Chapter 53
Rydel's POV
"Rydel!" Riker pounds his fist on my door. Insert sigh. What does he want? Literally, I was planning on leaving to go out with the girls. Right now. RIGHT when Riker pounds on my door. Of course, that sort of thing always happens. Why wouldn't it? It's a Lynch thing. Normally my brothers always interrupt in the worst time. Seriously, I think I should trademark "it's a Lynch thing". Because, it's kinda my life story.
"Yeah?" I open the door and there stands Riker. Fuming. Dang, what could have happened at that meeting with Jon and Dove? I hope nothing too serious happened. Poor Dove, I mean she finally gets her memory back, this is just causing too much stress for her. I'm not gonna lie, I tried to convince Momma to have her just sit home, you know? Let her catch up on herself and THEN go back to music. Dove is good, her music career won't leave her in the dust if she takes a week off.
Riker angrily storms over to my bed and just jumps on it. Guess I'm not leaving for a while. Quickly, I shoot an apology text to the girls and tell them I can't make it. This is one of my many roles in the family. The guidance counselor. You know? Listen to all of their problems about life. Some of my juiciest gossip comes from these little rant sessions. "How come we've worked our butts off trying to make R5 happen, and then all the sudden Dove fills in for you – for one stinking concert might I add – and she's the one who might be playing at the Grammys. Don't you feel like if you were the one up on the stage instead of Dove, this would be YOU?" Riker asks me.
Until now, that thought hadn't really crossed my mind. Sure, Dove filled in for me, and this was technically my fault. But, I never thought that if I was singing I would be the one – well, R5 probably because I won't go anywhere without my brothers and El – getting this big of a deal. That thought never ran through my mind. I guess he was right. Up until then, we thought Dove sounded like a dying squirrel. In the nicest way possible. Just as I was to open my mouth and give off some advice, Riker continues his rant.
"And she didn't even think about taking us with her. She's gone solo. Do you know how awful that is? We've given her everything, and boom. Suddenly she is given the PRIME chance to repay us and she just takes off on her own." Riker finally closes his mouth and rolls off to the side of my bed, allowing me to join him. Dang, this is something I never thought I'd have to help Riker – of all people – with. He's the more collected one.
Most likely, I thought our roles would be reversed. Guess not. Guess Riker finally cracked.
I purse my lips, looking for something to console Riker with. "Who knows. Maybe something good will come out of this?" I suggest, trying not to sound like a Debbie Downer, but really all I want to do is act just like Riker. Maybe I'll go to Rossy, he always there for his favorite girl in the world – me. Meghan being a close second. And, Mom isn't even included in this. She's obviously number one, bumping me to number two and Meghan to number three.
"Yeah? Tell me something good that could come out of this?" Riker snaps, and I look at him, shocked. Riker never uses that tone with me. Out of all of us, he is the most gentle and nice towards me.
"Geez! I'm trying to stay positive!" I cross my arms over my chest and Riker sighs.
"I'm sorry. I just hate that Dove gets this. I hate it. How come we don't even get any recognition out of this?" Riker starts yelling. Yeah. Riker, yelling. Not in a joking way.
Riker is mad.
Excuse my language here, but Riker is pissed.
"I didn't know you felt that way." Dove softly says from outside of my door. For a second, I was a little mad that she was listening to our conversation. Normally, you can spy on any room you want so long you don't get caught. But my room, everyone knows you don't spy on my room. My room is the safe place in the house. End of story. But then again, this concerned Dove and she heard Riker ranting about how awful she was being.
Call me a bad person, but I'm kinda excited to see him worm his way out of this one. I think he's got himself in a little pickle.
Again, Riker sighs. "I do feel that way Dove. I'm not gonna lie to you." Riker apologizes in his own dorky way. Actually, that was no apology.
"So where you lying in the car when you said it was okay? Were you lying when you said you loved me?" Dove lets some tears prick at the corners of her eyes. Wow.
Back up like three seconds. Riker said he loved Dove? Out of the corner of my eye, I peek at Riker and see him blushing a dark red. Guess he isn't going to say anything now. "Dove, why don't you come with me? I'm going out with the girls. It'll give both you and Riker some time to calm down and you two can talk everything out when we get back. Huh?" Dang my good sisterness. If not for me, I would still be watching them fight.
I kinda wanna know how this ends.
