Josh sat up shaking his head as Maya sits up as well. He couldn't believe what he was hearing he thought she said she had told her about them. "Maya I thought you told Riley we were engaged? You said you told her." Maya shakes her as she clutches her locket.
"I never said I told. I tried to tell you that." She says as he stands scratching his neck. "Well why did she leave me a voicemail calling you aunt Maya if you didn't tell? No the real question is why haven't you told her yet? You tell her everything. Why is this so hard for you to tell?"
Josh watches as Maya looks down at her fingers shaking her head and shrugging her shoulders. "I don't know okay. I don't know why it's so hard to tell her." He shakes his head again as he grabs his bag putting his clothes in it. "Where are you going?" Maya ask wirh tears in her eyes.
"It's obvious you don't want me here so I should just head back home." Josh tells her as he continues packing not looking at her. "That's not true I want you here Josh. More than I want anything else." She says standing up and limping towards him.
He sighs softly as he looks at her wiping the tears that fall down her cheeks. "I don't think you do if you can't even tell your best friend we're engaged." Maya steps back shaking her head. "So what you don't even want to marry me anymore?"
Josh moves towards her cupping her cheek. "I never said that Maya. I just... how do you expect me to want to stay when you can't even be honest with me." He sees the hurt in her eyes as she takes his hand from her face. "Well maybe we shouldn't get married then." She whispers opening her locket pulling out her ring.
Josh looks at her feeling like an ant and someone just stepped on him. "Maybe we shouldn't." He watches Maya as she sniffs wiping at her eyes closing her locket up clutching it tightly in her hands. "I'll just wait downstairs so you can finish." She tells him walking towards the door.
"Maya you don't have to do that." Josh tells her as she shakes her head giving him a small smile. "I know." She whispers as she walks out closing the door. Josh walks towards the door putting his hand on the doorknob ready to open it but stops. He walks back towards the bed sitting down staring at the ring in his hand.
Wondering if he was making the right decision.
Riley groaned as she rolled over looking at the time. She had no clue why she seemed wide awake when she had just gone to bed four hours ago. It was like her body and mind were screaming at her to get up something is going on. She sighs softly sitting up grabbing her blanket and decides to head towards the deck.
She makes her way down to the backyard opening the door freezing when she sees Lucas outside. She turns around ready to leave when he calls out to her. "Riley?" She sighs turning around giving him a short wave. "Couldn't sleep either?" He asked pausing the movie He was watching on his phone.
She shakes her head as she sits down wrapping the blanket around herself. He resumes his movie as Riley looks at him before leaning back staring at the sky. She smiled to herself as she stared at the stars. She knew she shouldn't but the memories from that perfect day came flooding back.
She also knew she was also opening a can of worms as she spoke.
"Remember that night we laid under the stars and Pappy Joe almost ran us over?" She looks over at Lucas wondering and a little saddened he didn't say anything until he speaks. "Well you thought recreating that scene from the notebook was a great idea." He tells her laughing lightly as she joins in.
"Hey your the one that made us watch it a hundred times that summer. I can still recite it by heart." She turns her head as she sees him put his phone away. "You mean you can only recite one part from that movie." She laughs as she sits up facing him.
"Say I'm a bird! Say it! Say it now!" She says with a smile as he chuckles sitting up and facing her. "You're a bird." He tells her with a smile. "Now say you're a bird too." She smiles as he smiles wider at her. "If you're a bird, I'm a bird."
They stare at each other with smiles on their faces before Lucas clears his throat laying back down. "To bad it all had to end." He tells her as she nods swallowing the lump in her throat. She wasn't sure if he was talking about the day or their relationship. "Yeah." She whispers wiping her eyes so he doesn't see the tears.
"Riley that's..." Lucas starts to say when they hear a cup break in the kitchen. "Maya?" Riley says getting up and seeing Maya sniffing and wiping at her eyes as she apologizes over and over for waking her up. "Peaches you didn't...Why are you crying?" Riley ask as Lucas picks up the glass.
