Riley stared at herself in the mirror trying desperately to pull her short shorts down more to no avail. She sighs tilting her head from side to side debating why she was even going to this frat party. Don't get her wrong she enjoyed a good party is just was always the same drunk guys and quite frankly it bored her to tears. But she remembered as a sorority girl it was required of her to at least make an appearance. So here she stood in a ridiculous outfit cowboy boots and hat wishing she didn't have to go.
"Riley move your cute butt we are so late!" Patty one of her sisters says banging on the door. Riley looks one last time at her reflection and tightens her red plaid shirt and clicking her boots hoping they transport her anywhere else for the night. She closes her eyes clicking her heels and muttering "there's no place like home." For a second Riley thinks it works when everything goes quiet she opens one eye and sighs. "Well so much for that." She tells the room grabbing her phone slipping it into her pocket and heading for the door.
"Remember girls as the best sorority on campus we have an image to uphold so if you got to puke swallow it." Their esteem leader Chelsea shouts from the top of the steps. Riley stands next to patty and whispers "she knows that's even worse than actually puking right?" Patty covers her mouth giggling earning them a glare from Chelsea. "Okay let's go ladies the party awaits." She claps her hands together and they all walk out with linked arms.
They walk out and Riley smiles smelling that Texas air. Shocking right Riley Matthews in Texas? But after visiting during middle school she fell in love with it especially because no matter where she was you could look up and see the stars. "Come on daydreamer." Patty laughs pulling her arm. That was the nickname they gave her freshman year when Riley would just stop and stare off into space. And it sorta stuck which Riley didn't mind. They arrive at the frat house and seen the party was in full swing already. Everyone breaks off to dance or find someone to hook up with.
Riley walked around the party slapping the hands of guys who were already drunk trying to grab at her and makes her way into the kitchen. She had just grabbed a cup when she hears a nickname she hadn't heard in years. "MadDogg MadDogg!" Riley pushes past the crowd that was forming and freezes when she sees who it is. Lucas Friar her and Maya's shared boyfriend who moved away sophomore year to Washington never ending the triangle. Last she heard of him he was going to college back in New York with his high school sweetheart.
Now here he was standing upside down drinking from the keg while everyone chanted his name. Lucas stands up wiping his mouth to hi fives from his brothers when he spots her in the crowd. He looks her way and Riley turns around disappearing into the crowd. Riley Matthews the pretty no scratch that the gorgeous brunette he could never forget. He never knew what happened with the old gang he kind of lost touch when he moved even though they agreed to stay in touch Zay was the only one he still talked to.
He looks at everyone trying to spot her but maybe it was just like every other time. Lucas just imagining her face on different girls like usual. He spots Zay chatting up some girl and walks over and says "hey did you see that girl she looked just like Riley." Zay ignores him but the girl he was talking to turns Lucas way and smiles "Riley Matthews?" Lucas eyes widen and he nods his head. "Oh yeah that was her black cowboy hat red shirt?" Lucas nods and the girl tells him that was indeed his Riley.
Lucas couldn't help the smile that overtook his face. He makes his way into the house and finds Riley standing off to the side holding a red cup to her lips pretending to drink. He watches as she sees him coming her way and chugging her drink and walking towards the kitchen. Lucas follows watching her impossibly long legs move swiftly between people all the while looking back to see if he was following.
Riley just grabbed another cup when she felt someone put their hand on hers grabbing the cup away. She turns her head and sees Lucas smirking at her and drink from her cup. "You know there are more cups here you could have grabbed one for yourself jerk." Lucas chuckles and says "so never pegged you for a sorority girl? Nice hat." He tells her flicking it with his hand. Riley rolls her eyes and tries to leave but Lucas blocks her.
"Move." Riley says through gritted teeth. Lucas just smiles and steps closer to Riley making her bump into the counter. "So how ya been? I didn't know you went to this school or that you were even in Texas?" Riley scoffs folding her arms across her chest and says "well why would you we aren't exactly friends." Lucas smirks looking in her brown eyes that were on fire and making him really want to kiss her.
