AN/ Longest chapter yet my friends! Not to mention the end of this chapter is our first real important moment and your first big nod to the possibility of Lucaya. I don't own GMW by the way.. and remember to review!
When everyone was leaving Cory came to pick up Riley and Maya and Farkles mom came to get him.
"So Maya will you be staying with us tonight?" Cory questioned looking in the mirror of his car seeing the two girls in the back waiting for their response.
"You bet Mr. Mathews." The blonde answered quickly and happily. Maya was always grateful for Cory and Topanga treating her like family when her mom was always busy, trying to do the best she could at raising Maya.
"Maya stays over every Friday night dad, you know that." Smiled Riley, deciding to chime in and announce her presence.
"Your right Riley." Cory nodded "just thought I'd double check, because ya never know." He smiled.
"Well I always love keeping you in the loop on things." Maya smiled teasingly. She liked to tease and poke fun with people, it was what she did. Now particularly she was giving him a little nod to the fact that rarely did Riley even have to ask about Maya staying over anyone, it just seemed to be a given.
"And we always love having you stay over at our place. Your like family to us Maya, I know I say it a lot, and Topanga to, but you really are." He said as the car stopped in their apartment buildings parking lot.
Once they were home and had the sleeping bags out on the floor of Riley's bed room Auggie was sound asleep and Cory and Topanga were watching a movie in their room.
"I got the pop corn!" Riley smiled taking it out of the micro wave.
"And I got the Pepsi!" Maya said finishing up filling the second glass.
"Shhh!" Topanga warned walking out of the bath room and heading back to her room.
"Oops.." The two girls said speaking in sync together. "Stop it!" They both said again grinning doing the 'fabulous' hand gesture.
Walking back into Riley's room with the food the girls turned off the light and climbed into their sleeping bags. Their phones provided enough light to see the food and prevent them from spilling or dropping anything. This was what they called their "gossip" section of the night.
Jumping right into things Riley decided to start "so what do you think Lucas thinks of me? Do you think he liked me?!" She asked quietly. It wasn't that they thought others were listening, just whispering became a habit for this part of the night.
"Of course he does Riles!" Maya smiled "who wouldn't like you, your the nicest and sweetest person I know."
"You know what I mean Maya, like.. Do you think he Like-Likes me?" The brunette said rephrasing her question.
"Hmmmm." Maya pursed her lips in thought, of course this was purely her teasing Riley of course she was going to say yes, Riley knew wether or not she thought so for real she would answer 'yes' and shocker.. Not, she did "why do you even bother asking Riley, you know the way he looks at you."
Even though she couldn't be sure Maya meant it hearing the words filled her with excitement and even gave her a faint blush "good!" She paused "some times I think he might like you though." Riley frowned.
"You think so?" Maya asked curiously almost letting the little spark of excitement show in her voice, but she covered up a little, as best she could half way through a sentence.
"Wh-what would do you think about that?" Riley asked now looking at her friend.
"Obviously I wouldn't date Lucas Riley don't worry about it." Maya smiled reassuringly.
"What do you mean by that? You wouldn't date him just because I like him? Does that mean you do like him? Does that mean I'm in the way of your happiness?" Riley barely took a breath between each statement.
"Honey! Relax!" Maya chuckled "I-Will-Never-Date-Lucas." She paused "I love you way to much." She was careful of her words, she wanted to phrase it in a way that she was not lieiing to her friend, but also find a way to distinguish her friends suspicions about a possible crush on Lucas without denying it.
"That's not answering my Question..." This time Riley spoke slowly, trying to keep it together.
"I mean-" Maya stopped in her sentence thinking about how to say this "ok, I mean, Lucas is cute and sweet." She admitted "but Riley your the best thing that's ever been in my life I will never do anything to hurt you."
Riley felt relief to this, but she knew she couldn't be so selfish "Maya-if Lucas asks you out or some thing, and you want to say yes-don't let me stop you." She smiled widely giving her friend her blessing.
After this the two girls hugged, and it was a long hug. They both found comfort in it.
"I think we've had enough "gossip" for ten of these sleep overs, wanna watch a movie?" Maya asked quirking a brow
"Sounds like a plan." Riley smiled.
