Chapter 18: The Confrontation and the Big Night

Riley's POV:

"Lucas!" I said as I got up. His face suddenly fell and his eyes lit up. "Wow." He said breathlessly. "I'm sorry I already ruined prom." I said as I walked up to him. He looked at me and he couldn't even speak. "You didn't. You have nothing to apologize for." He said. "However, you do." he said as he walked up to Michael. "But I didn't do anything." He said. "Are you kidding me? You told my girlfriend how you felt about her. On prom night," he said. "I only told her so that I could move on." He said. "You had to tell her on a big night? Do you know how that even makes her feel? Do you know how that makes me feel? She's in a relationship. You don't do that." Lucas snapped. "Riley." Michael said as he walked closer to me. "Don't even try to take another step!" Lucas said. "What're you going to do about it?" Michael said. "What am I going to do?" Lucas snarled as he took one step towards Michael. "Lucas don't." I said as I held him back. He took one look at Michael and then back at me. "Fine." He said as he took a deep breath. "Michael, this wasn't the right time come here and tell me this. It is my prom night." I said. "You're right. We should talk about this another time." he said. "There's nothing to talk about. You told me what you needed to tell me so that you could move on. I told you I didn't feel the same way. There's nothing to talk about anymore." I said. "You're right. See you in class." Michael said as he headed for the door.

"No!" Lucas yelled. "Riley, I'm sorry. But Michael, you can't just come in here and tell her how you feel and then leave." He said. "Lucas, she doesn't feel the same way. There's nothing left to talk about. I don't want to ruin your guy's night as much as I already have." He said. "Lucas, just let it go for now." I said. "But Riley, shouldn't we handle this?" He said, "We've already established the main purpose of this. We can talk about this another time. It is prom night." I said. "He told you he has feelings for you. On a special night. That's not right!" Lucas said. "Huckleberry, calm down. She doesn't have feelings for him." Maya said. "Yeah, nothing like hearing that a million times." Michael said as he walked out of the door.

After Michael left, Lucas and I continued to talk about this. "Riley, I'm sorry. It's just we started off as friends too." He said. "Lucas, you're the only guy I have eyes for. You know that. No one is going to take me away from you." I said. "Come here beautiful." Lucas said as he tried to give me a kiss. My dad cleared his throat, "I'm sorry sir." Lucas said. "Sure you are. Now onto the pictures." He said. We all posed for pictures, we took group pictures and then we took pictures where it was just me and Lucas. "You look so beautiful babe." Lucas said as he held onto me. "You look handsome," I said as I adjusted his tie, "Alright! Let's do this!" Farkle said. "I'm glad you went with a simple tux instead of the cheetah one." Maya said as we walked out. Lucas put his arm around my waist as we walked out the door. "Are you feeling okay?" he asked. "I am now. I'm going to prom with the people I love." I said. "All eyes are going to be on you when we walk through those doors." He said. We all got into the limo and headed off to prom. "I can't believe this is our last prom." Farkle said. "It's so crazy. We're going to be graduating in a month guys." Maya said. "Well, you technically already graduated Riles." Maya said with a smile. "Will you stop saying that? Tonight I am a high school senior." I said. "Of course you are, honey." Maya said.

Lucas's POV:

I hope they didn't noticed how quiet I was being. Riley left me absolutely speechless. I just couldn't find any words to say. It's just like the time when she fell onto my lap on the subway, I was lost for words. Finally, we had arrived at the school and the doorman opened the door for us. "After you my lady," I said as I helped Riley out of the car and we linked arms together. "Did I mention how beautiful you looked tonight?" I said. "Many times." She said as she rested her head on my arm. Once we got inside, I spun her onto the dance floor and we started to dance to the beat. "You're dancing?" she said as she wrapped her arms around me. "Just for you." I said as I leaned down to kiss her. "Finally." I said as we let go. "I told you all eyes were going to be on you." I said. She gave me that cute little smile of her. "You're adorable." I said. "Stop it. That's enough with the compliments." She teased. "Nope. I get to shower you with compliments as much as I want." I said "We'll see about that." She said as I twirled her around.

