Lucas' Point of View.
Whenever you've waited your whole life for something… for someone your OCD levels hit the roof. And let me just say I'm not even remotely OCD. I'm not and never have been, I've always been a laid back and 'go with the flow' individual who rolls with the punches. Yes that was redundant but damn it I'm trying to make a point. It's Friday, Friday night meaning tomorrow is Saturday-meaning our date is tomorrow night and I'm debating back and forth on whether or not I should stay at Riley's after school.
Should I go home and prep for this kick ass date?
Or spend the evening with the woman I love?
Why did I even entertain the former idea? Definitely spending the evening with the woman I am hopelessly in love with. Unfortunately, Maya kicked me out of the kitchen last night while working on the project. Well Riley was working on it, I kept eating the batter and apparently with my 'fumbling fingers' I couldn't start on the fondant designs. So after she assured me that she was perfectly fine doing the project-which I had no doubt about since she loves baking-Maya kicked me out and I made copies of the pictures we took at my spot to finish our project… what? I had to have one for myself, if you saw the pictures you'd understand, we're pretty damn cute together.
I can't wait to see the cake.
Walking into the Matthews household has always brought a sense of warmth. It was always calm and something I welcomed since I was always arguing with Charlie. So entering this morning I'm not surprised to see Auggie sitting at the breakfast table. I got here a little later than normal today. What I am surprised about is the abnormal amount of shouting. "I'M SO LATE!"
"WELL YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE STAYED UP SO LATE!"
"I HAD TO FINISH THE PROJECT YOU… YOU COTTON HEADED NINNY MUGGINS! THAT'S RIGHT I WENT 'ELF' ON YOUR ASS!"
"I TOLD YOU AT MIDNIGHT IT LOOKED GREAT!"
"THE CIRCLES WERE JAGGED!"
"Welcome back Lucas, leave while you still can." Chuckling to myself I close the door behind me. "Riley woke up, 10 minutes ago. So good luck with that."
Damn it. Ruffling his hair I saunter down the hallway where I run into the blonde who kicked me out. I blame her for Riley running late, if I had stayed then she would have woken up on time because I would have forced her into bed earlier. Okay that sounded incredibly wrong. A blonde head running into my chest pulls me out of my thoughts, "I love that girl but when she runs late it's as if she's growing horns."
"How are you ready?"
A shrug of her shoulders and she tousles her hair, "I already had my clothes picked out since I stayed over here. This is my hair from yesterday and I am going to put on makeup in the car but you're ruining my breakfast time. So maybe you can calm down your girlfriend. Later hater."
I don't correct her, obviously. I mean, why would I? She'll be officially mine soon. I'm not cocky just extremely hopeful. I knock on her door once and it creaks open, stepping inside I see my girl in the bathroom putting on some makeup. "I never understood why you wear that stuff." Her eyes look at me briefly to acknowledge my presence but she doesn't stop putting something underneath her eyes. "You're so beautiful without it."
Her lips curve upwards, "That's a lot of cheese this early in the morning." Setting that crap down she hurriedly walks towards me, "Sorry I'm running so late. I stayed up super late to finish that project and-well now I have bags under my eyes. I'm lucky to have brushed my teeth let alone put concealer on to hide those things." She looks so beautiful the natural curls of her hair cascade down her back, jeans and a tee shirt. The way I like her.
"Well there's a way to get a man."
Chuckling she throws her bag over her shoulder and takes my hand to walk out, "My goal in life. But you see it worked, barely brushing my teeth caught your fancy."
"Lots of things catch my fancy about you Ms. Matthews." Stopping her in her tracks, tugging on her arm she slams into my chest. My hand caressing her cheek, innocent doe eyes look up at me and I swear my heart beat picks up.
"Shiny things mostly?"
She giggles at her own joke and I peck her cheek because damn she's so adorable. I wish I had some other words to describe her, I need to read a dictionary. Or you know… google. "Sure we'll go with that. Now, take me to the cake."
