Title: Vows
Author: lucayaprompts

Disclaimer: I do not own Girl Meets World.

original prompt: Maya's vows (as written and used with permission)

The wedding was unconventional. At first, he wasn't sure there was even going to be a wedding. "It's just a piece of paper," she said. "So are you're drawings before you put something meaningful on it," he argued. Then Maya insisted they couldn't be married a temple or church of any kind. "Isn't that kind of blasphemous? What if I decide I'm Buddhist but got hitched in a Catholic church. Can't have the big guy mad at me before I get started." Then they had to convince his mother that yes, it was a real marriage just because her southern baptist baby boy was getting married on a rooftop in New York City.

But eventually everything was nailed down; the flowers, the music, the food, the location, the colors, even the dress code. Casual, something you might actually wear again, Maya insisted. Riley talked her into getting an actual wedding dress, but she'd already shown it to him so the old tradition of not seeing the bride in her dress was blown out of the water.

Still, Lucas couldn't recall a single moment he'd ever felt happier than watching Maya come out on Mr. Matthew's arm, her dress pale gold and cream, and smiling at him as if this whole thing had been her idea after all. He didn't mind being along for the ride; they'd been together since they were sophomores in high school; now they were 28 and on their own, but on their own together.

Still, he should have known that the one thing she wanted to keep traditional, she'd change at the last minute.

"Actually I thought about it," she said after he'd said the vows everyone made and the justice turned to her, "and I changed my mind. I have my own."

Riley handed her what looked like a crumpled up tissue and Lucas could suddenly see her in the dressing room, her dress half unzipped and her hair not quite done, scribbling on the first thing she could find, putting down words he knew hadn't come to her easily, but had come at last.

"I never realized that I loved you until you saved me," she said, her eyes focused on the paper instead of him. "Until I needed you. Until Riley told me that, I, a one of kind woman should be with a one of a kind man."

"That's not exactly what I said," he heard Riley muttered and he tried not to laugh, his hand holding tighter to Maya's.

"But then, I tell myself, I don't know. I wonder if I'll end up like my mom. Ever since my dad left my mom, I never imagined having this." Maya continued in a whisper and he bit the inside of his lip to keep from interrupting. If she hadn't wanted this… well there were other ways to leave someone at the alter. But her eyes caught his, steady and strong, no longer needing the words she wrote down, but the ones she had in her heart for him.

He knew then that they would be okay.

"The good thing is I don't care about that right now. Someone told me all that didn't matter now.That was then, and this is now. And, I will put that aside and love you."

"I love you," he whispered. Just for her, the way her words had been just for him.