"Josh and I had a fight and I think we broke up. He leaving Riley." Maya cries as Riley hugs her. Riley clenches her fist having a feeling she knew why. She looked over at Lucas and sighs before looking at Maya. She may not be able to have saved her relationship but she sure as hell was going to save her best friend.
"I'll be back okay?" She tells Maya before looking at Lucas who nods like he understood what she wanted. She makes her way towards their room not even bothering to knock as she sees him sitting on the bed. "Riley what.." He isn't giving much time to talk when Riley grabs his hand pulling him out the room.
"So who wants to tell me what happened?" She ask sitting Josh down on the couch where Lucas was with Maya. "It doesn't matter Riley he's leaving." Maya says looking away from Josh as she held her locket. "I'm only leaving because you can't tell her the truth Maya. Even after you said you would."
Riley looks between them and shakes her head. "Is this about your engagement?" They look at her with wide eyes making her smile slightly. "You guys are engaged?" Lucas ask looking at them. "Congrats." Riley sees Maya look at him weirdly before looking at her. "How did you figure it out?"
"Well remember that first night here and how you twisted your ankle?" Riley ask as Maya nods. "Well apparently to get you to stop complaining Farkle gave you a painkiller so by the time I got back you were loopy. I was putting you to bed when you told me. You kept apologizing saying you didn't want to hide it and Josh was going to be unhappy but you loved him to much not to tell me."
"Why didn't you say anything?" Maya asked as Riley sits next to her. "Well I was going to but I didn't want to rob you of that happy glow you had on your face like when you told me you two were dating." Maya smiles wiping her eyes as she hugs her. "Can you forgive me for hiding it?" She asked. "Only if you forgive me for hiding it from you?"
They both laugh as they pull apart smiling at each other. Riley glances at her and then at Josh who was staring at Maya. "Now you need to tell Josh the real reason you've been afraid to tell me the truth."
Maya widened her eyes looking at Riley who smiles nodding her head. "I can't Riles I..." Riley shakes her head putting her hand on hers. "Don't be afraid Maya it's okay." Maya sees her glance at Lucas before smiling back at her.
She tilts her head at Riley who laughs telling her it's alright. She didn't know how she knew but then again they were thunder and lightning and she wasn't all that surprised her best friend would figure it out.
"What is she talking about?" Josh ask looking at Maya who clears her throat. "Well I..." she stands up pacing a little before turning and sitting by Josh. "This is going to sound completely insane and totally girly on my part but here it goes." She looks once more at Riley who gives her a thumbs up.
"All my life I've had one constant thing and that's been Riley. Until I met you of course. I always envied what she had even though I sort of had it since I became apart of her family. I got all the love and warmth I could ever want. But just like how you wanted a relationship like Cory and Topanga I wanted I also wanted thst. Just what they had." She says gesturing at Lucas and Riley.
"When Riley and Lucas got together I saw how in love with each other they were and I wanted something like that too. An all consuming love that while on occasion made you gag but in reality make you really jealous." They all chuckle as Maya bites her lip before continuing.
"I wanted that kind of love. I wanted someone to look at me the way Lucas looks at Riley or vice versa. Someone willing to just stare at me without having to say one word to each other. I wanted all that the perfect person who knew me inside out. And I found that person in you Josh." She looks at him as he gives her a smile.
"So why couldn't you tell Riley if you had what she had?" Josh ask as Maya looks at Riley who smiles nodding her head. She looks at Lucas and then back at Riley knowing this was going to be hard but she was going to anyways.
"Because they broke up. I know they broke up way before we got engaged and everything but..." Maya takes a breath. "I was afraid that if something like that could happen to a couple I thought were going to be together forever than what does that mean for us?" Josh goes to speak but Maya stops him.
"I know what you are going to say. Why didn't I tell you all this?" He nods his head as Maya let's out a shaky breath. "Because I knew if I told you you would make me feel better and I knew it would work but I would still have that lingering feeling down in my little dungeon of sadness and I didn't want it anymore."
