I thought walking home would do me some good. I thought it would clear my head, but it didn't. Instead for the hour walk, I felt a mixture of feelings thinking he would come over me. He didn't, and if I'm being honest I was a little bit disappointed.

Relief washing through me as soon as I close the front door behind me shutting out the outside world. I push my back against the door and let out a deep breath that releases the anxiousness that built up inside of me.

"Where are you coming from?" My dad's voice causes me to jump throwing my head back and hitting it on the door.

"Ow." I rub my head while I walk to the couch to sit down next to him. "I had to go meet with an endorser to discuss things with the website." I realize what I said and look around.

"It's just me. No need to worry." Thank god. "How did it go?"

I inhale, "Well, let's just say I was ambushed."

"Ambushed?"

My dad around knows about the website, might as well tell him where I get some of my help from. "Yeah, one of the endorsers is actually Mr. Minkus."

I see my dad putting the pieces together. "Let me guess, he actually called you over there to talk to Farkle?"

"Bingo."

He hesitates a little, "You haven't talked to him or the others since you left, well besides Zay. Why did you stop the letter with him?"

"Honestly, he told me that he had forgiven Maya and Lucas. I knew eventually he would try to convince me to come back. I wasn't ready for that, and I still don't think I am."

"Well, how did it go with Farkle?"

I sigh, "Better than expected I guess." I look down at my hands. "I'm actually a little tired. I think I'm just going to call it a night."

My dad laughs, "It's a little after six."

"Give me a break I had an eventful day. Where's mom and Auggie anyways?"

"Mom hit a snag in a case. She probably won't be home for a couple more hours. And Auggie is with Ava. Those two are attached at the hip." I wonder if he knows about the promise ring. It's my dad of course he knows. "You know he got her a ring." See.

I let a small smile play at my lips, "I know. He should me. It's a beautiful ring. Has mom warmed up to the idea of Ava yet?"

"Your mom and Ava have one of those relationships where they live to annoy each other, but they really love each other." He laughs, "They're Topi and Ava."

"That they are." I smile and look at my dad, "Are you excited for Saturday?" I ask him.

"Of course, it's like marrying your mother all over again. Plus, you and Auggie will be there." He turns he head away from me. "I'm sorry I didn't warn you that your mom and I invited everyone."

"Why did you guys?" Curiosity showing through my voice.

"Well," he clears his throat, "they've always been here. Farkle and Smackle both stayed close and went to Columbia. Maya and Zay went to NYU, but Lucas he was the only one to leave. He went to Texas A&M after a semester off. No matter what, at least one of them would ask about you monthly. It was like clockwork." They did? "Your mom and I never told you because you wanted to cut all ties with them. They just wanted to make sure you were safe wherever it is that you were." He lets out a chuckle. "Farkle went as far as trying to bribe us for your whereabouts."

"He did?"

"Yeah, they all did something to try to get us to tell them. I almost told. Lucas-"

I cut him off, I didn't want to hear about him. "Dad I'm really tired. I'm going to go to bed." I reach over and hug him. "Goodnight."

"Goodnight, Riley." He places a kiss on my forehead. I saunter up the stair to my room.

Once in my room, I gravitate to the prom picture on the bedside table. The same one I always get lost in. But this time I have a fresh image of Lucas in my mind with the conversation with Farkle lingering in the back. Pieces of the story are missing and I'm pretty he has the pieces that I'm missing and I most definitely have the pieces he is missing. Right now all I can think about is prom night, and I can't stop the memory from playing in my head.

We're all sitting around the table wrapped into out significant over. Farkle and Smackle are lost into each other eyes. Maya and Zay are completely smitten with each other, and Lucas and I deep into conversation. I think right now would be a good time to tell him, but I stop myself when I hear thinking out loud playing; our song.

Lucas gives me a coy smile holding out his hand, "Shall we?"

I take his hand, "We shall." He leads me to the dance floor. His places his hands on my waist and I wrapped my arms around his neck as we start swaying to the music.

Lucas stares into my eyes. "You look so beautiful tonight Riley. I mean you look beautiful every day, but tonight you look wow." Lucas looks at me with a smile you could see from a mile away. It makes my heart race.

"I always wanted to look wow." I laugh. "How did I get this lucky?"

"HA! I'm the lucky one. I'm here with the most beautiful girl." He gestures to the gym of people, "Everyone here is jealous." I roll my eyes. "I'm serious Riley. You are so beautiful." He cresses my cheek. "I love you."

