Decisions

[intheheart]

Title: Decisions
Rating: PG
Summary: "Come home," Ma says.
Warnings: none.
Notes: There is a somewhat complicated story behind this: suffice to say that Joy saved Maya's life and brought her home, and at the moment Maya is living with Joy's parents.


"Come home," Ma says, crying on the phone. "Come home. We are so sorry, beta, come home." And Maya holds the handset and doesn't know what to say.

She wants to go home. She wants it so badly it clogs her throat. She misses her sisters and her baby brother, misses her big brother's visits home, even misses her Ma's scoldings and her Papa's loud morning speeches. It's home.

But they threw her out. They said they had no daughter anymore. Ma's sorry, sure, but Maya was out on the streets, cold and scared and pregnant, and if it hadn't been for Joy...

Maybe it will be okay. She's not pregnant anymore. She doesn't have to worry about that. Maybe she can just go back, finish up her high school degree, restart her life like nothing ever happened. Maybe she could do that, if she thought she could ever trust them again.

"I don't know, Ma," she says, and tries not to cry herself.