Breaking The Best-Friend

We walked into class, Mr. Matthews was stood droning on about a play by William Shakespeare, by the door. He turned around obviously expecting us, the look of surprise, confusion and lastly understanding passed over his face upon noticing our foreheads.

"Take a seat," he told us moving out of our way, "I'm keeping you two in over break, so don't expect to be off the hook for being late."

We guessed as much would happen, but we sort of thought he'd call us out in front of the class. As we walked to our seat neither of us dared to look at Riley or Farkle as they saw our notes. We just sat down and waited for Cory to continue on with his lesson.

"As I was saying, Shakespeare perfectly demonstrated the effect of unrequited love in his play 'Twelfth Night', by using Viola to become someone she wasn't, in this case Cesario, this meant that Orisno wouldn't even consider her as a possible wife because she pretending to be her brother." He continued, pointedly looking at me. "She then fell for Orisno, but couldn't express her feelings because she was a boy and she knew that he was already in love with Olivia."

I don't know how he did it but every one of his lessons had an underlying meaning to them. I knew that I was Viola, and I pretended to not like Lucas, who was Orisno, as I thought he liked Riley, which is Olivia. I was living a Shakespeare play. I understood what Mr. Matthews was trying to say, but I wasn't sure the rest of the class did.

Cory saw that and moved on, "like many of Shakespeare's plays we see love, heartbreak and betrayal throughout the storyline. Another one is 'Romeo and Juliet' who were willing to kill themselves because people didn't approve of their love. And just like them we shouldn't be afraid to take risks for love, though maybe stay away from the killing yourself part. Your parents would kill me." He ended, just before the bell rang signalling break.

Everyone stood up, collecting their textbooks, and filing out the classroom, leaving just me, Lucas and Mr. Matthews. I felt Lucas' hand on my arm and I covered it with mine to tell him that I wasn't nervous anymore.

"So then, Maya and Lucas? What happened?" Cory asked, wondering where to begin as he stood in front of us.

"Me and Lucas are together," I stated, there was no point beating round the bush, he already knew anyway. "You understand the forehead process, that's all there is to it. And by the way, Sir, I wouldn't be surprised if Riley didn't turn up next lesson."

"I know." He sighed, sitting down at his own desk. "This is all your fault Lucas!" He called out still staring at his work.

"With all due respect sir," Lucas began, gripping my hand now that we were alone enough. "You can't help who you fall for, just how hard you hit the ground."

Once again his perfectness shone through, it annoyed me to no end that I knew I could never as perfect as he was. He could talk as though he was reciting poetry, he could cook and he happened to love me. That sounded like perfection to me. With that we were dismissed and out into the awkward company of Riley and Farkle who were stood just outside the door.

"Who?" Riley asked us, as soon as we stepped through the doorway. Not why? Not when? But who. It had to be who. We knew she would ask us who kissed who eventually but we didn't think it would be so soon.

"Who did you betray?" The innocent confusion etched on her face broke my heart for her even more. She wasn't asking about the kiss, or should I say kisses, she was asking about the word on my forehead.

"The most amazing person in the world." I spoke, images of destruction of our friendship flashed before my eyes and the millions of ways Riley could react to the news. "I'm so sorry." I whispered, a tear slipping down my cheek as the impact of what I'd done hit me hard. How could I possibly have done this to her? she was too young to be experiencing heartbreak, least of all when I'm the cause. I knew how much she loved Lucas yet I still when with my heart not my head ad betrayed her. Lucas saw my tears and wrapped his arms around my shoulders so I could cry into him.

"It's okay," he whispered, I could here Riley repeat him, but I wasn't paying any attention to that. Just focusing on the way his shirt still smelt of my house, the feint cigarette smoke from a previous boyfriend of my mothers and the one expensive perfume of mine that I only wear when it's a special occasion.

"Do you know what it means?" I could hear Riley ask Farkle, from his face earlier it was clear he did.

"Don't tell her," Lucas tells him, not letting Farkle's adoration of the two girls get the better of him.

"Oh so you know as well?!" Riley exclaims clearly getting frustrated about being left out of the group. Truth was, Riley didn't know because she was involved, from outside of us three it was obvious, but when you're blinded by love you tend to forget about things beyond your own bubble. And to Riley she was blinded by Lucas, blinded be his utter perfection in her eyes. She didn't notice Lucas' forehead, she didn't catch on like so many of the student who we had come in contact with had down. She didn't see why both of us chose this day to write on our foreheads, she couldn't tell it was because they were connected. I didn't know how to say it, so I didn't.

My tears had dried up and before we knew it the warning bell went and we all scattered to our separate maths classes. Well I did, they all took AP maths being as they were smarter than me. No doubt Riley was grilling Lucas and Farkle about spilling my secret. Not even taking note of Lucas' own message. I just hope my boyfriend had enough sense in him to leave Riley to me.

After maths, came science. Finally, a class I can actually enjoy. Well some of the time. I was only really good at chemistry, and chemistry meant making things explode. It also meant my only class with only Lucas. Riley and Farkle were once again in AP science. This came in handy on Friday morning when we had science first because it meant that Lucas could come into school with me and no one would know. It also meant a time to be his girlfriend, I could relax in science knowing Riley was no where near us. It's not that I didn't want to tell her, I did it's just that I couldn't without hurting her.

A/N: thing are heating up in GMW aren't they? I think this chapters is a bit rushed. Tell me what you think xx

Fact #1 : did you know that Peyton Meyer (Lucas) was actually born on November 24th 1998? Did you also know that Sabrina Carpenter (Maya) was born on May 11th 1999? Meaning in reality they are both 15 but Rowan Blanchard (Riley) is really 13, that's an age gap...