"I love you, too, Lucas." I place a soft, but passionate kiss on his lips. It sends a swarm of butterflies in my stomach.

The rest of the song we spend swaying and gazing into each other's eyes. I feel like the luckiest girl in this world. Nothing can stop me from loving him. We are strong enough to handle anything. Even the secret I'm holding. I want to tell him, but not tonight. Tonight, I want to enjoy this magical night that I've waited for.

The song finally ends, and we make our way back to the table. As we walk through the crowd, classmate after classmate come up to Lucas and whispers something loud enough just so that Lucas is the only one who can hear.

Lucas turns to me, "I'll be right back. I'll have to take care of something."

"Is everything okay?" I ask concerned.

He nods, "Yeah. I'll come find you when I'm done."

"Okay." He pulls me into a kiss with so much love I can feel it in my toes.

I watch him walk away and continue on my way when I'm stopped by a bubbly blonde.

"RILEY! You have to come take pictures with me and Sarah in the photo booth." Darby says, but she is already pulling me behind her.

A small laugh escapes my lips, "Okay."

We get to the photo booth and to my surprise there isn't much of a line. Some minutes go by before it's finally our turn. We walk over to the table props. Darby picks up a mustache that has a stick attached to it, so she can hold it up. Sarah picks up a pick tiara that compliments her white tulle short dress, and I pick oversize sunglasses because I thought they looked fun.

The three of us squeeze our way into the booth. "Okay the first one funny faces!" Darby commands.

Flash.

"Now duck lips!" Sarah says.

Flash.

"Now a nice smile." I say.

Flash.

It's the last picture and we all exchange looks and laugh. "Funny faces." We say in unison.

Flash.

We spend a few more minutes taking pictures trying out all the different props there are. I lost count of the number of pictures we've taken. We make our way out of the booth and wait for the pictures to finish printing out.

"These came out great! Here look." Sarah hand me strip after strip of the picture we took.

"This one is my favorite." Darby says.

"Yeah I like this one." Sarah says looking down at the strip.

"That was fun. I have to go get Lucas and Maya." I hold up the strip of photos in my hand. "Is it okay if I keep this one?" They both nod.

I push my way through the crowd trying to get back to the table hoping Lucas is there, but when I get to the table no one there. I look around the gym and see Smackle and Farkle on the dance floor tangled up in each other's arms to a fast pace song. My eyes continue to scan the room and I see Zay by the punch bowl talking Dave. I keep looking around the room trying to find Lucas, but nothing.

Yogi walks by, "Hey, have you seen Lucas?"

"Yeah I think I saw him walk to the bathroom in the hallway."

"Okay. Thank you."

"And have you seen Darby? I kind of lost her." Yogi lets out a nervous laugh.

"I was just with her and Sarah at the photo booth." He gives me a quick head nod before pushing his way through the crowd.

I head to the door that leads to the hallway. Two voices catch my attention. Two voices that I know like the back of my hand. Two voices who have always been there is sooth me.

I stopped in my tracks when I hear what Maya said. I must have heard wrong, but I didn't. I hide in the corner behind the lockers making sure they can't see me.

"Please leave Riley." I hear Maya's voice pleading with Lucas, my boyfriend.

"Maya stop. I'm-"

Maya cuts him off. "Lucas. Please." How can she do this to me. "You once said that you could never hurt me. You being with Riley will eventually hurt me because I know it'll hurt her." How will it hurt me? I have to know. I slowly move my head out so I can see them. My eyes lock with Maya's. I know she sees me, and judging by the look in her eyes she knows I heard. I'm about to step out when she does the unthinkable.

She grabs Lucas by his shirt the way she's always done and plants a kiss right on his lights. I watch as she pulls away and looks him square in the eyes. I hear her mumble, "Please."

My heart feels my it just got ran over by a bus. My vision starts to blur with the tears forming in my eyes. The amount of betrayal I feel right now is unreal. How can my best friend, basically, sister do that to me? She looked me right in the eyes before she kissed him. That is no friend let alone best friend.

What hurts most is Lucas didn't do anything to stop her. He didn't pull away he waited until she did. I really believed him when he said that he loves me. I need to get out of here the tears fought their way through and I can't stop them.

I turn on my heels to go back into the gym to get my stuff that I left at the table. When I bump into Zay, "Hey," he looks at me, "are you alright?"

"I-I-I'm fine." I wipe my tears away, but that doesn't do any good because I can't stop them from coming.

