A/N: New one shot! Finally right?! Sorry about the long wait but I've been putting all my writing energy into my new multi-chapter. But here is this so enjoy!

I don't own GMW, just the plot of this story.

Timeline: High school seniors.

Summary: Maya and Lucas's on-again off-again relationship is tricky at the moment, but how will Lucas react when Maya a date with another boy?

One and Only

The group sat around their normal lunch table. The conversation flowed easily, but things weren't as they usually were. Maya and Lucas, the two that were usually glued to each other all the time, weren't even sitting on the same side of the table. They had been dating a long time, since their sophomore year. But lately, the past couple months actually, they were continuously fighting, resulting in break-ups that would last for a few days or at most a couple weeks before the two finally broke down and got back together.

All their fights were stupid, over weird little things and crap their friends were surprised they even got mad about. Right now was one of those times. Neither blonde could even remember what they had fought about this time, but they wouldn't admit that. They just knew they were mad and their pride kept them from apologizing yet. The odd energy hovered over the table, but it wasn't so bad. Both of them participated in the lunch time conversation, as long as they didn't have to talk directly to each other.

"Peaches do you want to have a movie night tonight?" Riley asked Maya towards the end of lunch as she slurped down the rest of her soda.

Maya's eyes stayed on her bag of chips that was now just a bag of crumbs. "I can't. I have a date tonight," the blonde answered nonchalantly.

Suddenly, everyone at the table lifted their eyes up to Maya. It was stunning to hear, especially with Lucas sitting right there. Lucas was actually the only one who didn't lift his eyes to look at his ex-girlfriend. Zay was a little nervous that Lucas would get up from his seat and flip the table over. He glanced over to his best friend as he sat next to him. He wasn't even looking up at Maya. His head remained down, looking at no particular spot on the table. He looked fine. But from his angle, Zay could see the little cloud of anger filling his eyes.

Carefully, Riley turned her body to Maya. "You have a date? Like a real date?" she asked. Maya's head nodded like the news was nothing. But her eyes remained down, not wanting to look up at the looks of her confused and possibly disappointed friends. And she definitely didn't want to accidently want to catch a glimpse of Lucas's face. "With who?" Riley's curiosity continued.

"Chris Thomas," the blonde answered back. Under the table, Lucas's fists balled up tight. He tried his best to breathe and stay calm, but it was hard when Maya was across the table talking about her date with someone that wasn't him. The boys stayed silent, not knowing exactly what to say. But the silence was killing everyone. It was becoming unbearable so Riley opened her mouth to speak. But first, Maya lifted her head and unintentionally caught a glance of Lucas. "I have to get to class a little early. I'll see you guys later," her words came out fast. The group uttered quiet byes to their friend and watched as she walked off out of the cafeteria.

All eyes turned to Lucas as soon as Maya was out of sight. "Are you ok Lucas?" Riley practically whispered.

Lucas's head perked up at the sound of his name. His eyes sat on the brunette right across from him and he managed a smile. "I'm fine."

"Are you sure?" Farkle asked.

"Why wouldn't I be fine you guys?" Lucas asked, popping one of his last remaining fries into his mouth. No one believed the calm, cool attitude he put on right now, especially not Zay.

When no one else at the table seemed to know how to reply to that, Zay took the opportunity to speak up. "Because… Maya is-" he started, but was cut off by Lucas.

"Maya is allowed to go out with whoever she wants," the tense blonde interrupted with some grit in his usually soft, smooth voice.

"Look, man, you don't have to-"

Once again, the boy was cut off from finishing his sentence as Lucas turned his body diagonally to engage everyone at the table. "Me and Maya are not together right now you guys. She can go out with whoever she wants," Lucas boomed.

"But Lucas, you two always get back together," Riley insisted.

"Well maybe this time we aren't going to get back together, Riley." The words burned Lucas's tongue, but it seemed to be true. Maya was going on a date with someone else. They had never before dated other people during one of their recent break-ups. In his head, he was busy trying to process the fact that maybe his relationship with Maya was officially over; maybe this break-up was the one that officially broke them. "We broke up. And Maya is a big girl. So if she wants to go out with Chris Thomas or whoever else then that is her decision and it's none of my business."

"But-" Just as Zay was about to ask Lucas if that was how he really felt, even though he knew damn well that it was all a lie to keep himself from losing it, the bell rang to end lunch. Lucas was quick to get up from his seat and collect his trash.

