Chapter 3: Movie Night (Part 2)
On their movie marathon night, Maya chose Spy Kids because the Matthews Family only have akid friendly movies and besides, Spy Kids is a cute action movie.
Josh and Maya pushed the center table of the living room at the end of the couch to make it comfortable for Josh to sleep that night.
"saWe should do this every Friday night!" Maya exclaimed as she eats her second slice of pizza "You know Boing, this is a lot more better than going outside and watch a movie" Maya added "Definitely!" he exclaimed "but we still can't make loud noiseas cause Auggie is already asleep" he told her silently.
In the middle of the movie, they finished eating their pizza and move on to their dessert. Later on, they were so lost into the movie that it just happened that Josh's arm is around Maya and Maya is leaning on Josh.
By the end of the movie Riley came home. "Hey guys!" Riley greeted when she opened the door and a on the lights and at that moment, Josh and Maya separated like 2 kids caught by their parents in a compromising position. Maya sighed in relief when Riley didn't question anything.
"What you two watchin'?" Riley asked them as she sat next to Maya "Spy Kids" Josh told her "How was the movie?" Maya asked "It was amazing! But I don't want to spoil anything" Riley replied.
"Come on Maya, lets sleep I'm tired" Riley told her best friend "I would love to Riles, but I'm not that tired and we agreed on a movie marathon, so we're gonna finish the rest of the movies" Maya told her "Okay" Riley said then went up to her room.
Josh put on the Spy Kids 2, then sat next to Maya. "So…" Josh started their conversation awkwardly "So…" Maya replied in the exact same tone.
At that moment, Maya thought about her and Riley's conversation earlier, she's contemplating on whether or not she should talk to Josh about their relationship. Maya thought of it thoroughly that he never noticed that Josh was looking at her instead of watching the movie.
"A penny for your thought?" he asked her wondering what she was thinking so hard about "huh?" Maya replied clearly not listening to him "I noticed, you have been zoning out for a few minutes" he chuckled at the thought of Maya zoning out "What makes you think that?" she asked trying to defend herself from embarrassing herself in front of Josh.
"Well, your not looking at the tv for quite a few minutes" he stated obviously "come on tell me; Riley's not the only one you could talk to" he told her looking at her blue eyes to show how serious he is.
"Is there any other way I could get out of this?" she asked hoping he would let her "no" he replied smiling "okay fine" she sighed and looked at him.
"Do I have to?" Maya tried once more; because of that Josh stopped the movie and turn off the tv to give her his full attention "Your really not giving me another option here are you?" she asked "Nope" he smirked.
Maya sighed "What are we?" her question threw him off-guard "What?" he asked not thinking straight, millions of thoughts rushing through his mind at the same time.
"What are we Josh? This is complicated. You're the only guy I think about being with. You gave me a promise ring. We hang out every time we see each other. I can comfortably tell you anything." She blurted out everything that was bothering her.
"Maya, you already know I'm three ye-" Josh said before Maya cut her "Don't start on the 'three years older' thing. I already know that!" she told him frustrated "and I'm completely aware; I know it is hard for you but it is hard for me too" he told her calmly "Don't you think I didn't want you to be my girlfriend right now? Don't you think I didn't want to go on dates with you and walk at central park holding your hand? Don't you think I don't want to spend time with you every single day? Don't you think I don't want to kiss you every time I see you?" he asked her all the thing that was bothering him to show her how much he is struggling "Maya, as much as I want to do all those things right now, I can't. I want us to together at the right moment, at the right time without fighting about ridiculous things because I'm stressed out in college and you on high school" He explained looking straight at her eyes for her to fully understand him.
"And I just don't want you to miss out on anything. You're young and in high school, there are a lot of things that is going to happen before you turn eighteen and I don't want to be the person to hold you back from going on dates and school dances" he added.
"But Josh, how do we know if its already 'someday'?" she asked curiously "We'll know" he said "I'm willing to wait for you Maya" he added.
"Well you know, we are still two years apart right now" Maya teasingly smiled at him. He smiled back at her and put his arm around her pulling her closer to him "Let's just stay like this for a while" with that Josh kissed Maya's forehead and she lean against him to somehow hide her blushing face "Let's watch something else" Josh said opening the tv and change it into a random channel.
Later on that night, while the tv was on, Josh and Maya kept talking about random things until they fell asleep at the early hours of the morning.
Riley woke up that morning to find that her best friend is not beside her; she wondered where she was because it was usually her who wakes up earlier than her.
"Maya?" she asked she made her bed and went to the bathroom to look for Maya and discovered that she wasn't in there either. Riley went to the kitchen thinking that Maya might be hungry but once she step on in the living room she saw a glimpse of her uncle sleeping comfortably with her best friend cuddled on their couch.
Riley covered her mouth not really knowing how she would react to the scene in front of her. She wasn't sure if she would wake them up and made her presence known or not; but before Riley could decide, a perky Auggie went downstairs "What's for breakfast uncle Josh?" Auggie said loud enough to wake her uncle and her best friend up.
Maya slowly opened her eyes to adjust to the sunlight coming through the window "It's too early, go back to sleep" she sleepily said closing her eyes snuggling to something she's hugging when she woke up. Once she realized that what she's hugging is not a thing, she opened her eyes fully awake and felt an arm around her and that's when she realized that she spent the whole night with her best friend's uncle.
"Good Morning gorgeous" Josh greeted with a sleepy smile. "Good Morning" Maya replied shyly removing her hands from his waist.
"What's for breakfast uncle Josh?" Auggie asked jumping next to him on the couch "What do you want buddy?" he asked sleepily "Want some pancakes?" he suggested "Okay" Auggie simply replied then Josh led his kid nephew to the kitchen to make pancakes.
Maya sat on the couch staring into space when Riley's voice brought her back to reality "Bay window, bay window right now!" Riley called and dragged Maya to her room's bay window.
"Tell me everything that happened between you and Uncle Josh last night" Riley demanded as they sat down on the bay window "Nothing happened last night Riles, we just talked" Maya told her "Is he your boyfriend? Are you my aunt now?" Riley grinned "What? No!" she defended "Well not yet" she added "ohh! Not yet!" Riley teased giving emphasis to yet "Stop it Riles, we just talked last night and maybe hope is not for suckers anymore" Maya grinned playing with her ring.
"What's that peaches?" Riley asked looking at Maya's ring "Nothing" Maya replied slowly hiding her hand but Riley grabbed it. 'Someday?' Riley asked herself while examining her best friend's ring on her finger and then it clicked "Did uncle Josh proposed to you?!" Riley asked with glee "Seriously Riles, your questions about me and Josh's relationship is escalading by the next question you asked me" she told her "It's not an engagement ring, it's a promise ring" she told her "Then don't ever doubt that he'll break his promise, because he never do" Riley smiled at her friend "Thanks Riles, you always know what to say" Maya said hugging Riley and then then went downstairs for breakfast.
"Hey girls, what took you so long? I almost thought you don't want to eat my pancakes" Josh said once he saw Maya and Riley "I've tasted your pancakes before Uncle Josh and it is not that bad" Riley told him honestly getting a plate of pancake for herself "that is the reason why you're my favorite niece" he smiled "I'm your only niece" she replied while eating.
"She already knows about us does she?" he smiled at her while giving her a plate "She's my best friend, she knows everything" she smiled back.
"You know I'm cool about all this but the goofy smiles needs a bit of time to get used to" Riley said from her seat "Now you know what you look like when your around Ranger-rick" Maya teased Riley then sat beside her.