As soon as Lucas opened the door for her and she stepped in she could already smell the delicious smell of pizza.
"It smells great"
"Yeah and it tastes even better" Lucas tells her as he leads her to an empty table
As soon as they take their seat a middle age woman comes up to them
"Lucas long time no see" The woman says smiling happily at him
"Hey Mrs. Rains" Lucas greets her
"No boys here today?" she asks looking around for his friends.
"No not this time, I'm here with my friend Riley" he explains motioning towards the quiet brunette sitting across from him
"Hi" Riley greets politely
"Hello sweetie well aren't you the cutest thing, you have nice taste Lucas
Riley blushes deeper and looks down to avoid looking at Lucas who also was turning red.
"She's just a friend, she's actually Josh's sister" he adds
"oh I should have known, I totally see the family resemblance, of course your much prettier" She teases
"Mrs Rains has gotten to know all the guys on the team, especially Josh, Zay and I but I'm definitely her favorite" Lucas smirks
Mrs Rains rolls her eyes "You wish, okay so what can I get you kids"
Mrs Rains takes their order and then leaves the two teens by themselves
"She seems nice"
"Yeah she's great" Lucas agrees
"So you come here a lot?" she asks
"Yeah the team likes to come after a game, But Josh Zay and I come here a lot more often thats why Mrs Rain knows us very well." he explains. "You see that sign hanging over there" he pointed to a sign that read NY PIE that was half coming down and had a crack.
"Yeah what happened to it" Riley asks staring at the sign
"Zay happened" Lucas chuckles. "We were here after practice one night and Zay and Josh were goofing around and trying to jump and touch the ceiling and Zay took a running start and somehow managed to hit the sign nearly knock the whole thing and landing on a table"
Riley laughs just imagining the scene "Wow"
Lucas nods "Yeah Mrs Rain was not happy, but she ended up keeping it like that, says it gave it character"
"It really does" Riley giggles as she looks around the parlor taking everything in. Lucas takes this chance to just admire the girl and how beautiful she was.
"Luke!"
They turn to see a tall dark haired guy walking towards them
"hey, Nathan, hows it going" Lucas says as the boys fist bump
"pretty good just helping out my mom while I wait for Avery" he explains
"oh yeah, hows Avery?" he asks
"she's great thanks, she was just asking about you"
Nathan finally acknowledged the girl sitting with his friend
"Hi im Nathan" he sticks his hand out
"Hello" Riley smiles and shakes his hand
At that moment the door jungles and in enters a cute blonde girl who walks over to the 3 teens.
"Hey babe" Nathan greets the girl with a hug and quick peck on the lips.
"hey" she smiles and turns to look at the other two teens and smiles brightly when she sees the blonde boy.
"Lucas!" she greets and rushes to give him a hug
"Hey Avery" Lucas chuckes as he hugs the girl back
"I haven't seen you in forever, where have you been" she says as she pulls away and play punches him on the shoulder.
Lucas chuckles "yeah sorry I've been busy with school and football" he explains.
Avery looks over and notices Riley "Hi I'm Avery" she greets
"Riley" she smiles
"oh right!" Lucas says realizing he was being rude leaving Riley out of the conversation. "Riley, This is Avery Nate's girlfriend" he explains
"Nice to meet you" Avery says smilig at the brunette .
Avery turns between the two, "wait are you guys on a date, oh my gosh are we interrupting?" she quickly asks
Lucas laughs "Avery this is my friend Riley" he introduces her
"aww boo I thought you had finally settled down" she pouted
Nate laughs "I think we've embarressed Luke long enough babe, we've better get going " he says as he grabs Avery's hand "we'll see you later Luke, nice meeting you Riley"
"You too" Riley says politetly
"Bye you guys" Avery waves as her and Nate head out the front door.
Lucas chuckes "Sorry about my friends they can be kind of blunt sometimes"
"I thought they were very nice" Riley tells him
"Yeah they're great, I've known Nate since the guys and I started coming here, Nathan is actually Mrs Rain's son" he explains
"Must be nice having a hangout for you and your friends"
"Do you and your friends have a place you go to?" Lucas asks
"Not really, I guess Topanga's is our our hangout, we spend a lot of time there" Riley shrugs
At that moment their pizza arrives
"So how how do you think our scene is coming along?, I think our scene is gonna be the best" Lucas says as he grabs his slice and takes a bite.
"Yeah I guess" Riley says trying to sound enthusiastic but Lucas could tell there were something else.
"You nervous?" Lucas asks
"A little" she admits "I'm not that good at speaking in front of people" she says as she looks down and picks at her slice of pizza.
"You'll do great Riles and you won't be alone I will be right there " Lucas smiles encouraging
"Thanks" Riley smiles at him
"You know what, I'm kinda nervous too." he admits
"You're nervous, I doubt it "
"You know, people think just cause I'm a jock that I'm this confident guy but i get nervous before a game"
"Really?" Riley asks it hard to believe that someone like Lucas would be nervous
"Yeah, I'm a wreck, I get butterflies in my stomach I can't eat or sleep"
"Wow so how do you get rid of the nerves" she asks
"I just remind myself that I'm not alone, I know my teams got my back."
"Wish I had a team?' she jokes
"You may not have a team but you have me. I'll be up there with you so when you get up there ignore everyone else and just keep ypur eyes on me and we'll get through it together" Lucas smiles.
Riley found it hard to believe that a guy this amazing existed. Lucas had such a big heart, everytime he smiled at her she felt like pinching herself to make sure she was not dreaming.
"Thanks again James I had a great time"
They had reached Maya's front door after an amazing time at the mueseum and after dinner which James had insisted on paying and would let Maya pay anything.
"I did too, I hope we can do it again soon" James says smiling
"Yeah totally, well I'll see you at school" she says as she turns to open her door
"Wait Maya" he says as he gently grabs her elbow and stops her from going inside
"Yeah" Maya asks confused.
James is hesitant for a moment as if he is debating on weither he should say it or not
"I lied"
"What?" Maya asks confused "What did you lie about?" Maya asks
James sighs "When you asked me if this was a date I told you I wanted to go as friends that wasn;t the whole truth"
Maya stood there not knowung what to say
"Maya I like you, I've noticed you since the beginning of the year but you never seemed tp notice me but when we got paired up I figured it was my chance to get ypu to notice me and when I asked you to the museum I thought it was a way for us to get to know each other."
"James..I"
"You don't have to say anything I just thought I should be honest...I haven't scared you off have I?"
Maya smikes "Of course not this is just a lot to take in and I need time"
James nods "I understand and take your time but I just hope I haven't ruined our friendship because I really do like hanging out with you"
"I like hanging out with you too" Maya answered honestly.
James smiles "It's getting late I should probaly get going"
Maya nods "ok, i'll see you at school"
James nods "Night Maya"
"Night James"
Maya watches James walk away before finally entering her apartment and heading straight to her room to call Riley.