Cory was running late to detention, a completely irresponsible action on his behalf but what could he do? He'd forgotten he had playground that day so he'd just have to hope that Lucas and Maya behaved while he was gone – at least with Lucas there Maya wouldn't just ditch, he was Lucas the good after all and if they weren't on speaking terms as he suspected then mischief wouldn't be a problem either… he hoped.

/

"Lucas why are you here – you don't have detention"

"Actually I do, I didn't hand in my history paper so now it looks like you have company which is great really because I need to talk to you, I know you've been ignoring since the weekend"

"Look Lucas I don't really know what there is to talk about"

"I told you how I felt and I know that isn't what you wanted to hear because you love Riley but how do you feel about me? I realised I loved you when we kissed because I really felt like we connected – you can't just tell me it didn't mean anything to you and you can't just tell me who I'm supposed to love!"

"Lucas Riley is my best friend – I'm not supposed to like you, I'm not allowed to like you But…I do."

And suddenly their lips were touching, she'd filled the space between them just like that. He pulled her closer to him, his fingers in her hair and she wrapped herself around him not wanting to let go. They were losing themselves in the moment when a voice shattered it all…

"FRIAR? HART?!"

Maya turned around frantically

"Mr Matthews…."

"Is this why Riley's…not Riley?"

"Yes sir… but you can't blame Maya, it was my fault and I never intended on hurting Riley"

"I think you should leave Maya, Mr Friar will be sitting this detention alone"

"Mr Matthews I don't think you can-"

"Go home Maya"

"Ok…"

/

Great. If that wasn't awkward then Maya didn't know what was. To have a teacher walk in on you kissing some guy is awkward enough but when that teacher is also your best friend's father it is a whole lot worse. And when that boy also happens to be your best friend's ex-boyfriend well, things don't exactly look great on your behalf.

Cory was a very overprotective father, in fact is was a surprise he'd let Maya stick around for all those years considering the fact that she was so clearly a negative influence on his child. He'd been extremely lenient knowing about Maya's home background and all but she'd really blown it this time. To get into trouble, be cheeky and disruptive were one thing but to actually hurt his child well… she wouldn't be surprised if this was the end of their friendship. And all over some dumb boy.

Except she couldn't let it be… she needed Riley, she was the best part of her. The only thing Riley could possibly hate more than the fact that Maya had feelings for the boy she used to call her boyfriend and had kissed him (what was she thinking?!) was if she lied to her about it. It was time to come clean…

/

Riley wiped the tears from her eyes… tears of laughter that is.

She definitely did not regret opening up to the Minkus boy about her breakup with Lucas and was determined to move on past it.

They were currently sitting in Sherry's Diner, a small café close to Farkle's home where Riley was halfway through a strawberry shake and Farkle an Oreo one. Farkle had been making her laugh with a story about Johnny from chess club who had a crush on Darby. When Yogi had found out he'd gone mad and from what Farkle had described it was hilarious.

Yeah she missed Maya but it didn't look like Maya was going to talk to her anytime soon and she was actually quite enjoying bonding with her geeky friend. Dare she say even questioning feelings for him? It was too early to tell for sure, she didn't want to dive into this one headfirst like she had with Lucas but she definitely felt sparks between them…