Maya: ahbgwuderuhfosdfe
Mike: ????
Maya: We watched a movie and then we kissed and then we had sex and then he asked me out!
Mike: I didn’t really need to know about the sex part…
Maya: Ugh don’t be a pussy it’s not like I’ve told you the details
Mike: I like you to keep it that way. But yay, we need to celebrate this! NOW!
Maya: Mike, I’m at work now
Mike: I don’t care. I’m already on my way with a bag of burritos.

Maya’s POV
I put my phone back in my jeans and continued vacuuming one of the dressing rooms. I know that if I took a break without permission, my boss would be really mad at me. But at the other hand, I also knew that there was no stopping Mike now. I was really happy that he was so happy for me. I mean he could’ve reacted really different, it was his friend I was crushing on for Christ’s sake.
While I turned off the vacuum cleaner, I wondered if Naira was having a good time at her date right now. I was actually really relieved that she had a date with another guy now. Not only did she deserve it, because she was an incredible person, but it also made me a lot more secure about the whole situation with Jaime. Until she told me she was going out, I had had the feeling I was stealing him from her.Even lthough that wasn’t true of course. She had made it clear she wasn’t interested.
Just as I was about to exit the dressing room, the door opened and a smirking Mexican guy came inside. He had a white bag in his hand and the smell of burritos filled the room.
I sighed and shook my head. “You can’t be here, Mike. My boss will kill me if he finds out.” I said, but I had to try my best not to chuckle.
“We have to celebrate that my little girl grew up.” he said in a mocking voice. “She finally had the courage to kiss the guy she liked.” and he moved his hand through my hair, like I was five years old.
I quickly fixed my hair and shot him a glare. “Don’t patronize me! I can get everyone I want.” I said challenging.
He chuckled and put his back down on one of the tables in this room. “I don’t doubt that for a second. And definitely not after this. I mean you managed to change the mind of a guy that tried to chase after another girl a few days ago.”
He came a little closer to me and put one hand on my shoulder. “No, we’re celebrating this because someone you have feelings for seems to have feelings for you too. You have no idea how lucky you are with that.” he said. He smiled and seemed happy for me, but somewhere deep inside his eyes, I could see a flinch of sadness. I thought back about the day I had spent with him on his balcony. I had already suspected that he had trouble with love, but this was sort of a confirmation.
I made a promise to myself that I would ask him about it later. Instead for now, I just smiled at him. “You’re right. It’s kind of rare I guess.” I said softly. “Okay, let’s celebrate it. But I have a big date tomorrow night, so I kinda wanna look fabulous. I don’t think you mind eating my burrito, do you?” I said chuckling.
He let go of my shoulder and let himself fall on the black leather couch. “I’m pretty sure you’ll look amazing even when you eat one of these amazing burritos.” he said as he took one and tried to tempt me with the smell. “Mmmh…” he said advertising.
I laughed and let myself fall down next to him. I knew I was going to regret this later, I probably needed to make it up to myself by running an extra lap, but right now I needed to let go of it.
Mike reached out the burrito to me and I doubted for a second, but took it anyway. “Thanks Mike. For everything.” I said softly, looking down at the burrito in my hands.
“It’s okay.” he said. “You would’ve done the same for me.”
After that, we sat like that for a while. We just ate our burritos and talked about random stuff. It was a lot of fun and I was glad he was able to take my mind of my nervosity of the date of tonight and the stress of my job. For some reason my boss never really found out that I wasn’t working during the hour I spent with Mike and I was glad he didn’t. He would skin me alive.
When Mike left, he told me that we should make this a tradition, just having fun during work hours. He knew that I hated my job and I would’ve liked a little distraction during work too, but it was a bit dangerous to do so. The fact that my boss didn’t found out this time, didn’t mean he wouldn’t next time. But I guess if Mike were to show up at my work again with booze, cigarettes or something else tempting, I wouldn’t be able to resist. What could I say? Laughing about bad TV shows or stupid people with one of your best friends was way better than vacuuming dressing rooms and making coffee.

