When Riley got home she was greeted by the entire family in the living room.
"Hey honey, did you get something to eat?" Her mother asked, curled up next to her father. Riley nodded before taking a seat on the other side of her dad cuddling up in his free arm. If Riley learned anything in her 17 years, she knew to suck up to her dad with all her might if she wanted something done. She knew if she asked him straight up about Lucas and his conversation this morning, he would immediately brush her off and tell her it wasn't her business. She needed to do some dirty work first.
"Hey daddy."
"Hey honey….what do you want?" he asked off the bat, Riley quickly denied his accusations.
"Nothing, thank you for being an amazing teacher and helping us with our problems, and thank you for being a father that's there for me and every one of my needs...no matter what."
Cory was beaming at the statement, he was already wrapped around his wife's finger, now this "mini corpanga" was adopting her mother's ways. He kissed the top of Riley's head before giving Topanga a victorious smile.
"Thank you for being a grateful child" He replied, grinning from ear to ear. After two to three minutes of useless conversation she prepared to pop the question on her mind.
"Dad, if I ask you a question will you answer it?."
"Of course"
"Why did you have to talk to Lucas in private this morning?"
"Unless it's that one, honey, that's between Lucas and Me. If he wanted you to know he probably would have told you."
"Is it...bad?"
"I'm sorry riley, he'll have to tell you himself."
She remembered her father saying the same phrase when she found out about Lucas's past- which wasn't bad but was something Lucas was ashamed of. Did that mean Lucas was ashamed of this news?...Was Lucas in trouble?
"what's the point of having your dad as a teacher if he doesn't tell you what's going on with your friends?" She marched upstairs and slept the remainder of the night dreaming of tomorrow. Tomorrow was the 'finals'...the day she would pick her formal date.
"Good Morning sweetie!"
"Goodnight peaches." Riley smiled in her sleep at her best friend.
"You gotta wake up if you want to catch breakfast before school"
"I like sleep better."
Maya shrugged, realizing her answer was identical to Riley's and shoved her slightly to make her scoot over. She eagerly hopped in, shutting her eyes hoping to catch some sleep.
"OH RILEYYYYYYY!" A voice she knew all too well screamed from the hallway and entered through the doorway. Her heart thudded wildly in her chest, she thought she had killed those feelings as soon as she started dating Lucas but here she was feeling lightheaded with the crazy butterflies going ballistic in her stomach.
"Maya?" Josh sounded, Maya's breath hitched at the tone change in his voice. From loud and jumpy to soft and soothing. Even when he was asking questions he sounded soothing.
"B-b-Josh!" She sprang up in bed causing her to fall over to the side. Maya had to hold back from screaming out 'boing', she was older now- wiser…..and of course taken by Josh nonono Lucas. She was taken by Lucas.
"Oh!" Josh spoke in shock, darting over to the blonde's side and picking her up sending shivers through her spine. She stared into his brown eyes that always seemed to look straight into her soul and felt herself melting into him.
"what, you're not gonna jump on me this time?" he asked softly, smirking slightly which brought Maya down from the heavens and back to earth.
"I have a boyfriend." She spoke almost too fast, as if she were trying to justify her actions or calm down her feelings.
"Yeah I heard you fell for the cowboy? I thought of you as more of an Eagles fan." He tucked his hands inside his pocket before giving her a look of boredom-or was it desire? Maya couldn't tell but preferred the latter. She didn't understand the pun considering she didn't watch football...It was more of Riley's forte-who was listening with her eyes closed and boy was she excited.
"Maya" Riley groaned, calling her best friend to her side, purposely saving Maya from answering back which would screw her over from both ends.
"What's wrong Riles?" Maya asked, silently thanking her for saving her ass.
"Pull me out of bed before I rot here the rest of my life." She stuck out her hand for her friend to grab onto and drag her out. Josh escaped the room, leaving the two girls to get ready.
Maya pushed Riley into the bathroom to brush her teeth while she took out Riley's clothes for the day.
"Riles! The black pants or ripped jeans?"
"JEEEEEEANS" Riley's shout from the bathroom came out muffled from the toothbrush stuck in her mouth.
"and the white v-neck?"
"NUH THE DWUS SHUHT"
Maya nodded pulling out the floral dress shirt before pairing heeled, brown booties with the outfit.
Riley came out grinning ear to ear with her bed hair tamed and morning breath solved,
"Why are you all smiley?"
"Because I'm Riley."
"This is a different smiley, this is a 'i know something' smiley."
Riley nodded, pulling off her shirt and changing into the one Maya took out for her.
"You didn't see any difference in the conversation with Josh today?"
The truth is, Maya did. Maya saw something different in Josh's eyes today and she didn't know what it was but she liked it.
Lucas. She reminded herself, Lucas.
"Nope." She said shrugging, scrolling down her phone while Riley pulled on her shoes. Riley knew Maya was downplaying the situation, she heard the nervousness in her voice when she saw Josh.
"You didn't understand the football pun?"
Maya looked up from her phone, confused at Riley.
"Honey, you know I don't watch football."
"It's about time you did...at least figure out the teams."
A/N: heheheheeheheh Joshaya gives me heart palpitations….did you guys like my football pun? IN HONOR OF FOOTBALL SEASON STARTING BACK UP! How'd you like this chapter? Please REVIEW! IT GIVES ME MOTIVATION.