"Hey gorgeous." Josh looked over the back of the couch at his niece's best friend.

"Josh?" Maya asked confused. He smiled and nodded at her. "Why am I here?"

"You came, drunk and crying. You asked if you could stay here a night so I offered to take the couch. You said no, you slept on the couch and that brings us here." He chuckled walking into the kitchen. "Eggs or cereal?"

"Uh eggs, but why did I come here? Why not go to Riley?" She asked getting up and walking over to the small round table leaning on one of the two decorative chairs.

"I didn't ask." He said breaking three eggs into a bowl.

"Why not? Weren't you curious?" She asked jokingly then actually began to wonder why. He just responded by shrugging his shoulders and smiling. There was a moment of silence.

"So I have a question for you." Maya's face showed concern. "It's nothing bad, I promise, just a simple question." Her face relaxed as he smiled.

"Okay, shoot." She said beginning to walk to the island where four stools were neatly pushed under the small ledge.

"Still playing the long game?" He half looked over his shoulder to where she was standing and smiled as she chuckled.

"Why? Are you?" She yawned as she reached the island.

"I asked first," he paused, fully turning around, "but yes. I'm still playing." He ran his fingers through his hair like he usually did when he was uncomfortable or nervous.

"Good because so am I." She sat on one of the stools as Josh walked over with two plates of eggs.

"Here you go." He said setting one plate in front of her and taking the stool next to her, beginning to eat his own eggs. Once he finished eating he brought his plate over to the sink, she followed carefully putting hers into the sink as well. "Are you good here? I uh have to, uh" He paused trying not to be awkward. "I um, have to take a shower. You can watch TV or, if you have somewhere to be. I mean it's up to you." She nodded and walked back over to the couch searching for the remote. He turned towards the bathroom and looked back once to see that she had found the remote and was searching for something to watch. He walked in and began his shower.

Maya heard the shower turn on as she flipped through the channels, eventually deciding to see what Josh had recorded. "Hmm, let's see if there's anything interesting." She noted a few documentaries, a WWE Raw recording from last night, and an episode of Stitchers. "Are you serious?" She scoffed a little laugh. She heard the water turn off and waited. When Josh had finished getting dressed he came out of the bathroom using a towel to halfheartedly dry his hair. "So, Stitchers?"

He looked at the TV. "So I guess you couldn't find anything to watch?" She chuckled at that but shook her head. "But anyways, uh, yea I started watching it when I couldn't find anything else. I know stupid right." Maya looked at him for a moment.

"No, I don't think it's stupid, it's happens to me a lot actually." She chuckled. He walked over to the couch and sat on the opposite side of the couch from Maya. She looked at him before shaking her head and handing him the remote. "You choose."

He took it from her and played the recorded episode of Stitchers. They sat and watched the episode Maya asking questions about what they were doing, and Josh responding briefly eyes glued to the TV. Maya stole glances at Josh when she thought he wouldn't notice, though he did, she thought he was smiling at the show when he was really smiling at her.

"Well I should probably go." Maya said standing up and looking at Josh who was turning off the TV. She grabbed her phone. "I'll see you later, bye Josh." He walked with her over to the door. Turning the doorknob and pulling open the door she looked at him through her messy hair.

"Bye, Maya. It was nice to see you again." He gave a small smile.

"Stop that." She said, quietly but loud enough to be heard.

"Stop what?" He smiled again. Her face crinkled like she was trying to be annoyed at him.

"That, the smile. It's just, ugh nevermind." He chuckled at this comment. She just seemed to be even more annoyed.

"What, you don't like it when I smile?" Maya looked at her feet.

"I didn't say that. It's just, um, I-" She was cut off by him wrapping his arms around her waist and pulling her into a hug. She returned the hug for a few seconds but then backed up. "Josh, stop it, you're making me want to stay longer but I have to be somewhere soon." She looked at him, his fingers gently set on her waist.

"Well, where do you have to be?" He didn't move, she stood still as well thinking about where else she had to be, not here.

"I, uh, have to go find Riley, and uh, see what happened last night." She pushed back her hair out of her face, a few strands falling back. He reached up to her face and brushed the strands behind her ear. She texted Riley to come pick her up then sat her phone down as she pulled her red jacket on.

"Okay, I'll see you later." He leaned forward, she froze thinking he was going to kiss her, unsure of how she would feel about that right now. He kissed her forehead and leaned back, pulling the door open wider. "Bye." He said smiling at her. She tried to avoid eye contact clutching her phone even tighter. She turned towards the door and walked through it. She walked down the short hallway to the stairs and walked down. As she exited the building she reached into her jacket pocket, she searched her pockets for her sunglasses but couldn't find them.