Riley pushes past him but doesn't make it far before he grabs her waist turning her back to him. "Let me go!" She spits at him. He chuckles and whispers in her ear "why so you can go back and pretend to be drinking beer when we both know it was soda." Lucas didn't know why he was being a ass to her but seeing that fire in her eyes just spurred him on. "Guess Maya isn't here to hold your hand letting you know it's okay to unfold them huh?"
Riley clench her fist and took a breath. He didn't know what he was getting into with her. She was no longer that old insecure Riley Matthews he knew and she was going to prove it just to shut him up. She looks up sweetly at him taking off her hat and placing it on his head and whispers in his ear. "Your right she isn't here and trust me my hands been unfolded for awhile now." She bites his earlobe making him groan just to tease him and walks off.
Riley wakes the next morning to the sound of something buzzing. She groans swatting at her desk trying to find her phone. She finally grabs it opening one eye when she realizes it's not her phone or her bedroom. She sits up and holds her head as the room suddenly starts spinning. She looks down and notices her bra is missing and her clothes thrown about the room. She mentally curses herself and turns looking at who was next to her.
She covers her mouth letting out a silent scream when she lifts the cowboy hat off the stranger's face a little and sees it Lucas. And just like that the night before plays back in her mind like a bad movie. Riley remember walking away from him only to find he followed her so she went to the bar outside and took a couple of shots with the bartender and then she agreed to play hard liquor pong with her sisters.
But none of that showed her interacting with Lucas again. Then she sees Lucas belt buckle and her eyes widen and she remembered. They had a fake mechanical bull set up and Riley already tipsy got on riding it for awhile to the sound of cheers until Lucas grabbed her off and slowly slid her down his body. They stayed that way just staring at each other until something took over and they ended up in a heavy make out session that got heated quickly.
Riley shook her head trying to quietly slip out of bed and grab her clothes dressing quickly before Lucas woke. Everything they did came back with each item she picked up. From her shirt hanging off the door where she took it off when they entered his room and her shorts in the middle of the floor where Lucas slipped them off as she jumped on him. To her boots by his closet wall where he took her against it. Riley shook her head and debated with herself if she should grab her hat.
She didn't have to think to long when Lucas rolled over knocking the hat off his face and rolling on his stomach. From there she seen the claw marks and resisted the urge to trace them remembering what they did last night. She quickly grabs it and makes a mad dash for her boots slipping them on. She looks in Lucas closet and notices his old middle school sweatshirt and wonders why he still carries it around. She puts it on and makes her way out his room preparing for her inevitable walk of shame in front of his frat brothers.
Luckily for her nobody was in the hall or living room. She had just reach the front door when someone calls her name. Riley freezes and slowly turns around seeing Zay grinning at her. "Morning sugar." Zay tells her eating his bowl of cereal. Riley glares at him and says "I wasn't here got it?" Zay chuckles and shakes his head as Riley makes her way out the house.
Riley makes it all the way inside the house without being noticed. She had just opened her door when Patty comes out her own room and sees her in the same outfit as the night before. "Riley are you?.." Patty's eyes widen and Riley grabs her covering her mouth and pulling her into her room. "Patty don't scream okay I've got a major hangover and can't handle the shrieking." Patty agrees and goes to get her a water and aspirin. Good old Patty.
When deciding to go to school in Texas Riley never thought she come out her shell but thankfully Patty was her roommate freshman year and helped her spread her wings. Patty comes back in and hands her the water and pills. "So." Patty starts smiling at Riley "I thought you weren't going to drink last night?" Riley gives her a tight smile and says "I wasn't but certain people forced my hand to show them who I am now."
Patty tilts her head and says "was it that hot frat boy?" Riley looks at her and was hoping she wasn't describing who she thought she was. "What hot frat boy?" Patty jumps on Riley's bed making her bounce and feel quesy at the same time. "Here I took his picture." She scrolls through her phone and sure enough there he was in all his glory. The picture looked like it was taken before his keg stand.
