Follow your Hart: Is this love?

You're beautiful.

I was dreading the moment I see Riley. My dreams worried me.. I don't know what I would do if she actually did that. I love her, but- I don't think-.. I understand..- anything.. I sigh as I wait for Riley's mom to unlock the door.. Knowing Riley's probably going to tackle me or something. I take a deep breath. After what seems like forever, Topanga finally opens the door. To my surprise, Riley's not waiting for me like I suspected. But her dad's in the living room. "Where's Riley?" Her mom asked as I just looked around, confused. "In her room. Maya, Riley's not.. In the best mood right now.. Try to cheer her up some." I get confused and worried. "What happened?" I didn't want anything to happen to Riley. I had to know what was wrong. I quickly go to her room, seeing her door is shut, I gently knock on the door. "Riley?.. It's Maya.." I say just loud enough for Riley to hear. I hear shuffling around in her room, soon enough, she opens the door, grabbing my hand, pulling me in and shutting the door once I'm fully in. "Riley what's-" she stops me, "shh!" She puts her fingure on my lips, looking around as if she was waiting for someone to arrive or something bad to happen. She quickly pushes me, backing me into the corner of her room. "Wh-what are you.." She looks at me intently, focusing in on every part of my face. I am so confused. What am I supposed to do? "R-Riley?" Is all I could manage to say from how confused I am. "Maya, my parents know I kissed you." My eyes widen. "What?!?" I practicly yelled at her. She covers my mouth. "Calm down.. I'm sorry.." She looks into my eyes. "It was an accident. I was just so excited to tell them about your house and what we did.. It just kinda'.. Slipped out." She grabs my hands, as she continues looking into my eyes. "Please forgive me.." I think for a second, looking at her face, her adorable face, noticing every detail about it. "Why.. Did you kiss me?.." I asked, still wanting to know, with asking, her face begins to turn a light shade of red. "Well.." She stops for a second, obviously trying to come up with an answer for me. "Remeber when I told you when you love someone, you kiss them?" She asked. "Yeah." "Well, I love you.. So I kissed you on the lips instead of cheek that one time.." She looks down. "I'm sorry if you didn't like it.. I was just.." A slight pause. "Caught up in the moment from before.." I smile slightly, putting my hand on her shoulder, causing her to look back up at me. "It's fine, Riley. Now, what'dya wanna' do?" I asked, causing her to smile wide. "Let's have a fashion show!" She says excitedly as she runs over to her closet. I roll my eyes and sigh. "Riley.." I sigh out. "Please.." She looks at me with puppy dog eyes and pouts. I roll my eyes. "Oh, alright.. Only for you.." She's so freakin' adorable. If she wantes me to jump off a bridge, I swear, I'd probably do it. She goes into her closet. She's in there for a few minutes. I eventually sit down on her bed, waiting for her to come out. A couple more minutes pass and I start to get impatient, so I start looking around her room, when she finally comes out. I stare at her, wide eyed, mouth wide open. She's wearing one of her many pink dresses she owns, but it's one I didn't notice when I went in there to look for clothes. It's not frilly like most of the others. It's a couple different shades of pink, it's strapless on one side, the other side is being held up by a small spaghetti strap, it stops right above her knees, where, at the bottom, it has a light blue to go with the light pink right above it. She looks beautiful in that dress. I can't look away, no matter how hard as I try. She smiles wide. "So, what do you think?" She asks happily. "You look.. Amazing." I say as if I'm star-struck. "Thank you!" She says excitedly. "Your turn!" She says happily. I go into her closet, closing the door, looking around for something that is.. Well, will make Riley possible react as I did. I look in her closet, digging through many pink dresses to find one that would most suit me, but it's hard seeing all this pink in my face at one time. I continue looking until I find a fully blue dress. "Finally, something not pink.." I whispered to myself as I put the dress on. "I hope Riley likes this.. She better.. This is uncomfortable.." I say before I open the door. I do, leaving Riley's closet. As soon as she sees me, her eyes widen. I can't tell if it's a good or bad thing. I don't know if I want to know or not.. "You look.." I have no idea what to expect with this girl. "You look absolutly stunning." I smile as my face begins heating up. "Oh, th-thank you.." She smiles wide. "You do!" She practicly yells from excitement. I giggle slightly. When, suddenly, her moms comes into the room. "Oh what are you two doing in those pretty dresses?" She asks, smiling. Riley smiles wide, "having a fashion show," she says happily to her mother. "Well it's time to end the fashion show, we're going to the mall." Riley smiles wide as she begins jumping up and down from excitement. "Ugh.." I grunted quietly, causing Riley and her mom's attention to be focused on me. "Is there something wrong with that, Maya?" Topanga asked. "Uhh.." I fish my mind for something to say. "N-no.." I start nervously, "nothing at all, sorry." "Okay!" Riley says happily as I sigh with relief. "Now, you two change." With hearing that, I get upset. Riley looks so beautiful in her dress, I don't want her to change. "But mom, I've never seen Maya in a dress, I probably won't see her in one again!