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A Kiss Goodnight

"This was my escape. When I needed a break from everyone including my friends I would come here. You are the only person outside of my parents, Mr. and Mrs. Matthews and Riley that know about this tree house."

"So what you are saying is I'm special?"

"You're more than that."

Josh felt the tears roll down his cheeks as he stared up at the ceiling. Good and bad memories and images kept flooding his brain and heart for countless hours.

"Maya, it's nothing special. I've slept with a lot of girls. Did you really think you were going to be the last? Or you were the first girl's virginity I've taken? You weren't and you aren't the first girl I got to fall in love with me and you aren't going to be the last girl I get to fall for me."

He wiped away his tears. He didn't have to see her face when he said the words to her to picture the heartbreak that washed across it. He was a coward. He couldn't even give her the respect of looking at her as the lies flew out of his mouth. The lies she kept calling him out on, making him search further inside to hurt her. He rolled over, trying to bury the side of his head into the pillow.

"One thing I am thankful for because of my injury and getting into trouble and getting sent here...is you."

He shook his head, wiping away more of his tears that started to fall down harder as he felt heartbreak even more, knowing he would never love another person like he loves Maya. He sat up at the sound of the bedroom door opening. He swallowed as he stared into his brother's panic eyes.

"Get dressed."

"What? Why?

"We need to get to the hospital."

Josh's eyes went wide. "Why? What happened?" he asked, waiting for his brother to confirm his fears. He watched his brother swallow.

"It's Maya."

XOXOJOSHAYAXOXO

Josh felt his heart pound against his chest as it felt hard for to breath. He felt like he was in a daze as he followed in behind his older brother into the emergency room.

"It's Maya."

The two words kept replaying in his head as he saw his brother go over to Shawn and Katy who were standing at the front desk. He knew it was best if he kept his distance so he made his way over to the waiting room. Once inside he closed his eyes for a moment, reminding himself to breathe as he felt his world stop at the thought of losing Maya or at the last moments they spent together really end up being the last moments they spent together. He would never forgive himself for the look on her face.

"Uncle Josh!"

He opened his eyes to see a scared panic Riley rushing his way. He wrapped his arms around his crying niece, holding her close.

"I can't lose her too, Josh."

Josh closed his eyes again as the thought killed him all over. "You're not going to lose her. We don't know anything yet."

"You don't understand," Riley cried. "Maya thinks she is the one who has been a horrible friend when it's been me. I've been the one who was a horrible friend," she continued as she held onto her uncle tighter.

"Riley, you're not a horrible friend," Josh tried to comfort her.

"Yes I am," she cut him off, pulling away from him. "She thinks it was her but it was me," she repeated. "I'm the one who has been a bad friend, not her. I've done some things that I'm not proud of."

Josh looked at Riley questioningly but both were interrupted by Cory coming up behind them and telling the two to take a seat. The three walked over quietly, taking a seat across Katy and Shawn. Josh felt like he was sitting in the hard plastic chair forever as his leg bounced up and down until the doctor walked in the waiting room causing all of them to stand.

The doctor gave a small nod to everyone.

"Is my daughter okay?" Katy asked before the doctor could get a word out.

"Your daughter is okay."

Josh closed his eyes, thanking God his prayers were answered. He heard the words he was praying for. Maya was okay.

"She is very fortune. She suffered from a concussion and she has two broken ribs and sprained wrist..."

Josh ran his hand over his face to wipe away his tears as he went back to his seat as he felt it was hard to focus as the doctor continued to talk. All he could hear was Maya was okay repeating over and over again in his head.

"She is awake right now but we would like to keep her for a few days."

"Can we see her?" Katy begged the doctor.

Josh looked up at the mention of seeing her.

The doctor looked a little reluctant, knowing his patient's request. "She asked not to see anyone beside a Joshua Matthews if he is here."

Josh froze at hearing his name. He couldn't believe she actually wanted to see him. He felt his heart drop to his stomach knowing Katy and Shawn's hearts were just broken and they probably wanted to kill him more than they already wanted to.

