"Hold on!"

Maya and Riley barged into the gymnasium; interrupting the announcement for class president. Lucas didn't look up. He didn't want to face what was about to happen; by his friends no-less. His

"Not now, Maya."

"It has to be right now, dad."

"We have one more very important campaign commercial that everyone needs to see."

"Girls, we've already seen the campaign commercials. The votes are in. This isn't going to change anything." MR. Matthew's voice was firm.

"Yes it will. This isn't about the votes. It's about Lucas." Riley pointed to the boy in question.

All attention was on him as Cory inquired if he knew about this or not. Maya's lips formed a small smile as she took in his appearance. The blue dress shirt brought out his eyes. That at the moment refused to meet her own.

"Yeah, I know about it. If this is the kind of friends they want to be, it's okay with me." His voice betrayed his hurt.

The girls smiled at each other for a moment before Maya handed over the disc she worked so hard to attain. Riley confirmed that this is who they wanted to be while Lucas finally locked eyes with Maya. The look of betrayal was barely masked with the cover of bravado as he took what was coming in strides. That thought alone helped solidify her respect for him, not that she would ever admit that to anyone.

The DVD began to play and Maya was proud of the shocked look on her Cowboy's face when his friend Asher appeared on screen. Riley looked over at the blond, who was smiling fondly at Lucas. It wasn't any of the other mischievous smiles or playful grins. This one was different and for a brief moment Riley was unsure of exactly how Maya felt about her crush. Only for a second. The video played on and another one of Lucas' friends barreled onto the screen.

"I'm Dylan Orlando. How ya doin', bud? Looks like you made some new friends. They, uh, thought it was important that we record this for you."

Lucas looked over at the girls and saw the most genuine smile grace Maya's lips. He couldn't be happier that they did this, although it now makes sense why she was playing with his phone so long the night prior. He chuckled softly at his sneaky city girl.

"Is there really a, Farkle?" Asher cut into his thoughts.

"And Lucas, after Riley and Maya went out of their way to find us, and we got to know them a little, I think we can endorse them too." Dylan piped up.

Maya bit her lip as she looked back over, mistaking Lucas' smile as one of relief and sincerity. Not realizing that Lucas was hoping that they would approve of his new friends. Heaven knows how often he talked about them and it didn't take long for his old friends to get on edge about him falling for one of them, mainly Maya, and want to stay in the big apple for good. Knowing that he had their approval was a huge deal to him.

After the footage clicked off Farkle went to sit next to Maya, who leaned away as he was apologizing, in his own way, that he wanted to be dictator since they didn't have any friends. Lucas sat next to Riley, not his first option, but he wanted to show his support.

"Thanks for the video, that wasn't what I expected to see."

"No more going home for the weekends?" Riley spoke the words that Maya was thinking.

"I am home." His eyes landed on all of his new friends, but remained on a brilliant shade of blue as he said the word home and she had to close her eyes and pull them all into a group hug to fight off a blush.

It was long after the rest of their class went off to finish their last lesson that Lucas talked to Mr. Matthews about the positions that he wanted his friends to take on student government.

"Hey, Mr. Matthews, as the new class president I would like to name Farkle my new vice president."

The older man laughed for a moment before questioning if he was serious or not. Farkle on the other hand was overjoyed, although a part of him was planning the taller boy's demise. Some habits die hard.

"Maya!" He called across the mostly empty gym. "I'd like you to be my secretary of state."

"I'm nobody's secretary, Ranger Rick."

"Hey, Hart." The Rebel called out.

"What?"

"Secretary of state is the president's ambassador to the world. It means he thinks highly of you." She couldn't help that her heart skipped a beat and her fists clenched her jacket just a bit tighter at the thought. "It also means he's trying to get you out of the country."

She had to admit that that stung a bit, but she looked passed knowing that their unusual relationship was pretty much summed up with those words.

"Wait a minute, what about me?" Riley whined.

"You, what about you?"

"What am I to you?" The double meaning of her words didn't faze him. He had a plan that would appease Riley and keep her off of the seats of government. Not that she was a bad person or he didn't respect her. It was the fact that all she had was reused ideas while Farkle had the brains and Maya, well she was the fiercest girl he knew. She was also way smarter than everyone gave her credit for and he was counting on her to have some pretty creative ways to get him out of sticky situation. Not that seventh grade was going to be a tough ship to sail.

"What are you to me?" Lucas whistled loudly.

The same white horse that the girls made into a unicorn trotted into the room. The Cowboy mounted the stead and got Riley to ride behind him. Placing a tiara of sorts on her head and claiming that to him she was a princess before his eyes locked, once again, in those stormy blues. She gave them a smile, although it didn't reach her eyes and as they rode off they didn't notice that her smile cracked as her heart sunk.

