Father Your Fake Babies
Riley and Lucas have been dating since freshman year after the ski lodge.
That was their freshman year right? Been awhile since I had a chance to watch gmw
the gang are seniors
Lucas smiled as he realized he had beaten Riley to the bakery for their study date. Everytime they would try to beat the other to the bakery trying to purchase the other food. Lucas always tried to beat Riley there since he said it was his right as her boyfriend that wouldn't allow her to buy him food.
He smiled thinking about how she let it slide until the next day when he once again beat her and found she had paid for the next three days. Her response was as his girlfriend it was her right to buy him food.
He tossed his bag on the love seat that Riley and him loved to occupy. Even though both hardly had room to sit on it. Riley would always drape her legs over Lucas lap as she would balance the books on her legs.
He checks the time knowing her photography club was over and she would be on her way. He walks towards the counter ordering their usual along with something for Zay since he was walking Riley to the bakery for Lucas.
All through high school the group had all the same classes except their senior year. They still had history together and Lucas had four classes with Riley but really the only ones that had every class together were Riley and Zay.
Only because Zay wanted to take a cooking class and Riley was the only one willing to take it with him.
So since Zay had drama club after school the same day Riley had her club he decided he would walk with her. Granted Lucas provide him with food before commencing in their annual staring at each other and ignore the outside world.
Lucas thanked Katy as he placed the sandwich and piece of cake on the coffee table in front of him along with the three smoothies and Zay's bag of misshapen cookies. Lucas didn't know why but he enjoyed eating the cookies that came out a little crooked or broken.
Made him feel special so special Mrs. Matthews named that particular item on the menu after him.
Lucas looked at the time before looking at the piece of cake. He tapped his leg as he watched the door for Riley. Ever since they made it official and he promised to bring her a sandwich and cake he always gave her the first bite. But the longer she took the more the cake was appealing to him.
Just as he was about to take a bite he sees Zay carrying Riley bridal style down the ramp. A ramp Mrs. Matthews installed due to Zay trying to impress some girl doing skateboard tricks off the steps and broke both legs.
"Zay what happened why are you carrying her here give her to me Riley are you okay?" Lucas asked trying to grab Riley from Zay's arms as he rushed out the door to them. "Calm down Luke she's fine." Zay tells him as he looks at them weirdly.
"Then why are you carrying her?" Lucas asked as he opened the door for them as Zay set Riley down on her feet. "Because it's customary for the husband to carry his bride across the threshold." Zay tells him holding up Riley's hand which held a diamond ring.
"What?!" He asked as Riley shook her head slapping Zay's shoulder as she stood next to Lucas kissing him. "Cotton candy face we just get married and you're already cheating on me? And with my best friend?" He asked as everyone looks their way. "It's not what it sounds like." Riley tells everyone that was looking at her weirdly.
"Just a school assignment." She says punching Zay as he yelps sitting down. "So what's going on? I'm confused." Lucas tells them as he sits down with Riley sitting next to him draping her legs across his lap. "My dad's idea after last Saturday." Riley tells him as Lucas widened his eyes turning red.
"What happened last Saturday?" Zay asked wiggling his eyebrows at them. Riley shook her head as she smiled softly at Lucas. "Let's just say it was enough for my dad to chase Lucas six blocks and sleep on my bay window." Zay looks at them with wide eyes and begins to laugh.
"So you two are pretending to be married?" Lucas ask as he hands Riley her sandwich. "Yes. Mrs. Cook assigned a certain pair to get hitched in class. Wedding rings included." Riley tells him as she flashes her costume diamond ring as Zay does the same.
"So you're supposed to act like a married couple in class?" Lucas asked as he sipped his smoothie. "Well for the first part of the assignment and show everyone what it's like and then we move on to the family part and all that Jazz." Zay says shoveling a cookie in his mouth.
