After her "first date" with Farkle, Maya decided to spend the night at Riley's so that her best friend could continue to rant on about how perfect Ranger Rick was. If it wasn't for how horrible her day had been she might have mustered up some happiness for her friend but as fate would have it that would just be impossible today.
"I'm sorry Maya" her best friend said "I know you're still upset about uncle Josh but you just have to set your sights on a new boy" she smiled "one your own age"
"Yeah I know, besides I'm in it for the long game" the blonde smirked.
"I will never be okay with this" both girls broke down into a fit of giggles "You want to go downstairs and eat ice cream?"
"Yeah just let me get changed. You go downstairs and get the stuff ready." As her best friend left Maya started pulling her p jays out of her bag, feeling only slightly better than she had ten minutes earlier. She had just started to get changed when a noise coming from the window startled her.
"Do you make a habit of changing in front of an open window?" She turned around, almost jumping out of her skin as she did so, to find a smirking Joshua Mathews sitting on the fire escape.
"You're such a jack ass Josh" she threw her discarded jacket at him.
"Well, as cute as I'm sure those pyjamas are, I'm pretty sure you couldn't look more beautiful than you do in hat dress." For some miraculous reason Maya's heart started beating rapidly and her palms were getting increasingly sweaty but she somehow managed not to faint and somewhat maintain her cool.
"Are you creeping in a fourteen year-old's bedroom for a reason Josh?" she raised her eyebrow attempting to feign being cool and collected instead of the hot mess that she was in actuality.
"I just wanted to make sure you're okay."
"Let's see, today I put myself out there only to have my heart stomped on and as if that wasn't enough I had to watch my best friend get the guy that she likes and listen to how happy she was."
"Yeah well I didn't get the girl I like either."
"Please! You could have any girl you want, just bat your eye lashes at her a few times and she'll come around you have all summer I'm sure she'll be around campus."
"I can't have the girl I really want" Joshua suddenly overcome with nerves about what else would come tumbling out of his mouth started to pick the cuffs of his sweatshirt sleeves.
"If she doesn't want to be with you she's an idiot." Completely deflated by the prospect of another girl in josh's heart and realizing that he needed cheering up just as much as she did in that moment Maya decided to simply be honest with the charming boy in front of her. "You're a great guy Josh, any girl would be lucky to be with you."
"It's not like that really. I mean it's not that simple it's just you can't always get what you want. You know?" At this point Joshua seemed to have taken up incredible interest in his sleeves so Maya was amazed that he had heard her when she barely whispered her response.
"Believe me, I know" Josh looked up finally meeting the young blonde's eyes and letting go of the confident façade he usually hid behind when around her.
"But sometimes if you're patient enough you do. Because the good things in life are worth waiting for.
"I don't really know what you're trying to say" she mumbled terrified to let the smallest ray of hope to shine in her heart for fear of it being broken again. She had been hurt too much, left by too many people.
"You're too young for me now Maya" he smiled "but one day you'll be eighteen or twenty or twenty five and it won't matter"
"It doesn't matter now!"
"Yes it does. Go meet the world Maya Hart, I'll be here when you do. You're going to go on lots of first dates and have lots of first kisses and probably have your heart broken a few times, don't worry we'll have our story one day"
"You really are a great guy Josh"
"Yeah well…"
"Could you maybe do me one favour?" she asked as the nerves began to take over her body again. When he nodded in response she had to physically force herself to utter the next words to leave her mouth "Well I would really love if my first kiss was with a great guy instead of some idiot who'll end up breaking my heart"
"Maya…"
"Josh please, we both know I don't exactly make good choices but this is one"
"And why are you so sure that I'm not the idiot who'll end up hurting you"
"Because yesterday you hurt me and I still didn't regret it for one second"
"Okay, a kiss and a promise."
"A promise for the future." With that he tucked a strand of her hair behind her ear and started to lean in. when their lips finally met, neither of them could deny the intense connection between them. It was as if the world had ceased to exist, the world stop spinning, time stopped ticking. Everything stopped, everything except them. It seemed like forever before their lips parted both smiling from ear to ear. Maya was only pulled from her daze because Josh had begun looking around and leaned in to smell her hair. "What are you doing?" she whispered giddily.
"Remembering every single thing about this moment. I want to remember everything, it'll be a while before I get to do that again"
"Please don't. Forget about me I mean"
"Don't worry I'm in this for the long game" he smirked and made his way towards the fire escape. "Bye Maya"
"Josh!"
"Yeah?
"I promise"
"I promise too" and with that he left.
AN/ This is just a little one shot I wrote because I'm seriously appalled by the lack of Joshaya fics. I'm thinking of turning it into a collection of one shots so if anyone has any ideas about what they would maybe like to read please let me know. If you liked it and want be to write more or even if you hated it and want to yell at me, please leave a review. Let me know what you think.