling you this for awhile now, but you needed to get there on your own and you did." He replied. I let my arms collapse so I could give him a hug.

"Thank you for always believing in me." I paused. "You always have."

"And I always will." He kissed my forehead after I said that.

I got up off of him and stood up. I held out my hand.

"What?" He asked confused.

"Let's go to bed huckleberry, it's been a long day, and you're clearly exhausted." I replied.

"Well had someone not jumped my bones twice in the past 12 hours, I wouldn't be so tired." He retorted.

"I can make that a third time cowboy, don't push me." I said and it made him laugh.

"Would you please?" He pouted like a little puppy.

I took him by the hand and dragged him to my room. Shutting and locking the door. He sat on the bed and I straddled him and started kissing him a little heavier then I was before. The second his hands started traveling I could tell he was getting turned on rather quickly. As I was kissing him I was unbuttoning his flannel shirt. He had my clothes off in the matter of seconds.  He lined himself up getting ready, but had an unsure look on his face.

"What's wrong huckleberry?" I asked him.

"Are you sure this is okay with her being in the next room? We could wake her up." He asked.

"You've obviously never have had sex with a child sleeping in the next room, have you?" I busted up laughing.

"No, not really." He said with a straight face.

"Lucas lighten up. She sleeps like a rock and as long as we're quiet it'll be fine.

After that, we made love and just cuddled afterwards. He's still getting used to having a kid around which is understandable, but it was so hard not to laugh at that. It didn't take us long to both fall asleep. I'm so happy I'm back with Lucas, no one else could make me feel this alive.