I don't really know a lot about love

Location: The park at Amena st. Moonlight Falls
Date: 4th of April 2021
Time: 14.00
Outfit: Link + a cowboy jacket
Topic for: @Howard <3
It was three weeks, ish since she had met her biological family. Oh boi, it was a mess navigation in her entire life being suddenly flipped around, but it was alright. She managed to skill adapt to everything quite nicely, and she tried getting more involved in their lives, getting to know them better - and she was making process. It was fun when you thought about everything she always had wanted, and suddenly it was there. Even if Alison said, she deserved it, Maya still wondered when she would have to pay the price of this sudden happiness. She never got anything good without a great deal of bad, and that thought freaked her out. At least for a second as she turned around. "Howie Howster," she spoke with a brighter smile on her lips. One thing was his scent, she could find him everywhere, the other thing was his aura that seemed to just by seconds being able to tame the wild demons in her head. "Glad to see you got my message," she replied before tip toeing to greet him a warmer hug. Wayne had a lot on his mind with the whole post full moon thing and Roman that idiot were in trouble with his pack after the full moon. And Maya desperately needed to talk to someone, or at least was seeking some company. So, Maya had texted Howard in hope of him wanting to go for a walk in the park, get some cofee - whatever really. She needed to get out.  It was Easter Monday, so one day before the reality of the academy would hit them tomorrow and the weather was lovely. It was really just the perfect day. "How has your Easter been?"

Maya's lips escaped a lighthearted chuckle by his cheerful voice. Wait, first she frowned a bit, still with a smile upon her lips that quickly turned to a laughter as he picked her up and swung her around. If her entire system hadn't ready been quite cheerful she would be by now. "Always a pleasure," she replied with a brighter smile and ran her hand through her hair to get it back in to place - even if did always look a bit messy. Her blue eyes looked up at him as he had an arm around her shoulders, and she placed hers around the lower part of his back. She let her fingers grab some of the fabric to keep her arm there. Normal Easter, she nodded a bit to that statement - she had never really had a normal Easter, so figuring out what that involved was difficult. Or that was at least till this year. "Sounds nice," she replied with a warmer smile as she turned her eyes shortly out to the people that walked around in the park. "I actually had my first Easter," she confessed and took deeper breath in. It was crazy thinking about the fact she admitted that, but it was the truth. "I haven't really been telling anyone yet, because it's still new," she took a deeper breath in, "but I found my family.. like.. my actual family," she still found it weird to say. "They invited me for Easter.. it was nice, actually feeling like you belonged somewhere." Maya took a deeper breath in, "so my mum, my dad and my sister Katelyn," there was this newfound happiness in her voice that felt a piece of her heart that had been hollow for way too many years. She carried that happiness and wholeness like amour these days, and it was clear in the way she moved and talked. "So, yeah - it's been quite nice."

Did she feel slightly guilty? Didn't one always. Maya had been so close to just ending her life back in November, and the raw thought of what she would have missed out on .. was heart breaking. Imagining her never finding what she had been looking for all her life, because she hadn't been strong enough to light the weight of the world on her shoulders anymore. "But I'm happy that you would hang out with me today, I'm sure you had plenty of offers waiting in line," she teased with a warming smile. Maya was aware he had abilities that seemed to ease people's worries and sometimes even make the world feel like a place where no harm would ever come by. Her mind worked fast enough to figure out when something was affecting her, but she didn't mind it. It had actually been nice sometimes, but she also imagined it being hard. Having some people getting even obsessed with that feeling, she imagined some could find it addicting. Then did you really always know who your real friends were? If they always just came by to get a fix away from their troubles? Maya hissed at her brain, always overworking, always overthinking.

Maya stopped for a second, looking slightly confused. His expression in excitement what she needed to realize it was okay, okay to let this happiness warm you up and let go off the bad stuff. Maya escaped another soft giggle by his mind-blowing movement. Her smile grew bigger, she was too used to take everything with a grain of salt and not let anything too close. But maybe it was okay to change that and take the courage to change. He pulled her into another hug, and Maya just closed her arms tighter around him. She breathed out, not even understanding how she was capable for holding so much ecstasy in her tiny frame - and yet here it was waiting for in the finish line. Maya felt high on the feeling, like everything was impossible and she didn't wish to fall down from this cloud. Maya slowly let go of the embrace, keeping her eyes locked with his as they parted.

