Girl Meets Season 5

Episode 23 - Girl Meets A Long Walk to Philadelphia

The moment Lucas got home he regretted leaving Riley the way he did, it was rare for them to fight about anything, but he knew it would happen eventually. There were times when he knew that they had communication problems when it came to certain parts of their relationship, but it was something that they had to work on together. Instead of going home he went to Zay's house only to stand outside for an hour before walking towards the café. He didn't want to be with anyone he wanted to think about how he was going to talk to Riley about all of this.

He was worried about her, he sometimes saw how she would close herself off when something was happening. He could kick himself because it took him a while to understand her tells, but he didn't think this was that kind of moment. It still hurts that he had put her through so much with the whole triangle business because he knew that hurting Maya would hurt Riley.

"Hey there Ranger Rick," Maya said pulling him out of his thoughts, he hadn't realized that he had walked into the café and sat down. It was almost normal, the way he could move around the city because of being with Riley.

One of their favorite things is just walking around and talking about nothing in particular, but sometimes the important conversations they should have been having the last few weeks were overshadowed by the trip, and a million other things that seem pointless at the moment.

"Uh... Lucas are you okay?" Maya asked him when he hadn't answered.

"Riley is giving up NYU for you, but she won't let me give up Texas A&M for her," he blurted out, Maya shouted something out to someone before sitting down in front of him with a questioning look on her face.

"I need all the details before I say anything," Maya said forcing him to look at her. "Come on Huckleberry, tell me everything."

He sighed before running his fingers through his hair, it had gotten a little longer, and he let it because he knew how Riley liked the feel of it against her fingers. "During our trip back home she didn't talk a lot, she was really quiet and I was scared that something was happening and she doesn't like to involve us until she's so hurt that it really starts to show."

"I noticed something was off when we were in Texas, but I didn't know what so I kinda watched her," Maya said to him. "Farkle told me to keep an eye on her, because he told me that she hides her feelings really well."

"Well she overhead a conversation and automatically says that she doesn't want me to give up on my dreams to follow her, she then told me that she doesn't want it to be something that forces us to break up over."

"But in the end, she made it an issue," Maya sighed before sitting back and watching the people around them. That's when Lucas noticed Josh standing behind the counter watching them, he knew that Josh could tell that something was wrong. He watched as Josh walked over to them and sat down next to Maya.

"Tell me what's happening," he said to Lucas and Maya smiled at him before walking towards the counter. Lucas couldn't help but feel like he was being tagged teamed by the couple, so he told Josh what he had told Maya and Josh nodded until he was finished before he spoke again. "You two are idiots I swear," he said, and Lucas looked at him wide eyed. "Listen I'm going to tell you something and it's going to sound crazy, but it might help, Riley is a self-sacrificing idiot."

"Josh," Maya said looking at him as she put down a cup of cocoa in front of Lucas.

"No," Josh said looking back at Maya. "You know I'm right, she would do a million things to make everyone else happy even if it meant that she would be miserable, because everyone comes first to what she wants," Josh sighed before turning back to Lucas. "You have to make her see that what she wants matters, and she wants to stay with you."