Farkle has been out of her window tapping for over an hour now, "Riley, can you just let me in? Let me explain. Tell me what's wrong and what I did wrong?"
Riley laid on her side facing the other side of the room, not facing the window, "Go away!"
"Gosh! Why are you even mad?" Farkle started to sound pissed banging on the window. After a while Farkle left as he walked all the way to the front door and give a knock, he was hoping Mr. Or Mrs. Mathews to answer the door and let him in
After a few knocks, the door swung open. It was Topanga, "Hey Mrs. Mathews," he smiled politely.
"Hello, Farkle." she gave him a weak smile.
"Can I come in?" he asked.
"Sure, come in." she said.
Farkle makes a few steps in and he spotted Mr. Mathews at the dining table doing his job. "Oh hey Farkle," Mr. Mathews greet him. "If you're planning to see Riley, she strictly informs us that she doesn't want to see anybody," he said.
"I know," Farkle give a big sigh. "I thought I'll give a shot, I've been at her window tapping for an hour and she won't let me in," he run his hand through his hair and took a sit on the couch.
Cory gets out of the chair and he walked to the couch and sit next to him "What actually happen at the pool? She called me, asking me to pick her up and she refuses to tell me why."
"Gosh, I don't know," he said as he leaned back on the couch.
"You know, that's just how pregnant women are, they get mad for reasons that we don't know and it just happen. Hormones," he said. "Like her mother," he whispered.
Topanga scoffed, "Cory? I'm here," she said. "And I can hear you loud and clear." and it made Farkle chuckle.
Topanga then took a sit next to Farkle and put her arm around him, "You know, when a girl is mad, there's always a reason. Even how small it may seem, there's always a reason."
"But well, I don't know why she's really mad at me," he groaned. "I've been really patient with her like really patient with her. Whenever sometimes she say mean things that sometimes may hurt my feelings, I always am reason with her. I tell myself that maybe that is the hormones talking. How I should be more understanding because I do understand what she's going through is hard but this is just-," he groaned.
Cory chuckled, "Farkle, even I can't deal whatever you are dealing."
"Well, how about you explain, what happen. So you could recall, what she's really mad about." Topanga said with her arm still around Farkle rubbing his arm to comfort him.
"Well, we were having a good time. Then we went to get ice cream and then we bumped into Isadora."
"Smackle?" Cory asked.
"Yeah, Smackle," he said."Then she talked about nice seeing me and stuff and-" Farkle stopped as he realizes why Riley was so mad at him.
Farkle realizes that she's mad that he did not say anything when Smackle thought that she was with Lucas's child. He said nothing.
"And?" Topanga and Cory asked.
"I need to go!" he said. "Thanks, Mr. And Mrs. Mathews for listening," he said and give Cory and Topanga a quick hug and leave immediately.
Riley stuck a spoon full of chocolate ice cream in her mouth as she was eating the ice cream straight from the tub.
"Gosh, Riles, slow down on your intake," Zay warned her as he chuckled.
Stopped eating with the spoon in her hand, she look up at Zay and gave him her best death glare.
Maya laughed, "one thing I learn about pregnant women, just let her do her thing."
"That doesn't even make sense," Zay cringed his nose and turn to Maya.
The core five except Farkle, are at the Topanga's hanging out because it's summer and Riley really want to hang out with her friends but she couldn't go anywhere since her due date is coming.
"Riles, if I say this, promise me you won't get mad," Lucas said and Maya shook her head and mouthing the word 'no' to him, trying to stop Lucas, "because this have been bottling up in me and I think as a friend, I need, to be honest," Lucas said.
Riley gave him her confused look, and put down her spoon and fold her arms on the counter, "Okay, then. Just say it. I think I can take it." she smiled.
"I think you're acting like a crazy jealous girlfriend and making an irrational decision-," Lucas said.
"WHAT?!" Riley yelled
"Let me finish," Lucas interrupted. "It's been what, 4 days already you ignored him? It's not right Riley, you guys are about to have a baby here. If you can let your jealousy ruined your relationship, I don't know what will happen in the future because there are much bigger obstacles. And this is just so stupid and small that you need to learn to let go," he let out a deep breath.
"But you don't know the whole story of it-" Riley tried to defense herself.
"I know, Riles. About Isadora and talking about she thought the baby was mine. Farkle told me everything. But the problem thing is here, you shut him out and refuse to let him explain. Please don't tell me, that is a rational move," Lucas now sounded a bit pissed.
Riley realizes how she's been acting this past couple of days, how she ignored Farkle's text and calls and wouldn't let him see her until at some point Farkle stopped thinking that she needed space. Why did she let her emotions blurred her judgments? she thought to herself.
"Talking about Smackle and Farkle. I saw them two days ago, together-" Zay said and Maya kicked him hard on his shin. "Ouch, Maya! Why did you do that for?" Zay whimper in pain.
Riley turns her face towards Maya, "That's not true. I mean it is true but I was just about to talk to you about that actually, at your place after this," Maya rambling trying to explain to her.
