Girl Meets World One-Shots

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A/N: I have three accounts I post on so I got this prompt today after I had gotten the one about Riley and Lucas' fight. I hope you like it as much I as liked writing it. I put in hints from throughout the story from the shows' run, since it's completely from Josh's point of view, I wanted to write what he was feeling.

For Joshua Matthews, everything is life has been easy, he has a great family who supports him in every endeavor, his education is top notch, and the woman he loves is the most perfect person for him. Yet she was one of that hardest parts of his life because if he messed up with her, his niece would be heartbroken. The person he loves the most is also his niece's childhood friend, they grew up together they did everything as sisters even though they hadn't shared an ounce of blood. Josh had grown up around Riley, and when Maya came along he had grown up with her too. They were two pairs of a whole piece, and of course when he told Maya that he would play the long game he had already known that she was the person he wanted to share his life with.

But like everything else in life, waiting hadn't been easy. He loved her, he knew it the moment his eyes met hers at his brother and sister-in-law's Christmas party when he was sixteen. They hadn't seen each other in so long but the moment she called him Boing he couldn't help but laugh. So he found excuses to visit his family, just so he could see her even though the three-year age difference was there. When he was accepted into the NYU summer program he had decided to try and move forward with his life, at least for a little while but in one moment everything Maya had told him before had clicked in his mind. So of course when she sat down next to him he tried to hold back the giddy feeling in his heart. The feeling that told him that she was the one.

Then Texas happened, and his heart broke, he couldn't figure out how she had gone from liking him and him alone to liking the one person his niece had liked since the moment they had laid eyes on one another. He couldn't go back to New York, he just couldn't face the fact that she had stopped liking him. It hurt to just think about it, he had wanted to ask her to prom, he had wanted to tell her the truth but in the end he couldn't. His heart broke just like his niece's heart had broken. For a while he didn't call his brother, he didn't send his niece messages, he just existed in limbo at home with his parents.

So when he moved to New York after graduation to go to NYU he decided to work hard and forget about the feelings he had had for the blonde haired blue eyed beauty, but she haunted his dreams. He had taken the subway one day and saw her on the train with his niece, the two of them dressed in similar outfits, her smile hers while at the same time it felt as though the spark was missing. Instead of saying something he stood in the crowd and watched her, he felt like a stalker but he hadn't wanted to say a word. His heart beat in his chest like a jackhammer as he saw her face, it was at that moment he realized that he couldn't stay away any longer.

He called his brother and sister-in-law for the first time in months, they talked and he asked if there was anything they needed help with. His answer to everything was in his brother and sister-in-law's hands, a trip to the Mount Sun Lodge, the same place his relationship with his wife was tested so many years before. Josh knew at that moment that this was the place that would make or break his relationship with her, and he took the chance without a second thought. He wanted forever, he wanted the kind of love his brother had, the same kinds of love he had watched in his parents' eyes all of his life. Love everlasting.