A Dangerous Illusion (COMPLETE)

T H R E E

'For your own safe keeping,

Everybody got demons.

And whenever you're around I'll feed 'em

Tell me are you down this evening...'

_-_

M A Y A

Maya pushed herself to run faster, the cold wind of Spring hitting her in the face. She had finally forced herself to leave the comfort of her house when her grandmother had demanded she come over after her classes that she had left 2 hours ago.

She turned up the volume on her AirPods so the melodic voice of Ne-Yo serenaded her as she slowed down to a slow jog. Ralph ran beside her, his ears flapping behind him like two small parachutes as his little legs became a small blur. Maya slowed down further; making the boxer look up at her in confusion as his tongue stuck out of his mouth.

She shook her head at him as they crossed a road. Many people thought that because she was a big girl she didn't like to exercise but that was far from the truth. Maya loved her smoothies, yoga classes and her afternoon jogs with Ralph. She even loved to go to the gym whenever she could fit in.

She hated that people had a negative image of bigger sized people and thought they only lazed about gorging themselves in whatever food they could find because most of the time that wasn't the case. 

'Did King think that way?' She couldn't help but think as she passed through a nearby park so that Ralph could do his business.

Ever since meeting him; Maya couldn't help but think about questions to ask the man she had met yesterday like did he like pineapples on his pizza or did he not like pizza at all? Every question that went unanswered came back in the form of a different question and it was slowly driving Mayalika insane. She had only known the guy for less than 24 hours so why did he affect her so much.

Then a dark question came to her mind that made her brows furrow as her right hand clenched around Ralph's lead.

'Did he think she was fat?' She thought, 'Or undesirable?' 

Ralph lowered his leg as he finished doing his business and gazed up at his owner once more, cocking his head slightly as if he was thinking about it. Seeming to have made up his mind, Ralph rubbed himself on Maya making sure to give a bark of reassurance. Maya smiled weakly before tugging slightly at Ralph's lead - urging him to continue on walking.

She knew her way on from here.

Maya had only lived in Brooklyn for a moth yet she felt far more at home here than she did when she lived in Manhattan. It had been the first time she had ventured out of the nest despite the fact that she was still being watched under the weary eye of her grandmother she felt more at ease than she had ever felt in her life.

Her apartment was cost with two bedrooms which one of them had an en suite and a conjoined kitchen and living room Maya could say she was more fortunate that most college kids were. Though that was mostly due to the fact that her parents had enough money to burn through. 

Her parent's had made a compromise so that she could live in Brooklyn she had to work at her grandmother's shop while studying psychology which meant had been cut off. Not that she was complaining she had a stable income.

After a heated row with her mother, Maya had left Manhattan and the betraying people that lived within it. There were too many people in her past that she hadn't wanted to confront so moving to Brooklyn (where her grandma had moved when she had left Manhattan) seemed to be the best option for her.