Farkle's POV:

"Look at Riley and Lucas, their so in love. It's like they're the only two on the dance floor." I said as I watched them dance. "Yeah, I hope I find a love like theirs one day." Maya said. "Sometimes I wonder if I already found the person I'm supposed to spend the rest of my life with and I didn't even know it." I said. "I wonder the same thing." She said. All of a sudden, all of me by John Legend came on. "May I have this dance?" I asked as I held my hand out. "I guess." Maya said as she smiled and took my hand. We walked onto the dance floor and joined Riley and Lucas's side. But they were in their own little world to even notice us. "You look really beautiful tonight Maya." I said. A huge smile spread across her face. "Thank you, Farkle." She said. "I'm glad we're best friends." She said. "Oh my god, where is Maya? Who is this?" I teased. "Shut up. I decided to be nice to you tonight, so enjoy it while it lasts." She said. The music stopped playing and we all decided to go sit down. "Well this is fun so far." Lucas said as he gave Riley a kiss on the cheek. I looked over at Maya and she looked disgusted. "I'm so used to this." I said.

"So are you guys having a good time?" Riley asked. "Wonderful time." I said. "Riley, I need to go to the bathroom." Maya said. "Oh… Oh! We'll be right back!" Riley said as she got up and Maya followed her. "You already know that was code for girl talk." Lucas said. "Yup, so how are you?" I asked. "Much better. I don't have to worry about Michael." He said. "Yeah, I wasn't surprise though. Who wouldn't like Riley?" I said. Lucas eyed me. "Dude. Seriously?" I asked. "I'm sorry. Force of habit. I know you guys have a sibling relationship." He said. "Thank you. You never have to worry when it comes to us, you know that." I said. "I know, it's just the thing with this whole Michael situation is that Riley and I started off as friends too. Also, the guy is extremely good looking." He said as he took a sip of his punch. "And yet, Riley still chose you. So don't worry about it." I said.

Maya's POV:

"What's going on?" Riley asked as we entered the bathroom. "Farkle and I had this weird moment on the dance floor. "Aww." She said. "No, don't do that. I don't want to believe that I actually have feelings for Farkle. I mean we've been friends our whole lives. So it seems weird to me." I said. "It may seem weird now, but the best part is that you guys are best friends. There won't be that much pressure unless you add it." she said. "I know, but still me with a Minkus." I said. "Hey, he's a human being." Riley said. "I know. I'm sorry." I said. "So how are you? The whole Michael situation was very interesting to watch. You should've seen Lucas's face when he walked through the door and saw you two sitting at the window." I said. "Was it that bad?" she asked. "Oh yeah, your parents didn't even want to get involved with that." I said. "That was really unexpected." She said. "You don't say." I said. "Should we head back out?" she asked. "Oh shoot, I forgot about the guys." I laughed as we walked out of the bathroom.

Riley's POV:

We were walking back to the table where we found the baseball team talking to our dates. "Shall we dance?" Maya asked. "Why, I would love too." I said as we linked arms and made our way through the dance floor. We were dancing to "I Really like You" by Carly Rae Jepson. "We have an audience." She said as her eyes pointed to Lucas's direction. The whole baseball team was staring at us. "This is a little weird." I said. "Not at all." Maya said sarcastically. "Let's go deeper into the crowd so that they don't see us," I said. "I like that idea." Maya said as we walked through the dance floor. Pretty soon we found ourselves in the middle of the dance floor and the boys were nowhere in sight. "You think they're going to come over to us?" I asked. "Probably. But for now, spin girl." She said as she twirled me around. "Hey, only I get to that." I heard Lucas say. I turned right into his arms. "So you two decided to ditch us?" Farkle asked. "No, we just saw that you guys were busy with your baseball herd." Maya said.

