Lilian.
I could here the banging on my door in my sleep, I woke up wondering who that could be. I rubbed my eyes as I walked to the door. The force the person was using to knock was alarming; almost like it was the FBI coming to do a raid. I opened the door and met Maya smiling. She was dressed in a bikini and wrapped a sarong around her waist, with a small bag and a picnic basket. "The beach!" my eyes widened with shock. "I thought I said nothing huge?"
"No my friend, you said nowhere expensive, and they only charge like two dollars for a smoothie so yes, the beach," she said as she walked in. "And why aren't you dressed? I told you I would come pick you up by ten." She set the picnic bag on my kitchen counter. "Its not ten yet," I walked over to my bed to pick up my phone. "This is ten-thirty Lily." She held up her phone to me showing me the time. "At this point, you're going to have to put in clock in your head for you to know the time while you sleep." She went and sat on my bed.
"Very funny Maya," I fake laughed as I went to my kitchen to get a cup of water. I opened the small bag to see what was inside, "Really?" I looked at her holding a row of condoms. "What, a lot of hot guys come to the beach, and I want to get me some." I rolled my eyes and put it back in the bag. "Come on Lily, you should be getting ready by now, I don't want those hot guys to get sun burns before I get there." I put down the cup and went it the bathroom to take a shower. I came out ten minutes later, put on an oversized shirt and some denim shorts and tied my hair in a ponytail. "I'm ready," I said tapping Maya, she had fallen asleep on my bed while I was in the shower. "Girl come on, no guy's going to look at you wearing that," she said pointing to my outfit. "What's wrong with it?" asked looking down on it. Her head tilted, almost apologetically and her lips curved slightly. "It's a little too simple." She came to me and knotted the tip of the shirt, she stepped back a bit to review the whole outfit again, "there, that's better." She smiled and grabbed the bags. "Come on," she said as she walked out. I looked down at the shirt and saw that it left my belly exposed, I tried to pull it down to cover it up a bit but Maya's voice shouting my name from the building corridor made me leave it and dash out.
I the taxi, I kept on trying to cover up my belly button, I noticed the driver kept looking at us through the rear-view mirror, "Hey Maya I noticed the driver keeps looking at us through the mirror, its creepy." I whispered to her. "Hey eyes on the road mister," she charged at the driver, almost hitting him. "You should be ashamed of yourself, sneaking glances us like some hungry dog."
"Maya, that's enough," I held her back, so she won't hit the driver. "We're here," the driver said as he slowly pulled the car to a stop. Maya angrily threw the money at the driver and got down; I followed behind her. She slammed the door hard, and the driver drove off. "Could you believe that he's nothing but a pig." She was furious. She hated men who couldn't control themselves because her mother was raped by a drunk man who broke into their house when she was twelve. The man was granted bail because he was drunk, and he said he thought it was his house. She's hated them ever since then. She swore one day that she was going to find the man and make him pay. "It's okay Maya, he's gone now," I said trying to calm her down. "Did you see the hungry look o his face?" she asked with rage, "I'm sure we could have had an accident if he kept staring at us."
"Lets just go in," I said dragging her. We went in and Maya brought outa large cloth from the bag and laid it on the sand. The beach was filled with a lot of people running around. Some guys were surfing, some were playing volleyball, and some kids where running after each other, shooting each other with water guns. It was actually my first time at a beach, so I had no idea how it was going to be. I had only seen it in movies and reels. "Let's go get smoothies," Maya said as she walked in the direction of a small shed. I followed behind, "Are you sure we should leave our stuff behind?" I asked. "Leave it, it's perfectly safe," she said as she walked to the small shed.
"Two smoothies please," Maya asked smiling weirdly at the attendant. "You're going to have wait on the line," he pointed to a queue that wasn't so long. We waited on the queue for about ten minutes before it got to our turn, but I realised I had left my phone in my bag, so I had to go get it. "Hey Maya, I think I left my phone in my bag, I'll be right back." I hurried back to where we left our things and took my phone from my bag. I tried switching it on, but it kept showing me a high temperature notification, the heat from the bag had made my phone temperature to increase so I couldn't use it. I grunted I frustration. I went back to meet Maya at the smoothie stand. As I got closer to the queue, I could hear Maya's voice, she was definitely crashing out. I reached the scene of the argument, my eyes widened with shock, my heartbeat started rising with a sudden rush of old anger. I gently pulled Maya out of the scene and tried to calm her down. "Let go of me," she said, struggling to break free of my grip. I let go of her hand. "That's my boss you were arguing with Maya, what happened?" I looked at her with a bit off worry. Her whole face had turn red, her veins were almost popping out and she was completely out of breath. "That's your boss… I can now see why you hate him." she paused for a while to catch her breath. "That arrogant fool and his girlfriend just insulted me for trying to stand up for my right. It was our turn to get smoothies, and they just came out of nowhere saying they're VIP members or something, just because they've got some silly card." She paused again to catch her breath. "I would poked that his cockroach looking girlfriend in the eye so hard if it wasn't for you."
"Well it's a good thing I got there in time before you did it." I gave her a pat of the back. "Come one let's just go get our smoothies and relax." We were going to get our smoothies when Bianca called out to the two of us, "you should know your place around here." Maya charged angrily at her and started slapping her hard, till she fell to the floor. A ran after Maya to pull her away from Bianca. Xavier, who was filling out a document on the counter saw what was going on and rushed to the scene immediately and pulled Bianca out. The shape of Maya's palms was plastered all over her face and her hair was scattered. She buried her face into Xavier's chest, sobbing softly. I had to hold Maya back to avoid her charging to her again. She was breathing heavily; her veins were popping out of her head like earlier. I could see the rage in her eyes. I knew she wasn't satisfied with the beating she gave Bianca, and she would continue if she got the chance. We were kicked out of the beach because of the incident. "It's not fair," Maya kept wailing in the taxi on our way back home. "These rich people get away with everything, just because they have money." She sank into the chair and folded her arms across her chest. I looked at her with pity, she just wanted to stand up for what's right and she got punished for it. "We could just watch a movie at my place," I said trying to cheer her up. I could tell it was working because of the light smile that grew on her face. I smiled back at her and put her head on my shoulders. I was quiet through out the rest of the drive. I kept on thinking on how I was going to face Mr Pierce when I get back to work. I didn't know how to handle the awkwardness, and I didn't think I could face him. "I'm pretty sure that I'll be fired before I even get work on Monday," I said as I scratched my head. "I don't even know how I would look at him when I see him. "Sorry babes, this is all my fault I should have just controlled my emotions and now our girls day is ruined." Her head was still on my shoulders. "It's fine Maya, you were just trying to stand up to them. You don't have to blame yourself for the consequences." The driver soon reached my apartment and we both went in. Maya jumped into my bed immediately we got in, and I went to kitchen to make some sandwiches, so we could start the movie.