Hey guys, here is a new story I thought of. What it Maya's secret wasn't that she liked Lucas. The idea for this story came to me when I was watching the previews for Girl Meets Texas. So the first part is some scenes from the show, just modified. This story took over my life for the past 2 days. I'm serious. I could not think of anything else since I started it.

I do not own GMW.


(In Texas)

(No One's PoV)

"Do you want me to buy you ice cream, Farkle?" Riley asked Farkle as an excuse to leave Maya and Lucas alone.

"What?"

Come on Farkle!

"Do you want me to buy you ice cream?"

"Oh. Are you sure?" Farkle said, finally catching on.

"Yeah." She said with a smile. "Let's go."

"Riles, where are you going?" Maya asked panicking.

"You need to feel whatever you feel, Maya. It's you and me forever. There is nothing that you could ever do to change that."

God how I want to kiss you right now. Then we'd see how long forever really is. Maya thought looking at Riley's lips. Maya bit her lip.

Riley walked over to Lucas and sat down next to him. "Maya likes you."

"Riley!" Maya screamed.

I don't like him!

"She's been hiding it all this time. That's why she couldn't watch you at the rodeo."

"What are you doing?" Maya asked obviously upset.

"I saw you, Maya. I saw how much you cared. It's why she makes fun of you, I think."

"Riley, what are we?" Lucas asked turning towards her.

"I told you what we are." She said.

"What if that's not what I think we are?"

"Well, then... you better start thinking of us like that."

"Riley, I-"

"Lucas, we will always be there for each other." Riley turned back to Maya. "You stepped back. I know that you stepped back."

And with that, Riley and Farkle left.

"What's going on?" Lucas asked after a few moments.

"I don't know." Maya answered.

"I'm her brother now?"

"Apparently."

Which is fine with me. I mean, I like you Huckleberry. But Riley shouldn't be with you.

"You like me?"

"No."

No. Not you.

"Maya, why didn't you want me to ride in the rodeo?"

Because I didn't want to see Riley upset.

"Because... I didn't want you to win and get all conceited." Maya answered as a cover.

"I don't think that's it."

"I don't think that's it." Maya mimicked in her fake Lucas voice.

"I don't talk like that. I just don't. Why do you see me like that?" Lucas asked.

"Of course I don't see you like that. Can we just look at this fire, please?" Maya asked frustrated.

"Yes." Lucas said but he couldn't turn back to the fire.

What is she hiding? Lucas wondered.

"Stop... Can we just stop? I just want everything to stop.

It's been bad enough I've been keeping this secret from Riley all this time."

"What secret?"

That I am in love with her.

"You guys are so much alike. I thought you were just like brother and sister." Maya covered.

"Why?"

"You're at your best when you're just talking to each other. Looking out for each other. That's what I believed, but I kept it a secret. And now that secret's out, I don't have to carry it around with me anymore. I just don't want to have any more secrets from her." Maya said truthfully, on the verge of tears.

Also because I didn't want to see you as a couple.

"So you don't make fun of me because you like me?" Lucas asked still confused.

"I'm just gonna watch this fire."

"No Maya don't do that," Lucas said as he got up and made his way over to her. Maya looked at him confused. "Don't keep things locked up inside."

I have to. I can't let anyone know the truth.

"I have nothing to say." Maya said in a small voice.

Lucas sat down beside her and put his hand on hers, but her heart didn't speed up. Lucas noticed this and he also noticed how sad her eyes were. They were not the eyes of someone who was sitting with her crush; they were the eyes of someone who wanted to be with someone but knew they never could be together. Lucas removed his hand.

"Just answer one question for me: why do you make fun of me?"

"I make fun of you," Maya started. She looked down at her hands. Lucas waited. "Because I think of you as a brother too."

They sat there for a few moments, listening to the crackle of the fire.

"Thinking of you and Riley as brother and sister wasn't my secret."

Lucas looked at Maya, confused.

"What?"

Maya took a deep breath.

"The secret I was keeping from Riley wasn't that I thought you and Riley were like brother and sister… Or that I have a crush on you, cause I don't."

"Then what was your secret?"

I want to tell you. I have to tell someone.

"I do have a crush, on… someone else." Lucas waited for her to continue but she didn't.

The fire popped in the silence.

"Well, if you like someone else, shouldn't you tell them."

Maya shook her head.

No. Not Riley. I don't know what she would do… What she would say to me.

"No, not this person. We're friends and I don't want to mess that up. I love the person and their family and they love back and if I told this person how I feel and they don't feel the same, I just…" Maya took a deep breath and looked Lucas in the eye. "I just don't want to loose them. I don't think I'm… I know I'm not strong enough to survive alone."

I think I understand now. Lucas thought.

