A/N: I am back with another chapter. Sorry I haven't updated in awhile. I've been busy getting acclimated to college. I've had writer's block with this chapter, but I'm pretty happy how this turned out. Enjoy!
Farkle quickly ran after Riley but was met with a head full of blonde hair.
"Um, could you excuse me? I'm trying to talk to Riley," Farkle said.
"Sorry. Riley is busy right now," Maya said barely acknowledging Farkle.
"Busy with what?" Farkle whined.
"With something that's none of your business," Maya retorted. Farkle could tell that Maya was lying. He was just about to accuse her of such when he saw Smackle talking to someone he knew she shouldn't be talking to. "Fine," Farkle said and ran over to Smackle.
"Hey, where have you been, boyfriend?" Smackle awkwardly punched Farkle on his arm. Smackle was not great at this whole pretend girlfriend thing. "I was just talking to Riley here about how we got together."
"Oh, you were, were you?" Farkle squeaked. He and Smackle never had enough time to discuss the details of their relationship. This should be great, he thought.
"Yeah, she was," Riley interrupted. "You know, I haven't seen Smackle since high school, so I was just wondering how you and her got together, especially since the last time I saw her, Zay was wrapped around her finger."
"As I was saying earlier, Zay and I realized early on into our relationship that Farkle and I were more compatible, so we decided to mutually break up so that I can see where this goes." Smackle quickly responded.
"Um… Riley, I was kind of wondering if we could talk?" Farkle stammered out.
"I have to go help… the cooks in the kitchen. Maybe later?" Riley choked out as she got as far away from Farkle as possible. Farkle tried to run after her but was stopped by Smackle.
"How are you supposed to be my pretend boyfriend if every time I turn around you're conversing with Riley? I thought the whole point of this arrangement was to get you away from Riley."
"Yeah, yeah. I know, but she was about to tell me something important earlier when we were rudely interrupted by Lucas 'the football player' Friar. He keeps staring at me like I'm some kind of threat."
"Well maybe he has a problem with guys trying to hang out with his girlfriend."
"Wait, Lucas is Riley's boyfriend?" Farkle was astonished. He never expected them to end up together. If anything, he would've predicted that Maya and Lucas would eventually become an item, especially since he always saw them hanging out 24/7.
"What? Are you jealous?" Smackle mocked.
"No, I'm not jealous Smackle. I just never expected them to go out," he replied.
"Well they are, so stop thinking about Riley and start acting like you're my boyfriend or soon Riley will find out you're lying, and your parents will start trying to set you up again."
As the night wore on, Farkle continued to try to talk to Riley with no avail. He didn't know what to do. How was he going to figure out what Riley wanted to tell him? It's not like Riley would ever talk to him alone again. He needs someone who's close to her to tell him the deets; and that's when the idea hit him. He went up to Smackle to ask her to dance.
"I'd love to Farkle."
"Smackle, I need to ask you for one more favor."
"What is it this time?"
"It's nothing too bad… I just need you to become one of Riley's closest friends, get into the bachlorette party, and figure out why she's so mad at me."
"Oh, so it's not that hard," Smackle said ironically. "Why don't you just ask me to find the solution to world peace."
"Please…" Farkle whined.
"What's with you with this girl. First you recruit me to be your pretend girlfriend so that she won't bother you and your parents won't set you up with her, now you want me to become her best friend so you can get to know her better. Is your mind working okay?"
"My mind is working perfectly fine. I just don't want Riley to be mad at me since we have to spend the next three days together," Farkle said. "I promise if you do this for me, I'll owe you a big favor."
"Fine," Smackle relented.
One day later, Farkle was hanging out with Lucas Friar on a party bus because unfortunately, they both were invited to the Bachelor party. Lucas Friar, a person Farkle never thought he'd know or get together with Riley.
"So, how did you and Riley get together?" Farkle asks.
"None of your business," Lucas responds. Farkle guessed he wasn't going to gain any information from Lucas tonight.
"Why are you so obsessed with her anyways?" Lucas asked.
"I'm not; I'm just worried that she hates my guts and I don't know why, especially because I haven't seen her in ages."
"Well, you don't need to know why Riley is mad at you. Just leave her alone."
Farkle waited nervously in his apartment. Smackle was expected anytime back now. How long did it take to drive from the party bus to his apartment? The doorbell was finally rung and Farkle let Smackle up into his building.
"So, what were you able to find out?" Farkle asked as Smackle stood at the doorway.
"I don't think you're going to like it," she replied.
A/N: I hope you enjoyed this chapter. It was really hard to write this one because I wanted to proofread it to make sure that everything made sense logically and that there were few grammar mistakes. I already have an outline for the next 2 chapters and I'm going on winter break after my finals this week, so I'll most likely update and finish this story in the next two weeks. In other big news, I have two new fanfictions in the works. One is a lucaya one-shot from a prompt that I received before I left for college but never got the chance to finish it because of college. Another is a Stydia fanfic that's a part of the Secret Santa gift exchange in the Stydia fandom. I'll be posting that as soon as it's released by the Secret Santa tumblr. Don't forget to read and review.
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