"Farkle went out with Smackle?" Riley asked with disbelieve and full of anger.
"Yeah," Zay replied and Lucas and Maya turn their face to him and give him a glare. Maya took her smoothie and poured it all on him, "I was expecting this actually," he said.
"Thanks a lot of guys." Rolled her eyes and got up and walked to the door before she tops and turn around, "You know how you said I'm a jealous girlfriend. Well, I'm not. Because now, I'm nobody's girlfriend. I'm just an emotional pregnant girl," she said and leave the Topanga's.
"Thanks a lot, Zay!" Lucas yelled and push him off the stool. Zay almost fell on his butt but he tried to maintain his balance and landed on his feet.
"You guys are so mean to me, mean couple!" Zay said.
"You did this to yourself!" Maya groaned. Maya let out a big sigh, "I'm going to talk to her!" she said and give Lucas a peck on the lips before leaving.
Maya went up to her apartment tried the bay window and she was nowhere to be found in her room. So she went to the front door and give a big knock. Cory answered the door, "Maya! Why are you here?" he asked.
"Is Riley home?" she asked, out of breath because of the running.
"Isn't she with you?" he asked worriedly.
"Oh, yeah. Probably she's with Lucas and Zay, I forgot," Maya lied. "Okay then, thank you. I got to go."
Maya called her so many times and leave her tons of voicemail but she did not call her back or replied her texts. "Gosh! Why won't she pick up!"
"Thanks for letting me hide in here with you," Riley said as she kisses his forehead.
Auggie gave her his most adorable smile, "Well, anything for my big sister. Why do you even need to hide in here?" he asked.
"I just need to," she said and slowly lay her back down on the bed.
"Okay, then. You can stay here as long as you want," he assures her.
Riley went home, a few minutes before Cory did and straight to Auggie's room because she knows that people will start looking for her and she don't want that. She needs her space to think clearly.
Riley saw all the missed calls, voicemails, and texts from Maya Lucas and even Farkle. She look through her missed calls and pressed on 'peaches', "Maya, I'm sorry I did not answer your calls. My phone was on silent." she said.
"Where were you!?" Maya yelled. "I was worried sick! I thought maybe you'd run away or anything-,"
"Maya!" Riley raised her voice and it made Maya stopped. "I'm fine, I just need space. Can you just give me space? I promise, that I'll call you tomorrow."
Riley can hear Maya's sigh through the phone, "Okay fine, call me as soon you're okay. Okay?" Maya said.
"Okay."
Riley turns off her phone for the whole day because she wants to be alone and not worried about other people. She was planning to spend her day in bed, reading the baby books and rereading her favorite novels. Suddenly she heard a knock on her door, "Come in," she said and looked up to see who it was.
"Hi Riles." he came in and closed the door behind him.
"Josh, what are you doing here?" she asked as she seems surprised that her uncle came all the way from NYU and standing here in her room.
He gave her a warm smile, "Oh I wanted to talk to you," he said.
Riley's raised her eyebrows, looking confused. "Okay?" she said. "What is it about?"
Josh rubbed the back of his hair, he does that when he's nervous. "Can I sit?" he gestured towards the bed.
"Sure," Riley pat her bed.
Josh somehow looked nervous like he was about to spill a secret, "Well, I heard you had a fight with Farkle," he hesitated.
Riley's eyebrows move forward, "How do you know?" she asked. "He told you is it?" she rolled her eyes. "Why is it has to do anything with you?"
"No, it's not him that told me about, this." he said nervously.
"Then who?" Riley asked, more confused than ever. "Is it Maya?"
"No, either," he replied.
"Woah, okay, then who?"
"Isadora."
"Huh?" she raised both of her brows. She was surprised to hear her name, because the last time she heard her name was from Zay, telling about Farkle and Isadora little meeting. "Smackle? Why is she the one telling you this?" she asked.
"Because, um-" he hesitated and look down at his shoes, finding the right words. "She's sorta my girlfriend-" he said and slowly look up to find Riley's expression.
"What?" she was shocked and blink her eyes a few times because she was disbelieving of what she heard. "What?" she asked again. "When did that happen? You pull the three gap year thing on Maya and now you're dating Isadora Smackle? Do you realize she's the same age as us?" Riley asked with her disbelieve expression that she can't seem to change.
"Well, it's a long story." Josh said and he gave her his adorable grin. "I'll tell you later. The thing is I'm here, not to talk about me and her. I wanna talk about you and Farkle,"
He explained as his grin turn into a serious look in an instance.
Riley groaned, "You cannot do that, tell me you're now dating Farkle's ex and not tell me the story. Whatever you wanna say, I refuse to hear unless you start telling me about you and Isadora and how this happen!? Does Maya even know?" she asked.
"Well, I don't think so," he said. "Well, I met her at the Yankees and Mets game. She was with her cousin, she looked uncomfortable with the noise and as she was struggling in the crowd, her purse dropped and all her stuff were on the floor. So I helped her. I swear to god I did not know she was still in high school. She was wearing a loose white tee with blue ripped skinny jeans and a pair of white sneakers with her hair in a ponytail," he said, remembering how beautiful she looks.
