Going to apologize in advance if this chapter is boring. Although it does have a couple of answers your questions. Well sort of. Hopefully not confusing at all.
"So you want to talk about it?" Maya asked as their driver pumped gas and Riley and her nibbled on their chips. Riley shrugged as Maya shook her head as she grabbed her hand. "You can talk to me you know that right?"
Riley looked at her as she smiled giving her hand a squeeze. "I know and ditto for you. I just I need time to process everything. We both do. Don't we?" Riley asked as Maya looked away before looking at her. "Yeah we do."
Josh widened his eyes looking at the text on his phone from his brother. This was bad this was very very bad. He thought as he got up scratching his neck and pacing back and forth.
This was stranded in the desert on the hottest day in only your boxers and the blinding sun as you're only companion. He was pretty sure these next few hours were going to be the last hours of his life before he died.
If not by his brother than by his new father in law. He stops knowing the one person that really was going to kill him was the blond sitting down. He looked at Maya who was looking down at her hands. How was he going to tell her that not only was her new brother in law on his way but so was her dad.
He continued pacing as he feels Maya's eyes on him looking at him weirdly as he mumbles under his breath. "Josh you okay?" She asked as he sighs looking at his phone before sitting down next to her only to stand back up again.
"Josh your freaking me out what is wrong with you?" Maya asked standing in front of him as he stops looking at her. He knew he had to tell her they would already be on their way no escaping them now.
He sighed scratching his head before looking at her. "Um before you found me I got a phone call." Her tells her hoping she would read the look on his face and understand what he was saying so he wouldn't have to say it. "O...Kay is that why you look you might be living your last few hours of your life?" She asked as Josh gulped.
"Something like that." He mumbles as Maya looks at him with wide eyes and Josh could tell she knew what he was trying to say. "Please tell me you're joking?" She asked as Josh looks down shaking his head. "I'm sor..." He starts to say looking up apologizing to her but she was gone.
"Great. Today is definitely my last day on Earth." He says before walking out the hotel looking up and down. He scratched his head before walking to the left and looking around. He sighs looking for wedding chapels and finding none. He taps his phone to his head as he goes to look up chapels.
He shakes his head as he heads back towards the hotel walking straight towards the reception desk.
"Hi welcome...oh Mr. Matthews was there a problem with your photos sir?" The concierge asked handing another customer a key. "No they were good...Marie." He says looking at her name tag. "I just had a question. Would you happen to know what chapel we were at last night?" He asked hoping she wouldn't ask why he didn't know himself.
"I'm afraid not sir. There are quite a few and I'm not sure which one you used." Josh frown thanking her before walking away. He was hoping she knew so he could find out if he actually did get married or they were just too drunk and pretended they did. He was about to pull out his phone to start calling around when he hears someone call his name.
"I'm not sure if this will help but here's a list of all the closet chapels you could have went to." Marie says handing him a paper filled with the nearest chapels to their hotel. "Thank you." He says with a smile as she turns to walk away before turning back around. "I don't mean to be intrusive or anything but our photographer said he's never seen a couple more in love than you and your wife."
He looks at her weirdly as she smiles before turning around helping a woman who comes up to her. He scratches his head as he looks at the paper. He wasn't sure which one he should start with when he hears someone growl before being tackled to the ground.
Riley wasn't sure which was bothering her more. The headache that seemed to not want to go away or the guy sitting next to her. Who just so happens to be staring at her with a smile on his face.
She tried to ignore him as she picked at her muffin knowing very well she should be eating. She was maid of honor/best man in a wedding that was happening in less than two hours. Speaking of weddings. She looks around trying to spot Maya or Josh.
She knew Maya had saw him come down and then wandered off probably to talk to him but she hadn't returned. And Riley was starting to worry something was seriously wrong. "Hey." She picked up her coffee cup trying to ignore Lucas who was poking her side. "Hey."
Riley gulped her coffee getting up to grab another groaning when Lucas follows still poking her. "Would you like to lose that finger?" She growled grabbing his finger as he chuckled. "Oh come on you wouldn't hurt me." He says wincing when she bends it back.
