Apologies for the long wait but the universe had it out for me for awhile now and kept me from updating hopefully I can update again soon.
Lucas didn't know how long it was that he stood staring at Riley until he heard her giggle as she waved her hand in front of his face. "Where'd you go there mister?" She giggled softly as Lucas felt the heat rise on his cheeks.
"Nowhere just got distracted with how beautiful you look." He smiled as he watched her face turned red. "You look beautiful too..I mean not beautiful but you look..." She bites her lip as she looks down embarrassed.
"I may look beautiful.." He says causing her to lift her head to look at him. "But I definitely have nothing on you Dorothy." He moves closer and hands her the rose. He brushes the hair that flies onto her face as she smiles smelling her rose.
"Your something else Scarecrow Friar." She says making him chuckle. "But I like it." He smiles cupping her cheek as she bites her lip when they get interrupted. "Aw hell I thought y'all were having a date night not a staring contest."
Lucas groaned putting his head on Riley's shoulder as she laughed at Pappy Joe's words. "We are Pappy Joe!" Lucas shouts as he looks over at him. "Well better hurry up and enjoy it before your mom comes home." He laughs heading back for the house.
Lucas widened his eyes looking at the time knowing that their reservation was in five minutes and his family was probably on the lookout for them. "Should we just go to the restaurant?" Riley asked as she twirled her rose. "I mean they did put work into tonight for us." She adds as Lucas looks at her.
"Trust me if we go we wouldn't enjoy ourselves or have privacy. Do you know what it's like having a parent who is constantly embarrassing you?" He asked as Riley begins to laugh. "Trust me I know." She giggles as Lucas looks at her weirdly making her giggle more.
"So we dining here in oz?" Riley asked gesturing at their tree. Lucas thought about it as he looked at the tree then back at each of their houses knowing if they stayed there they would definitely have no privacy. Especially when they don't show up and their families come back just to ooh and aw them.
He looks around trying to find the perfect place and smiles once he does. "Well I for one think we should head back to Kansas." Riley tilts her head looking at him with a confused expression before she begins to smile. "Sounds perfect. Shall we click our heels?" She ask as Lucas grabs their things holding his arm out for her to take. "After you."
Lucas chuckled as Riley skipped ahead of him singing about how they were off to see the wizard except substituting wizard for Kansas. Once they reached their destination Riley turned on her phone light shining it on Kansas. Or more like her aunt's barn home of their infamous tornado disaster.
"Okay Dorothy hand me that rope." Lucas asked holding onto his red wagon. He smiles at her when she does tying one end to the horse and the other to a nail on the wall. "Scarecrow are you sure this is how you create a tornado?" Riley asked eating a gummy bear and staring at the contraption they had built.
"Yes...well it's sort of." He says rubbing his neck. "Let's just try it." He hands her his football helmet while he puts on his brothers. "Ready Dorothy?" He asked as they sat down.
"Ready Scarecrow."
"So are we going to go in or just stare at it?" Riley asked nudging Lucas from his thoughts. He chuckles nodding his head as they walk inside. "Whoa." Riley gasps as Lucas flips a switch that turned on twinkle lights that hung from different parts of the barn.
"How did you do this?" Riley asked as she looked around with a smile on her face. "Well..." Lucas begins rubbing nervously at his neck. "Every summer you would visit and go back home I would come over here and hang out in the barn missing you." He turned away trying to hide his face which resembled a tomato.
"Aw Scarecrow that's the most sweetest thing I have ever heard." Riley tells him as she stands in front of him. "And I don't mind the reddened cheeks either." She giggles as he gives her a look. "Well get ready to see more of it." He says causing her to look at him weirdly as he gestures her to follow him.
He leads her up to the second floor of the barn feeling along a wall until he finds what he was looking for. He moves the paneling pulling out a small box handing it to her. He rubs his neck nervously knowing what he was about to show her was pretty corny and embarrassing.
"Just remember I was young." He says handing her the box as she looks at him weirdly. He chews his lip rubbing at his neck as he watches Riley open up the box looking inside. He hears her gasps as she pulls out the paper on top and read it.
