Chapter 1

A New Year's

Confrontation

Part 1

The Plan

Is Made

Disclaimer: I own nothing but what you see here. This is the follow up to Wild Times In Texas and A Very Philly Occasion! And if you haven't read those just yet, you may want too as you're likely to be lost if you start with this one. This story will be a lot longer then those two were and will feature the remaining time the kids have in middle school, followed by their time at high school, and maybe even college. And fair warning, there will no doubt be moments in this story you won't like. Now, let's get it on!

I am surprised though that there wasn't much in the way of reactions to the Joshaya scene in A Very Philly Occasion!

January 31st, 2015 on New Year's Eve, Thursday at the Matthews' Apartment around 1:25 PM

The past few days since coming back to New York after a fantastic Christmas in Philadelphia had been interesting to say the least. Course many of the residents could have done with out the cold temperatures that were pretty much making folks want to stay indoors as much as possible. Two such individuals were Riley Matthews and Maya Hart as they were both currently in Riley's bedroom and sitting at their Bay Window discussing a particular problem named Lucas Friar. Primarily the fact that the former Texan was pretty much AWOL since getting back to the Big Apple and even Zay had barely heard from his friend. It was confusing and hurtful that their friend was apparently going out of his way to not be around them and they were getting rather tired of it.

Maya in particular was getting to be a little angry since she herself had come by his house and had been pretty much told no by an apologetic Mrs. Friar who also wasn't too happy with the way her son was acting. Something was up and the girls were determined to get to the bottom of it. Though for Riley this was somewhat difficult as she was still somewhat freaked out over the fact she had kissed him right in front of everybody! But she had to wonder why she was feeling more freaked out then happy about the fact she had kissed her crush of nearly 2 years for a second time. The Pretty Brunette probably could have blamed Deanna for the whole mess but she didn't think it would be right even if she was probably at least a little bit to blame! What, with how she was flirting and all with her…

If she never got flirted with by a girl again it she'd be most happy. Now she didn't think of herself as close minded to those kinds of people but she wasn't exactly looking to try that side of life anytime soon. At least they were also doing some catch up reading with the Sense and Sensibility book Harper had assigned them prior to Christmas break so at least not all was bad. Course they probably would both be finished by now had they brought their copies with them to Philly but it honestly hadn't occurred to them. While Riley had gotten pretty far into the book, Maya hadn't as her eyesight wasn't focusing all that well and gave her a minor headache cause of it too. Something that helped to remind her of why she preferred to sit up front instead of in the back like most 'cool' kids did.

"The only thing I can think of for why Lucas might be acting like he has is over what happened before we all left." Spoke up Riley even though she was hesitant to even bring it up as she was worried about Maya's reaction.

That definitely had Maya's reaction as she'd still been curious since it seemed like something had happened prior to her coming out of the house. The artist had to wonder though if it was close to anything like her experience with Josh in his room. "Yeah, what was up with all that anyway?"

The suddenly nervous look Riley got on her face made the blonde girl a little nervous. "Um… Well… Lucas came out of the house but got stopped by Deanna."

"Okay, so obviously those two managed to get surprisingly close while we there. No big deal about that."

"Yeah, if by close you mean the two started kissing soon afterwards as close..." Muttered Riley unhappily as she crossed her arms.

Maya's eyes widened over that bit of news! "WHAT!?" Exclaimed the shocked girl as she stood up.

Her Huckleberry kissing some girl he barely knew!? That honestly bugged her as at least she somewhat knew Josh compared to him knowing the blue haired girl! The jealousy she was feeling wasn't something she liked much of either since it meant her feelings for the Cowboy were alive and well. And that made Riley's little revelation that much more painful and confusing. And more confusion was the last freaking thing she needed for cryin' out loud! "And that's not all that happened."

"What? Did he get down on one knee and proclaim he wanted to ride off into the sunset with her like the freakin' Cowboy we all know he is!?" Heh, Riley wishes that was what happened!

"Um… No..." Squeaked out the girl while refusing to look in her friend's direction.

"I kind of got really unhappy about it and things happened. And they were very happening things too!"

She's stalling… Whatever it is that happened musta been big.

"IkissedLucastotryandmakeapointtoDeanna!" Got out the girl in a rush that the other girl didn't undersand all that well.

"Honey, you wanna try that again? Cause I barely heard ya."

Riley gulped as she looked up at her best friend. "I decided to prove a point to that girl that I was a better kisser then her!" She was SO not gonna tell Maya about the whole flirting thing the blue haired girl had done with her!

The girl's words hit Maya hard and she didn't need Riley to explain that any further as she got the gist of it all. Walking over to the bed and plopping down at the edge of it, she just stared at the bedroom door in shock and surprise. Maya wished she could be naive at this moment since hearing about that kiss bothered her. But its not like she could claim innocence either since she practically made out with Josh when he deepened the kiss! Which… You know… Was one heck of a first kiss for her. For Riley, she was honestly scared as she could tell how unhappy her best friend was after learning of her betrayal.

"Are… Are you mad at me Maya?" Asked the Matthews girl fearfully.

Her fearful tone snapped the Blonde Beauty out of her state of shock and surprise as she looked at Riley. "What? No, I'm not mad Riles. Shocked? Yes. Surprised? Yes. But mad? Nah." Okay, she was lying about the mad part but the girl didn't need to know that. Along with her feeling pretty hurt over it as well. Though Maya wondered if she was possibly being hypocritical in some way considering the thing with Josh.

And if Riley was relieved to hear that? The look on her face definitely showed she was as she had no reason to disbelieve Maya. Even if the girl was well within her right to be mad for the kiss but she figured that that interloper was reason enough to be mad about… Riley then got an idea that would hopefully help make this whole thing much better as it would ensure Lucas would be there and not hiding away like he had been. "I think we should have a ball. Like the girls in the book Harper assigned to us."

Maya was confused by that as she didn't think some event would help anything at all. "Honey, I really don't think that's gonna do anything since it was more about available guys and all that."

Hear, Riley smiled as she got up and started pacing back and forth in front of Maya. "But that's just it Peaches! We aren't having this party because of available guys, we're having it because its New Year's Eve. AND! It'll draw out Lucas as we'll get his mom involved and she'll give him little choice in the whole thing!"

Huh… That just might work. Or fail big time…

And who knows how that might go if it did fail pretty badly. Something that honestly worried the blonde more then she liked. But before she could really say anything, Riley was out the door and yelling out for her mom that she had a plan for what they could do for New Year's. Sighing to herself, Maya got off the bed and went to go follow Riley and listen to the girl speak more on the whole plan with her mom. Who knows, maybe getting ol' Blueberry out in the open will help me with the confusion I'm feelin' in some way…

Author's Notes: And thus the story begins with a plan. How will it fare in the end? Read on to find out!