A/n- Hey guys I am so sorry that I haven't posted in a while but I hope that you guys enjoy this small part of my story. I know that I didn't fill you guys in on what actually happened at the mall but here it is part 1. I wasn't going to do this in parts but I wanted to leave a cliffhanger at the end.

Charlie Gardner could not believe his luck. He was finally going to meet up with his buddy that he hadn't seen in awhile, Farkle Minkus. No one knew this about them, but Farkle has been his best friend ever since his break up with Riley had happened. Until this day, Farkle still can't let it go. It wasn't his fault that he couldn't lie and if Riley couldn't understand that; then they weren't meant to be. It doesn't change the fact that he thinks about her all the time. He walked into the food court and spotted his friend sitting with Smackle and Zay?

Oh no, what the hell happened to make Farkle look so. He didn't even know what to make of it. It was a mixture of happiness, frustration, and anger. He approached the table wary because of Zay being the best friend of the love of his life's boyfriend.

"Hey, man. What up?" Charlie sat down at the table that was filled with ice cream and tacos.

"Hey, man. What the heck are you doing here?" Zay asked getting riled up. Farkle hit him upside the head and told him to cool off. Honestly, Zay had no reason to not like Charlie but because Lucas was his childhood best friend he chose to. If circumstances were different he would actually give the dork a chance, but he was trying to rekindle his friendship with Lucas which spiraled out of control when he found out about Nia and Casey. Especially, since Nia was his cousin and Riley was one of his best friends.

"Farkle, we don't know him and why all of a sudden is he here when we have things to figure out." Zay was eyeing the hell out of him and Charlie shifted in his seat. Zay didn't know anything about him and suddenly he wants to punch him. Already, Charlie could see that the situation that they were in were tight.

"Hey, leave him alone, Zay. If anything we should be upset with Lucas and his stupidity." Smackle replied in his defense. He had gotten to know her pretty well and she was amazing. Especially when he knew that Farkle felt out of place with the Scooby gang most of the time. That is what made them good friends to begin with. Charlie mouthed a thank you and turned his attention to Farkle who was looking intently at him. Charlie lend in and asked what was going on and what was Zay's problem?

"My problem is you and why are you in our business."

"Look at here, I don't really care what your problem is, but Farkle is my best friend and he called me here. So maybe I should be asking you the same thing."

"Quit it, guys. Look, Charlie and I need to speak alone. Smackle you may need to meet up with the girls now." Farkle said looking at his watch and then giving her a kiss goodbye. Smackle gets up and hugs both Zay and Charlie goodbye.

"Be nice, Zay. See you, Charlie."

"Zay?'' Farkle looked over at him with the when-are-you-leaving face.

"What? I am not going anywhere." Zay eyed Charlie and popping his knuckles.

"Look what is your problem man you don't even know me. So what is it?" Charlie asked wondering why everyone just loved to pick on him. Yeah, sure, he liked Riley when Lucas liked Riley but are they seriously going to do that with every man that turns their heads at her.

Zay seriously could not answer that and then he felt really bad and held his head in shame.

"Okay, look, I am sorry but Lucas is my friend and he is not going to be happy that we talked to you about this."

"So. Look, Zay, this is my best friend and how can he still be your friend after what he did. He practically ruined those two girls lives. Riley won't ever trust anyone ever again the same way she did before and Nia, your cousin, has a baby to care for and she hasn't even finished high school yet. The girl can't even live now because her main focus is caring for another person who is dependent on her to make good decisions. I don't see how you or Maya can justify that at all and it is not right. It wasn't right to keep this from Riley."

Wait what? "Wait, Farkle. I thought you said that Nia got an abortion."

"Yeah that's what we thought too but she came back with a little boy. A really adorable little boy." Farkle said pulling at his hair.

They sat discussing more of what happened for a while and Charlie kept thinking about Riley and how she was doing.

"Okay, so let me get this straight. So, Maya caught Lucas and your cousin together and didn't say anything for months until Nia sent him a pic of her belly. And Lucas had known about the baby and decided not to say anything because he was going to break up with Riley."

The two guys shook their heads simultaneously and kept going. "But he didn't because Riley and he went all the way two months ago so he told Nia to get an abortion." What a dick? Charlie thought.

"So, you guys just let him do this to Riley. Why?"

"We didn't want her to go through what Maya went through and if we did he would have just denied it. We thought that Nia was getting an abortion, so it would have been easy for him to lie about it. Riley would have eventually accepted his denial after some suspicions because Maya was on his side for some reason."

"Look, I don't understand why Lucas would do this to her but I do know that we can't let him hurt her again and that is why I wanted to talk to you. Look, Riley needs someone right now and it can't be one of us. We kept too much from her and Jessica too. Jessica and you need to be there for her more than ever."

"Wait, why me?"

"Yeah, why him?" Zay asked too because even though Charlie seemed cool and everything, he still felt as if he was betraying his friend.

"Because Riley still loves him, at least I think so." They turn around to see Josh, Riley's uncle, who looked very pissed and holding ice cream.

I really think that this is important to the story because we see that this has been practically eating away at Riley's friends even though she thinks that they were being selfish and inconsiderate of her feelings. I don't want anyone to hate Lucas because he is a boy coming into being a man and he believes that what he is doing is right and I have known many guys who believe that doing things like this is right but it is wrong. I am not saying that most guys feel like this but there are many that I know that feels like this. I will try to get part 2 out quickly and you guys have a nice day.