I know I'm the worst. Let me just say that the last few weeks have been ugh. Just horrible and hopefully people are still interested in the story and I haven't given up. Ps sorry if chapter is boring more exciting things to come.
Riley couldn't help biting her lip to keep from laughing at the face Lucas was making once Dylan had rowed out of sight. It reminded her of the time they were seven and that facial expression was directed at her.
"Scarecrow I don't think I can do this." Riley says playing with the end of her hair as Lucas tossed their towels on the tree branch. They were standing near the lake where Lucas dad had fashioned a rope swing to jump into the water. The area it was located at wasn't in that deep of water.
Which was the only reason Morgan and the Friars let Riley and Lucas go alone. That and they both knew how to swim and Tristan wasn't that far from them with his own friendes.
"Dorothy there's nothing to be scared of. I've done this plenty of times with Tristan." He tells her grabbing the rope that was hooked to the bottom of the tree. Riley tilted her head at him giving him a look making Lucas smile.
"Okay fine I done this once before. The week before you got here." Riley smiled nodding her head as Lucas stuck his tongue out at her. "I'll go first and show you what to do. It's easy okay?" He whispers when he sees her getting scared.
She nods as he goes pulling the rope back winking at her making her shake her head as he yells swinging into the water only to end up belly flopping. Riley widens her eyes waiting for him to come back up. Once he does and she sees he's okay she begins to laugh at him.
"Oh my gosh Lucas that was so funny. Are you sure that's what I'm supposed to do?" She giggles as he frowns at her.
Riley couldn't help smiling thinking about it as she sees Lucas still with the same look. It's so familiar and funny she can't help but begin to laugh as he turns towards her. "Why are you laughing they stranded us." He tells her only to make her laugh harder.
"I know." Riley nods clearing her throat as she looks at him only to start laughing again. "Are you okay? Maybe I should swim back to land and get a boat to bring out here for us to leave. I think the sun is getting to you." He tells her taking off his shirt as Riley gasps covering her eyes.
"What are you doing?" Lucas ask as Riley bites her lip as she keeps her eyes closed and covered. "Oh just you know." She says shrugging her shoulders. She begins to chew her lip as she feels Lucas moving closer to her and her cheeks heat up at the same time. "Are you sure maybe the sun is getting to you?"
Riley could tell by the tone in his voice that he was teasing as she lowered her hands and narrowed her eyes at him. He was smirking at her as she tried to keep her eyes on his face and not his chest. "You okay?" He asked as Riley stuck her tongue out at him making him chuckle.
"I'm fine just wondering when you go into the water are you going to dive or belly flop?" She smiles as he looks at her with a glare. "I didn't bellyflop I tripped." Riley burst out laughing falling on the dock as Lucas stood over her. "Oh my gosh you tripped that is so hilarious."
"I'll show you hilarious." Lucas says right before bending down and tickling her making her squirm and laugh louder. "Say I tripped Dorothy say it." He chuckles as he continues tickling her. "Okay okay you tripped." She laughs as Lucas stops laying down next to her. "You know I was just trying to show off for you."
Riley turned her head and smiled as she looked at him. "Really? You were so mad when I laughed. I think if Tristan hadn't shown up with his friends and almost got bit and fell in the water you would have never forgiven me."
They both begin to laugh at the memory of Tristan trying to feed the dog that always trailed along the lake. He teased him which caused the dog to growl trying to rip off his leg with the only thing saving him was falling in the water. They laughed and reminisce about that summer well into the afternoon.
"I would have forgiven you eventually you are the one person I could never stay truly mad at." Lucas tells her as she smiles sitting up on her arms. "You know what let's do it." Lucas looks at her weirdly as she takes her shoes off and ties her hair better. "What are we doing?" Lucas ask as she stands pulling him up.
"We're going for a swim. No sense in wasting a perfect day." She says as Lucas nods holding out his hand. She smiles placing hers in his as she dips her toe in and yelps from the coldness. "Chickening out Dorothy?" He ask as Riley gives him a look.
"Not a chance scarecrow." They smile at each other counting to three as they both jump in. "Wow the water is cold. But feels amazing." Riley smiles as she floats on her back. "Yeah it is nice out here. Bet in New York you can't enjoy a day in the lake."
Riley shakes her head as she fixes herself splashing water at him. "I'll have you know New York is awesome best pizza in the world and it's the city that never sleeps." Riley slightly giggled as Lucas rolled his eyes at her. They always had the same arguments when they talked about New York and Texas.
"Well Texas has doughnuts the size of your heads." He held her head in his hands as Riley gasps playfully pushing him away. "Well in New York we have the Empire State Building." Riley knew there was more to New York but with the way Lucas was looking at her with that smirk she couldn't really think straight.