Jaime’s POV
I was clenching my fingers around the steering wheel, trying not to make myself crazy with the extremely difficult decision I had yet to make.
Tonight was my second date in two days. It felt weird to date two different women at the same time, and not in a good way. I felt really guilty about what I was doing. I guess that is a good thing. Guys that didn’t feel guilty about these sort of things were the real assholes.
The easy thing about this date tonight was that I practically knew everything about Maya already, so that made making up a date idea a lot easier. To be honest, I think I had a killer idea.
Right now, I was parked a few feet away from her house, waiting for her to come out. Saying I was nervous, was an understatement. Not only did my choice depend a lot on this date, I was also terrified she would find out I was dating Naira too. Maya was the kind of girl that could look through people so easily that it was scary.
I looked in the back mirror and my mouth fell open. Maya came walking towards my car and she looked stunning. She wore high waisted leather leggings that perfectly accentuated her long legs and a blue shirt was tucked in the leggings. She wore a white lace cardigan over her shoulders and she wore high heels that made her walk like a runaway model.
Honestly, I didn’t get why I haven’t ever realized how good looking she was. She had always just kind of been one of the guys. Now I just didn’t understand why she has ever been that, she was far from manly right now.
She reached the door of the passengers seat and opened it. “Hi Himes.” she said in her usual upbeat tone and I had to try my best not to stare at her again.
“Well hello, Maya.” I said grinning as I started the engine of the car. “You look like you just stepped out of Grease. And believe me, that’s a compliment.”
She chuckled and looked down at her leather leggings and high heels. “Well, then you can finally be John Travolta.” she said and I busted out laughing.
“Yes finally!” I said and I took one of my hands of the steering wheel to put it in the air for the effect. “I’ve told our makeup artist so many times that I want her to make me look like him, but she never succeeds.”
She giggled. “Be happy about that. You look a lot better than he does nowadays.” she said as we drove off.
I thought about recent pictures of him and cringed a bit. “True, but I don’t look better than how he looked in Grease.” I said jokingly. “No one does.”
She laughed her signature laugh and I suddenly realized how nice her laugh sounded. “Very true.” she said.
On our way to the place where the date would take place we had the kind of conversations we always used to have, I just had a different look on them now. I was glad everything that happened the other night hadn’t changed anything between us. I was so afraid that things were going to get awkward between us our something. Even though that would’ve made the decision a lot easier, I just couldn’t lose Maya as a friend.
The drive was different than with Naira, but not in a bad way. These girls were both so special in their own way. Maya practically tried to find out where we were going the entire time and I just grinned and acted mysterious about it. My teasing annoyed her a lot and it was hilarious to be honest.
The car stopped in front of the venue and I hurried over to the passenger side of the car to open the door for her. When she got out of the car and stood up, I noticed that she was about the same height as me when she wore heels. It was definitely different from Naira who wore sneakers on our date and was a lot smaller than me. I even took these kind of things in account for my decision since the big things like who I felt more for where impossible to answer.
Maya looked up at the venue and raised an eyebrow. “A karaoke bar?” she asked confused. I couldn’t really make out if she was enthusiastic about it and just confused or didn’t like it at all.
I grinned and put my arm around her waist from behind. “Yeah! Cool, right?” I said and I watched her face from the side.
She opened her mouth and then closed it again. To be honest, she looked a bit hesitant. Damn it. I had thought this was the perfect date for the two of us. Our shared passion was music and singing and we jammed a lot with the guys and her. The goofiness of a karaoke bar fitted us too, at least I thought. “You don’t like it, do you?” I said and took my arm back, a bit disappointed in myself.
Suddenly she giggled and took my hand in hers. “No, I love it! It’s such an unique idea. It’s so us.” she said and my face lighted up again. I dragged her into the venue and the place was just amazing.
The room had wooden walls and wooden tables, a bit like a pub. There was a bar at the wall in which the door was and at the wall opposite of it was a small stage, decorated in silvery, shiny streaks of paper. In between these walls, the floor was covered in small wooden tables. I saw small groups of people sit at these tables, but there were also some couples at the tables.
Maya and I sat down at one of the tables closest to the stage and I went to get some drinks for us. When I had gotten back, a guy that really couldn’t sing was singing ‘my heart will go on’ by Celine Dion. I cringed at the horrible tones he sang, but chuckled afterwards when I thought about the jokes Maya would probably make about this.
And indeed, when I sat down Maya said: “Good thing he wasn’t around when the Titanic sank, it would’ve gone down a whole lot faster when he had been there singing like this.”
I laughed and handed her the bottle of beer I had bought for her. We just drank and watched people make a fool out of themselves on stage. It was really funny to watch. There would be an occasional good singer and when that happened, Maya and I decided we’d give them a standing ovation. It felt a bit like we were the jury of the X Factor.
“Do you know why I like beer bottles?” she asked me. I smiled at her and shook my head.
She brought her empty bottle to her mouth and blowed softly into the hole. A low sound came from the brownish bottle and I laughed. She wasn’t even drunk, this was just her personality.
I did the same and we both made a beat to the next song that was being sung. There was no pressure to act a certain way with her and that’s what made being on a date with her so great.
After a few songs and another beer she walked up to the stage and sung ‘Crazy in love’ by Beyonce. It was good of course, she had an amazing voice. But it was also goofy and sexy at the same time, a rare combination that could only be provided by Maya.
