Later after football practice is over all the guys are in the locker room
Lucas and Josh are finishing getting dressed
"Hey Josh" says Lucas as he's sitting on the bench tieing his shoe.
"yea" says Josh as he is putting on his shirt
"this girl came into your dad's class and your dad called her sweetie, is she your sister or something?"
josh laughs "yea that's my sister Riley"
riley repeats her name in his head, nice name it suits her he thinks
"how come you never said anything about having a sister"
"I wasn't trying to hide it, it just never came up "
"but I've been to your house before I've never seen her before "
"she's just very shy she's usually in her room or at her friends house"
even though he's never really even talked to her he could tell right away
she was a very shy person.
"why so interested" asks Josh suspiciously
"no reason is just I bumped into her the other day and then I saw her today and I just didn't know who she was, I'd never seen her before"
"yea Riley keeps to herself a lot"
Lucas just nods and gets lost in his thoughts as his mind again goes to Riley.
Maya walks into her apartment when she sees her stepfather Shawn at the table with Josh who turns to give her a smile
"hey sweetie how was school" asks shawn
"fine" she replies as she makes her way to the fridge to get a bottle of water.
"you know everyday I ask you how was school and everyday you say the same thing" says her stepfather
"ok it was extremely fine" shawn just rolls his eyes as josh gives a small laugh
"so what are you guys working on?"
"I'm helping josh with his photography class"
"yea I have to come up with a topic and take pictures of that topic "
"what are you gonna take pictures of?" asks maya
"not sure yet"
shawns phone rings and he steps into another room to answer it leaving josh and maya alone
"so hows 9th grade treating you?" asks josh
"all right a lot harder than I thought."
"don't worry it only get worse" says josh
"gee thanks for the pep talk" says maya and josh just laughs
"just telling it like it is" just then his phone dings
josh picks it up and sighs
"something wrong?' asks maya curiously
"nothing just sophie being a drama queen" josh rolls his eyes
"really , trouble in paradise" maya teases
josh just laughs "she was upset because I couldn't give her a ride home from cheerleading practice like I usually do"
"bummer"
"yea but she's cooled down and we're okay"
"that's good" maya fakes a smiles
just then shawn comes back into the room
"hey sorry about that lets get back to work"
maya stands up "okay well ill be in my room"
"see ya later maya" josh gives her that smile that just makes her melt.
She leaves to her room and works on her homework
Next day at school
Riley is at her locker when Farkle walks up to her
"hey riley ready for chemistry?"
"as ready as I'll ever be " she laughs
Isadora smackle walks up to them
"hello farkle hello riley"
"hey smackle" says farkle
"so you guys want to go see that new superhero movie that's coming out Friday"
"sure I'll be there, you in riley"
"um, I'm not sure I have a lot of homework"
"oh come on riley its just a movie with your friends, it will be fun" farkle urges.
Riley sighs "okay I'll go"'
"cool, so I'll see you guys later" smackle walks off
"don't worry you'll have fun" farkle assures her
" yea I guess" riley smiles
meanwhile across the hall
lucas is at his locker and he sees riley talking to a guy, he had seen the guy before, he forgot his name, it was something weird like Farrlo or something, he was some science whiz from what he remembered.
Josh walks up to him
"sup dude"
lucas turns to him and hopes that josh hadn't caught him watching his sister like some weird stalker.
"hey bro how ya doin?'
"okay but sophie's is driving me crazy, she just went off on me because she found out my science partner is that girl jenny" josh rolls his eyes
lucas laughs "that sucks man, hey how about we have a guys night, we can go see that new superhero movie"
"sounds cool I need a night out with the guys"
riley and farkle walk by and riley and lucas eyes meet before she quicly looks down
"hey so who is that guy with riley?' asks Lucas tries to ask casually
"that's one of her friends, his names farkle"
"so that's not her boyfriend?" asks lucas
josh laughs "no way dude, they've been best friends since like the 1st grade.
Lucas for some reason was a little relieved to hear that.
Riley's dad had a late meeting and maya had to go with her mom to run errands so riley was left to wait for her brother to get out of football practice to take her home. She decided to wait in the libaray doing her hw till he was done. When he texted her to meet her by the car she started walking to the parking lot.
She got there before him so she just stood by the car waiting. 2 minutes later she sees her brother making his way over and he wasn't alone he seemed to be walking with another guy. It took her a second to register that the guy was Lucas. As they approached Lucas had his eyes on her.
"hey riles ready to go" says her brother and she just nods
"hey riley, is it?" says lucas with smile knowing the answer but just trying to make conversation with her
she just nods
"well its nice to meet you formaly" he lets out a small laugh
riley tries to think of something to say but all she can do is just smile and nod like an idiot.
Josh looks between them and tries to break up the awkwardness
"ok well we're giving lucas a ride home, his cars in the shop " he explains
"ok" says riley and then she starts making her way into the car without another word.
Josh turns to lucas
"don't take it too personally, she just needs time to get used to you" josh tries to explain
lucas just nods "no prob man, I get it" he reassures
they make their way into the car.