Three Months Later

Josh quietly unlocked the door expecting to hear silence, but was instead met with the sound of laughter and giggles from the kitchen. Smiling, he walked into the kitchen and set his keys down on the counter. Maya looked up at him and smiled. "Hey," she greeted. Looking back down at the chubby baby in her arms she immediately turned on the baby voice. "Look!" She held him up to face Josh. "Daddy's home!" She gasped and stood. "I know! You missed him so much today!"

Josh laughed and carefully took the baby in his arms. "Daddy missed you too!" he gasped. "I swear you get chubbier everyday," he observed. "But you're my chunky monkey!" He smiled brightly in his son's face, causing him to smile a bright, wonderful, toothless smile.

Josh adjusted him so that he was on his hip, and looked towards Maya. "So how was your day?" he asked.

Maya ran a finger through her long blonde locks. "Tiring," she breathed. "He wouldn't go down today. I tried everything, but at least he'll be able to sleep through the night- hopefully."

Josh frowned and leaned over to kiss Maya. "I'm sorry I had to leave you alone with him all day. I know that must have been a lot."

"No complaints here," Maya answered. "At least you're bringing in some kind of income to rent this month." She sighed and walked over to a stack of mail on the counter and picked up a letter and handed it to Josh. "We're still late on the water bill though."

Josh sighed and bounced the baby on his hip. "We'll figure out how to pay it. Can't be that hard right?"

Maya raised her eyebrows and turned around. "Hopefully," she wished aloud. Looking at the clock in the kitchen, she turned towards Josh again and took their son out of his arms. "Its time for his bath."

Maya walked out of the room and left Josh to look at the stack of bills on the counter. Letting out an exhausted sigh, he began to leaf through the stack. Bill after pocket draining bill. "Josh!" Maya yelled from the bathroom.

Josh popped up and dashed over to the bathroom. "What is it?" he asked.

Maya scoffed and reached for the knob on the sink. "This is it," she answered angrily. She turned the faucet and absolutely nothing came out. "What am I supposed to do about his bath?"

"You have to be kidding me," Josh grumbled. He thought for a moment. "Um. Take him to your parents place. You two can stay there tonight while I figure this out."

"Josh," Maya warned. "We have to figure this out. This isn't just your concern. Its mine too."

"But I'm the one working Maya!" Josh argued. "You can't go back to the nursery for a few more weeks. We are living off of one income. I'll figure this out."

Seeing as there was no way to fight him on this, Maya relented and nodded. "Okay," she agreed. "But only for tonight. I don't need my parents thinking they need to jump in and rescue us."

The candles lit the room nicely. With the light focused in one general idea, Lucas' breath stopped as he saw Riley illuminated by the soft lighting. Closing the door behind him softly, Lucas took a single step into Topanga's. "Riles?" he asked. "I thought we were going to study," he breathed.

Riley, who stood there nervously, twiddled her thumbs. "We were," she led. "But then I thought we could just use this time to be us. You know? The Riley and Lucas we used to be."

Lucas smiled his signature charming grin and placed his textbook down on the table. "Come here." He wrapped Riley in his arms and kissed her gently. "It'll take time for sure, but we'll get there. I promise."

Riley smiled into his chest and inhaled his scent. "Perfect. If only we could've been like this months ago."

Lucas pulled away. "Hey," he said softly. "Let's not go back there. We promised to leave that in the past."

Riley nodded and pulled him back in. "Okay," she whispered. "I love you Lucas."

"I love you too Riley."

Maya unlocked the door to her parent's home quietly as she did her best to creep up the stairs. "Maya?" Katy called out from the living room. "What are you doing here?" she asked as she walked out into the hallway. "And why do you have-"

"Mom," Maya interrupted. "Everything is fine. We are just having a small water problem back at our place and we just need a good place to give this little guy a bath. Okay? So don't freak out and most of all please don't tell Shawn."

Katy just threw her an exasperated look and gestured to the stairs. "Go ahead," she sighed.

Maya smiled gratefully and climbed up the stairs as quick as she could. Walking into her old room, Maya had a small dose of nostalgia. The memories she had in here were small in number, but large in meaning. Shaking the thoughts out of her head, she set her baby down on the bed and began to slowly undress him for his bath. "Time to get clean!" she cooed as she looked into his bright brown eyes. Taking his little hands she clapped them together and kissed them softly.

Hoisting him up on her waist, she took him to the bathroom and turned on the water and began to fill a small pail with water. As she waited for the water to get to the right temperature, Maya sat on the lid of the toilet and bounced him up and down. His slightly tan skin filled with rolls of his baby fat and brown eyes shining happily. Maya laughed and smiled along with her son as she played with patches of dark brown hair on his head. "You are so precious," she whispered. "I will never forget first meeting you."

Maya slowly came to as she heard a soft whisper in her hospital room. Opening her eyes slowly, she blinked once or twice to see Josh sitting next to her with their son in his arms. "Oh my god," she whispered.

Josh looked up from his small son to see Maya awake. "You're awake," he smiled. Josh noticed the tears that began to well up in her eyes and smiled. " I know," he whispered. "He's actually here."

Josh stood slowly and walked over to Maya as she held her arms out. Showing her how to hold him properly, he took a step back and admired the scene in front of him.

Maya looked down at him with pure enchantment and smiled as he wrapped a hand around her pinky. "Hi," she whispered through her tears. "I'm your mom. Now I know I haven't done a great job so far, but I promise to take great care of you." Sniffling, she felt a tear fall down her cheek. "I love you so much," she whispered.

Looking back up towards her boyfriend, she noticed the tears in his eyes too. "Aw," she cried. "Its so real now isn't it?"

Josh nodded and walked towards her side again. "It really is."

"So what are we going to name him?" Maya asked softly.

"I think I know just the name," Josh said knowingly.

Maya smirked and looked up at him. "Video time?"

"Video time."

Time passed and soon enough every single person close to the new parents felt their phones chime with a message from the pair.

"Hey," Both Josh and Maya greeted softly.

"We know most of you are out in the waiting room right now, but neither of us wanted to leave him for even a second," Josh continued while looking down at his son.

Maya nodded as she felt him grab onto her pinky again. "Yeah," she agreed. "But before we introduce you all to him. I just want to thank you. All of you for sticking by us and helping us through it all. I want so badly to find a way to make it up to you all, but I can't seem to find anything near the equivalent to what you all have done for us." Taking a deep breath, Maya smiled again and whispered, "Thank you."

"Now," Maya continued. "I would like for you all to meet," she looked to Josh to finish.

Josh took a deep breath and smiled. "Aiden Chandler Matthews."

Josh too smiled at the memory from where he stood inside their apartment and sighed as he looked into Aiden's room. Feeling as if he absolutely needed to do this, he took out his phone and dialed the number. "Hey DJ," he began. He did another once over of the room. "Count me in."