Rilaya One Shots - Chapter 3

Riley and Maya were sitting in the bay window, Maya was drawing something as usual and Riley was taking turns looking out the window at the sky and watching Maya draw. Riley has something on her mind that she's been wanting to ask Maya and finally decided that now would be the best time.

Riley - "Maya?"

Maya - "Hm? Yea Riles?" Maya answers Riley looking up from her sketch pad .

Riley - "Why is it you never have a boyfriend or ever go out on any dates?"

Maya looks at her best friend in mild bewilderment, not believing that she just asked her that. "Riley that is not a topic I care to discuss. OK?"

Riley - "But Peaches, I am your best friend and I just want you to be happy in every way possible. You deserve to be happy."

Already annoyed with this conversation Maya looks back down at her sketch pad. "I don't need a guy in my life to be happy Riley. Now just drop it."

Riley looks at her best friend hesitantly, knowing that what she is about to say next is probably going to really piss her off but it's something she feels need to be said. "Maya please don't hate me for saying this, but I know you have serious abandonment issues due to your real dad leaving you." Riley was right, Maya's head snaps up from her sketchpad again this time with an extremely angry face looking at Riley. "I know you don't like talking about that situation unless you yourself brings it up. I'm sorry I did so but I just want to let you know not everybody leaves Maya. Look at me. Look at Farkle. We have known you over half your life and we haven't left you and we never will."

Maya - "Riley you better have a damn good point with bringing all this up. And you better get to it real fast."

Riley - "My point is everybody needs that special someone in their life. Even someone who is strong and independent, and could take on the world by herself IF she had to."

Maya - "I have plenty of special people in my life. I have you first and foremost. I have my mom and dad (Shawn), I have your mom and dad, I have Farkle, Lucas, Zay, and Smackle. And I know how blessed I am to have you guys and that is more than enough for me."

Riley looks at her a little strange. "But Maya, they are your friends and family. They can never give you that kind of love."

Maya now feeling the frustration but trying to keep her cool cause she hates yelling at Riley looks at Riley again. "No one is ever going to give me that kind of love."

Riley - "I don't believe that at all. You just have to look. I mean come on we're in high school. There are tons of people around us all the time. Someone out there has to be triggering some butterflies in you stomach."

Maya sighs loudly. "If I tell you one thing will you drop this whole conversation then?"

Riley - "Maybe."

Maya not too thrilled with Riley's answer decides to tell her anyway hoping it will just end this nonsense. "There is someone. There is someone out there who triggers the butterflies in my stomach. There is someone who I want nothing more in life then to spend the rest of my life with in that way. There is one and only one person out there that I truly believe is my one and only soulmate...But this person could never return those feelings. So there is no point in even trying, OK? So please Riley, just please drop it." Maya feels completely drained at this semi confession. She simply just drops her head.

Riley - "Who is it?"

Maya - "OH MY GOD RILEY! You know what?! I'm done! I'm leaving!" Maya shuts her sketchpad and stands up from the bay window bench and is about to leave when Riley grabs here wrist firmly, not hard enough to where it hurt but hard enough to show Maya she is not letting her go anywhere. Riley then tugs on it a little and even though she is beyond frustrated at this point Maya sits back down and looks at Riley again.

Riley - "Who. Is. It?" Riley says more seriously than she has ever said anything in her life. Maya doesn't really know how to react to this but she is still filled with frustration so she just goes off.

Maya - "Fine! You wanna know who it is Riley?!...It's you! It's always been you! You are the only one I wanna spend the rest of my life with! And yes in that way! I Love You Riley! I am IN LOVE with YOU! And you will never be able to return that kind of love to me." Maya is getting quieter now. "So you know what I do? I shove those feelings down deep, as deep as I can and I openly receive the love you do give me. And that is good enough for me. Not just because it has to be but simply because it's from you." Maya due to frustration and finally confessing to Riley whether it was forced or not is now in tears, feeling like she can't even look at Riley anymore.

Riley just looks at Maya confusingly. "Maya you weren't listening to everything I said very carefully were you?"

Maya exhausted answers Riley without even looking up. "What do you mean Riles?"

"Well there was a few things I said intentionally the way I said them, but only one that truly matters. When you said you had plenty of special people in your life, naming me, your mom and dad, my mom and dad, Farkle, Lucas, Zay, and Smackle, I said THEY couldn't give you that kind of love."

Maya - "Riley I am extremely tired all of a sudden and I have headache. What's your point?"

Riley - "I said THEY Maya not we. I said THEY cause I wasn't including myself in the part where I said THEY could never give you that kind of love"

Maya - "Riley what are you saying?"

Riley - "Do I have to spell it out for you Peaches?"

Maya - "Riley this is a very delicate subject with me, so I am not gonna jump to any kind of conclusion. So yea, spell it out for me."

Riley - "I said THEY, I didn't say WE, cause I didn't include myself when I said they can never give you that kind of love because I can and I want to."