"It's none of my business who Maya goes out with and I don't care. I'm going to class," Lucas demanded before the cafeteria as quickly as Maya did before.

The friends back at the table looked around at each other. Farkle's eyes settled on Zay. Farkle knew one thing and it was observation. "He's not okay is he?" he asked the boy who would know best.

"Not even a little bit," Zay answered, collecting his own trash from the table.

Later when Lucas asked Zay if he wanted to go with him to the gym that night, Zay assumed Lucas needed to channel his anger and disappointment about Maya's date into a good, long workout. So as much as he just felt like relaxing at home and working on the essay he had due in a couple days that he hadn't even started, he told his best friend he would meet him at the gym at 7. This was the hardest Zay had ever seen the blonde go during a workout. He was doing more reps, lifting heavier weights. As much as Zay wanted to ask about Maya, he was scared to even say the name.

Even when the boys were in the shower and Zay looked over to see Lucas letting the water hit him, his hands running through his wet hair and his eyes staring blankly ahead at the wall. All Zay offered up was a "you all good man?" Lucas replied with a silent nod and the two boys carried on with their showers in silence. It continued as they dressed in the locker room and even on the subway. Zay's exit was a couple stops before Lucas's so he stood up just before the subway doors opened.

"Look, man, if you need to talk you know I'll listen," Zay offered to the blonde still sitting. Lucas looked up, but didn't answer. A weak smile sat on his face and a nod served as the only 'sort of answer.' Zay took it though. When the doors slid open, he pulled his work-out bag over his shoulder and exited the subway car out of sight.

Lucas dragged a hand over his face, frustrated with this feeling inside of him. He couldn't help but wonder how Maya's date was going. What if it was going well? He didn't know if it would be worse if the date went good or bad. There was no way he wanted Maya to be unhappy, but just thinking about that one date turning into many other dates made his stomach turn upside down. That was his girl, his Shortstack. They had been having her problems lately, but he never thought it was something they couldn't work out. He had no idea where these fights had been coming from.

He was knee deep in thoughts that were only increasing his frustration when he exited the elevator on his floor in his apartment building. He turned the corner, his keys fumbling around in his hand. Looking up, expecting to only see his apartment door in his eye line down the hall, he saw more than that. He spotted a wave of blonde hair and the girl it belonged to, Maya, sitting on the ground right in front of his door, her back leaning against it. She didn't notice the boy walking closer to the door, his eyes never leaving her form.

"Maya? What are you doing here?" Lucas asked once he got closer to her. Maya's head jerked up to notice Lucas and started to stand up.

"I um- I wanted to talk to you," she revealed, wiping her black jeans clear of any dust they might have gathered while she was sitting on the ground.

"Shouldn't you be on your date?' Lucas asked, with just a little bit of sarcasm in his voice. Even though the sarcastic tone was hard to catch, Maya caught it. But she ignored it, as she knew she would act the same way if it was Lucas who had the date tonight.

Maya shook her head slightly, crossing her arms in front of her chest. "I didn't go on the stupid date."

Lucas raised an eyebrow to the reveal. "Why?" he asked, not knowing if he was ready for the answer. Suddenly, he caught sight of the distraught look the blue eyes of the girl in front of him held. Thoughts, terrible thoughts, swirled in his head that something could have happened with Chris before the date. "Maya did he do something to you? Because I swear to God if he did, I'll-"

"No! No, no Lucas. He didn't do anything. I cancelled the date," Maya said. Lucas was relieved, but no less confused and curious.

"Why would you do that?"

A deep breathe escaped Maya and a small, quick sarcastic chuckle followed it. "Because I was getting ready for the date and everything was fine! But then I was getting dressed and I suddenly realized I was about to put on this stupid gold necklace you bought me because I wear it every day and it's just natural for me to put it on. And I thought about how dumb it was for me to be going out with anyone else because I don't want to be with anyone else but you, Huckleberry!" Maya's voice was fast paced, almost rambling as she explained her situation to Lucas. He stood staring at her. Of course, he felt the same way and he wouldn't say it but he was so relieved that Maya had cancelled her date. "So I called Chris and cancelled the date. I came over here but no one was home so I've been sitting out here for like an hour because I had to tell you that." Those blue eyes of hers softened as she came to the end of her story. But Lucas was still silent. In her head, Maya had been trying, for the past hour, to trace back to the fight that caused their current break-up. She wasn't quite sure what caused it but she was pretty sure she had done something. She could never quite get the idea out of her head that she was the cause of most of their recent arguments. "And now that I've told you what I needed to tell you, I don't blame you if you don't feel the same way. So I'm going to go," Maya mumbled.