Riley remembered his shirt was damp with sweat and beer mixed in with his cologne. Riley shakes her head and says "yes unfortunately that's him." She lays down kicking off her boots and sliding under the covers. "What do you mean unfortunately? He is hot! Chelsea is going to be so jealous you go to him before her." Patty tells her getting up. "Chelsea can have him." Riley mumbles right before passing out.
Riley wakes four hours later to the sound of her computer letting her know someone was requesting a video chat. She assumed it was Maya so she slipped out of bed grabbing her computer off her desk. Still half hungover and sleepy Riley accepts without looking who it was. The sound of his voice wakes her up.
"is that my sweatshirt?" Lucas asks smirking at her through the screen. Riley rolls her eyes and says "yeah well I couldn't find my bra and the buttons on my shirt were ripped off. Lucas chuckles and says "hey I'm not the one that started tearing off clothes that was all you." Riley groans and says "what do you want? And why can't you call like a normal person?" He smiles at her and says "To see your face when I say I was wondering if you wanted to get dinner with me?"
She stares at him like he had three heads and from the way she was still feeling she couldn't even focus on one. "I'm tired and still a little hungover so no." Lucas grins and holds up her bra and says "I guess you don't want this back then huh?" Riley gasps holding her head and says "fine 730 out in front of the sorority house bring my bra it's my favorite one."
She ends the call before he can come back with some dirty comment. Riley looks at the time seeing it was only 12 and decides to go back to sleep. She finally gets comfortable and her phone rings. "Hello." She whispers into her phone. "You slept with huckleberry?!" Maya shouts into the phone. Riley sits up and says "Maya can you not shout I have a headache."
Maya goes quiet and says "Riles you slept with Ranger Rick?" Riley bites her lip and says "Maya it just happened okay. I had some drinks and I don't really remember a lot. It's all fuzzy. How didn't you even find out about it?" "I seen the pictures." Riley sits up and says "What pictures?" Riley puts her phone on speaker and looks at her instagram.
She looked through the pictures from the party last night but none of her and Lucas together. How would Maya even know? Then she sees it you wouldn't really see it unless you look closely but there it was a picture of people chugging beers and in the background her and Lucas making out and it didn't help Lucas had his hand on Riley's butt. Riley sighs taking her phone of speaker and Maya says "so what does this mean you two dating now?" Riley can hear the sarcasm mixed with something else.
Lucas was still a touchy subject for the girls especially since Maya told Riley a week before he left Lucas wanted to see her saying he was ready to end the triangle. After that Maya would always bring up his name wondering if they could have had something special and Riley wanting Maya to be happy played along even though it broke her heart Lucas wanted to see Maya and not her.
Their friendship was already on shaky grounds when Riley chose Texas or as Maya put it chose to change the plans they had. Riley tried telling her Texas A&M had the classes she wanted to help her become a teacher. Suffice it to say Maya felt betrayed she even applied to a school so far from her. And now this was going to definitely crush it.
Now they were back fighting about a boy once again. Riley felt like Maya assumed since Lucas was going to pick her she had some claim on him and now knowing Riley and Lucas went to the same school Riley was moving in on her almost former boyfriend. Riley sighs she was in no mood for Maya and her apparent theatrics today. "Maya..." "just forget it Riley I got to go."
Riley hangs up and tosses her phone at the end of her bed. She didn't know why Maya even cared anymore she was dating someone from her art school and she thought they were happy? She didn't care she was hungover and still tired. And why did she agree to have dinner with Lucas of all people?
Riley tried to forget about everything and fall back asleep but she couldn't. She lays down under her blankets but still couldn't turn off her brain. She throws the blankets off her and sits up grabbing her phone and texting the one person who she knew could take her mind off her problems even though he was one of them.
Riley hits send and gets dressed waiting for his reply. He responds and Riley grabs her bag and walks out heading to his room. Riley goes to knock on his door and stops. "What am I doing?" She thought to herself. She debated about going back home but instead she knocks and opens the door when he yells come in.
