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Hello Children of fabulousness!
I hope you all had a fabulous Halloween. Mine was fabulous, and I now have enough candy to last me through 2050 (or until a week after valentines day when my mother will give away all of our stockpiled Holiday season candy that my sister and I haven't eaten yet).
Anyway, I'm updating this story again. Now that volleyball season is over, updates should be a lot faster.
I've decided that even after all the events of the last episodes of GMW (yes, I'm completely done through the end of Girl Meets Texas 3), I still ship Rucas. If you don't then you don't have to read this story. Also don't judge me; I'm fabulous.
And I'm skipping over season one and two and in the world of this story, everything in Girl Meets Texas has been resolved (it's been six months). Sorry if the time skip is confusing, I just really don't feel like restating everything else that happened in season 1 and 2.
When we come back from this short disclaimer break, I will begin the chapter.

Disclaimer: GMW is not mine. I don't own any of the characters and also,I am from the future.

And we're back to our regularly scheduled fabulousness.


Riley


I was on the subway on the way to school, just like every other day. I find it weird that I didn't even need Maya to say "Hey, Ranger Rick, hi Farkle," to alert me to the presence of Lucas and Farkle coming onto the subway.

"Hey, Maya," Farkle said. Lucas was silent. I turned to look at him, finding it strange that he had no reply when Maya called him Ranger Rick.

"Hey, Lucas," I said, noticing that he was staring intently at his phone as he typed in a text. He completely ignored me. "Hey, Lucas," I said a bit louder, and he ignored me again as his phone dinged. "Hey, Lucas!" I shouted, and he finally looked up and muttered a pessimistic "hi." This was concerning.

"Is something wrong?" I asked.

He looked up at length and put on his usual flawless cowboy smile as he said, "nope, everything's fine!"

I sighed, "okay, I trust you."

We got off the subway and walked into the school building, then went into our history class (my dad's class).

"Hey, guys," my dad said as he burst into the room, wearing a pair of mom's pajama pants and one of Augie's pajama shirts.

"Umm, dad, what the heck are you wearing?" I asked him slowly and hesitantly, not entirely sure if I really wanted to know the answer.

"I have no clue," he responded, "I have no mirrors and no clue about anything, since my own wife banned me from using the bathroom in our house." Wow, my mother can be really mean when she wants to.

Suddenly I heard a phone ringing. "I have to take this call," Lucas said, walking towards the door. My dad stood in front of the door, blocking the exit, so Lucas walked towards the other door and left the room, answering his phone. He closed the door behind him.

"Should we go out there after him?" I asked.

"Give him a minute," my dad responded. He began to teach us something about the Holocaust, but I was barely listening.

Clearly, something was wrong with Lucas. I stood up unannounced and walked out into the hallway to go find Lucas.

I rounded a corner as I heard him speaking into his cell phone.

"Please, Tally, please, just hear me out. I need you to trust me. I need you to tell me what's going on. I need you to think of me as a friend. Please. Whatever's going on doesn't bother me. But the fact that you didn't tell me; didn't tell anyone, does. Please, please, Tally, call me back. I need you to talk to me. Please." he hung up and dialed another number.

"Pick up, pick up," he muttered under his breath.

He gave a loud sigh. "Hey, Rikki, have you heard from Tally yet?" he asked. He frowned as he listened intently to the response.

"I know that!" he shouted. "I want to do something!" He listened again and then cursed under his breath. "Whatever. Let me know if you hear back from her," he said. He turned around and looked at me and sighed.

"I knew you'd follow me," he said. "How much did you hear?"

"Mostly that you can't reach Tally," I said.

"Okay then," he replied.

"Lucas, what's going on?" I asked him.

"Nothing, I'm good," he replied hesitantly, and that flawless cowboy smile was gone, replaced with a cold, angry, dejected, gaze. I rolled my eyes at him. "Just drop it, okay? I told you I'm fine," he said.

I sighed and gave in. "Fine," I said."

