So here is what looks like the final Chapter of 'The Psychics Desires' although I may kick-start a revival somewhere down the line.
And now time for the thrilling conclusion...
Chapter 11:
Maya stood behind the curtain in the middle of a classroom, she wore a French maid outfit with a black base and a white apron with frilly ends over the shoulders. She had white lace bands on her wrists and white stockings that made their way up to just below where her relatively short skirt ended so just a bit of her perfectly shaped thighs were visible. The final piece of Maya’s attire was her brown laced boots that ended just above the halfway-point of her shins.
“K-Komari-Chan….Yuki-Senpai…” Maya’s bottom lip trembled with rage and she clenched her hands which also shook with the same ferocity. “I’M GONNA KILL YOU TWO!” Maya yelled and both Yuki and Komari covered Maya’s mouth anxiously.
“Come on Maya-Chan! You’re being overly sensitive again, I think you look very cute this way,” Yuki’s argument seemed to have the opposite effect it intended as Maya’s mouth broke into a murderous smile.
“Why…why am I always the one who gets put into this situation?” Maya asked, failing to control her growing anger as she spoke shakily.
“Well…If you remember Maya-Senpai…we all wore the S.S.M.S cosplay back when we went to Comiket,” Komari nervously giggled and Maya turned to her with fiery eyes, “Or perhaps I should shut up?” Komari decided and Maya turned away to look blushed as she looked down slightly.
“Yuki-Senpai…” Maya made a barely audible voice.
“Hmm?” Yuki leaned in and smiled at Maya.
“Do you…really think I look cute?” She turned and looked at Yuki with a slight smile, hoping for Yuki’s answer to be yes.
Yuki had a small trail of blood exit from her nose that she attempted to stop by covering it with one hand, “My God…that amount of cuteness should be illegal…” Yuki happily giggled to herself as Maya ducked away.
“Now that’s just creepy…” Maya gulped to herself.
“Speaking of creepy…” a masculine voice said from behind the curtain, “Thanks for helping me out girls!” DeWitt jumped through the curtain in his regular getup.
“Y’know? It doesn’t help our image of you if you reveal yourself as †˜creepy’…” Yuki mocked DeWitt as she had her head tilted back to stop the blood flow caused by Maya.
“I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN SOMEONE AS SCREWED UP AS YOU WOULD MAKE ME DO SOMETHING SO EMBARRASING!” Maya screamed as she saw DeWitt had entered into the scene.
“Please try to calm down Maya-Senpai,” Komari happily threw herself around Maya, who looked slightly calmed as she patted Komari on the head.
“Okay, can I have an explanation now?!” Maya demanded as they all sat around a table in the classroom that had a rack of other maid outfits in the same room with other girls changing into them.
“Fine. I guess I owe you as much…as you should know: Today is the schools cultural festival! So every class had to put on some kind of stall in order to make money. Unfortunately some of my class can’t make it due to college and university applications so Komari and Yuki-Chan offered you to take their place!” DeWitt explained as Maya shot a look of death to both of Yuki and Komari.
“If I haven’t killed someone by end of this day, it will be a miracle,” Maya grumbled to herself as pen flew into Yuki randomly.
“Ow!” Yuki complained and Maya chuckled as a result.
“So I have to walk around serving people tea and ramen in this embarrassing getup that Komari-Chan probably dreams up seeing me in every night?” Maya insulted and Komari looked slightly mock-offended but accepted the truth with a simple nod.
“More or less, but it’ll be fun Maya-Chan, I promise!” DeWitt said and Maya looked less than convinced.
“All-right, all-right! I’ll do it…” Maya grumbled and folded her arms, “It better be worth it…” Maya continued as Komari threw herself around the back of Maya.
“I’ll make it up to you tonight Maya-Senpai!” Komari said happily as she bounced up and down in such a way that Maya smiled and even managed a chuckle.
Maya began pouring the ingredients for the tea as the other half of the room filled with patrons. They were mostly relatives of the students, a feeling and situation that Maya had never known. She looked on as the other maids laughed and giggled with their family and friends which made her feelings of loneliness and hatred grow. She even made a maid trip up by picking up a jug of water and quietly pouring it around her so she would slip up, which made Maya giggle to herself when it did happen. DeWitt noticed the events and walked over to Maya to confront her.
“Maya-Chan, what do you think you’re doing?” DeWitt asked with an inquisitive smile and an imposing stance over her.
“Just having my own brand of fun,” Maya responded and took a cup of tea that rested on a white saucer in her hands, “If you will excuse me,” she smiled and walked through the curtains.
