The plan to not think about Josh was failing epically. She didn't know how long he planned on staying in the city but in the four days since he had arrived back home he seemed to constantly be in the Matthews's apartment. They were his family but come on; didn't he ever go to his own apartment? Maya was running out of excuses to get out of having dinner there and she had the unsettling feeling that Riley was getting suspicious. She and Josh had to air things out; it was not that big of a deal, they could totally move past it. So she decided that she would sit through a painfully awkward dinner so that she could later pull him aside to talk. Unfortunately, the Minkus family had also been invited to dinner so pulling Josh away discretely wasn't going to be easy given the presence of two geniuses. Nor was it easy to conceal the tension between them, something that became glaringly obvious when Farkle pulled her to the bay window.
"What the hell is going on between you and Josh?"
"What are you talking about Farkle?"
"I'm not Riley, Maya. I'm not naive enough to look past the awkward tension so are you going to tell me what's going on or am I going to have to ask Josh?"
"It's nothing Farkle, honestly"
"Did he hurt you?"
"No of course not"
"Then what is it? I thought you were over him, I thought you were happy with Noah"
"I was, I am"
"Then I don't get it, what's going on?"
"We just have some unresolved issues but it's nothing"
"Maya I know you, this is not nothing and it'll probably help to talk about it"
"You promise you won't overreact or judge me?"
"I would never judge you Maya, don't you know that by now?"
"You can't tell anyone Farkle, not even Riley"
"I won't I promise"
And as it turns out, Farkle was right; airing everything out with him did help and he was more understanding than Maya had thought, she guessed his breakup with Smackle last year had probably changed him in more ways than one but deep in her heart, no matter how much Farkle had helped, she knew she still had to talk to Josh. It had only taken Farkle an hour before he realised something had changed, it wouldn't be long before Riley did the same and Maya wanted to put this in the past for good.
"Can we talk?" She ambushed him on the street as he was leaving.
"Jesus Maya you almost gave me a heart attack" he jumped.
"Sorry" she sighed "I wanted this to stay between the two of us, so can we?"
"Of course but you could have called Maya, it's way too late for you to be on the street alone"
"This isn't the kip of topic I like talking about on the phone"
"Had lots of experience?" he threw her his famous smirk.
"Tons" she rolled her eyes and chuckled.
"Come on gorgeous, I'll walk you home and we can talk"
"That's what I wanted to talk to you about" she said as they began walking "No more smirking Josh, no more calling me gorgeous, it has to end. I'm with Noah now"
"But you are gorgeous Maya"
"Josh about what happened… we should act like it never happened"
"It wasn't a mistake Maya"
"I know that, that's not what I'm saying"
"You're saying you want to forget it" he scoffed.
"It'll be easier like that"
"We have nothing to be ashamed of"
"Josh, I'm happy with Noah"
"But you don't love him"
"Yu don't know that"
"Then why can't you say it"
"It's none of your business Josh"
"How is this none of my business?" he raised his voice "I come back and your dating some guy, you didn't even have the decency to warn me"
"You're the one that took off and never called Josh"
"I did call Maya"
"Of course you did Josh" she rolled her eyes.
"Is that how you're trying to make yourself feel better?" he spat "you never got back to me, if you wanted to stay with your rebound you could have at least called"
"Noah is not my rebound"
"You're right, he's your excuse, you know you want to be with me you're just afraid"
"Don't flatter yourself Josh"
"Maya I know you feel this too, it was always meant to be me and you"
"You have no right to do this to me Josh! I chased you for years and you always shot me down, and now what? You want to be with me because you're jealous? Noah loves me, he treats me right and unlike you he has never made me feel insecure or unwanted. You only want me when you think you can't have me"
"I'm sorry Maya, it wasn't like that. You were young and I didn't know what I was feeling but now I do and I know you want this to. The last thing I was ever want to do is hurt you Maya, don't you know that"
"It's too late Josh" she wiped a tear away.
"Maya" he grabbed her hands "look me in the eye and tell me that there isn't something that has always felt right about us"
"It's too late Josh," she whispered before walking up the stairs to her building.
How could she let this happen, she needed to get over this thing before Noah realised what was up. It wasn't supposed to be like this, how could she have been so stupid? She should have stopped it as soon as their lips touched but something in her kept telling her to push it and where had that landed her? She cheated on her boyfriend and there was no way he wasn't going to find out. But Josh's lips felt so right on hers and before she knew what had happened she was ripping his clothes off.
"Maya" he broke away as her hands had made their way to the button on his jeans "What are we doing?"
"I'm giving you a going away present" she smirked and kissed him again.
"Are you sure Maya?"
"I'm sure" she smiled kissing him once again.
The next morning rolled around quicker than either of them were prepared for but Josh had a plain to catch and Maya had to make it home before her parents woke and realised that she hadn't come home.
"Come on" Josh nudged her "I have to be in La Guardia in an hour, my parents are on their way to pick me up"
"I'm going to miss you"
"I'm going to miss you too gorgeous but it's not forever I'll be back before you know it"
"You better bring me back a present"
"Of course" he leaned in but his phone rang interrupting them "that's my parents, they're downstairs" he kissed her "take my key and let yourself out when you're ready, I won't need it till I get back anyway"
"Bye" she kissed him.
"Bye" he kissed her again "'I'll call you when I land" he smiled as he made his way out.
As usual please leave a review and let me know what you thought. I also love hearing your theories about what's going to happen, hope you liked it. Until next time!
