This part was inspired by a picture Uriah posted to his Instagram. I hope you guys enjoy!

"How ya feeling?" Maya asked as she appeared in the doorway to his hospital room.

"A lot better. I can't believe it's almost time for me to go back home!" Josh was being released from the hospital the next day after almost a month. To entertain him, Maya had made it her personal mission to visit him everyday. It was a fun game to guess which family member would be there when she arrived. Cory was one of the most frequent visitors, behind their parents.

"I ran into someone in the hallway." She said, walking over and setting her fairly large art supply bag down on a chair.

"Oh really? And who would that be?" He questioned with a slight smirk that made her knees go weak.

"Me!" Riley burst into the room, and tried to make a big entrance, which of course failed and ended with her knocking a few books off of a table and her falling face first on the floor. Maya and Josh burst out laughing, while Riley's face went beet red.

Once they quieted down, the girls made their way to his bed and sat down, one on either side. "You sick of this place yet?" Riley asked.

"Ohh yeah!" He said. "But Maya's drawings have made it more tolerable. Looking around the room, they could see the walls covered in beautiful artwork. When Maya visited, she would bring art supplies and while they were talking she would let her hands do what they wanted with whatever she was using. The pictures ranged from sunsets to interpretations of a funny story from that day.

"You really are a good artist Maya. You will defiantly get that scholarship." For the past few months Maya had been stressed out about getting an Art Scholarship to NYU. She didn't have quite enough to pay for it herself and had been awaiting news. At Riley's words, her cheeks turned pink.

Bing! Riley pulled out her phone and rushed over to the door, dropping her phone in the process. Maya rolled her eyes and picked it up.

"What was that about?"

"She was supposed to meet Lucas at the library for a study date." Maya walked over to the door just as Riley came running back down the hallway to pick up her dropped device.

"Thanks!" And with that, she was gone.

"You don't have anything else to do?" He asked, trying to start up a conversation. She'd now been there for hours. They'd just eaten and now they were sitting in silence. She was laying down next to him and playing around with his hand.

"What's your worst scar?" He just raised his eyebrow, curious as to where this question was coming from.

"Excuse me?"

"Where's you worst scar?" She sat up and looked him in the eyes. He pulled his blanket down to his waist and lifted up his hospital gown, revealing a roughly 8 inch, fat, pink scar that went through his belly button. Maya's hands flew up to her mouth and her eyes went wide.

"Yeah. That would be the worst one." He said with a small chuckle. She just kept looking from the scar to his face and back again. "Oh, come on. It's going to go away."

She couldn't believe he just said that. Of course it was going to go away, but it would be a very, very long time and it would never be the same as before. She glanced out the window. "It's getting late. You should sleep."

He looked at her with a curious look on his face, confused by the sudden change in conversation. "What?"

"You should sleep." She repeated. "You're still recovering and need your rest." Seeing that he still had that look on his face she added, "I'm here to watch over you." And with that, she settled into his side once again and laid with him until he fell asleep.

He woke up the next morning to his entire family surrounding him, leaving almost no space in the all to familiar hospital room. As he scanned the crowd he realized that one figure was nowhere to be found. A certain Maya Penelope Hart. Before he could ask where she was the teen in question burst through the doorway.

As soon as she was in the room everyone turned to look at her. Everyone just stared at her in varying degrees of awe as Josh looked around a bit more to try and figure out what was going on. He was saved a bit of the trouble when Cory suddenly asked, "Did you do that?"

The question was obviously directed to Maya even though Cory had changed his line of sight from her to Josh's midsection. Josh looked down in confusion but soon had his breath taken away as he saw what everyone was talking about. His scar had been turned into the trunk of an evergreen tree, which reached as far as his chest. Forest green protruded from the sides, reminiscent of branches littered with needles. A wolf's head almost as big as the tree itself was painted on the right of it with a moon peaking out from the top of the tree on the left. It was beautiful.

He turned towards Maya, his face filled with wonder. "You painted this?"

Her response was a meek "Yes?" accompanied by a blush that was quickly taking over her whole face. She took a deep breath, looking a bit more confident. "I thought it would be a good way to announce it."

Everyone seemed to speak at the same time.

"Announce what?"

"Are you Ok?"

"What is it?"

Josh stayed silent his brain running a hundred miles a minute. It seemed to hit him at the same time as Riley. The scholarship. The art scholarship to NYU. Together they said, "You got in."

Maya's lips formed a small smile. "Yeah. I got in."

And with those words, chaos began. Shawn and her mother rushed to hug her, the Matthews clan not far behind.

After everyone else got to congratulate her, Josh sat up in his bed. Maya made her way over to him. With a big smile he said, "Congratulations Ferret."

She smiled back with the biggest smile he'd ever seen before leaning down to give him a giant hug. She mumbled into his shoulder, "Thanks Boing."

Sorry this took so long! I would give you a explanation but I don't have one that's acceptable enough for how long this took. (Reuploaded. Sorry!)