On the other side of the room were the square white tables that had a white cloth thrown over them to give the area a more professional feel. Every single table was taken up by customers and more waited outside to be seated once the other patrons were finished. Maya now understood why DeWitt had needed more help considering how fast the maids had to work even with the numbers they had. Maya looked at the piece of paper on the saucer that had a solitary number written on it †˜4’. She looked up to see a table in the far corner of the room with a place holder with a laminated piece of paper with the number †˜4’ also on it. At the table sat two people: One was a man in his early twenties in a white cotton shirt and jeans with brown work boots, he had wavy blonde hair and blue eyes. The person sat next to him was obviously a girl with a voluptuous and curvy figure with moderately sized breast, she wore a white dress that ended just below her knees and had cotton ends to it by her shoulders with a large white sun-hat that covered most of her face except for her rouge lips and several locks of curly blonde hair.
“I guess that’s them?” Maya shrugged and brought over the tray to the table and set it down between them “Thank you for coming, as per tradition of a regular Maid Café you may chose a title that I have to refer to you as; what would you like me to call you?” Maya asked as she tilted her head and smiled whilst trying her best to keep up her façade.
“Oh I don’t need a title or anything, I’ll just handle the bill,” the man brought out his wallet and handed the necessary money over to Maya, who took the saucer from them and placed the money on top of it. “What about you Kana-Chan?” he asked with a devious smile and the girl in white smiled similarly back to him and turned her blue eyes to meet Maya’s, whose widened at the sight of the girl.
“Why don’t you call me Kanade-Sama; Maya-Chan?” Kanade asked as Maya’s breathing shot out of control, her voice faltered and her face grew incredibly red.
“B…but…you…you left me…” Maya couldn’t get her words out and she dropped the saucer she was carrying, luckily Kanade reached out and caught it before it hit the ground and placed it on the table.
“Careful Maya-Chan, you don’t want to get into trouble,” Kanade had an apologetic tone to her voice and almost resentful aura about herself, contrasting her earlier tone where she looked devious and plotting. “I won’t take up your busy schedule with helping the school. I’ll talk to you afterwards, meet me on the rooftop at the end of your shift,” Kanade stood up and kissed Maya on the cheek, which caused her back and shoulders to stiffen before Kanade walked out of the room.
“I would get to the other customers Maya-San,” Kanade’s brother pointed towards a table that had a women raising her hand, waiting for someone to go take her order.
“Oh…yeah…customers…” Maya was completely and utterly out of it by this point, her entire world had been rocked by the sudden appearance of Kanade. Much like Maya’s constant guessing at Kanade’s true personality, Maya’s emotions seemed overlapping and conflicting; she felt happy, sad, angry, depressed, relieved and disappointed all at once.
As Maya waited on the tables for several hours, staring at the clock while she both anticipated and feared the conversation she would share with Kanade. Her heart never stopped beating a mile a minute and several times she found herself needing to sit down and take a moment’s reprieve, not that it did much to help her heavy heart.
Eventually, after what seemed like an eternity, Maya’s shift came to an end as she watched the setting sun’s orangey glow melt into the horizon. She looked into her reflection and saw the timid, scared and anti-social girl she had once been stare back at her. The girl that had sentenced her to these painful feelings, the girl who had fallen for Kanade and had made the mistake of letting her see her powers. The girl who had suffered countless times from the prejudice of many men, women and children.
But she also saw the girl who she was now; a girl who had found 3 people who could finally look at her without recoiling in horror at her powers. Komari, who despite being a sadistic and arguably insane girl, looked up to Maya as her beloved Senpai and would protect Maya from every problem that could challenge her later in life. She also saw Yuki, the confident and beautiful Senpai, who was mature and would always show Maya the correct way to live her life. Yuki, whose experience had quelled Maya’s raging storm of emotions so many times, had been a target which Maya had always wanted to reach and hold onto for her entire life. And finally; DeWitt. He had looked at the innermost details of Maya’s life and not only kept it a secret but he had also looked at her in awe, not horror, and had always made the choice to try and convince Maya that her powers were something to be proud of almost as if he was a father-figure for her.
And while Maya didn’t consider any of the choices she had made right or wrong, she was incredibly happy to have made the choices she had made to meet those 3 people that had brightened her life considerably. She finally felt that in a world that she had viewed as dark and unfair that she had finally found a bright light that would keep her warm and happy in the form of Yuki Chomei, Komari Chansu and Bill DeWitt. 3 people that Maya would never let go of under any circumstances, be it misguided love, or horrifically accurate hate.
