"Since when you're into football?" Charlie commented.

"I'm not; I'm just supporting our school team. I've realized that I have not been involved in the school activities like this."

"Mmm, okay." He said unconvinced. "Or you want to catch an eye on a certain guy?"

"Maybe," she smirks at him.

"You said you hate guys in the football team because you say that most of them are self-absorbed assholes."

Maya rolled her eyes, "I did say that but that is only because I was in that phase where I find all guys are assholes but now I change my mind."

Charlie laughs. "You never told me you had a crush on someone on the football team." He changed into a serious tone.

"Well, this is recent. He asks me if I wanted to watch him play, and I said yes," She said still looking at the field like she's looking for someone. "Do you like ever look at a guy so good looking that you'd be like 'I want to lick that face'?"

"A guy? No."

"Ha-Ha, I'm serious like a person."

"This is boring, we should've like stayed in and watched movies or you know—," he smirks at her. "Netflix and chill."

"No," she pinched him on the arm.

"Ouch," he squealed a little. "What was that for?" he asks.

"It's the time of the month, remember?" she says in an annoyance tone.

"I'm sorry, I forgot." He states. "That explains why you're so horny."

She turns to him, "I don't get horny when I'm on my period," giving him a weird look.

"You do, you always talk about your celebrities crush and giving me these weird images of what you would want to do them," he chuckles.

Maya sighs, "You don't have to come if you don't want to, you know."

"Well, I can't let you be here all alone with all these people in our school that I don't trust. They could be doing something to you or something."

"I'm Maya Hart if anything happens. It would be the other way around." She chuckles. "Besides, Riley is here. Look at her." She pointed at her sitting in the front row where she with Farkle and Zay, so she can be close to Lucas. "I can hang out with her and get a better view but NO, you said you want to come and I have to sit all the way here because you still get awkward around Riley."

"Of course, I'm still weird around her, she broke my heart." He sounded a bit hurt talking about her.

"And she's my best friend." She points it out.

"Don't make this all about me like it's my fault, how about you? You can always sit with her if you want to even if I'm here but NO, you don't because you are still weird around her and Lucas being all mushy-mushy."

"That's not true," trying to act all surprise. "I just—," she paused trying to think of a good reason besides the fact that it is true, she hates seeing Lucas and Riley act all lovey dovey around her. When she couldn't give him the answer, she gives him a death glare. "I hate you."

Charlie laughs, "I love how you show your love for me."

After two hours later, they had won and Maya suddenly running down to the field when she notices that the guy she's looking for is waving at her.

"You did great out there," she compliments him.

"Oh, it's nothing. Thanks for coming, so do you want to grab a pizza?"

Maya half smiled. "Actually, I can't. You see Charlie over there," she said pointing at her best friend. "I promise to have dinner with him. So I have to take a rain check."

"Who's Charlie?" he asks. "I don't know you already have a boyfriend."

Maya laughs shaking her head, "No, Charlie's not my boyfriend. He's my best friend."

"Oh okay." He lets out an easy laugh. "So, to be clear here, you don't have a boyfriend right? So, are you free tomorrow night?"

"Are you trying to ask me out?"

"As the matter of fact, I am. So is that a yes?"

Maya was thinking whether she should say yes or not. Should she like ask Charlie first, since they have these friends with benefit still going on, she thought because she feels like she's cheating on Charlie if she says yes. But then why should I feel that way, we're just friends, Maya thought to herself.

"It's a yes and please let me know where we're going so, I can decide on what to wear."

"Just wear something that you can move in and if that happens to be naked, I'm totally okay with that."

Maya felt a bit nauseous, and a bit unsure about the date. Where was he planning to take her? What are his intentions on her?

"Hey," he snapped her out of her thoughts. "I was just kidding. You really don't get my sense of humour, do you? I'm not some kind of pervert if that is what you're thinking."

Maya laughed nervously, "Paranoid, too many movies." She said circling her finger at the side of her head.

"Alright, it seems Charlie is giving me death glares for talking to you this long, so I should probably go. See you later?" he gives her small smile.

Maya nodded and went to re-join Charlie. "What is your problem? Why are you giving death glares to him?"

"You're into Zack Archer?" he gives her a questioning look.

"Stop making that face, he's hot okay. He's someone that I feel like licking which is a good thing."

"Ewww, please no. I don't need to hear this." He said making his disgusted face. "I don't like him."

"You don't like all the guys I like," she points out.

"He seems fishy." He pouts.

She sighs. "You think every guy I like fishy. How about you, the girls you go for are all bitchy to me, but I'm okay with it," she states.

"Well, I'm not fishy and you're not bitchy."

"And we're not dating."

"Do you want to?" he smirks at her.

"No." she shakes her head and laughs.

"My prediction on him is that he is going to turn out to be someone that you don't expect him to be. Not in a positive way."

"Why are you going all papa bear on me? Are you jealous?" she smirks at him.

"Jealous?" he huffs. "No. Care? Yes."

"He asks me out tomorrow night," she said proudly.

"Well, good luck then and have fun."

"I will"

"Okay," he said.

"Okay."

Afterwards, they went for Chinese food. Greasy noodle, fortune cookies and spending their night binge watching 'Parks and Recreation' at Maya's place until they both fell asleep.

Maya is on Riley's bed, reading a magazine while Riley is cleaning her closet and complaining about how she could use new clothes but her father refuses to buy her new ones and her mom is so busy lately and has no time for her.

"Riles, you have tons of clothes, just mix and match something. People in our school would not even notice if we wear the same clothes for a week."

