"I KNEW THIS WAS A MISTAKE" Riley yelled in another room, and me, being the best friend that I am, immediately jumped up from my seat to find out what was wrong.
Once I reached the room, Riley was in tears on the floor. I stood her up, and her eyes were already red and puffy.
"Honey, what happened?" I ask as I sat her down in a chair.
"I- I-" she started saying, but was unable to finish her sentence.
I hugged her tightly, she needed to know someone was there. She hugged back, her tears wetting my shoulder.
After she'd stopped crying, she looked me in the eye.
"I... Overheard Lucas..." She says, starting to get emotional again.
"Riles, it's okay you can tell me what happened." I told her, rubbing her back and trying to help her with whatever she was feeling.
"I overheard Lucas say that he doesn't love me anymore... That there's someone else he likes..." She says, her tears slowly rolling down her cheek.
"I've had a long day, Maya. I'm tired and I just want to go home." She says after a moment of silence.
"Okay Riles, let's go home." I say, as we stand up in unison, and walk to her apartment, silence the entire way there.
We got into her apartment, and she immediately plopped down on the couch. Topanga got home a few minutes later, to see a red faced Riley, and me, plotting Lucas's murder for hurting my best friend.
"Maya, what happened to my baby girl?" Topanga said, snatching my notebook out of my hand.
"Ranger Rick happened." I said with a cold stare, locked on the refrigerator.
"What did he do to my little girl?" She asked, glancing at a passed out Riley.
"She overheard him talking to someone, saying that he doesn't love Riley anymore, that he likes someone else. She broke up with him right after she heard him, but she's heartbroken." I said, still staring at the fridge.
Topanga looked confusingly over at the fridge, only to see, smack dab in the middle, a picture of Lucas and Riley, when they first started dating.
She picked Riley up, and tucked her into her bed.
"Maya, would you like to stay here for the night? I know while Riley is asleep, there isn't much to do, but I'm sure she'd like to wake up to the sight of her best friend, either peacefully sleeping, or awake and ready to take on whatever life throws at her." Topanga said, grabbing leftovers out of the fridge, and ripping down the picture of Riley and Lucas.
"Thank you Topanga, I'd be glad to stay the night. But first, I have some business to take care of." I said, glaring at Lucas and his cowboy face in the picture of a perfectly happy, and completely in love couple.
Later that night, I had come back from giving Lucas a piece of my mind.
I hopped in Riley's bed, and fell asleep right away.
The next morning, I woke up to Riley sitting in the bay window, stabbing a bear with a plastic fork. It was the one Lucas gave her for their 6 month anniversary. I got out of the bed, and she stood up and hugged me. I hugged her back, letting her get her emotions out. She sat back down in the bay window, and started ranting about how much of a jerk Lucas was. I simply listened and nodded my head for about 10 minutes.
Her last words before drifting off to sleep again made me sick to my stomach.
"He told me who he likes now Maya... He likes you." She said, closing her eyes, and falling asleep.
I threw a blanket over top of her, left her a note on the counter and went to go find Lucas.
I finally found him later in the day, and I stormed over to him and his friends.
"How dare you!" I screamed in his face, as Farkle, Billy and Zay backed away from her.
"Maya." He says, smiling in a way that would make you want to rip his pretty face right off of him.
"You broke my best friends heart!" I yelled, glaring at him.
"Yeah, but I can't help it anymore. She broke up with me, and I like someone else now." He says with a petty smirk on his face. I wanted to strangle him, but I couldn't.
"And who would that 'someone else' be?" I ask, with my arms crossed and glare still locked on him.
His eyes widened.
"I- I- uh, can't say." He said, stuttering.
I laughed.
"Real funny cowboy, cause guess what? I know stuff. I know my best friend dumped you because you like someone else. I know she's heartbroken over it, and I know who you like. And guess what? I have my resources for all of this information. I would spill on who you like to Billy, Farkle and Zay, before I do myself." I say confidently.
"I can't." He says quietly, looking down at the ground.
"Okay." I say with a straight face. I motioned for Billy, Zay and Farkle to come closer to me, which they did because they had no choice, and whispered in their ears
"He likes a blonde that is currently standing in front of you." They looked at Lucas, horrified.
"That's low man." Billy says, going to stand behind me.
"You're better than this buddy." Farkle says, following Billy.
There was complete silence for a minute.
Zay suddenly jumped and shouted
"YES!" Everyone was startled, they looked at him in shock. I simply looked at him thoroughly confused.
"What? You two would be a great couple." Zay said, smiling.
"You know what I know? I know you had a thing for me in 7th grade." Lucas piped in.