She smiles at him as she takes her coffee back to her table. "Morning Riley." She looks up seeing Charlie and Missy walking towards her hand in hand. "Hey! You two aren't supposed to be with each other right now." She says as they laugh before Charlie kisses Missy as she sits down.
"Oh come on you know we aren't going with all those old superstitions. Besides we're getting married in Vegas anything can happen." Riley nodded her head before staring into her coffee cup when Missy smiles at her. "Okay what happened? Something big if you look guilty. Lucas won't stop looking at you and Maya is upset."
"What do you mean Maya is upset? Where is she?" Riley asked standing up grabbing her glasses and phone. Missy looks at her weirdly and points towards the bathrooms saying she saw her wiping her eyes and walking that way.
Riley clenches her fist knowing she was going to kill her uncle Josh. She says a quick goodbye to Missy and Charlie and can faintly hear them telling somebody to follow her. She calls Maya's phone but doesn't get an answer and shakes her head trying again.
She spots her uncle Josh talking with some woman and makes her way towards him growling as she tackles him. "Ow! Riley what the hell?" He shouts as she sits on him. "Me? What about you what did you do to Maya?" She asked as she feels someone grab her off him. "Whoa calm down there." She looks up seeing Lucas holding her back from punching Josh.
"What happened Josh?" She asked trying to calm down. She watches as he scratches his neck nervously. "Well I may have inadvertently let Cory know we got married and now Shawn and him are on their way." He backs up when Riley tries to attack him again.
"Calm down I'm trying to fix this okay? I'm going to find out if we really did or not and get this fixed. I don't want Maya to worry I'm taking care of this. We won't be married much longer. I know she is upset I told them but I'm fixing it." Josh tells her as she shakes her head at him.
Letting it slip to her dad and uncle Shawn was definitely not the reason she was upset. "Uncle Josh you're an idiot." She punches him before heading towards the bathroom where Missy said she seen Maya go into.
"Peaches?" Riley calls out looking under the doors to see if she could spot her. "Peaches are you in here?" She calls out finally spotting her shoes in the last stall. She gently knocks as she hears Maya sniff before flushing the toilet walking out. "You want to get out of here?" Riley asked as Maya washed her hands.
"Riles we can't leave." Maya tells her sitting down on the couch they had in there. "Besides you're in Missy's wedding we can't leave." Riley sat next putting her head on her shoulder. "I ran into uncle Josh." She says looking at Maya who tenses up.
"Well I may have jumped on him in the lobby." Riley tells her as Maya looks at her with wide eyes before laughing. "You didn't?" Riley nods with a smile on her face making Maya laugh more. "You gonna be okay?" She asked as they stop laughing and she takes her hand.
"I think so. I just...I don't want to think about what's going to happen for awhile. Let's focus on you." Maya tells her with a smile. Riley looks at her as she lifts her eyebrows at her. Riley shook her head knowing that look all to well already. "Nothing to focus on. I'm boring." She says with a shrug.
"Boring huh? Would Mr. boring happen to be outside?" Maya asked looking out the door seeing Lucas. "No." Riley says standing up looking at herself in the mirror. "Riles give him a chance I highly doubt he's like..." Riley gives her a look causing Maya to stop talking.
"Okay I'm just saying what are the chances you found out he liked you and you slept together again. That can't be a coincidence." Riley looks at her shaking her head knowing Maya knew she never believed in those. And besides she was focused on her students not her love life.
"I'm just saying I highly doubt he's like..." Maya starts to say to her making their way out the bathroom. "You were saying?" Riley tells her seeing Lucas laughing with a blond woman.
Lucas smiled politely at the blond who he made the mistake of making eye contact with. She seemed drunk still and not exactly making much sense but he thought he would be polite and laugh when she did.
"So you should come with to this bar." She says swaying back and forth. "That's okay I have plans already." He told her trying to get away but she continued to follow. He sighed with relief when his phone rang and drunk girl got distracted.
"I love you." He says into the phone as he gets on the elevator. "Dude I always knew you did." Zay chuckled on the other line. Lucas shook his head as he got off on his floor. "So what's up Zay?" He asked putting him on speaker and opening his laptop.
"Well I just had a meeting with the overseas office and we may just get that space." Lucas pumped his fist in the air letting out a yes. Although he went to school to be a vet he took over his father's company when his dad got sick. They restored old buildings and built new ones. Sometimes hotels or new homes for orphanages.
