summary: Maya invites Canon out for ice cream. It goes about as well as you expect.
notes: *flops down on floor* this is literally happened all because i was bored and had a bit of spite left. thanks @judette-mathis for betaing. this one’s for you
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Maya lays down on her bed with a huff escaping from her lips. She buries her face in her pillow as she recalls the events that took place earlier that day. Honestly she wishes she could take it all back but unfortunately time travel wasn't an anomaly present on the island and possibly anywhere else on this planet. She contemplates asking a Festum if time travel was one of their perks but she doubts she'll be able to get the first word out before she’s covered in green crystals. She throws that idea out of the window and instead buries herself deeper on the bed. A knock on her door keeps her from thinking of another plan and with a muffled “Come in,” her sister enters the room with a phone in her hand and worried expression on her face.
“Are you alright?” She asks with her hand on the receiver.
“No,” Maya groans. She still hasn’t bothered lifting her head from her pillow. Her sister chuckles and remembers the phone in her hand.
“Well, I won't ask for the details, but you have a phone call.”
Maya slowly lifts her head from her pillow, and it takes a lot for Yumiko to not burst out laughing. Her usually kept hair is sticking up from all angles with a few rebel strands sticking to her face.
“Who is it?”
All Yumiko does is give a please-dont-get-mad smile and hand her the phone. Maya takes it cautiously and presses it to her ear.
“Hello?”
“Hello, Maya.”
Maya rips the phone away from her face as if it burned her. She whips her head to the direction her sister was only to find a slightly ajar door and an empty room. It seems Yumiko had anticipated her reaction to the person on the phone and made sure to scaddle as fast as she could. Cursing Yumiko’s name, Maya contemplates hanging up but figures that would be even more disastrous than the day’s events, so she sighs, swallows her pride, and brings the phone back up to her ear.
“H-Hi Canon. What’s up?” Maya cringes slightly at her stutter but prevails on.
“Nothing much, just wanted to make sure you were okay.” Canon’s monotonous tone makes it hard for Maya to pin down exactly what Canon’s feelings are so she keeps the conversation going, hoping her over-powered observational skills would pick something up.
“Yes, I’m fine. Nothing to worry about.” She chuckles into the receiver.
The earpiece stays silent for a while, and Maya starts to wonder if they were cut off. She lifts the phone from her ear and sees the line is still going. She’s just about to say something when Canon starts talking again.
“I’m glad.” She breathes in relief. Maya’s brow scrunches in confusion. She has no clue why Canon would be relieved, for it should be her who’s relieved. She’s happy there’s nothing awkward between the two of them. She lets out a little breath, her disposition much lighter than before.
“Well, now that’s settled, why don’t we go get some ice cream? My treat.”
A small pause later, which to Maya felt like hours thinking she had messed up again, it only takes one word to melt away any doubts she had prior to asking her question.
“Yes.”
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They meet in front of Rakuen at around 1:33, which lucky for them, was just after the lunch rush. They enter together and grab their usual booth by the window. Maya orders a sundae and Canon her usual ice cream float, this time strawberry. They eat in silence, both not entirely sure how to break it. Maya figures she should start with an apology for her behavior that morning. It was unsightly and frankly, plain out of character of her to be acting like that. She puts her spoon down and clears her throat. Canon stops drinking her float and looks up at Maya. She pulls the straw away from her mouth and addresses Maya.
“Canon, I’m so sorry for acting that way this morning. It wasn’t my intention to hurt you.” She bows her head over her sundae, not wanting to look her in the eye just yet.
Canon cocks her head slightly. “It’s okay, Maya. You don’t need to apologize. I wasn’t--” She clears her throat. “I wasn’t hurt or offended.”
Maya sighs in relief and lifts her head up excitedly. “So, friends still?”
“Friends still.” Canon nods in agreement. They eat their ice cream in silence, this time with much lighter shoulders.
Maya is just about to put a spoonful in her mouth when she eyes Canon staring at her with a calculated look.
“Y-yes, Canon?”
