Zay pov
"Zay what the hell are you doing?" Riley whisper yells when she sees me with my ear against Lucas door. I grin and whisper "Lucas and Jen have been fighting ever since you guys left. Apparently she heard us and then saw him lift you down at the beach." Riley sighs and rubs her forehead. "Maybe we should just go without them. I highly doubt they are going to be in a party mood after. Let's go." I shake my head and say "aw man gross she just said they haven't had sex since they've been here." I see a small smile on Riley's face and gasps. She punches me and grabs my arm and takes me to her room.
I chuckle and say "Riley Matthews I knew you still loved him. Go get your man girl!" I move away from the door and she goes to it and locks it. "Listen here Isaiah Babineaux nothing is going to happen with Lucas and I. He has a girlfriend and I'm sure she probably hears Maya and you talking about how we're destined to be with each other. So just stop please I want to enjoy my summer." I smile and sit on her bed and say "okay cotton candy face." She eyes me and says "I mean it Zay don't make me call her." My eyes widen and I say "you wouldn't?" She folds her arms and says "try me. And trust me it will be worse than when I ate your cookie in high school."
I shake my head and say "you play dirty Matthews. I'm gonna finish getting ready. Oh and Maya said her and josh were down for a party." She nods and I unlock the door and pull out my phone and text Maya. "I won't do anything but that doesn't mean I won't let Maya." I say chuckling all the way to my room. I come out the bathroom and see Lucas sitting on my bed. "Dude you scared the crap out of me! What are you doing? Lucas sighs and says "Jen and I aren't gonna make it tonight." I smile shaking my head "why not? Relationship troubles? You know if you were with cotton candy face you wouldn't have this problem."
He gives me a look and I laugh and say "okay I'll drop it." We walk downstairs and he sees Riley and stops making me bump into him. I shake my head patting his shoulder and whisper "yup definitely wouldn't have a problem." He glares at me and I walk down and throw my arm around her shoulder and say "Sugar you look gorgeous." She smiles and looks at Lucas then says "let's go. Maya called said she meet us." We all get in the cab and I ask Christian who's party is it?" He looks at his phone and says "Matt said it's Ryan cousin Charlie." I see Riley eyes widen and I say "what's wrong?" She shakes her head and says "nothing I'm just glad Luke couldn't come."
We arrive at the party and we see Maya and Josh come towards us. "Riles you didn't tell me this was Cheese soufflé party?" Riley tells her she didn't know and she was gonna get a drink. Everyone follows but Maya stops me. "Okay hunkalious spill?" I grin and say "Luke and Jen are fighting I think they're close to ending and let's just say Riley is a little happy with the fact they haven't had sex this summer." Maya smiles that devious smile and says "don't you think we should invite cheese soufflé to join us in our water war tomorrow?" I put my arm around her and say "Maya almost Matthews you are a evil genius." She winks and we go find the others.
"Charlie Gardner! I can't believe you got married to Sara?" I say as we all huddle together doing shots. He chuckles and says "yeah and I owe it all to Riley. Sara was in her drama class and had a crush on me so Riley being Riley set us up." Maya grins at me and walks over and says "well congrats Cheese soufflé you should come by tomorrow we are having our annual water war and as reigning champ I'm inviting you." Charlie looks at her skeptically and I say "don't worry Lucas will probably be away with his girlfriend since she doesn't enjoy our company anymore." Charlie hands us another shot and says "girlfriend? A couple of days ago he was pretending Riley and him were engaged."
Maya and I exchanged a look and she smiles and says "you don't say." He shakes his head and says "oh boy I can already see the wheel turning in that head of yours hart." She smiles and says "you mean soon to be Matthews." Holding up her hand. He looks at it and someone calls his name. "So Riley and huckleberry are playing pretend engagement huh?" I hand her another shot and she says "Christian sent me that video of you guys too. They looked real comfortable together again." I smile and say "yeah that's one of the reasons he isn't here tonight."
