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Chapter 4

In math class we always had this question but I never really understood it. It asked how long does the frog take to get over the well if it takes one step forward in the day and two steps back during the night. I never understood this because how could you spend all of that energy and time taking that one step and then just make a mistake and go back two steps. Yeah well, that nightmare is happening to me.

I love Riley Matthews. There I've said it. I've said it to her, to myself and to anyone else who would listen but there is someone else that I'm not looking forward to saying it to, Laurie.

Riley POV

I was getting my hopes up, after I had promised myself I wouldn't, I did.

The sky was a midnight blue, the same colour of halter neck dress and I shivered as I waited for him to come. Prom had just ended moments ago and the aura of the night was still with me. Where is he? Maybe he was still downstairs. I turn away from the breath-taking view and was about to head downstairs when I caught sight of him. Even though I was now dating him, every time I saw him my heart missed another beat. He looked gorgeous but wait, something was wrong. He looked uncomfortable.

'Lucas, what's wro... '

'Riley, I need to talk to you.' He cut me off firmly, looking up at me for the first time since he had come up.

Oh no. A heavy, overwhelming feeling of dread washed over. Nothing good ever came after those words. I was feeling a little sick but I pushed it away. I needed to trust him.

'Riley, I… we need to break up.' He whispered, flinching himself.

I could feel the floor breaking away. Was this happening? The one I had depended on, the one who said we were more than just friends, didn't want me? This was the amazing commitment love was? This was that soulmate who knew you inside and out? The one who pledged they would never leave. 'Mark my words Riley Mathews, this is the last time you hope for any boy named Lucas Friar.' I thought to myself.

I winced, remembering the tears I'd shed that night. But I had changed since then and I guess so had he. I knew that one day he would do something to break my heart but at least for today I wanted to have those flutters inside me and feed my own hole that had only whispered one name; Lucas.

Lucas POV

Ending things with Riley the way I had years ago had been wrong, I knew that. But the fact that I hadn't ended things with Laurie was even worse. She had been a great friend and at times it felt like something definitely more than friendship and unfortunately he had told her. She was gorgeous, empathetic and liked the same things he did.

This was one of those times that fate just didn't like you, making you feel like you had two soulmates. But he had changed. He had grown to realize that yes, he liked Riley and Laurie. But after coming from the veterinarian clinic, he rush home, he drove at his normal pace and then spent half an hour with Lurie before going to bed but with Riley he would rush to get home, yearning to lie next to her until they both fell asleep with her legs on his laps, honestly thinking about it right now, he wished he could actually do it.

But after high school, Riley hadn't been an option he could count on so he turned to Laurie who turned out to be quite distracting, and she was amazing, she would make anyone happy just not him. After he had come to New York, Lucas still visited Laurie who only lived an hour away and he had continued their relationship which had felt wrong at the time but desperate enough to push the guilty feelings away.

As he started the long drive to Laurie's house, he started a monologue in his head because it was going to be pretty hard to explain why he was ending things to the woman who was waiting in her house with a diamond ring on her left hand, given to her by him only 6 months ago.

And that was it! Please let me know if you like it. What going to happen next? Will Lucas really be able to sort himself out of this mess? And a warning that the updates might be a bit slower in the new week, as the month of Ramadan is starting and I also have a few assignments due. Now lets do reviews!

Guest: Hello and thank you again for your wonderful review and as you can tell I did consider your suggestion and I also believe in really testing their relationship to see how strong it is.

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