Chapter 2

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So sorry it's short, but I do hope to update soon

Previously On "So You're Back?"

Soon, the figure climbed in her room, and the girl in the hoodie pushed her black locks back, as if all this were a movie and it were playing in slow motion. Emily paused for a moment to take in this girl's angelic features, then gasped.

"Maya?"

Chapter 2-

She could have fainted. Frankly, she was quite surprised that she didn't faint. Or did she? Maybe she fainted. Maybe this was all a dream, a hallucination. This can't be real, can it? Of course not, her dead ex-girlfriend was right here. Yep, this was a dream.

But yet, it felt as real as ever, she even shivered as she felt the cool night air brush her shoulders. So this wasn't a dream.

The two lovers seemed to be frozen in time, neither moving an inch. After what seemed like forever, Maya took a small step closer to the girl she had missed so much.

"Emily..." She trailed off. What could she have said?

"M-Maya?" She asked, uncertain. "Is this a dream?"

The undead girl simply shook her head, taking another slow, steady step towards Emily.

"Y-you're..." Emily paused. She had never actually said it out loud. "You're dead." Suddenly, her head was spinning, the only reassurance she had was the girl in front of her, and, well... That didn't really reassure her of her sanity.

"I... I'm not." And suddenly everything was fuzzy. She was angry and sad and confused and relieved all at once. How could Maya be alive? She didn't even think to tell Emily? Maya had never been this selfish. But this meant that Maya was alive. Really, truly alive. Not dead.

And once again, the room was spinning, and she quickly sat back down on her bed, grabbing her head in a poor attempt to stop the dizziness. This was too much to process.

Alison was back.

Maya was alive.

She closed her eyes for a moment, and the next thing she knew, there were two arms wrapped around her in a secure hug.

"I missed this..." She heard her ex-girlfriend's quiet murmuring. "I missed you."

"W-Why aren't you dead?" Emily asked, shaking her head in order to finally rid herself from the dizziness. "I mean... It's great you're not dead... But how are you... well, alive?"

"How do I... How do I put this?" Maya asked, choosing her words carefully. "I never died."

Silence. She had never understood the term deafening silence before, how could silence be so loud as to become deafening? Now she understood.

"And you... You let me believe that you were dead?" Emily asked, her anger soon rising, eyes opening. She had cried over this girl for months. She still sometimes cried over her. She pulled back from the hug slightly to look into Maya's eyes.

"I know. It's okay to be angry. I know you want answers. But I just... I missed you." But when she talked like that... How could Emily not pull her into a hug, bursting with tears.

"I missed you, too."

And suddenly all that could be heard above the tears in Emily's room were the distant "I missed you"s.

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"Look," Maya began, breaking the silence. "I know I owe you an explanation. I know you want the truth, I just..." She trailed off, seemingly unsure of herself. "I don't know how you'll take it."

"Definitely not any worse than I took my girlfriend supposedly dying." She suddenly felt defensive. How dare Maya be gone for so long, and suddenly just prance into her life like a pony?

"Look, I'm sorry, Emily." Maya sighed. "I'm really, truly sorry. If it were up to me, I never would have left." This statement caused Emily to raise an eyebrow curiously.

"And it wasn't up to you?" Maya looked down for a moment, frozen in time. Then she looked around, as if afraid someone would pop out.

"No." This definitely got Emily's attention.

"Then who's fault was it?"

"Alison's."

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