✗ Maybe, It's Love? : riarkle fanfic. ✗

✗ Confrontation ✗

* Take Note, this is a flashback from season 2, of 'Girl Meets The New Year' where Farkle confronts Riley and her feelings about Lucas, however unknowingly develops something deep inside him, which he isn't too sure of himself...*

Farkle's P.O.V

Hurriedly, I dragged Riley by her wrist out of Topanga's and more specifically, away from that Charlie Gardner (that guy still to this day gives me creepy vibes). I could distinguish the look of discomfort Riley had upon her expression as I tightened my grip against her skin due to my growth of annoyance from how she had failed to confess her true feelings, and let go before I faced her as she closed the door and returned the gaze. For a minute, my heart thumped just seeing her there in all her beauty, with her chocolate brunette locks of hair and all– God! What was I thinking? I had Smackle, she's the one for me, she had to be... Anyways, back onto the main point of why I made the two of us come out here (once more might I add), I sighed.

"We had a deal," I stated clearly – "I gave you some time to tell everybody the truth about how you really feel, and you haven't done anything about it yet". Her eyebrows furrowed in slight confusion as she listened to me. Fighting back the urge to have rolled my eyes, I continued "Guess how much time you have left?" meaning for this question to have been rhetorical, nevertheless I had a response. 

"Oh this has something to do with New Year's, doesn't it" she realised as she exhales a breath of understanding. I shook my head in disbelief,

"Just tell them you like Lucas, Riley – just tell them the truth. Don't start a New Year with a lie".

She gaped her mouth open as she stares at me in an irritable awe, "Farkle, Maya stepped back for me when she saw that I liked him, if-if she has feelings for him, then how could I not do the same for her?" she questioned, why was she so stubborn and oblivious?

"You don't know that, you don't know how she feels," I claimed truthfully as I look deep into her alluring eyes which shone so beautifully in the night's sky, "I don't think she knows how she feels" (yes I knew it was a bold statement to make, but we're young– it shouldn't be a surprise). "You know why?" – I braced myself to hopefully receive a necessary answer and –

"Because she can only read 7 pages in 3 hours" and there went my mental facepalm. 

"Because all these feelings we have are new, we don't know what they are yet" I pursed my lips for a quick second as I examined her reaction as she stared at me wide-eyed, before I made another response, "Harper said this all comes at a cost, what's your cost Riley? Your Happiness?". It just made me so mad to think that she would sacrifice her own happiness, Riley deserves better than that and hiding away what she really feels wouldn't help her, I genuinely and still do believe that. I knew she was at a loss for words to fight against my point. 

"Farkle," she started as she cocked her head to the side slightly, "you said you wouldn't tell anybody, how could you do this to me?". 

I had raised my voice just a little from hearing this same-old 'you're the one at fault' accusation, "I'm doing it for you Riley" I admitted, and for some odd reason, the words which came out of my mouth next managed to plunge it's way into my heart to which I was unsure of, whether it was good or bad.

"I care so much about you, I want you to know that the truth is always the best thing" I've always cared for Riley, there's no doubt about it, we were and still are best friends and we've got each other's backs, she's been there for me when I was downgraded as a 'nothing' and here I was for her when she has no one to acknowledge what she really felt deep down in her heart. Weirdly enough, I felt quite sick to my stomach when I thought about her love for Lucas, I knew she liked him and he liked her, they were meant to be – but nevertheless it hurt me to think or associate myself with them and I didn't like it one bit. I had to shake it off.