"This is fantastic. Did they say when we could get the ball rolling on this?" Lucas asked looking at the emails he had. "I don't know if I should tell you." Zay tells him as Lucas looks at his phone. "Don't tell me? Paris?" Lucas asked smiling hoping he was going to be able to work in one of his favorite places.
"Dude you already know the answer do I need to tell you?" Zay says as Lucas shakes his head chuckling. Paris was always a dream of his to visit one day. "So you gonna take the girl you're in love with to Paris?" Zay asked as Lucas gives his phone a look before checking the time.
"Dude I'm not in love with her and I have to go email me about the trip. Actually when is it? He asked taking his shirt off and grabbing his suit. "Two months from now I think. I have to check. You still working at Charlie's clinic while he's on his honeymoon?"
"Yup I can't pass that opportunity up. You know it's always been my dream to be a vet and I have that chance." Lucas tells him buttoning his shirt. "Okay I'll send everything and don't get to attached to the clinic your one of our best men." Zay tells him as Lucas chuckles. "One of?"
"Yeah I'm the other one. See ya." He shakes his head as he puts on his suit jacket when he hears someone call his name. "Hey...What is going on?" He asked seeing Charlie talking to a guy in a Elvis costume. "Hey there freak face."
"Farkle?" Lucas ask circling him as he stares at him with wide eyes. "Names Elvis." He says making Charlie and Lucas laugh. "Okay why is Elvis here?" Lucas asked as Charlie explained. Apparently the chapel they were going to use had a power outage and loss a lot of their data so the concierge agreed to let them use a ballroom.
So while the girls were fixing up the ballroom Charlie was tasked with finding a minister. And lucky for them Farkle happens to be ordained and was apparently happy to be decked out as Elvis while performing the ceremony.
"Okay everything is set up and here is your flower." Riley announces coming in the room wearing a light blue dress with a bow tie since she was maid of honor and best man. "Where's Charlie?" She asked as Lucas looked her up and down. "Wow you look beautiful." He says as she blushes slightly.
"Thanks." They stare at each other before Lucas begins to softly chuckle. "What?" Riley asked putting her hand on her hips. "Nothing just waiting for you to yell at me. That seems to be the only thing you like doing." He tells her moving closer to her.
"Bite me Friar." She tells him trying to move passed him. "Well if you really want me to." He says taking her wrist and gently biting. "Jerk! I wasn't serious." She yells kicking him in the shin before walking away. He chuckles shaking his head as he turns seeing Elvis watching him.
"What?" He says as Farkle shakes his head smiling. "Nothing just observing freak face time to go." Lucas didn't know what that meant as they make their way towards the ballroom. He rubs his neck as he sees Farkle talking with Maya who looks his way. She smiled at him with a smile that he could only assume meant something bad for him.
He makes his way to Charlie and Missy who were looking at the decorations. "So how's the engaged couple ready for this?" He asked putting his hands on their shoulders. They both chuckle as Farkle announces he was ready and the ceremony gets underway.
"Champagne huckleberry?" He looks up at Maya who was smiling as their small group was in the ballroom. "Huckleberry?" He asked taking the glass from her hand. "That's you." She says sitting down next to him. He shakes his head at her before looking over at a laughing Riley as Farkle tries to dance like Elvis.
"She's a tough nut that's already been cracked so be gentle." He turns towards Maya who stands up leaving him pondering her words.
Maya laughed as Farkle continued to try to dance like Elvis but was only moving his hips like a robot. "Farkle Minkus is a nut and my feet hurts." Riley groans sitting next to Maya who laughs. "Well why did you agree to dance with him?" Maya asked handing her a champagne flute.
"I didn't!" Riley tells her with wide eyes. "That crazy man grabbed my hand and made me." Maya begins to laugh as Riley frowns at her before joining in. Maya looks at the door and stops laughing seeing Josh standing there.
"Have you talked to him since this morning?" Riley asked when she sees where Maya was looking. "No. I'm mad at him for letting it slip to not only your dad but mine as well. They're both on their way and I can't even imagine what they will say now that we are married." Maya says as Riley looks up.
