When You Made Your Choice

Riley watched her best friend run away. What had she just done? Maya had caught them, kissing each other. Her heart ached with every step she took, it wasn't until she disappeared from Riley's sight that she decided to follow. She took a couple of steps before Lucas pulled her back, "She just needs time, Riley."

"Time?" she yelled. "She just saw us kissing." After she wriggled away from his embrace Riley followed Maya.

If it was one place Maya would go to at a time like this was her room, not Riley's. Riley wasn't exactly the best runner, and she didn't have the appropriate footware for taking fast steps. She ran through the bad side of the city and watched Maya close the door to her house, Riley was there just in time to stop her. She made her way in Maya's house and stopped to take a breath. "Please, Maya it was a mistake. I'm so so so sorry."

Maya just walked to her room ignoring her best friend.

"I tried to stop him, I promise."

She closed the door on the brunette and locked it, so she wouldn't come barging in.

"It meant nothing," said Riley. Did it mean anything? Sure she enjoyed the kiss and wanted more, but she knew it was wrong. Kissing her best friends boyfriend is wrong, and yet she did it. "I'm really sorry, Maya."

The crying blonde plopped on her bed and placed pillow on her burning ears, she replayed her steps through the hall. She was so happy to see Lucas even though she wasn't acting like it, but that's when she saw it. The way he grabbed her and put her against the lockers, how he inched closer to her and tried to kiss her. Her heart turned pitch black as her world fell apart.

"I won't talk to him, i'll tell him to leave me alone. It was a big mistake, I promise. It will never happen again." Riley couldn't tell if Maya was hearing her or not. "Maya please," she cried out. "It made a mistake."

"Just leave me alone!"

Riley leaned on her gray door and crouched down, "I'm not leaving until I know you're okay."

The door opened and Riley almost fell back, she stood up and turned around to face her best friend. Her eyes were puffy and her hair was tangled. "I'm not okay, Riley! I saw you two kissing. My best friend and my boyfriend kissing, do you think talking about it will make me feel any better?"

"It helps-"

"No it doesn't. All my life i've been someone's second, your second. And when Lucas chose me, I felt wanted, needed. But it's always you that get's everything. You have the perfect family, perfect life, you get three meals a day-"

"Stop," Riley muttered, but she kept going.

"Why? Is it because you know it's true?" Maya asked. "For once in my life I felt like everything was pieced together, I had a boyfriend and you seemed to be moving on pretty quickly and I was happy for you. But that's where life's a pain, just when everything is fine something -in this case-you- has to ruin it."

"I wasn't trying to ruin your life."

"You didn't have to! Maybe if you just stay away from me, you will be doing more than just a favor." She slammed the door on Riley's face, leaving her to walk away in tears.

Riley opened the door to her room and found Lucas sitting on her bay window, biting on his nails. He looked dilapidated, his sea green eyes were fixated on the foot of her bed that he didn't see her walk in. His thoughts were just focused on the guilt he had brought upon himself and on his princess. He placed his hands on his forehead, he didn't know what could be happening between the two best friends but he only knew one thing, Riley wasn't going to be happy with him.

The door slammed shut and his eyes quickly turned to the door, he saw Riley in tears. He never found it amusing seeing her like that, it just made his heart ache even more. "Look, Riley." he stood up and walked towards her. "I didn't mean for us to get caught."

"Is that why you did it in a public place?!" she snapped. "So we wouldn't get caught?"

He just sighed as he played with his fingers. "It was empty-"

"You're right it was empty, but that doesn't mean you can do something wrong."

"I'm sorry." he whispered.

"What?" she heard him clearly, but she had to hear it again.

"I'm sorry!" he snapped.

"I know you are, but you're apologizing to the wrong person!" Riley set her backpack down on her bed and didn't dare face him.

"What makes you think she'll want to talk to me?"

"Only one way to find out."

Lucas didn't want to leave Riley alone, he wanted to talk to her about it and set their feeling straight. Their kiss may have not been at the right timing, but he didn't regret it. If she wasn't so pessimistic she would've enjoyed the kiss too. "Can we just talk about it, Riley?"

She laughed in an uninterested way. She turned back to him, "You wanna talk about it? Sure let's talk about how it was a mistake and it will never happen again because you are staying away from me."

He shook his head. "No."

"No?" she questioned.

"I'm not staying away from you, I can't and I won't."

Riley looked him in the eyes, "This isn't your choice."

"Telling me to leave you alone is like telling me to kill you, I won't do it." he grabbed onto her elbows and pulled her close.

"You have to be kidding me." she pushed him away. "Don't you feel the slightest bit of guilt? Maya just caught us kissing!"

He didn't say anything.

"Wow, you have no heart Lucas." she tried to walk past him, but he stopped her.

"How many times am I supposed to tell you i'm in love with you, Riley?" his hands wrapped around her biceps.

"Till I believe you!" she snapped.

Lucas stared at her blankly, did she question his feelings for her? "Is kissing you not enough?"

"That's what got us in this mess! You feel and you act on it!"

He clenched his jaw from the rage running throw his body.

"I don't want to see you anymore, Lucas. You made a choice, and you will live by that for the rest of your life. Because from now on...this mistake you made, will define the rest of your life."

He let go off his grip on her and ignored the pain in his heart.

"Just get out."

He wanted to look her in the eyes and apologize once more, but for what? The kiss? In his perspective, the kiss wasn't what he's sorry for. He's sorry for being caught. Lucas turned his back on the brunette and walked away, closing the door on his way out.

What happens next? How will Riley and Lucas recover from this? Will Maya be okay?

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