The day went by pretty fast. Soon the used to be empty house was now full with the Matthews things.
They had decided to order pizza for dinner so now they found themselves in the new living room with boxes of pizza open on the coffee table as they all finally sat down to relax.
Lucas enjoyed spending time with Josh's family, his parents were always so nice to him and Cory was exactly how Josh had described him,, he was very corky but pretty cool, and he had taken a great liking to Auggie.
As for Josh's niece Riley,
Lucas was still trying to figure out the heck happened to him back in her room. He had never felt so much like an idiot, she probably thought he was some creep.
But he didn't care right? she was just some girl he doesn't even know.
"Thank you again Lucas for helping, I'm sure you had better things to do" Cory tell his brothers best friend"
"It's no problem Mr. Matthews" Lucas assures him
"Please, call me Cory"
Lucas smiles "Okay Cory"
"Uncle Josh can you take me to the park tomorrow?" Auggie asks
"Sorry buddy but I have plans with Maya tomorrow, maybe some other time" Josh tells his nephew who pouts.
"So how is Maya?" Riley teases her Uncle
"She's good excited to see ou guys again, especially you" he tells Riley
"I can't wait" Riley smiles
"Hey why don't you come with us to the movies tomorrow" Josh suddenly asks
"Really?, are you sure? I don't want to intrude"
"You won't be intruding plus Maya would like to see you" Josh encourages
"I don't know Josh I don't want to be a third wheel" Riley says
Lucas can see why she wouldn't want to be by herself with them. He himself has been a third wheel with the couple and he always feels out of place. its like when Maya and Josh are alone it's like no one else is there and It annoyed Lucas to no end.
"Well.." Josh thinks and then gets an idea "Lucas can come then it will just be a group" Josh suggests
Uh I'n not sure.." Lucas is about to object
"Come on dude you said yourself you had no plans and it beats being home alone" Josh encourages
Lucas wants to say no but realizes he has no excuse out so he eventually gives in.
"Ok I guess I'm in"
"Its settled then" Josh announces.
"Well it's getting late we should be getting home" Josh's dad announces
Everyone gets up and they start hugging and saying goodbye. Lucas shakes hands with Cory and Topanga and high fives Auggie and then he gets to Riley and once he's in front of her he's not sure what to say.
"Bye" she simply says with a shy smile
"Bye" is all Lucas says as well and he finds himself staring at her
She finally takes her hand out for a shake and Lucas takes it. He notices how soft and warm her hands were and quickly pulls away and mentally smacks himself for having such weird thoughts and he quickly follows Josh to his car to head back to his house.
Once home Lucas and Josh get ready for bed. Lucas is coming out of the bathroom and headed back to Josh's room and he is looking at the all the pictures on the walls, he had walked passed them before but he never really payed attention to them. Once he'a closer to Josh's room a picture catches his eyes and he comes closer and takes a look. It's a picture of a younger Josh, he looks about 10 and he has his arm around a girl and he realizes it's Riley. She had the same big brown eyes and shy smile. Lucas had to admit she had pretty eyes, Lucas shakes the thought out of his head and heads into Josh's room. Josh is already asleep so Lucas climbs into the air mattress and quickly falls asleep.
Lucas and Josh spend the day hanging out until it was time to get ready for the movie Lucas was ready before Josh and decides to just wait on he couch. He was flipping through the channels when all of the sudden the door opens and Riley appears.
"Uncle Josh, Im..Oh Hi" She says
"Hi" Lucas simply says
"Uh where's everyone she asks
"Your grandparents went out and Josh is getting ready" Lucas explains and Riley simply nods and goes to sit on the chair next to the couch.
They sit in silence and Lucas is wishing Josh would hurry up. Lucas tries to think of something to say. But Riley is the one to break the silence.
"So... how are you?" Riley asks and Lucas can tell she's uncomfortable too
"I'm fine, and You?"
"I'm good" she replies
"So uh how was your first night?" he decides to ask feeling that was the lamest question ever but it was all he could come up with.
Riley smiles "It was fine, little weird I woke up and almost forgot where I was was" Riley says with a small chuckles
"Yeah that happened to me when I first moved here" Lucas replies
"Oh really? where are you from?" She asks
"Texas"
"Ah that explains the accent" she comments
Lucas nods "Yeah Maya calls me Ranger Rick"
Riley covers her mouth when she realized she let out a laugh
"Sorry I shouldn't laugh"
Lucas chuckles "No it's okay I'm used to it, I call her shortstack"
Riley lets out another laugh which causes Lucas to laugh as well.
"She has a nice laugh it's kind of cute, WHAT AM I SAYING?" he thinks
All of a sudden Maya walks through the door and sees Riley
"RILEY!" She squeals and runs over to her and hugs her.
"So I've seen that you met Huckleberry" Maya says referring to Lucas
"Yes I have"Riley answers smiling at Lucas.
Josh then comes downstairs and kisses his girlfriend and the 4 teens head off to the movies.
Riley was right to not want to go by herself with the couple. Because as soon as they had entered the theater They had seemed to forget Riley and Lucas were there.
"Are they always like this?" Riley asks Lucas as their sitting in the theatre and waiting for the movie to start and Lucas turns to look over at the couple and sees them already involved in a heavy make out session.
"Yeah wait till the lights are off" Lucas tells her
Riley cringes at the thought "Yeah I don't really need to see that"
Lucas chuckles. The movie hadn't started yet so they sat there waiting as other people began to come in and find their seats.
"So you and Josh must be very close" Riley comments
"Yeah we're best friends" Lucas smiles. It was true Josh was the first friend he made when he moved here. He was the first person he trusted, he was also the first person he let in on his family drama, Josh was always there to listen to him and offer his help. He knew he could always count on Josh.
"It must be nice to have a best friend" Riley comments
"You don't?" Lucas asks curiously
Riley shakes her head "I mean I had friends back home who I hang out with sometimes but I never had that 1 friend who you do everything with and who you trust and share things with?"
Lucas nods knowing exactly what she meant.
"So you 're a Junior?" Riley asks
"Yeah, You're a freshman right?"
Riley nods "Yeah"
"You nervous to start School Monday?"
"A little, it's kind of scary cause I won't know anyone there" Riley admits
"Well your dad will be there right and theres Josh and Maya"
Riley nods "That's true"
Lucas' stares at her and hesitates and finally speaks before he can regret it "And I'll be there too"
Riley turns and smiles at him "Thanks"
They stare at each other until the lights go off signaling that the movie is about to start. They both turn back to the screen but all through the movie Lucas finds his eyes sneaking looks at the brunette sitting beside him.