Maya thanked the waitress who brought her her drink as she looks around the pool. She checked her phone seeing if Riley had texted her since they were supposed to have a day at the pool before they were going back home.
She sips her drink hearing her phone go off and lightly laughs as she sees the message from Riley. She text saying she couldn't make it since her dad wouldn't leave her side.
Maya shook her head as she remembered the look on his face when he stopped chasing Riley and saw her shirt. Or more the guy shirt she was wearing. She took off after that and he would have caught her if he wasn't so tired from chasing her the first time.
Maya sipped her drink knowing she should just head back upstairs but hesitated to do so. She sighs as she looks at her hand the reason she didn't want to go up. She hadn't really talked to Josh since her dad arrived. Honestly she didn't want to talk to him.
What she really wanted to do was match down to that wedding chapel and yell at everyone. Asking how they could let two people drunk off their ass get married. Better yet how they could lose all their data and not have a backup in case of power outages.
She sighs knowing she couldn't yell at them. Especially since she is sure they had a lot of customers who wanted to and actually got married upset at them for losing their information. She didn't want to add to their already hectic day.
Maya rolls her eyes at herself realizing she sounded like Riley. She shook her head and ordered another drink glancing at her phone hoping her dad called or text. He told her he was looking into if Josh and her marriage was real or not.
He apparently was joining Josh who was already making calls using his lawyer connections. Her phone goes off and she almost drops it thinking it was good news when she frowns seeing it was a Facebook notification.
She read it and growled as she dialed the number for her bar. She was going to kill him. "Hello Hart's bar. This is Travis." Maya smiled sweetly even though he couldn't see her before she spoke. "Yes Travis it's Maya."
"Oh Maya my love my soulmate my other beautiful half. How the hell are you?" She shook her head as she could hear the smirk in his voice. Travis was a part time bartender and a full time pain in her ass.
Like her he was an artist which he did in his spare time apart from his real job and bartending. Which Maya still wasn't sure about since everytime he talked about it her eyes glazed over and she would fall asleep.
He was a couple of years older than her and was practically like her older brother. Her unwanted older brother.
"Cut the crap Travis." He chuckles softly as he kisses the phone telling Maya he loved her. "Before you go crazy let me just say. Your mom and Mrs. Matthews thought it was an excellent idea. One of the best in fact." Maya rolled her eyes as she could just see the smile on his face.
"Travis come on a theme night? I thought we agreed that was a dumb idea. You even agreed with me." She laughs as he gasps slapping the bar top. "Okay I would admit theme night does suck. Especially if it's an endless Katy perry fireworks karaoke night. But I don't want a night I want a week!"
Maya shook her head as Travis kept saying please over and over begging making her laugh. "I'll think about it. Do you have any ideas yet?" She holds the phone from her ear as he yells out. "You won't regret this Maya I'll email you. Love you bye."
She looked at her phone shaking her head as she gathered up her stuff. She smiles softly at the elderly couple she holds the door open for when she sees Josh on his phone. She debated with herself if she should walk the other way but sighs softly walking towards him.
"Yeah so can we get a court order? Uh huh." Maya watches as he rubs his forehead slightly frowning at whatever the person he was talking to said. "Okay well let me know thanks." He hangs up jumping slightly when he sees Maya standing next to him.
"How long you been there?" He asked as she says not long. "So what was that all about?" She asked as they begun to walk. "Nothing just trying to see if threatening legal action would help us out." He says as Maya looks at him with wide eyes.
"Josh I don't think threatening people is going to get them to do what you want. I mean I'm sure they already have a lot of other people doing the same thing." She looks away feeling her cheeks heat up as he stops and stares at her with a smile on his face.
"What?" She asked as he chuckles softly shaking his head. "Nothing it's you know who you sound like right?" She tilts her head looking at him before laughing. "I know I've been sounding like Riles all day."
They both laugh as Maya sees Josh look down at her hand. She covers it up as they both clear their throats. Josh goes to say something but Maya beats him to it. "I'm gonna go see what Riles is up to. Let me know what happens."
She gives him a small smile before walking away.
