Rilaya One-Shots

Christmas Cards

    -Riley-

 It was supposed to be a normal day, get up get coffee at the cafe across the street and go for a run. And it was until Maya's  ocean eyes met mine and everything seemed to boil up inside of me. It had been years since I had seen her, just when I thought I would never see her again, here she was. Her skin was still a ghostly pale and her wonderful blonde hair cascaded down her shoulders in waves. Even though she looked the same it was almost as if I was looking at her for the first time. It broke my heart a little bit to remember what we were. To remember how much we loved and how good we fit together. The rage settled down and a wave of nervousness washed over me. How was I supposed to act in front of her ? We were supposed to be soul mates, we were supposed to be forever. I was broken out of my thoughts when she cleared her throat.

She was only a couple feet in front of me and I still towered over her. It was almost entrancing as I looked closer into those incredible blue eyes of hers.

"Hey Riley, it's been a long time." Maya's  voice was shaky, it made me want to reach out and pull her into my arms, but I couldn't, we'd already messed up enough now.

"Yeah, it's almost been three years hasn't it Maya ?" She nodded her head and I could see the shift in her mood and I could almost feel the sadness radiating off of her, "Hey, what's wrong ? I know it might be awkward and I know it's been awhile, but I still know you. What's up ?" Her blue eyes looked up at me, sadness filling them.

"I'll tell you but can we go somewhere more private, I don't need everyone in this cafe to know what's up with me." I agreed and I noticed a certain glint in her eyes as I told her about my apartment across the street. We walked side by side to my apartment across the street in silence, holding onto our drinks.

Once we reached my apartment I let her inside and led her to the couch. We sat on opposite sides,

"So Maya, tell me what's on your mind." She sighed and put her head in her hands,

"I don't know, I've been getting better at dealing with everyone's rejection to my sexuality and I've been getting better at dealing with loss-" I cut her off,

"You've lost someone else?" She looked at me as if I was stupid,

"Duh, you know that. It wasn't recent, it was about three years ago one of the most devastating losses I've ever had, and I've lost almost all of my family." I tilted my head, so she'd lost someone since I left her, god I can't believe I was that awful,

"I'm sorry I wasn't there for you, but who did you lose ?" She chuckled,

"I thought I lost them for good, but the craziest thing happened," she look back up at me, "She's sitting right in front of me, just when I never thought I'd see her again." My heart raced and it felt right to breath again.

"What ?"

Maya half smiled at me, "I've been on and off with relationships the past three years, I've been a frequent at almost every bar in town and I've drowned myself in work and everything just so I could try to get over you, over us. At first I was worse because I thought you didn't care, about us, about me. That lasted until Christmas, I got an anonymous letter that told me to keep going and have a great Christmas. I started dating again and it wasn't the same but I was dealing okay. I just recently got over the fact that you didn't care but here we are." She chuckled and I took a deep breath,

"Thats an awful way to live but Maya ? I didn't care ? Are you kidding me I got out of a relationship with you and I was broken. I moved my apartment because I couldn't stand the memories, And if I didn't care so much why did I send you that card ? Why did I send you that card even though I had a girlfriend ? Maybe it was like I told everyone, my mom suggested I send cards to my old friends, but it wasn't. Because despite the fact that I had a pretty awesome girl to call mine then, she wasn't you, I wanted to write so much more than what I did but I didn't. Don't say I didn't care because I risked my relationship to send you a damn letter because I still loved you. Because I will always be in love with you no matter how many people I date and no matter how long we have apart." She seemed shocked at my confession and she ran a hand through her hair, "I know I messed up big time by letting you go, I know that-" she cut me off,

"Shutup." She demanded as she grabbed my face and pulled me towards her. She kissed me shortly before pulling back, "I'm sorry I didn't ask if you were in a relationship-" Maya  rambled, and I kissed her this time and it lasted longer. I pulled her onto my lap, and not much later we pulled away.

My hand was on her face and I used my thumb to play with her lips, "I love you." I whispered as I gazed into those beautiful ocean eyes of hers, "I love you too," Maya  said with a smile playing on her lips, "Please never leave me again Riles." She spoke, her words were heavy with meaning, "Never again Peaches, never again." 

   (A/N) 

Short and crappy but that's okay because it's been like forever since I updated. Sorry for the wait I've just been super lazy and very much not inspired to write. I've got a couple more stories in the works so I'll get those out soon. Also thank you guys a lot for continueing to support this one shot series. All the comments seriously make my day and it's so awesome to have almost 21K reads. That's just epic, so sorry for the wait but here you go and thanks again!