He pushed her slightly with his elbow, making her roll her eyes gently. "You better, my company is the best of the best," she replied giving him a cheeky little smile, as she took a deeper breath in. Maya couldn't get the smile off her lips, she felt so wholesome and was still getting used to that feeling. But there was something else sneaking up upon her, and she wasn't sure what that was yet, but it made the butterflies in her stomach flutter. It was in between the wars, she had finally allowed everything to just be. Maya had even taken a step so far as asking Alison if she knew a place where she could get some professional help - school counselling didn't really cover it anymore, not when she was angry at Levi. Maya wanted to get better and first step was perhaps she couldn't do it alone. "Well first off all," she turned her head towards him, "I thought about coffee - the rest is yet to be determined." Maya took a slightly deeper breath in before watching where she was walking again, but stopped for a short moment. "You were the one I really just wanted to see, so, as long as I'm with you," she made a small tilt with her head while looking at him, "then I'm up for anything."

Do this look like a face that disagrees? He had a point there, he looked at her in a way she couldn't describe - no one else looked at her like that, but she couldn't place the look, she just knew she liked it. She liked how he made her feel. The young thunderbird's heart skipped a few beats ahead as he placed his lips towards her temple, and a smaller giggle left her lips without her realizing. Being close to him felt natural, and there wasn't a fiber in her body that would want it any different than that. Which was funny, she was emotional, and even if she joked around jumped on people's backs and wasn't afraid to give someone a hug - it was only her close circle. It took a lot of her to trust someone and feel comfortable with them being able to just pick her up or simply touch her. It just felt natural to be close to Howard, he didn't need an ability for that. Her mind was always constantly active, making her aware when to fight his ability and when she shouldn't.

A little bit of adventure, see now they were talking. If anything Maya longed to just do something crazy, just act out and let things happen without a plan - just by doing something and see where it took them. "Adventure, hell yes, sign me up," she replied with a more enthusiastic smile on her lips. Her eyes sparked by the thrill of that thought, just doing something fun for a change. Maya turned her eyes back to him, as he said he always was ready to be there for her. Words like that still took her breath away, still making her reflect on he previous actions and thoughts. "Careful, I might just take you up on that," she replied quickly with a softer chuckle. Then he clapped is hands and her head turned the way he pointed. "Sounds like a plan," she replied and shook her head a little bit as they walked in the direction. Maya walked with Howard towards the coffee shop. "Table for two?" Maya nodded to confirm, "follow me then," Maya followed the waitress to a free table where she handed them two menu cards before she left again. "So, let's see what exciting things they got." She couldn't almost help but laugh a little bit, looking through the menu.

She narrowed her eyes a little bit while looking at him, trying hard not to laugh about her own expression. "Oh, you sneaky -turning it around. I see you, I see you," she pointed out before laughing it off. Now she did need to call him in the middle of the night, which she wrote as a mental note to herself.


Maya looked up shortly from the menu, letting herself get a small glimpse of him as he scanned the card, and her eyes moved the her card as he mentioned that drink - she had to read it herself before believing it was a thing, "oh wow - that is, something," she chuckled in response and folded her lips together trying not to laugh. Maya's eyes scanned the menu card, and her brain clearly found everything on this card odd. Maybe it was just a Moonlight Falls thing. His laughter made her laugh within a few seconds, and she just felt so whole, warm - she didn't understand it, but she liked it. Maya couldn't actually really remember when she'd been out on a cafe the last - usually she had just had Alison bring something from her bakery. Alison did have the world's best delivery service after all, but with her taking over as headmistress at the Academy - see that was exciting news- but it also meant someone else had to take over helping with the bakery, and the fairy had hired some human with an odd name.

"Oh wait, I can do one better," she lifted her hand up and looked into his eyes for a moment, then putting the card down, and placed her finger down as she leaned a little forward, "smurfs truffles, how do they ever going to look like smurfs?" Maya shook her head a little before turning her eyes to the menu again - not that she really needed to read it again, her mind had memorized it even if she wished it wouldn't. "Birthday cake latte with unicorn sprinkle - that sounds like something that would make anyone go completely sugar rush," she looked around shortly, leaning a bit further she looked up at him again. She waved for him to lean closer, as if she was about to whisper a secret to him. "Sure we are not Hansel and Gretel stuck in a house made of gingerbread?" Maya whispered looking into his eyes, not really able to hold back the soft laughter. Everything on that menu was sugar with extra sugar and a teaspoon of weird.

