Maya had been staring at the same spot on the wall at Topanga's for fifteen minutes. Neither of them have said a word to each other in twenty minutes. All she can think about is how stupid this all is.

"This is stupid," she said, still staring at the wall.

Finally, Lucas turned to look at her.

"What is?" he asked.

"This! Are you having any fun?" Maya, finally, turned to look at Lucas. Though with the look that was in her eyes, he kinda wish she hadn't.

"Um, yes?"

"No, you're not."

"No, I'm not."

"Neither am I. This is why I didn't want anything to change. Everything's weird and uncomfortable now and I don't like."

"Okay, so what do you think we should do about it?"

"We're not going out."

"You're breaking up with me?"

"No. We're not going out. We were never going out. You go back to just liking Riley and I'll go back to making fun of you and it'll be like this never happened."

"But I like you too, Maya."

"It doesn't matter. This isn't working. We've been sitting for, like, three days and all that's happened is I dumped a smoothie on your head."

"Two smoothies."

"Right. I make fun of you, you get defensive, and Riley keeps the peace. That's how we work best. We're better as friends so we're just gonna be friends and this never happened."

"So you're just going to pretend this never happened. For Riley."

"No, I'm doing this for all of us. I'm not happy, you're not happy, Riley's not happy. What's the point of any of this if none of us are happy?"

"But you like me."

"Yes, okay, that's been established but it doesn't matter."

"But would it actually make you happier just going back to how things were before?"

"Yeah, it really would, Huckleberry. All of this is just too complicated and...I'll get over you. I don't know if Riley can."

They both just looked at each other for a moment, challenging the other to say something to contradict anything Maya had just said.

"Okay," Lucas said with a nod.

"Okay."

"This never happened."

"Never happened."

"I guess I should go then."

"I guess you should."

"Okay."

"Okay."

Farkle sat down, almost immediately, in the seat Lucas had just abandoned.

"Will that really make you happy?"

"I don't know. All I know is that because of this, because of me and my feelings, two of my best friends are miserable and I just can't live like that. I'm happiest when Riley's happy and this will make her happy. So yeah, I guess I'll be happy."

"You know things can never go back to how they were before, right?"

"You don't know that."

"Yes, I do. I'm Farkle, I know everything."

"You could be wrong."

"I'm never wrong."

"Well, there's a first time for everything."

Topanga walked in the door and immediately went over to where Maya and Farkle were sitting.

"Hey, Maya, I'm glad you're here. Are you going to be over for dinner tonight?" She asked.

"Aren't I always?"

"Great. Josh is coming over and I wanted to make sure I had enough of everything for everyone."

Maya smiled as Topanga walked away, distracted, going behind the counter to get whatever it was that she needed for dinner.

"That's kind of a devious smile you got there," Farkle said, somewhere between intrigue and apprehension.

"I know how to fix things," Maya said.

"How?"

"I'm just going to tell Riley that I don't like Lucas. That I never really liked Lucas. I was just confused because of all the stuff that happened with Josh but I'm all sorted out now and I like Josh and not Lucas."

"But you still like Lucas."

"That doesn't matter. How many times do I have to say that it doesn't matter? For once, I can actually fix things and then everything can go back to normal."

Farkle raised an unconvinced eyebrow at her in response.

"That's what I want, so I'm going to fix everything."


Even though a lot had changed, the bay window was still the same and Maya couldn't be happier. And just like normal, Maya was withholding a pretty big truth from Riley.

"Maya, are you sure?" Riley asked after Maya told her that she wasn't interested in dating Lucas. She didn't seem particularly convinced.

"Yes! I didn't want to tell you that I liked Lucas and I definitely didn't want you tell tell Lucas that I liked him because I was confused about everything. I'm the one who wanted everything to stay the same remember? But none of that matters anymore. I still like Josh, a lot. So, we should all just forget about everything that happened and go back to normal."

"I don't know if I can do that."

"Well, you might as well because that's what I'm doing and that's what Lucas is doing." Maya knew she was toeing the line of flat out lying to Riley in the bay window, which would definitely change everything for good. She needed this conversation to end. "Let's just go downstairs, okay?"

Topanga put them to work on setting the table for dinner as soon as they reached the bottom step.

"Riley, you're going to need seven plates."

"Why? Who else is coming besides Uncle Josh?"

"Well," Topanga shot a worried look to Maya. "Josh is bringing his girlfriend."

"Josh has a girlfriend?" Maya asked, feeling her stomach drop. "Who is she?"

"A girl from his freshman comp. class."

"Oh." Five minutes ago, Maya had decided to fully commit to her crush on Josh and now he has a girlfriend. "You don't need to set another plate, Riley. I'm not really hungry so I think I'm just gonna go home."

"Maya, you don't have to leave."

"I really do."

She heard Riley call her name before she shut the door but she ignored it. Despite her best efforts everything was changing and she didn't know how to handle it.