Maya waited outside Riley's window for a long time before she was sure Riley was fully asleep. She climbed in and sat next to Riley on the bed.

"Riles" Maya whispered

"Riles" Maya whispered a little louder.

Riley shifted in her bed which meant she heard Maya talking, but was still sleeping through it. So Maya came to the conclusion she wasn't as heavy a sleeper as before, but still very heavy. Maya lie down beside her and carefully wrapped her arms around her best friend. Riley responded by snuggling into Maya. Maya blushed hard. It felt so good to hold Riley. Maya decided she would only stay a short while and leave before Riley would wake up. Maya began to do this almost every night. She knew that it was probably the closest she'd ever be able to be with Riley.

Maya's birthday had been last week. Riley gave her a beautiful friendship ring. It had the words "Riley's Favorite" engraved in it. That ring meant the world to Maya. She never took it off. The two were now in a coffee shop just hanging out and talking about the usually best friend stuff.

"Hey, Riles?" Maya questioned

"Mhmm?" Riley answered sipping her coffee

"I noticed that you haven't been talking about Lucas much at all for a while now. Did something happen?"

"To be honest, Maya, I don't really like him anymore. Nothing happened, I guess I just sorta got over it."

Riley looked a little confused, like she didn't know how or why it happened. Maya however was trying to contain how happy that made her.

"Well," said Maya "boys will come and go, but we'll always have each other. I couldn't ask for a better best friend."

Riley smiled back at Maya, went to sit next to her, and pulled her into a tight hug. Maya loved every second of it.

When night came Maya looked into Riley's window and saw her lying on her bed. Maya began to climb inside. To Maya's surprise, what she had thought was Riley lying there was just a messy bed and some pillows. The door to Riley's bathroom began to open. Panicking, Maya dove under Riley's bed to avoid getting caught. Riley saw a small white hand with a very familiar friendship ring on it sticking out slightly from under her bed. She now knew Maya was there. But she decided to make Maya believe she didn't know, to find out what Maya was trying to do. Riley got into her bed as if to go to sleep but stayed awake and alert assuming that Maya was probably going to try and prank her or scare her as a joke. So Riley pretended to be asleep.

Maya waited until she was convinced Riley had fallen asleep, then came out from under the bed. Riley continued to pretend to sleep as Maya sat down on the bed beside her. Maya sighed, took Riley's hand and barely brushed her lips against it, giving Riley a tingly feeling all the way up her arm.

"I wish I could tell you the truth, Riles." Maya whispered to the seemingly sleeping girl. Riley continued to fake her sleep, as she knew this was going to be very interesting.