"Okay." He says moving closer to her. She closes her eyes as he pulls her close putting her arms on his shoulders. "I'll show you why Texas is better." He whispers in her ear causing her to shiver. "Cold?" He ask moving his head so he was looking into her eyes. "No." She whispers softly as she closes her eyes once again.
Lucas puts his arms around her waist as she puts hers around his neck. She bites her lip as he cups her cheek leaning down when both their stomachs begin to growl. They share a look and both begin to burst out laughing as they turn red with embarrassment. "Guess we should eat huh?" Lucas chuckles lifting himself and then her up on the dock.
Riley dangles her feet in the water shivering slightly as Lucas grabs the picnic basket. "Are you going to open it?" She ask with a laugh as Lucas sits next to her eyeing the basket that he held. "I'm kind of afraid to. Knowing the guys something dirty is inside or something that could scare us."
"Only one way to find out." Riley tells him nodding at the basket as Lucas lifts the lid. "I'm going to kill them." He mutters as Riley begins to laugh as he pulls out the air horn. "What do you think tie them together to a huge rock and toss them in the lake or maybe douse them in honey and tie them to a tree or maybe drive them way into the mountains and..."
Lucas covers his ears and ceases his ranting as Riley shakes her head and blows the air horn. "Finally we thought you two were gonna stare at each other for the rest of the night and forget about eating." Zay shouts as he steers the small speed boat towards the dock.
"Where did you get that?" Lucas ask pointing at the boat as Zay hands Riley another basket. "Well..." He says smiling with a shrug of his shoulders as he starts the boat again. "Enjoy your lunch/dinner!" He yells out waving as Riley laugns when Lucas flips him off. "Come on grumpy let's eat there is actual food in here. A lot actually."
"So if you could live anywhere in the world in the world where would you live?" Lucas ask as Riley tries to put the straw in her caprisun. "Paris or London." She says growling when the straw refuses to go in. "Really? Do you even speak any French?" He ask chuckling taking the straw from her.
"I know how to say hello." She says smiling as he hands her back her drink waiting for her. "Bonjour Lucas." She says sweetly batting her eyelashes at him. "That's it?" He laughs as she playfully hits him. "Yes! Do you even know any French meanie?"
Lucas dusted his hands as he clears his throat looking at her moving closer to her. "peut-être un jour moi et vous serez Paris à ensemble." He whispers as she looks at him with wide eyes. He watches as she looks at him gulping slightly as he smiles at her. "Wh..What does that mean?"
"Guess you have to learn French." He whispers back as she narrows her eyes at him. "You're so mean." He chuckles as he sits back knowing he couldn't exactly tell her what it meant since he hears the sound of the guys and the boat coming towards them.
And knowing them they would ruin the moment and mood.
"Hey lovebirds enjoy your food?" Zay ask as Lucas gives him a look. "You mean the food you packed us like we were five?" He ask as Zay smiles. "Hey turkey and pb&j sandwiches in the shape of stars are awesome." Lucas shakes his head as he helps Riley onto the boat.
"Thanks fella the picnic was absolutely lovely." Riley tells them as Lucas glares at them when they wiggle their eyebrows at him. "So where were you three while we were stranded?" Lucas asked wishing he hadn't when he sees Asher trying to hide his binoculars.
"We enjoyed the view and some sandwiches." Dylan tells them as Lucas shakes his really starting to question why he hung out with the three. "Dry land folks." Zay announces as they tie off the boat and head for the car.
Lucas smiled as Riley intertwined their hands as they sat in the back of the car together. She leaned her head on his shoulder as they both begin to yawn closing their eyes falling asleep. "So does this mean you two are together now?" Lucas kept his eyes closed as he listened to Riley talking to the guys.
"I'm not sure." She answered which made him frown slightly. He couldn't be to upset since he hasn't officially asked her out...yet. "So we stranded you guys on that dock for nothing? I told you he chicken out." Asher whisper shouts at Zay.
"Who chickened out?" Lucas asked rubbing his eyes and pretending he didn't know what they were talking about. "Grandma gandy. I bet her she couldn't eat ten spicy jalapeño peppers and she chickened out." Zay says as Dylan and Asher groan shaking their heads.
"Oh look here we are." Zay announces pulling into Riley's driveway. "Thanks for the day fellas it was interesting." Riley smiles grabbing her stuff as she jumped out followed by Lucas. "I'll walk from here Cupid's." He says smiling at the wide open mouths of the boys as he closes the door.
He walks inside with Riley who lays herself down on the couch as he finds a post it on the tv from Morgan. "Looks like Glenda is getting lucky tonight and won't be here." He says jokingly to Riley who gasps hitting him with a pillow. "Gross that's my aunt you pig." He laughs picking up the remote as sits on the couch with her.
"You gonna be okay here by yourself?" He asked as Riley lifted her head to look at him. "You can stay over if you want Lucas no need to beat around the bush." He chuckles as Riley sits up looking at him. "So what should we do?" She asked as Lucas looked down at her lips.