And as for Kanade…Maya didn’t have an answer for her yet, she was a blank slate that Maya could look at in any number of ways. She could see the girl who had abandoned her and left a dark storm of emotions in her heart or she could see the girl whom she had fallen in love with and held close to her naked bosom at night or she could see her as that perfect girl she had stared at all those long summer days when she was just an insecure girl who wasn’t sure about anything. But she did know one thing about Kanade, the next conversation she would have with her would finally give her that closure she had been mulling over for weeks on end.
Yuki and Komari entered into the classroom as Maya changed into her casual hoody, skirt, stockings and boots. She had an odd smile on her face which could have been interpreted as either sad or happy, Komari went to speak when Yuki stopped her and shook her head. Yuki looked up and offered her the exact same smile.
“Whatever choice you make, we’ll both love you no matter what,” Yuki said with her eyes glistening from the sunlight on her tears.
Maya nodded, with the exact same glistening coming from her own eyes as she pressed a kiss against both of her lovers and walked away from them without a second glance.
“But Senpai…” Komari looked heartbroken and Yuki gripped Komari’s shoulder.
“Let Maya-Chan do what is best for her, not us,” Yuki said and Komari turned around and buried her face in Yuki’s chest.
“Maya-Senpai…” Komari cried with a long and sadly drawn out voice.
Maya ascended the stairs to the place where she would have her appointed rendezvous with Kanade, the steps seemed to go on forever and never let Maya reach her target. All the events leading up to this single moment played back in Maya’s mind; the discovery of her powers by Kanade, the first time she had sex with Kanade, going to Kanade’s house, meeting Yuki and Komari, meeting DeWitt, Kanade’s abandoning of Maya and then her relationship with Komari and Yuki. Each event had been imprinted on her mind and had built her into the person she was. The light outside exploded across her eyes and there stood Kanade with her back towards Maya as the wind kicked up the end of her dress a little as she stared at the setting sun.
“It’s beautiful; isn’t it Maya-Chan?” Kanade said as she turned towards Maya with a smiling face that was still full of regret over leaving Maya, she removed her hat to reveal how she hadn’t changed at all.
“I suppose it is” Maya said back, not letting any emotion show, apart from her puffy red cheeks from where she had been crying.
“I don’t know where to start... Saying †˜I’m sorry’ is a bit too late isn’t it?” Kanade asked and Maya nodded.
“You know…I’ve been hurt a lot…by other kids, friends, adults, teachers and more people than I could count,” Maya finally let her hurt expression show, “But nothing hurt more than you leaving me…if you really cared…THEN YOU WOULD HAVE STAYED!” Maya shouted as her chest heaved and she cried, letting her tears flow like a waterfall.
“I know…that was a mistake that I should have never made, but I did make it and I can’t undo what I did to you,” Kanade said as even she began to cry herself, “I thought that you would have been better off without me causing you problems…guess I’m not as smart as everyone thinks huh?” Kanade chuckled at her own crack at herself, “I lost the one human being who didn’t just look at me with love because I was popular or I had a lot of money. The one girl who didn’t try to appease me because she thought that would be the way to get closer to me…” Kanade choked on her words and covered her eyes, “MAYA-CHAN I’M SO SORRY!” Kanade apologised and Maya took a deep breath.
“I can never forgive you for what you did Kanade…” Maya took a pause and bit her lip, “But I don’t hate you…I could never hate you…but…” Maya took another pause and smiled, “Neither can I ever love you again because…because…I LOVE YUKI-SENPAI AND KOMARI-CHAN!” Maya yelled with a smile into the sky and looked down happily, “And I’ll never, ever, let them go,” Maya proclaimed confidently and Kanade found the urge to smile herself.
“Well than…I guess I deserve as much…good luck to you Maya-Chan, I’ll always love you” Kanade kissed Maya on the cheek one last time and descended down the stairs, and out of Maya’s sight.
Maya eventually walked back down the stairs and eventually out to the front gates of the school, where she saw Yuki and Komari waiting with their arms around each-other, they both looked nervous but there was also a hopeful glint in their eyes.
“Yuki-Senpai…Komari-Chan…” Maya said peacefully with a smile on her face.
“Yes Maya-Chan?” Yuki asked and Komari held both arms around Yuki whilst she gulped, waiting for Maya’s response.
“I…love you two more than anything in this world, and no matter what stands in my way... I WON’T LET IT TAKE EITHER OF YOU FROM ME!” Maya happily called out as she jumped into the embrace they all shared and they laughed in each-other’s arms.
For better or for worse, this was the route these young girls had travelled down, and their story is far from over.