Markle // we are the same

Maya's dad

Maya?" Farkle froze. Adrenaline already pumping.

Maya did nothing but pause and grip onto Farkles hand. She turned, the air now thick with tension. Farkle turned quickly, if looks could kill then there'd be a grave there already.

"Maya, Who's this?" Riley chirped, trying to break the tension.

"Hi... dad." Maya croaked. Farkle was now in full defense mode, standing in front of Maya in a protective way. He knew now how hard she had tried to get over her dad, how far she had come. This could ruin everything if it went badly.

Riley had her eyes wide. She looked back and forth between a stunned Maya and the myth that was her father.

"I, uh. I told your mom I was coming. She said she'd tell you." Kermit, Maya's dad, was standing in the entrance to Topanga's with a coffee in hand. Maya realised this was why Farkle wouldn't let her in.

Lucas and Zay gulped, they knew who Kermit was. They'd searched for him online once they'd been told about him. Neither Maya, nor Riley, knew this but the boys not only had Riley committee to protect Riley from the bad things in the world. The boys had also formed the Maya committee to protects Maya from things they thought she wouldn't be able to handle.

Maya's dad coming back to town was one of those things to protect them both from. Maya gulped, walking past Farkle towards her father.

"Why are you here, why now?" She struggled to hold back her emotions. After speaking to Farkle last night, she was unable to control them as well as usual.

"I got kicked out, I was thinking you might let me stay with you and your mom. I already asked her but she said she'd let you decide." He took a step forward, Maya took a step back. "I want to make things right with you, Maya. If you'll let me."

She took a second of silence. Her eyes became blurry as she tried to think of what to say next. She was speechless. Maya Hart had nothing to say. No retort. No come back. 

Riley, hearing no reply from Maya, chimed in. "Of course she will. Right, Maya?"
Maya couldn't speak. She was staring at her dad like he'd grown a second head.

Farkle was near seething at Riley's comment. Is she serious?! He took his stance in front of Maya once again and looked at her, he could see the tears pooling in her eyes. He thought she'd zoned out again until she made eye contact with him. The movement causing a tear to slip out and roll down her cheek.

It was almost as if she was asking him what to do.

Maya's eyes were wide with confusion but Farkle was close enough to see the pain behind them. Her eyes were the thing holding all of her emotion, they held so much.

"What do you say, kiddo? Willing to let an old man in?"

Farkle turned, facing Kermit.

Zay imagined tumbleweeds rolling. It was beginning to feel like an old western movie.

"Are you serious right now? You disappear for years, suddenly reappearing thinking everything would be fine? You left her. Your own child, your flesh and blood. And now you want forgiveness?!" Farkle laughed, but everyone knew that none of this was funny. It was a dangerous laugh.

It meant that Farkle knew what he was doing and he didn't care. He wouldn't let Maya get hurt again.

"Well.. Kinda?"

"Farkle, don't." Maya pleaded.

"What were you expecting, rainbows and daisies? You were her dad, and then you left." He was blinded by his rage. He'd never been this angry before, he'd never had reason to be. Now he had one.

"Maya?" Kermit was standing like a deer in headlights, wanting confirmation from his daughter.

She could feel everyone's eyes on her, waiting in anticipation of her answer.

"I,uh..I" She couldn't breathe, Maya only liked attention when she was in control of it, and she wasn't. Her heart was beating out of her chest. She did the only think she could think of, she ran.

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Yeeee.

And we're off, commence the high tension music.

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Thank you, my loyal bagels x