Brightening eyes and a wide smile, "It's a surprise you can't see it yet!" Bouncing on her toes she runs down the hallway. I love her demeanor, always happy go lucky and innocent. I mean who couldn't fall in love with this beautiful creature. If she felt for me even a sliver of what I felt for her then I would be the world's luckiest bastard. "Aug, grab your weekend bag and school bag. Maya are you riding with us?"
"Nope, I'm out of here Josh is downstairs. Nice to know that stick is out of your ass. Love you peaches, see you at school."
Huffing her chocolate orbs glance at her brother, "do not repeat her language." I'm sure he hears worse at school, and pretty sure she said 'ass' earlier. But it's sweet how she is still looking out for him. Auggie agrees and gives me a fist bump on the way to his bedroom. "Dagnabit! All the cereal bars are gone."
No, she isn't going hungry. "We'll stop and get you some food on the way to school sweet cheeks." I know she's going to argue with me about this but when her stomach starts rumbling, rather loudly I might add I know I've won. Which is a rare occurrence when the argument is between Riley and I. She's embarrassed, her cheeks hinting at a light pink before she looks away. Auggie joins us in the living room and though I know he's entered, I can't tear my eyes away from the beauty in front of me. She's been awake for 15 minutes now and could pass as an angel, my angel. "Let's head out bro, your sister might eat us if we don't get her food soon."
Huffing to herself mostly, she doesn't disagree. Grabbing a large white box from the fridge I immediately step towards her to take it away. Consider me old fashioned, but I'd hold her books for her if she'd allow it. "Thank you." Whispered words in her angelic voice, it sends my heart racing.
"Anything for you."
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Sitting at my desk, watching my princess talk to our art teacher. She has to go get the cake from the faculty fridge. She just waltzed right in as if she owned the place. They're both smiling and it's so contagious, a quick glance my direction and she's out the door.
BITCH.
It isn't polite to stare.
Scoffing to myself I roll my head and glance at Missy beside me. Turns out she was the one who was texting me when I first took Riley to our spot. She thought she was being sly and cryptic but she isn't that smart. I still don't know why she started texting me in the first place. Just to get under my skin? "You're just pissed because I'm not staring at you." I retort.
Her caked up face gets closer with every step. Where the hell is Charlie? That's the only time she slightly behaves. "If you are insinuating I'd be jealous of, her then you are more delusional than I thought. Luckily you have a pretty face." 'Her' is spewed with more venom and hatred then I thought possible with it only being one syllable.
Who is she to judge my princess? She's prettier, funnier and smarter than Missy will ever be! "If you don't see that you have more than enough reasons to be jealous of Riley then you are more delusional than I thought." Words thrown her way that were meant to hurt. She's constantly putting Riley down and I'm sick of it. The only thing Riley needs to hear is how beautiful she is in every way, shape and form. She's always been gorgeous. Pursing of the lips tells me she is mad, but confusion is obvious from her furrowed brows. "Don't know what I'm talking about? Well, first I'm going after the woman I've loved for years and completely ignoring you. Though I'm not proud of myself for what I did to you, you're mad because I left you for her. And Charlie, has been more than obsessed with her. Why I don't know but if you could get that under control I'd greatly appreciate it."
Charlie enters the classroom and immediately his eyes find us, I give him a little wave and a smirk. Narrowing eyes and a stalking walk, it only makes me laugh. "What's going on over here?"
Missy puts on a big grin and intertwines their fingers, I don't miss the look in her eyes. She's trying to play a game, trying to make me jealous. Seriously, she's been dating him for 3 years and I've never gotten jealous. Not even once, not even in the slightest so I don't know why she'd think it would work now. Especially since I have a date with the beautiful creature walking towards me with a large smile and the cake box in hand. "Excuse me Charlie."
Even after everything she's so sweet, Charlie steps aside with a smile and while I'm standing to help her I vaguely see the cake box flying into the air and Riley almost falling to the ground. She catches herself by putting a hand on the desk, but frantically looks around for the cake. Missy pushes Charlie back a few steps and now knowing this wasn't an accident I fly forward. Hovering over her, my body shielding hers from the cake that's landing on my back, luckily not in my hair. I'm weird with my hair. I don't acknowledge the fact that I'm covered in icing I lift her chin up with my hand, "Are you okay?"