"Why were you at my uncle's apartment?" Riley questioned. Maya was searching the glove box for the sunglasses that they always left in the car.

"I don't know, apparently I was drunk and I went there. I was hoping you could tell me." Maya sat up defeated. "Where are they?" She turned around and checked the backseat, nothing. "Riley where are the sunglasses?"

Riley shrugged. "I don't know, about either." She was still getting over Lucas leaving but she was determined to finish college and live her life. "Why, don't you use my phone and call Josh, maybe you brought them there and left them, I still want to know all you remember about last night."

"Okay, I'll tell you later." She held out her hand, Riley handed her phone to Maya. Maya opened contacts and scrolled until she'd found Josh's name. When she clicked on it, it had two numbers.

"Which number? There's two." She looked up.

"Uh, the seconnd one's his cell, try that first." Riley said as she turned onto her street. Maya clicked on the second number and put the phone up to her ear. Not even three rings had past before Josh picked up the phone.

"Hey, Riley what's up?" He sounded peppy Maya thought.

"Actually it's Maya, I was wondering if I might have left my sunglasses there? They were in my jacket but, uh, weren't this morning." Maya said not leaving him a lot of time to interject.

"Oh, hi Maya, uh, where did you have your jacket sitting?" She told him that it was hanging on the back of the couch. She heard him walk over to the couch and heard him searching. "Um they aren't here, is there- nevermind, I found them. When do you need them by? I can bring them to Riley's or have her pick them up. Whatever works best for you two." She felt like he was smiling.

"Uh, can you drop them off? Like today? I've got a major headache." She looked at Riley.

"Sure, I'll be there in about thirty minutes." She said goodbye and hung up. Riley pulled into her driveway and turned off the car. As she got out she looked over at Maya who was closing the passenger side door. Maya walked up to the small house and used her key to open the door. As she pushed the door open and stepped inside she threw her jacket over the chair and walked into the kitchen. Riley picked up the jacket and hung it up on the inside of the closet door. She followed Maya into the kitchen, getting there in time to see Maya shutting the fridge door and walking to the stair.

"I'll be in my room, tell me when my sunglasses get here?" Riley nodded, grabbed the cookies off the counter and walked into the living room.

Thirty minutes and a small box of cookies later the doorbell rang. Riley got up and ran to the bathroom quickly. Checking her makeup incase crying had smudged it. She wipped under her eyes to remove the smudged mascara and left the bathroom.

She reached the door and pulled it open. "Hi Josh, what's up?" He looked at her and lifted his hand to show the sunglasses. "Right, I forgot." She turned her back to him mentally facepalming herself. "Maya, your sunglasses!" She heard Maya grumble and get up from her bed. As Maya came down the steps she grumbled more.

"Sorry didn't mean to wake you." Riley said, Maya waving it off as if it were nothing.

"Thanks Josh." Maya grabbed the glasses and shut the door running back up the stairs and plopping onto her bed. She drifted to sleep as she tried to remember last night.

Last night….

Josh heard a knock at his appartment door, he got up from the couch and walked over to the door, in no rush. He looked through the peephole and saw Maya, she had tears streaming down her face and her makeup was smeared from what Josh assumed had been her wiping away the tears. He opened the door and Maya tried to stand straight. She started to fall over and Josh tried to help keep her steady.

"Hi, J-Josh." Her words weren't clear, Josh had already figured out she was drunk.

"Maya, how many drinks did you have?" Maya looked at him and smiled.

"Only one b-beer, two at most. I s-swear" She looked as if she'd had more but Josh trusted that she would tell him the truth. He helped her over to the couch and when she sat down she tried to take off her jacket. Josh was slightly amused at her attempt but helped her. Once she had it off she threw it over the back of the couch and heard something hit the ground. She laughed at him just standing there. "W-what?"

"Oh, nothing. I can tell you need a place to crash?" She nodded. "Why come here?" She shrugged.

"I d-don't know, I-I was just walking an-and I ended up h-here." She looked at him, Josh saw that something had happened but he wasn't about to ask her.

"You can take the bed if you want, I'll sleep on the couch." He started to try to help her up.

"N-no, it's fine I'll s-sleep on the couch, it's-s your place anyway." He looked at her and opened his mouth to protest. Maya raised her hand as if to say enough, but it was waving in the air. "I s-said it's f-fine." He looked at her, but figured it was probably best not to push it. She tried to stand up and Josh reached out to help her. She shook her head, but when she was about to fall she grabbed his hand. Once she was steady again she took a step forward and before Josh could move out of the way, kissed his cheek. Plopping back onto the couch and scooting so she could lay down. She closed her eyes and fell asleep. Josh smiled and walked to his room, closed his door, and laid on his bed.