Lily walked into the doors of Roscoe High. She saw Ray running up with 2 bouquets of flowers.
"For the fair lady," he said then he pretended to hand the flowers to himself. "Oh my, thank you ever so much," he said in a high pitch voice. Lily laughed and punched him.
"The sad thing is Ray, that's actually so true," she said.
"Seriously, though these are for you," Ray said. He handed her the 2 bouquets.
"Go ahead, smell this one," he said indicating the one with yellow roses.
"Let me guess, this is one of those prank bouquets that squirts you in the face right?" Lily asked him.
"Lillian, I'm shocked and appalled that you would think that of me," Ray said.
"Alright, then why don't you smell them," Lily challenged him.
"Um, well I would, but you know I got them allergies…cough, cough," Ray sputtered. Lily glared at him. "Alright, fine," he said. He leaned his nose into the flowers and water came spurting into his face.
"Oh, I guess there was still some water left from when I washed them, and it somehow ended up in my face," Ray said weakly.
"And what about these ones?" Lily asked him. Ray's face grew serious.
"Those ones are the real deal," he said handing the roses to her. She gave him a quizzical look. "Just read the card inside," he said. He brushed some of her hair back and kissed her forehead. Then he walked away. Lily looked at the beautiful arrangement of roses. There was every color in there. She searched until she found the handwritten note. It read: Hey Lily! I remembered how you always said you loved the squirting rose trick. So I figured I'd try it on you. But probably you'll figure it out and I'll end up getting squirted and 'wet at the feet' Bhahahahahahahahahaha! Anyways getting on. I did the whole squirting rose trick because I wanted to see you laugh, because you deserve laughter after the whole mucous thing (that's right… I thought of something better then pucous). And I love to see you laugh and hear you laugh. And the real roses are to see you smile, because when I see you smile, it makes me smile. So that is my gift to you for the day. That and this advice… Don't stuff 5 hotdogs in your mouth at the same time… It is not a pretty sight and it hurts later on.
Ray
Lily read the note and laughed. Just then two arms wrapped around her and kissed her.
"Hey beautiful," Travis said. Lily looked at him and smiled.
"Hey," she said and kissed him back. He looked at the roses with a quizzical look.
"Who gave you those?" he asked.
"Oh Ray did," Lily answered him. "He actually gave me 2 bouquets, but one was the whole squirting one."
"Well, Ray's not even going out with you, and he tops me," Travis noted with sadness in his eyes. He dug into his backpack and pulled out a scrapbook. He handed it to Lily. It was titled 'Love for Lily'. She flipped through it and found pictures of the whole RFR gang and pictures of just her and Travis. There were also numerous quotes and it beautifully embroidered. One quote stuck out in particular. There was a picture of Lily and Travis with their arms around each other in front of Siffleur Falls in The Rocky Mountains. It was from their class trip to Alberta. The quote read, "Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination"- Voltaire [Francois-Marie Arouet]. Lily had tears in her eyes. It was one of the most beautiful things she had received. She grabbed Travis and hugged him. "Thank you," Lily said. He smiled.
"It's to say thanks for being there for me and for the song you wrote about us," he explained. "Anyways, I'll see you at lunch." He kissed her a gently squeezed her shoulder.
"See you. And thanks again, I love it," she said. He smiled at her and walked off. She opened her locker and carefully placed the flowers and scrapbook in her locker.
"What it is like your birthday?" she heard a deep voice ask. She turned around and found herself facing Lucas. She felt fear rise up in her. He smirked at her. "If I would have known, I would have given you more the night of our getogether," he whispered in her ear.
"What do you want?" Lily asked him.
"I just wanted to show what your psycho boyfriend did to me," Lucas said. Lily looked up and saw a huge gash running across his forehead.
"Oh boohoo," Lily said angrily. "Let me cry for you…. Oh sorry, I got nothing." He slammed her locker shut and grabbed her arm roughly.
"I wouldn't be that way. I know something about you," he said as he played with Lily's hair. She felt chills running up her spine.
"Hey Lily… I forgot," Travis started to say as he ran up. Then he saw Lucas. "I thought I told you to stay the hell away from her," he said as he shoved Lucas' arm off Lily.
"Yeah, well I could do that, or I could not," Lucas taunted.
"Leave her alone," Travis said.
"Well you see I can't now. Because I happen to be one of Shady Lane's here biggest fan," Lucas said. "Oh your not so bad either Smog." Lily and Travis looked at each other with fear in their eyes. Lucas looked at them and laughed. "You see, I figured I'd check up on Lily, and see if I could remake for our date. Then I followed you guys to the station. Afterwards I took pictures. I figured maybe you guys wanted the publicity and I could show these pictures to the whole school." Lucas dug out is digital camera. He took thousands of pictures of RFR.
"So what do you think? I think the school will be so surprised to be see who RFR really is," Lucas said.
"Lucas, don't," Lily said sharply.
"You know I could keep it a secret, but it's gonna cost you," Lucas said.
"What?" Travis asked.
"Lily," Lucas answered. "She's mine, or else these pictures aren't only mine."
"What! No way in hell," Travis screamed. "You leave her alone!"
"Well then, I'll go start making copies now," Lucas said.
"Lucas, stop!" Lily stated. "Fine, I'll go out with you again." He looked at her.
"And you have to dump Mr. Wonderful over here," he said. Lily's eyes were brimming with tears.
"Fine, just leave the others out of it," she said. He put the camera away.
"Great, I'll give you a while to say goodbye to Smog," he said. He grabbed her and kissed her. "I'll wait for you by History," he said and walked off.
"Lily, you don't have to do this," Travis said. He took his hand and grazed it across her cheek. She looked at him.
"Yes, I do," she said. "I'm not letting him blow you guys' cover and get you in trouble. Don't worry, I'll use some of those kung fu moves you taught me and bust his ass," Lily said with a smile. Travis leaned in and hugged her. Lucas came up a grabbed Lily by the arm. "Alright, time to go," he said. He dragged her away, and Lily looked helplessly at Travis. Then Ray came up and saw Lucas dragging away Lily
"Hey swami, why is Lily with Lucas?" Ray asked. Travis shook his head and ignored the fact that Ray called him Swami.
"Ray, you got to help me out. Lucas knows that we're RFR and he threatened to use it against it if Lily didn't go out with him," Travis explained. Ray's eyes light up with rage.
"I'm going to kill that Mucous," he said with vengeance.
"I have a better idea," Travis said. He leaned in and softly told his plan to Ray. Ray smiled and nodded.
"I like the way you think," Ray said. "Let's do it."