"No. I'm not leaving until Riker apologizes for being such a prick." Dove jabs him in the chest with her pointer finger causing him to fall backward, back onto my bed. Letting my shoulders fall I walk out of my room and go to find Ross. He'll know what to say to calm down Riker and I can calm down Dove. I can clam both of them down, without a doubt, but not both at once. At least, without making them fight more before they shut up.
As I sprint towards Ross's room, I see Meghan's car out in the driveway. Dang it, probably having some recap with his breakup with Mary or something. I could send Meghan home for a bit? Nah, I like Meghan. I'll just be a minute with Ross anyway. Gently, I knock on his bedroom door and he opens it seconds later. "Hi Meghan, I need to borrow Ross here." I pull his arm back to my room and Meghan has the most confused look on her face. Whatever. Like I said I'll only be a minute.
"Dove and Riker and really getting at each other. Please, can you calm Riker down? You'll be the best brother ever?" I plead with him. Ross shrugs and I lead him into my room. Riker is standing proud as Dove screams at him about God knows what. "Dove, come talk to me for like three minutes?" I ask her. The whole time she walks towards me, she is giving Riker dirty glares.
"What the fudge is his problem? I thought he loved me!" Dove instantly sobs onto my shoulder. Guess she wasn't holding up too well. Poor Dove! As of right now, I'm on her side. Then again, everything Riker said was true.
"Dove, listen to me. Riker does love you, but he can't help but feel hurt. We've all worked so hard to accomplish R5, and then in one concert you – bam – got everything we ever wanted. It's bound to hurt him. I guess he couldn't control his anger. But I promise, he's not mad at you, he's more mad at what happened. So why don't you go over there and give Riker a nice big hug and apologize? I promise he'll apologize too." I explain slowly, trying to think out my answer. This better work, or else I'm out of ideas. At least, I'm out of ideas that don't involve my parents.
"Fine. But, only for you. I still don't like him." Dove sighs. Ross must be done with Riker because he backs away and stands next to me. Giving Ross a nice big hug, I thank him for helping me.
"Rossy, wanna go out with me for a little bit later tonight?" I ask him absentmindedly. Lately, I haven't spent much time with Ross. I kinda regret it.
"As soon as Meghan is gone." Ross agrees and walks out of my room. Thank God everything is all better. Or so I thought.
"WHY ARE YOU SUCH A SELF-ABSORBED JERKFACE!?" I heard Dove scream. I was guessing she didn't give him a nice big hug. I shook my head, as Riker replied with, "WHY DO YOU ALWAYS TAKE EVERYTHING THAT BELONGS TO ME, TO US, FIRST!"
"... What do you mean?" Dove's voice now getting softer. I heard Riker sigh.
"R5. We were... We were supposed to be famous... It- we. Dove..."
She sat down next to him. Ross had run back into my room as soon as he heard yelling again, and now we were both kind of standing there awkwardly.
"It was our dream before it was yours, Daveigh..." Riker said, quietly.
"But that doesn't mean it's not my dream now..." She replied. He brushed her hair from her face. "Oh, I... I guess I didn't think about it like that."
"Well, maybe you should've."
"Yeah, yeah, I know. Stop making me feel guilty."
"You SHOULD feel guilty!"
"NO, IT WASN'T MY-"
"WILL YOU TWO JUST SHUT UP!?" I screamed.
They stopped shouting immediately, and looked up at me.
"NOW, YOU TWO LOVE EACH OTHER SO GET OVER YOURSELVES AND JUST KISS AND MAKE UP!"
They looked down at the floor in unison. "Now, I'm going to leave you alone. And, when I come back, you best not be fighting anymore."
I walked out of the room, and Ross and I crouched down and pressed our ears to the door and listened.
"I'm sorry. It was my fault," Riker said at last.
"No, it was my fault. I shouldn't have stolen your dreams away from you. They weren't mine to take."
"No, they weren't yours to take, but they are yours to have. And, you didn't steal them. You just made them yourself."
"... I love you."
"I love you, too."
Needless to say, I didn't come back into my room. I knew they were fine now.
And Rydel works her magic again!
First of all, thank you to Meghan for helping me write this chapter! She's awesome, she rocks, and omg she's just great!
I hope you all enjoyed this chapter… There's so much to come… I think I'm going to put up another chapter today, as well! WHOOT WHOOT!
Thanks for reading!
Love you all to the moon and back,
~Kara Rose 3 * Flower…
