Riley's Room Bay Window

About one Year after the Ski Lodge Trip.

(Farkle and Riley are sitting in Window seat with their Homework out while talking.)

Riley: I am so glad we got our fall midterm project done for advanced chemistry. I don't even know why I put myself through the torcher of taking that class.

Farkle: I think the reason you signed up for it is that I told you if you wanted to become a pediatric nurse you needed to do well in chemistry.

Riley: But Farkle that doesn't even make sense. It's not like that job requires me to do chemistry.

Farkle: Oh really Riley? Because you need to know how to convert dosages down to the right amount for a child, and that's chemistry and if a kid ingests chemicals that are bad for them.

Riley: I get it Farkle chemistry is important, but I still have to admit it's the hardest class I've ever taken.

Farkle: I knew it would be Riley, and that's why I offered to take advanced chemistry with you instead of college biology with Smakle.

Riley: I know, and I appreciate it I'm just nervous.

Farkle: About what?

Riley: About disappointing my mother she can be pretty intense when it comes to school, and If I don't make an A on this project then I'll make a C in chemistry for the semester.

Farkle: Relax I'm sure we'll make an A and besides if it makes you feel any better I currently only have a high B in Chem.

Riley: Yeah actually that makes me feel a lot better. I just assumed you had an A.

Farkle: Everyone does. I get that I'm smart, but I'm not perfect, and I'm sick of everyone expecting me to be.

Riley: Farkle I'd never expect or want you to be anything other than just Farkle.

Farkle: I appreciate that Riley. Smackle and my father would never say something like that.

Riley: How come? They both love you.

Farkle: I know they just are always pushing me to be my best, and I respect that.

Riley: But it's hard always having to make straight A's to prove yourself and sometimes you just wish they'd quit micromanaging you and just sit back and let you fail or succeed on your own?

Farkle: You get me, Riley, you always have.

(Farkle smiles and looks into Riley's eyes a little more intensely than normal and then turns his head away as if he's about to cry)

Riley: what's wrong Farkle?

Farkle: It's nothing.

Riley: It's not anything Farkle now tell me what's wrong?

Farkle: I just… Well, I've been dating Smakle for two years now, and although we make sense on paper, I'm not sure If I see us ending up together, and I feel like I should know that by now.

Riley: I don't get it I mean you know you love her right?

Farkle: Yes but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm in love with her I mean I love Maya, and I could never see myself marrying her.

Riley: Well and you still love me right?

Farkle: Always Riley always. I just meant I could love a girl without seeing a romantic future with them, and I'm not sure I see one with smackle.

Riley: I don't get it?

Farkle: If I say how I feel do you promise not to call me a sexist pig again.

Riley: Well that depends on whether or not what you say makes you sound like a sexist pig.

Farkle: Fair enough. Smakle is clearly my intellectual superior, and whenever I'm around her, I feel inferior.

Riley: If you're trying to tell me you don't want to date smackle because she's smarter then you then you are a sexist pig.

Farkle: Let me finish Riley. It's not just that she's smarter than me that hurts it's that every chance she gets she feels the need to rub the fact that she's smarter than me in my face.

Riley: well did you tell her that?

Farkle: I've tried, but it's hard to tell her stuff like that without her just blaming it on her Asperger's which I get plays a part in the way she treats me, but I feel she could make more of an effort than she does.

Riley: I don't know what to say Farkle other than you need to talk to her.

Farkle: I know I just wish it was as easy to talk to her as it is talking to you.

Riley: I sometimes feel that way when it comes to talking to Lucas I just don't feel as comfortable around him as I do around you.

Farkle: (Farkle smiles at Riley) well we have known each other a lot longer maybe that has something to do with it.

Riley: Maybe

(Topanga walks in room.)

Topanga: Riley Mister Minkus just called and said Farkle never cam (Topanga stops when she sees Farkle.) Farkle what are you still doing here it's almost breakfast time.

Farkle: Sorry Misses Mathews I guess Riley and I stayed up all night talking and working on our chemistry project.

Riley: I should have known better than to stay up talking it was around midnight when I turned my laptop off, and that must have been hours ago.

Topanga: well I'll call your dad and tell him you are still here, and I'll set you a place at the table for breakfast.

(Topanga leaves the room.)

Riley: I can't believe we stayed up all night talking I've only done that a couple of times with Lucas and that one time at the ski lodge.

Farkle: It's not that weird we've always talked a lot Riley.

(Topanga yells from the kitchen) Riley Lucas and Maya are here!

Riley: Ok mom I'll be out in a minute. Hey, Farkle can you go in the kitchen with everyone else so I can get ready for school?

Farkle: Oh yeah. (Farkle exits bedroom.)