Katy's face went pale as Shawn closed his eyes from his spot right behind her. Katy looked back at the boy who slowly looked over at the two with guilt. She nodded for him to go back there. "Go," she told him, softy.

Josh looked at Cory who also nodded. He slowly got up and hesitantly started to follow the doctor before Katy rested a hand on his shoulder.

"Please let her know we are out here and we love her."

Josh nodded. "I will," he promised.

Katy watched Josh follow the doctor until they round the corner and she could no longer see them before turning to face her husband. "This is your fault!" she yelled at Shawn. "You're the one who brought Josh into her house and you're the one who took him away from her!"

"What I was supposed to do Katy? Maya was throwing away her future."

"Obviously, Maya doesn't care about the future she once dreamed of! She picked him. She picked him over us! She wanted to see him but not us! If that doesn't say something then what does?"

Shawn swallowed, watching his wife walk over to take the seat Josh was in not long ago. He closed his eyes, praying his family would make it through this.

XOXOJOSHAYAXOXO

Josh hesitantly walked into the hospital room as quietly as he could just in case she fell asleep which he knew was highly unlikely as the doctor told him she was awake. His heart stopped at the sight of Maya in the hospital bed. Once again, he found himself thanking the Lord above. She was roughed up some but not too bad and most of all she was okay. His breath got caught in his throat as her relieved blue eyes met his regretful blue eyes. It felt like the two were staring at each other forever before she broke the silence between the two.

"You're here."

Josh gave her a small smile. He paused, standing back, not sure how Maya was going to react to him or how close she wanted him to be to her. "Of course I am."

Maya nodded, staring at the boy who had captured her heart, not believing he was actually standing in front of her. "I was hoping you would be here but I thought you might already be back in New York."

"I was supposed to leave the first thing in the morning but even if I was back in New York..." Josh began but stopped when he felt his voice start to crack as he continued to stare in to her blue eyes.

Maya nodded again, her eyes never leaving his as she bit her bottom lip.

"Your parents," Josh began, softly, pointing towards the door as Maya started to shake her head. "Are out in the waiting room. They love you and want to see you."

"They should just leave."

"Maya," Josh sighed.

"Josh, I'm serious. I don't want to see them."

Josh sighed again, deciding to drop the subject as the two fell back into a silence as he remained by the door until Maya held her good hand out for him to take.

Josh swallowed, standing still for a moment before letting out the breath he had been holding before pulling up a seat next to her bed and taking her a hand into his.

"Maya-"

Maya shook her head, knowing what he was about to say, "Don't. I forgive you. I know you didn't mean what you said."

Josh closed his eyes, as guilt ran through ever bone of his body. "How could you even think about forgiving me?"

"Because I love you."

"I don't deserve you."

"Yes you do."

"No, I-" Josh began, but stopped himself. He took in a deep breath, knowing Maya was in pain and had a dramatic enough night already due to him and he didn't need to keep making it worse. "Maybe we should wait and talk about this later. You need to rest."

Maya shook her head, "No, I want to talk about it and I want to talk about it right now," she told him, causing him to sigh and shake his head. "I'm not going to sit here and let you continue to think this way. Josh, you do deserve me-"

"Maya, that's the thing! I don't. How can you not see it?" he questioned, standing back up. "I'm not the guy you believe me to be-"

"We've been through this already," Maya cut him off, not caring for a second her head and ribs and other parts of her body were killing her. "You are not that guy who was in New York after you loss baseball and I will keep telling you that over and over again if I have to because it's the truth. I don't care if Shawn or my mom or even Riley thinks that of you but I know the truth. I know you are a sweet loving guy who makes me happy. I love you and you are worth it all."

"That's not true whether you like it or not. I'm the guy in New York like I was the guy standing in front of you before I left-"

Maya shook her head, more determined than ever to get Josh to believe her words. "Josh, you know that's not true. You wouldn't be here right now if you were that guy," she pointed out. "You wouldn't care that I'm in the hospital because you would have already moved on to the next girl. I know you aren't that guy and I know what came out of your mouth wasn't you. Did your words sting? Yes, they hurt. They hurt a lot but I know with all of my heart you didn't mean them because I know you were trying to hurt me and push me away because you thought you were doing the right thing because Shawn got to you."