When she was singing I saw a lot of guys stare at her from the crowd, looking at her like she was beyoncé herself. I grinned, knowing that she was on a date with me. I was sort of proud of it.
As she was done, she walked of the stage, applauded by everyone, and walked towards me. I pressed a kiss on her cheek, to show off a little that she was here with me. I even heard a guy behind me groan as I did so.
Maya leaned in and then whispered in my ear: “I dare you to do better.”
I smiled and walked up to the stage. I thought a bit about a song that would be funny to sing and eventually settled on ‘sexyback’ by Justin Timberlake. I moved my head to the beat of the intro and smirked at Maya who just laughed at me. The song was surprisingly in my reach, so it didn’t even sound that bad.
When I was done and walked back to our table I saw that Maya gave me a slow clap. “Smooth move, Preciado. Smooth move.” She said as I sat down.
We talked a bit more as others were climbing on the stage. It gave me an opportunity to ask her something. “What did you tell, Naira?” I asked. Maya had pretty soon agreed on not telling anyone yet. She had told me over Whatsapp that she wanted to find out if this was going to work out first.
She sighed and looked at her hands. “I told her I had to work tonight. I just hope she doesn’t just decide to visit me spontaneously like Mike did yesterday, otherwise we have a problem.” She said and I couldn’t help but notice that this really wasn’t her favorite subject to talk about it. Would she have noticed that I like Naira? Yes, she definitely would have. I mean, I kind of flirted very obviously with her.
I was afraid she would get suspicious, so I put my fingers under her chin and raised her head so she was looking at me. “You have nothing to worry about, okay? I’m with here you, right?” I said. It kind of scared me how easily I lied to her.
She smiled. “Yeah, I guess so. And Naira was on a date with a different guy anyway. So it’s all good.” she said.
I slowly took my hand back. Shit, Naira had told her. How much would she have said? At least she didn’t say it was with me, but Maya mostly didn’t need loads of information to figure things out. This was getting dangerous and I knew it. I needed to make a decision very soon. The hard thing was, I had no idea what I wanted. Besides, how was I going to make a decision without hurting the other?
“Oh, did she have fun?” I asked and I tried not to sound like I cared a lot.
Maya shrugged. “I guess so. She didn’t tell me that much. Just that they went bowling and that she sucked and that he helped her. He sounds cool, I hope they become a thing. Naira deserves to be happy after all the shitty relationships she had.” Maya said and she looked at the woman that was now singing on stage.
Fuck. She had had broken hearts. That made it even worse to turn her down. But at the other hand, I knew that Maya hadn’t been so lucky in love either. No matter what I chose, it would be a big mess.
Than a couple stepped on the stage and started to sing ‘a whole new world’ from ‘Aladdin’. It was actually kind of cute, even though they sucked donkey’s ass. I chuckled at the little phrase I had learned from Naira.
“We should do that.” Maya said as she pointed towards the stage. “We should do a duet together.”
A smile crept on my face. “Yeah definitely!” I said enthusiastically. How cool would that be?
So when the couple left the stage, we rushed to it, so nobody was able to go on before us. A few people looked disappointed that we had won the little race.
The man that controlled the karaoke machine looked a little grumpy. I could totally imagine that this job was awful. When he asked us which song we wanted to sing, me and Maya looked at each other and we had the most brilliant idea at exactly the same time. We told the man the idea and picked up our microphones.
The music of ‘you’re the one that I want’ from Grease sounded through the room and I sang John Travolta’s first verse. While singing I mimicked some of the really cheesy dance moves from the movie and she followed up without shame. We honestly had so much fun on stage that we broke down laughing at least three times during the song. I made a mental note to myself that we would watch the movie on our second date. Wait… maybe there wasn’t even going to be a second date.
I tried to suppress that thought. I would think about that later.
We got off stage and saw that many people were already leaving, so we figured it was time for us to leave too. We got out of the venue still laughing at our ridiculous performance on stage. People in the crowd must’ve thought we were mentally ill or something, but I didn’t really care.
There was only one thing left to do to really make this date perfect. I just needed to do one thing before I went back home and consider what I was going to do.
I took Maya’s hand and dragged her to my side of the car. I gently took her hips and placed her against the car. She giggled as she placed her hands at the back of my neck. The last time we had kissed we were both really drunk, it might sound sick, but I needed to have something to compare to the kiss I had shared with Naira. We both only had two beers, so we were practically sober.
I leaned in and let my lips brush against her lips. She made the next move and closed the distance between us by pressing her lips against mine. It felt soft and passionate. Just like her personality. Maya could be so sweet and caring, but at other times she could be loud and outgoing.
We just stood there for a while, surrounded by the dark night and other cars, moving our lips in a pleasant pace. When I left her lips, I was even more confused than I already was. What the hell was I going to do now?

Notes

heyeyeyeyey guys

I laughed so hard writing this chapter to be honest. It was just me, laughing sadly and loner in my room. I added links to the songs I used for this chapter, bc I feel like the chapter is funnier when you actually know the songs. Although I highly doubt that one of you guys don't know these songs. If you haven't watched Grease, firstly shame on you and secondly watch the link I added of 'you're the one that I want' bc you'll get the whole legging joke better.

Btw. I don't know if you guys have ever seen it, but Jaime really joked to his makeup artist one time that he wanted her to make him look like John Travolta. He said it in the Behind the scenes of bulls in the bronx. So yeah XD

guys, tomorrow I will post an a/n about the whole voting thing. Ofc you can vote before that too. but yeah kay

xxxxxx

Nicky