"Family part?" Lucas asked not liking the sound of that. "Yeah but we don't know what exactly that means yet. Just that it counts for a big part of our grade." Riley says feeding him a piece of cake seeing he was tensing up. "Yeah Mrs. Cook is nuts listening to Mr. Matthews. But she is the health/home ec teacher." Zay adds.
Lucas nodded knowing Mrs. Cook probably only agreed to it since Mr. Matthews supplied her with endless pastries and Lucas wasn't in Riley's last class of the day.
Later as Riley sat at her bay window and Lucas on her fire escape since he still wasn't allowed inside Riley caught him staring at her ring. "Don't worry Luke it's just a silly project." She tells him taking the ring off her finger and setting it on her dresser.
"I know it's just I..." He begins to say holding onto her left hand as her dad barges in. "Times up! Goodbye Mr. Friar." Lucas sighed kissing Riley's hand before having the window shut on him as Riley blew him a kiss behind her dad's back.
The following day Lucas watched as Zay showed off his and Riley's rings to their friends since they were required to wear them at school. He rolled his eyes as Riley lightly slapped Maya's arm when she kept joking that Zay got to marry Riley before Lucas did.
Lucas sat in a booth at the bakery tapping his pen against his hot cocoa cup. He rubbed his neck as he waited for Mr. and Mrs. Babineaux as their friends called them all day. He shook his head as he gulped the rest of his hot cocoa watching the door. He glanced at his phone seeing that Riley was twenty minutes late.
He laid his head back closing his eyes willing to give her ten more minutes before he left. He smiled softly as he feels her lips on his keeping his eyes close as he hears her giggle. "I know you're awake mister." She whispers against his lips before moving away.
He lifts his head smiling at her only to look at her with wide eyes when he sees the baby carrier on her. "Riley what is that?" He asked putting at her as she smiles pulling the sack of flour from it. "Oh that's our baby. Say hi to uncle Luke." Zay chuckles taking the flour baby and shaking it in front of Lucas.
"Zay knock it off and change the baby's diaper." Riley tells him tossing a diaper at him as he pretends the baby is waving at Lucas. "It's pretend Lucas." Riley tells him moving over to his side.
He nods as Riley kisses his cheek looping her arm through his as they wait for Zay to come back. But he still couldn't shake the weird feeling he got as he looked at the diamond ring on her finger.
Lucas laid under his blankets hoping the ground would open up and swallow him. He felt like such an embarrass idiot.
The last two weeks Riley and Zay were in full marriage mode. Never breaking character since Mrs. Cook had informed them she was monitoring them for extra credit.
Since they had unintentionally dressed in the same outfits one day with Riley having their flour baby matched with a little tie.
Lucas could only take so much of the mushiness their friends kept throwing Zay and Riley's way. Commenting on how Riley and Zay were amazing parents and how they knew Riley would be the first of them to get married and have kids.
Even though Riley always assured him that it was only a project he couldn't help the jealousy he felt. Especially since Zay got to see more of her than Lucas did when Riley has to cancel dates or their study date sessions.
He even thought maybe Zay had developed feelings for Riley when he noticed he had a picture of the two of them in his locker with their baby. When he confronted Zay he told him he would never get in the way of true love and he liked the way he looked in the photo.
Lucas felt silly but he couldn't help it all the things he saw Riley and Zay doing like planning their future and where their baby would go to school got to him. He wanted to be the one that discussed the important stuff with her.
But what really got to him was when they were all at the bakery and Riley and Zay announced they were thinking of having another baby and move to Paris. He stormed out the bakery after that with Riley chasing after him.
Which in turn he ended up fighting with her no matter how much she kept saying it was only a school project and didn't mean anything. But Lucas shook his head and shouted it meant something to him and then shouted the most embarrassing thing ever at her.
He shouted he wanted to be the father of her fake babies.
Lucas groaned as he rolled over facing his wall pulling the covers more tightly over his head. He figured Riley never told their friends about his crazy outburst or their weird fight. Although he knew she wouldn't do something like that to him.
