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[kissorkill16]

You're Not My Girl: A Hello Neighbor Fanfic

By JJ

Summary: Maritza finally confesses her feelings, but at the worst time.

One of the crow people threw Trinity and Maritza into a dark room with a flickering light.

"We'll be right back, we have to go find the rest of your little friends.", it said, then it left.

The two girls were left alone in the room.

As the door slammed closed, Trinity immediately ran to the door and started pounding on it, trying to get it open.

Maritza just sat in the corner and watched her.

Trinity wasn't the girl she thought she was anymore. This girl was a monster. A feral, obsessive, overconfident monster. Nothing like the Trinity she met when she first moved to Raven Brooks.

Her mind flashed back to their first meeting.

She was nearly hit by a can lid, and she whispered to her...

"Is this club for inventors or executioners?"

Maritza laughed a little bit. She was sassy, that was one of the things she liked about her.

Then she flashed back to a place where that girl she knew and loved started to fade away.

"You know we needed every single one of us last time.", she said, "You really gonna quit a game before it's over?"

Maritza suddenly realized that Trinity wasn't encouraging her to keep going, she was manipulating her because she knew Maritza liked sports and didn't like losing.

Well, she lost one thing during this whole adventure...

Her common sense.

Trinity finally stopped banging on the door, but didn't back away from it.

"This. Is. All. Your. Fault."

Maritza's eyes widened when she said that. She couldn't believe she was saying that. "What?"

Trinity turned around to look at Maritza. "Out of all of the people I thought were the traitor, I never thought it'd be you. But I should've known. You tricked me into thinking you didn't want anything to do with this, and then as soon as I had the book, you took it when I least suspected!"

Maritza's eyes widened a little more. "You think that's what happened?"

"Why else would you betray me?", asked Trinity. "Why else would you give the book to those freaks? Why else would you run from me? Why else would you lie to me?"

Trinity moved towards Maritza, and she stepped back, but Trinity moved in closer.

Maritza had dreamed of being this close to Trinity before, but never like this.

"You're a lying, cheating, stealing rat, Maritza Esposito. I can't believe I ever trusted you."

It was at that moment that Maritza felt something snap inside her. She pushed Trinity to the ground and stomped to her.

"THAT ISN'T FAIR!", she yelled. "Don't you try to blame this on me!"

Trinity backed away from her, completely shocked.

"Would you like me to explain why I even did all of this in the first place?!", said Maritza. "I was chased by one of those freaks, and they kidnapped me and brought me here. They threatened me with Enzo's safety and said that I needed to get the book or else he dies, so yeah. I stole the book because I care about my brother, I care about my family, I care about my friends more than you do!"

Trinity sat up a little, completely taken aback by what Maritza just said. "What are you talking about? Of course I care about my friends!"

"Do you? Do you really care about us?", asked Maritza. "The only thing you've ever been concerned about was finding out who Crowface truly was. Nicky's gone insane, the boys are giving up, and you still want to keep going?!", Maritza took a breath and lowered her voice a little. "We tried to keep up, we tried to help you, we tried to work with you as the team you needed. But the second something goes wrong, or we decide to not go through with it because we don't want to die, what do you do? You turn on us, accuse us of not being loyal or just go jump headfirst into danger without thinking about it!"

Maritza felt her eyes fill with tears, but she blinked them away.

"You're not the Trinity I used to love."

Trinity looked at Maritza, now both shocked and confused.

"Yes. I loved you, way more than Enzo did. I thought you were sweet, sassy, smart, confident, brave, and perseverant. When you helped me out of that bear trap, I thought you were my guardian angel.", she said, her voice starting to break. "But then you got too obsessed, hellbent on solving this case, almost like how Nicky was with finding out that Mr. Peterson was a murderer.", she took another breath. "Nicky only wanted us to believe him, you wanted us to walk into death. And now look where we are."

Maritza leaned down to meet Trinity's eyes, and she pointed a finger to her chest.

"You're the real monster, Trinity Bales.", she said, "I might never see my brother again, but I guess that doesn't matter to you, huh? All that matters to you is Crowface's identity. I hope you die."

She stood back up and walked to the opposite corner of the room, falling down to her knees and curling up to hug them.

She wanted to take back what she said, but she was too angry and sad to apologize to Trinity. She knew she was also in the wrong for what she did, but she was young, just a kid, she wanted to protect her family.

Was that so wrong?

As she kept to herself, Trinity just sat in her place, still processing what Maritza just said to her.

Mr. Peterson's words ringing in her ear.

"You're a little monster. Your parents know it, I know it, and soon, everyone will."

That's how she knew that Maritza knew.