Riley's POV
I woke up the next morning and didn't recognize where I was. I started to panic, until I saw that Josh was on the bed next to me. His roommate was nowhere in sight. I looked around for my phone, but I couldn't find it. "Josh. Where's my phone?" He groaned and turned over in the bed. "Dresser..." was all he said before passing out again. I went in the dresser and found my phone. I looked to see hundreds, literally, of texts from my friends. I ignored them all and tossed the phone on the bed. I got up and saw that I was only in a t shirt of josh's. I changed back into my dress. I pulled my hair up into a ponytail, and grabbed Josh's NYU hoodie.i scribbled a note to josh, saying that I would be back later, before leaving. While I was walking I took a piece of paper from my dress pocket. (Yes, her dress has pockets) I stared at the number on the screen for a second before pressing the send button. I put the phone up to my ear. As I got onto the subway, they picked up the phone. "Hey it's me... the girl from the subway... I was wondering if I could take you up on your offer to talk?" I sighed in relief when I heard the reply. "Great thanks. Yeah meet me at this place called Topanga's. ok bye." I hung up the phone and got off at my stop. When I got to my corner, it was quiet. Which is unusual. I quietly creeped through the bay window. I stumbled and saw that I almost stepped on Zay's head. All my friends were lying on the floor, sleeping. Great. I tiptoed my way around the floor. Pulling on some jeans, and my converse and keeping my hoodie on. On my way out I accidentally hit Lucas' foot. I cringed. He stirred and slightly sat up. "Riley..." he said groggily. "You're dreaming... go back to sleep." He nodded, obviously too tired to make sense of this, and laid back down to sleep. I climbed out the window. When I got to Topanga's I sat down in a booth. I still had about an hour and a half until I had to meet her, so I ordered a smoothie and was stirring it in my cup. After about an hour, the door bell jingled and I looked up and sank down in my seat. They all just walked in, and sat in the booth behind me. I had pulled my hoodie up so they didn't recognize me. "I'm really worried about Riley." That was Zay. "I know, but she texted me and said that she was okay." I did? When? I checked my texts to see if this was true only to find out it was. Josh must've done it as an attempt to get them to stop texting me. "Where do you think she is?" Lucas. "Who can say..." Smackle. They continued their conversation, and hey completely ignored me. Well, up until the waitress came back. "Here's your check m'am. Your mother wants you to call her too. Happy late birthday." I cringed, but smiled. I kept my head down and hoped they didn't notice. I heard footsteps circle the table and then my hood got tugged down. I inwardly cursed. "Riles?" I looked up. "Riley." I said shortly. Maya looked taken aback. "Look, I'm sorry you guys are worried about me, but I'm fine. And I'm kind of waiting for someone so..." they didn't budge. "Fine if you won't move, I will." I made a move to get out, but Zay and Lucas moved to block me. "We have to talk Riles." I glared at Lucas. "Riley. And why do you suddenly care now about talking? You never have before. You either just talk to me when there's no one else around or your off make out with your girlfriend." I spat out the word girlfriend. They all looked kind of shocked at my tone, except for Farkle. He just looked at me sadly. I was on a roll. And I didn't want to stop because for once in my life, I was afraid what would happen if I didn't talk. I turned to Maya. "And you! Constantly rubbing it in my face that he chose you. I get it! You don't have to stake your claims in him every time we're together!" The few people who were in here were now all staring at them. "Actually the only one who really knows how I feel is Farkle, because I would call him and go to his house to talk to him or just cry. Because I used to cry all the time. But not anymore. You guys forgot my birthday. You didn't say anything until I mentioned it. And being busy is no excuse. I'm not the same girl I was yesterday. That girl would take all of your crap. But not anymore. So just do us all a favor and just leave me alone." I was standing now, because they all had backed up a few feet during my rant. The door jingled again and I saw Cali. "Now if you'll excuse me, I'm meeting someone." I pushed past them. "C'mon, lets go somewhere else." I stormed out the door and she followed. "Wow, that was something, let me guess. Those were your friends." I nodded. "Rough." "Yup. So where do you want to go?" "I have a place in mind."
I walked out of the hair salon an hour later. I looked in the camera in my phone and looked at my hair. Which was once, long, and luscious, it is now cut up to my collar bone. "Cute!" Cali commented as I modeled it for her. She had to run and take a call quickly and missed seeing the result. "So what now?" I looked at the time. It was only 2. "Let's go to the park." We walked throughout the park until Cali wanted to show me something. She lead me into a patch of bushes. "Is this the part where you kill me?" She laughed. Once I got through the branches I looked around. Behind the bushes, there was a little area with a bench and a stream, with a willow tree over the bench. "This is so cool!" She nodded and sat down. "I know. This is where I come to escape all the noise of the city. Usually I just sit and think, but you're here so let's talk." We sat for about an hour talking. Mostly about her, but we near the end we reared into my "situation". "They seem pretty... what's the word?" "Oblivious, neglecting, forgetful?" "I was going to say confusing. Especially that boy Lucas. And your best friend-" "ex- best friend." She nodded once and looked at the stream. "I just don't get why someone who was supposed to love me the most, forgot me in the end?" "Some people are oblivious and only see the things that they want to see. And some people, no matter how much they want to see, just can't." We sat for a minute and thought until my phone rang and startled us both. I answered it quickly when I saw Josh's name. "Hey what's up?" He hesitated. "Ummmm you might want to get here like now." "What why?" "Just come." Then he hung up. "Okkkaaayyy, so I have to go to my uncle's place. Wanna come." She got up and we walked to the subway. She was telling me this hilarious story about her first date. The guy spilled the popcorn all over her and then tried to clean it up and then knocked their large coke on her too. Then he was making so much noise they got kicked out of the movie theater. I was pretty much crying when we got to the door. And still laughing when I opened the door. But my laughter halted when I saw what was inside. "What are you guys doing here?"
Hey guys! Happy 2017! New year, same me. You guys probably heard about GMW being cancelled, but there is a chance that Netflix will pick it up. I talked to a rep and he said that if we make enough noise, they will try hard to get it. Yay! But regardless if they do or not. I will still write. I hope you guys like this chapter. I'm sorry about the cliff hanger, I don't like them either, but I thought it was a good way to end this chapter. Hint: it's not who you think it will be.
Love you all and promise to update soon!
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