Icehale: Hey! I'm back with the next chapter and guess what? Riley and Lucas finally meet. It's not the longest of chapters, I know, but there are reasons. As well as citations :) Anyway, disclaimer! Topanga!
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Excerpt from Rosie McGee's Journal
You know, journal, it was a perfectly normal day until I met him today. I was going about with my daily business until he sat on a chair I was going to sit on and told me, quite awfully, I might add, to move and find my own chair to sit in. Now you know I wasn't going to let that one slide, so I argued. And it ended up in the both of us being kicked of Café Hey for the day.
–September 9, 1961
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Riley was having a perfectly normal week until then.
She had a few classes early on that week, but she had Friday and the weekend to take a break and relax. That was exactly what she was doing until she checked the mail.
"You are the sole recipient of everything owned by the late Mr. Merlin Scoggins," Riley murmured, skimming through the letter. Before placing it down, however, Riley reread the letter, her eyes widening as the meaning sunk in.
Her phone started to ring before she started to hyperventilate. Picking it up, she was introduced to a smoothly talking, yet distant man. The conversation went by so quickly that Riley couldn't tell what had happened. But she did understand that they were to meet at 4 tomorrow at her mother's café.
At least it was her home turf, she had relented to herself. But it still wasn't ideal, being forced into a meeting with a stranger.
Riley figured that she'd just have to see what came out of the talk.
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Lucas entered the café to see a fair amount of people around. He noticed a girl seemingly waiting for someone and made his way over to her.
The girl was pretty, but in an ordinary sort of way. She had that optimistic aura to her, one that let all in the vicinity hope for the impossible.
At the sight of him, Riley's eyes widened in shock. He looked exactly like the Merlin in Grandma Rosie's pictures, a resemblance she wasn't expecting to see. After all, Merlin was a kind man, while the person she had spoken to on the phone was cold and rude.
"Riley Matthews?" Lucas asked, an eyebrow raised.
Riley shook herself out of her shock. "Yes, that's me," she said, still a bit startled at the development. "Um, I'm so sorry for staring, but you look exactly like your grandfather, Merlin."
"So I've been told," Lucas replied, a hint of a smirk on his face. "And how exactly would you know that?"
"My grandmother had loads of photographs of the two of them and letters exchanged," she explained.
"How did you find him?" he shot at her. "What did you two talk about?"
"I traced him through the letters and pictures and met with him a couple of weeks ago," Riley said, crossing her arms. "He told me a bunch of stories about Grandma back when they were still together, and I told him stories of her after my mother was born."
"I don't understand how that resulted in you getting a multimillion dollar fortune," Lucas growled, shaking his head in frustration. "He could have given it to anyone in his family, and yet you got it. A strange girl who he only knew for a matter of hours."
"He did say something else," Riley mentioned hesitantly. "He said that I look exactly like my grandma did when she was my age."
Lucas groaned. "That should do it," he grumbled. "A reminder of his first love, of course. His Rosie."
"Excuse me?" Riley asked, tilting her head. "Why is that important?"
Lucas sighed. "Love has always been important to Pappy Joe," he said. "And he always talked about Rosie who was apparently the only person he ever loved in a romantic sense besides my nana."
He paused, shaking his head. "If you're exactly like her, that would definitely have done it," he concluded, shaking his head angrily.
"That's not my fault, is it?" Riley asked. "Look, if you want what he gave me, I'm more than happy to give you all of it. I barely knew the man, after all, and it wouldn't be right for me to take it in place of your family."
"That's all I want," Lucas told her coldly, before standing up and leaving the café as quickly as he had arrived.
Riley sighed. Was this what all Texans were like?
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Icehale: Yup, so not the best of first meetings. But they'll have a couple more over the month that Lucas is still in the city, so there you go! Sorry it wasn't longer but I didn't have anything else to add that wasn't pointless to the plotline. Next week's chapter will most likely be longer, I promise!
Just to let y'all know, I'm starting camp today so I may not update every Monday since I may not be able to write everyday. This'll only be for about a month though, so everything will be back to normal by then.
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