“I’m starting to think I should’ve ordered the sundae instead.”
“Why?”
“....No reason.”
Maya looks down at her spoon and back at Canon. A wicked thought crosses her mind.
“Want to try some?”
At that, Canon’s face grows red and becomes flustered. “N-No, no. That’s alright, I could always order it next--”
Her protests die out as a spoon is shoved into her mouth. Her face scrunches up from the coldness of the ice cream but she swallows it down. Maya can’t help but think it’s cute, and wants to see her make it again. She gets another spoonful, but this time gives Canon a little warning.
“Say ‘ah’!~”
“I already said you don’t need to.” Canon turns her head away from Maya, a blush and a pout paint themselves on her face, it makes Maya want to kiss that pout away.
“Ah, c’mon. A couple of spoonfuls wouldn’t hurt. And besides, did you see this thing when I first ordered it? I’m starting to think it was falsely advertised for one person.” She gives Canon her best puppy eyed look, which she knows she can’t resist. Canon sighs in defeat and grabs the spoon from Maya’s hand and eats the ice cream off of it. Maya grins satisfactory and grabs the spoon back to give her more.
At some point during their feeding session, Maya found herself on the same side of the booth as Canon, but she honestly doesn’t care as to how she got there. She just cares about what she can do now that she’s there. She glances over to make sure Canon isn’t looking and slowly scoots over closer to Canon. She scoops some more ice cream and turns to Canon.
“Canon.”
The girl in question turns her head quickly only to find a spoonful of ice cream and Maya in her face. She slides backwards to distance them but finds there’s a window behind her. How they got so close is a mystery to Canon, but she knows there isn’t much she could do about it. She gulps nervously and opens her mouth so Maya could slip the spoon in. She wraps her lips around it and tugs slightly to get the ice cream off. Maya retracts the utensil and turns a little to get more ice cream. This time, Maya presses her upper body towards Canon’s, pinning her to the window as she feeds her the sundae.
They stay like that until the sundae is done, by that time, the golden rays of the sun are showing signs of orange streaks. Maya goes to the counter to pay, leaving Kazuki a tip for not kicking them out for inappropriate behavior. Canon waits for Maya outside, hoping it’ll give her time to cool her face off and calm her racing heart. She fixed her straw hat while she waits hoping she can do both things at once. Unfortunately for Canon, Maya exits the cafe before she could do any of those things. Maya holds out her hand and offers to walk her home. She takes them both--the offer and Maya’s hand.
The both of them find themselves walking in a comfortable silence and by the time they both realize it, they have arrived at Canon’s house. Maya turns to Canon and says, “I had a lot of fun today.”
“I’m sure you did,” Canon pouts, referring to the spoonfeeding in the cafe. Maya chuckles, “But you enjoyed yourself.”
“Yeah, I did.” She blushes slightly at those words, but it’s the truth. She did have a lot of fun, despite the initial awkwardness.
“So, I’ll see you tomorrow?” There’s a hesitant hitch in Maya’s voice as she asks that, but Canon puts those ills to rest.
“Yeah, I’ll see you tomorrow.” Maya smiles and closes into Canon, giving her a small peck on her lips.
Maya lets go of her hand and walks home, her finger lightly touching her lips as she walks down those stairs.
(Little does she know, a certain red head in a straw hat is doing the same thing, wondering what she has to do to feel it again).
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Despite still wrestling with grief and the complicated feelings of seeing Canon everywhere Shouko was supposed to be, Maya does everything she can to make Canon feel welcome and to be friends with her. But, once again just like Shouko, perhaps Maya wants something more than that and she just hasn't realized it yet.
Hello, back again with the sad mecha pilots, except this time it's the girls! I've been wanting to write canmay for weeks and I finally did it! Everyone clap lmao
Sidenote: absolutely shocked that apparently Shouko/Maya wasn't a tag on ao3 already like, even as an unrequited thing on Maya's part, cause that was one of my first thoughts for them so. Guess I'm somehow blazing new ship territory even for a 20 year old show sdklskd. How the hell did that happen
