The Best Love Story / Maya And Carina (Season 5 )

Mahaworld    سبتمبر 30, 2021   

 

One thing Carina has learned while being with Maya is that Maya is good at shutting down. She could close up her emotions within the blink of an eye fixed and it took awhile for Carina to know how she could do this .
Maya doesn’t mention it, but Carina knows it’s due to her dad. Maya never got the posh of hanging out with friends and seeing movies or staying up late on a faculty night. She had a set schedule her entire life and had to learn how to turn off her emotions quickly.
“Hey, I’m home,” Maya says, tired.
Carina’s body fills with excitement. She never gets uninterested in her wife walking through the door of their house. “Hi, bambina,” she offers lightly, a smile on her face.
Maya gives her a tight-lipped smile. “Hi, baby,” she says.
Carina reaches for Maya, entangling herself within the woman’s arms. “I missed you,” she tells Maya.
Maya tenses a touch and it doesn’t go unnoticed by Carina. “You, too,” she says softly. “Where’s our daughter?”
Carina leans certain a fast kiss before untangling herself from Maya. “She’s still sleeping,” she says.
“Still? It’s nearly eight o’clock. She’s usually up at six thirty on the dot,” Maya says.
Carina shrugs. “She was fussy all night. She’s teething, remember?”
“Oh, yeah,” Maya says. “I’m gonna sleep for a couple of hours. I’m exhausted.”
Carina leans in for a kiss. “Are you okay?” She asks.
Something flashes across Maya’s face. “M’fine,” she murmurs. She kisses Carina back. “Wanna lay in bed with me for a touch until Frankie wakes up?”
It’s then that Carina realizes Maya isn’t okay. “Of course, amore,” she says, taking Maya’s hand and leading her to their bedroom.
When they get into their bedroom, Carina undresses Maya slowly, taking the time to kiss what bare skin she finds. It isn’t sexual; it’s intimate and therefore the gesture is so filled with love that it almost makes Maya cry.
They get into bed and Maya clings onto Carina, wrapping herself completely around her. Carina plays with Maya’s hair and whispers words of affection to her until she falls asleep.

It’s not too long after Maya falls asleep that Carina hears Frankie on the baby monitor saying, “Mamma, mamma, mamma.”
Carina slowly untangles herself from Maya and places a mild kiss on her forehead before getting to the nursery and greeting her daughter .
“Buongiorno, la mia bambina,” Carina says, smiling.
“Mamma,” Frankie says, bouncing up and down in her crib.
“I’m here, baby,” Carina says, picking up Frankie and kissing her forehead. “You’re warm,” she says, reaching for the baby thermometer and taking Frankie’s temperature. “Oh, piccola, hai la febbre.”
She quickly changes Frankie’s diaper and provides her some teething medicine along side baby Tylenol. She dresses her for the day then heads into the kitchen to place her in her high chair.
“What do you want for breakfast?” Carina asks Frankie. “Some fruit and mashed oats? Oatmeal and sliced avocado?”
Frankie nods, laughing.
Carina laughs softly. “Yeah, I was thinking the same thing,” she says.
She feeds Frankie breakfast and cleans her up before putting her within the front room so she will play together with her toys.
Carina is cleaning up the kitchen when Maya walks in, freshly showered and dressed for the day.
“Where’s my goober?” Maya asks and she or he hears Frankie scream in excitement from the front room .
“Mommy,” Frankie says.
Maya laughs and leans in for a quick kiss from Carina.
“She has a fever,” Carina tells Maya. “It’s not high. I gave her medicine.”
Maya nods. “Okay, good,” she says. “I’m gonna go play with her for a bit, then, if her fever is better, I’ll take her with me to go and get lunch with Pru and Miller.”
“I didn’t know you had lunch plans today,” Carina says.
“We made them this morning after shift,” Maya tells her. “He just needs some advice and the girls haven’t seen each other in a few weeks.”
Carina nods. “Okay, while you do that, I’m gonna go shopping with Jo. They’ve got a replacement shop downtown and both folks wanna check it out. I was gonna take Frankie, but if you’re gonna take her, I’m fine thereupon .”
Maya smiles. “Do they have lingerie at this new shop?” She asks.
Carina laughs. “You are absurd,” she says.
Maya beams and kisses Carina’s smile. “You love me,” she says.
“I do,” Carina agrees. “I really, really do.”
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It’s not until they’re having dinner that Maya seems really off.
“It’s bedtime for a particular female child ,” Carina says softly, pointing to Frankie who’s falling asleep in her high chair.
Maya stares off into space.
“Bambina?” Carina questions. “Maya.”
Maya snaps out of it and blinks slowly at Carina. “Mhm?”
Carina brushes it off. “Our daughter is falling asleep sitting up,” she tells Maya.
Maya smiles. “She’s adorable,” she says before standing up and going to pick up Francesca. “C’mon, goober, time for bed.”
After Maya puts Frankie to bed, she meets Carina in their bedroom.
“What’s going on?” Carina asks Maya.
“What do you mean?” Maya asks.
“You’ve been off all day,” Carina says. “Did something happen at work?”
Maya winces and tries to play it off. “Just a long shift,” she says.
Carina sighs. “I wish you’d talk to me.”
“I am. We’re talking right now,” Maya jokes.
“Bambina,” she says softly.
“There was a bad fire,” Maya tells Carina. “Probably one of the worst I’ve seen.”
“What happened?” Carina asks.
Maya flies her shirt and appears for a sleeping one. “When we got there, almost the whole house was up in flames,” she says. “I mean, anyone who wasn’t already out of there, wasn’t getting out. And there was this woman screaming for her daughter. It, like, echos in my head, you know?” She pauses for a flash , trying to stay herself together. “I couldn’t send anyone on my team in there. It was sudden death. We had to fight it from the outside and when we got the whole thing out, we went inside.” She blows out a breath. “The entire time, the lady was screaming for her daughter. She had just born and her new grand baby was in there also . We found them, burnt to a crisp. The woman’s daughter was holding her baby, and, my God, Carina, if you would’ve seen it.”
Carina walks over to Maya and holds her.
“I just kept brooding about you and Frankie,” Maya admits. “And how that the woman outside screaming could’ve been me screaming for you guys.”
“We’re right here, bambina. We’re safe,” Carina says.
Maya nods. “It was terrible,” she says.
“I’m sorry,” Carina says.
Maya leans against Carina. “I love you.”
Carina kisses Maya’s temple. “I love you.”