Shoulders slumped, droopy and tear filled eyes. I know she isn't, she's devastated about her cake that took her at least 6 hours to make. She nods and pulls away from me slightly. "Thank you." A gasp escapes her plump lips, "Lucas oh my God. You're covered in fondant and red velvet cake." A few splatters on my cheek are immediately wiped off my face by her delicate hands.
"Red velvet?" I question with an arched brow.
"Yeah, that's your favorite right?" Glancing at me through her eyelashes it takes all of my self-restraint to not kiss her senseless. I know once I start kissing her I won't be able to stop so it's best that I behave.
"WHAT HAPPENED?!"
Snapping us out of our daze, reality hits me hard. Missy or Charlie tripped her, and from Missy pushing my cousin back I have an idea of who. The room is silent, everyone's eyes are on us taking in everything to spread the news like wildfire. Charlie's mouth agape, wide eyes he didn't plan this. "WHAT THE HELL IS YOUR PROBLEM MISSY?!"
"Lucas stop." Warning tone from the woman of my dreams, "It's too late now." Spinning on her heels she faces our art teacher. "I'm so sorry, I-Obviously I don't have the cake anymore but please don't take this out on Lucas. He did his part of the project-"
"Riley stop that." She stalks towards us bouncing her curls, "Clearly you have the project it's just on Lucas' back." Giggling to herself she snaps out of her own joke, which Riley doesn't find in the slightest amusing. To her all of her hard work is wasted. "Do you have a picture or anything we could use that, though I know some of the art was in the taste of the cake?"
"Yeah I spent 8 hours on it, it was one of my favorites." I step forward to look at the picture myself since I haven't seen it and feel some of the cake slide off my back. Perfectly good red velvet cake ruined, but more importantly my princess is upset.
"WOW! You did this?" Peeking over Riley's shoulder I get a glimpse of the cake. Chocolate colored fondant covers the red velvet with light green, pink and blue polka dots decorating it. Spiraling ribbons in several different colors resting on top of the cake. She's so damn talented. Riley nods and glances at the ground behind me. "This is beautiful Riley. Clearly you put lots of love and time into this. In my opinion that's art, doing something you love and putting your heart into it."
"I'm so sorry about the mess, I'll clean it."
"NO!" Anger boiling inside of me. Missy intentionally tripped her so she'd ruin that cake she was so proud of. "Missy can freaking clean it." Turning to face her, the mischievous smirk is replaced with a neutral face. "You tripped her on purpose Missy. So you can freaking clean it." I don't wait for a reply from anyone I take the 2 pictures off our desk and pass them to the teacher, "Here. This is my art." Gripping Riley's hand I take her out of the classroom before I do or say something I'll regret. We stay in silence as I reminisce on the one specific picture.
The sun setting behind us exudes a ton of pastel colors, skyscrapers as the background. Hanging branches from the trees are framing the edges of the photo. Riley and I are the main focus, so dark we're almost shadows from the contrast. Our faces inches apart while I'm lying on top of her. Stepping outside I throw my leather jacket off, shaking the contents of Riley's hard work off. "It was a beautiful cake Riley."
"I wish you could have tasted it, I added a little cream cheese to make the batter richer and moister." She shivers when she says that word, for whatever reason Riley has never liked that word. I've never known why, I always assumed it was just one of her quirks and I love her because of it.
"I'm sorry that happened to you sweet cheeks." I'm slightly relieved that the fondant isn't sticky and staining like icing and since it has been in the fridge it isn't melted so it flings right off. The only icing was what she used to attach the polka dots and ribbons.
Shrugging she simply says, "It's okay. Things happen."
Growling, mostly to myself I pull her into my arms. "Things don't happen. Missy happened. God, I wish she was a man I'd punch her in the freaking face."
"Don't worry about it. I appreciate you taking the cake for me." She jokes and takes my hand, "Come on let's go get you some red velvet cake, I got your hopes up now."
Have I mentioned I love her with every fiber of my being?