She probably told them he was feeling sick and that's why he stormed out the bakery. He squeezed his eyes shut tightly when he hears his door open and someone walk in. He assumed it was his mom who would come in asking what was wrong with him.
He turns over when he feels his covers lift up and someone lay with him. He knew who it was by the way her cucumber melon shampoo invaded his head. He opened one eye peeking at her seeing she was smiling at him. "Hey." He mouths as she smiles wider cupping his cheek. "Hi." She whispers making him smile.
"Hi." He says as Riley scooted closer kissing him. "I'm sorry Riley." He whispers when they pull apart. She smiles slightly shaking her head as she cups his cheeks. "I'm sorry too." She laughs when Lucas looks at her weirdly. "Why are you sorry? I'm the one that went crazy and yelled at you."
"No I shouldn't have said Zay and I were going to live in Paris with our fake flour baby. Paris is our thing and I guess I may have got so swept up in the project I started planning our future." Lucas looked at her with wide eyes as Riley covered her face.
"I'm so embarrassed." She mumbles into her hands as Lucas chuckles pulling her hands away. "You have nothing to be embarrassed about. Take it from a guy who shouted at his girlfriend that he wanted to be the father of her fake babies." He smiled as Riley begin to giggle. "Hey." He whispers looking at her hand.
"Where's your ring?" He asked taking her hand in his. "I'm divorced now." She says as he looks at her weirdly. "The project over silly." She says pinching his cheek. "Is it now?" He asked smiling as he pulled her close getting ready to kiss her. "You okay with dating a divorce woman?" She asked.
"Don't you mean divorce mom?" He asked as she looked away biting at her lip. "Not anymore I lost her." Lucas looked at her as she sniffed. "I killed her Luke." She says as he kisses her head asking what she meant.
"After the project ended Mrs. Cook told us we got an A and we could keep the flour. Well Zay handed it to me and I not only had the flour but all my books." She stopped after that and Lucas could guess what happened next. "You dropped her?" He asked even though he knew.
"Yes and it's all Zay's fault. He was a terrible husband. Do you know he was using our baby to pick up girls?" Riley asked as Lucas shook his head but begun to laugh. "Wow he sure did make it seem like he was the perfect husband." Lucas tells her.
"Nope he was horrible that's why I pretended it was you the whole time and your embarrassing outburst made me so happy. Cause I knew you would be the best father to our flour baby just like our real one someday." Riley tells him as Lucas smiles watching her cheeks heat up.
"Any baby real or fake would definitely be loved by me especially if it's ours." Lucas tells her as Riley smiles kissing him. "Well sweet talk like that has earned you this." She tells him throwing back the covers and leaning over. He sits up as she hands him a tin. "Brownies?" He asked opening the lid and taking one out.
"Yup I figured why spread my little flour baby's remains when they could be put to good use." Riley tells him as Lucas widens his eyes and chokes. "This was made with your fake baby?" He asked as she nods taking a bite from the brownie she was eating. "Luke don't let her death be in vain. Enjoy her." Riley tells him as he looks at her weirdly.
"I don't know if I can eat your baby's remains." Lucas tells her putting his brownie back in the tin. Riley smiles taking the tin setting it down. "And that's why you would be the best real and fake father ever." Riley tells him as she bites into her brownie. "Your very weird Riley Matthews."
"This coming from the guy who wanted to father my fake babies." Lucas groaned covering his face as Riley begin to giggle. "Okay hand me back your baby's remains." He tells her making her giggle more. She holds the tin open as he takes his out about to eat it. "Oh please Lucas don't eat me." Riley says in a creepy baby voice.
"That is just creepy." He tells her as she smiles. "Well then I guess we are both creepy huh?" She says as he looks at her with a confused expression. "I use a creepy baby voice and you want to father fake flour babies." She begins to laugh as Lucas shakes his head and tickles her.