Lucas nodded his head trying desperately to close the door as Smackle continued to recite the rules of the plane and the itinerary for the following morning. He nods again saying yes he understood even though he wasn't really listening anymore. He had never met a girl who talked without taking a breath.
Well besides Riley of course.
He smiles mouthing a thanks to Farkle who puts his hand on her shoulders turning her away from him as he closed the door to their suite. He breathes a sigh of relief as he heads towards the elevator.
He figured since he was flying to New York with the gang he would try his hand at the casino. He never really been to Vegas or gambled before and he thought he would try it. He reaches the floor looking around trying to see what appealed to him.
He decided on black jack sitting down at a table that had just two people at the table. After a couple of hands he decides to try something else only losing two hundred dollars. He walks around sipping the soda he ordered smiling when he sees the slot machines.
His grandma used to play them when her and his grandfather took trips to Reno. She always claimed they paid out big time for her. Mostly since she claimed to have a full proof system. His grandpa said it wasn't really a system as much as dumb luck.
He spots the slots heading over tilting his head in confusion as he sees a guy with curly hair munching on popcorn walking in front of four slot machines. "Excuse what do you think you're doing?"
Lucas looked to his right seeing the curly haired man looking at him with a frown on his face. "I'm going to play this machine is there a problem?" He asked wanting to laugh at the comical expression on the guy's face.
"Well yes there is I was saving that machine." He points at the one Lucas had just put his money into. Lucas chuckles pulling the lever down looking at him. "This machine?" The curly haired man's eye began to twitch as Lucas could see the steam ready to come out his head.
He didn't know why he was provoking a complete stranger but it was sort of comical to watch.
"If it pays out that money is mine." He tells him as they both turn towards the machine. It landed on tilt making the curly haired guy smile as Lucas slightly chuckled putting in another coin. "What are you doing? I told you that was my machine."
He shakes his head as he holds the lever pretending to push it down several times before he actually does it. "I cannot believe this!" He hears the guy mutter as he paces behind him. He doesn't win again as the curly haired man laughs.
"Don't you dare!" Lucas stopped looking at him before shaking his head. The guy sounded a lot like Riley even sort of looked like her too. He shook those thoughts as he placed another coin in the machine stealing some of the guy's popcorn. He gasped as Lucas watched him through the little mirror on the machine.
"Alright that's it!" Lucas bit his lip as he tried to keep from laughing as the guy tried and was failing miserably to push him off his stool. He almost lost it when he heard him muttered if Lucas was made of rocks since he didn't really budge.
"Sir is there a problem here?" They turn to see a security guard with folded arms looking at them. "Yes this hooligan has stolen my machine and ate some of my popcorn!" The security guard looked at him and then Lucas who gives him a look as the security guard tries to remove him.
"Sir let him go and just play another machine or I'll be forced to remove you and I was having a good day." Lucas watched as the curly haired man raised his hands walking away before coming back trying to steal Lucas coins. "Alright sir let's go."
"Where we going outside? You can't stop me." He says as the guard shook his head. "No I'm putting you in holding until you calm down or a responsible adult comes and claims you." The curly haired man widened his eyes as he shook his head. "Rats. I owe Topanga twenty bucks now."
Lucas shook his head as he got up walking around the casino. He didn't want to gamble anymore since he didn't have the mystery curly haired man by his side. He walks towards the bar ordering a drink when he spots Riley on her phone.
He smiles thanking the bartender before moving closer to her. He was about to say something to her when he sees some guy walking towards her with his arms out as she hugs him.
He continues watching until he trips into a fountain. He spits out the water looking around hoping she hadn't seen him when he hears laughter. "That was hilarious." He glared at Maya as he walked away hearing her laugh as he did.
Riley bit her lip as she looked around the casino for her dad. She didn't want to be searching for him. She much rather be lounging around the pool with Maya enjoying her last day. But alas she has to search for her dad who laughed wickedly walking out their room with his popcorn.
She picked up her phone calling him but getting his voicemail. Her mom was definitely going to kill her for losing him. She had found out he was in Vegas with her uncle Shawn and called up Riley telling her she didn't want to know why he was there but to keep an eye on him.
Which Riley failed to do since she had ran from him since she was wearing Lucas shirt and he wanted to know why Riley wasn't with Maya and Josh when they got married. She dialed him again groaning when it went straight to voicemail and rubbing her head.