He nervously waits as she read the paper that sat on top. He rubbed his neck trying to get a look at her face as she giggled softly at the picture he kept of the two of them when they dressed as Dorothy and Scarecrow. He sat down across from her staring and waiting until he sees her getting to the last thing in the box and the most embarrassing thing.
The letter he wrote to her but never sent telling her how much he missed her and what was happening. A letter he started writing the first summer they spent together all the way to when he was fifteen. Even though she had long since stopped visiting before that.
After Riley read it folding it back up putting everything back in the box she let out a soft sigh. She had yet to look at him and Lucas was afraid he freaked her out with the box. Especially with the letter. "Wow." She whispers shaking her head slightly causing Lucas to freak out more.
"Okay I just want to say I was young and I was just writing and you know how it is...okay it was tris..." Riley stands up covering his mouth as she smiles at him. "You talk way to much." She giggles as he takes her hand from his mouth. "Sorry."
"So Tristan really wrote this huh? I should go thank him it's a very sweet and romantic thing." She starts to walk away as Lucas grabs her hand pulling her back to him. "Where do you think you are going?" He asked tucking her hair behind her ear as she smiles putting her arms around his neck.
"To see Tristan silly. It's only right I thank the person who wrote me this letter. Unless he wasn't the person?" She asked as he looked at her with a smile as he shook his head. "No he isn't. He didn't learn to write until last year." He jokes making Riley gasps playfully hitting him on the head.
"Lucas Friar you're such a..." He cuts her off by pulling her close and kissing her. "Meanie." She whispers as they pull apart biting at her lip. "But thank you." She whispers as he leans down to kiss her once more. "Your welcome Dorothy."
Riley giggled softly as she watched Lucas walking backwards towards his house as he continuously waved at her as he went. She laughs out loud when she sees him trip and fall down all the while still waving at her.
He bounced right back up waving that he was alright as he continued his journey home face forward this time stopping every few steps to wave goodnight to her. She smiled shaking her head as she stepped on her porch staring at the night sky.
She sighed happily thinking about their date as she turned to go inside. As dates go it was a pretty perfect one filled with laughter and a mini food fight when she accidentally or maybe on purpose flicked a piece of cake at him.
She lightly laughed as she made her way to her room when she sees a flash from her window. She looked out seeing Lucas using their code to meet him by their tree. She flashed back an okay and headed outside once more shaking her head laughing as she approaches him.
"Hey stranger missed me already?" She jokes as she sees him rubbing nervously at his neck. "Are you okay?" She asked placing her hand on his face as he smiled at her. "Actually no but I think you could help with that." He says confusing her.
"What can I do?" She asked wondering if he didn't have a good time on their date and wanted her to stay away from him. She shook her head getting rid of those ridiculous thoughts as she chewed at her cheek. "There was something I've been wanting to ask and even though the date is over I think I still should." Riley nodded looking down fearing the worse that she didn't hear what he said. "Oh wow I really freaked you out didn't I? I know I shouldn't have asked you to be my girlfriend so quickly like that."
Riley looked up at him with a confused expression as he continued pacing muttering about how he was an idiot. "D...did you say girlfriend?" She asked as he looked at her. "Yeah but I see it freaked you out and I should have known it was to soon. Could we forget I asked?"
Riley smiled as she shook her head walking towards him putting her arms around his neck. "Now why would I want to forget the moment my boyfriend asked me to be his girlfriend?" She laughs softly as he looks at her weirdly before it dawns on him. "Boyfriend?"
"Yeah unless you want me to forget because I can." She starts to pull away when he shakes his head saying no. "So it's not to soon is it?" He asked as Riley shook her head. "No. It's perfect." He chuckles softly as she bites her lip. "Well I should let you get some sleep then." He whispered as he starts to lean down.
"Uh huh." She whispers back closing her eyes as he kisses her. "Night. Girlfriend." Lucas whispers as he pulls back kissing her cheek. "Night boyfriend." Riley giggles as he kisses her once more before heading back home.