"So I have to say I think I like this new Riley Matthews." Lucas tells her kissing her shoulder as they laid in bed naked. Riley rolls her eyes and gets up wrapping his sheet around her body. "Keep it in your pants Friar this was a two time deal. Nothing more." Lucas smirks and pulls her back down unwrapping her from the sheet. "Hey your the one that texted me and if I remember correctly you kissed me first last night."
Riley gasps when she felt his fingers dancing up her thigh. "Lucas." Riley moans closing her eyes. "Just tell me to stop and I will." Lucas whispers knowing she didn't want that. He starts kissing along her neck and and moving his fingers where she knew she shouldn't want him to but was letting him anyway. She knew she should stop this. This was going to end in disaster but right now she didn't care.
"Hey Luke Amy is here for you." Someone shouts banging on the door bringing an end to their little whatever it was. Lucas growls and shouts "I need a minute!" Riley gets up recovering herself and Lucas leans on his arm and says "hey where are you going I can get rid of her. I forgot I made plans with her anyway." Riley scoff putting her underwear and bra back on.
"Lucas just go out with your little girlfriend or whatever she is. I need to go anyways." Riley moves towards the door and Lucas gets up trapping her against it. "Sounds like jealousy to me Matthews?" Lucas whispers against her ear. Riley bites her lip and turns around and says "sounds like someone got a big head friar." Lucas chuckles looking down at his naked body and says "oh we both know I do."
Riley shakes her head trying to find the doorknob and once she did she turns it making them stumble. "Dude gross put some clothes on. Nobody wants to see that." Zay grimace shielding his eyes from having to look at Lucas in his birthday suit. "Hey sugar. Let me guess you were never here again?" Zays tells Riley with a wink. Riley smiles and walks away.
After shaking his at Lucas while he got dressed and went on his date Zay went off in search of Riley. He knew where to find her too. At the library. Ever since senior year when Riley told him of her plans for college Zay and Riley were inseparable. He smiles when he finds her sitting in her favorite spot with her nose in a book.
"Hello there sugar." Zay tells her sitting with his back pressed against hers. "What's up Zay?" Riley asks folding the page she was on and closing her book. Zay glances at her and sees she showered and now had on skinny jeans and her Texas A&M sweater and her hair was tied in a messy bun atop her head. "Oh nothing." Riley smiles shaking her head. Being friends with Zay since middle school she knew his little quirks.
"It just happened Zay. If anything I blame you for it happening last night!" Riley whisper yells at him since she remembered they were in a library. Zay chuckles and says "I tried but you growled at me Riley literally growled. It was sexy and scary." He shivers making Riley giggle. She leans her head back on his shoulder and Zay does the same. "So what was this afternoon about? Still drunk?"
Riley elbows him and sits up "no Maya called and found out about Lucas and I and we fought and I just needed to take my mind off things." Zay nods along he knew about them having problems and how they barely talked anymore. Zay hardly talked to Maya anymore either since she accused him of stealing her best friend and talking her into going to Texas.
Not wanting to think about her fight with Maya anymore Riley changes the subject. "So when did Lucas even transfer over here? I thought he was going to nyu with his girlfriend?" Zay chuckles and was shocked seeing him just like Riley was. "Apparently they broke up summer after sophomore year and he transferred he didn't show up till a couple of days ago and the party last night was for him."
Riley was about to speak when they hear someone shouting her name. "Riley Matthews!" Zay and Riley exchange a look and both laugh at the brunette haired boys who were being shushed as they made their way over to them grinning from ear to ear. Dylan and Asher. Lucas and Zay's best friends from when they were kids and now Riley too since Zay and her came down after their graduation and spent the summer hanging out with them.
"What's up guys?" Riley asks smiling at the two as they stood in front of her with their arms folded across their chest. Dylan and Asher exchange a look and Asher lifts up Riley causing her to shriek and toss her over his shoulder. "You promised us drinks and a round of bowling." Dylan tells her as Zay grabs her book and bag and they make their way out the library.
