Author's Note: I'm going to be honest, I don't actually know the song I picked for this chapter very well, but it's based on a prompt someone sent me "Lucas visiting Maya at her window which becomes a regular thing," and I just kind of wrote it without having a song in my mind, and then googled songs with window in the title to find one that fit this one-shot. Hope you like it!

Disclaimer: I don't own Girl Meets World, neither does Sundance, Hop-a-long or Ranger Rick though

"Just remember whatever makes you feel that way
Don't you worry 'cause I'm gonna stay
Right by your side
To keep on lookin' through the windows
Lookin' in your eyes"

-Lookin' Through the Window, Jackson 5

Halloween night is when it first starts.

Lucas and Farkle are heading back to their houses after a very successful night of trick-or-treating, when the former suggests they stop by Maya's apartment to visit their two best friends. It's Farkle's idea to scare them with the monster masks he's been hiding in his pillowcase this whole time, and at first Lucas is reluctant, figuring Riley has done nothing to deserve a good scaring. But then he thinks of Maya's smirking face, and of how good it will feel to finally pull one over on her, and he agrees.

After scaring the girls and revealing who's really behind the masks, Lucas expects Maya to smirk and say something sarcastic, like "so that's what your real faces look like." But instead she looks mad.

No, no just mad–furious, irritated, even hurt.

Lucas is confused until he notices Riley, pale and trembling with fear, and that's when he realizes what's got Maya so irate.

This place is Maya's home, her private place that contains everything about her–even the parts she tries to keep hidden. And here's Riley–her best friend–too scared of this place to spend even one night here. And when Maya finally convinces Riley to stay, Lucas and Farkle show up and scare Riley even more, so of course she's angry with them.

Lucas feels bad immediately because Maya's right–there's nothing to fear out here.

Which is why he turns to the quivering brunette and says, "What are you scared of, Riley? It's great out here."

And even though he's talking to Riley, his eyes are on Maya the whole time as the anger slowly subsides from her face.

...

Soon, he finds himself stopping by Maya's window once a week after baseball practice.

At first, it's just to annoy her (and, if he's being honest, to see her a little more during the day), but it quickly becomes the thing he looks forward to most all week.

She's suspicious at first, wondering what a country boy like him is doing at her window every Wednesday night at 7 o'clock, but she slowly starts to accept his visits, even leaving the window open for him so he no longer has to knock.

And one day, when he hears her mention to Riley that she's redecorating her room– again (her rooms seems to change as often as her moods, he's noticed)–, he shows up at her window with a sparkly, pink cowboy hat in his hands and a giant smirk on his face.

Maya makes her famous shudder, and swears that "Texan abomination" isn't going anywhere near her precious things, but she takes it from him anyway, and the next week, he notices it hanging off her desks and he grins to himself satisfiedly.

...

In ninth grade, he's finally allowed inside her room. To any random bystander on the street, he probably looks like a hormone-crazed boy crawling into his rebellious girlfriend's bedroom in the wee hours of the night, but that's not the case with them.

Instead, they simply sit on opposite sides of the room–Lucas against the desk, Maya against her bed–and it's about as platonic as you can get.

Maya props her sketchbook against her knees and silently draws Lucas, who's bent over some textbook, forehead creased in concentration, and that's usually how their evenings go until one night, Lucas says he wants to draw Maya.

He laughs as she places the pink cowboy hat (which has now moved to her bedpost) onto her head and poses like a cowgirl dramatically throwing an imaginary lasso.

He works for thirty minutes on the sketch, and even then it's a pitiful representation. Art has never really been his thing.

Maya takes the sketch from him and laughs out loud at the stick-figure with the amateurishly drawn cowboy hat and curly hair.

"I like it," she decides, taping it on her wall. "It looks mysterious."

"Just like you," Lucas replies.

She turns and smiles warmly at him, and it's in that moment he realizes that he's in love with Maya Hart.

...

Tenth grade comes around he no longer allows himself inside Maya's room. It's not that he doesn't want to, but he was raised a gentleman, and being alone with Maya in her bedroom makes him want to do all sorts of ungentleman-like things.

So instead, they stay to the living room, watching TV, or in the kitchen, studying. Of course, that doesn't mean they don't find time to kiss in the shadows of the hallway.

At least, they do when Gammy Hart isn't watching them like a hawk.

"Hands where I can see them, boy!" she shouts one day, waving her cane threateningly.

It sort of makes him glad Gammy Hart never caught them hanging out in Maya's bedroom before they were a couple.

...

In 11th grade, something happens, hurtful words are thrown around, and he's shut out of her window and her life.

Riley says to give it time, that Maya is still crazy in love with Lucas; she's just being her usual, stubborn self.

So he still walks by her apartment every night, hoping to see her smirking face. Instead, he's greeted with a black curtain blocking his view, a constant reminder of all that he's lost.

...

As it turns out, Riley is right, and by the start of 12th grade, he's back to seeing Maya's face in the window.

And the night he does decide to sneak into her room is the best night of both their lives.

Afterwards, as they lay together, tangled in each other's warmth, his eyes move to her window for a split-second before looking back down at Maya, nestled in his arms.

"Thank you," he says softly.

She looks up at him sleepily with a confused frown. "For what?"

"For letting me in," he explains, kissing her forehead sweetly.

Maya smiles happily as Lucas pulls her closer into his arms. "Thanks for wanting me to. I love you, cowboy.

Lucas's heart lifts as Maya rests contentedly against his chest. "I love you, too."

He falls asleep to the sound of their hearts beating together and the wind howling against her bedroom window, and he knows that these are the moments life is all about.

A/N: Please review! Thank you :)