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Chapter 7 - 920

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"Oh peaches, what happened to you?" Sleepily, I attempt to open my eyes, but the light seems to blind me and pushes me to close my eyes once again. The warm body next to me exits leaving me colder than I was. I open my eyes again, trying to ignore the sharp, throbbing pain in my head, to find that I'm alone. No knight in shining armor, no Riley. I'm trying to piece together the different parts of last night when Riles comes in. "Hey, how you feeling?"

"I've been better" I start to laugh but find that it hurts, even more, I probably look like a mess.

"You want to tell me what happened last night?" She asks with a concerning voice. I look around hoping to find someone to help me remember, but I know he's gone.

"I could ask you the same thing" she blushes, "wait… You didn't…"

"Maia! No!" She says immediately. I raise my eyebrows, "gosh Maya no! I did run into the boy I was telling you about…" She trails off and smiles at the ground.

"Riley!" I start to sit up but find myself falling down with the amount of weakness I have at the moment.

"Maya, be careful, please"

"Is he here?" I question.

"He left a little bit ago" she states, "I made a fool of myself anyway" her smile fades.

"Don't you always?" She throws a pillow at me laughing, and I fall wounded. "Now, tell me everything!" She does, as always she gets carried away in the details but I love it. She tells me how she got way too drunk and needed a someone to help her, even though I should have been that person. She tells me about how he stayed with her which feels like another knife. Why didn't my mystery boy stay with me? What did I do wrong? But deep down I know what I did wrong, yet I still had hope. Fuck, hope is for suckers.

"Maya?" Crap, I got too caught up in my thoughts.

"Sorry Riles, continue"

"Peaches, I finished my story" could I be a worse friend? I can't even listen to my best friend's story. "Maya, what's going on?" I'm not even sure how to answer that so I just shake my head and put all my effort into not crying.

"Riles, a lot happened. I'm not sure where to start" I blink hoping to rid of my tears.
"Maya, just start with where you go this" she holds up my wrist and I feel a harsh pain once again. I look down to see the patterns of black and blue around my arms.

"All I know is that some guy wouldn't let me go and then the next minute he's on the ground and some guy named Josh comes and saves the day, then I start to…"

"Wait… Josh?" She interrupts

"Yes," I try to hide my cheeks.

"Josh… Who?"

"Riles, I don't know" I feel irritated that she already doesn't approve but try to continue on with my story, "so being my idiotic self, I look for a drink to try and numb the pain. So I have the drink that guy gave me to find it drugged. So this guy carries me and leaves me here, then I wake up and find him gone" I sigh. "Look I feel absolutely terrible about losing you last night. I really hope you can forgive me" when I look up again she's on her phone. "Seriously Riles?"

"Peaches, is this the guy?" she holds up an Instagram picture of the cute knight in shining armor. I nod my head as I feel my cheeks heat up. Riley's eyes widen but she stays silent.

"What?"

"This is for sure the guy?"

"Positive"

"That is Josh Matthews, he's my well… Uncle"

After watching a movie Riley and I take a nap, but being a light sleeper I wake up when I hear Riley's name. I walk down the stairs still very sore, to find a cute boy holding two coffees. He has pretty green eyes and dirty blond hair. When it suddenly hits me: this is Riley's boy. For once I'm thankful for her scary specific details. "Hey," he's immediately caught off guard.

"Oh hi. Sorry I thought you were someone else" I twirl my hair

"Oh sweet cheeks, it's perfectly okay" I wink at him.

"Sorry, I'm going to go…" I step in front of him forcing us to get very close.

"Why are you leaving so soon?" Unlike Riley, I'm not afraid to use my body language, "I was hoping we could get to know each other" I place my hand against his chest. He backs away quickly.

"Look, miss, I'm sorry I have a girlfriend" how could Riley not tell me? I give him a big hug.

"Well, sir, I'm the best friend! And I officially approve" he gives me a very confused look. "I'm sorry to do that, I do that for her to make sure that they're not a player or anything"

"What?"

"I mean since you're a new couple and all"

"Mindy and I have been together for a long time, actually" oh no. Riley will be heart-broken. Fuck I have to get out of here. "Who are you again?"

"You're totally right, I got to go. It was nice to meet you"

"Wait -" but I'm already out the door and running. I have no idea what I'm going to do.

What will Maya tell Riley? Where did Josh go? What is Lucas thinking? How will Riley react to this whole thing? Find out next time on Girl Meets NYU