ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕡𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝔽𝕠𝕣𝕥𝕪-𝔽𝕚𝕧𝕖

𝑴𝒂𝒚𝒂 𝑺𝒕. 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒏

"Isn't that supposed to be my role?" Kol teases.

"Hey!" I smile. "It's modern day. I can ask you out if I want. Yes or no?"

Kol lets out a husky chuckle, and it makes me break out into a blush.

"Alright, where you taking me?" he queries.

I ponder. I didn't really think this far ahead. "Uh...you have any suggestions?"

Kol laughs out loud. "Don't laugh at me," I hiss. "I'm trying here."

Kol interlocks his fingers with mine and snuggles me closer. "What's something you've never done as a kid?"

I snort. "Everything childlike. Aureila never really let me do anything."

"Maybe I should plan this date instead of you," he offers, and I playfully jab him.

I rise from my place on the bed. "I want to take you out and show you what you mean to me. I want it to be special."

"You just being here with me is special, Maya. We can watch a movie and it'll still be special."

I smile. Then suddenly it hits me. An idea. The perfect date.

"I know exactly what to do," I say, and drag Kol up. "But I need a little favor."

"Anything."

"Your sister's number."

Kol's eyebrows quirked up. "Uh...okay. Not exactly what I had in mind. What do you need it for?"

"Our date," I smile.

Kol's confusion grows. "I love you and my sister, but she's not about to third wheel."

I roll my eyes. "Just give me her number."

Kol takes my phone and types her number in my phone.

"Thank you. I'll see you later," I say and shove him out of my room.

He stumbles into the hallway and I walk him to the door. "You kicking me out, Maya?"

"Yeah, I need to plan our date and you can't be here will I do it. So, I will call you when I'm done. Kiss." I stand on my tippy toes and Kol kisses me deeply before leaving.

I close the door with no doubt, the most giddy grin, but it disappears when I hear retching sounds.

I follow the sounds into Angela's bathroom. "You good, Ang?"

I see her lying on the floor, hanging over the toilet, throwing up. She looks over at me and gives me a half-hearted smile.

"I think my body is rejecting Leo and I's breakup. I've been throwing up for the past seven minutes."

I hurry over to her and sit next to her. I move her hair out of her face. Suddenly, I have a gnawing feeling about her throwing up. Something I've seen someone experience before.

"Are you...sure it's about the breakup and not what happened before the breakup?" I suggest.

Angela's face quirks up in confusion. "What do you mean?"

I sigh and shift awkwardly. How do I explain this without freaking her out?

"Remember the day you called me before you guys broke up? You said you needed our apartment for the weekend. Because he brought chocolate sauce."

Angela looks even more confused. "Yeah, so?"

"What did you do with the chocolate sauce? And the use of an empty apartment?" I cringe at my words.

Angela rolls her eyes when she finally figures out what I'm trying to say. "We banged, Maya. We fucked in every square inch of the apartment except your bedroom. That was until I saw..."

Her words halt and her breath hitches. "His parents really don't like me, Maya. They tried to sell him away while we were still together."

She begins to cry and I hug her. That is, until she pushes me away and throws up in the toilet.

"Were you guys safe?" I ask after she's done.

"Yeah, of course. I'm on the pill," she says.

"But, did you use condoms?"

Angela pauses. "The first couple of rounds. But, then after that, it got....a little wild."

The realization dawns on her. "W-Wait. No, no, no, no, no."

"I can't be...If I...I ca--Maya."

Angela rocks back and forth holding her knees to her chest. "I can't be pregnant, Maya. I'm my family's hope. I'm the only one who's made it out and to college. They'll be so disappointed. I'm only a sophomore."

"Angela, you may not even be pregnant. It may just be stress. Or like you said, your body rejecting you and Leo's breakup."

"Or our baby rejecting its parent's breakup!" she yells.

I snicker at her joke but quickly get serious again. "Do you have any pregnancy tests?"

"Why the fuck would I have those?"

"Okay, there is no need to be rude," I say, arching an eyebrow at her. "I am not the one who got you pregnant."

Angela sighs and runs a hand over her face. "You're right. I'm sorry...I'm just...I'm 20. I'm not ready to be a mother. I can barely take care of myself half of the time."

I offer her a smile. "I have a pregnancy test in my bathroom. I can stay with you while you take it."

"Don't you have plans?" she asks.

"Ang, you're my best friend. I can do those plans later."

Angela shakes her head. "No, it's alright. Go out. Just let me sit here in ignorance for a while."

"Okay, but if you need anything, and I mean anything, call me," I say, and then rise from the floor.

I go to my room and take out my phone to call Amanda.

I listen to it ring before I hear static and then a voice. "Hello?"

"H-Hi, Amanda. It's Maya. I don't know if you remember me, but we met this one time through Kol," I stutter and I curse myself for it.

There's a long pause. An uncomfortable pause. Then she speaks.

"What do you want?"

Uh...okay. Not what I was expecting.

"Um...I was wondering if we could meet up," I say.

"Why?"

Alright.

"To....talk."

"About what?"

"Um...Kol. I wanted to talk to you about Kol."

Another pause. It almost felt like she was judging me.

"About Kol? You want to talk about Kol?" she asks, in a lighthearted tone.

"Yea--"

"You want to talk to me about my brother? My brother's heart that you broke. My brother who told you that he loved you and you ran off for a year and left him brokenhearted. He was in bed for months. He couldn't get up. He didn't even talk to any of us and all because of you. So, no Maya I do not want to meet up and talk."

The phone clicks and hangs up before I can even respond.

I just stand there dumbfounded. I don't even know how to react to the conversation I just had.

He couldn't get out of bed. He didn't talk to anybody.

I did that?

End of Chapter Forty-Five

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