Riley pov

"Riley, honey are you okay?" Maya asks knocking on my door. I wipe my eyes and say "I'm fine Maya just feeling a little under the weather." I fake cough so she wouldn't come in. I hear her laugh and walk in. I burrow down in my blankets and she throws herself on me.

"Peaches I can't breathe with you on me." I say trying to move her. She rolls off me and gets under the covers. She frowns when she sees the tissues and gummy bears. "Honey what happened?" She says putting her hand on my cheek. I start crying and say "I'm so humiliated Maya. I trusted him!"

She hugs me and says "it's okay riles." I sigh and throw the blankets off us. I get up grabbing the jar of jellybeans and start pacing in front of my bed. "Riley tell me what happened?" I wipe my eyes and open the jar and start throwing them in the trash.

"honey what are you doing?" I close the jar and slump down by the bear I won. Maya sighs and says "those are from huckleberry aren't they?" I nod my head. She sits by me and I rest my head on her shoulder. "Can the world just be you and me?" I asks her. She pats my hand and says "yes but still tell me what happened?"

I take a deep breath and tell her everything. "Riles why didn't you tell me?" She says when I get up and sit on my bed. I give her a look and she says "oh yeah. Sorry." I throw myself back on my bed and say "I give up Maya. You were right the first time hope is for suckers."

She lays next to me and grabs my hand saying "don't say that Riley. You believe in Pluto and in love don't give that up." I sit up and say "Jaime had it right." Maya looks at me confused and says "who is Jaime honey?" I sigh and turn on the tv and press play.

"I really have to stop buying into this bullshit Hollywood cliche of true love." Maya turns the tv off and says "Riley that is a movie and Mila Kunis falls in love with Justin Timberlake in the end." I look at her and sit at the bay window and say "well not everyone gets the same ending."

Lucas pov

Luke.. Lucas." I hear someone say. I groan and wince from the pain in my eye. "Dude what happened to you?" Zay says walking in the house with Farkle. I groan and walk to the fridge to get another ice pack. "Well Isaiah yesterday I had this amazing beautiful girlfriend who I was completely happy with and next thing I know my idiot best friend opens his big mouth!"

I lunge for him but he hides behind Farkle. "Whoa calm down freak face." Farkle says putting up his hands. I slump down against the wall. "What happened to your hand?" Zay asks peeking from behind Farkle. I look at it and say "I may have hit the wall after Riley left." He sighs and goes to get another ice pack.

They both sit on either side of me and Zay says "I'm sorry Luke I know me and my big mouth always cause problems." I nudge him and say "no you were right I should have just been honest from the beginning. This one is all me, I was the one that screwed things up." They both put their hand on my shoulders.

"Look Zay told me..." Farkle starts to say but gets interrupted by Maya pounding on the door. "Open this door right now Lucas Friar so I can kick your ass!" She yells banging harder on the door. "Damn she called you by your name that can't be good." Zay says getting up.

I shake my head and open the door. "If you want to hit me go ahead I won't stop you." I say closing my eyes. I open one eye when I don't feel anything. "Aren't you going to hit me?" She just stands there and looks at me. "I see those boxing classes Josh took her to paid off huh?" She brushes past me and hits Zay in the arm.

"Ow! Honey nugget why did you do that?!" He says rubbing his arm. "I should do worse things to you but I promised Riley." I admittedly perk up at hearing her name. "How is she Maya?" I ask slumping down on the floor again. Maya looks at me and sighs saying "well how would you be if the boy you have feelings for turns out to be your pen pal and lied to you about it?"

Farkle stands up and says "hold on. You? Your MadDogg? Riley's old pen pal? I thought she wasn't talking to him anymore after that argument with Mr. Matthews?" I look at Farkle confused. "Wait. What argument?" Maya grabs a chair and says "huckleberry did Riley ever tell you the reason she didn't tell anyone you two still talked?" I shake my head and she smiles.

"You have to understand Rileytown was huge back then and riley never really came out of there. The year your dad died Riley was devastated for you, she wanted nothing more than to be there for you. She felt a connection with you and it made her go so deep into rileytown that she even tried to bribe our 6th grade teacher for your address to be with you."

I smile thinking back to that time so I say "I remember she ended up sending cookies and books she thought I would love and a bear for Lily Anne. But they were sent from a Ms. Lee with a card from Riley inside." Farkle and Maya exchange a look. "What?" "After you got the package Riley went home and she was over the moon she hoped that would convince Matthews to let her go visit. But he told her that you lived to far and she was to young to be visiting someone she was only supposed to know for three weeks."

I frown and get up tossing the ice packs in the fridge and grab a water. "So that doesn't explain why no one knew they still talked to each other. How come you didn't Maya?" Zay asks as we move to the couch. She chuckles and says "well I may have made the situation worse by saying Riley wanted to go because she fell in love with you. I use to tease her and call you her boyfriend that she never seen."

