See You Again // One-On-One // CLOSED

"I…I…I just try to hide my past," Maya whispered, tears welling in her eyes.

"you're going to get tear stains on my shirt…." He muttered "and that's the problem Maya, you try to hide the problems and your past from those who want to help, me, Riley, your mom, my dad. We all want to help. Whether you let us or not is up to you." He said gently, all anger gone from before

She didn't say anything for a little while. "I…Sometimes it's better to be alone…No one can hurt you."

He nodded "yeah, and you can't hurt anyone else." he muttered "Exactly how I felt when mom left us."

Maya's phone started to ring, and she broke away to answer it.

He watched her as she answered the phone and glanced around the vacant parking lot. He pulled out his own phone and texted his dad that he and Maya were fine and visiting Riley, they'd be home by 7:00.

Maya's phone slipped from her hand, landing on the ground. She fell to her knees, hair covering her face.

He glanced up and rushed to her side "Maya what's wrong…" he looked around frantically and saw the phone on the ground "Maya, tell me please, what happened?"

"Riley…" She choked, tears streaming down her cheeks. "She…died."

He crouched down and buried his head in his hands, tear slowly running down his cheek. He said nothing, did nothing, just cried for his friend in silence

Maya wiped her eyes and stood up, picking her phone up and seeing that her case stopped it from cracking.

Lukas sat back and tried to calm his breathing and choked back his emotions, his mother always told him he was over emotional, too sensitive to be man, to weak to support a family

"I'm….I'm going home," Maya said, voice on the edge of cracking.

He nodded and stood, handing her the keys and getting into the passenger side in silence

"I'm not going to your home," Maya said. "I can't go there right now."

He nodded in understanding "think I'm going to let you drive my car without me in it? You're funny. I don't care where we're going, just drive please." He said, emotions drained

Maya said nothing. Then she spoke up. "I don't want you there."

"then drop me off somewhere and swear to bring the car and yourself back by 9:00" he said simply, watching her from the corner of his eye as he glanced out the window

Maya tossed the keys back to him. "I'll walk."

He rolled his eyes "why are you so difficult." He got out and walked to the driver's side "if don’t come back by 9:00 I’m coming to find you.”

"You won't find me, Lukas. You don't know where I'm going, and I'm not going to tell you."

He shrugged "then I'll search all night until I do." he said with confidence

"Again, you won't find me. I'll make sure of it."

"Try me," he growled softly before handing of the keys and taking a step back

Maya stared at Lukas, then ran.

He rolled his eyes and stared at the sky "watch over her Riley, please." he whispered

Maya ran to an alleyway, then leaned against the wall, breath heavy.

"Who shall find who, who knows." Lukas drove to his favorite spot off on the outskirts of town, a little sanctuary he found a while ago when he got mad at his dad. A small lake and meadow that looked amazing at any time of the year.

Content that Lukas wasn't followed her, Maya started to walk.

He sat down by the edge of the lake and layed back "can you here me? I'm talking to you…" He muttered to the woods around him