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Riley Matthews blearily opened her eyes, awoken by the sound of her cell phone vibrating. Riley groaned and turned over in her half awaken state to silence her cell phone. This had been happening for quite some time now and Riley was beginning to get sick of it. But seeing as she had this responsibility toward her best friend, Maya Hart, the loyal friend rolled out of bed and grabbed her phone and a scarf as she trudged to Maya's house in order to calm her down.
She quickly walked in the cold New York night towards her friend's apartment (I could have sworn it's an apartment). When Riley arrived at Maya's apartment, she saw the blonde with a bloody blade in her hand, strangled sobs wracking from her delicate frame. Like before, Riley snatched the knife from Maya's delicate fingers; tears running down both the girls' faces as Riley disposed of the knife. The girls held each other and sank to the floor crying. After a while Riley wiped her eyes stood up and offered Maya her hand. Maya took Riley's left hand and Riley carefully led her back to her house. Once they arrived at Riley's house, Riley asked Maya what happened as she had every time and she received the same answer as usual.
Riley quietly asked her closest friend, "What happened Maya?"
"I'm sorry Riley, I just panicked, I thought everything was terrible and I thought I was terrible and wanted something I could feel like I was in control of." cried Maya with tears, running down her face.
Riley nodded as per the usual and whispered just loud enough for Maya to hear, "I get it."
Maya smiled sadly and turned away from her friend to get some sleep.
In the morning, the two of them woke up for when Riley's alarm went off and shared a sad glance before getting ready for school. After getting dressed the two of them head to breakfast downstairs with Topanga who understands the situation between Riley and Maya. Topanga noticed a crestfallen face and saw that she was wearing long sleeve. Topanga began to worry for the girl she considered a second daughter, but she figured Riley had it under control. Riley caught her mom's eye and saw that she was looking at Maya's wrists but she exchanged glances with her mom and gave her a smile and a nod. With that Topanga was relieved and continued on with her day, with more hope in her heart.
Riley and Maya started to walk silently to school in the brisk early morning. When they arrived at school Riley and Maya looked at each other, shared a downcast smile and went their separate ways to their classes.
Riley kept thinking to herself, "All of my friends expect me to come in with a huge smile on my face." She tried to think happy thoughts so that she could put on a front for her friends. "I'm Riley Matthews! I'm happy and energetic and nothing can get me down!"
Riley put on the best fake grin she could muster and walked over to go greet Farkle and Lucas who were both in her first period advanced English class. Riley was doing fine for now and is able to keep things under control, but her smile was breaking; she didn't know how much more of this she could take.