A/N:This is a Rucas/Lucaya one shot based on Shawn Mendes' song, "The Weight", which is one of my favorites. There is no specific pairing, because things happen to support both, similar to the show "Girl Meets World". I do not own the song, nor the show. Credit goes to the creators.

"I want to go back, forget that it's over.

Paint it in black, when you left me alone."

Riley Matthews was set on forgetting Lucas Friar as a whole.

She hated the way she became dependent on him, and he let her down.

As she sat on her bay window, she cried. She cried for the nights that they were together, and how she trusted him. She cried because she wasn't enough for him. She cried because she couldn't get him out of her head.

"And I never knew, that she (he) was sleeping next door with the kid I grew up with.

And I can't go back to her (him), anymore."

Riley should've noticed.

She blamed herself for being so oblivious to the chemistry that Lucas and Maya shared.

Every glance, every word, and every memory in her body reminded her of them.

When Lucas was with Riley, he was good to her.

It was too good to be true, unfortunately.

Riley remembered crawling in through Maya's window, as she did sometimes, to ask if she could borrow a jacket for her date with Lucas that night.

Lucas driving into Maya as her shrieks filled the room was one thing Riley wishes she could forget.

Lucas never meant for it to happen.

One minute they were rippling playful banter back and forth, the next, Maya's hand was gripping the hairs at the back of his neck as they kissed.

The feelings were different from when he had kissed Riley, he knew that for sure.

Riley's were warm and passionate, full of love and admiration.

Maya's were short and aggressive, full of lust and desire that had been coursing through her veins.

He didn't know which was better.

"You tell me you were happier with him (her), but you want me to stay.

And you tell me that you needed time, but you pushed me away.

And when you try to take me back, my heavy heart just breaks,

And I can't lift the weight."

Lucas told Riley that he enjoyed his time with Maya (Even if it was intimate) better than when he was with her.

Riley left. She grabbed her jacket and walked through the door of Topanga's faster than she ever had before.

Lucas chased after her, claiming he couldn't lose her as a friend and that he had made a mistake. He begged for her to give him some time to make up his mind.

Riley found this uncanny. Her boyfriend of 8 months was asking her if he could have time to choose. There should've never been a choice. She shook her head and walked away, hearing his pleas for her to stay with him as she walked down the road.

"Put you in the past,

Try to forget you cause it's over,

And every time you ask, I'll pretend I'm okay.

You're inside my head.

In the middle of the night, when I don't feel right, I dream I can hold you.

And I can't go back to you anymore."

Riley tried to love Charlie, she really did. She went on several dates with him and became his girlfriend after a few.

She just couldn't get him out of her head. Charlie would ask what was bothering her, but she only smiled and intertwined their fingers.

The only issue is that it was a fake smile, and she didn't feel the same comfort she did when she was with Lucas.

Every night, in the safety of her warm purple blanket with the bunny night light shining on her face, illuminating her eyelashes, she dreamt of him. She dreamed that everything was perfect, that he didn't cheat; only to be faced with the harsh reality every time she opened her eyelids.

"And I can't lift the weight; no I can't lift the weight,

Yeah you lower your standards and I raise the stakes."

Lucas continued to try and prove he could be with Riley again.

Hell, he even ditched Maya and told her that they were horrible people by betraying Riley like that.

The only difference was that Maya didn't apologize.

"You told me that you needed time, but you pushed me away.

And when you tried to take me back, say someday you would change,

But I don't want to wait."

Riley knew Lucas was trying, she really did. She also wasn't the same naïve young girl she once was, and knew that it would happen again. Lucas just wasn't good for her.

He shook his head, tears falling from his eyes.

"Riley, I can change. I will change for you. I am so so-"

"Lucas, I don't want to hear it. I've moved on, you should too." She smiled faintly before turning around and linking her arm with Farkle prior to escaping the high school.

He wasn't going to make her wait; she didn't need the weight.

Fin.