Sorry for the long wait who knew the last few months would cause me to be so busy. Hopefully this chapter isn't boring and I'm already working on the next one. Enjoy.
Lucas was sure his jaw was never going to come off the floor once the door had open and he saw Riley standing in front of him. He looked her up and down in her black dress as she bit her lip smiling softly swaying back and forth in front of him. He was about to comment on how breathtaking she looked when a bright flash broke him from his trance.
"Mom." He groaned softly turning around holding his hand up to shield himself from the flash as Riley giggled next to him. "Lucas just stand closer to Riley so I can get one of the two of you together." She says standing up in the bed of his truck.
He shook his head as Riley wrapped her arm around his waist smiling up at him as he smiled down at her. "Perfect!" She yells hopping out the truck. "See ya at home honey. Be safe!" She yells as Lucas shakes his head making Riley laugh.
"Your mom hid in your truck to document our date?" She asked leaning against the wall with a smile on her face. He groans covering his face as he mumbles I know so embarrassing. "It's not embarrassing it's sweet. She kind of reminds me of my dad except he's overprotective and we wouldn't have gone anywhere."
Lucas chuckled as he looked at her again shaking his head. "What?" She asked with a smile as he moved towards her. "Nothing. You look absolutely gorgeous and I just wanted to look at you again." He hands her the flowers as Riley shakes her head trying to hide her blushing cheeks.
"Let me grab my coat and we can go Mr. smooth talker." He chuckles softly looking at the sky as Riley heads back inside. "Okay I'm ready." She announces as he turns around looking at her weirdly. "Um...Dorothy what's up with the umbrella and rain jacket?" He asked trying to not laugh at her.
"Well Mr. Friar if you haven't noticed or smelled the air it's going to rain." Riley tells him looking up at the sky. "And soon." She adds with a smile as Lucas looks up at the clear night sky. "Um Dorothy if you haven't noticed I lived in Texas my whole life and I know when it's supposed to rain. And it won't for awhile now."
"Well excuse me Mr. country man cowboy I happen to know exactly when it's going to snow and rain and I predict that the rain will come tonight." She tells him folding her arms across her chest. Lucas smiled mimicking her as he folded his own arms across his chest. "Dorothy I know Texas weather trust me."
Riley looks at him narrowing her eyes slightly as he chuckles. "Okay fine Mr. Texas I'll leave the umbrella but I'm keeping the jacket." Lucas nods as he holds out his arm for her smiling as she takes it. "Ready for the best night of your life?" He ask as she bobs her head side to side before smiling at him.
"Yes yes I am."
This was so not the best night of her life. Lucas thought shaking his head as he stitched little Olivia's pet rabbit. The night couldn't have gone more wrong for them as soon as they left her house. As they reached the restaurant he made reservations at people kept coming up to them mostly him like he was a celebrity.
He was sure Riley thought he had paid everyone to stop by and chat before they even had their appetizers. If that wasn't bad enough little kids and elderly couples were asking if they were boyfriend and girlfriend. Causing both Riley and Lucas to turn dark red.
Once they finally got around to ordering they had to leave when Lucas got paged saying little Olivia's rabbit Mrs. wiggles got hurt and she wanted only him to stitch her up. He wanted to say no and just have his on call vet help but one look from Riley who was smiling and batting her doe eyes at him he had to help.
"Okay Mrs. Wiggles let's get you back to Olivia so I can get back to my date." He says picking up the rabbit carefully as he walks towards the front where Riley and Olivia along with her mom were munching on breadsticks together. "Mrs. Wiggles!" Olivia cheers running up to Lucas and grabbing her rabbit.
"Thank you doctor Luke!" Olivia hands the rabbit to her mom as she hugs Lucas kissing his cheek. "Your girlfriend is pretty." She whispers as Lucas looks over at Riley who was smiling as she watched them. "I know." He whispered back as Olivia giggled waving bye to Riley as she left out the door.
"Sorry about all that." Lucas tells Riley as he locks the door putting up the closed sign. "It's alright. I forgot how much you care for your patients alive or stuffed." He looked at her weirdly as she smiles softly at him.
"Scarecrow is Henry going to be alright? Maybe I should hold his hand." A seven year old Riley tells Lucas as he puts on the little white coat he got for Christmas. "Dorothy he'll be alright. I'll take care of him. Nurse." He shouts as his mom comes out from behind the little curtain she set up for them.
"The patient is prepped for surgery doctor." She says smiling as Lucas grabs Riley's hand. "I'll take good care of him promise. I'll hold his hand."
"And you did. Henry was all stitched up thanks to my favorite vet." Riley tells him as Lucas chuckles taking off his coat. "But I didn't do anything mom was the one that stitched up your stuffed animal I just watched and held his hand."
"Yes but you calmed me down and kept your word even though Henry was a stuffed animal." Lucas smiled as he grabbed a fork digging into his food. "Sorry this date turned into a work date." Lucas tells her wiping his hands on a napkin as Riley wipes her own hands shaking her head at him.