Maya sighs as she turns seeing Josh standing behind her scratching his head. "Well we're about to find tout they're here." He tells her as she looks at Riley who stands holding out her hand to her. Maya smiles taking it as they make their way out the room heading for the bar.
They wait as Riley says she was going to get some drinks for them to lessen the blowup that was going to happen. Maya smiles nodding her head as Josh sits next to her. "Hey." He says she turns to look at him giving him a small smile before looking away.
"Hart are you really going to ignore me?" He ask as Maya sighs looking at him. "I'm not ignoring you Josh I'm thinking." She says hoping to think of some plausible explanation as to why she got married while drunk.
"Well if it helps I found the chapel we got married at." Maya looks at him with wide eyes as she waits for him to elaborate. "Well are we?" She ask growing impatient with him. "Well that's the thing I'm not sure." Maya looks at him with a confused expression on her face.
"Apparently the chapel your friends were going to use is the same chapel we for married at." Maya covered her face knowing what that meant. They were nowhere closer to finding out if they are married or not. "Hey it's going to be alright I'll keep searching asking if they have any backup records stored somewhere else." Josh tells her pulling her into a hug.
Maya nods as she keeps her hands over her face as Josh hugs her rubbing her back. "Hey you never know maybe this is just one big nightmare and we will eventually wake up." He tells her as she pulls away from him. "You okay?" He asked as she looked away from him. "I'm fine." She tells him as twist his ring on his finger.
She frowns as she looks at it before looking at her own. "Why are you still wearing that?" She asked pointing at it. "Why haven't you?" He asked nodding at hers as she twist hers. "Can't get it off." She holds her hand up trying to pull it off but it wouldn't budge. "I can't either." He says as they look at each other.
Maya looks away once she feels and hears her little Riley voice getting excited. She didn't want to get excited about this.
"Okay here you go." Riley says coming back with three waters in her hand. "I didn't think alcoholic drinks would be appropriate even though I'm sure we could all use one." Maya laughs at Riley as she chugs her water.
Maya smiles gratefully at Riley as she takes her hand in hers when she sees Maya nervously shaking her leg. They hear a phone go off and turn looking at Josh who tells them that they were there and he was going to bring them in.
"You gonna be okay Peaches?" Riley asked as Maya chewed her lip. "I think so just." She sighed softly looking at her. "Just don't leave me okay?" Riley squeezes her hand as they see their dads walking towards them. "Hi daddy." Riley smiles sweetly at him as Maya sees her dad talking to Josh.
"Don't hi daddy me young lady where were you when all this drunken marriage happened?" Maya feels Riley tense up as she sees her look at her. "Nowhere, with no one doing nothing with nobody." Riley tells him as her dad looks at her circling her. Maya bites her lip to keep from laughing when Riley mouths sorry and runs away with Cory chasing her.
Maya laughs until she sees her dad looking at her. She sighs noticing Josh wasn't there as they both sit. They don't say anything as Maya looks at her hand before sighing looking up. "Are you disappointed in me?" She asked as Shawn looked at her.
"I'll understand if you're I mean..." she drifts off when Shawn grabs her hand. "Maya you could never disappoint me ever." He smiles pulling her into a hug. "But why? I went to Vegas and got married while drunk. To someone who clearly wants out he's doing everything possible to divorce me."
Shawn laughs taking Maya by surprise as he shakes his head. "First of all I'm not disappointed in you because I'm sure if I was your age and came here I probably would have ended up drunkenly married to Cory." He laughs when Maya scrunches her nose at that. "I could have made ya very happy Shawnee!" Cory shouts as he runs passed them.
"I know buddy." Shawn laughs as they watch him search for Riley. "And secondly I'm not so sure about that whole wanting to divorce you thing." Maya looks at him weirdly as Shawn just smiles at her and she couldn't help but feel like he had turned into Cory Matthews while on the plane.
"We still need to have a discussion about all this. But I would feel better finding out more information before we decide anything." Maya smiles as they stand up hugging each other. "Thanks dad." She says as they start to walk. "Oh but you have to be the one to tell your mom you're married."
Maya gulps knowing that conversation was going to be brutal.
Again I apologize if boring or anyone gets confused about this chapter. I had a whole other chapter written but it didn't save and it was horrible.