Riley

"HOW COULD YOU HAVE JUST WALKED OUT OF SCHOOL RILEY!" my dad yelled at me from across the room. I sat at the kitchen table with my arms and legs crossed listening to his stupid rant about how stupid I was being.

"THIS IS YOUR LIFE RILEY YOU ONLY GET ONE SHOT AT IT!" I was getting kind of tired of him yelling at me. My mom stood next to him trying to calm him down.

"Maybe we should just take a bre-" she said before my dad interrupted her.

"No breaks Topanga, What she did was stupid and she needs to learn a lesson." he turned to me thoughtful.

"Maybe I did what I felt was right at the time!" I blurted out suddenly. He glared at me.

"Go to your room Riley you're grounded for a month" he said, "You only get leave the house to go to school and you will stay at school until I pick you up and drive you home." I gaped at him. Was he being serious? He stared at me for a second before opening his mouth again.

"Now Riley, Go to your room now." I stood up and stomped to my room. He was being SO unfair. I could hear him sigh right before I slammed my door hard enough to shake the pictures on my walls.

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The next day at school was terrible. The minute I walked in she immediately ran up to me asking where I had gone and what was wrong. I brushed her off saying,

"I wasn't feeling to good," she looked at me quizzically before shrugging her shoulders and walking next to me.

"I moved back to my old seat in history." she told me quietly. At this I smiled. At least some things were going back to normal. Farkle walked up to me and Maya, glancing at me before launching into a conversation with the blonde next to me. Maya looked at me regretfully but I just nodded and smiled at her, motioning for her to continue. I walked off to my locker after that. In all my classes at school I was constantly bombarded with questions about how I was feeling and why I wasn't in school yesterday. But the worst of it was the end of the day. I had to lie to my friends telling them that I had something after school when in reality, I just needed to wait for my dad to finish up and drive me home.

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The car ride home was filled with tension and silence. Neither of us would talk first. We were both extremely stubborn. WHy should I talk to him when all he was doing was ruining my life. The minute we got home I jumped out of the car and ran into the apartment. I dropped my bag on the floor and turned around not expecting to see Lucas Friar and Maya Hart holding hands and sitting on my couch.

"No." was all I could say before I ran to my room and started sobbing face down on my bed. I had locked the door and all I heard all night was their pleas for me to come out and talk about it. But not this time.