Chapter 8
A Little Resolution
Is At Hand
Disclaimer: Well its been awhile since I updated this. Many thanks to the guest known as A for the encouraging words sent my way regarding this story. Anyways, let's bring on the action!
February 10th, 2016 Wednesday 4:00 PM in the Art Classroom
Maya surprisingly enough was still at the John Adams Middle School, working on a little art project of her's for one of the group functions the city had for art that Mrs. Kossal had awesomely gotten her involved with. This also helped to keep her mind off of things involving her group of friends. So engrossed was she in her work that she failed to notice Riley and Farkle come into the room and lock the classroom door. The two had decided that now was a good time to try and talk to their friend in the hopes it would help restore a little of the normalcy in their group of friends. And even though it'd been a few days since her mom's date with Shawn, her mom was still in high spirits. Though Maya had the feeling that was more to do with the fact Hunter was able to be around more often now a days. "Maya?" Came the hesitant voice of Riley, making Maya freeze in her motions.
"What?" She asked with a sigh as she turned to look at the brunette and realized she had Farkle with her as well.
"Can we talk? Please?"
"About what exactly?"
Ohh she's not gonna make this easy. Thought Farkle to himself.
Riley came a little closer to Maya before speaking up again. "About everything going on lately. Us not talking since New Year's… I don't like it and I want things to be okay with all of us again like it used to be…"
She had learned her lesson about listening to the wishes of others and she'd do whatever she had to in order to prove it. Riley could only hope her best friend and sister in all but blood would let her do it. "Hate to break it to ya, but there's always something that's going on that someone out in the world doesn't like. Something they probably can't do much about." Maya told her with a shrug of the shoulders over this little fact of life.
"And things can never go back to how they were before either after what's happened."
Riley didn't believe that and told Maya as much. "Don't be naive! To try and go back to what we had before would be to ignore what's happened. And it wouldn't teach us anything at all!"
Well… Riley and Farkle had to admit Maya had a point there. "You're right Maya, our recent experiences would only be devalued if we tried to ignore it."
"I have my moments Dr. Farklestien."
"I never thought otherwise!" Protested the genius as he walked up to her.
She gave him a look for that one which left him slightly confused. "Oh? And your apparent belief that I don't really know how I feel doesn't say the opposite?"
He blanched at that while Riley was looking very uncomfortable with the direction things were going in. The Blonde Artist smirked at the young genius. "Yeah, next time you two wanna talk about someone, make sure the door is actually… You know… Closed."
"I'm… I'm sorry."
Maya scoffed at him over that one. "Sorry for being caught?"
"No! For making assumptions about you without actually consulting you like I should have."
Honesty and remorse could be heard in his voice, causing Maya to actually have reason to believe him. "Yeah, keep that in mind for the future Farkle." She gave a pointed look at Riley to convey a similar message and the girl quickly understood.
"I promise you Maya, that I will do my best to respect what you want in the future. Just please, please give us another chance. I understand what you were telling me that night so much better now." Never again would she speak on certain matters unless given the okay to do so. Gaining their disappointment with her over otherwise was not something Riley really ever wanted to do again in her lifetime.
Though she had a feeling something like it was bound to happen in some way regardless of her intentions. Maya regarded her for a moment before speaking. "I will accept your promise and even forgive you, if you also swear to NEVER use my home life as examples for arguments or jokes ever again. That crap hurts and I seriously do NOT deserve that."
Riley winced as she hadn't ever realized that and felt horrible. She quickly assured her best friend she wouldn't do that again while hoping she would be able to live up to that. Farkle was also quick to make the same promise as well even though he'd never been one to make light of her situation. Silence reined in the classroom between the three teens with two of them hoping they could move forward while having their friendship restored. Maya honestly was tired of being apart from them and she knew that eventually a talk with Lucas was going to have to happen if they were going to really restore the group, but she didn't think she could handle that just yet as there was still so much pain from his actions that night. She could only hope that Riley and even Farkle could hold to their word or she would never be able to trust them again in any way.
"We can't go back, but we can move forward." Was all she finally said and it was more then enough for Riley and Farkle to realize that she was giving them another chance.
The two rushed her and pulled her into a group hug, relieved they were getting another chance with their blonde best friend and talented artist. They weren't sure what would happen next as Farkle still had his own issues with Lucas much like Maya did, along with Riley as well. But hopefully… Hopefully things would be really okay again.
Author's Notes: Hopefully this is seen as believable and if not, I apologize. My inspiration for GMW has been lacking lately and I still feel that Bay Window could have been A LOT better then what we got. I still haven't even seen the season finale yet for various reasons. Up Next: The Trio is back, Lucas quickly takes notice and feels even more horrible then before, and Zay finds himself curious over what Corn Chip Dave is up too. R and R!
