Girl Meets World One-Shots

Pocky Kiss

A/N: I found this prompt on Tumblr from user @ wildotps and thought it was cute. They're not together, they're still dancing around their feelings.

Prompt - Imagine your OTP casually eating Pocky (or anything along those lines) while talking about random things. Person A puts a stick of Pocky in their mouth right as they finish their sentence. However, instead of responding to what A said, Person B puts their mouth on the other end of the Pocky.

Bonus if they're not even dating yet

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When Riley studied alone she always had snacks with her to pass the time, and to keep her energy up. So of course one of her favorite snacks always made it into her bag whenever she finished her homework so that she would have them for the next study session. Even when she was alone in her mother's café she always had them in her bag. Maya laughed at her for it once because she had said that one day there would be someone on the other side of that Pocky stick.

Riley knew who Maya was teasing her about, of course she knew, but that didn't matter because her feelings for Lucas would stay buried until she was ready. She was afraid of anything happening to their friendship so she never acted on her feelings pass that first date, and the disaster of their classmates forcing them into a relationship. Zay joked that Lucas was going to have to one day make a move, but he didn't. As frustrating as it was that they had never moved passed their initial feelings, and their fears, their friendship had become stronger than ever.

So of course Lucas knew about her snacking habits, how she had one Pocky stick in her mouth as she studied. He never made a joke about it, and sometimes brought her different kinds of Pocky from the nearby Japanese market. It warmed her heart to know that he would noticed when she was running low on her favorite snack.

For Lucas on the other hand, he couldn't handle the teasing their friends gave them, it wasn't their place to comment on it. Riley and him had an understanding that they would move on their feelings when they were ready to acknowledge them. He didn't do anything, even when some guys from the football team tried to ask her out, she said no of course, or when one of his classmates asked him questions about Riley, he told him to ask her himself. Yes, he got jealous, but he wouldn't do anything to break his promise to Riley. So they danced around their feelings, and he watched her as she ran out of her favorite snacks.

It had started out as a gesture at first, they had been studying one day, Riley so engrossed in her notes that she had made her way through half of the box. He excused himself and walked over to the Sunrise Market, he knew her favorite was the chocolate one, but he picked up almond crush and a strawberry flavor to see if she would like them as well. When he returned Riley was staring at the empty box with a pout on her face that made him smile as he dropped the bag onto her text book before walking back to his own seat. She gave him a huge smile before opening up one of the boxes and handing him a stick as she put another one in her mouth.

That was the first time he had done it, but not the last, and as they continued to study together he would always bring a bag full of Pocky snacks for her to try. The flavors changed seasonally and there were always new ones to try. The traditional flavors were easier to find but not as fun as when she would try something new. He always brought the regular chocolate one because that was always her favorite and would put a smile on her face.

They had been doing this as a routine for three months before Maya and Zay sent him a video of something called a Pocky Kiss, they had been pushing him at that point to make a move on Riley. Maya had brought it up to Riley but Riley had pushed it aside thinking that it was just Maya teasing her about it. The two of them had found out about Lucas's habit of bringing the snacks to Riley and thought that he should finally make his move before they all died from waiting. Their first kiss had been at the end of seventh grade, and now they were junior's in High School. Even after he had received the message, it would take him two weeks to even work up the courage to do anything.

Riley was sitting in the corner of the café studying, it wasn't her normal study area, which had been taken over by a group of college students, but she was fine with sitting on the barstool drinking some tea while waiting for Lucas. Studying together had become a habit, it had started as the six of them studying together but twice a week it was just her and Lucas. She wanted to have something more with him, but she decided to keep what they had instead because it was better than ruining it.

Her heart broke just a little as she thought about it.

When he sat down across from her with the usual bag of Pocky she smiled and decided to just talk about anything she could think of.

"So Maya and I were thinking about going to see that new exhibit at the MET, she said that she wanted some inspiration and we talked about going for a while now," she said looking through the bag, trying to pick which one to open first. "I asked Farkle to come along and he asked Smackle, so do you think that maybe... um... you and Zay would like to come. We could make it a group thing."

"Yeah that would be great, I'll ask Zay," he said smiling at her making her heart skip a beat.

Opening the small bag inside the box and putting one in her mouth she started planning the trip in her head. "Well we could meet early on Saturday and make a day out of it... and," she stopped for a moment to swallow the half she had eaten, as she started on the other half Lucas grabbed her hand and leaned forward catching the other half of the Pocky stick and biting it until their lips met in the middle.

Riley felt her breath hitch for a moment making the bit that was in her mouth go down her windpipe making her choke and cough on Lucas, spraying bits and pieces into his face.

"Oh god, Riley I'm so sorry, I shouldn't have done that," he said taking her tea and handing it to her, but it was too hot which only made it worse until he grabbed the bottle of water he normally had in his backpack and handed it to her.

She gulped it down greedily fighting back the urge to choke and die right in front of the boy she's liked since the seventh grade.

"No Lucas," she said her voice hoarse and barely above a whisper. "It's not that."

His face was filled with worry but she just smiled as she cleared her throat and looked up at him.

"I wasn't prepared for it so it took me by surprise, and it probably wasn't the best idea to actually kiss someone when they're eating something," she said looking down at her hands. "I liked it though and maybe next time we try to do it... well I won't choke because I was surprised."

He sighed and smiled at her. "I was trying to make it into a moment you wouldn't forget," he said as he grabbed her hand.

"Trust me I won't forget that ever, and it's a story that I will probably be able to tell someone in the future as a memory of when the boy I liked finally kissed me."

"I would like it if we were more than just friends who like each other, that maybe we could make this official... you know... you and me."

"I would love that," she said smiling at him.

At the other end of the café someone yelled out "Finally," causing the two of them to turn to see as their friends spilled out of the back booth and hug them both. Congratulating them on moving out of their awkward phase.

"Because honestly we were sick of waiting," Zay said as he patted Lucas on the back.

"I was about to lock you two in a room until you finally did something," Maya smiled as she hugged her best friend. "Hurt her and I'll kill you."

"Noted," Lucas said smiling at Riley and taking her hand in his. He finally had his moment.