Sorry, it has been so long since there has been an update. Had serious writer's block on this one. I got back what I wanted to write for this story. I hope you all like it.

Is this what a dog in heat felt like? Riley thought to herself.

She couldn't concentrate or think straight. Her heart was still racing like her and Lucas were still together in the bedroom.

Riley runs her finger over the rim of her coffee cup, trying to distract herself. Trying to forget. She takes a deep but shaky breath trying to regain focus. Trying not to think of Lucas or last night.

Riley's stomach was in knots. It felt like there were a million butterflies going through her body. She couldn't, she just kept thinking about last night.

She closes her eyes, … and her legs trying to forget it. But she couldn't. All she could think of was the way Lucas made her feel.

The tighter she closes her eyes didn't seem to help. It just intensified the memories and feelings. She swore she could feel his lips right now working its way to her sweet spot. Just like he did all night long.

Riley made sure before she ran out to throw on some light cover-up and a little makeup to hide that. She would get him later for that.

Riley closes her eyes tighter when the images of last night just wouldn't subside.

Her mind just kept replaying …

His kisses.

His kisses were a mix of both rough, sweet, and passionate. She knows such a contradiction, but it was the truth.

His touches.

Her eyes flash open now before she could make a sound just thinking of the way he touched her and drove her insane had her on the verge of losing all control.

When Riley's eyes flash open. She could see the look of concern all over her best friend's face. Riley tries to straighten up in her chair and act like that just didn't happen. She could tell it was already too late. The look of concern what's subsiding in Maya's eyes. Maya was questioning her right now with her eyes.

Riley squirms in her seat when she starts to realize that Maya had been questioning her actions a long time. Riley was just starting to realize how long when she started to catch up with Maya's own nonverbal assessment and conversation of the situation.

Riley raises her eyebrows telling Maya, "Stop that."

Maya chuckles and shakes her head, "meaning no way." Now she does her own half smile and raised eyebrow to Riley. Telling Riley, "About time." Meaning about time she joined the conversation.

Riley straightens up in her seat to try to play it off. Maya does the same so she just sighs. Relaxes her shoulders and tries a softer approach this time with her friend. She could tell the softer approach wasn't going to work. Maya wanted answers.

Riley sighs and picks up her coffee cup, then takes a sip of it. Maybe she needed this more than she thought originally. She needed to wake up and take her mind off of last night. It was never going to happen again.

It was a one-time thing.

She needed to remember that. Lucas didn't play for keeps. She sighs letting the thought sink in. She couldn't get to wound up in things when it would be nothing more.

Riley puts the cup down and looks at her best friends then raises her own eyebrow at Maya. "What I'm here I'm listening." Riley tried to confirm that lie by staring at Maya intently.

Maya wasn't buying it. She sits back in her chair and laughs, "You so aren't here." Maya verbally said out loud now to Riley.

"I am. I'm totally listening," Riley said quickly. She hated lying to Maya, but what happened last night. That was definitely is something she couldn't tell her right now.

Riley certainly couldn't tell Maya that the guy she had been claiming to the whole world since she was 12 that he was nothing more than a friend to her. That he was her brother. That same guy, made her feel like no other man had last night. Nothing was going to come of this madness so no need to tell her.

"I am listening." Riley reiterates before putting the cup down. When Maya still eyes her, questioning Riley on what was going on. Not buying a word she was saying. Riley quickly says, "You told me you have something very important to say."

Riley knew she was changing the subject. It was the easy way out and she had no shame in doing it. Maya smiles and shifts in her chair uneasily. It most have been something important she had to ask her. Maya was concerned since she didn't just spit it right out like usual.

The door chimes at the front door of the bakery. Riley didn't have to look up to see it was Lucas. She could feel it was him standing in the doorway. Her heartbeat started to race. She could smell his woodsy cologne filling her nostrils.

A dog in heat.

She was sure this is what it felt like. Her palms were sweaty and her hands started to shake.

Riley looks at Maya trying her best to concentrate. Riley couldn't show any signs of distraction. Maya's sensors were on high now from early she couldn't afford a mistake right now.

The sound of his cowboy boots hitting the hardwood floors made her heartbeat go in a more erratic pattern. It felt like her heart was literally in her throat. Calm down Matthews, Riley told herself. Riley tried to force herself to think of something other than Lucas and look tranquil and relax.

Riley didn't know if it was working by the way that Maya was biting her bottom lip. Was it more concern for her or Maya's own nerves kicking in.

Riley continued to hear his cowboy boots clicking against the hardwood floor until they were standing right at her table. She tried to look forward ignore him maybe he would go away. That was rude and it was hard for her to be rude. She looks up at him. She regretted it instantly when she did. He looked good. Good was an understatement. He looked hot. He was wearing a snug pair of blue jeans and a blue buttoned-down collar that fit snugly against his chest. He was wearing a grey winter coat that wasn't zipped. It should have been zipped so she would have to see the shirt.

Lucas still had that five-o clock shadow going. Riley bites her bottom lip now too and quickly looks away from him.

