~Lucas~

I walk into school, head towards my locker and I unconsciously grab everything I need for the day. My mind is constantly replaying what happened last night. Did I do something wrong? I mean, she leaned in and kissed back, right?

"Yo! Furious Friar!" I hear Zay yell for my attention and start laughing. "You like that? It took me from when the big hand was at 2 until the big hand was at 11 to come up with that." I raise my eyebrows in disbelief.

"Seriously? It took you 45 minutes to come up with Furious Friar?"

"Yeah, why?" He asks, then whispers, "is 45 minutes too long?"

"No buddy. Not too long at all." I laugh and grab his shoulders, making him turn around. "In fact, you should show off to everyone how quickly you came up with my amazing nickname." I say sarcastically as I pushed him towards class. I figured I shouldn't overthink what happened last night.

~Farkle~

I see Riley talking to Maya by her locker so I walk up to them. "Hey, Riley. Maya" I nod. Riley replies and stares at me with a loving smile so I do the same. She's so pretty and funny and her personality's just...wow. We stand there staring at each other for a while, until I notice Maya watching us with an unsettling smirk. We both snap out of our trance when Maya purposefully coughs and makes both of us blush. I sheepishly smile at Riley and avoid Maya's eye contact.

"I-umm-I-I better go." I stutter, using my thumb to gesture where I'm going. "I have to discuss a presentation with my fellow nerds before class starts." I don't know what possesses me but I give Riley a quick hug before I leave. "I'll see you at lunch?" She nods. As I wave goodbye to the girls, I notice Riley touches her pendant and smiles. Boy, she's adorable.

~Maya~

I raise my eyebrows and my lips tug up into a smirk as I watch him leave then I face Riley.

"Wh-what is that face?" I take a step closer. "M-Maya what are you thinking?" I start circling her. "Maya you're scaring me, stop."

She starts tapping her feet with nerves and I continue circling her. "Why do you want me to stop sweet pea?" I halt in front of her. "It's not like you're hiding anything, right?" I tilt my head in question. "I mean, it's not like you, y'know like him or anything." I say nonchalantly, shrugging. Her eyes grow wide and the biggest grin is plastered on my face. "You do! You like him!" I whisper yell.

"What?! No! He's my friend-"

"No, I'm your friend. Farkle? He's- he's something else." I step uncomfortably close to her and glare. "Sooner or later you're gonna break. You're gonna spill all your emotions and cry to me about how beautiful love is. How you don't think anyone can be as perfect as Farkle. How you want to spend the rest of your life with him. How yo- Just break already! Admit it. You. Like. Farkle." But she doesn't do anything she just...smirks. Uh oh.

~Riley~

There is no way I'm giving her the satisfaction of breaking me. Two can play at this game Hart.

"You really want to talk about Farkle?" I find that she's backing away from me but I make sure the gap doesn't get too big. "How about we talk about Lucas, huh?" She opens her mouth to say something but quickly shuts it and frowns.

"Umm, wh-what about Lucas? Who's Lucas? I don't know any Lucas."

"Oh c'mon! You can't pretend like nobody sees the way he looks at you!" I repeat what she did to me earlier and stand intimidatingly close to her. "I may break sooner Maya, but later you'll break too."

I start circling her like she did before. "You'll admit how great it feels when he defends you. How, even though he might have anger issues, it feels amazing knowing he would never hurt you. How he would make sure no one else would break your heart because he'll protect you no matter what."

When I realize my circling is having no affect on her I just stop in front of her and cross my arms. "You will admit that you secretly like him too. It may not be sooner, but later. Hell, you might not even know you like him yet, but you will."

We both glare at each other until our eyesight blurs. "I don't like this game anymore." She states and we both burst into laughter.

"What, you don't like the game of truth?" I tease.

"The game of truth huh? So you admit that you like Farkle?" Dammit, that backfired.

I snicker and shake my head. "Shut up." I playfully push her. "Let's just go to class."

"Ahh, I love our love/hate relationship." She says as we link arms and head to class. I half smile, we may have been joking around, but there was still some element of truth behind what was said and I'm pretty sure we both know that.