I'll Be Back ~ Riley+Farkle

Home Truths

{Farkle's POV}

I felt like the past two days have been extraordinary. I got two wonderful couples together. Lucas and Isadora, Zay and Maya.

Zay and me are round Riley's, waiting for Maya to come round. Riley's making us lunch, and I'm talking to Zay in the bay-window.

"I'm so god damn happy man. I need to thank Lucas asap, and I need to thank you for the choir and the fireworks, Farkle! And I should thank Riley too." He said as I smiled.

"Anything to help out a friend." I said as the conversation went silent. Zay looked as if he wanted to say something. "Are you okay Zay? You look as if you want to say something."

"Well... There is but I... um..." Zay started stuttering. "I don't know if it's worth mentioning."

"What?" I said, leaning in a bit. (NOT FOR A KISS DON'T WORRY.)

"Well... After everything happened last night, I saw Riley on the phone to someone. She looked quite sad, so... um... I kind of eavesdropped her conversation." He said as I nodded.

"Okay... Why bring this up?" I ask as Zay continues.

"I heard her talking to a guy, Farkle. He was named Charlie, so I heard her call him when they were talking-" I interrupted him at this point.

"What were they saying?" I asked Zay.

"At first she said; 'You need to stop calling me, I'm with Farkle.' And I got a bit worried so I listened some more and she then said; 'Yeah I love Farkle! I thought I had some feelings for you Charlie, but they weren't real! You were like a crush.'" Zay said as I just got confused. Why didn't Riley tell me? I know this must have been before I asked her out, that she had feelings, but we need to be honest with each other. Isn't that the point of a relationship?

"Did she say anything else?" I ask as Zay thinks.

"The last thing she said was something like; 'Charlie, we can be friends and that's it.' then I saw her hang up and run straight over to you. I didn't tell anybody because it's none of their business, I would have rather told you first." Zay said.

"I appreciate it, but I'm going to talk to Riley about this... I hope it doesn't turn into an argument." I said as Zay gets up.

"I'll tell Maya to go to my house, I'll let you guys talk it out."

"Thanks, Zay." I said as Zay leaves through the bay-window. After about 3 minutes, Riley walks back in with a plate of food for me and Zay.

"Where's Zay?" She asks, not knowing what we are going to talk about.

"He had to leave, but come sit down babe." I said to her, I didn't want to moan at her. I want her to tell me myself about Charlie. Riley comes and sits next to me and hands me my plate, I put it next to me as I begin to talk.

"Do you really love me?" I ask her, trying not to moan or start arguments.

"Of course I do! What kind of a question is that?" Riley says with a laugh. She thinks I'm joking.

"Is there something you've been hiding from me?" I ask, putting my head down. I stated the obvious.

"What do you mean-" She said as I interrupted.

"Who's Charlie?" I ask, lifting my head.

"What?" She whispered.

"Who's-" I say but Riley interrupts.

"I heard your question. I... I don't get how you know him-"

"Well I just got told that Zay overheard you speaking on the phone to him last night, and that you had feelings for him." I said as a tear rolled down her cheek. "You should have been honest with me-" She interrupts again.

"We weren't together at the time Farkle! How could I have told you?!" She shouted as I put my hands on her shoulders.

"Calm down, Riley." I said, as I lean in for a kiss, she slaps me to push me away. "What was that for?" I asked, raising my voice a bit.

"You need to leave." She whispers.

"But Riley-"

"LEAVE!" She screamed as she gets Zays plate of food and smashes it on the floor.

All of this was over her being honest with me. She should have told me!

I immediately leave through the bay-window and I walk home, crying. I didn't mean to start an argument...

{Riley's POV}

Why would Farkle do this? I love him. And he loves me. Why are we arguing over something that happened before we got together?

"Riley... What is this..." My mum walks in as she sees me crying. "What's going on?" She asks as she sits next to me in the bay-window.

"M-Me and F-Farkle-" I can't manage to get fluent words out without crying.

"Shh shh shh. Let it out baby." My mum, Topanga, says. Calming me down. She hugs me, and rubs my back.

After about 10 minutes of crying, my mum puts me into bed and wraps me up warm and I tell her what happened.

"I came in and Farkle just started asking me things like if I really loved him or if I was hiding something. He was acting really suspicious, Mom. Then he asked me who Charlie was-" I said but Topanga interrupts.

"Who's Charlie?" She asks as I tell her.

"He's a guy I met at Svorski's, he's a year older and I got his number and we started texting, but then I started to like him and it confused me because this was before me and Farkle got together! So then Maya blocked Charlie off my phone and I chose Farkle. But then a week later, he started ringing me, god knows how he got my number... and he rang me last night and Zay overheard and now Farkles pissed at me, and we argued..." I said as a tear rolled down my cheek.

What a day...