Authors Notes: Hey guys so today this chapter will include three different POV's! Lucas's, Maya's and Riley's. Let me know what you think of this chapter!

Lucas POV

After hearing a knock on the door, I walked to the door and answered it. I smiled when I saw Riley standing there.

"Hey Ryles, what's up?" I asked with my usual smile.

"I need to talk to you about something," she stated with a serious tone.

Stepping aside, I wordlessly gave Riley permission to enter my premises. I led the way to the living room, and we both took a seat.

The serious look she had across her face had yet to diminish. "Okay, well you seem really worried. What's wrong?" I inquired caringly.

Riley took a deep breath, and spoke. "Well, uh, when we were at the pool something weird happened…" She trailed off.

"What weird thing happened?" I asked casually, enjoying the bit of alone time that I had with Riley. We didn't often have time to hang out together alone since Maya and Farkle were always around, so I treasured the alone time as much as I could these days. It didn't help that the memory of my kiss with Maya popped up every now and then when we were alone together, so I welcomed the times when I could just focus on Riley instead.

"Oh, well, I found out something weird, and probably fake…" Riley continued her story, and I snapped my attention back to her. She was acting awkward for some reason, and I was confused by her behaviour.

"Weird how?" I asked, curious to know why Riley was acting so awkward.

"Um well..." Riley trailed off uncertainly as I got off the couch to get a drink. I figured it wasn't going to be such a big deal; she had a tendency to overdramatize some things. I returned to the couch with my iced tea, just as Riley said something that made my heart jump into my throat.

"He said that you two kissed," Riley blurted out hastily.

I froze in shock as I watched for her reaction. All sorts of different excuses were rushing through my mind as I saw Riley's expression change from uncertainty to hurt. I was certain that the guilt was displayed all over my face; I knew that I wasn't dating Riley when Maya and I kissed, but I did have feelings for her, and I felt like a cheating boyfriend who had just been caught. As I thought about all this I tried to fill the awkward silence without really thinking about what I was saying.

"So," I mumbled nervously.

"Did you and Maya kiss?" She asked me directly, and I averted my eyes from her strict expression. There was no way that I could deliberately lie to her about this. Yes, Maya and I said that we'd never tell anyone about it, but I felt a lot of loyalty towards Riley. If she was this upset by suspecting our secret she would be even more hurt if she found out we had lied blatantly about it.

I put my drink down and veered to the left, trying to run for the door, but Riley was hot on my heels and she managed to grab me from behind and force me to the ground. I fought back, not wanting to hurt her, but trying to gain the advantage nonetheless.

"Tell me!" She shouted in frustration, and I responded with a confident "no!" Before rolling her off of me and pinning her to the ground instead.

"Did you and Maya kiss!?" Riley asked again, more aggressively this time, and I was brought back to reality. I had no choice; Riley would hound me until she got an answer out of me and she would be able to tell if I was lying or not – I wasn't the best liar.

"Okay, yes, it's true...Maya and I kissed!" I admitted to her, sighing and admitting defeat.

"Oh my God!" Riley exclaimed in utter disbelief. I let go of her hands and hoisted myself up, holding out my hand to her in order to help her up. She accepted it cautiously and I pulled her to her feet.

"It was just one time, and it was for the fake date!" I said, trying to reassure her.

Riley furrowed her brow at my remark before eying me with a strong sense of betrayal. "How is that supposed to make me feel any better?" She asked with a quiet and vulnerable tone. "If it really meant 'nothing' why did you keep it secret for so long?"

"We promised each other we'd never talk about it again. Besides we didn't want you to feel bad for no reason," I explained.

Riley shook her head, tears starting to form in her brown eyes. "Lucas, I thought I knew you, but I guess…I guess everything was a lie," she said, stuttering a little.

Maya POV

I walked to Lucas's house; he was going to tutor me so I didn't have to go to summer school. I slowly knocked on the door, and to my surprise Riley answered it.

"Well hello," Riley spat out bitterly.

I tiled my head to the side. "Is everything okay?"

"Why didn't you tell me that you and Lucas kissed?" Riley half shouted, and my mouth dropped open in shock. Riley knew. Ranger rick spoke about the kiss! Riley knew...but did she suspect my feelings? No...She couldn't, could she?

"Uh," was all that managed to escape my mouth. I turned to face Lucas and he let out a terrified gulp in response.

"You told her..." I spat through my teeth, my menacing tone surprising even myself. I wasn't sure why I was so angry; I knew Riley was going to find out someday.

Riley looked at me, anger displayed across her features. "You were never going to tell me were you?"

"I'm sorry, okay, but it meant nothing," I said, hoping they wouldn't catch on to the fact that it did mean something to me. "Ryan didn't believe our act, so I kissed Luke on an impulse. I knew I shouldn't have done it, and we both felt really guilty…that's why we didn't tell you."

Riley scoffed a little. "A kiss always means something Maya. And if you were honest about it from the start I would have forgiven you guys…but it's obvious now that Lucas would rather date cool girls like you."

