Riley pov

"Riles are you sure you want to do this?" Maya ask me sitting at the bay window. I smile and say "Maya I'm just going to visit my grandparents I'm not leaving forever." I walk to my closet and pull out my suitcase folding my clothes in it. I stop when I feel her eyes still on me.

"Just say it peaches?" I say sighing. She walks over to me and sits on my bed. "Your running." I move over to my dresser and say "I'm not running Maya I'm simply giving myself some space." She lightly chuckles and says "sounds a lot like running to me." I roll my eyes and say "Maya I haven't seen them in awhile so why not."

She sighs and says "Riley don't go talk to him." I take a deep breath and say "peaches since when did you become team Lucas? I thought you were on my side?" She pats the space next to her and I sit down. "Riles I'm always on your side I just think you should tell him how you feel."

I swallow the lump in my throat and say "I don't even know how I feel." I lay back and try not to let the tears fall. Maya lays next to me and grabs my hand. "We both know you love him or you wouldn't be running away so close to New Years." I wipe the tears that fall and say "I don't know if I love him I'm just confused and I need time."

Maya looks at me and smiles and sits up pulling me with her. "Okay honey take all the time you need. But promise me something?" I look at her and say what. "If you do love him don't run from it." I smile and lightly chuckle and say "when did you get so wise about love?" She looks at me and says "well from you silly girl."

Lucas pov

After my big speech to Riley I let myself believe that she would magically forgive me and show up on New Years to meet liked we had planned. Maya had told me she went to visit her grandparents in philly but I held out hope. I waited on that bench in Central Park for her but she never showed up.

I sat watching all those couples celebrating the new year together but I stayed on that bench and waited. Zay texted me around 2 and said I should give up but I was determined to wait. I would wait forever for her.

When it turned 4 I decided to call it. I got up and started walking away leaving behind the last bit of hope I had left on that bench. I turned around one last time and felt my phone buzz. I figured it was Zay telling me to just give up but when I looked at it I started smiling and left with a renewed sense of hope.

PrincessDancingSunshine-I'm sorry but I need more time.

"Okay what is wrong with huckleberry?" Maya asks while we all were at the bakery. Farkle gets up and looks at my face making me chuckle. "He looks like he slept with a hanger in his mouth." He finally says sitting back down.

"Yeah for a guy that got stood up and almost ended up with frostbite you sure seem happy." Zay says sipping his smoothie. I glare at him and Maya hits him. "Oh come on be honest we were all thinking it." Before I can say something smackle walks in and sits on the chair muttering under her breath.

"What's the matter smackle?" Maya asks chuckling at her. Smackle rubs her head and says "have you ever have to sit through a weekend with someone who insist on watching nothing but musicals?" Maya and Farkle share a look and start laughing. "What?" She says looking between them.

"Smackle have you met Riley? She lives off those kinds of movies. One time Farkle made the mistake of saying Mary Poppins wasn't a good movie and we had to sit and watch that movie until he agreed." Maya says smiling at the memory. Farkle chuckles and says "remember she made us dress like Jane and Michael for Halloween and she was Mary Poopins."

I laugh and say "how old were you?" They look at each other and say together "15." We all start laughing and smackle groans and says "great now I got that song stuck in my head!" "What song?" Zay says laughing. "The one with the made up word which I told my sister is utter nonsense!" She says going to get a drink. I start grinning and look something up on my phone.

"What's going on in that brain of yours ranger rick?" Maya asks smirking at me. Zay looks at her and says wide eye "oh no don't get sucked into his brain that's where all his crazy is stored." I punch him and say "Farkle do you know someone who runs the ads in time square?"

Farkle gives me a look and I show him my phone. He smiles and stands saying "let me make a call." "Okay what is going on? Want to fill us in huckleberry?" Maya says moving into Farkle seat. I smile and say "well I may have figured out a way to make Riley happy again and to potentially embarrass me for the rest of my life but it'll be worth it." I tell them the plan and Zay grins saying "oh this might be the best story I ever tell!"

Riley pov

"So have you decided if you're going to forgive him yet?" My dad ask coming to sit outside with me. I smile and say "what do you know?" He chuckles and says "alot more now that I know Mr. Friar is your MadDogg." I frown and say "he isn't my anything dad and who told you?"

He smiles at me and we hear "I did." I look and see my mom coming out the back door. "Mom." I say when she smiles and sits next to me. "How did you know?" She looks up and says "I've always known Riley." I look at her confused and she laughs. "When your dad said you couldn't go to visit him and to end communication with him I've never seen you so sad." She says holding my hand.

"But I knew something was up when you started smiling again after 2 weeks. I figured if you really cared for him you wouldn't have gotten over that you couldn't write him anymore. So one night I went to check on you and seen your computer still on and seen your guys emails and messages."

I bite my lip and say "but you never said anything. Why?" My dad turns to her and says "yeah why didn't you?" She chuckles and says "Cory your reaction right now is reason enough I didn't tell you but sweetheart I didn't mention it because he helped you." I look at her confused and she smiles.

"He helped you when you were being bullied 7th grade. He was the one that talked you into telling someone." I stand up and start pacing back and forth. I stop in front of her and say "how do you know all this? I can't take these secrets anymore." I feel the tears coming and she gets up and hugs me.

"Sweetie I only know because I would look at your computer to make sure you were safe talking to him." I pull back looking at her and say "what?! Mom that is something dad would do I never expected you would too! That is a total invasion of privacy." Her and my dad start laughing together.

"She's right topanga that is something I would do." My dad says smiling at her. She chuckles and says "Riley I'm your mother it's my job to make sure you're safe and I stopped after that. I seen how much he helped you and how you helped him." I sit back down and wipe my eyes.

"So did you look at my computer to find out Lucas was him too?" I ask her. She shakes her head and says "no I put it together myself when his mom said she worried about him and that since his dad's death he was different. Plus she use to look at his computer too." I start laughing earning weird looks from both of them.

"Topanga she's losing it. See what boys do to her." He says looking at me. "Daddy I'm fine. It's just that's the reason you told me I could have my phone after that dinner and why you always tried to invite him over. To make us spend time together?" She nods and starts laughing with me.

"Great! I told you boys make girls crazy." My dad says standing up looking weirdly at us. "Dad you did the same thing with that history project remember?" I tell him getting up and hugging him. He smiles and says "that's because I know the story." My mom gets up and we all hug.

"Honey are you planning on forgiving him?" She ask looking at me. "I don't know what to do. Want to give me the answer?" I ask looking at my dad. "He chuckles and says "as much as I would love to tell you no boys till you're 80 I can't. And besides you need to look in your heart that's where the answer is. You just need to listen to it."

Lucas putting his plan into motion and Riley figuring out if she loves him or not all in preparation for the last chapter. Not sure if I'll do an epilogue and if I do if I want it to be years from now or a year later or weeks.