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Waking up this morning with the most beautiful woman in my arms eases any nerves I have about tonight. Oh who am I kidding, I've been in love with this girl for 5 years so obviously I'm nervous as hell. Who wouldn't be? Curled into my form, I pull her even closer. Her breath fanning against my chest-I was forced to put on a shirt, she got a little flustered. Last night was a lot of fun, we made homemade pizza and popcorn and watched Hunger Games. Well we watched up to Mockingjay Part 1 since we just hung out at her place as soon as we got back from school.
I love how we don't have to do a damn thing, yet have the time of our lives.
Locks spayed out across the pillows, her lips separated just slightly and her dark eyelashes brushing across her cheekbones. I don't think I've ever seen a prettier sight. I brush my thumb across her cheek, "beautiful."
Pecking her forehead, I have to get up. I have to get ready for this evening, it's a 2 hour drive after all so I have to make sure that I have everything since there aren't any stores nearby. Yes, I'm truly going to be alone with Riley. My lips touch her cheek one more time and with a ton of reluctance I pull myself away from her. Throwing on a pair of jeans I watch as her brows furrow and grip onto the pillow I was lying on.
My girl.
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MySweetCheeks.
I got your note. Maya will have me ready by four. I can't wait for our date.
Oh good God, she's going to give me a heart attack.
Blanket. Check.
Electronic Candles as to not set a forest fire. Check.
Cliché picnic basket to fill with food. Check.
Swimming Trunks. Check.
Running downstairs I enter the kitchen where unfortunately my cousin is awaiting for me. Well not necessarily awaiting for me. But eating lunch I'm assuming. Ignoring him entirely I pull out everything I'll need to make for sandwiches. Do you know how long it effing took to figure out what to bring? I am stupidly but sweetly taking her to a place that's two hours away and it isn't like I have a microwave handy. Either way, my aunt made a chicken Caesar salad to take with me for other options and of course… Cheetos.
"Getting ready for your date?"
"Yup."
Heavy breathing, he's agitated. "What's your problem Charlie?" I say all the while having my back to him. "Why do you keep getting angry? Silly me I actually thought since you had a girlfriend you shouldn't give a shit. Oh wait-"I let out a humorless laugh, "That's how it should be."
"You don't know anything." He mumbles which only adds fuel to my fire.
"What the hell is there to know Charlie? You are with Missy! Riley was there for years and you didn't do anything." Turning around I face him. Green eyes glaring into his now dull blue ones. I wonder why they're dull. "I actually have a shot with her now. I have a shot and damn it I'm going to take it, I'm going to be with Riley. So now it is your turn to come out and tell me what the hell is wrong with what I'm doing? Why do you care so much? Especially since you've been with Missy for 3 years."
Standing up from his seat he places his plate in the sink. Inches away from me, craning my neck I look at him. His gaze solely focused straight ahead, "Because I think I made a mistake."
No more violence.
No more violence.
My aunt would be pissed.
Riley.
Riley would be pissed.
That seems to calm me down, physically at least. "You truly are an ass hole. Completely and utterly childish, wanting what you can't have."
"Well if that isn't hypocritical I don't know what the hell is." He sneers and turns his body to face mine completely.
Shoving him just slightly I take a step forward. "I have wanted her for 5 years. 5 effing years Charlie! But until recently I have not done one thing to prevent her from being with anyone else. Right now, and the past month I am wanting something, I am wanting a specific someone I can actually have now!" Turning back towards the sandwiches I begin to make her favorite. Ham and turkey on flatbread with cheese and mustard. "So I don't care if you hate me, I don't care if we argue for the rest of our lives I'm not going to stop. I will fight for her Charlie, if for whatever reason you have a revelation that you don't love Missy like you've rubbed in her face for years, and you decide randomly that you like Riley let me tell you something." Gripping the edge of the counter I stare at him to let him know how serious I am, he's just soaking up my words and clearly has a lot to think about. "I will fight for her with everything inside of me. Because that's what she deserves, she deserves someone to fight for her and you never have. And if that's something you're up for, if you decide to go toe to toe with me then remember that 'all is fair in love and war'. And I love Riley."
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