My one and only Love

Chapter 1

Outside the Matthew’s apartment, Maya sat still like a stone on the front stoop. Kermit was loading his car with her things as she just stared with emotionless eyes into a void before her. Riley sat with an arm around her best friend and she cried openly while Maya had no tears left. There had been no way to know that Katy Hart had an aneurysm in her brain, no way to know that when she dropped in the middle of a shift at the bakery that she wouldn’t be getting back up again.

The Matthews took care of all the funeral arrangements and helped with the apartment and packing. Maya hadn’t left them since it happened, unable to do anything but cry and feel more broken than she had in her entire life. She clung to the only family she had left – the family that wasn’t even hers. That was until Topanga tried to make it official and adopt the fifteen year old girl, make her a legal member of the family as well. She needed to be able to make decisions for them, needed to get her medical care and grievance care and she couldn’t do any of that as ‘best friend’s mom’. But as soon as she filed, Kermit had shown up.

He saw it as his second chance with Maya, to show her he could still be there for her and be a good father. He wanted her to see that while he wasn’t there before, he could be now. But as Topanga tried to push for him to just let Maya stay, the harder he pushed back. Topanga was strong, she wasn’t going to let anyone just come in and take that girl away from her. But Kermit had the law on his side with this one – and the judge ruled in his favor.

Maya had barely spoken a word since Topanga broke the news to her, it had only been three weeks ago she’d lost her mother. She had stopped crying and was only numb to it all. Maya was sure now, hope was indeed for suckers and she was not destined for anything good in her life.