A/N: Last chapter of this story! I can't believe this is coming to an end but it is! I hope you guys liked this story. I just wanted to show or tell a story that wasn't always unicorns and rainbows. I wanted a journey and I wanted to tell a tragedy. I wanted a story that had its faults and struggles but ended in a good place. Now I leave this story happy because my characters have found happiness and healing. No, they haven't healed all the way but this last chapter is proof that change is coming! Riley is still struggling with being alive and not having Lucas around. Yes, she is all around happy but Lucas was a big part of her life. On the other end of the spectrum, Maya lost a lot in her life, and it will take a while to heal Joshaya, but they are taking a step towards it. I wanted my story to show that Life isn't pretty and just because you are a good person doesn't mean Life won't come at you with a raging storm. You have to choose how you will fight it. So here it is!

Last chapter...Enjoy.

Chapter 14 -

So, you can keep me

Inside the pocket of your ripped jeans

Holding me closer 'til our eyes meet

You won't ever be alone, wait for me to come home

Photograph, Ed Sheeran, 2014

They decided to renew their vows where they first said the three forbidden words. I love you. The world was abuzz. The media was soaking up the love story of Maya Hart-Hunter and her estranged husband Joshua Matthews. They couldn't believe the young starlet was married and had been for almost a decade. And the fans were running amuck knee deep in fanfiction or conspiracy theories of the two.

Zay, one of Maya's true friends, was very happy with the pr. He cast Maya for a role in a supernatural tv show. She was the lead playing a teenage girl in college, studying abroad in India when her world was turned upside down. She made a mistake touching an ancient stone and now was the world's deadliest weapon. Zay was happy with the publicity and he expected lots of viewers.

Riley, now six months pregnant, had scheduled her wedding the next year in April. She was excited for her best friend and Uncle. They to her was the true Cory and Topanga and she was happy they were finally back together.

They were at the Ski lodge. How ironic, right?

"Didn't we say we'd never come back here?" Topanga said in clenched teeth that made her husband Cory Matthews chuckle nervously.

"Sweetie, we are only here for your brother-in-law's wedding, okay?"

"Whatever."

There was a pause in activity when Joshua Matthews finally stood next to the pastor waiting for his wife of almost a decade. He wore a suit with a bow tie and had his long banged hair gelled back. He was nervous but he was happy because he knew that where they were now was the beginning to a whole new exciting world. When they first married, it wasn't in any rush, but it seemed they were didn't experience the honeymoon phase. They constantly fought and it came to a peak when Maya miscarried.

They both admitted that it wasn't their finest moments and that when they married again that they would try to communicate better. They wanted the happy ending that they could only get with each other.

Maya was nervous but in a good way.

Yes, they had their ups and downs, but it was expected. Neither Maya and Josh grew up with parents that didn't fight, but they knew that with communication that most of their problems would seem very trival. For Maya, it was two sets of parents she learned that from.

So, as she finally stood in front of her love, in a white sundress with their close friends and family she let herself cry. She let herself cry for her child - their son, for her husband, and for herself.

Six years apart from the man she loved was like starving herself.

When she returned, she was a wreck, because she didn't know what would happen when they spoke to each other again. And when they did, it was horrible. But she prayed, and she rarely did that, one day with Josh and she knew that they were forever. She couldn't see her life without him.

Truthfully, she wasn't living those past six years, she was just drifting on hoping that one day she be his again. But she was a coward, and it took six years to give up her pride and beg him to give their love a second chance promising to never leave.

"It's time for the vows. The bride and groom have wrote their own."

Both lost in their thoughts, didn't notice the ceremony was almost to a close.

Josh turned to his wife and smiled,"For so long, I let you go. Starting when we were younger. You were very persistent but I just thought it was a crush because - because I have always loved you. From the first time, my niece visited with you in tow, I couldn't get you out of my mind. When we were apart, you were always in my heart, my soul. You may have left physically but never in my heart. Over the years, I always questioned where we went wrong, and how I could make it up to you. Well, I didn't do much of a good job when you first got back..." Maya gave a nervous chuckle causing more tears to fall down her face and Josh's hands to wipe them away. "But I never gave up hope that we were forever, so today in front of all that we love and hold dear, I promise to love only you, protect you, and above all, never leave you again. Till death do us apart."

What came next wasn't a surprise but it startled everyone whose only focus was the couple. Eric screamed,"You go, brother!" It caused Cory to hug his older brother who was in tears.

"You may proceed, Mrs. Matthews." said the pastor to Maya.

"Love...has never been easy for me. Everyone I have ever held dear has left me in some form. And in truth, I was so scared to love you fully, that I always had one foot out the door. And for that, Josh, I am so sorry. I never thought that our promise here at the ski lodge would have any sort of credence, but you kept your promise even when I gave you a way out my senior year of high school. Over the last six years, I realize that...my life had never been so dull without you. Without you singing me awake in the morning. Without your big smile encouraging me in my music and acting. Without your big heart teaching me the joys of cooking and baking. You became my life line and my home away from home. And without you, my life had no sun, no light, no hope. So, today, I promise to cherish and love you with all heart. I promise to stay and be your sun forever till death do us apart."

The pastor dapped his eyes with his handkercheif before saying, "You may kiss your bride."

And that was the end to a new beginning.

There will always be pain and gain in life but there will always be love to keep you afloat when all you want to do is drown. Riley and Maya just needed to hold on to love that wouldn't hurt them but save them.

Life is mysterious in its games, but it seemed these two best friends finally won the Game of Life.

A/N: The End! Tell me what you thought of the ending. I don't know if an epilogue is on the way but its in the realm of possibility. Love you guys! And thanks for sticking with this story till the end.