Breeze.

Chapter 2.

I sat in my bay window with Maya after I told her everything. I had previously denied everything she had asked me about me dragging Lucas out of the classroom, I knew Brandon wasn't looking but Maya was. I had to tell her when she held up her hand and shouted 'ring power'. That's when she finally found her self intrigued. She was listening to me as I told her how we big pulled away when janitor Harley came into his 'office', me and Lucas jumped apart from each other and janitor Harley just smiled, "Teenagers and there hormonal issues, but then there's some, like you two, that actually love each other." I looked at Lucas before quickly jumping in. "We don't love each other." I lie, at least on my behalf. I don't know his thoughts. "Oh, okay then." Lucas says walking out the door, I roll my eyes and walk after him. "Lucas!" I shout for him to stop walking. Of course he's Lucas and well he's very stubborn. He keeps on walking, back towards the classroom. "Lucas, wait!" He stops and startles me as he turns around and walks fast up to me, he grabs my hand and holds it there. Sparks still flew up my body, it normally happens just once with anybody you think you love, oh but with Lucas friar over here, it has to happen every frickin time. "Tell me you feel nothing when I hold your hand like this." He says his voice getting softer at the word nothing and slightly breaking. He moves his large hand up to my cheek and brushes his thumb across it. Sparks. "Say that when I do this you don't want to immediately grab my face and kiss me." He pulls me closer to him, placing his other hand on the lower part of my back. He brushes our lips together slightly. "And deny that what ever you told me you felt had gone, and I'll leave you alone." He says, keeping his hand firmly in place not moving our position at all. "I-I, Lucas...I just wa-." He cuts me off as I stumble over my words, I couldn't find anything to say. "Okay, then I guess we should start over." He says as he stands back keeping a friendly space between us, ew, I hated that word right now. Friendly. What was that, I don't know what that is between me and Lucas, I've always felt more than 'friendly' feelings with him. "I'm Lucas, Lucas Friar and Riley as much as I may want to stay away from you, it's not gonna work, so...friends." I shivered at the word friend and so did he. I held out my hand. "Friends."

Maya's POV.

"Wow riles." I say as I look down at the floor, stuck on what to say. What did you say when you knew that your best friend was lying to her self and was undeniably changing for the worst. "I know, I can't be friends with him Maya, it's not going to work." She says as she lays her head on my lap. "It's okay peaches, I'll be here for you whenever you need me." I say as I stroke her hair. "I'm just tired Maya, can I stay here for a bit." She sleepily talks, but I don't think by tired she meant, she wanted to sleep, I think by the word 'tired' was Riley's way of saying she's done, with a lot of things and if I may say it, I think she could be possibly digging her self into a hole of depression. Why couldn't huckleberry just stay in Texas with his man cows, skipping around with his cowboy hat saying 'howdy' to his animal friends. I guess I'd have to come across to asking him that question my-self, since Riley was to busy sucking his face off to even asking what he was doing here. I looked down at Riley to see that she was sleeping, I looked at her to see a face full of innocence and a very strong mind. But that was the Riley I knew, something was happening with her and I had to figure it out. Maybe Farkle could help. I pull out my phone and text Farkle asking him to come over. He replies quickly saying yes and in no time Farkle is climbing through Riley's bay window, must of picked that up from somewhere. "Is she sleeping?" He asks sitting on the other side and lifting her legs up on him. "Yeh, but I think her brain is mentally sleeping as well." I say looking over at Farkle worriedly. "You mean, she's 'tired'?" He asks me looking at her, really looking at her. "What's that supposed to mean?" I ask him keeping my voice down. "Maya, the thing is Riley's been repeating that same line for a long time now. 'I'm tired' she keeps on saying and I know that she doesn't mean it in the way I would say I'm tired because I haven't had enough sleep, no she means that she's tired with what life's throwing at her right now, it means she needs us and Lucas." He explains, but wait, does he know about Lucas. "She told me everything Maya, me and Riley became really close." He says, reading my mind. "She needs us to help her through it and I know that she won't like the idea of her needing Lucas, but she does." I say adding on to what Farkle said. "I feel sorry for her Maya." He starts to tear up. "I don't get why people like her have to go through this, she's done nothing to nobody, she doesn't deserve it." A tear slips down his cheek, I quickly wipe it away. "That's life, as much as we won't except it, life throws the toughest things at the strongest people, to really challenge them if there strong, but I know that Riley's strong enough, she'll always be strong enough." I say helping Farkle take Riley's 'tired' body to her bed. I pull the sheets over her and me and Farkle slowly walk out the window to the caffe Riley's mum had opened, we needed to talk about her, we needed to help her.

Considering I lacked the update on Monday, I'm going to update four days in a row, because I feel as if I'm flowing with ideas and just need to let them out.

Also hope you guys all had a lovely new year and just to let you know I had no fresh ideas for my other book, but I'll probably update that book tomorrow and the day after that because once again my brain is wacky and likes to flood in inspiration all at once.

Questions

1. What do you think Maya and Farkle are gonna plan to help Riley out?

2. Are you liking this sequel so far?

3. Lastly, who would you like to be introduced?

I promise to update more often as one of my New Years resolutions, I have nothing more to say than...

Love you guys💜