She sighs turning and seeing her uncle Shawn walking towards her holding his arms out for her. "Hey kiddo. Find him yet?" He asked as Riley shook her head. "No and I've called him and it goes straight to voicemail everytime. Honestly how much trouble could he have gotten into?" She asked just as her phone rang.
"Hey sweetheart." She sighed shaking her head knowing that tone her dad was using. "What did you do?" She asked as Shawn and her stopped walking. "Nothing. Okay maybe something." He said as Riley put it on speaker for Shawn to hear too. "Hey buddy where are you?" Shawn ask as Riley puts her hand on her hip.
"What does nothing mean?" Riley ask as her dad nervously chuckles. "Oh nothing much just played the slot machines." He tells her as Riley waits for him to continue. "Daddy where are you?" She gives Shawn a look as her dad sighs. "Hotel jail."
Riley paced back and forth as her uncle Josh and Shawn talk to hotel security. Apparently her dad try to get into a fight with according to him a forty year old. Security tried to tell him let it go but he is a Matthews after all and doesn't know how to walk away.
"Freedom!" Her dad yells out as they let him out the room they were holding him in. "Let me tell you shawnie jail is tough. I didn't think I would have survived it." He says as Shawn chuckles lightly. "Okay Cory." Riley shakes her head as she puts her hands on her hips tapping her foot. "Cory Matthews what do you have to say for yourself?"
Cory looks at shawn smiling before turning to her. "Whoops."
Riley rolled her eyes as Maya egged her dad to continue his story about his time inside the joint. As he so eloquently puts it. Even though it was a hotel jail which consisted of a room with a desk, a chair and a guard. "You should have seen this guy? He was huge but I handled him." He says as they all gathered their bags in her room. "Mr. Matthews your story is highly improbable."
Riley and Maya silently laughed knowing smackle was going to make fun of him without even trying. "Well it's true smackle." He tells her as Riley waits for isadora to respond. "Mr. Matthews with all due respect with your age and body mass the probability of you taking out someone much younger is just impossible. Your story just does not add up."
Riley walked out the room with her bags laughing as her dad gasps trying to fight smackle. "Hey." She looks up seeing Lucas sitting on the couch with his bags next to him. "Hi. What are you doing here?" She asked looking back towards her room hoping her dad didn't come oro seeing him.
"Well smackle told me to be on time or I was getting left so here I am." He says pointing at himself and his bags. Riley bit her lip knowing this wasn't going to be good especially since her dad would be with her asking questions. "What?" She says not noticing Lucas got up and was standing in front of her still talking.
"I asked would you be able to keep your hands off me during the flight? Since you seem to have a problem with that. Or is your boyfriend going to get upset?" Before she can respond her room door opens and she sees her dad with a crazed look in his eye. "You!" He shouts as Riley looks at him weirdly.
"Me!" Riley looks between her dad and Lucas weirdly before widening her eyes. "Oh no." She says as her dad walks towards her and Lucas. "What happened?" Maya asked eating chips Riley wasn't sure where she got them from. "This is the guy." Cory says pointing at Lucas as Riley shakes her head. "Matthews you best him up?" Maya asked laughing as Lucas and Riley both give her a look.
"Whoa whoa whoa he did not beat me up. If anything he tried to." Lucas says as Riley knew this was going to be ugly. "Ha! So you admit I almost had you?" Riley watched as Lucas and her dad went back and forth on who could beat up who wishing it was over with. "Okay let's go everyone the plane is ready." Farkle announces as Riley mouths thank you to him.
"Excuse me where do you think you're going? You are not coming with." Her dad shouts at lucLu who simply chuckles. "I think I am. Besides Riley wants me there." All eyes turn towards Riley who stands there like a deer in headlights. "Riley care to explain what this slot machine stealer is talking about?" Her dad ask as she shakes her head.
"Nope." She grabs her bags speed walking out the door knowing the flight home was going to be torture and she just hoped she never had to be in a room with her dad and Lucas ever again.
Josh tapped his pen against the bakery table as he looked through the classifieds on his laptop. It had been a week since that faithful weekend and he needed a place to live. He knew he should have just stayed home and looked for a place to live rather than head to Vegas with Maya and Riley.
