Girl Meets A Different World (GMW fanfic)

Part 9: He's Back

The fireworks keeps exploding.
Miles has gone stiff.
I'm frozen in my spot.
I would know that voice anywhere.
Why today?
I feel my face heating up.
Emotions start to flood in, and suddenly I look down from Miles.
I have to see if it is...
But it can't be...
I turn around.
My heart stops.
Again.
"Lucas?"
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I feel so confused.
Like... Huh?
What?
"Uh..." I'm stuttering, I don't have any words.
"Um, hey" Lucas says.
I feel my heart sinking. (Well, not literally, but)
"Lucas...you're here"
"Well I was going to visit you and Maya to greet you guys for the new year, but Maya wasn't in the room, so I went up to the roof and...here we are."
I can't take it now.
I mumble something about him coming back in the morning.
I say good bye to Miles and run back to my room.
I'm gonna have to explain this to him later.
I reach my room.
And lock the door.
And the bay window.
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I wake up at around 10 am already.
I hear knocking on the bay window and see Maya.
I forgot that I locked it last night (well, this morning.)
Maya climbs in and says, "Why is your window locked? You never lock it"
I don't know how to tell her. She reads my face.
"Somethings wrong" she says. Not a question.
I can't hold it any longer.
If I do, I'll explode.
So I try to casually say it.
Here I go.
"Lucas is back"
I watch Maya's face fall.
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And so we decide to wait.
We call Farkle, and at around lunch time he shows up.
We eat, them wait again.
Two hours pass.
Then suddenly, we hear a knock on the window.
Then a head pops in.
"Hey guys" says Lucas.
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Maya looks like she's seen a ghost.
Farkles face is serious.
Mine...I have no idea.
Then Maya says, "Why now, Huckleberry?"
"Good to see you still remember me Maya" says Lucas.
"Please explain" I simply tell him.
So he climbs in and does what I ask.
Long story short: Apparently his family is already okay and they wanted to send him back to Ney York to be with his friends again.
Then I say, "Why show up on New Years?"
"I wanted it to be a nice New Year surprise for you guys" he says.
"Oh" is all Maya says.
"It sounds like you guys don't want me here" says Lucas.
"It's not like that Lucas," says Farkle, "right Riley?" He gives me a look.
"Yes Farkle" I say. I turn to Lucas. "It's just...complicated"
"I see that" Lucas says. Then he looks down. He notices my finger...with the ring.
I see what he sees. I don't even try to cover my hand.
"There's someone else now" he says. Again, not a question.
I nod.
"The guy with you on the roof"
I nod again. Maya looks me up and down then turns back to Lucas.
"We thought you were never coming back" she tells him.
"I would never just simply leave you guys" Lucas says.
"So what now?" Maya asks us.
"I still have feelings for you guys" says Lucas.
I turn to Maya. "Do you still like him Maya?"
"Yah" she says. "The question is, do you still like him, Riley?"
A rush of emotions flood me.
Farkle suddenly turns to me, stands up and says, "Thank you for another dramatic New Year." Then he hurriedly climbs out the bay window.
Maya turns to me. I say...
"I don't know how this is gonna work out..."
"Do you still like him?"
"What about Miles?"
"What about Lucas? Do you still like him?"
"I already have a boyfriend..."
"Just answer the question already!"
I pause, choosing my next words carefully.
"I don't know Maya, I really don't know"