A/N: Hey guys. Sorry it's been taking me so long to update. Too much stuff to do and not enough time to do it. I want to thank you guys for the support and if you have any ideas for other stories and any ideas of what I can do with this one leave a review and I will try to do as much as I can. Love all of ya 3
Riley's P.O.V.
After Samantha and I grab our coffees, we walk out of the cafe' and run into the very people I was trying to avoid. Lucas, Maya, Farkle, Zay, Missy, and two people I don't know were sitting on the patio. They all stop their conversations to stare at me with disgust. Samantha puts her hand on my shoulder and we walk away from the patio and we head toward the mall.
"Are you ever going to tell them?" Samantha asks me as she flips through a rack of clearance items.
"Why would I? They obviously don't care about me." I say as I look at the shoes.
"You don't know that." Samantha tries to convince me.
"Actually I do." I sit down and try on a pair of knee high combat boots.
"Those are really cute." Samantha comments as she walks over to me with her arms full of clothes.
"Samantha, do have enough money to pay for all of that?" I ask her as I unlace the boots.
"All clearance items. All of this together will be about fifty bucks." Samantha says as she hands me the clothes.
"Why are you giving me these clothes." I ask her.
"These are for you. A little going away present from me." Samantha says as she pushes me toward the dressing rooms.
"You really don't have to…" I try to protest
"Nonsense. This is my treat." Samantha says smiling.
"Fine." After that the same routine happened in every clothing store we went to. By the time I got home, I had about two dozen shopping bags in my hand. Samantha was staying with me because we carpool to the games and plus we can talk.
"You girls sure made quite a haul today." My mom said as she closed her computer.
"I hope you don't mind Mrs. Matthews, but I bought Riley all of this stuff. It was all on sale." Samantha says as she sits on the couch.
"You really didn't have to Samantha. How much do we owe you?" My mom grabs her purse and digs for her wallet.
"It was my treat since Riley is graduating early and leaving all of us for Harvard." Samantha answers.
"So that's what your father was freaking out about." My mom puts down her purse and walks over to hug me. "Honey, I'm so proud of you."
"Thanks, mom." I say as I sit next to Samantha.
"Well I'm going to get some food for dinner and I suppose you girls are going out tonight after the game." My mom states as she walks over to the coat rack and grabs her jacket.
"Yep and don't worry. I have money and I'm buying my own food." I playfully glare at Samantha, who looks away whistling and smirking. "By the way, the game starts at 7 so Sammy and I are going to be leaving at about 6." Samantha and I stand up and start to walk toward my room.
"Ok. Good Luck sweetie!" My mom yells as she leaves. Samantha and I have the apartment to ourselves for the next few hours. Dad is still at school supervising detention, Auggie is at school for soccer practice and mom is probably going to get sidetracked and start shopping for clothes. When Samantha opened my door, she saw a lot of my old clothes in a bag labeled 'donate'.
"Now I'm happy I bought you those new clothes." Samantha lays on my bed and looks at her phone. "We are going to Zippy's for pizza after the game. Apparently word has spread, to the basketball team, about you leaving and they want to celebrate with us. Katie just texted me about it." I internally groan.
"Yeah, fine." I say as I put my hair up in a high ponytail.
"You sure because we can tell them it's strictly an all girls celebration." Samantha says sitting up.
"It's fine. I'm okay with it." I sit down next to her.
"Okay. I'll tell Katie." Samantha texts Katie then she puts her phone on the bed. " I have a question."
"Ok." I respond.
"Do have a dorm?" Samantha asks me.
"Yeah and here's something I found out that I'm really happy about. I get my own room for the entire time I'm there." Samantha laughs.
"That sounds amazing. What are you going there for?" I haven't told anyone about what I'm going into.
"You will laugh when I tell you." I say laying down.
"I promise I won't laugh." She says.
"Ok, I'm going in for criminal justice." I state as I look at the clock.
"That's great." After that we talk about various topics ranging from when I found out about Harvard to Samantha's crush. When we look at the clock we realize we have to be at school in about forty-five minutes.
"Hey Riles, can I use your straightener?" Sammy asks me as we get changed and get ourselves ready.
"Sammy, you don't have to ask and you know you don't." I say as I redo my hair because it had gotten messed up because Sammy threw a pillow at me when I said that she should talk to her crush tonight, because he's on the basketball team.
"Just making sure because it's rude to just use something without asking." Sammy says from my bathroom. We finally get to school at 5:55 and we realize we have some time so we go into the gym and watch the junior varsity game. The rest of the team showed up a few minutes after we did and they joined us in the gym.
"Girls, time for a pep talk." Coach Fara calls into the locker room. Before any game starts both coach Stone and coach Fara give the basketball team and the cheer squad a pep talk and they give us these pep talks together.
"Glad you could join us, ladies." Coach Stone greets us as we walk into the locker room. "All right, boys, focus because this game is against our biggest rivals and plus this is for the last spot in the championship. We wanna keep them out of the championship. Now let's have Coach Fara say a few words to her girls." Coach Stone finishes. Coach Fara laughs as she moves from her position on the wall.
"Girls, I know it has been an emotional day for all of us. We need to put that aside for right now because there are some gymnastics scouts here and we want to show them what we got, but after the game you can have any emotion you want and boys, make this a good game because it's the last one for our co-captain miss Riley Matthews. Riley, everyone on this team is so proud of you and we will miss you." Coach Fara starts to tear up. All the girls start to cry and the team has a huge group hug. I can hear some of the guys mumble, but coach sends them a stern look and they all shut up.
"All right, let's get out there and kick some butt." Coach says. Everyone cheers and we all head to the gym. The entire cheer squad links arms, once we are out of the locker room, and we walk to the gym together. I'm really going to miss my girls. Some of the guys I'll miss but others not so much. The game was a nail biter, but we ended up winning in overtime. Most of the team went to Zippy's pizza to celebrate the win. I sat with Sammy and Katie while Lucas sat with Maya, Farkle, Missy, and Zay.
"You okay, Riley?" Katie asks me.
"Yeah, I'm fine." I say shaking my head and trying to shake the feeling of being abandoned.
"Pizza's here." Sammy says as our waiter puts the pizza in front of us. After that we just talked and laughed. I almost forgot my ex-friends were staring at me.
"Why are they staring at you?" Katie whispers to me.
"I don't know and honestly I don't care." I whisper back. We stay at Zippy's till about 10:30, then the employees were basically chasing us out with brooms. The team decided to have a sleepover at my house as a last party with just the team before I go. We did blind make-overs, we watched scary movies, we played truth or dare. Basically we were a stereotypical cheer squad.
"Anyone else notice that we are being a total cliche?" Samantha says. All of the girls pause for moment, then we all burst out laughing. At about midnight there was a knock at the door.
"Who could that be?" Kathy asks grabbing a handful of popcorn.
"I don't know." I open the door and inwardly scream and shout. "What are you guys doing here?" I ask my ex-friends that currently stand in my door.