"So what's our next move?" She asks watching Riley dance with Christian and Matt. "I don't know but I'm out Riley said she was going right to my grandma if I interfere. She threatened my cookies Maya." She looks at me and laughs and says "'maybe neither of us will have to they're practically doing all the work for us." She grabs us shots and we walk towards Riley and says "all we need to do is sit back and watch."
We clink glasses and go dance.
Riley pov
I hear the ocean and wonder if I left my window open. I feel someone pull me closer to them so I open my eyes and roll over. I see that it's Lucas and mentally curse myself. I try to move out of his arms but he pulls me even closer making me breath in his scent. I close my eyes and shake him awake. "Luke wake up." He opens his eyes and notices how close we are. "Hi." I whisper to him. He smiles and says "Hi. Probably wondering why we are on the beach?" I lightly laugh and nod my head. He chuckles and gestures his head behind me. I turn my head and see everyone passed out on chairs or towels.
I laugh and say "I'm sorry. I guess maybe we should have designated a driver or have someone stay sober." He smiles and says "apparently you did but Farkle and Smackle got competitive with each other over the math and went to battle each other in beer bong." I giggle and notice him still holding me I say "Luke why are you still holding on to me?" He looks at me and smiles saying "it's always hard to let you go." I close my eyes tightly and whisper "where's Jennifer?" I feel him pull back and say "she's at a hotel. She didn't appreciate me interrupting her sleep to pick you guys up."
I open my eyes sitting up and say "I'm so sorry you should go to her and spend the day together. It wasn't fair for us to do that when we should be more responsible." He looks at me pushing the hair out my face and says "is that what you want?" I swallow the lump in my throat and whisper "yes. You should go I'll wake the others." He gets up brushing the sand off and walks away. I see everyone start to wake up so I take a deep breath and wipe my eyes. "Okay how did we end up on the beach?" Maya says looking around. I look at her and laugh when I see Zay with a life jacket on and a clown wig.
Maya looks at him and says "oh yeah we were gonna see how far he would drift since he passed out first." We all get up and head back inside. "Hey where's Lucas wasn't he our ride home?" Farkle asks pouring coffee for everyone. I don't say anything but feel Smackle looking at me. I clear my throat and say "I told him he should go hang with Jennifer. We really aren't making a good impression on her are we?" I asks them. Maya hiccups and says "yeah well she isn't making a good one on us with her not wanting to participate in our summer games." Josh and Zay shush her and Christian says "Maya love ya but no more talking until forever."
I get up and take my coffee and go upstairs. I lay down on my bed and stare at the ceiling. "That's why you been pushing him towards Jennifer, you still love him." I look up and see Smackle standing against my door. I give her a small smile and she lays down with me and I say "my favorite genius." I nudge her and she smiles and says "yes I'm highly intelligent however figuring out your motives has nothing to do with my brain and more to do with this." She points to my heart and I wipe my eyes and say "I can't ask him to wait for me Smackle. He should go and live his life and not wonder if..." I drift off and she says "Riley shouldn't you let him decide on whether he wants to wait or not? I overheard your conversation on the beach this morning."
I sit up and say "Smackle I know what he'll say. He'll wait for me and in the end resent me if I never want to settle down and my job has me gone for months on end. I can't put that on him." Smackle sits up and says "I know you will decide when you tell the others but I highly suggest you tell Lucas first how you feel and let him know about the job." I put my head on her shoulder and say "I don't know if I can." Later on seeing as everyone was still a little hungover and tired we decided to watch tv and have a night water war.
I get up to grab more popcorn when someone knocks on the door. "Hey Riley no offense but you look horrible." I smile and punch Charlie and say "always a smooth talker." He chuckles walking in and I close the door and we head to the living room. "Charlie Gardner!" Maya says throwing her hands in the air talking in her 50s voice. Everyone shushes and throws popcorn at her. Charlie smiles and says "so I guess no water wars then huh?" Maya shrugs and snuggles back up to josh. I shake my head and gesture for him to follow me into kitchen.