Josh shook his head as regret washed all over him but the stubbornness still stood, "Maya-"

Maya shook her head, cutting him off, "Don't think about telling me you don't deserve me again or Shawn is right-"

"It's the truth."

"What did you exactly do not to deserve me?" Maya asked, becoming frustrated. "What because of your past in New York? Josh, your past is your past and that's what it is. It doesn't affect me. I know the real you. I know you were hurting and went about things the wrong way. Not because you are this horrible guy. What because you took my virginity? I had a boyfriend before you came here who was pressuring me to have sex. I would have eventually given in to him when I knew it didn't feel right and I know you know you and I are more than just sex. What the party? The cops? The party and the cops weren't your fault. You showed up there because you came there to protect me. Not because you were there to party with me."

Josh shook his head. "It still doesn't mean I deserve you. Maya, I'm just going to hold you back or lead you in the wrong direction. You deserve better than that," Josh sighed, running his hand through his hair, "Shawn is right whether you like it or not. You deserve the best and I'm not the best not even on my good day."

Maya felt her heartbreak even more at the fact he still believed he wasn't good enough for her but she made herself hold her grounds as she stared into his blue eyes and was going to take a different approach. "Look me in my eyes," she ordered. "Look me in my eyes and tell me you don't love me. Tell me that what we have and what we share isn't special. Do it," she challenged, making Josh furrow his eyebrows in and swallow. "Because if you can look me in my eyes and tell me that then I will quit fighting for us," she told him, her eyes never looking away from his.

Josh swallowed hard again, staring Maya in her eyes, knowing there was no way he could ever look her in the eyes and tell her he didn't love her. He stayed quiet before looking away.

"That's what I thought," she said, knowing Josh wouldn't be able to look her in the eyes and deny their love. "If you're not the best then I don't want the best because I want you. I'm in love with you. The good, the bad or whatever it is, it doesn't matter because it's you. You are worth everything to me."

Josh remained quiet, shaking his head as the tears started to form in his eyes again, "I wanted you to hate me and forget I ever existed," he admitted, quietly.

"Josh," Maya breathed out as her own tears started to fall. "I could never hate you, especially when you are having a moment of weakness and I'll never be able to forget you existed. I know you didn't mean what you said."

"Maya, you should hate me. I deserve it," he told her, harshly wiping away his tears and standing up to turn his back to her for a moment before facing her again and continuing. "I still said what I said to hurt you. I don't deserve you or your forgiveness," he swallowed, shaking his head. "This," he pointed back and forth between the two. "Wasn't suppose to happen. I was suppose to come here, have fun and be able to leave without a second thought. I wasn't suppose to come here and fall in love and not being able to picture my life without you."

"Good," Maya breathed out, pressing her lips together. "Because I don't picture my life without you either. Josh, I don't expect us to have an easy road. I know we are going to have rough patches but what is important is our love for each other never dies. We both are going to have moments of weakness in this relationship but as long as one of us keeps fighting and doesn't give up on our love then we will always be worth the fight. If we both give up then we're done. This was a battle that you were losing but I didn't give up the fight and I want you to come back to fight for our love because I love you and I believe in us."

"Why are you doing this? Comforting me? Wanting to give me a second chance?" Josh asked, stun by everything that was happening in the hospital room.

"Because I love you and I may be the one hurt physically and be the one in this hospital bed but I know you are hurting emotionally and I hate that you feel the way you feel and I'm going to do everything I can to make you feel better."

Josh swallowed, "I don't want you to give up your future for me."

"Josh, I'm not giving up my future for you. You are a huge part of my future. I love you and I want you to be part of my future."

Josh stared into her eyes, swallowing. "I want to be a part of your future," he admitted, softly. "I want you to be part of my future. I don't know what I did to deserve you to love me the way you do."

