Maya's Diary √

Chapter Seven

(Phone Rings)

"Who's this?..Can hear you.... Coming over?.... Now?.... I'll text the address..."

Maya replied from her end of the phone. She was just awoken by the buzzing sound of her phone, which she had inadvertently left on vibrate. It must have been the night before.

Tess was to come to her house that day for a visit. It was the first time she was to come over, and Maya most certainly wanted to make a good impression. After a brief yawns and stretches, she reached for her phone and quickly typed the home address

Sunrise Residential Area
House Number 45.
Besides Alabama Main Mall

After a click on the send button, she crawled back into the comfort of her bed and cuddled herself with her Stuffed Bear which she called Molly.

It was 6:45 pm by her bedside clock and the next day was a Friday. It was definitely not the perfect night for a sleepover. On a second thought, the next day was supposed to be the School's Awards Night.

Undoubtedly, Maya reflected. The School is jam-packed, with series of events, for the last couple of weeks.

"I surely can't raise my grades up, if I'm so preoccupied with School Events." She said as she had sat up and began converting her words to writings, on her Diary. No one was meant to see that,
Absolutely No one.

It was to be her legacy, of a lived existence.

Back then in her previous schools, where she had occasionally been jeered and made fun of, that was where the idea of writing her feelings and emotions, sprung up from.

It somehow had a way of numbing the pains she occasionally felt.

She stopped briefly as though a sudden thought eluded her. It was a partial reminisce and suddenly the downstairs main entrance door bell brought her out of the Partial Oblivion, she constantly found herself in.

"That must be Tess." She said rubbing her fore head hard with two fingers. It must have been a slight headache, she concluded.

"Tess!" Maya exclaimed welcoming her with a warm embrace.

"Maya so Good to see you." Tess replied.

"Mum meet Tess, my friend, the one I told you about."
Maya said giving her mum a 'Remember what I told you look'.

Her mum had a way of disappointing her, when it came to issues like this,
but luckily, she did remember..

"Oh.. Tess Montes I remember, so how's your family?" Mrs Anderson asked.

"We are large." Tess replied as the whole house bursted out laughing. The two flew the stairs and arrived in Maya's room.

"Your house is amazing, you get a whole room all to yourself?" Tess asked gazing.

"It's not that big." Maya replied trying to be as modest as she could be.

"In my house, I have to share a room with my five brothers. With my eldest brother away to college, I still have to wrangle four boys!" Tess said suddenly shrieking to her words.

"It can't be that bad." Maya said almost laughing.

"It can't?... I try to keep the house neat and all and the second I'm away, everything falls apart. Once, they used my toothbrush, All of them!, They speak in codes I mean what is 'Bipity bap'? They wear five under wears, a week"

"Umm OK, so that's like thirty five." Maya said sounding abstractly calculative.

"No you don't understand, Five Under wears." Tess said, this time emphatically.