My eyes go wide and I say "what?" "Calm down ranger rick. I wouldn't get all happy just yet." I frown again making her laugh. "So cotton candy face loves MadDogg?" Zay says trying to figure everything out. Maya grabs a water and says "well I want to say no but after her dad told her to delete her email and stop talking to well you.." she says gesturing to me. "She cried for weeks and then I knew that it was more than friendship she felt. She tried to deny it but I seen her face when you would email and how she was after."

I get up and hit the wall making everyone jump. "Lucas!" Maya shouts standing up. "Riley is right I am a jackass! I had so many opportunities to tell her and I let my fear and insecurities take over and stop me from being with someone that I could..." my eyes go wide and they all shout together "could what?!" I chuckle and say smiling "I love her! That connection you said she felt for me Maya I felt it too. I still feel it. It's like this force I can't describe exactly but when I'm with her I'm just..."

"Happy." Zay says finishing my sentence smiling at me. Maya smiles and walks up to me punching me. "So how do you plan to win back your girl." I smile.

Riley pov

"Who can take the sunrise sprinkle it with dew!" I felt my phone buzz and pause the movie. I close my eyes hoping it wasn't who I thought it was going to be. I look at it and breath a sigh of relief.

Peaches-how you feeling Riles?

Honey-a little better. Just wish I didn't eat all my gummy bears. :(

Peaches-lol do you want me to bring you some?

Honey-would you?

Peaches-of course! Count to 10! And then open your window.

Honey-why

Peaches-just trust me riles

I put my phone down and start to count. "1234...10." I hear tapping just as I finish and I start smiling. "Peaches that was quick." I say going to open the window. I pull back the curtains and quickly close them when I see who was on the other side.

"Come on Riley talk to me please." Lucas says tapping once again. I back away from the window and start plotting Maya's death. He continues tapping but I don't move. I thought he left when I don't hear him anymore so i go to the curtains. "Riley please talk to me." He says once again.

"Go away Lucas or MadDogg whoever you're today!" I shout sitting on the bay window. "I'm not going anywhere I'll stay right here if I have to." He says. I could see his shadow he was leaning against the window. I see him look towards the window but doesn't move and neither do I.

Twenty minutes go by and I see him standing and I thought he was leaving but he just started pacing and mumbling to himself. He taps again and says "if you won't talk to me then please just listen." I pull my legs up and hug them resting my head on my knees waiting for him to speak.

"When I first started writing to you I didn't think our friendship would last more than those three weeks. I was an angry kid and writing with you kept all those demons away. You made me smile and feel genuine happiness each time I got an email I was overjoyed." He pauses and I see his shadow he was looking up. "Losing my dad was one of the hardest things I went through, my mom and the rest of my family was sure I would turn back into that angry kid I once was."

I see him start to move. "For awhile I really thought I would but what nobody knew was that I had a goofy angel that sat on my shoulder and kept me calm. When someone tried to provoke me I always told myself what would PDS do." When he says this I start smiling but quickly stop. "I always felt a connection to you and when I moved here I felt it even stronger but I tried to deny it. I can't even give you a reason why but.. I did."

I pull the curtain back a little and watch him. "When I found out who you were I panicked. I looked back at everything we wrote when I first moved here and I just... I just felt like a complete idiot for not putting it all together. Seeing the way I treated you it just killed me. I know you probably won't forgive me for lying but my insecurities and fear kept me from being honest and I know that isn't a good enough reason and I know what you will say but I need you to know something."

He stands up and walks a little then crouches down right where I was. "I love you Riley I know we don't know each other that well except in email and I want the chance to prove to you that I'm the same me and that you can trust me again." He starts to get up but stops and says "remember what you first said to me when I told you I wasn't going to continue writing to you? You said trust me and that you were very persistent. Hakuna matata it means no worries. You told me I couldn't get rid of you and honestly I don't want to."

He gets up and leaves after that and I wipe away the tears that I didn't know started falling. I see the bear I won on our date staring at me. "Don't look at me like that? I'm still mad at him." I get up and blow my nose. "Yes that was a good speech but I don't know if I'm ready to forgive him yet." I say looking at my bear again. "Leave me alone everything is just so confusing."

"Riley honey are you okay?" My mom asks knocking on my door. I sniff and say "yeah I'm fine. Why?" I hear her laugh and say "well it sounds like you're arguing with your bear." I look at him and stick my tongue out. "Yeah I am." "So who's winning?" I glare at the bear and say "undecided we both are bringing good points to the table." I lay down and stare at the ceiling. "Riley are you sure you are okay?"

I let the tears fall and whisper "I don't know anymore."

Up next Lucas remembers the one thing that makes Riley happy and puts his plan into motion. I might have got my inspiration from the movie friends with benefits for his big plan. :) be prepared the end is near