Disclaimer: Don't own GMW, Drake, dances, Young Justice...oops wrong fandom.
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Riley couldn't help being amazed for the nth time as she walked onto the lush property that belonged to Elizabeth's family.
After the security guard waved her through the gates, she felt rushed as her car was hurriedly taken by someone else to the garage, while simultaneously being offered a cold beverage and a delicious pastry.
Entering the east wing - where Elizabeth's immediate family lived - she stared in awe at the priceless paintings and trinkets scattered on the walls.
Riley kicked her boots off and lay her coat and bag on the floor once she got to Elizabeth's large room. The squad was spread out across the room, giggling, reading and gossiping with each other. Everyone's eyes glanced towards her, and waved in a hello greeting.
"Honey!" Arms wrapped around Riley's shoulders, squeezing her tight. The blonde's oversized sleeves tickled Riley's neck.
"Hey, peaches." Riley smiled as she mimicked Maya's actions.
"Hey, captain!" The group of cheerleaders chorused. Elizabeth, Grace and Amanda on the bed, discussing nail polish; Sydney, Lily and Darby flipping through magazines and the rest scrolling through Instagram on their phones.
Riley flopped onto her favorite seat in the room - the purple beanbag.
"I'm so glad that we get to bond like this, you guys." Riley grinned as she took out her math homework from her bag. "Not everyone can get along as well as we can, so I'm really happy that we all like each other a lot to be able to do that, you know?"
"Aw," Emily cooed playfully. "Someone's in a sappy mood tonight."
Raini's face lit up and her face sported a mischievous grin. "Since we can talk about about anything, can I ask you a question, Riles?"
"...Sure?" Riley dragged out the vowels, perplexed about where Raini was going with this.
"What's going on between you and Lucas?" Raini inquired, searching Riley's face for a reaction.
And yep, there was one.
"Wait, what?" Riley yelped, flushing a bright red. The team, save for Amanda, giggled at Riley's expression. The brunette shyly tucked a strand of loose hair behind ear. Although she no longer looked like a tomato, her ears still burned a hot pink. "Not funny, guys." She said, furiously scribbling her name on the top of the page.
"Hey, hey, hey!" Raini put both hands in the air, like she was surrendering. "I was just asking. I saw you and Lucas in the library the other-"
"What's this I hear about my Lucas?" A snooty voice questioned, strutting into the room with her faux fur around her neck and leopard print suitcase behind her.
Maya rolled her eyes. "Nothing, Missy. And besides, you can't own Lucas. He's not a piece of property."
Missy faltered for a second, a look of confusion in her eyes, before recovering, a vicious smirk stretching over her red lips. "No, but he's my boyfriend, so that makes him mine." Missy narrowed her eyes towards Riley. "No one else's."
Riley ignored the stinging remark. Once seeing that Riley was unaffected by her comment, Missy turned to the others. "Anyway, we're the power couple of the school. Nothing can break us apart."
"Wow, Missy. I didn't know we were back in 2008 with the 'power couple' nonsense." Sydney commented dryly, still flipping through a fashion magazine. "Leave it to you to try to bring it back, though."
"Leave it to you to try to bring those shoes-"
"Alright!" Elizabeth stood and clapped her hands. "That's enough. Y'all seriously need to chill out. I swear, don't make me have to kick you out. Okay people?"
Lily gently lead Sydney's shoulder back down. "Yeah. Okay, we can do that. Right guys?"
"Pizza's on the way, but I was going to ask which movie we should go with. The Notebook, Mean Girls or go totally retro and watch The Breakfast Club?" Elizabeth asked. Answers were shout out, but the majority agreed with Mean Girls.
"The people have spoken!" Samantha cried out dramatically. She fell back onto the floor as everyone either watched her with confusion or amusement.
"Mean Girls?" Grace rolled her eyes playfully. "I hate you all as much as I hate that movie."
"Aw, cheer up, girl!" Elizabeth sauntered over to her and pinched her cheeks. "I've got a bunch of chocolate you can drown in."
"Aw, for me?" Grace fluttered her light brown eyelashes very quickly.
"Is something in your eye?" Amya joked, arriving fashionably late with Lydia. She set her duffel bag next to the door and kicked her shoes off, similar to the manner Riley had done. Grace stuck her tongue out at her.
"Sorry we're late." Lydia apologized. A light pink dusted across her cheeks. "We, uh-"
"Yeah, yeah, you two had a little make-out session in your convertible, we get it." Maya smirked, enjoying watching Lydia squirm as Amya just nodded happily.
"It was good, too!" Amya piped up cheerfully. Her hazel eyes glazed over wistfully as she played with her blonde hair. "She did this thing with her tongue-"
"Okay, ew, didn't need to know that." Marissa stuck her tongue out at them, while pulling her eyelid down.