She tried to make her way past Lucas but he reached out to pull her arm back. "Maya! Of course I want to be with you," he said, as if it was a crazy thing to believe that he could feel any other way. "Come inside," he begged, trying to pull Maya towards the apartment door.

But Maya pulled back, standing firm in her place. "Lucas I want to! But not if we're just going to keep doing this 'break-up make-up' thing we've been doing!"

"I know," Lucas sighed. His mind had been going over and over these fights for days, especially in the hours since he found out of about Maya's date. He had to figure out what was going wrong. And now standing here in front of the gorgeous blonde herself, he had a certain feeling growing inside of him and he was sure it was that feeling that held the answer. "But we're fighting because we don't talk to each other anymore."

"We talk all the time," Maya corrected, her brows furrowed in confusion.

"Well maybe not about the right things," Lucas grumbled. "We don't tell each other when things are bothering us. It's like we let it build up and fester until we explode at each other. We have to stop doing that!"

Maya stared at him, knowing he was right. She knew exactly why she kept quiet about her feelings at time, and Lucas knew why he did it too. He didn't really want to admit it out loud, but then again, this was Maya he was talking to. The comforting blue eyes in front of him effortlessly coaxed him into saying the words.

"I'm… I'm not very good at admitting I have a problem. I never want to disappoint anyone who sees me as this perfect guy that they can always count on," he admitted, his eyes continuously trying to deviate from Maya's.

"You know that you don't have to be that with me," Maya sighed.

"I know! And I love you for that!" he smiled, reaching out to push some blonde hair behind Maya's ear. "But it's hard to get out of that habit of always wanting to please everybody around me."

Maya couldn't disagree with the last second. She knew a thing or two about not wanting to disappoint people and it was difficult to change after so many years of doing it. "I get that. Maybe I hold things in too much too. I just don't want to bug anybody with my feelings," she said with a small chuckle. "There are more important things than that I might be a little upset one day."

"Not to me!" Lucas retorted. "I want to be there for you, no matter what you're feeling. That's kind of my job. You should know that."

A laugh escaped Maya. It always made her chuckle when Lucas got cheesy or cliché. It was a nice, warm feeling to have him feel that way about her, like he wanted to be there for her. "I do know that," she smiled. Maya stepped a little closer to the other blonde, closing some space in between them. "But it's hard to get out of the habit," she teased.

"Well, I think we need to promise to always tell the other person what we're feeling. Because we are supposed to be that safe space for each other. And I know you have Riley and I have Zay, but you and me, we're a different kind of safe space," Lucas chimed, fully closing the space between them. Two tiny arms from the girl in front of him wrapped around his torso and clutched onto the back of his shirt.

"No more break-up make-up?"

"God no!" Lucas laughed. "I'm over it. I miss you too much when we break-up anyway."

The tinier blonde ruffled her hands through his short hair, twisting her fingers in between the tufts. "So cheesy." The grin that lit up her face was proof that she didn't care about her boyfriend's cheesiness, in fact she actually liked it a bit. Hands moved from Lucas's hair to cup his smooth cheeks. She was about to pull him in but Lucas took the liberty to move in on his own. Lips softly touched, moving together into a short kiss. "I love you Hopalong."

"I love you Shortstack," he replied happily. The hands cupping his cheeks pulled him back in for a longer, sturdier kiss. He didn't want to pull away, despite the fact that they were basically making out in the middle of his apartment building hallway. Honestly, his neighbors were probably using to it by now, though. But he pulled away, he was too curious about something. "What did Chris say when you cancelled the date night?"

"Actually, he was really cool about it," Maya laughed. "He said he saw it coming, but he was hoping I wouldn't realize I wanted you until after he got to go on a date with me."

Lucas couldn't help but laugh. That was his girl, everyone knew it. He didn't blame Chris for seeing an opportunity to go on a date with her. If Lucas wasn't the one lucky enough to always get to kiss her and hold her then he would want to be, he would have done what Chris did. But Maya was his.

And he couldn't believe how lucky he was.

A/N: How did you like this one? Just a quick one but I actually really like this one!

Thank you guys soooooo much for reading! I would really like some suggestions for one-shots! I'm a little low on ideas lol Review how you liked this one and let me know what one-shot you want to read next! Thanks loves:)