A scream filled the dark room, not even seconds later a light was switched on and Maya walked her way to the couch where her friend had fallen asleep on the couch earlier. She knelt in front of him and gave his shoulder a squeeze.
"It's okay. Lucas is okay, you are okay." She spoke in a soft voice, the past week she has gotten use to this. He would fall asleep upon the couch only to wake up screaming and she's come to comfort him. She can only imagine what the nightmares were; she had an idea of what they were. "Come on, let's put you into bed. Next to Lucas."
He nodded his head and mumbled a small thank you to her; he hated those nightmares that plagued his head. It was like he had no control over them, the crash would just play over and over with no stop button. His crutches had been moved so Maya helped him walk to the bedroom, she left to her and Josh's bedroom with a quiet goodnight. Moving himself to rest next to Lucas he cuddled into the older's side as he pulled the blanket over himself. He just wants the nightmares to stop, but the last time he had nightmares what he did to stop them; he can't do that anymore. He's promised himself not to do that, he's promised his friends. He left out a soft sigh as he felt Lucas' arm wrap around him, he loved when the older did that.
"I'm sorry." The Texan's voice spoke in a soft, quiet voice. His hand moving soothingly up and down his boyfriend's arm that laid carefully across his torso. The words had taken the younger by surprise, what did he have to be sorry for? There wasn't anything that he could think of. He turned his head a little to look at the other next to him, and right when he was about to speak he was stopped when the other spoke. "I don't think my attitude was right at the Matthews and it affected the way I was back here. And I'm sorry that I didn't come to check on you, I tried to but I moved to quickly and the pain had just worn off enough for me to move again when you walked in."
"It's okay, I know you would have. I love you." He replied and leaned up to give kiss to his cheek, a light smile upon his lips. The older nodded and then the pair drifted off to sleep.
Going back to school was a little hard, but Lucas managed it with the help of his friends. And over the last six weeks, Riley has been over a lot more then she use to. Sure, her friends lived here and so did her cousin but there was some riff between her and Farkle which seemed to stop her from coming around the apartment all the time. Maya and Josh tended to go to her most of the time, but now it was nearly every day they would have the girl around not that they minded.
None of the group really knows why there is a riff between the two friends all they know is that it started after she found out he broke it off with Smackle in their freshman year of high school. That was when everyone noticed the two friends starting to drift apart. It doesn't help that neither Farkle nor Riley would tell anyone what had happened. Sure they've tried to figure it out but, each time the rift got bigger.
That night everyone was at the apartment as music blared, and the group sang along to the music. Farkle was allowed to put pressure upon his leg now and was jumping a bit as he and Maya sang along to the song I Refuse by Simple Plan. It was great entertainment for the big group of friends who sat in the apartment relaxing from a stressing week of school. They partied until they call crashed out in the living room. Things were on the track to being normal now.