Maya wipes her eyes as Josh takes her hand. "I'm so sorry Josh I know I could have just said what I was feeling but I was afraid my insecurities would ruin everything." She begins to cry as Josh pulls her to him hugging her. She continues crying saying she was sorry as Josh rubbed her back telling her it was okay.
She sniffs pulling back from him wiping her eyes as he looks at her. "I understand if you still want to leave Josh." Maya tells him as he nods getting up and walking away. Maya sniffs wiping her eyes as she sees Lucas grab Riley who looked like she was going to kill someone.
"What's going on I was having a good dream?" Zay yawns as Gabby and the geniuses walk into the living room as Maya buries her face in her hands. She continues to cry as she feels someone trying to take her hands away. "No leave me alone." She says shaking her head. "I can't do that gorgeous."
Maya gasps lowering her hands and seeing Josh in front of her on one knee. "I think this was how I was supposed to do it all along don't you?" Maya looks around at her second little family and smiles before looking at Josh.
"Maya Penelope Hart I love you and want nothing more than to give you that perfect happiness like you described. So if you want..." He looks over his shoulder before whispering in her ear. "I'll help get them back together." Maya smiles looking at Lucas who was still holding Riley. "If that's what you need to be happy."
Maya shook her head putting her arms around his neck. "I realized today that I only need you." Josh chuckles kissing her softly. "Is this why you woke me up to watch y'all make out?" They laugh as Josh moves back holding Maya's hand. "So gorgeous what do you say? Marry me?"
Maya smiles biting her lip nodding her head as Josh slips the ring on her finger again.
Everyone begin to cheer as Gabby watched how Lucas was still holding onto Riley. She nudged Zay who smiles winking at her as they go and congratulate the newly engaged again couple. "I'm so happy for you Maya when's the wedding?" Gabby ask rambling off wedding questions as Maya laughs while Zay pulls her back.
"Sorry she is really into weddings and all that flowery stuff." Zay says as Gabby glares at him. "It's okay I don't mind." Maya tells him as he nods. "Check it out." Maya whispers as they see Lucas wasn't holding Riley anymore but he still had his hand on her.
"We may not need to do anything seems true love always finds it way back to each other." Zay says as Maya slaps his arm gesturing at Gabby. "Oh don't worry Gabby is totally on board with this." She nods as Maya smiles at them. "Guess we don't really need to do anything?"
They all knew they spoke to soon when the sound of the doorbell goes off.
"I'll get it." Farkle says as everyone looks at each other. He walks back in and looks at Lucas. Before he speaks Amy comes walking in smiling. "Farkle dont you know you aren't supposed to let vampires in your house?" Zay says as Lucas gives him a look.
"Aw Zay I missed you too." She says as he hisses at her. Zay watches as Lucas walks over to her as Amy pulls him to her kissing him making him want to gag as she looked at Riley as she did it. "Huckleberry its a little to early for all that don't you think?" Maya asked after laughing at zay who was pretending to gag.
Zay chuckles as Lucas moves back rubbing his neck as Amy looks smugly at them. "Where's Riley?" Smackle whispers to them as they look not seeing her anymore. "Must have went down to the beach. Gabby and I got this." Zay tells them as he grabs her hand about to head out when Smackle stops them.
"Take a break zay the women will take it from here." Maya and Gabby laugh as Zay pouts saying he was in no way going to dance with the devil. "Well then rescue boing and farkle." Maya says looking over seeing them trying to walk away from Lucas and amy.
The girls walk on the beach seeing riley sitting on the sand watching the sun rise. Smackle walks back in the house and grabs a bottle of wine. She walks out sitting on Riley's right as Maya and Gabby both look at her weirdly. "Smackle i appreciate the gesture however it's way to early for wine." Riley tells her as smackle shrugs putting it down.
They all stare at Riley as she turns looking at them. "I'm okay guys, I just didn't want to ruin another day by clawing Amy's eyes out." They look okay her as Riley laughs again. "I'm serious and I highly doing Gabby or you Maya for that matter want to spend your first day and your newly engagement again with drama. Let's just have fun okay?"