Maya - "Riles"

Riley cuts her off. "Just let me finish. So if it is me. If it has always been me. If I am the one you wanna spend the rest of your life with...In that way. If I am who you think you are soulmates with. Then yes it can happen. Yes I can return those feelings, because I do return those feelings. Maya I love you with every ounce of everything in me. I always have, it just took me a while to realize it. I broke up with Lucas 6 months ago because I realized I wasn't in love with him but I was in love with someone else."

Maya's eyes get so wide they look like they're gonna fall out of Maya's head. "You broke up with Lucas because of me?"

Riley - "Yes."

Maya - "Why didn't you tell me?"

Riley - "Same reason you never told me. I was scared. As much as I knew you loved me I never thought you would ever love me the way I loved you now."

Maya - "Then why would you force me to tell you my feelings? If you thought I could never return those feelings, wouldn't it hurt you to hear me confess my love for someone else? Why would you do that to yourself?"

Riley got a guilty look on her face and turned away from her friend. Maya put her hand underneath Riley's chin and gently turned her friends face back towards her own so she was looking at her again. "Honey, what aren't you telling me?"

Riley takes in a deep breath and lets it out. "Ok, first of all I want you to know I wasn't purposely eavesdropping. I overheard you and Farkle talking in the Art room last month on one of your open hours. It was a complete accident. I was on my way to the restroom and just happened to pass the room you guys were in. I was gonna pop in and say hi quick but I seen you guys acting weird,like secretive and everything. Then I heard my name sooo...Ok so it didn't start out as purposely eavesdropping but once I seen the way you 2 were acting and then heard my name I had to hear what you guys were talking about."

Maya - "Riles? That's purposely eavesdropping."

Riley - "Ok I'm sorry, but I can't do anything about it now. Anyways, I heard you tell Farkle you were in love with me. I couldn't believe what I was hearing! I was so happy!"

Maya is now looking at her bubbly best friend questionably. "Wait a minute. If you broke up with Lucas 6 months ago because you were in love with me, and 5 months later heard me confessing to Farkle that I was in love with you, why wouldn't you tell me? And why did you force it out of me the way you did a little while ago?"

Riley was now looking at Maya nervously. "Honestly I was still scared. I thought about everything and even as happy as I was, I was still scared. I thought this was probably just some stupid little crush you had on me that would go away soon. And if your feelings were going to go away I couldn't confess just how much in love with you I was."

Maya - "Riley Sweetheart, did you hear me confess to Farkle that I had a stupid little crush on you or did you hear me confess to Farkle that I was in love with you?"

Riley gets a big smile on her face as she remembers Maya confessing her love for Riley to their other best friend. "That you were in love with me. I'm sorry Peaches I just thought it was too good to be true. I felt like I had to hear it from you yourself to know how serious you were. Days went by, then weeks. It was driving me crazy I had to hear it from you! Even if it meant forcing it out of you! I know that makes me a hypocrite and I'm sorry and"

Maya cuts her off cause Riley was starting to get hysterical and she was afraid Riley was going to hyperventilate. "It doesn't matter. None of it matters anymore."

Riley looks at her horrified. Here eyes filled with fear now and tears started filling them. "What?...What do you mean?"

Maya realizing how what she just said sounded, quickly apologizes to Riley and grabs both her hands and held them firmly yet gently in her own. "No I didn't mean it that way Honey, I'm sorry. I just meant whatever reasons we didn't tell each other doesn't matter anymore. All that matters is we finally know how each other feels."

The tears that were filling Riley's eyes spilled over and were now running down her cheeks. But the look of fear has once again been replaced with a huge smile. After a few seconds Riley looks at Maya the only way Riley can. She tilts her head with slight smile and her eyes filled with love and Maya swears her heart has literally melted.

Riley - "Maya...Peaches...I love you so much. And I promise I will love you for the rest of my life."

Maya can't help it anymore. She can't hold back the tears anymore, so she just lets them fall. She looks at Riley still not believing this moment is happening. "Riley you have had my heart for years now. I couldn't ever imagine loving anyone else in my life. I never thought you would ever return these feelings...And now that you have I'm not even sure what to do."

Riley - "How about we start out with this." Riley then put her hand gently around the back of Maya's neck and pulled her towards herself. Maya breath hitched and Riley smiled then pulled her in the rest of the way and their lips finally met. Maya felt everything at once. She swore she had fireworks literally going off inside her head. She thought her heart was gonna beat right out of her chest, yet she never felt more at peace. Riley's lips were so soft and tasted like kiwi strawberry. Maya knew nothing in this world was ever meant to be more than this right here right now.

After a few moments Riley pulled away and opened her eyes slowly. "Wow." She says breathlessly. She looks at Maya and notices her eyes are still closed. "Maya?"

Maya - "Hm?"

Riley - "Open your eyes. Please look at me."

With Maya's eyes still closed she answers Riley. "Are you still gonna be here?"

Riley can't help but giggle a little. "Of course Peaches. I'm always gonna be here."

Maya finally opens her eyes. When she sees Riley still in front of her she gives her a dreamy smile. "Riles is this real?"

Riley cups Maya's cheek with her hand. "The realest thing that has ever happen to us Peaches."

Maya - "It's not a dream?"

Riley - "Just a dream come true."

This time it's Maya who pulls Riley in for a kiss. "Dream come true indeed."