-" i interrupt her, "she's right." I spoke up. "Can't we wear this to the mall? Pleeeeaaaassee!" Riley practicly begged. Her mom sighs and smiles slightly. "Oh alright." "YAY!!" Riley yelled excitedly as she jumped up and down. I'm glad I get to see Riley in the dress some more. She looks.. Absolutly amazing. But I'm also bummed I have to wear this uncomfortable dress to the mall.. But like I said, I'll do anything for Riley. Riley grabs my hand as she pulls me to her mom's car, excited for the mall. Oh Riley.. Riley and I sit in the back together like usual, on the way, I'm looking out the window, when I turn to look at Riley, I notice she's stairing at me. Why would she be stairing at me unless..? No. Stop. Just stop. She doesn't there's no way. But maybe.. Seeing everything she's said and done.. Maybe, just maybe.. We finally arrive at the mall, Riley pulling me out of the car with her. I sigh, feeling like people are going to talk about me badly because I'm wearing a dress to the mall. Riley's mom finally gets out of the car, Riley grabs my hand then her mom's as Topanga leads us inti the mall. People are looking at me. Stairing. I'm terrified that they're talking bad about me, I just keep my head down as I'm being pulled by Riley and her mom. As I'm looking down at my feet, Riley nudges me slighty as she stops walking, causing her mom to stop too. "What's wrong, Maya?" Riley asks sympathetically as she puts her hand under my chin, pulling my head up so I can look at her. I look into her eyes, "Maya, please tell me what's wrong.." Riley looked at me with puppy dog eyes. "They're.. Stairing.. All stairing.. At me.. I-" I let go of Riley's hand, running to the nearest bathroom and into the last stall as I start crying silently to myself. As I'm crying, I hear Riley come into the bathroom. "Maya! Maya, are you in here?" I don't say anything, hopeing she won't find me. "Maya?" I hear her getting closer to the stall as she asks again, "Are you in here?" She gets closer to my stall and closer.. And she's right outside of my stall.. Wh-what do I do?.. "Maya? Please come out.. Or let me in. Maya, please.." She knows I'm in here. It's over. I wipe my face from tears as I slowly walk to the stall door, my face heating up, getting a darker shade of red with every step I take. I'm finally at the door, unlocking and opening it. She stands at the stall door, waiting for me to come out. I look down, moving out of the way. "Just come in.." I say under my breath only loud enough for her to hear. She does as I told, comming in as I shut and lock the stall once again. She turns to me, putting her hand on my shoulder, looking me in the eyes. "Maya, tell me, what's wrong." She says sternly but also sympathetically with puppy dog eyes. I look down. "People.. They were stairing.. At me.. I-I don't-.." She hugs me tightly. "Maya, didn't you hear what they said?.." She whispered in my ear, causing me to pull away. "Riley-! I'm sure they were talking bad about me! I mean, look at me, RiLEY!! I'm hideous.." I look down as tears form in my eyes, threatening to roll down my face. I close my eyes, hopeing this is all just a dream. That I'm at home, the way it was before, not wanting to feel like this anymore. When I suddenly feel Riley's lips pressed against mine, in a sweet, gentle kiss. Not like one before, not just a peck on the lips, but an actual kiss. My eyes widen at first, I wasn't expecting that, but I finally close my eyes, as I begin kissing back. It feels like eternity that goes by before one of us pull away. I just admire this moment with her. She grabs my hands, still not pulling away. Her lips are so soft. I just want to stay like this forever.. Not having to go back to reality. The cruel reality of it all. She finally pulls away, smiles plastered on both our faces, tightly wrapping her arms around me in a hug. At first, I'm still kinda' shocked from what just happened, but I hug back anyway. "I love you, Maya." She whispered in my ear. "I love you too.." She goes to the stall, opening it, not giving me time to question what just happened or why it did, but I follow Riley out of the stall anyway, grabbing her hand.