Josh caught himself smiling and he blushes.
"Continue," Riley said.
"Well, then she thanked me for helping her and I asked for her number, and she gave it to me. So, we start texting each other and send photos and stuff. Then we started talking on the phone and video call each other. She told me she's living in London now, I don't know why I did not ask her where she's studying at. All I know is I like talking to her. She's so smart, I tell you and that's why it never crossed my mind she's still in high school because when I ask her stuff about my studies, she always has the answer," he chuckles. "When she told me that she was still in high school, I was shocked, I mean why she did not mention it like before. But then I realize that I really like this girl and age just doesn't matter anymore," he gave her a warm smile of realization.
Riley smiled at him back and pat his hand, "I'm glad that you realize that now and that you're happy."
"I'm here to let you know that, Farkle went to see her because he wanted to explain about your situation and how he is the father. He told her that the reason he did not mention it earlier, it is because he was guilty. He cheated on her with you, that leads to this. So, he doesn't know how to put the words out there." he said and Riley could not look at his face anymore. She turns away, holding back tears that are about to burst. "Farkle wanted Isadora to talk to you but, I think it's better you know, I'm the one letting you know about this," he explains.
Riley did not give any respond because she was afraid that if she starts talking, she will start crying and can't stop.
"Okay, that's all actually. I hope that helps between you and Farkle," he said and he stood up and left.
As soon as he left, Riley squeezes her eyes shut and bury her head in the bed, grabbing a fistful of the blanket. Her shoulder shakes as her sobs that she tried to contain violently break out of her. She knows that what she did was wrong. The realizes that she have not been herself lately. Since she's pregnant, she has been so pessimistic about everything and she hates it. Riley was crying her heart out not knowing how to talk to Farkle and she cries herself to sleep.
The next morning, Riley was feeling much better than before, her eyes still puffy due to crying the whole night. She grabbed her phone from her nightstand and called Maya.
"Maya, I need your help," she said with sadness in her voice.
"Riley? Are you okay?" Maya asked worriedly.
"I need you," she let out her deep breath.
"Okay, I'm coming. Now."
Riley took a quick shower and put on her shorts and a big peach color t-shirt with a 'peace' writing on it. As she was struggling to put her t-shirt on, Maya came in the window.
"Riles what happen?" Maya said catching her breath.
Riley turns around, still struggling with her shirt and smiled, "Can you help me?" Riley asked.
"Yeah, sure," Maya said and walked to her, trying to pull the t-shirt down.
"Thank you," Riley hugged Maya.
Maya grabbed Riley's face, "Riles, have you been crying? You look awful!"
"All night actually," she let out a small laugh and Maya let go of her face.
Riley walked to the bay window and sit, resting her back on the pillows. "Why haven't you call me? I could've been there." Maya turn around and walked to her.
"Josh came yesterday after dinner-" she stopped. "Do you know he's dating Smackle now?" she blurts out.
"I know," Maya chuckled.
"What? How do you even know?!" Riley asked in confusion and surprise.
Maya took a sit next to her, "Well, that was the thing I wanted to tell you the day at the Topanga's but you ran off and refuse to talk. Farkle told me about them, I was surprised. Like really surprised. He pull the 3-year gap with me and date somebody my age. That's just an asshole move. But then again, it surprises me that I'm not jealous even a bit. Because I realize that I only like the thought of him, not him. Besides, who wants to be with a guy that doesn't even want to get to know you. I want someone that knows all my flaws and weaknesses and loves me anyways," she explains as she blushed the thought of the guy that actually loves her.
"Like, Lucas," Riley whispers. "I heard he spent the night last night."
Maya's heart skipped a beat, and her eyebrows furrowed, "How do you even know?" she hesitated.
"Zay text me before you came here, asking. 'Do you want to know something?' So I replied, 'yeah sure'. He said that Lucas came to your place last night and did not come home." she chuckled. "So, you guys-"
"No!" Maya shouted. "Sorry, no," she lowers her voice. "We were watching a movie and we fell asleep. That's all," she said trying to sound casual.
"That's it? Watch a movie and fell asleep?" Riley raised her eyebrow.
"And, maybe. Making out a bit," she whispers.
"Why won't you just tell me you guys had sex?" Riley said and chuckled more.
"Because we did not. After what happen to you, we were afraid. Okay? Anything could happen. So we decided to wait when the time is right," she sounded defensive. "I'm sorry Riles, I didn't mean it that way," Maya change her tone to guilt.
"It's okay Maya. I think it's good that you know people could like to learn from my mistakes because this mess is hard. He's good for you Maya, I'm glad you found him," she gave her an assuring smile. "By the way, Josh came here yesterday and explain everything and that why I was crying my heart out last night. I screwed up badly, Maya. Real bad, and I don't know how to fix it!" her eyes started to become watery.
"Hey, it's okay Riles. We'll find a way," she scooted closer to Riley, put her arms around her and hugged her tight.