"If you really love her, then you should tell Riley. Put your heart out there, Riley just might surprise you." He put his hand on Maya's hand. "And either way, you will never be alone."

Maya turned back to the fire and moved her hand.

"I can't." She whispered with tears in her eyes. Lucas heard this.

"Why not?"

Because Riley isn't into girls. She's into guys.

Maya refused to look at him. She refused to let him see how exposed she felt right now.

"Maya, why can't you tell Riley?"

Maya jumped up holding the tears back.

"Because it's wrong!" She said angrily, not looking at him. "I shouldn't be in love with Riley Matthews. She's a girl and I'm a girl and girls shouldn't like each other that way… right…?"

Lucas stood up and pulled Maya into a hug. She held in the tears that threatened to escape. She didn't want Lucas to see her cry.

"Who told you that?" Lucas asked as he helped Maya sit down.

"My dad… before he left us. I told him that I liked Riley when we were in the fourth grade. And he told me that girls were not suppose to like other girls. That it was disgusting. That no daughter of his was going to be a… someone like that."

Lucas could not believe that a father would say something like that to his own daughter, let alone when she was eleven.

"I don't know what to say, Maya," Lucas said. "But forget him, he is a jerk. For not seeing how amazing and special you are."

Maya smiled.

"Thanks Huckleberry."

Lucas smiled.

It's true Maya. You have no idea. You let your best friend, that you're in love with, think you were in love with a guy just to keep her as a friend.

"I'm serious though. You should tell Riley." He said.

Maya sighed.

"I know. But how?*

(On the train)

"Riley, I have to tell you something." Maya said.

"I don't want to know." Riley said, walking away.

(In New York)

(Riley's PoV)

"Riley, something happened." Maya said walking behind me as I walked up to my locker.

I'm glad you had a good time with Lucas.

"Maya, I don't need to know. I know a lot of things are going to happen. You know what else I know? I liked the new boy and you stepped back for me. And then I saw how scared you were for him."

"Riley, this has nothing to do with Lucas." Maya said.

"You need to feel what you feel. How could I keep you from that. Whatever happens, happens."

I turned to go to class, only to see Lucas standing right behind me. I smiled.

"My brother." I went to punch his arm but he caught my hand.

"Hey." Lucas smiled. "Hi Riley, um, I wanted to thank you again for believing in me and giving me the confidence that I would be ok."

Man, this is going to be really hard. Pretending I don't like him. I have to remember, it's for Maya. So Maya's happy.

I smiled.

"I will always believe in you. And I will always be here."

"Thank you Riley." Lucas said.

He looked at Maya.

"Hey." Lucas said to her.

"Hi."

Lucas looked back at me.

"Hey."

I looked at him.

Play it cool.

"Hi."

"Wow." Lucas said as he turned and walked into dad's class. Just then Charlie Gardner walked up to me.

"Hey Riley."

"Hi Charlie." I said.

Maya!

"Charlie Gardner." Maya said in her old-timey accent. I turned my head towards Maya.

I smiled to myself.

"Stop it."

"Cheese souffle!"

Oh boy….

I turned towards Maya.

"Maya, we just got back. What could he possibly know? Who could have possibly said anything?" i asked.

We turned around to see Zay sitting right behind us.

"He made me." Zay said.

"How did he make you?" I asked.

"I was like, 'you wanna hear a great Riley story?'... He said, 'yes.'"

Maya and I turned back to Charlie.

"I heard you and Lucas are just gonna be friends." Charlie said.

"Yeah, actually, what we're doing is-" I started.

"I heard you're free." Charlie asked." Are you free?"

Oh boy… Really, really hard.

(Skip to Cory's class)

(Maya's PoV)

"The hoover dam," Mr. Matthews said, "on the arizona/nevada border holds back ten trillion gallons of confused 14-year-old feelings that look to smack down the concrete structure of your life and my life, and it can't take it and I don't want it, so everybody sit here and nobody move! Because as strong as the structural integrity of the hoover dam might be, just one little, tiny drop of water that makes its way through this barrier will chip away at the structural integrity of our lives as we know them, and the immediate result is the end of my personal happiness! So, your assignment is to hold everything back until I die and not let anything through!"

Out of the corner of my eye I see Riley opening a note that was passed to her.

Who's passing her notes?

"Riley, what's that?" Mr. Matthews asked.

"Nothing." Riley said as she folded the paper and tucked it away.

I know you better than that, Honey. It's something.

"Riley, did something get through?"

I need to tell her now.

"Riley, I need to talk to you about what me and Lucas talked about."

Riley turned around towards Charlie.

"Yes, Charlie. I will go out with you."

Why did she do that? I can't believe she did that. I was going to tell her the truth… but then she went and did that. Why would she do that?

Without even thinking about it, I grabbed my bag, got up and left.


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