Riarkle: How love evolves

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Riley Matthews
Josh hasn't talked to me since that day with Maya. He starts school today. He's in all my classes so he can't avoid me. I walk out to the kitchen. He's sitting at the table alone. I sit next to him.
"Josh. I don't like you being distant. You always tell me everything. If you don't want to talk about.. that okay. Just please don't ignore me. And Maya is an amazing person. She is good at observing people. And before she met me. She was always getting in trouble and hanging out with the wrong people." I whisper to him.
"Okay." He says with a sigh.
"Also promise not to be so protective of me." I say serious
"But Ri-" I cut him off.
"Josh no." I yell. He groans.
"Fiiiiine." I laugh and steal his bagel.
"Bitch." He groans
"Ass" I reply. The door opens. My best friend dances into the apartment.
"Peaches is in a good mood." I say happily. She stops in front of me.
"I got gossip." She says loudly.
"Spill." My accent gets thicker. My accent is either extremely thick. Or it fades.
"BitchFord is asking out Lucas. And he hates that bitch. So he'll be the first guy to ever turn her down. We're making history here." She yells. I squeal. Josh sits there confused.
"It literally only took Maya a day to catch me up on everything. Now you have two of us so you'll understand soon." I say reasurringly.
"Okay. Shouldn't we leave." He says. I check my phone.
"Crap Maya you came over late." I yelled. We all ran to school.
After school
We were all sitting in the courtyard. Josh and Lucas started bonding over shit I don't understand. Maya and Josh were flirting with eachother which I just laughed at. BitchFord approached us. With her stuck up possy behind her. Maya and I scoffed. We were all sitting against a tree. Lucas stood up.
"So Lucas. Your really hot and so am I. We could like totally be a power couple. So like how about we date and go make out in the janitors closet right now." She said while twirling her hair.
"Yeah no. I personally find you stuck up, a slut and a bitch. And I would be ashamed to date you." Lucas said with an attitude. We all laughed. And BitchFord stomped away. People gasped. Some cheered. Lucas sat back down. He looked behind him.
"Hey Riley. Guess who's staring again." Lucas says with a laugh. I turn my head. Ugh its Farkle. He's constantly flirting with me. And staring at me. He's a "bad boy." But he's really smart. And he's a football player. I scoff and stand up. I feel my friends eyes staring at me. I walk up to him and his friends.
"Do you need something Farkle." I say with an attitude.
"Yeah you to go out with me tonight. He says proudly.
"Sure. Pick me up at 7." I say and turn to walk away. I turn back around. "wear something pretty." I say with a smirk. I walk back to my friends.
"Damn Riles." Maya cheers.
"London's got nerve." Someone says as they walk past us. I smile.
"Riley who was that." Josh asks.
"That was Farkle." I say as I check my Instagram.
"Farkle is the smart football player that is into you." He says as he looks back at Farkle.
"Yes. Riley he has a bad reputation." Lucas says pulling my phone away.
"You ass." I whine as I reach for my phone.
"He's an 'angry' person." Lucas continues.
"Don't listen to him Riles he's being an ass cause Farkle stole his spot on the team." Maya says and gives me my phone.
"Thats not why and you know it Maya. I have to go to work. I'll talk to you guys later." Lucas says and walks off.
"I'm going to get something to eat. I'll bring you something home." Josh says and walks off. Maya and I start walking home. We get to the apartment and go sit in my bay window.
"Peaches." I break the silence.
"Yeah Riles."
"What did Lucas mean by 'hes an angry person." I say confused
"Riles you can't tell anyone this." She says.
"I swear on my father's grave." My voice cracks at the end. She turns to face me.
"Farkle was in a very serious relationship last year. And to be honest the girl was a dumb slut. Like she was faithful to Farkle just strongly flirted with people. Like Lucas. And Lucas had a crush on her. So Farkle is known for throwing party's. So at this one party. There was drinking. And Farkles girlfriend was drunk. But she hid it so well. She started telling everyone at the party that Farkle wasn't doing enough for her and she needed love and they broke up. Which wasn't true. So she told Lucas this and he thought it was true. He didn't know she was drunk. She started grinding on him. And led him upstairs. And they had sex in Farkles bed. Farkle didn't know until the next day when a whole bunch of people were sending him pictures of them making out. And sending him recordings of the 'sounds' from outside the door. So Farkle confronted his girlfriend about it first. And she told the truth. And started saying Lucas made her happier. And he was so much better than Farkle. And Farkle was just a dare because he was the rich nerd. And he could get her booze. And after every date with him she'd go have sex with Lucas. And Farkle was calm until she said the last part. And it wasn't even true. She was intentionally trying to get a rise out of him. So Farkle went to find Lucas. And he beat him up. Like he broke Lucas's leg. And Lucas's life back then revolved around sports. And football tryouts were coming up and Lucas obviously couldn't try out. So Farkle stole the spot on the team from Lucas. No one ever found out that's what happened to Lucas. Because Farkles dad paid off Lucas's parents. But Farkle changed after that. It was no more drinking. No girlfriends. And that's how he turned into a bad boy. He hasn't beat anyone up or anything since then." She finished and I gasped.
"Maya. I can't go out with him tonight." I said nervously.
"Riles. He is honestly a good person. He is very protective. And that girl was intentionally making him mad and hurting him. The bad boy act is just to protect himself from getting hurt. And he has apologized to Lucas. Alot. He's even tried to give up the spot but the couch won't let him.  Lucas just holds a grudge." She says to calm me down.
"Maya-" she cut me off.
"It's just a date. Besides I thought you trusted him. You told him about Annabelle."
"Fine. I need to get ready."