"Luke this date was great." She says rubbing his cheek as he playfully slaps her hand away. She giggles as she looks out the door smiling widely. "And you know what just made it ten times better?" He looked at her weirdly as she nods her head towards the front door.
Rain.
"Ha! I am a weather goddess!" Riley exclaims grabbing her jacket as Lucas watches her with a confused expression on his face. "Um Dorothy what are you doing?" He asked as she buttoned her last button smiling at him.
"Something I'm not supposed to do." She winks opening the door as she breathes in the air before skipping into the rain. Lucas chuckles shaking his head grabbing his own jacket and following her. He watches from the doorway as she splashes around in the tiny puddles that are starting to form.
"You're gonna get sick!" Lucas chuckles knowing it was barely raining as Riley giggles spinning in a circle. "It will be totally worth it." She shouts back continuing to spin around. Lucas shakes his head as he goes back inside gathering up their trash tossing it before walking back to the front. "Luke come out here!" Riley shouts gesturing for him to join her.
He takes her hand twirling her as she giggles pulling her back into his chest. "So how did you know?" He asked as she put her arms around his neck. "How did I know what?" She asked smiling at him. "You know? How did you know it would rain?"
"Oh." She giggles before clearing her throat and looking at him with a serious expression. "I should have told you this along time ago." Lucas looked at her weirdly and with a confused expression as she mutters she can't believe she is about to tell him.
"Dorothy you can tell me anything remember?" She clears her throat as she looks at him. "I'm a magical fairy from pixie hollow. Every year I visit places and bring them what they need."
Lucas looked at her weirdly as she nodded her head smiling. "Your a fairy? Like an actual real fairy? Like tinker bell? With wings and everything?" He asked as she nodded.
"Yes I am. You believe me right?" She asked as he tapped his chin. "Okay say I believe you where are your wings?" He asked as Riley narrowed her eyes at him. "I can't show you them silly they will get all wet from the rain."
Lucas chuckled as he looked at her with a smile. "Well then my little fairy goddess let's get you inside." Riley smiles as they walked back towards the clinic door where Lucas tried to pull it open. "Oh no." He whispers as he pats his pockets and then looks inside.
"What?" Riley asked as Lucas slowly banged his head on the door. "I forgot the keys inside and the door is locked." Riley looked at him weirdly covering her mouth with her hand. "It's not funny." He tells her as they try to shield themselves from the rain which was coming down harder.
"Come on scarecrow it's a bit funny." She tells him as Lucas looks at her before sneezing. "Uh oh."
Riley hummed to herself as she chopped up the last of the carrots adding them to the pot she had on the stove. She smiled softly before wincing at the sound of Lucas sneezing that turned into a coughing fit.
She felt just awful that she got him sick just because she had a chance to play in the rain. She practically ruined their official first date with her childish behavior.
Back home her dad would constantly tell her to stop playing in the rain for those exact reasons. Reasons she didn't take into account when she forced Lucas to join her in said rain. He probably regrets asking her out since he's under the weather.
She sighs softly as she stirs the soup turning it off and setting the soup in a bowl putting it on a tray along with some crackers and more tissue heading for her patient.
"Lucas what are you doing up lay down!" Riley scolds him as she sets the tray down on the dresser and settling him back under the blankets she supplied him with. "What did I tell you if you needed anything to ask me you shouldn't be up." She looks at him weirdly as he laughs lightly shaking his head at her.
"Doctor Dorothy I have to go to the bathroom." Riley widened her eyes as she turned red biting at her lip. "Oh." She says pulling the covers back so he could get out the bed. She sat on the bed as she waited for him to come back popping up when he emerges helping him to the bed.
"You do realize I have a little cough and don't need special treatment right?" He tells her as she frowns covering him back up. "You know very well that it's more than a little cough. I got you sick." She tells him grabbing the tray and setting it on his lap as he grabs her hand. "Dorothy me getting sick wasn't your fault."
She sighs softly shaking her head handing him the spoon. "Yes it was. If I didn't insist on going out in the rain in the first place and making you join me we wouldn't have gotten locked out the clinic and had to walk a mile to the gas station. Soaking wet by the way."
Lucas looked at her with a smile as he shook his head. "Oh my sweet Dorothy. I'm going to let you in on a little secret." He gestures for her to come closer as he cups her cheek. "You didn't twist my arm to go out in the rain with you. I went on my own. Besides we both know how easily I get sick."
Riley laughs tilting her head as Lucas looks at her weirdly. "What?" She asked with a laugh as he puts his spoon down. "Nothing I'm just trying to figure out how I ended up getting sick and you didnt?" Riley looks at him weirdly before laughing softly. "That would be my dad's fault."
"Gonna give me more than that doctor Dorothy?" Lucas asked as Riley grabs a cracker off his tray. "Well as you know I love the rain." He nods his head as she continues. "Well when I was nine I went out in the rain and ended up catching a real bad cold. So bad that my overly dramatic dad gave me any and all cold medicine."
Riley laughed at the memory of that and how her immune system has never been the same since. "Your dad sounds crazy. No offense." Lucas tells her as she smiles. "Oh trust me I know. Pretty sure if he would have came down here all those summers with me you would have been shoeless."