"I know you're stuck on anime, but God, could you please stop doing that?" Alexa whined, snapping the peppermint gum she had in her mouth. "It looks really weird."
"You look really weird!"
"Don't even start-"
"I've already started!"
Riley rubbed her temples. This is how it always is. This is how it's always going to be. She smiled fondly at the group. I suppose there could've been worse people to have around.
Before they knew it, the heavenly aroma of pizza was calling their names. Cheese, pepperoni, sausage, green pepper and onion - you name it. Not only pizza, but wings (barbeque, buffalo, and hot), drinks (Water, soda, and juice) cookies (chocolate, double chocolate, and frosted sugar). Yeah, Elizabeth might have gone a little overboard.
Alexa held her thin frame. "You're going to make me fat, Elizabeth, if you keep shoving food in my face like this."
"Please." Elizabeth sighed. "If anything, you need way more fat on your bones."
"Hey, Julia just texted me." Raini said, holding up her glittery pink phone case. "She can't make it tonight. She was roped into babysitting her brothers at the last minute."
"Aw, that's too bad." Missy said. "Julia knows how to liven up a party."
Amya narrowed her eyes towards Missy. "I know you don't really know her, but you don't have to be mean and sarcastic about it."
Missy lowered her mascara covered eyelashes and stared down at the floor. "I wasn't being sarcastic," she mumbled softly.
There was an awkward pause.
A loud noise startled them.
"Oops!" Sydney giggled sheepishly. "I guess I'm hungrier than I realized."
Riley smiled as the tension in the room left.
"You know, I never thought that I'd be a cheerleader." Riley thought out loud, munching on her pineapple pizza.
"Yeah, me neither." Maya chuckled. She licked the barbeque sauce off her hands. "You're such a klutz."
Riley rolled her eyes at the supposedly 'endearing' nickname. "Well, who would've thunk you'd end up in cheerleading too? You may not have been as clumsy as me, but you barely had any rhythm when we first started." The captain of the squad pointed out.
"Mm-hmm." The blue-eyed blonde agreed, eyes flicking over to the large television.
After everyone finished or was close, Samantha stood up on one of the chairs with an empty plastic bottle in hand.
"Let's play Spin the Bottle: Truth or Dare," she suggested, waggling her thin eyebrows.
The friendly squad cheered, everyone in agreement. The group sat in a large circle, with the plastic bottle in the middle.
"Okay, I'll start." Samantha grinned. She spun the bottle. Around and around it went until it landed on Grace.
"Truth."
"Um, is it true that you've dated ten boys in a month?" Samantha asked.
"Oh, yeah. The Valentine's Day Crisis," Grace said wistfully. "Yeah, I had a good time with that! But Sam, that question sucked, I'm glad it's my turn next so I can make things juicy." Grace gave the bottle a quick spin.
It landed on Amya.
"Truth or dare?" Grace grinned maniacally.
"Dare, duh." Amya said, looking smug.
"Okay...you asked for it." Grace smiled. "I dare you to run around the house with nothing but your bra and underwear."
More than a few eyebrows raised up at this dare.
"Hmm." Amya just stood up, and before anyone had a chance to look away, she stood there with no shirt and no pants.
She then flipped her blonde hair over her shoulder and ran out of the room.
Five minutes later, she returned.
"Wow." Grace looked impressed. "I didn't think you would actually do that!"
"Eh, whatever." Amya said, poking her arms through the holes in her shirt. "My turn!"
And so, with that, hilarious truth or dares occurred. Including for someone to sing when they would normally talk and someone revealed their biggest crush.
"Lil, truth or dare?" Alexa asked. Lily tapped her chin in thought.
"Dare," Lily decided.
"Okay, I dare you to...do one of those dances you used to make up with Sydney when you were kids." Alexa said.
"Aww!" Lily pouted. She placed her head in her hands. "Do I have to? Those were so embarrassing."
"Go, girl!" Elizabeth cheered. She started screaming at the top of her lungs. "LIL-EE, LIL-EE, LIL-EE!!"
And pretty soon, she had the whole squad screaming too until Lily stopped.
"Okay, okay." Lily grumbled. "I give in, I'll do it."
Elizabeth typed in Don't Stop Me Now by Queen on her phone and hooked it up to the speaker.
It was awkward to watch at first, as Lily tried to remember the dance, but once she got into it, it was a blast.
Soon Sydney joined in with a bop. And Lydia started popping-and-locking it. Elizabeth started hitting them folks and going back to the 'In My Feelings' dance. Everybody was dancing.
All was right for Riley.
And her friends were all right.
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Alright, that's the end of this chapter. And for real, guys, I'm working on actual chapters. It might take a little longer, as I'm still deciding whether or not I should write them all first and release them week by week or just post whatever chapter I finish whenever I'm done with it.
Tell me what y'all think about this story! Thanks for reading!