"That's not true. I've once worn the same shirt twice in the same week, and this girl in my class, Carrie, she asks me why I wore it twice and I had to tell her I have multiple identical shirts."

"Well, that is only one girl who tells a lot that she have no clue about what a washing machine is or she never wash her clothes which explain why she smells like soup and not a good kind," Maya comments.

Riley burst into laughter to the comment, "Maya, stop that's mean."

"It's the truth." She said widening her eyes.

"Talking about truths, when were you planning to tell me?" Riley asks while hanging her clothes on the hanger.

"Planning to tell you what?" Maya asks her eyebrow furrowed and her eyes still glued on the magazine she's reading.

"Planning to tell me about your date with Zack tonight?"

"Oh about that?" she sighs. "How do you know about it?"

"Rumours spread, and he's on the football team. So, Lucas kind of heard them talking about you going out with him."

"Oh, it's nothing really. Just a date," Maya rolled over.

Riley jumped on the bed and lie close to her. "This is not 'nothing', Maya. This is something. It's been a long time since you agreed on a date with someone." She said.

"I know." Maya breathes the word out. Maya turns to look at Riley, "I'm sorry I didn't tell you because I don't think that this is serious because it might not work you know. I might not like him the way that I want it to be."

"It's okay peaches, I understand." She says. "But you have to promise me, next time you go on any dates with any guy, you better tell me!" she says. "No secrets." She held out her pinkie finger.

Maya just stared at her pinkie finger. How is she going to pinkie promise her when she is keeping secrets from Riley? If Riley knew about her and Charlie hooking up for fun, she'll make a big deal out of it and probably flip. Riley still thought that she never been kissed, let alone know about having sex because having sex is totally a big deal.

"Peaches?"

"What?" Maya snaps out from her thoughts.

"Promise?" Riley asks again with her pinkie still held up.

Maya did not say promise, she just locks her pinkie finger with Riley's and smiles warmly at her.

"Don't you want to hear about my date last night?"

Charlie shakes his head, "no thanks," he said before taking a bite of his burger.

"Why not?" she asks; confused.

Charlie shrugs, "I don't know, I'm just going to assume that everything went well."

"Don't you want to know the details?" she said raising a brow. "Like any best friend would want?"

"Okay fine. How was your date?" he asks.

"I don't know, probably I never going to go out with him ever again."

"Oh okay, cool." He said casually.

"Don't you want to ask why?"

"Why?"

"Because he's boring, and all he does is talk about sports and at first I was like, 'okay he's passionate'. I like guys that are passionate about what he likes. Then, when I talk about my art, he keeps interrupting me and starts talking about himself. He doesn't even care about what I like, it's annoying." She complains.

Charlie laughs watching her complaining.

"You must be happy knowing that what you expected is true. But he's so effing HOT, so I sneak him to my place and we—," she stopped hoping that Charlie is curious and asks 'what'.

Charlie just ignored the fact that she paused because he is not going to ask because he knows how the story goes and he is not asking. So, instead of asking he dips his fries in ketchup.

Maya just looked at him confused, "Are you going to ask me what happen when I took him to my place?"

Charlie looks at him, "just continue, I'm listening."

"Well, we started with harmless kissing then it got passionate real quick because he's just so hot."

"Is he good? In bed, what position did you guys do?" he pretends to be interested in the topic.

Maya's eyebrows furrowed looking at him, confused.

"What?" he laughs the question out.

"So you're not mad that if I had sex with him?" she narrowed her eyes at him.

Charlie shrugs, "why would I be?"

Maya sighs, "I was hoping that you flip that I had sex with a guy on a first date after I told you I'm never going out with him again which makes it like a one night stand and you would be mad and tell me that I'm not that kind of girl." She explains in devastation.

"Do you want me to be flip and tell you that?" he asks and he can see the hurt look in Maya's eyes.

She rolled her eyes. "You're my best friend, I thought you would care." She sounded disappointed. "I didn't have sex with him by the way," she murmurs.

Charlie laughs, "Maya of course, I care. I knew that you wouldn't sleep with him. Why should I be worried? I know and trust you to know you would not make those kinds of stupid decisions."

"That's a bummer, I wanted a different reaction."

He still laughing, "There is also another reason why I'm sure that you wouldn't sleep with him."

"Why?" she asks in an annoyed tone.

"Because you're still on your period."

"How did you—" she groans.

"We've been having sex, so I know when. And you reminded me about it at the game, remember?" He chuckles.

"Just for the record, I didn't even take him to my place. We did kiss because he's so hot and I'm curious but then it got real bad real quick because he's a sloppy kisser which— bleghh," Maya makes a 'grossed out' sound.

"Are you telling me that I'm a great kisser?" he asks and Maya rolled her eyes.

"I haven't kissed many guys to know you're great." She said. "Thank god, the date went really PG because then I wouldn't have to lie to Riley when she asked me about the date. She assumed he's my first kiss."

"Are you planning to kiss more guys just for you to prove that there are guys who are a better kisser than I am?"

Maya makes her thinking face before she nods. "yeah."

"Okay, good luck with that."

"Guys suck." she complains, folding her arms. "I know that I've said this like all the time but this time, I mean it." she adds.

Charlie shakes his head and laughs, "whatever you say."

Maya have been like this, she wants to make herself feels better for being single, she just complains how suck a guy really is. It's not that nobody wants her but she just puts her guard up so high that it's hard for her to truly open her heart for someone. And Charlie understands that.