Riley watched as he went wishing she had her camera with her to capture the moment instead opting to take a mental picture. Using her fingers as an imaginary camera aiming it at his retreating back. "Click."
The next morning Riley woke with a smile on her face showering Toto in kisses before heading to her closet. She stared at her clothes wondering what she should wear. Usually she would dress in something she felt comfortable in but now that she was someone's girlfriend she was overcome with this feeling that she had to dress the part.
She hadn't felt this feeling in awhile and she didn't like the feeling. Or the voice that came along with that feeling. She chewed her lip staring at a pair of jeans or a dress when Toto barked making her jump. "Sorry. Which one?" She asked holding them up as he tilted his head at her. "Your right I just need to be myself. I can do that. Nothing's changed."
She opted to go for the jeans and a T-shirt tying her hair in a ponytail while heading downstairs. She spots Lucas at the bottom of the steps just staring at her. "What? Is it to much or not enough I have a dress I can throw on. Just let me go change." She turned around heading back up when Lucas stops her.
"No! I mean you look wow. Don't change a thing." He says making her blush as she stood at the bottom step so she was more or less his height. "Hi." He smiles handing her another rose from behind his back. "Hi." She giggles biting at her lip as her cheeks heat up.
"Ugh you guys are so gross get a room." Riley growls as she turns towards Auggie who stood in the front door with a cup of coffee. "Auggie don't you have somewhere else to be like far away from here?" Riley asked as Lucas chuckled softly.
"Yeah yeah you're just trying to get rid of me so you can continue making eyes at your boyfriend over there." He says as she gasps. "You told him?" Riley asked Lucas who shook his head as she looked at Auggie who was holding up his phone snapping their photo. No doubt sending to their Aunt and Lucas mom.
"Auggie.." Riley growled as Lucas wrapped his arms around her waist preventing her from going after him. "Thanks. You two won Pappy joe and me some money." He chuckles saluting then as he whistled walking out the front door again.
"Guess the cats out the bag huh?" Riley laughs leaning her head on Lucas chest. "Did you want to keep us a secret?" He asked as she looks up at him. "No. No! I just wanted to have you to myself before we get bombarded with the chaos that is our families."
He looks at her weirdly before laughing as he knew she was right. "So Dorothy what do you want to do today?" He asked wrapping his arms around her waist. "Hmm...that's a tough one." She says tapping her lips causing Lucas to chuckle.
"Well how about a horse ride or maybe a swim or a walk around town I really need to get Toto out and about or maybe..." Riley rambles on as Lucas stops her by kissing her. "Or this. We can definitely keep doing this." She giggles as she looks at him.
"Oh we definitely can." He says about to kiss her when a flash goes off. "What are you three doing here?" Lucas groans when they find the three stooges smiling at them with a camera in Zay's hands.
"Oh just documenting your love for my future godchildren to see." He says snapping another picture. "Hey! Who said you were going to be godfather?" Asher and Dylan ask together as Riley shakes her head laughing at them arguing about their nonexistent children.
"Excuse me but shouldn't Lucas and I decide who becomes our kids godparents?" Riley ask as the guys look at her. "So you already thinking about our future kids?" Lucas whispers making her cheeks heat up.
Riley glares at him as she hears him chuckle softly next to her. She elbows him shaking her head as she heads for the kitchen with him following behind her. "I'm just teasing Dorothy." He whispers as he wraps his arms around her from behind.
"I'd actually like a little girl who is just like her mom." He says kissing her shoulder and making her smile. "What if we have a little boy?" She asked tilting her head to look at him. "Let's hope he looks like you." He jokes making her laugh as she puts her arms around his neck.
"Are you two about to makeout? Because doing that in the kitchen is very unsanitary." Riley rolls her eyes as she playfully glares at Asher who was smiling at them. "Asher be a dear and give us ten minutes." Riley says as Lucas looks at her with wide eyes and a smile. "Yeah what she said." Lucas says putting his arm around her shoulder.
"Gross are you two about to become one of those disgustingly gross couple who just stares at each other and all that?" He asked as Riley looked up at Lucas.
"Yes. Yes we are."