Riley was about to go to sleep, but before she could her phone buzzed. A text. 'Nobody ever texts this late, so it must be important,' she thought to herself. Sure enough, it was an urgent text from Maya.

"Coming over. Really scared."

Maya was never scared, so Riley was concerned. It must've been a nightmare.

A few minutes later, Maya came in through the window and immediately jumped onto the bed next to her.

Riley was caught off guard, but still quickly turned her attention to her. "What's wrong?"

Maya leaned into her and whispered, "Everything... We're growing up and it's scaring me..."

Riley's expression softened. She was just afraid of growing up. She softly kissed her temple and whispered, "It's alright, Maya, everything is going to turn out okay."

Maya looked at her, eyes full of sorrow. "But what if it doesn't? What if it all goes wrong?"

Riley smiled slightly. We'll go through it together; we'll have each other's backs."

Maya snuggled further into her. "Even if that's true, we'll still have to go through something bad. I don't want anything bad to happen at all..."

Riley sighed. "Unfortunately we can't control that."

Maya took Riley's hand and quietly admitted, "I wish we could, the unknown is scary..."

Riley moved their interlaced hands up and kissed Maya's knuckles. "I know. I wish we could too."

Maya tighted her grip on Riley's hand as she held back tears.

"It's okay, we don't have to grow up right this second."

Maya looked up, then pressed her lips to her cheek, kissing her softly. She stayed there for a while, then pulled back.

Riley smiled at her affection.

"I'm afraid that when we grow up, we'll lose each other. I don't wanna lose you," Maya confessed while choking back tears.

Riley's heart wrenched. She sounded so... broken. Riley nuzzled her comfortingly. "I don't think I could ever stop loving you."

Maya sudden started crying. "You don't know for sure!"

Riley covered her sobbing friend's mouth and hushed her.

Maya whimpered and continued to cry.

Riley, who was still covering her mouth, gently moved her fingers across Maya's cheek to brush some tears away. She then laid down, pulling Maya with her, and kissed her on the forehead. "Hey, at least I can say right now that I love you. You're right, I can't promise forever, but I can promise right now." She then removed her hand from Maya's mouth so that she could speak.

Maya looked up at her with big, blue eyes. "I love you too..."

Riley smiled slightly and touched their foreheads together, their hands still interlaced.

Maya moved her other hand up to Riley's cheek and brushed the back of her hand over it.

That gesture affected Riley so much, she could now feel tears in her own eyes.

Maya knew how much Riley loved her, she really did, but forever was a long time. So long, that she believes it's impossible to love someone for that long. She looked at Riley again, this time noticing that this has affected her too.

Riley knew that she had noticed so she smiled a smile of sympathy. "I'm okay, Maya."

Maya shook her head. "No, you're not. You're scared too, aren't you?"

Riley looked at her for a second, then broke down. "I'm scared too," she admitted under her breath.

Maya got closer so that their noses touched. "I've got you," she whispered, looking into her eyes.

Riley closed her eyes as tears began to fall. They were afraid of losing each other. Everything hurt. It was if someone had punched them in the gut.

Maya gently kissed Riley's closed eyelid and whispered, "Hey... I'm here."

Riley opened her eyes. "The only thing impossible is impossibility. I will continue to love you as long as it's possible."

Maya smiled slightly. "Quoting Phineas and Ferb, are we?"

Riley blushed and snuggled up under her chin.

Maya finally smiled and rested her chin on Riley's head, hugging her close to herself.

Riley hugged her back and whispered into her neck, "I love you, Maya..."

Maya smiled a little. "I love you too."