"Because you love me the same. You loved me enough to try and let me go because you were told it was the right thing to do. Whatever Shawn told you and made you believe was wrong. We are not a mistake. What is happening is real and we are going to prove everyone who doubts us wrong. I love you."

Josh took in a deep breath as he felt the love for her rush through his entire body. "I love you too and I don't know how I will ever make this up to you. You were right. You are special to me. You are my everything and the thought of losing you, really losing you..." Josh shook his head not being able to complete his words as the tears started to form again and fall from his eyes for the thousandth time that night.

"You don't have to worry about that because I'm here and we are going to make it through this."

Josh slowly nodded.

Maya gave him a small smile. "Will you lay with me?"

"I don't want to hurt you."

"You're not going to hurt me. I trust you," she told him, carefully scooting over to make room for him before patting the spot next to her.

Josh took in a deep breath before slowly laying down next to her. He let her get comfortable and helped make sure she wasn't hurting more than she already was. He gently took her broken wrist and could feel her eyes on him as he kissed the cast before kissing the bandage on her forehead then her lips, wishing he could take the pain away. He held her gazed before opening his mouth to speak.

"Shh," Maya quieted him, holding her pointer finger up to his lips before tilting her head so her lips could meet his in a soft kiss.

"I love you," Josh murmured against her lips.

Maya smiled, "I love you too," she told him before pulling him in for a more deeper kiss.

She snuggled up closer to him once they pulled away, ignoring the pain she felt in ribs because her heart felt healed and complete.

XOXOJOSHAYAXOXO

Josh gently ran his fingers through Maya's hair as her head lied on his chest as his mind continued to race about everything that has happened the past twenty-four hours. He noticed a couple more of scratches, scrapes and bruises on Maya he didn't notice at first. He took in a deep breath as his eyes fell on her stomach.

"What you thinking about?"

Josh was knocked out of his thoughts at the sound of Maya's voice, shocked she was awake. He looked to see her eye were opened and gazing up at him.

"You were in a deep thought," she continued, softly.

He had to ask the question that had been on and off his mind. He didn't bring it up early but knew the two needed to talk about it but didn't know if now is the time.

"What is it?"

Josh swallowed.

"Josh?"

"It nothing," he tried shrugged it off.

"It's something. I can tell and I can tell it's important. What's wrong?"

Josh took in a deep breath, knowing Maya wasn't going to let this go until he old her. "Maya, why didn't you tell me you thought you were pregnant?"

"What?" Maya snapped, sitting up some to really look Josh in the face but winced at the pain. "It's okay," she told him at the concern look face.

Josh nodded, swallowing before he spoke again, "Shawn found the pregnancy test in our bathroom."

Maya's eyes went wide.

"Why didn't you tell me you thought you were pregnant?" he repeated softly.

"I-I didn't," she stuttered as her mind raced. "Josh, that wasn't my pregnancy test."

Josh laid back, shock. "But Shawn found..."

"I didn't take a pregnancy test," she continued. "We've been careful, even in the tree house."

Josh nodded, swallowing. "But then-if it wasn't yours then who's was it?"

Maya shrugged, shaking her head. "I don't know but I swear to you, it wasn't mine. I would tell you."

Josh stared into her eyes before slowly nodding, "I believe you."

Maya bit her lip. "The only other girl that's been in our house is..."

"Riley," Josh finished as Riley's words rang in head. Horrible friend. Things I'm not proud of.

"But she hasn't been with anyone since Ethan so it can't be her's."

Josh ran his hand over his face, shaking his head. "Don't worry about it. We'll figure it out later. Right now, you need to concentrate on yourself," he said, kissing Maya's forehead. "You need to rest."

Maya slowly nodded before placing a quick kiss on his mouth and getting back comfortable on Josh's chest.

"Don't leave when I fall asleep."

Josh brushed a few hairs out of her face. "I'm not going anywhere," he promised, sealing it with a kiss goodnight.

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