"We are going to play at night. Apparently nobody can handle their liquor anymore." I say making another bag of popcorn. Charlie sits down on the counter and says "that's because you guys didn't leave till 4 and it's only 10. And I'm pretty sure you guys woke at like 7?" I look at him curiously and say "you stalking us Gardner?" He chuckles and says "no Maya posted a picture of Zay sleeping on the beach." I laugh and say "wait why don't you look hungover?" He grabs the popcorn and says "because I'm a married man now missy and the misses would kill me."
We go back to the living room and everyone passed out again. I shake my head and Charlie says "hey if you aren't to hungover we were gonna take the boat out want to come with?" I smile and say "that sounds like fun. Farkle won't let us take his boat out since two years ago when Maya kind of crashed it." "What do you mean kind of?" I laugh and show him the picture on my phone of the boat after Maya crashed it. "So she never made it past the dock?" I shake my head and say "let me grab my stuff and we can head out.
I put on my bathing suit and grab my camera and sunglasses putting it with the rest of my stuff in my bag and head out with Charlie. As we drive to his place I asks "so who's all going you me and the misses?" He nods and says "and Ryan." He looks at me and says "I hope that is okay?" I laugh and say "of course." He shakes his head and says "I hope you aren't mad I kind of told him the story of you and Lucas." I shake my head and say "no he needed to know." I look out the window for the rest of the car ride.
After we go to his house and get Sara and Ryan we head to the boat. "Wow this is a huge boat." I say looking at it as we walk towards it. Ryan chuckles and says "wait till you see the inside." We get on the boat and my eyes widen. "Wow you weren't kidding!" Charlie laughs and says "I know it's nothing compared to Farkle but I like it." I shake my head and say "no this is a beautiful sailboat." We all put on life vests and Charlie takes off. I put my sunglasses on and Ryan hands me a water and a muffin.
"Thought you might need this." I smile and say "yeah still a little hungover. Hey you weren't at the party last night how come?" Ryan leans back and says "I had a date." I nudge him and say "wow I'm hurt you already moved on? It was the old lady from Brooklyn wasn't it?" He starts laughing and says "no actually she is an old friend from home. Listening to you and Charlie about Lucas made me rethink some things and I have her a call and." He shrugs and I smile saying "and your taking it one date at a time?"
We sail around on Charlie's boat for an hour and when we head back to their place I get a text from Maya. "Oh boy." I say reading it. Charlie and Sara look at me and I say "apparently I didn't leave a note and they are all freaking thinking I drown." They laugh and Charlie takes me back to the house. "Riley Matthews you scared us!" Maya says hugging me as soon as we get out the car. I shake my head and say "Peahes I think you are being a tad dramatic." She pulls back and says "no but you can make it up to me and play water wars with us. You to cheese soufflé."
Charlie chuckles and we head to the back. "So what's the object of this game?" He asks. I tie up my hair and say "honestly there isn't one we just spray each other and who ever is the most dry in the end wins. Maya wins everytime." Zay hands us a water gun and says "yeah because she cheats." Maya shoots him with water and sticks out her tongue. We all take off and start spraying each other since it was dark we really couldn't see and I end up tripping and fall on some rocks.
"Riley you okay?" Charlie asks bending down next to me. I touch my leg and feel the blood. "I need to clean this can you help me inside?" He nods and helps me limp into the kitchen. He tells me to sit on the counter and goes to grab the first aid kit. He comes back and picks up my leg and starts cleaning it. "Ouch that stings." I say through gritted teeth. He smiles and blows on it and we hear "what the hell is going on in here?" We turn and see Lucas and Jennifer standing there and Lucas has his fist clenched.
Charlie puts my leg down and says "hey Friar this isn't what it looks like." Lucas doesn't respond he just walks up and punches him.
