~ Riley's POV ~

After they let me leave the hospital, my parents drove me home. The ride was silent. No one talked. I had to break the silence.

"Mom, where's Auggie?" I asked, hoping for a good response.

"With Shawn, why?" My mom turned her head to look at me. I stared her in the eye for a second, debating telling her the truth or not. I choose not. I turned my gaze to the window and looked at the people passing by.

"I just want to see him." My voice cracked. Do you think that they would figure out why? No way. I went into my phone and deleted the evidence of the threat. However, I did keep everything else, in case I needed it in my, or Lucas's defense. Lucas. I hope that he is ok.

After we got home, Auggie was already home. I gave him a big, long hug, leaving a confused look on his face, before heading to my room for the night. I locked my door and sat on the bay window.

I looked around my room, at all of the memories. I thought of Maya and Lucas, Farkle, Smackle, and Zae. Lucas and Maya. Tears started to settle in my eyes. I walked over to my mirror and gazed into it, and gazed at the being staring back at me. Derek was right about everything. I had everything, and now, I ruined it. I lost my sweet Lucas to the Texan everyone feared, I lost my parents trust, I lost my smile and my laugh. I lost it all. He was right about something else too. I am ugly. I am stupid. And now, I was nothing.

I crumbled to the ground and began to cry. I cried about everything. I found the strength to stand up and walk into my bathroom. I sat on the toilet, my stomach unsettling. My thoughts were scaring me. I shook my head, trying to think of happy thoughts, but they were eaten, by the nightmare that I was living. I looked down at my hands. They were trembling. The thoughts that were passing through me were simply terrifying. I grabbed my head and pulled at my hair. My stomach felt worse by the minute. I thought I heard a noise come from my room, but it didn't phase me. Not until a hand was resting on my shoulder.

~ Lucas POV ~

She turned her head and our eyes met. "L-Lucas?" she whimpered. My heart broke. He face was covered in tears and makeup stains and her body was trembling.

"Riley?" My voice squeaked. My cheeks burned with fury and my eyes filled with tears. They filled with tears because of the pain I felt from seeing her like this and the guilt for being part of the cause.

Before I could even move, she wrapped her hands around me and cried into my shoulder. "Lucas, don't ever do that again, please." She squeezed tighter and so did I.

"Riley, I'm so sorry that I fought him. It was wrong." I put my head in her hair, feeling guilty about everything.

"Just to have you know," came a trembling voice from behind, "he backed off the fight after remembering his changes. He left the fight on top, without getting hurt or, seriously, hurt Derek." Riley lifted her head off of my chest and gazed upon the blonde hair girl she had been through everything with.

"Maya?" Riley grinned as Maya came over and joined our hug. Riley placed her head on my chest once again, and we sat there like that until Riley spoke up once more.

She spoke quietly, and her words were muffled by my chest. "Are you ok Lucas? There is dried blood on your nose," she said, lifting her head. "Let me…" she started to move but I held her tighter.

"I'm fine Riley. For once, stop worrying about us and let us worry about you." My tears, for the most part, had dried up now, leaving streaks of a whitish chalk on my face. "You, however, should get cleaned up." I lifted her up off the ground and sat her on the toilet. Maya sat next to her with her head on Riley's thigh. Riley wiped her eyes with one hand and played with Maya's hair with the other. I dampened a cloth and wiped away all of her makeup and tear stains.

"I probably look worse now than I did before." Riley meekly joked.

"Riles, you don't need makeup to make you look pretty. When was the last time you looked in the mirror and thought, I look pretty today?" Maya said softly, her head still on Riley's thigh.

Riley looked down at her still shaking hands and sighed. "Too long."

Time just froze. I stayed standing, staring at my beautiful, and hurt, girlfriend. Maya stayed with her head on Riley and held her trembling hands. And Riley stays looking down as if she was ashamed.

"Riley, you don't have to be scared, or worried or ashamed anymore. We all know, you can tell us how you feel." Maya said softly, stroking Riley's hands.

"I-I… I can't." With that, Riley stood up and walked out without another room. Maya looked at me with a blank stare. Neither of us knew how to deal with this. But someone else did. Farkle.

(A/N: Thanks for all of you who are still reading and following along. I am so glad that Farkle is actually going to come into play very soon. I know that this chapter was rather long but you guys deserved it after the last few were pretty short. Hope that everyone has a fantastic day! Keep on reading!