Maya couldn't help but laugh by his comment, even if it had been the case she would have been his best chance of getting out of trouble. At least she told herself that. The waiter came to take their order, and she put her best serious face on and turned her eyes to the menu shortly and picked it up. "The birthday cake latte with unicorn sprinkles.. and two smurfs truffles," she handed the waitress the menu card and watched her walk away and turned her head slowly towards Howard. This is maybe the worst thing I’ve ever order, Maya chuckled softly while shaking her head a little bit, "totally, but who made these menus, they are insane," she rolled licked her lips while once again shaking her head a little bit by her statement.

So, tell me more about your family? Maya took a slightly deeper breath in, it still wasn't a question she was used to people asking her. Perhaps because she still had yet to tell people more. Or some guys at the academy knew by now, mostly after Maya's encounter with them in the hallway - but they were also too proud to say anything like it was Maya who started the fight or that she had won if they hadn't been stopped. "It is still so weird, you know I started working as a mechanic down town at this small place," she leaned a little bit back and took a deeper breath in and thought back. Her mind remembered the event in perfect detail, and sometimes she wished she could project her memory onto others. "Apparently my father works there as well, that is how we met," she moved her hand up behind her head and scratched the back of her head shortly. "My mum is really into science stuff, which is fun since I am as well -" It was fun how you hadn't grown up with someone but you still had skills and behavior just like them. "But like I have lived my whole life thinking my parents didn't want me.. to find out they have done anything in their power ever since to try find me..." She shook her head a little bit, it was still an overwhelming feeling. It was in a good way through, but she still wished they had found each other sooner - but also knew if they had, many people in her life wouldn't have been there. She was who she was because of everything that had happened to her, in the chaos and pain, there was still good friends and people she adored. People she couldn't go on without, even if it mean Hell was on Earth. "I don't want to disappoint them," she sighed a bit as she confessed what was on her heart.

Maya looked shortly at his hand before taking it, and she breathed out. Maya lived to disappoint people, she knew she was capable of it, she just also just wanted to be able to not disapoint anyone - or herself for that matter. If anything the one always getting most disappointed was Maya, but that was what happened when you let people in so many times and they all simply just left. I hope you will let yourself just enjoy it, instead of filling your thoughts with fear, she raised her brow a little bit, mostly just surprised by the fact that he knew. Sometimes she forgot that there was people in her life who understood her, and time to time it took her by a surprise. She breathed out. "Yeah, you should have seen it. Sam looked so scared," she chuckled a little bit not mentioning the first part of his sentence at first. It took something else from her to admit that she was worried, and even through she already had spoken a bit about it - there was still layers she slowly was peeling off. "Yeah, she is," she chuckled a bit by that confirmation and watched Howard as he sat back in his chair. "Good thing we totally are.. way till you actually get a glimpse of all of us together.. Alison has already told me there is no doubt, can't outrun these genetics," she laughed a little by that memory. "But I'm trying.. you know.. to enjoy it. I guess I'm just scared to let myself be happy for too long, the fear of it all falling apart in front of me again.. I don't think I would be able to handle that," she folded her lips together and gave his hand a little squeeze. Then her shook her head a little bit and exhaled. "But, I am. And I'm going to - I deserve to try my best at least."

Maya laughed to the statement of Alison turning him into a goat, and lifted her hand up to over her outburst of laughter for a small second. Mostly because she had the entire film of Tidus panicking as a goat in the living room. Oh, that day had been so much fun. Alison used her magic as that kind of punishment, and it seemed like a weak way to some people - but Maya knew Alison was powerful, when it came to the light of everything, Alison was just as powerful as Rebekah, they just used their magic in different ways.

The waiter returned with their orders and she clapped more excited in her hands. "Oh wow," she mouthed to the sight of the fairytale like orders. They did really look as out of this world as written down. Maya watched as Howard took some pictures of it, she snapped one herself mostly to show Katelyn. Maya put her phone away as he moved his chair around, making her look confused shortly, but only shortly as he pulled her into a quick side hug. She was on total autopilot he snapped a few selfies of them, and Maya had never really had an issue showing off her chaotic energy in photos, along with the sweeter ones - overall she just adored him.  "Indeed, that is a good one," she pointed out and leaned closer to him, placing her arm over his shoulder, with her head on his shoulder watching him write the caption. She chuckled a bit, looking at him shortly as she moved her head from his shoulder again, and leaned away from him again. Maya liked being close to him, liked his warmth and energy. She expected him to move his chair back, but he didn't he just took the things he had ordered and moved them next to hers. "Oh yeah, I'm so ready," she turned her eyes towards the table.