They all share a look Katrina even though smackle could tell none of them really believe that. "Guys we should head back Zay just texted me a bunch of exclamation points." Gabby says showing them. Smackle looks at Riley before looking at the girls. "I think I'm going to stay and watch the sun rise."
Smackle looks at Maya who not in understanding as she makes her way back in with Gabby. "Smackle I'm fine." Riley tells her as she nods. "I know Riley I too enjoy the way the sun rises over the water." Riley lightly laugh as she links her arm through hers. "We should throw a party for Maya and Josh. What do you think?" She asked.
"I believe we can arrange a gathering of sorts for them." Smackle says as Riley smiles standing up. "Well let's go plan the day awaits us Isadora." Riley walks back towards the house as smackle watches her shaking her head. "Next year perhaps a new place to spend the week." She thought out loud knowing it was going to be a long day.
Lucas watched as Amy unpacked her bags talking about her flight. He was trying to figure what he was feeling the moment Farkle let her through the door. He watched as she was going on about the person she was sitting next to tucking her hair behind her ear when he realized what he was feeling.
It was wrong.
Wrong that she was there with him. Wrong having her interact with his friends and wrong that she never let his hand go. He shook his head not knowing where that feeling had come from. He liked Amy she was his girlfriend for crying out loud.
He shouldn't be feeling like this when she had been nothing but understanding and wonderful. Maybe it was just what Maya had said that had him and his feelings out of whack.
"Lucas you okay?" She asked looking at him still holding a pair of jeans in her hand. "Yeah." He says clearing his throat. "I'm fine why?" She sighs putting her jeans down putting her arms around his neck. "Cowboy you forget I know you. Pretty well I might add." She says as a little voice in the back of his mind said not as well as Riley.
"I'm fine Ames just tired couldn't sleep." He says with a shrug as she looks at him. "Are you sure that's all it is?" He nods as she breathes a sigh of relief. "Good cause I thought you were going to be upset that Jeremy was on his way over here."
"What?!" Lucas says looking at her as she looks at him with wide eyes. "I thought you knew I seen him on my flight telling the guy next to him he was going to visit his girlfriend in New York. I could be wrong Lucas I'm sure Riley isn't dumb enough to invite the guy that ended your relationship out here."
Lucas nodded as Amy kissed his cheek changing her outfit. "Hey maybe we should take your friends out for a get to know you lunch. I know they mean the world to you and I want them to approve of me." Lucas smiled pulling her to him as he wrapped his arms around her waist.
"They will love you. How could they not?" She squeals with delight as they head back downstairs finding everyone in the living room. "Hey so since this is kind of the first time meeting everyone I thought we could go out to lunch like a big couples date." Amy suggests as everyone looks at each other.
"What about Riley?" Smackle asked looking up at her. Lucas looked Amy who smiled at her. "Well I wanted it to be a couples lunch but I guess you can come along." Lucas pulled her closer kissing her head as he hears Riley scoffed.
"Thanks but no thanks I rather eat dirt." She spats walking away as Amy turns to Lucas with tears in her eyes. "I was just trying to be nice." She runs off towards their room as he looks at his friends. "Would it kill you guys to be nice?" He asked as Zay raised his hand as Gabby hits him.
"Huckleberry we didn't even say anything. Besides she was the one that wasn't nice to Riley." Maya tells him as Lucas scoffs. "Riley was the one that wasn't nice. Amy was just trying to include her since she doesn't have boyfriend here. Yet" He says rolling his eyes and clenching his fist.
They all look at him weirdly as Maya laughs getting up. "Ranger Rick I don't know who told you that but Riley hasn't had a boyfriend since you. Maybe you should check your facts." He was about to say something when the doorbell goes off and Farkle answers the door at the same time Riley walks back in the room.
"Um Riley?" Farkle says stepping aside as a brunette haired guy walks up to Riley kissing her. "You were saying." Lucas says to Maya before walking away.
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