Lucas sat in the booth of his favorite bar drinking his beer trying to drown out Amy who wouldn't stop talking about herself in the third person. He chugs his beer signaling the waitress and wondering why he agreed to a date with a girl who was peeling the peanuts they provided but didn't eat them. Who does that?
Lucas sighs drumming his fingers on the table debating calling it a early night when he sees Asher carrying a giggling Riley over his shoulder and Zay and Dylan following behind chanting something sitting her down on the bar stool and whispering in her ear making her playfully shove him. He perked up but felt himself clench his fist at the same time. He knew he had no real claim on the brown eye girl and she could date whoever but that didn't stop the ache in his heart thinking it was his friend.
"Barkeep a round of shots and a pitcher of beer!" Dylan shouts slapping his hand on the bar getting the finger from Ryan the bartender. "There goes your tip Ryan!" Riley shouts at him. Ryan chuckles and head over and says "well if I knew my favorite girl was with them I would have came right over." He winks and pours Riley a single shot clinking their glasses and drinking it.
"well look at this Ash do my eyes deceive me or is that who I think it is coming our way?" Dylan laughs leaning against the bar. Riley didn't have to turn around to know it was Lucas a chill ran down her spine and goosebumps peppered her skin when he got closer resting his hand on her lower back rubbing his thumb against her ribs. "Hey fellas." Lucas says moving closer to Riley taking in the scent of her strawberry shampoo and fighting his instincts to take her to the bathroom and have his way with her.
"Hey Friar I think you left your date over there." Riley tells him turning on her stool to get some distance from him. Lucas chuckles knowing what she was doing and says "why don't you guys join us? Booth is big enough for all of us." Dylan and Asher hi five sliding in on either side of Amy wiggling their eyebrows at her.
"Um Lucas who are these people?" Amy asks gesturing at the two sitting next to her. Lucas chuckles and says "that's Dylan and Asher. And this is Zay and Riley." They all sit pouring beers Ryan brought over and talk about what they were going to do later.
Riley drinks her beer and almost spits it out when she felt Lucas place his hand on her leg dancing his fingers where they were just two hours ago. "You know you looked more sexy with my sweatshirt on." Lucas whispers in her ear making her shift in her seat. Riley can see Zay smirking at her and she playfully glares at him.
She glances at Lucas and seen even though he had a date who was trying to ignore the boys he kept touching her and making her clench her thighs together but that just made him smirk to himself. Riley knew this was wrong she shouldn't do this she shouldn't be enjoying his fingers and the way they were moving but she couldn't help it. Her body was betraying her and Lucas knew it from the look he was giving her.
But Riley wasn't going to give in that easy. Part of her knew she should end this and just get up and leave but couldn't and she didn't want to. But she was going to teach Lucas a lesson right here and now. She pretends to reach for her phone but instead places her hand on his crotch and gives him a little squeeze letting him know two can play this game. She knew she had him when he gave a little groan but got back at her by unbuttoning her jeans fingering her underwear and making her bite her lip to keep from moaning.
Riley smiles at Lucas and does the same to him but puts her hand in rubbing him over his boxers. Lucas leg jumps out at the pressure Riley was putting on him and he kicks Dylan. "Dude why did you kick me?" Dylan shouts flicking peanuts at Lucas. Riley pulls her hand back giggling and Lucas shakes his head. "Ready to hit the bowling alley boys?" Riley asks discreetly buttoning her pants and stands up.
Zay shakes his head and says "yeah let's go and let Luke finish his date." Lucas glares at him and Amy scoots closer and says "I agree Lucas we could even go see a movie maybe?" Lucas nods giving her a small smile and looks at Riley who was already out the door on Asher's back.
Just one of many ideas I had for a story. Will see what everyone thinks and finish when I finish my other stories. Also not hating on Maya will show why she is acting like that in later chapters if I continue it. Also thought I make Riley a little more of a risk taker and confident.