Merry Christmas or just Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas Riarkle

Riley had spent a month working on this project. A week after she had this idea, she had thought about giving up because all this has required a lot of her, and even though she tried to be a good student in her school time Riley knew it was beyond her. It was so much out of her league that she had hired someone to help her with her project.

She might have the cheap option of asking her friends for help, but Maya would laugh at her if Riley asked for her help; Lucas would obviously try his hardest to make it work, though himself would not trust the final result; Zay wasn't even there to help her; and Smackle would be the only good option for her, but Riley knew the brunette would not be able to omit that information from him for a long time.

Riley heard her cell phone vibrate with a text from Farkle saying that he was bringing Smackle because Zay had to make a last-minute trip. Great, now she would have two people to judge her work, and in case something was wrong she would have to listen for an hour a speech pointing out all things that she did wrong and pointing out all possible solutions to them. Riley set her work on the wall making sure everything was in the right place and wishing someone to be there to assure her that everything was correct before they walk in.

Just more a couple few minutes and she'll happily sleep peacefully since all this work hasn't allowed her to get some precious hours of sleep. Riley felt her hand sweat, she was so nervous that she felt her stomach give a turn.

"Come on! Now isn't a good time for this."

She said to herself taking a deep breath. The noise of voices came up near the door and Riley found herself giving one last spiffing up on the papers before going to meet them in the entrance. Farkle was putting Smackle's coat in the closet as they talked about the weather, saying when it was the last time New York had seen such a cold Christmas.

"Good afternoon, guys!"

They turned to her, Smackle came toward her with her open arms to embrace Riley.

"You're really good at it!"

Riley said snuggling in the warm hung of her friend.

"I've learned from the best."

She said making the hug take longer than necessary.

"Okay, enough! Now you wanna steal my wife?"

Smackle laughed pulling away.

"That would be no problem for me since I'm smarter than you, and as people have already said Riley is not really straight."

"Actually, she's prettier than you."

Riley said approaching him giving him a greeting kiss. They went into the living room chatting about a new MacBook update when Farkle was silent when he saw the papers on the wall.

"What is it?"

Farkle said quickly.

"What?" Smackle said, turning to the wall. "Are you pregnant?"

"What?"

"What?"

Farkle and Riley said, he turned to them both waiting for an answer. Riley was amazed, frustrated and irritated. All that work for Smackle just look at the roles for fifteen seconds and decipher the message behind all those codes that took away her sleep.

"How?"

Riley said in amazement for the brunette.

"That was so easy! You know I have a great facility with numbers."

"Riley, are you pregnant?"

"Said Farkle as he approached her, Riley could see tears forming on his eyes.

"Yes, I am."

"How long have you known this?"

"More than a month."

"Why did not you tell me?

"Because I wanted to do something special."

"And I ruined everything."

Said Smackle

"You must have taken a huge work to do all this."

He said pointing to the papers on the wall.

"Yes. Thank you, Smackle!"

"I can hear the irony in your voice and it does not suit on you."

Farkle placed his hands on her waist to bring her to him.

"So, I'm finally going to have a daughter or a son with the famous Riley Matthews?" Farkle laid and whispered on her ear "As I always wanted."

"Yes. You'll."

She said Farkle gave a peck on her lips.

"How long?"

"Eight weeks."

"Eight weeks?" He said in amazement. "So, that's why you are a bit different lately, you're kind of sensitive, sick, not to mention that your body is changing, like your breasts are getting bigger..."

"Yes, they are, aren't they?" She said joking "something good about pregnancy."

"This is the third happiest day of my life."

He said kissing her again.

"What are the other two ones?"

"The first one was when you said I do at our wedding day and the second one was when I met you."

"Oh! Enough sugar" I'm going to turn a diabetic! Of course, if this had any logic what is not the case."

"Shut up, Smackle!"

Said Farkle as bending down and running his hand over his wife's belly before kissing it.

"Hi, princess or big boy! I'm your Daddy and I promise to do everything in my power to make you and Mom happy for the rest of my life."

"You're going to be a wonderful father!" Smackle said, "I'm going to do my research on first-pregnancy books to you guys."

"Thank you, Smackle!"

They said along.

"Now, I think I'll need to make a last-minute Christmas shopping. You just made my gift something so worthless right now. Well, since the shops don't open until tomorrow, I'm going to spend my time going door to door shouting to anyone that I'm going to be a dad. If you'll excuse me.

Take care and do not overeat, I know it's difficult!