"I liked your dance moves." He said as he gave me a kiss. "Of course you do," I said. We all danced the night away and after it was over, we all decided to go get something to eat. "Are you cold?" Lucas asked. "Just a little bit." I said. He took off his jacket and put it on me. "Thank you" I said as I put my arm around his waist. "So where should we go?" Farkle asked. "I don't care as long as I get food." Maya said. "Whatever you wish, madam." Farkle said. "Why don't we go get Bob's Burgers?" I said. "They're open this late?" Maya asked. "Yeah, they are." I said. "Then let's go!" Maya said. We headed off to Bob's burgers and after we ate we went down to the beach and had one more adventure before the night ended.

"Did you have a good time tonight?" I asked Lucas. "Of course I did." He said as he kissed me on the forehead. We took our usual walk by the water, it was already 12am. "You know I've been thinking about us a lot lately." He said "You have?" I asked. "Yeah, I've been thinking about how different things are going to be when we go our separate ways, it's going to be so different not being able to see you face to face. It's going to go from seeing each other in public, to seeing each other on a small little webcam. I mean face timing is better than not seeing your face or hearing your voice at all." he said. "Yeah, but we're going to survive." I said. "Yeah, I'm not giving up on you." he said.

Prom was amazing. It's sad that it had to end because it was one of the best nights of my life. But I wasn't looking forward to going back to school on Monday and having to face Michael. I wanted my friend back. But I knew not all friendships were meant to last. It's not that I had feelings for the guy, it's just he was the only person that I was really close with. But I shook it off. "Knock Knock." Farkle said as he walked into my room. "Hey, what're you doing here?" I asked. "Just wanted to know if you wanted to go get a smoothie or something." He said. "Sounds good. What place did you have in mind?" I asked. "Jamba juice?" he suggested. "Let's go!" I said as we headed out the door.

"So I'm sorry for not being such a good friend lately." I said. "What do you mean?" he asked as we walked to Jamba juice. "I mean I haven't asked you about Harvard since your dad finally came around. How is he handling that?" I asked. "He's trying his best to cope with it. I mean I know he doesn't like it deep down, but he knows it makes me happy, so he's trying to be supportive. He was trying so hard to not be like his father and he ended up being exactly like him. He realized that after I talked to him." He said. "So how is Columbia? Have you talked to Michael lately?" he asked. "Columbia is fine. I have finals coming up and Michael was my study buddy but I guess I'm on my own now. We haven't talked since the incident and I think it's best if it stays that way." I said. "Yeah, I understand. But maybe you guys will talk again and go back to being just friends." He said. "I'm making too big of deal of this. I mean I'm making it sound like I have feelings for the guy." I said. "Well, do you?" he asked. "You know I don't." I said. "Speaking of feelings, Maya?" I said. "What about her?" he asked. "Ever since prom, you guys have been weird around each other. Could you two possibly like one another?" I asked. "I don't know, I mean it's me and Maya. We've known each other our whole lives. I've been in love with her my whole life." Farkle said. "What? I thought that was just a thing in middle school." I said. "No, I mean I was "in love" with the both of you, but it was more of lust. But with Maya, I feel like I've fallen in love with her. I don't want to say anything because were best friends and she's tortured me all her life." he said.

After we ordered our smoothies, we walked over to a corner table and sat down. "So you're in love with my best friend eh?" I teased. "Stop it. I mean I want to tell her. But I don't want to go all out just to have her not feel the same way." he said. "Aww. Someone's in love." I teased again. "Really Matthews, you want to play with me right now?" he teased. "Oh Lucas, you look so handsome tonight." Farkle said in a high pitched voice. "Oh, Lucas. I don't want to and I don't plan on being with anyone else because you are the one I want." He teased again. "Okay, I get it." I said with chuckle. "Do I really sound like that?" I asked. "Yeah, sort of." He said.

So I'm going to end the story here. There's only three chapters left of this story. I hope you guys have enjoyed it. There's a couple surprises coming up and Riley gets another visit from her aunt. But here are the real questions, will Maya and Farkle become a thing? Will Michael and Riley talk again? Graduation is coming up, will Lucas, Maya and Farkle graduate? What about summer vacation? Will Riley and Lucas be torn apart all summer? Chapter 19 is coming up xx