Love Me or Leave Me Here
Disclaimer: I don't own Girl Meets World. Just the plot in here. 3
Summary: What if Lucas had ulterior motives when he chose Maya? Riley finds out some surprising news that forces her to leave. When she returns, she realized that she isn't the only one who has changed, and she brings along some extra baggage. Slight AU.
Riley's POV (Early-April, 2017)
"They're laughing at you," Baylee informed me. I turned around to see pointed fingers, whispering. I could just barely make out words like "rape" and "abortion" as I walked down the hallway, but I just shrugged. It was just gossip. Untrue Gossip.
"How can you not care?"
"You are 'plena pulchritudinis,' Baylee. If not slightly precarious. Remember that. 'Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent,'" I quoted.
Baylee was the type of girl who needed everyone's approval. Sixteen, adopted at eight after her mom OD'd, bubbly and self-conscious, always wanting to please everyone. I thinks that's why we became friends; we were a lot alike. Maya had once told me I had a magnet for the broken, and Baylee was definitely broken.
Don't think of her, I scolded myself. Though I couldn't help but think that maybe I liked helping the broken so much that I became slightly broken myself. Or maybe everybody is just a little broken.
There was something compelling that you couldn't deby about being stupid, reckless, and young in love.
That was Lucas and I. When I found him, I thought I had found love. I gave him everything and hoped it was enough while he made me feel like a princess.
By time I realized that it wasn't true love and he went out with Maya, it was too late. The pregnancy test already said positive.
I did what I had to do.
He chose Maya and I couldn't steal that from my best friend. So I did what I knew I needed to do.
I left. I waited out my pregnancy with my relatives in Philadelphia.
Love is full of heartbreak and stupid mistakes. Mine just happened to change everything.
(June 11th, 2017)
The first day of school was terrifying. I was thirteen weeks pregnant, showing, and I knew nobody, but everybody knew.
And in walked my future best friend, dressed in black leggings, a short, cut-off green shirt, and laced boots. That girl was Baylee Gabriella Frields. (Previously known as Ella Marie Smith.)
She didn't notice me at first. I was glad; I wasn't looking to be noticed. My baby bump brought enough unwanted attention. But the teacher placed us next to each other, and it was hard not to talk. We sat together at lunch, and she was the only one in the school who gave me the time of day. Besides the boys who thought I was easy. I was so alone.
Reminiscing on those first days made it easier to stand there, about to knock on my old door with my newborn baby in my arms, thinking about how I missed the comfort of knowing what to expect next, a feeling that I haven't felt in years.
* * * Riley's baby was born on May 19th, 2016.
A/N: Should this story contain Joshaya?
Do it for Johnny y'all,
- Alee XxX