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Rucas Fanfic Week - Day 7 // New Year's Revisited

day 7 // family OR fix-it fic ; two options here for the last official day of the week. you could go for the family angle, whether that means the matthews or the kids of our kids is up to you!! on the other hand, if there was something mj and co. did that really pushed your buttons, this is your chance to fix it!!

A/N: This was written for Rucas Fanfic Week on Tumblr (Note this is mainly Lucas and Riley Stories)

(I decided to fix the triangle before it happens, warning angst and Riley standing up for herself coming up)

She had been hiding from her friends, from her family, but mostly from Lucas. When she told him that she saw him as a brother she felt a part of herself die, even though she was too young to have these feelings. She was only in middle school, she wasn't supposed to feel that way, but she did. Of course the minute she went to her mother to cry about what was happening, her mother handed her off to Maya, which hurt a little and she had to put up the façade that she was alright with her best friend being with the boy she had feelings for. She did everything for Maya, she would give Maya the world, but in the end everything in her world was falling apart and the only person who saw it was Farkle, and she thought Zay saw it as well. But they weren't really friends... not yet anyway, and his loyalty was towards Lucas, in the way Maya's loyalty was supposed to be towards her.

Then Riley saw Maya's face in Texas, and knew that her best friend was harboring feelings for the boy Riley had liked for so long now. It hurt, it hurt because in her mind she thought that friends don't keep secrets, that friends tell each other everything... but it hurt the most because it was Lucas. So Riley stepped back, and gave them a chance. It shouldn't have hurt when Maya told her that something happened between them. It shouldn't have hurt to see them on a date, the same night she went out with Charlie. Nothing should hurt because she put herself in that position.

Everything hurt.

And Farkle noticed.

The secret would come out at midnight on New Year's if Riley didn't say anything to Lucas, Farkle swore he would say it. So when school let out for the holiday break, she hid herself away from everyone. She went to the Library, but it had too many memories, she went to the park, but it was too cold, she went to the museum but the paintings reminded her of Maya. She finally found herself inside of Grand Central Station, looking up at the constellations in the ceiling, and matching hers and Lucas' because she still had hope that her heart would be saved, and that Lucas would notice.

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He stayed away.

It hurt him and he knew that his friends were keeping something from him, but he stayed away from everyone. He didn't want to go on another so called date with Maya, it didn't feel right to him to go out with her. He didn't want another smoothie poured over his head because he can't have a decent conversation with her without a single snarky comment. He was just tired.

He missed Riley.

Where could he go? He didn't know, he was about ten seconds away from asking his parents about letting him spend the week in Texas with Pappy Joe, but then he's reminded that everything happened in Texas... his heart breaks just thinking about it. He couldn't understand how it happened it how quickly he was being pushed at Maya. Yeah he almost kissed her, and yeah he stopped, why he had done it was because she was pushing his buttons, she was pushing him and he could feel the frayed edges of who he used to be coming out.

When he was in Texas, his darker side would have done it, it would have completely broken everything that he had built with Riley for a moment to forget all of the problems of his life. But when he looked into Maya's eyes, he realized that it wasn't Riley. Her chocolate brown eyes, her soft smile, the way she would steal glances at him when she thought he wasn't looking. Riley who showed him the sun, when all he saw was the dark grey clouds.