"Hey, you forgot these," He dangled her keys in front of her face. Riley silently curses before grabbing them. She was in such a rush she forgot them right on her nightstand.

"Thanks," She quickly said before grabbing them out of his hand quickly. Riley closes her eyes she was being rude again, but she was just trying to get him out of here as quickly as she could before she caved. When Riley looks over at Maya she didn't see the concern in her eyes again. There was a flicker of disbelief from what had transpired. Maybe she needed to be rude to him, so they wouldn't subject anything was going on between them.

"Take a seat, Huckleberry," Maya offered while motioning to the seat next to Riley. Riley looks at her wondering what was going on. She wanted to talk to her about something important this morning now she was inviting Lucas to sit with them. Lucas pulls out the chair next to me and sits down. His arm brushes up against mine when he sits down close to her. Fireworks went off in her body like the fourth of July. She scoots her chair over away from Lucas and turns her attention back to Maya.

"I thought you wanted to tell me something now you are offering for Lucas to sit with us," Riley said.

"If it's a problem I can leave," Lucas offered.

Riley doesn't say no stay and he had to admit it stung. What was going on with her today? He thought things might change since what had happened last night. He thought maybe she'd stop denying what was obviously there between them.

"It's not a problem," Maya said quickly. "I need to talk to the both of you anyway."

"About what?" Riley asked turning her attention back to her friend.

"Josh and I have decided to move up the wedding," Maya said quickly. That took Riley by surprise. They had planned for a spring wedding. How much closer can it be since it was already winter? They were already having trouble trying to find venues for the spring in New York.

"Move it up?" Riley questioned, "Like to what date."

"New Year's Eve." Maya blurted out.

"New Year's Eve. That is only a few weeks away." Riley proclaimed.

"As I told him I don't want to go another year without being Mrs. Matthews," Maya said with a laugh.

"We have so much left to plan," Riley said quickly.

"I want to scale back, big weddings aren't me," Maya said while shaking her head. We all knew she didn't want a big wedding. What they were looking for was nowhere near a big thing. Before Riley could ask Maya continued with her thoughts, "I want a wedding like my mom and Shawn. A quiet little wedding on the rooftop of our parent's place. Especially since that is where it all began."

"Sounds like a plan to me," Lucas said with a smile. Maya turns and smiles back at him.

"So best man and maid of honor you don't have to go all over the top," Maya said while looking at the both of them.

"The bachelorette party is still going to be the best thing ever," Riley confirmed which makes Maya smile.

"Not as good as the bachelor party will be," Lucas teased.

"Oh, it better be a tame boring night at your apartment," Maya said quickly.

"Depends on what you ladies are doing. Now that half of enemy quarters is staying with me I might be able to find out quicker."

"By the time of the bachelor party, you are supposed to be moved into another place. I only agreed to a month of this." Riley quickly said. She sits up in her chair straight to show that she meant it. She could feel his eyes on her making her feel like putty, so she continues to look at Maya who just shakes her head after the comment. They had to keep their distance and pretend to hate each other.

"Did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning?" Maya asked her with a raised eyebrow.

"No, sleep she was up all night," Lucas said in a low teasing voice with a smirk. Riley closes her eyes just thinking about last night and what they were doing.

"Why were you up all night?" Maya asked.

Lucas continued to smirk. Like he was waiting for me to tell her. I roll my eyes and think fast.

"Thinking of all the planning for the next few weeks. You know bakeries are busy around the holidays. Everyone wants a cake or a pie for the holidays." Riley quickly lied. Maya remembers that their apartment looked like a bakery most of winter she would bake just as much at their apartment as she did at the bakery. Riley was always thinking of something new fun and creative to make for the holidays.

Maya sighs and gets to the second part of why she wanted Riley here. It might not be the best time since she just stated how busy she is right now with all the other requests for desserts. If she was going to have a wedding cake it was going to be a Riley Matthews original.

"You think you can take one more request?" Maya asked hesitantly.

"Anything for you Peaches," Riley said with a smile.

"How about a Riley Matthews original wedding cake for my big day?" Maya smiles and shakes in her chair to exude excitement like her best friend would. Riley sits in her chair silently for a moment. Maya frowns when she couldn't get that same enthusiasm from her friend like she usually gets. Riley bites her bottom lip. Everyone knows she loves romance. So doing a wedding cake should be up her ally. The one time she tried to do this it came out as a disaster. "Think about it before you decline the offer," Maya said quickly.

"I think you'd make an amazing wedding cake," Lucas said quickly with one of those toe-curling smiles that makes a girls heart flutter. Don't cave in front of Maya. Riley reminded herself.

"Well I didn't ask you, Huckleberry," Riley said while standing quickly from the table. He shakes his head she only called him Huckleberry or Ranger Rick like Maya when she was trying to deflect and build her wall. So they weren't past that. "I have to get moving before the bakery starts really getting busy. I will think about it Peaches," Riley said while walking over to Maya. Maya stands and hugs her tightly. "Huckleberry is right it would be an amazing cake. The first original Riley Matthews wedding cake should be mine. It's destiny." Riley smiles at Maya and lets her words sink in for a moment. She'd really think about it for Maya. She pulls back and looks at Lucas slowly.