"Let's get back to class," he said. So we walked back to Mr. Matthew's class together.

The rest of the day, Lucas barely said a word. He was staring at his phone and looking pretty sad. School let out, and the two of us plus Maya and Farkle got on the subway to go home.

"Lucas," I said, "what's wrong?"

He glared daggers at me but I stood unwavering.

"I told you to drop it, okay?!" he shouted.

"I'm not going to just drop it, something's obviously wrong and I don't want to drop it," I argued.

"Just leave me alone!" he said, and the whole subway car went silent for a full ten seconds, before the next stop was announced.

"Please, Lucas," I pleaded.

"I don't want to talk about it, so just leave me alone," he said.

"But I-" the doors opened behind me and he moved towards them. "I'm sorry, Riley," he said, before getting off the train.

"Lucas, wait!" I called as I moved towards the doors but they closed right in front of my face. The moment the doors opened I was off the train and outside. I wandered the streets for awhile, calling after Lucas and losing track of time. It was 10:30 at night and pouring rain by the time I decided to head home and got back on the subway and then finally made my way home.

When I arrived at my house just before midnight soaking wet and crying, my parents decided not to question me and instead to set me up with some hot tea and a bath and wait until morning to ask me questions, which, of course, they did.


Riley (the next day)


I woke up and answered my parents questions about last night before I got on the subway to school with Maya. Farkle got on a few stops later, but Lucas was nowhere to be found.

"Hey, Farkle, Ranger Rick," Maya said, but I already knew that Lucas was missing from the train.

"Lucas didn't show up at my house where we always meet and walk to the subway together. I couldn't wait any longer, so I decided to go on without him," Farkle explained.

"Did you call him?" I asked.

"Yes, but it went straight to voicemail," Farkle responded. "I left at least 3 messages."

There was nothing else we could do at the moment.

We made it to school and Lucas wasn't there either. I walked into my dad's class and immediately noticed the empty seat where Lucas should be.

My dad walked in and noticed it, too. "Where's Lucas?" he asked. He looked at me and I shrugged. "You don't know?" he asked me incredulously. "How can you not know? He's your friend! Maybe he went back to Texas. Nah, he wouldn't do that without-"

I understand now. "That's it!" I cried.

"What?" my dad asked.

"I have to go, dad. I'll be back soon, I hope," I said before bolting out the door.

I got on the subway and waited impatiently as it took me home. I went inside and grabbed all the money I could find. I wrote a note and left it on the counter:

Mommy, Daddy, and Augie,
I know I'm in really big trouble for this. I'm sorry.
I hope you can forgive me. I'll be back by Friday. I'm sorry. I'll be careful. I'll be fine.
I love you!

Love, Riley

P.S, I will pay you back when I get home.

I read back over the note, hoping that would be enough to tide them over. I hoped I'd bought myself enough time.

With that I left the house and got on the subway, riding all the way to the train station and buying myself a round-trip ticket to Texas. I got on the train and it seemed like no matter how fast it went it wasn't moving fast enough. I didn't even have any luggage or a backpack (I'd been stupid enough to leave mine in class). I didn't even have any extra clothes. All I had on me was the clothes I was wearing and $200, as well as my cell phone, which was on airplane mode.

The next day, Wednesday, the train arrived in Texas, around noon.

Now to find Lucas, I thought to myself.


A/N
I know it's a weird place to put a cliffhanger, but dang this chapter was getting long.
I hope you guys like it. This is Riley and Lucas' first fight.
Review if you love it, or even if you don't.
Now that volleyball season is over, updates should be a lot faster. I'll try to update at least once a week, probably mostly Wednesdays.
Anyway, that's all for now. I will get the next chapter up as soon as possible. I'm decidedly making this story more of a major focus until I get a bit further into it. I may or may not update my other stuff (it's mostly in the Fairy Tail and H2O fandoms); it really just depends.
So that's it.
Farewell.
Sing on and be a brave soul!
^Rikki the Fab One Out!^