Children // Faya

Chapter 15: I'm There For You in My Troubled Times

I feel like my chapter titles keep getting longer and longer xD PS: Rucas problems this chapter :P

(It may be a while for the next part to come out. I'm making a 3-4 part about something and it's taking me forever to write ugh. So sorry)

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10 Weeks

Maya

I know when my best friend isn't okay. And she isn't okay.

The pain is that she won't tell me.

Just because I'm becoming a mom and have to waddle around like a penguin, doesn't mean she can't talk to me.

I wanted to know, so I stayed over at her house.

"Heya Riley." I jump up in front of Riley.

"Hey." She replies. It wasn't her usual spunky one.

"What's wrong Riley?" I ask once again.

"Nothing's wrong Maya.." she tries to give me a fake smile, "I'm fine." I knew every time she said that, she was lying.

"Riley stop it." I sit next to her. "Something's wrong, and for one your not very good at hiding it. Two, I would know anyways because you're my best friend. Three, just because I have this baby in me doesn't mean your less important."

She looks at me. She have me a straight face, I wasn't sure if she was sad or angry.

"Fine." She says. "Fine, here." She unlocks her phone, and hands it to me. I take it and start looking through her messages with Huckleberry.

Riley: Hi Lucas! Should we go somewhere tonight?

Him: Sorry, I can't. I promised Abigail I'd take her around town.

Riley: Oh okay. How about tomorrow?

Him: Let me check

She never got a response. She asked again the next day.

Riley: How about today?

Him: Sorry I can't.

Riley: Oh okay.

"Riley why don't you talk to him about this?" I ask her.

"I don't know. I'm just scared Maya. I like Lucas but the first time we tried it didn't work. I don't want to ruin it. I want to still be friends with him, only if being with him doesn't work out." She explains to me. I put my lip to my fingers and think.

"I think you should talk to him." I say.

"I want to but he won't go anywhere with me." She tells me.

"Leave that to me."

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I toss Riley her phone. She looks at me hopeful.

"You and him tonight at five in front of the school." I tell her.

"Oh, thank you thank you thank you THANK YOU!" she wraps me in a death hug.

"Ow, ow, ow. BABY HERE!" I yell. She releases her arms and backs up.

"Oh yeah."

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I stayed at the Matthews' for dinner. Riley would miss it but I had an excuse.

"Girls! Dinner!" Topanga calls from the kitchen. I get my lazy butt up from my nap and head to the kitchen.

"Oh, smells nice." I complement her.

"Well thank you Maya. Where's Riley?" She questions.

"Oh. I was talking to Riley about how I needed to go get some things after dinner. But she insisted I stayed here because it was getting cold outside. So she went ahead and is getting me my stuff." I say. "She should be back any minute now."

The rest of the dinner wasn't normal. It was awkward without Riley.

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I waited, and waited on that stupid couch for Riley. I texted, I called, I texted again. No answer. She was meeting up with him. She couldn't take this long!

I hear the knob and know she's back. I get up and wait for her to open the door. Once I see her walk in I stare at we concerned.

"I know I'm being like a mom right now, but where have you been?" I ask her.

"I was talking to Lucas." She plainly says. "Everything's okay. We're okay." She tries to walk to her room.

"Okay, if your fine them why are you upset?" I follow her.

"Because Abigail is his cousin." She says once she reaches her room.

"Okay? I've meet Abigail. She doesn't seem too bad. I mean she-"

"The fact that I worried about it makes me feel stupid. It was his cousin. I'm so dumb for not asking him before." She sits on her bed, frustrated.

"Riley don't be frustrated I bet people so it all the time. You've seen it in movies, read it in books." I give her examples.

"How would you know it would be in a book? You don't read." She gives me a weird look that I've never seen out of her.

"Touché Matthews."

We sit there in silence. I hope she rethought it over of her being an idiot. She was an idiot, but a fun one. My idiot.

"Just don't think of yourself that way." I tell her. "Who cares if you made an assumption from past thoughts? That's reasonable. Just go back to Rileytown." She opens her mouth, but bites her lip. I lean in and give her a hug.

"Love you Pumkin."

"Yeah, I just hope he does." She looks up to me, with a fake smile.

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Had anyone caught onto my thingie yet? It's kind of like a promo to my chapters but it's sort of hidden. Anyone notice?