"What?! The only person who knew that was..." I said, glaring at Zay.
"He made me!" He retorted.
"How did he make you?" I asked, still glaring at him.
"I said 'Do you wanna hear a great Maya story?' He said yes." Zay said, smiling like an idiot. I went to tackle him, but Lucas grabbed me and held me back.
I kicked and scratched at Lucas until he let me go, and ran as far away from the 4 boys as fast as possible.
I climbed into Riley's bedroom, exhausted from running. Lucas decided to chase me there, I shut the window and locked it before he could get in. I didn't want to get hurt, but most of all, I didn't want Riley to get hurt.
And Riley wasn't there. I climbed out of the room, and quickly ran down the stairs. I could hear Lucas's voice in the distance, so I pushed myself the run even faster. Then I tripped. I tripped over a rock on the street. I landed on my left leg, and immediately felt something shift in my leg. I could also hear steps coming from behind me, and heavy breathing. I knew it was him. I turned around to face Lucas, I tried standing up but fell. My knee was scraped up, and my lower leg was turning black and blue, it was already swollen. I didn't cry though, Maya Hart does not cry in front of friends.
He picked me up bridal style, and hauled a taxi. Before I knew it, I was passed out.
I woke up in a hospital room, my leg was in so much pain. I looked around, only to see Lucas.
"W-what happened?" I said, looking at my surroundings. A girl with red hair, was beside me, she was passed out, and a girl with straight blonde hair, across from me, was being tended to by nurses and doctors. She was being prepped for a surgery apparently.
Lucas piped up "You broke your leg, and scraped up your knee pretty badly. You also fell asleep in my arms in the taxi, on the way over here. Doctors say you should be able to go home in a day, the just need to monitor your scrape to make sure it isn't infected, they don't know if they got every rock out."
"T-thank you" I stuttered. I suddenly remembered Riley. I grabbed my phone to text her when suddenly Lucas grabbed my phone out of my hand.
"No need, I've already texted her where you are. Her and Mr. Matthews are coming down here to pick you up once they get the okay." Lucas says, sitting back down.
I look into his emerald green eyes, and know that if Riley found out, it would be the end of me. I liked Huckleberry Friar.
Instead of blushing, I simply nod my head and fall asleep once again.
I woke up again in a different place. Except this time, I recognized the place. It was the Matthew's living room. Riley's eyes shone bright as she saw my eyes flutter open.
"Peaches you're awake!" She said, smiling.
"Hey Riles" I said, laughing.
My lower leg was in a red cast, and I had crutches beside me. Riley looked at me with a concerned look on her face.
"Maya?" She asked quietly.
"Yeah Riles?" I say, getting into a more comfortable position.
"Do you still like Lucas?" She said, with a slight worry in her voice.
"Uh- maybe. I don't know." I say, sighing. I did like him, but I didn't want Riley to get hurt.
"Because if you do, go ahead and go out with him. I won't be mad. If you're happy, I'm happy." Riley says, handing me a bowl of cereal.
"Are you sure?" I ask.
"100%" she says, sitting down beside me. There was a silence, but the good kind of one. Only one Riley and I could have.
"Thank you." I finally said, after what felt like 20 minutes of no talking.
"As long as you don't push me out of the way for him, I'll be okay. Besides, I kind of like Farkle." Riley says.
I simply laugh, and hug her, although it was kind of hard because we were sitting down, and I had a broken leg.
"I would never." I say quietly. Suddenly there's a knock on the door.
Lucas and Farkle are standing in the doorway when I look over.
"Hey guys." Riley says, focusing on Farkle.
"Hey." Farkle says. Lucas pushes past them when he sees me, and he comes over to talk.
"Hey Maya." He says quietly, as if I now have amplified hearing.
"Hey Huckleberry." I say, shifting towards him.
"So I was, uh- wondering if you'd like to go on a date with me sometime? You wouldn't have to be better, it wouldn't be anything out and about." Lucas says, in between breaths.
I look over at Riley and Farkle, they're flirting over at the door still.
"Sure." I say, resting my head onto Lucas's shoulder, and breathing heavily.
"I guess it was good mistake. They're together now, I hope, and they're happy. And as long as they're happy, that mistake was worth it, and it wasn't really a mistake." I heard Riley say. I looked at her, smiling. My best friends were happy, and so was I, even in the midst of a broken leg.
FINALLY! I got this one shot done. It took me for what felt like forever, I had absolutely no idea what to write. But it's done! And I'm so proud of it. Yay!
See you guys next time!
- xoxo Kenzie