"See you later," She said quickly before heading to the back to get her apron.

"I'm going to go to the restroom before heading to class," Lucas stands from the table. "I'm happy for the two of you can't wait for your rooftop wedding," He said before engulfing her in a quick hug.

"Thanks, Ranger Rick," She said with a smile, "Tell her she can do it she will believe it coming from you."

"You saw how she just quickly dismissed me," Lucas said with a laugh.

"I blame it on that sleepless night," Maya offered quickly. Lucas rubs his hand over his face to try to hide the smile. If only she knew what the sleepless night was from.

Lucas shakes his head before saying "Ok I will," He pushes his chair in and starts to walk down the hallway of the bakery to the restrooms.

He needed to talk to Riley. See where her head was at. He thought that they made a connection and she definitely wouldn't want to go back to the way they were. He knew he couldn't do that. Not after last night. He couldn't keep denying what he was feeling for her. He wouldn't let her say he was her brother again. Ever, again. He runs his hand through his hair out of frustration.

He needed to talk to Riley. He needed to tell her that he wanted more. Not let her revert to them just being friends. They were so much more. Whenever he pushed she'd run and build her wall. He had to take this slow. When he moved fast in the past she'd completely shut him down.

Take it slowly he told himself. Before he could think he felt her petite hand wrapped around his and pulling him into the small bathroom. His eyes lock with Riley's. Her chest was rising and falling quickly but she hadn't closed the distance between them. His eyes fall on to her lips. They were still a little swollen from this morning.

A small smile curves his lips thinking about this morning. Before he knew it she closed the distance and wrapped her arms around his neck and her legs snug around his waist pulling them close together before her lips crashed down on his.

He leans back against the door settling into the kiss. It started out soft and sweet. Just like last night, it was turning more hot and passionate as he felt her tongue lick his bottom lip. He opens his mouth as her tongue eagerly slips in.

He hears her reach behind him and lock the door. She moans into his mouth. She pulls her head back to catch her breath. She starts to leave slow kisses on his neck. A groan escapes his lips as he starts to head over to the sink. He rests her bottom on the counter while she starts to make quick work of unbuttoning his shirt.

Her nails rack against his chest causing another groan to escape his lip. He pulls back so their eyes connect again. His heart beat against his chest wildly while he looks deeply into her eyes. He needed to tell her. He needed to tell her now how he felt.

"I know you are wondering what's going on?" Riley blurted out quickly. She leans forward and rests her head against his. Her fingers run through the hairs on the nape of his neck clouding his thoughts more. "I don't know, to be honest," Riley confessed before pulling back and pressing a kiss to his lips. "This month together maybe we can explore this," Riley said hesitantly. "They can't know." She says before kissing his lips again.

"We have to be something like roomhates in front of them. If they think we hate each other they might now press so hard." She said against his lips before unbuckling his jeans. RoomHates, what? His thoughts slipped away when he felt her hand slip down inside his boxers stroking his hard-on. Shit, he'd be whatever they wanted right now the way she was making him feel. "We have to pretend we don't get along in front of everyone else because they will try to define this and us. They will leave us alone so we can explore this" Riley said while continuing to send me closer to the edge. Us it was the first time she had lumped them together as anything.

"Us." He said huskily in her ear. "I like the sound of that."

Riley smiles before pulling her sweater over her head. She couldn't let his words sink in. This was just supposed to be sex. That is it, "RoomHates for the next month." She wagers again. His lips crash down on hers and she takes it as sealing the deal.

Maya walks out of Topanga's and calls Zay and Farkle.

"How'd it go?" The both asked almost simultaneously.

"She didn't say no," Maya offered quickly. "Something is definitely off between them."

"Again we shouldn't throw all these variables at them," Farkle stresses. "The wedding, staying together, now making her do a cake. You know Riles all this change at once. It could all combust in our faces." He all but yells over the phone.

"Calm down genius," Zay said calmly. "What is going on between them?"

"I don't know yet," Maya stresses. "But today Riley was rude to him."

"Rude," Farkle laughs.

"We don't need to hear what you're going to say," Zay grumbles knowing that Farkle was going to stress too many variables again.

"It's the truth," Farkle quickly commented.

"We have to do something else to get this going," Maya insists. "It's been going on far too long."

"What are we going to plan something every day, till they cave in this month?" Farkle said sarcastically. This is what they were already doing it felt like. It wasn't working.

"Yes, give them no peace until they cave," Maya confirms. Do something every day to remind them why they care about each other. Why they belong together?

"This is exactly what we shouldn't do," Farkle stresses. Again too many variables. He won't say again since Maya obviously wasn't listening.

"No time to talk Operation Roomie Love is in motion," Maya said while hanging up the phone thinking of something to get them to cave.