Falling Slowly (A GMW Fanfic)

4-Love and Hate

Farkle's POV 

I walk Maya back to her apartment, just to make sure that she's okay. We get to outside her door, and she turns towards me. 

"Thank you for rescuing me, Farkle." she says.

I pull her into a hug, and she gladly accepted. I stroke her hair, never wanting to let go. I kissed her head, and she pulled away. 

"I will always rescue you, and catch you when you fall." I kissed her forehead, and let her go. 

I walked by myself down her street, back to my house. It was like 2 in the morning, and I'm glad that my dad is at a business meeting, like usual. I walk in the door, and straight into the kitchen for a snack. Then my phone starts to ring. 

"Hello?" I say. 

"Hey, Farkle." Lucas' voice comes through the phone. 

"What's up?"

"Just hanging with Riles." I can practically hear him smile through the phone. 

"At 2 in the morning?" I question, chuckling. 

"It's 2 am? Oh. Okay then." He says. "So, anyway, what happened with you and Maya?" I can hear his smirk. 

"How'd you even know that anything happened?" I asked. 

"I showed him the picture you sent me!" I hear Riley's voice through the phone, and Lucas' laugh. "Yeah, what she said." he replies. 

"Riley!" I say.

"What? You were going to tell him anyway." she says. 

"So tell us what happened." Lucas sounds really excited. 

"I'll tell you in a minute." Then I hang up. 

I grab my jacket and head out the door, completely forgetting to eat something. I start walking down the street, then I think of Maya when I pass by her apartment building. Should I get her? Probably not. She needs to sleep. 

I walk for a little while longer, Lucas and Riley calling me multiple times on the way. I ignored all of their calls. 

I get to their apartment building, and start to head up the fire escape, up to the third floor balconies. Then I go a couple down, almost falling on the way. Then I find the right balcony and climb up. 

Lucas' POV 

Riley and I start to hear footsteps up the ladder of the fire escape. I quickly jump in front of her. Then we see a figure appear. It was just Farkle. 

"Dang it Farkle!" I say. Riley's just giggling behind me. 

"What? I told you guys that I'll tell you the story." Farkle shrugs. 

"You gave me a heart attack!" I dramatically clench my chest. Farkle and Riley both roll their eyes and chuckle. 

"FARKLE." Riley says. "SIT NOW." Farkle quickly does as she commands and sits right where he is. I start cracking up. "Not there, stupid. Here." Riley points to a spot in front of her. "Ohh..." Farkle hesitates. 

He finally sits down and I take my seat next to Riley, wrapping my arm around her. "FARKLE. SPEAK." Riley says dramatically. 

Then he tells us everything that happened. But he purposely left out the reason why she was crying.

"Uh, Farkle?" I say once he's done, and Riley is done fan-girling. "Can you tell us why she was crying?" 

He grows pale and tries to hide his wide eyes by fixing his beanie. "Uh, no. Sorry. I don't know if she wants people to know." Riley looks down.