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COZEN | 𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒆𝒆𝒏

"Why does it says she's turning around?"

Lark abruptly slammed on the brakes of the car, the mobile phone volleying from Aeden's palms and all three of them jostled forward by the pressure, Maya yelping loudly with her face nearly sprawling across the car seat in front of her, but the seatbelt prevented it.

Thankfully.

"Bloody hell!" Aeden cried out, drawing sharp breaths and casting a scornful glare at Lark.

"What? We're all fine, ain't we, May?" Maya gripped the waist belt tighter around her, blinking several times, and Lark duly noted it as a positive hint, "See."

Aeden rolled his eyes and reached to grab the phone that had flown from his hands, blessedly fielding it unharmed and reassessing the status of the girls they were tracking, "It says she's reversed her course and is on the way back," Aeden stated, "Now, can you get started again?"

"Why?"

"Because we're in the midst of the road, you git!" Maya hooted in his ear, Lark swatting his hand on the steering wheel and mistakenly blaring his horn in reaction to the jolt he got, the vehicle to the rear of him honking his in protest.

"Hey..." Aeden leered through the rearview mirror, wrinkling his brow as he surveyed various SUVs trailing behind them as Lark rebooted the car, "Shit."

"What?" Lark held on looking in the direction of the highway, scanning for the girls' own car, while Maya in that moment caught the familiar SUVs of the Queen's security guards.

"Uh-oh. We're wanted! Cop, cop, cop. Go!" Maya bellowed, rushing him to throttle up, Lark smirking from the epiphany he was experiencing at being in command of the steering wheel.

"When did our life become a Fast and Furious movie?"

Lark was a motherfucking bastard.

Or rather, a lucky bastard, for although they had been apprehended by the guards, it was because of him that they had also successfully apprehended Beatrix and Bloom; Bloom was a little caught up in seeing Maya amongst them, but she didn't utter a peep, too upset about what had occurred with Beatrix to even have a word with anyone.

When they had been caught, the three runaways had been detached as a sanction, Maya in the car with Bloom in which Silva was leading, the trainer not so pleased with what had transpired. It was all hushed, the guards were awkward and seemed to look bored, but that might have been their signature expression.

"Mr. Silva?" Maya called out quietly, only to receive a blank stare from one of the guards in front of her but no reply from the specialist in charge, "Instructor?" She tapped his shoulder several times, trying to get his focus, though the only thing she was doing was unnerving him further, which could be seen by the way he was tightening the steering wheel, "Profess-"

"You have no right to talk at all after what you've done, miss." It was the same guard from before who shot straight back in a stiff, nasty tone, Bloom growing rather unnerved at the way the guard had addressed her and an indignant frown spread across Maya's face.

"But I don't want to be thrown into the dungeon of the Queen's palace and become Stella's servant!" She protested, her face inching closer between the two front seats and claiming, "At least get me a lawyer."

"You're not going there Maya," Silva responded with reassurance, despite the aggravation he was feeling at the moment, especially with the potential perils that still lurked around Alfea and having wasted his time chasing after careless teens, "We'll take some measures for what happened with Principal Dowling, but you're not going to jail."

Maya leaned back in her seat, feeling slightly soothed, and goggled at the window as the foreland scenery swiftly flowed by, as the Sun's beams began to dissipate among the hills and the night was encasing them in its mantle.

When they got out of the car and found themselves at the entrance to Alfea, Maya came face to face with very enraged parents and extremely troubled friends. Lark and Aeden immediately sidled up to her, Lark beckoning his sister to him and mussing her hair, Maya glowering at him as Lorelai and Mark stomped towards them.

"What did you just do?" Lorelai was the first to speak, disillusioned with her children's demeanour above all, as she didn't know the boy next to them.

"I'm so sorry-"

But it was Mark who didn't give his daughter time to begin speaking, he also as equally disappointed as his wife in what they had just combined and particularly fearful that anything could have happened, "Do you realise what could have happened? You could have ended up in hospital, or even worse!"

"How did you even think of doing that!"

Her parents' reprimands were fair, and Maya was aware that what she had done, along with her brother and Aeden had been hazardous, and although she hadn't been the one to snag the car keys, Maya had still been part of the escapade. What hurt the most however, was seeing their utterly crushed looks, and it sickened her that it was because of them.

Lorelai and Mark didn't even wish either of them goodnight, leaving the two siblings bereft of the heartfelt farewell of pleasant dreams.

When Maya caught up with the girls, she was instantly embraced by Terra, "I was so worried about you! For both of you!"

They all joined in for a group hug, Bloom lured into it, but she shared no joy at being there; she didn't appear at all happy to see them.

"Legit freacking out." Musa added at Terra's affirmation.

"She didn't do anything to you, did she?" Aisha proceeded to quiz Bloom, while referring to Beatrix.

"No, she did nothing. She's not some monster." Bloom snapped a curt answer to Aisha's apprehension as a huff ensued, Lark and Aeden jointly tagging along with the group and Lark staunching, for the first time, meanly at Bloom.

"That psycho caused your phone to stop functioning, you should be grateful that I saved your life."

"And she killed Callum." Terra promptly agreed, giving the handsome blond boy a lengthy stare, Lark giving her a heartfelt nod of appreciation.

"Who told you that?" Bloom wondered again, not persuaded that Beatrix was at fault.

"Dowling, Silva and Harvey." Musa replied.

"Do you have proof?"

"Why would they say it if it wasn't true?" Aisha replied, irked by the fact that Bloom was still not impressed.

"You never know why people really do things."

"What do you mean?" Maya enquired flummoxed by her last assertion, Bloom shaking her head in disavowal at the query sending Aeden into a state of irk.

"I think your friends need answers, the world doesn't just rotate around your problems," Aeden crossed his arms, "They were all worried about you and you keep going against them, defending the random chick you were in the car with. Fine example of a friend you are." He moved his gaze to Lark, who was engrossed in dispatching a sly wink to a blushing Terra, "Mate, shall we go?"

"Lark, stop ogling my friend and leave, shoo." Maya shooed him away, Lark releasing one last flamboyant grin and following a bored Aeden, while Musa smirked mischievously by having witnessed the entire situation from her own perspective.

"We should go in and do the same." Aisha indicated, as they reached the stairs and a harried Sky emerged, Bloom's undivided focus on him.

"You guys go. I'll meet you there."

As they ascended, Terra cleared her throat, eyeing Maya waveringly, "So was he, uh your brother?"

"Yeah, why?" Seeing Terra's self-conscious countenance, Maya sighed sympathetically, cupping her on the shoulder, "Good luck with that dude."

When the girls headed back to their respective dorm, they were shocked to see the bedroom of the Princess of Solaria stripped of anything pertaining to her.

There are only a few episodes to go and I have to say that I already miss the characters till season 2 comes around.