He sighed as he sipped his coffee hoping to find a decent place so he could move out from his brother's place. Living under the same roof as his brother wasn't exactly what he was hoping it would be. When he was younger sure he thought what it would be like to live with him. But now that he was he was glad he never did.
Cory insisted on midnight chats and trying to rope auggie and him into weekly guys night out. Cory always forgets that Josh was a lawyer and had to almost always get up early and couldn't afford to stay up talking about his feelings.
"Hey." Josh looks up gulping as he sees Shawn standing in front of him with his arms folded across his chest. He gestures for him to sit down as Shawn does looking at Josh like he wanted to kill him and bury his body in the river. He knew he wanted to talk with him about the whole drunken marriage thing.
Since they never really did get a chance back in Vegas with the whole trying to figure out if they did or not. Josh stared at Shawn who hadn't said anything or even blinked which was freaking Josh out as he begins to ramble.
"Look Shawn I know you're extremely disappointed in me at the moment. And trust me when I say I'm just as disappointed I never should have drank that much or even thought of wandering towards a chapel with Maya in the first place. I know I broke your trust and my promise when I told you I would look out for her and not let anything happen to her. I'm trying and in the process of threating lives to figure out if we are in fact married. I have..."
Josh stops when Shawn holds up his hand silencing him. "I see the ramblings is a Matthews trait huh?" He jokes as Josh looks down at the table. "Josh I'm not here to beat you up or harm you or even lecture you. Although I do want to." Josh looks up at him weirdly wondering if he heard him right. "Your not?" He ask still not sure if he was serious.
"No I'm not. As much as I would like to do bodily harm to you for drunkenly marrying my daughter I'm not going to hurt you. Maya would never forgive me." Josh once again looked at him weirdly as Shawn smiled slightly. "What do you mean?" He asked as Shawn just shrugged.
"Nothing. It doesn't matter right now. What matters is this." He pointed at his wedding ring as Josh looks at his. "I know I'm still looking into it and want to sue or threaten them but Maya feels they have enough pressure on them already with other customers and doesn't want to add to their plate."
Shawn nodded as he chuckled saying that sounded more like Riley than Maya. "I know you might not trust me but I am still looking into it. I won't stop until I find out the truth. For both Maya and mine piece of mind."
"I'm glad to hear it. Now what's going on here?" He ask looking at Josh laptop. "I'm trying to find a new place to live. Living with Cory is just not what I have in mind." Shawn nodded his head chuckling softly as he looked through the site Josh was on. "What happened to your old place?" He asked as Josh debated if he should tell him or not.
"What happened?" Shawn asked again as Josh sighed. "I used to live with my ex girlfriend." Josh looked at Shawn who looked like he was going to jump across the table and murder him in cold blood. "So you married Maya on the rebound?" He asked as Josh could hear the anger in his voice.
"No. I would be never do that. I was just letting off some steam. Shawn you know I would never intentionally hurt Maya like that." Josh groaned wishing he had something stronger than coffee to drink that day as he sat in Riley's slashed his room. After telling Shawn he wouldn't intentionally hurt Maya he walked off and Josh knew he was definitely going to kill him now.
"Hey." He jumped as he sees Maya climb through the bay window with a small smile on her face. "Hey. What are you doing here?" He asked as Maya sat on the bay window. "Heard from my dad today that your two had an interesting chat." Josh groaned as he laid back on the be covering his face.
"I think i may have ruined my whole relationship with Shawn forever." He mumbles as Maya begins to laugh. "It's not funny Hart." He says sitting up on his arms playfully glaring at her. "Okay I'm sorry but come on what did you expect? My dad was going to be okay when he found out our marriage is a drunken one and you're on the rebound."
Josh sat up sighing as he looked at her. "Technically I'm not on the rebound." He says waiting for Maya's reaction. "What do you mean? I thought your girlfriend dumped you?" Josh shook his head as Maya looked at him weirdly. "No I dumped her."
Sorry for the long wait. No excuse really except man July turned out to be a busy month for me. But I'm hoping after this I can update like I use to. Hopefully this chapter was worth the wait.