"No you aren't what happened? Do I need to go get Lucas?" I shake my head, if only he knew. "If you don't tell me, I'm going to get him."

I snap at him, "You want to get him. Fine he's probably still in the hallway with Maya connected to his lips."

"Wh-what?"

"Maya ki-kissed Lu-Lucas, my Lucas, right now." I look at him and he is as stunned as I was. "I-I'm getting my stuff a-and I'm going home." He walks away from me, but instead of going through the door that leads to the hallway he goes through the one that leads outside.

I finally reach the table. Smackle and Farkle are still dancing. There's no reason to ruin their night too by dragging them into the drama. I turn around to leave when a pair of green eyes are locked on me.

"Sorry I t-"

"I saw what happened Lucas." I stop him mid-sentence.

"Saw what?"

"I SAW YOU WITH MAYA!" I all but shout. If the music wasn't so loud, all eyes would be on us. "I'm leaving Lucas."

"I can explain. Just give me a minute. I know-"

"Save it! Leave me alone. It's over!" I hold in my tears until I'm out in the hallway. It was the closest door to me and I had to get away from Lucas. I finally let the tears fall freely.

"Riles?" I don't turn around I know who it is. She's the only one to call me that. "I can explain if you let me."

I brush my hand across my face before I turn around. "How can you do that to me!" I yell. "Especially when you know that I'm," I pause, "that I'm pregnant." I look around, good we're alone.

Maya's eyes are glossed over with tears, "I did it because you are pregnant. He's got into-"

"I don't want to hear it! Don't ever talk to me again!" I let the words come crashing out of my mouth.

There's silence between us, but it's broken when we hear the principle from the gym announcing prom king and queen. "And for your prom queen," pause, "RILEY MATTHEWS!" I hear the cheering, but that's the last thing I want to be doing right now if cheering that I won.

"You won." Maya whispers.

"Yeah, do you want it? I mean since you take everything else that is mine." I turn to walk away, but she grabs my arm.

"Riles."

I yank my arm from her grasp. "I mean it Maya I never want to talk to you again." I turn towards the door and I walk out of the school.

I don't know exactly know how I got home. After I left the high school, it was all a daze. When I get inside, I see my mom sitting on the couch by herself looking through files. I must have startled her when I closed the door because I see her jump.

"Riley, I wasn't-" her eyes finally reach my face, "What happened?" She rushes over to and hold me close to her.

I tell here everything that transpired tonight. Not leaving everything out. I have to stop a couple of times because I can't stop the tears from spilling out. I'm trembling as my mom hold me. "I told them both that I don't want to talk to either one of them. I lost my boyfriend and my best friend tonight." I look at my mom.

"Maya had to have a reason why she did what she did. Did you talk to her?" Is she serious right now? "I mean Maya wouldn't just do that. I don't see it. Something must be wrong."

I couldn't take it anymore, I snapped. "Are you fucking serious mom?" That was the first time I ever cursed at my mom and in front of my mom. I push away from her, "I'm here crying my heart out to you, and all you seem to care about is why Maya did it."

"Riley, I'm sorry. I know you got your heart broken tonight." She steps to me, but I take one back.

"I'm going to bed. I'm sure Maya will be over trying to talk to me. You can talk to her then, but please do one thing for me and don't let her near me." I watch as guilt washing over her face, but I don't care. I'm tired of always coming after Maya.

I go to my room and the first thing I do is make sure my bay window in locked. Tonight started so great I don't know why it ended this horrible. I unzip my dress and let it fall to the floor. I move around my room to my dresser to get clothes to sleep it. I slip on a pair of shorts and a tank top. Without even thinking, I reach for Lucas' sweater the way I do every night and I lose it. I drop to the ground and hold it against my body.

I start sobbing and it's not stopping. My breath is getting stuck in my throat because I can't stop. It's really over. I hold my hand over my stomach, "It's just you and me now. No matter what I'll love you." I'm trapped in a nightmare.

An alert on my phone gets my attention. I'm hoping it's Lucas or Maya telling me it was just an allusion they created and it didn't really happen. It's not. It's a text from Farkle.

Farkle
Maya told me what happened. Maybe it's a good thing this happened. Now you don't have anything holding you back from going to Berkeley. Get as far as way from here as possible.

"Unbelievable," is the only thing I can utter before I'm throwing my phone across my room.

I pull myself out of the memory. I'm curled up in a ball on my bed. This trip has brought nothing but heartache and tears. I fall asleep crying, the same way I did on prom night.