Lucas looked at her weirdly as she got up putting the tray on her dresser. "Okay medicine and then a nap mister." She says as Lucas grimace shaking his head. "Come on can I skip it please?" He asked as she shook her head. "Sorry no can do. Open up here comes the plane."
Lucas chuckles softly as he makes a face drinking the medicine as Riley fluffs his pillows. "Okay nap time. I'll check on you later." She kisses his head grabbing the tray and closing the door as she heads back downstairs. "Hey Riley you here?" Someone calls out as she washes the dishes. "In the kitchen!"
She turns and sees Emma walking in taking off her coat. "Morning Riley how's our patient? Did he put up a fight about taking his medicine?" She asked looking up as Riley laughs. "Stubborn as ever but I got him to take it and he's sleeping now." She says as Emma shakes her head.
"You know if it was anyone else besides you he wouldn't have taken it. He would have talked his way out of it." Emma tells her as Riley feels her cheeks heat up. She pours them both some coffee when she sees her looking at her with a smile on her face. "What?" Riley lightly laughed sitting across from her. "So how was your first date? I know it was a couple days ago and I just want to know if Morgan and I should start preparing the wedding book?"
Riley widened her eyes as she was sure her cheeks were on fire now. Half from being embarrassed and not really wanting to replay her date with Lucas mom and the other half at the way her heart skipped a beat at the thought of walking down the aisle towards Lucas one day.
"I guess I can tell Morgan we can start the preparation." Emma says pulling Riley from her thoughts. Riley covered up her cheeks as she shakes her head feeling the warmth of them through her fingers.
"Since he's sleeping I'll get out ya hair and let you rest." Emma tells her rinsing out her cup. "He usually naps about an hour. Something about not missing what's going on." Riley tells her as they walk out the house to her car. "That boy. He's been doing that since he was a baby. Call me later." Riley waves bye as she sighs looking at the house before grabbing her camera bag.
She had just aimed her camera towards the road when she sees a cab pull up and a familiar face step out. She hesitates a moment thinking they weren't alone before shaking her head walking towards them.
"Out of all the gin joints in the world you had to step into mine." She says smiling as Auggie chuckles softly putting his bags down to hug her. "What are you doing here? Is it..." She begins when Auggie shakes his head pulling back. "Just me." She breathes a sigh of relief as they walk towards the porch sitting down. "How did you know I was here?" She asked as he looks at her with a smile.
"We're twins. Of course I'd know where you would escape to." Riley frowned slightly before playfully nudging his shoulder. "Auggie we are not twins." He gasps putting his hand on his heart as she shakes her head. "That is a mean thing to tell your twin. I felt that right here." He taps his heart making her laugh.
"But seriously I knew you would come here since you were always smiling and talking about here. Also we used to come here when we were little remember? But don't worry nobody else knows they just know I'm here since I still visit."
Riley nodded as she stared off into the distance trying to ignore Auggie curious face. "What?" She asked knowing he was waiting for her to tell him why she left. "Nothing just don't take this the wrong way but I never liked Trevor."
Riley looked at him to see if he was serious and begun to laugh as he joined in. "I thought I heard voices." They both look up and see Lucas looking at them. "Lucas what are you doing out of bed?!" Riley scolds him standing up pushing him back inside.
"Riley your going to make him fall." Auggie laughed as Riley fixes Lucas on the couch with a blanket. "Yeah Dorothy listen to your brother." They both look at him causing Lucas to laugh. "How'd you know he's my brother?" Riley asked.
"Really? He looks just like you. He could be your twin." Riley rolls her eyes as Auggie smiles smugly at her. "We should go out show him a good time. After I'm better of course." Lucas says as Riley gives him a look.
"Wow this place hasn't change much has it?" Auggie asked looking around chubbie. "Still the best barbecue in town." Lucas says as they sit down at their table.
True to his word and his promise to Riley they waited until he was feeling better before taking Auggie on a trip down memory lane.
"So did Morgan move or something?" Auggie asked Riley as she laughs. "No. She had just been spending time with her boyfriend Nic. You'll meet him soon." Auggie chuckled as they ordered dinner laughing into the night.
"Man am I full." Auggie sighed happily rubbing his stomach. "Well I would hope so you ate two plates of ribs." Riley tells him shaking her head. Auggie playfully rolled his eyes as Riley smiled looking at Lucas as he smiled back at her. "Well that's my cue. Night." Auggie chuckled heading in the house as Riley shakes her head.
"He's subtle. The guys would love him." Lucas chuckled as Riley narrowed her eyes at him. "Let's walk." She says linking arms with him. They walk in comfortable silence as they walk towards their tree. "Thank you." Riley says as she leans against the tree. "For what?" Lucas asked tilting his head at her.
She bites her lip feeling the heat rise on her cheeks as Lucas moves closer to her tucking a strand of hair behind her ear. Her heart was beating uncontrollably as he cups her cheeks slowly pulling her lip from her teeth as she closes her eyes.
And right there in the same spot they had shared their first kiss they share another.