Maya took the latte and her blue eyes analyzed the drink for a second. "Cheers," she toasted with him before moving the cup towards her and took a smaller sip. Maya moved the cup a few inches from her face and thoughtfully thought about the taste, it sure did taste like birthday cake - and she took another, a slightly larger sip and nodded a bit. "Oh yeah, this is good," she confirmed. Extremely sugary and she would most likely be high on the sugar later - but at least they would be high on sugar together. "Here, you should try it," Maya acknowledged and turned her eyes to him, while taking one of the smurf truffles with her other hand, and took a bite.

Maya blamed Tidus for her being used too way to many sweets, that guy had always had a taste for the sweet life. She almost choked on her drink by seeing his reaction to the first taste, mostly because she couldn't really stop laughing by the event all together, or maybe it was just her feeling great in his company - if she paid attention to herself, it wasn't hard to know which. Maya grabbed his drink as he grabbed her, taking a sip to compare the taste. Another bomb of sweetness, and she was sure that they would go out of here high on sugar, and maybe even a stomachache. Maya pushed his drink back to him. "Honey, we are already sugar and spice along with everything nice," she chuckled and took one of the truffles. Much better, less sugary in the taste but damn, there was no way even with her apatite that she could eat both.

The thunderbird nodded in agreement, "oh yeah, surviving sugar rush is totally on my bucket list," she chuckled a bit trying to take another sip of her drink. It wasn't even helping on her thirst, if anything it just added to it. "To surviving sugar hour together." She lifted her glass up again in a toast yet again before taking a larger mouthful. "I swear after this I've had enough sweets to last a life time," she laughed a little to herself looking over at him with a brighter smile on her lips.

It was nice. Just going with the flow and be, just be in the moment and let the world happen as it wanted. Living in constant worry and always looking over your shoulder and overthinking - you forgot how to relax sometimes, most of the time. Howie had that affect on her, making her relax and give her mind some time out for all the overthinking. Because she didn't need to think her way through how she wanted to speak to him, it came natural for her to be around him. "Agreed, if I wasn't having such a fast metabolism, I would be worried," Maya chuckled a bit to herself. "Don't strain yourself too much then, it would be a shame to enter a food coma this early," the young thunderbird pointed out, placing her arm on his shoulder with a warm smile as she looked into his eyes. Maya breathed out slowly, finding herself unable to remember to inhale again for just a second, completely lost in his eyes. Then her brain knocked in and finally reminded her to breathe again, and she cracked a small laughter and looked over at the table shortly to cut the eye contact but looked shortly at him again after as she removed her arm from his shoulder.  Her heart skipping a few beats ahead taking her by surprise, and yet not by surprise at all. Maya was well aware about what and how she was feeling, but it didn't mean she dared to do anything about it. In the end she had been hurt too many times to take a chance on that, even if the world was seeming to play in her favor in the moment, but did she dare to test how far she could go? An elder couple walked passed them with some of their grandchildren, the woman stopping along the way smiling at them. "Such an attractive young couple, how long have you been together?" The elder lady asked looking both at Howie and Maya.

You know I never back down from a challenge! Maya lifted her hand up pointing at him for making a valid point to her comment. She took a deeper breath in and felt herself more relaxed by the second, not because of this power that influenced the space, but because she was here with him. Maya wasn't used to this feeling, feeling this right and a part of her knew she scared getting too close - yet, she was influenced by the power of knowing how fragile life was. Even if she had never been lucky in love or in many things in this life, she was sure that she wasn't going to let herself waste too much time. Not again. Maya was going to make sure that things didn't just escape her grip this time, she was done losing.

Maya lifted her gaze up by the older lady's comment, and she froze for about a second before she quickly blinked a few times. Maya's mind was already running with different ways to form a sentence, how to act and overall going over the cons and pros of everything - giving her a slight headache, only because she didn't want Howie to get the wrong idea by her words. Maya split her lips for a moment, just about to say something when Howie laughed and pulled her into a half hug, and she felt his lips against her temple, making her squeeze her nose for a moment. Her lips curling up into a somewhat shy smile, but he seemed to save it quite nicely. "Yeah, thank you," she added to the words with a polite smile towards the elder lady, as she placed her hand on top of his, caressing it gently with her thumb. The lady smiled at them before turning her attention to her family again and left them alone again. One would think, that the thunderbird would quickly remove her hand again, but she didn't. It wasn't like she actually liked a lot of too much closeness, but she liked sitting this close to Howie. If it was up to her, she didn't even want him to pull her out of the half hug again, so she leaned her head against his shoulder for a brief moment. At least that is what she told herself. She laughed a little bit, just a little bit, it was such a blissful feeling and she didn't really want to let it go. "So, where are we headed next?" She asked moving her head a little up to look at him.