"Riley!" Maya shouts as she waltzed unannounced into the Matthews' home.
"Honey, I'm home!"she says with laughter in her voice and eyes. Maya means it too.That spot in the bay window feels more like home to her then anywhere else ever has.
"I'm in here!" Riley tells from her bedroom. She's been working for the past hour to get her bedroom ready for their sleepover. "How has art school been treating you?" she asks with one of her super happy Riley smiles after hugging her best friend.
"Brilliantly. Rumor has it that next week we get to work with nude models. That isn't going to be awkward at all..." Maya says with a sheepish laugh.
"Yowch! I had really been hoping that at least for college I wouldn't have to suffer through having my father for a teacher,but now he's my freaking professor too. I just can't seem to escape him. We don't even have 'Farkle Time' to take some of the pressure off anymore..." Riley talks off, taking her seat in the bay window and patting the spot where Maya belonged beside of her.
"It's hard going to school without you. " Maya says with a sigh, leaning her head onto Riley's shoulder.
"It just doesn't feel right." Riley agrees.
"I don't hate it, I just don't like it. The world isn't supposed to try and take us away from one another like this. It's supposed to be you and new forever, taking on the world together forever." Maya groans, standing up and pacing.
"Calm down, Peaches. We are together forever. You and me. You're stuck with Rileytown for your whole life." Riley hills up her hand with the friendship ring and cross the room to Maya, taking the smaller girl's hand in her own.
"You mean it?"
"Of course I do, what other eighteen year old college freshman do you see kicking out their parents so that they can have sleepovers? " Riley asks. "So what have I missed?"
"I've mostly just been arting away. What about you? " Maya deflects the question.
"Studying about teaching. I have no idea why I thought that this would be a good idea. "
"You thought that it would be easier than studying to be a layer like your mom." The blonde chuckles.
"What aren't you telling me?" Riley asks.
"I don't know what you mean." Maya says suspiciously.
"You're hiding something and I can tell." Riley narrows her eyes. "Is it a guy that I don't know about?"
"I'm not not telling you about anything, geez, Riles."
"That means that it has to be big." Riley muses to herself.
"It's not a guy, alright? I just think that I might be a little bit gay that's all." Maya mumbles.
"We're eighteen, adults now, you should seriously feel comfortable enough to talk to me about these sorts of things by now. You know that I love you and will accept you for whoever you might be." Riley pouts adorably. "What do you mean by a little bit gay?"
"I'm just not quite sure about anything really, anymore. I wanted to be positive before anyone went and made a big stink about it." she explains herself.
"Okay, you aren't completely positive. So, there is only one way to solve this mystery." Riley grins mischievously at her best friend. "You're going to have to kiss me. We've known that I'm bisexual for the longest time, and I'm okay with it. Seems like our best bet. If you like it, you're gay, if you don't, you aren't." Maya decides that her best friend has finally lost all of her marbles.
"You must be kidding me."
"Nope."
"Are you for real right now?"
"Yep."
"You seriously want me to go for it and just kiss you, right here and right now? On the lips? No holds barred?"
"That's what I said."
"Seriously?"
"Uh-huh."
"Hmph." Maya considers it, leans in and wraps one hand around the back of Riley's neck, her other on the shoulder.
"Fine then." she says as she gives in and hesitantly presses her lips to her best friend's.
The sky felt like it was falling and the apocalypse had probably just come because Maya and Riley melted into one another was probably the most natural thing in the world just as easy as breathing. Riley's hands fell naturally to Maya's waist as she pulled her in closer, tilting her head for more access.
"Is that good?" Riley asks, breaking away when she feels as though she needs air.
Maya takes a moment to think, or pretend to think about it before flashing Riley that 'full 'o mischief' grin that Riley had shown her earlier.
"We might need to try again"
