It's almost been a month since Kyle came back to the the country and five days to Maya's birthday. Of course, she wasn't looking forward to it but her friend was busying herself with the day. Anyway, who could blame her for that. It wasn't her fault that she didn't celebrate the day.
It was all her father's fault. It was his for making sure he reminded her how worthless she was on that day. He kept showing how much he hated her and how he wished she was never born to this world.
She was a curse and she did get that. She got it loud and clear from the beloved governor. Maya walked out of the bathroom pulling her hair in ponytail. She had called in sick and now, she wished she hadn't done that. Yes, she didn't feel okay but she preferred being with her patients rather than staying in doors.
She had no one to call. Her husband had important meetings to attend to all day. At least that's what he told her last night when they're at the garden looking up at the stars.
This between them were getting better ever passing moment. She could now tell him anything and he could do the same. And through that, they got a chance to become best of friends and she was glad. Glad that in few months, they would separate as good friends and not as enemies like before.
Chris would be happy with Kimberly and she, she would leave her own life without her father's dictatorship anymore. Wasn't that a win win for both of them? They would be happy with whatever they choose and they would still be friends.
As for Kyle, she refused to allow Maya give her grievances. She knew very well of her situation but Kyle being Kyle, she refused to listen to Maya. According to her, Maya had to live up for once in her life. As if she wasn't leaving at all. So calling her with five days to go, it was out of option.
Maya walked to the kitchen and opened the fridge. She needed to do something even if it meant teaching herself how to cook. Just when she was about to pull breast chicken out, the door bell rung.
Maya walked out of the kitchen just when the door bell rung the second time.
"Thank goodness." Who else would be at the door ringing it like a mad man. "I thought you went to say hey to the devil."
Maya hugged Leonel back. "So that's how you think of me?" She asked pulling away then closing the door. "For your info, I'm a born again."
Leonel laughed walking towards the living room.
"Says the lady who wanted revenge in less than two months ago."
"Hey, I did ask God to forgive me."
"Yeah, sure and now you want a divorce." Leonel sat on a love seat across from Maya. "And if I do remember the Bible very well, it's against the divorce."
Maya looked at the man who sat across her. He was right. The Bible did refuse divorce and if one did divorce their partners, then they had to have committed adultery for a divorce to take place. But then again, Jesus said we should forgive seventy times seventy.
That had her wondering if she was doing the right thing. According to her brother before he left, no one in their lineage ever divorced. They all loved their partners to the moon and back. Which meant she would be the first one to do that.
To disgrace her lineage. This would even prove more to her father's words. That she was useless, a good for nothing brat who is never grateful for anything...
"Hey, I was just joking." Leonel said leaning closes to take her hands into his. "I heard that you weren't feeling good. What's wrong."
Now concern was written his face and not the humour that he had before. This had Maya admiring the way he could change from one mood to another without even trying.
"It's nothing," she tried to pull her hands away from his hold. "I just had crams this morning but I'm okay now."
"Ooh!" Leonel blushed. "It's that time of the month. That means no sex and I was looking forward to it since I'm here."
Maya laughed getting up from her seat. She expected anything to come out of Leone's mouth.
"You're crazy."
"About you."
"Like I don't know that." Maya smiled at him. "Don't you've shooting today?"
Leonel got up from his seat too. "I did but I canceled it when I heard about you're condition."
"That chance can go to someone else, you know. It's important you go and do what you do best."
"Nothing is more important than knowing how you're to me, Maya."
He was serious. She knew that since she didn't see the any trance of humor in his face when he said that. It's like this was the first time she saw this side of Leonel.
"So, what were you doing before I came?"
"I just wanted to try and see if I can cook. You know, lunch."
"Try?" Leonel asked looking towards the kitchen. "As in you don't know how to cook?"
"Yes." Maya answered truthfully. "Haha... Laugh all you want, moron."
Leonel stopped laughing and looked at her. She was smiling back at him.
"You're are moron too because I don't know how to cook too. But we can try, together."
"Sure, and we're using the internet for that matter."
"Maya, that would be no fun." Leonel said as they walked to the kitchen. "Let's do it the way we think it should be done."
And after a few minutes of debating how fun it would be and not be, Maya gave up. How could she win against Leonel. The man who called himself the champion of debate.
So they cooked. Breast chicken with fried potatoes as the talked and made allot of jokes about things and people. Once they're done with their cooking, Maya set the table as Leonel threw all the dirty dishes in the sink.
"Wow!" Leonel exclaimed when he took a bit of breast chicken. "I never knew we could make great chefs, cupcake."
So Maya did what Leonel had done but once the food was inside her mouth, she spilt it out. It tasted horrible and Leonel was laughing at her. Of course, he had done that on purpose.
He also wanted her to feel how horrible of chefs they're. But she didn't get it. The first time she went on a date with him, he did cook. He cooked for her. Yes, the day he asked her to let all her frustration go with the nature. The food tasted good. And she enjoyed it.
Was Leonel just pretending in order to make her feel better. To make her feel like she isn't a spoilt brat as she was? The time she cooked food was when Chris punished her for making him wait till late night for her. That was the same day she had eaten a well cooked food from Leonel.
Of course, she used internet for that. That's why it didn't taste bad when Chris ate with Kimberly. But now, their food lacked allot of things like salt. Who the hell forgets to add salt in food? Apparently her and Leonel.
Maya took a sip of water without looking at Leonel. He was still laughing and she didn't like it one bit. It was his fault that the food tasted that bad. His fault for not letting them use the internet. His. But they had fun as he had said. She did laugh. Something that she was getting used to around Leonel.
He knew what to say to her. How to say it and when to say it and for that, she loved him. She never wanted to loose him for anything. She didn't want to loose him like she lost her brother and she would forever be grateful to the heavens for sending him her way. And the timing was so perfect.
"I know what you're think." Leonel said once he stopped laughing. "The food was left in the microwave by my Nanny. All I had to do was to heat it up."
"But before you left me you said you're going to cook."
"Ooh. Sorry about that. But we make good chefs."
"What chefs? We're disaster, Leo."
Leonel just laughed. He pulled his phone and dialed. Maya asked him what he was doing and he answered that he was going to order pizza for them. Maya got up and began to clean the table. She threw all the food in the bin and the dishes in the sink along with the others.
She would wash them later.
"As we wait for the pizza to be delivered, how about we choose a movie for the afternoon?"
Maya thought for a while. Before Leonel came, she was bored to death and now, she was having fun. And if she was honest with herself, she wanted someone to pass time with. Maya pulled Leonel to the movie room and switched on the TV.
"What are we watching?"
"Do you want movie or a series?"
"Let's watch one movie then we can begin a series."
And she was on the Netflix looking for a good movie to watch.
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