Josh's POV:
I woke up to the most gorgeous site you could ever see.
"Good morning my princess"I said as I rolled over to the other side of the bed to see Maya's silky hair spread out and her  aquatic sparkling blue eyes staring back at me while a lill smile spreads across her rosy checks
"Yea yea,let a princess sleep will ya?" She asked while pulling the covers over face
But instead Of letting her sleep I just pulled off the covers on her face and threw the blanket on the floor and find her curled up wearing nothing but my oversized t-shirt from last night. Idk how she managed to put that shirt on last night, we wore eachother out that I was way to tired to even put on my boxers so I just put the stained sheets around my waist.
"Do you want a round 3 or something cuz if you do I'm way to tired for that. You took all my energy last night." She asked while siting up on the bed
"No, even tho I'm flattered and would love a round 3, we have to talk" I answered as a tool a seat next to her.
"Oh Ik this talk, ur leaving me aren't you? I have a lot of talks like this. With ex boyfriends or friends. Some people don't have the courtesy  of saying good bye. ...cough...my dad. But just save the talk. I'll get dressed and be on my way out, I don't need anybody, I'm fine on my own" she said while standing up from The bed. I can tell she was putting her guard up so she doesn't get hurt again. She lies that she needs no one but that's not true. I mean I agree she will survive without needing Anyone but she won't LIVE without needing anyone. So b4 she could take one not step I gentally grab her wrist so she can sit back down
"Wait what? No maya that's not it" I said
"Ok thank god" she said while releasing a slight laugh
"But what we really need to talk about is carter and his frien-"
Suddenly maya jumped up from the seat and covered her ears while blurting out
"Nope, I'm not hearing about him. I done ever want to hear his name ever again. I dumped him. Broke up. Left his sorry ass and that's the last of it. I don't want anything to do with the police And never want to see carters face again. That's the last of it josh so don't start rambling on about them "suffering the consequences'"
"But maya! Him and his friends need to get arrested for what they did to you!" I said while standing up to speak to her
"I said No! I just want to leave this! Plz just leave this. What's done is done there's nothing we can do about it" she said while grabbing my hands and looking at me directly in my eyes
"Maya why don't you want to fix This!!"
Now where just yelling at eachother
"Bcuz!!" She yelled while turning away but b4 she could go farther I yelled
"Bcuz why maya! Bcuz ur afraid of carter?!"
With that she turned right around to me , I can see a wave of anger flash across her face and yelled
"Don't you ever say that. I ain't fucking scared of that douche or his pussy ass friends, IM the one who left. I'll beat each one of them if I have too. I mean I nearly killed his best friend yesterday!"
" then why maya?!" I asked once more.
"Bcuz they will never believe me!" She yelled
A wave of confusion crossed my face
"Whose they?" I asked in a more calming voice
"The police. They didn't believe that Jose was trying sexually abuse me again or that he slapped me. They just believed that I hit him out of no where. They  take ONE look at my background and instantly think I'm lying or I did something wrong. I mean I don't blame them tho, I wouldn't believe me too. Imma screw up. So I'm not gonna put myself in a situation where Ik I'm gonna get hurt or disappointed or embarrassed or all of them" she said in a crackling voice while staring at the wooden floor.
I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I never knew she fealt like this. I can't stand to she my baby like this. I didn't even bother to ask about what happened with Jose or who Jose even was.
I just walked up to her, lifted up her chin too look at me and wiped the tear rolling down her cheek.
"It's ok baby, I believe you" I whispered
"And that's all that matters to me" she whispered back.
"But Can I ask you a question josh?" Maya Asked while she was staring into my eyes with my hand still on her chin
"Sure" I said
"What are we now?"
"Oh that's easy were just fuck buddies, nothing serious.....Jkjk." I joked as she playfully pushed me back but I just held on to her agian
"No I'm being serious josh, do you want to keep this secret?" she said with a chuckle
"Maya hart, I love you. why wouldn't I want to you show off? I want to walk into a restaurant and be like 'MAYA PENELOPE HART IS MINE AND ONLY MINE!' I yelled while crossing my fingers with hers to hold her warm hand.
Maya didn't say anything, instead she just kissed me and I can feel her lips form a smile

*BEEP*, we pulled apart once we heard her txt notification, maya ran over too jet phone and wen she saw who it was from she just threw it back in the bed
"Who was that?" I asked
"Just Riley" she answered
"Hold on, wait a minute. 'Just Riley'? Whenever Riley calls or txt's you immediately answer. How come you just left it? Is something wrong between you and Riley?"
"*sigh* it's just that she has been ignoring me for hucklebarry and im tired of it. I'm done getting hurt so..." She trailed off
"So what? You can't have one boy break up a 10 year friendship, just talk to Riley" I said
"Ughh that's exactly what peaches and keke said" she whispered for me not to hear but I did
"Umm whose peaches and keke?" I asked
"Um.....no one, but maybe your right I should make up with Riley. Huh? Who would of thought that you, peaches and keke would help me a lot" she said while putting on her shorts. She didn't even bother to put her own shirt on she just kept wearing mine, and surprisingly I was very flattered. It was my favorite shirt so it really should belong to my favorite person.