Maya knew that liking a boy who didn't like her back sucked. However, it sucked even more to see her best friends unhappy. She knew that the only thing she could do now was wait for them to get together and be the next Cory and Topanga while she halfheartedly pinned after other guys. Josh, who had quickly lost his place has her number one crush, wasn't looking to bad now that her Cowboy and her best friend were closer than ever to getting together.

"Maya, let me in." Lucas requested while knocking lightly on the window to her room.

She was startled by the sudden noise. The blue colored pencil slipped from her grip and left a smear across part of the page.

"Damn it, HeeHaw." She quickly covered the drawing, deciding that she will just have to fix it later. Well, that, or rip it to shreds. It would probably be the former though.

Maya sighed and went over to the window and opened it for him to climb through. Once he was in they just stood there looking at each other for the longest moment. Neither really noticed that they were standing a bit too close, than again neither of them cared.

"The video was your idea, thank you." He smiled down at her.

"Yeah, yeah, I had you going for a while there though." She gave a small, hollow laugh. Lucas didn't believe there was any malice behind her actions though.

"I'm sorry for getting mad at you. I never should have doubted you."

He took a step back and sat down on the bed. The springs squeaking a bit as Maya sat down next to him. She didn't know how to respond to him.

"So, you're really not leaving then?"

"No, but if I do go back, then I would like to take you with me. You would like my friends."

She laughed at the notion. The very thought that she would hit it off with any country folk cracked her up.

"I doubt it, Bucky McBoing-Boing. I don't belong in the country. I'm city girl and that's never going to change."

"Maybe, but people change." He smiled at her and she had to fight off a blush. The second one in one day. "Can I hear that song now?"

She stared at him for a moment before grabbing her guitar and chuckling softly at the fact the she was about to sing to him, that and what she was about to sing was something she wrote with him in mind. However, she really wanted to. If nothing else she keeps her word.

"You can't record this."

"Alright." He held up his hands. However, he was as sneaky as she was with these types of things and the second his hand was down his fingers pressed the right buttons on his phone to start recording. Lucas knew that it was wrong to lie, but he also knew that she had a beautiful voice and no matter what she sang he would want to listen to it on a continuous loop.

"Things aren't going your way and it's written all over your face and you're not even looking for the better days, Cause' you think that there's nothing left, no."

Lucas grinned at her while taking notice that this was extremely relevant.

"But you can feel the sun, you can hear the wind blow. It's right outside of your window. There's so many reasons for you to be happy. It's all up to you, so don't be stupid. It's always worse in your head, so just take a second to breathe. Take in what you see. Who knows what you'll find in this beautiful life that gives you a reason to smile? You smile, I smile, we smile."

Maya kept strumming while she apologized that was all that she had written. Smirking at her, Lucas began to sing back to her.

"You wake up to another day. Another shot at making your vibe change and if you didn't smile yesterday, here's a chance, here's your moment. Yeah!"

He mouthed the word chorus and she got what he meant so she sang the chorus again. This time he gave a lower harmony that blended perfectly.

"You can feel the sun, you can hear the wind blow. It's right outside of your window. There's so many reasons for you to be happy. It's all up to you, so don't be stupid. It's always worse in your head, so just take a second to breathe. Take in what you see. Who knows what you'll find in this beautiful life that gives you a reason to smile? You smile, I smile, we smile."

Just like the song implied, they both were smiling ear to ear by the time they finished. The song wasn't complete, but that didn't matter at the moment. All that mattered was that Maya was laughing and Lucas was doing his best not to kiss her, no matter how much he wanted to.

"That was a great song."

"You weren't to bad yourself, huckleberry."

"Was that a complement? Did the Maya Hart just complement me?"

"Oh, shut up."

Yet, the smile never left her lips. It was quickly coming to light how easy it was to talk to him, even outside of their banter. Their laughter died out soon enough and Lucas' phone chimed at eleven with a text from his mom. She asked where he was and he lied and said he was at Farkle's and that he was spending the night.

"If you're going to be spending so many nights here, you might as well leave some extra clothing or something." It was delivered as a joke, but she was curious if he actually would. It would be more convenient if he wasn't sneaking into his place at the wee hours of the morning to change.

"I just might." He chuckled and fell back on the bed with his arm behind his head.

Her heart began to race and she was glad that she had a draw empty in her dresser. Well, it was full of her father's old photos for a while until she gave up on him and boxed them up and put them in the neither reaches of her closet. She just didn't have anything else to fill it with since she hung up most of her clothing.

"I just might." He repeated under his breath as a smile edged its way deeper onto his lips.

This is the end of this episode. Stay posted because i will definitely be posting more soon :)

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