Falling Slowly (A GMW Fanfic)

8-Lies and Secrets

Maya's POV 

I wake up to Riley's alarm going off. Ugh, it's Monday. I hear Riley sit up and shut her alarm off. She looks over at me, and I wave. She waves back, knowing that I don't want to talk this early in the morning. I get up, and brush my teeth in her bathroom. She comes in, and washes her face. Then we both do our makeup, and brush our hair. We then get dressed, and eat breakfast, then we are off to school together. 

It's the last week of our last year of high school. Then, we are off to college, and we're all going to the same college, thankfully. 

We meet Farkle and Lucas outside of school, and head inside. Riley and I head to our lockers, and Lucas and Farkle head to our first class. As we get closer to our lockers, I notice that there's a small crowd around them. We look at each other with questionable looks, then push our way through. When we get to the front, Riley's face is frozen, and she looks terrified. I look at the lockers, and on one of them, someone wrote, 'I heart Lucas.' Huh, I wonder who's that is. That's when I realize that, that is my locker. Someone wrote that on my locker. 

I freeze, and can see people laughing and pointing at me. I drown out all sound, and suddenly, Riley pushes them all away, so that we are the only ones in the hallway. A tear slips from my face. 

"Maya?" I hear Riley's voice. Angry boils inside of me, along with betrayal, and depression. "R-Riley...H-How could y-you?" I cry. 

"What?" she sounds confused. 

I turn to face her, tears streaming down my face. "How could you do this to me, Riley?! I thought you were my best friend! I trusted you!" I started to raise my voice. 

"You think I did this?!" she points to my locker, obviously hurt. 

"I only told you, and Farkle, and Farkle would never, ever do that." I say sternly. 

"But you think that I did this?! I walked in with you!" she raises her voice, too. I walk away, into the classroom, hiding my face from everyone, because tears were streaming down it. How could she? I thought that she was my best friend! I thought that I could trust her!

Riley's POV

Tears form in my eyes, but I blink them away as I get out makeup wipes to get the writing off of her locker. I finally do, about 3 minutes later, and I enter class, and I just stand there and stare at Maya. We were all early, so it was just Maya, Lucas, Farkle, and I in the room. 

"Maya. I didn't-" I started to explain, but she cut me off. 

"Just don't talk to me, Riley." she turned away from me, but I walked over to where she could see me. 

"Didn't you hear me?! I don't want to see you ever again!" she yelled in my face. Tears threaten to fall, but I force them back. 

"Maya. I didn't do it. I would never treat you like that. You are my best friend. I love you. Please, Maya. I would never." I pleaded, just now noticing that Farkle and Lucas are staring at us, worryingly. She nods. "Then who did you tell?!" she yells at me. "I only told you and Farkle because I thought that I trust you! But then you go and tell somebody something that you know would tear me apart!" she continues to yell in my face, but I stay calm. 

"Maya, I didn't tell anyone. I would never hurt you like that." I keep my voice soft. 

"Then who did? Cause I know that Farkle didn't!" she's screaming now. 

"Why don't you trust me anymore?! I wouldn't hurt you, Maya! Why can't you understand me?! I would never do anything like that, ever!" I'm raising my voice now, towering over her.