"Yeah you're right; a kiss does always mean something. But if you were there you'd understand that it was purely a platonic moment," Lucas explained. Did he really feel that way about me? Deep down, I was hoping that he had some feelings for me, at least a little, but it was becoming clear that my feelings for him were one sided.

"If I was there? No way; I would have hated seeing you two flirt up a storm," she retorted angrily.

I aimed my infamous death glare toward Lucas. "I still can't believe that you told h-" Riley then cut me off.

"No, no, no. At least he told me about the kiss. I'm angry at both of you, if Ryan had never said anything about the kiss I would still be in the dark about all of this." Riley wiped some tears away from her right cheek. "I think I'm going to go…I'll leave you two lovebirds alone." She slammed the door shut on her way out.

I turned to face Lucas, with an indescribable expression displayed across my face. "I can't believe you Lucas!" I shouted angrily.

He furrowed his eyebrows with an equally angry expression. "You can't believe me? Well sorry, but you're the one who kissed me! If it weren't for you we wouldn't even be in this mess."

I rolled my eyes at his ridiculous comment. "Oh yeah because you so pulled away when I kissed ya," I mumbled with a sarcastic manner. "Oh wait you didn't," there was a slight awkward silence that followed.

"If you don't remember," Lucas began, breaking the awkward silence, "it was a meaningless kiss, it meant nothing to me!" When Lucas said that I felt like someone stabbed me in the heart and kept on turning the knife over and over. "And for your information, you're kind of a bad kisser!"

"Oh like you were any better!" I was in the heat of the fight. Deep down I was upset, really upset. My friendship with Riley was potentially ruined, all because of that chump.

"You know what Maya?" He threatened.

"What Friar?" I asked sceptically. I knew that he was probably all talk.

"All you wanna do is fight. Don't you think that your life would be considerably different if you didn't try and argue with people every minute?" Lucas inquired in his I'm-better-than-you tone.

As the argument continued, our voices rose.

"Ugh, you know what Lucas? Just forget it. Who cares, I'm outta' here," I said, giving up and walking towards the Blue door of his house to leave.

"What?! Oh, no, Maya you're not going anywhere, we need to sort this out! Hey!" He yelled at me, walking towards me quickly. "Get back here!" He exclaimed, grabbing my arm roughly and pulling me towards him. He used more force than he probably intended, and when he pulled me towards him, I inadvertently pressed up against him so that our lips were inches from each other. I was speechless. I didn't know what to do. I then realised what was going on and pulled away abruptly.

Suddenly, all anger was forgotten, and the sudden thick air around us was stifling. "Uh, I really should get going," I murmured awkwardly.

Lucas nodded his head understandably. "Yeah bye," I smiled weakly in response and I left his house.

I took a minute to think about the dilemma that was going in my life. There was no denying that I had feelings for him; I had already come to terms with those feelings, but I was never going to do anything about them. I saw just how upset Riley was when she found out that we kissed; if she found out that I had feelings for him as well she'd be devastated. I knew that I needed to apologise to Riley, so I decided to call in at her house.

Riley POV

I flopped down on my bed with a heavy sigh. It had turned out to be one of the worst summers ever. At first, I had figured this summer would be great. But, things had not turned out as planned; it turned out that Lucas and Maya kissed at their fake date. I laid my head back on the pillows and sighed again as I stared up at the ceiling and began to replay the last couple of days in my head. I had been over this this a hundred times, yet it still seemed unreal. Maya and Lucas? How in the world could that happen? I believed what they told me today, but it didn't take the initial hurt away.

"Riley?" I heard from the window.

I sat up quickly in bed. "Yeah?" I responded, though I knew the voice well. I watched as Maya climbed in through the window.

"Hey," I said to her with a blank expression displayed across my face. I wasn't sure if I was ready to forgive her…or maybe I was?

"Hey yourself," she said as she walked over and sat on the edge of my bed.

"Listen, Maya, about today…I'm sorry if I was too much of a drama queen…" I began.

"Riley, it is okay. I understand why you were mad. Do you wanna talk?" She questioned.

"About?" I asked, though I had a pretty good idea.

"About today, Lucas, everything," she explained

I sunk back into the pillows and squeezed my eyes shut. "I know you and Lucas didn't mean to hurt me…it was obviously a meaningless kiss," I paused for a moment, "but I dunno, I guess I get insecure sometimes."

Maya scooted closer and touched my hand comfortingly. "You don't need to be insecure Ryles. There is seriously nothing to worry about," she said along with a warm and encouraging smile.

"Okay, well I just wanna say that I forgive you two for keeping the kiss a secret. If I was in the same position I might have done the same thing," I stated.

Maya smiled in response. "I should go. You probably need time to think." She got up and went to move back to the window.

"Maya, wait..." I said. She stopped and turned back towards me but didn't move any closer. She waited for me to speak. "Thanks for being such a good friend. Do you wanna stay the night? We could have a movie night?" I asked hopefully.

"Yeah," she smiled, "sounds good!"

Maya jumped on my bed and we stayed up gossiping until three in the morning.