"Well we could..." He begins moving closer to her as she closes her eyes. "We could what?" She whispers as he cups her cheeks. He leaned in about to kiss her when her phone rings causing both of them to jump back slightly. "I should..." Riley says standing up grabbing her phone as Lucas nods leaning back on the couch.
He tapped his legs as he pulls out his phone ordering them a pizza since he knew he was still hungry. He stared at the ceiling waiting for Riley to come back and trying to calm his nerves. Everytime they were going to kiss they would get interrupted and he was determined to kiss her.
"That was Morgan checking in." Riley says walking back into the living room and sitting on the couch. "She didn't know if I would find the post it." She says as Lucas chuckles. Riley did have a habit of overlooking things that were in front of her.
"I ordered pizza should be here within the hour." He says as Riley nods flipping through the channels. "You know you never told me why you wanted to visit London and Paris." Lucas tells her as Riley looks at him.
"Well I've always wanted to visit Paris cause it's the city of love and I'm a big believer in love. Especially with the right person by my side when I do." She says smiling shyly at him as he smiled at her. "And London well that didn't happen till high school. I could have almost moved there you know?"
She went on to tell him how her mom was almost thinking about it when she was offered a promotion. Which came with moving across the pond which none of her friends were happy about. Lucas shook his head not believing and glad that she didn't move there.
"Well I for one am glad you didn't America would suck without Riley Matthews living in it." Riley giggled softly as she got up to get the pizza and they kept talking.
Lucas walked down the stairs tripping down the last two as he looked at his laptop. He kissed his mom's cheek grabbing a cup and poured himself some coffee. After talking all night with Riley he had a brilliant idea to bring a little of London and Paris to Texas for her.
He had been scouring the internet ever since he got up looking up things he would need and making a list. "Sweetie why do you need two dozen yellow twinkle lights and a mini Eiffel Tower?" Lucas closed his laptop as his mom smiled setting a plate in front of him. "Just thought I spruce up my office." He says as his mom nods trying not to smile wider.
"Lucas ask that girl to marry you already I want some grand babies to spoil and I'm not getting any younger." Lucas choked on his pancakes as he gives her a look. "Why don't you ask Tristan for grand babies." He says gesturing at his brother who was yawning as he walked into the kitchen.
"What babies? Who called? Did she sound a little like Betty boop but smart?" He asked as Lucas and his mom looked at him weirdly. "Okay I'm picking the next girl you go out with and you marry Riley." She says pointing at Tristan and then Lucas. He gave his mom a look before punching Tristan who was chuckling at his mom's words.
"So you want to knead the dough for about twenty minutes and then roll it. Makes the cookies that much softer and sweeter." Lucas smiled as he walked into the bakery seeing Riley behind the counter with Zay grandma baking.
"Afternoon ladies." He smiles sitting down as Riley smiles and waves at him. "Go ahead sugar talk to your hubby I'll finish kneading." Lucas saw the pink on Riley's cheeks as she dusts her hands on her apron.
"Grandma gandy you know I'm still waiting for you to run away with me." Lucas tells her as Riley shakes her head grabbing a bag from behind the counter. "Lucas Friar you know you can't handle me." She laughs waving them off as Riley laughs.
"So how many people have called me your husband today?" He asked as Riley linked her arm through his. "A lot. Who is telling people we are married?" She asked as he smiles at her. "You tell people I'm your wife?" She ask hitting him playfully with the bag she was carrying.
"No but I suspect it may have been my mom who wants grandchildren to spoil and for me to put a ring on your finger." He says rubbing her left ring finger. "So are you saying you want to marry me Lucas Friar?" She ask teasingly as she stood in front of him.
"What if I did would you say yes?" He asked as Riley tapped her chin in deep thought. "No." She says as she turns around and begins to walk away. "No?" Lucas ask as he catches up with her. "You don't want to marry me?" He asked feeling a little hurt.
"I can't say yes when we have been married for years silly." She says tapping his nose as she giggles. Lucas breathes a sigh of relief as she smiles linking arms with him once again. "Now if you ask me to be your girlfriend that would be a totally different story."
She looked up at him as Lucas nodded his head smiling as they kept walking. "You aren't going to ask me?" She asked as he shrugged his shoulders. "Maybe." He tells her chuckling as she narrows her eyes at him. "Maybe I'll say no then." She says walking ahead of him.
"Maybe I won't asked then." He tells her enjoying the way she was frowning at him. "Maybe I don't care." She says walking faster as he tries to catch up with her. "Maybe I'll ask you right now." He shouts causing her to stop. "Are you?" She asked as he stood in front of her.
He looked at her and begin to smile before taking a deep breath. "No." He tells her as she narrows her eyes at him. He takes off running laughing as she shouts at him he knew he was going to ask her and it was going to be soon.