Wen I got out of my daze I heard her yell b4 speeding out the door.
"Ok love you bye josh, txt you later, I'm going To go talk to Riley! And see peaches and keke!"
"Wait! Whose peaches and keke!?!" I yelled to her but she was already 2 blocks away.
"Her little legs sure do run like sonic." I said to myself

Then I realized I was on my front steps, wearing nothing but stained seats around my waist and neighbors staring at me cuz of my yelling.
I looked over to see ms. Waterside watering her plants with the most disgusted look on her face. The only thing I could say was
"Oh um good morning ms.waters. Oh um nice plants" as I slowly drift back into my apartment

Maya's POV:
I really needed to talk to Riley. I still haven't opened the message from her cuz I'm scared of what it will be. I want to go to Riley's house wen im happy and that's right now and I don't want anything to ruin that so I decide just to leave it.

Once I rang the bell I was expecting Riley to answer but instead it was topanga. When she let me up and opened the door, she instantly wrapped her arms around me and asked if I was ok and for the first time in a long time I didn't need to lie cuz I actually was ok.

I wanted to surprise Riley so I tip toed to her room, laid my hand gently on the door handle and bursted in yelling
"I'm home sunshine!!"
But instead of finding her all perky and ready for the day in her sunshine colorful clothes applying her cat eye eyeliner, I find her sitting on the bay window with tears rolling down her wet cheeks, her arms wrapped around her legs and still in her pajamas. When she looked up and saw me, she let her feet hit the ground
"I'm sorry" I heard her whisper to me
"For what?" I asked while taking a seat next her, let her lay her head on my shoulder and wrapped both my arms around her
"For ditching you for him. I don't ever want to loose you. Ur the one person I want in my life. I'm sorry I left you for that lowlife bottom feeding bitch" she answered
Damn this is the first time I ever heard her swear. Something must be wrong.
"Hey that's hucklebarry ur talking about. What happened? Do you want me to rip him to shreds" I calmly ask
"Well umm.. I went to go find you this morning cuz I finally realized what I've been doing to you and I felt terrible so I had to apologize and umm wen I was walking thru the park u spray painted, I kinda saw Lucas um with a-another girl kissing."
When she admitted that she bursted into tears. I can tell this was the first time she actually said it out loud. I can tell that she has replayed the scene over and over agian in her mind.
Her head fell into my lap And the rest of her body laying on the bay window.
"Oh my poor lill sunshine, Imma cut him up into lill peice's and throw his body in the nearest river" I said to her but it was like she didn't hear me . It was like she was in her own thoughts and that's never good when ur feeling vulnerable.
After about 10 minutes pass by, of me stroking her hair and soft tears falling to my lap, she breaks the silence when she asks
"Something must be wrong me. When I saw them i didn't know what to do. I just felt this lump in my throat and my feet started moving. My feet brought me to ur house but you wasn't home so I came back here and try to figure out why would he do that to me, I keep asking myself questions like How come I'm wasn't good enough? What is so wrong with me that gave him the need to find another girl? Am I not pretty enough? Am I too fat? Too skinny? Why am I not good enough? What's so wrong with me? I need answers, can you answer them maya?"
With that I started bursting into tears.
This is how I feel all the time and the one person I never wanted to feel this way in the whole entire world is Riley and I failed to protect her. I don't want her to go thru this. No one deserves to go thru this. No one should just sit in silence telling them selfs that something is wrong with them and that there not good enough. No one should feel the need to change them selfs for a person. No one should feel the need to run away from everything. No one especially Riley. She doesn't deserve this.

Finally I answer her question, it's kinda hard to talk when ur world is falling apart in ur hands, and my world is Riley.

Tears strolling down my checks, With a lump in my throat and cracks in my voice I say
"Riles, um *sniffs* I can't answer that. Cuz ya know why? Bcuz none of them are not real questions. Ya know why there not real? Bcuz there's nothing wrong you, and you ARE good enough and you ARE perfect. You are the most beautiful girl I've ever seen and you have the most beautiful soul I've ever known. It's the person who hurt you who should be asking those questions not you. I don't want you ever to ask those questions again Riley. You hear me? Promise me Riley, promise"
"I promise" I hear her whisper
"I can't stand to see you like this. I will try everything to make you feel better so Riley I want you to meet someone" I say
"I don't really want to see anyone right no-"
"There names are peaches and keke" I interrupt
Riley had to think About it. A minute went by and she finally said
"Ok BUT only bcuz I like there names, so where do we go?"

Hey loves💋. Sorry I haven't updated but thank you so mush for 2k reads!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ I never thought it would get better and I loved all the positive comments on my last chapter, you guys touched my hart (get it "hart" as in "maya hart" *knee slapper*...... Yea I'm stupid😂. But anyways this chapter was really hard for me to write bcuz I've been depressed and i still am but i honestly think I'm getting better, but when I started writing Riley's part, I started crying bcuz I've felt like that b4 and It just brought me back to some bad memories but I wasn't depressed over some guy, I was depressed over a lot of other things. Butttttt enough about me, hope you like this❤️ I love you all❤️p.s sorry if there's any grammar mistakes I'm just too lazy to fix them😂
~the sad smol bean