Anything You Want: The Ultimate Riker Lynch Love Story

by Mayzing

Iris Acker became best friends with the Lynches when she moved to Littleton. Riker was the one she was closest with. So two years later, when they move to California, it breaks her heart. But R5 getting famous could possibly reconnect their friendship and lead to feelings that they had left behind in their childhood. Written by R5inmysoul

6. This I Promise You

Littleton Colorado, May 30th 2005

Saturday, 3:00 a.m.

Iris's P.O.V

I woke up with a jolt at around three in the morning. Tears where streaming down my face from the nightmare I had. I was breathing heavily. I didn't realize Riker spent the night until I felt the bed dip a little and a pair of arms wrap around me.

"Sshh" He whispered as he stroked my hair.

"I'm fine. Just a really bad nightmare." I said wiping away my tears.

"Do you wanna talk about it?" He asked gently.

I nodded. "It was about Amanda, it was the night I found out she died. Everyone and everything around me kept disappearing. I was all alone. Just like how I was alone at school and everywhere else. It feels like I've always been alone." I finished with a shaky sigh.

He kissed my cheek and said, "Your not alone anymore. I'll never leave you alone."

I put my arms around his waist and pulled him closer so I could rest my head on his shoulder. I scooted over on the bed so he could fit onto it and we lay down. My back was up against his chest and his arm was around my waist and holding my hand. I flipped around so I could see his face and kissed his nose. "Thank you." I whispered.

He wiped the hair off my face. "For what?"

I smiled and said, "For always being there."

He smiled back and kissed my forehead before wrapping both his arms around me and pulled me close. "Goodnight Iris." He said as he closed his eyes.

"Night Riker." When his breathing evened out and he looked asleep I whispered, "I love you too..."

April's POV

I walked into Iris's room at eight thirty to see what they both wanted for breakfast. But when I opened the door what I saw was completely heart melting. Riker had one arm around her waist while the other one was tangled in her hair. Her head was snuggled into his neck and they were holding hands. I silently ran back to our room and woke up Martin while I got the video camera.

"What's going on?" He mumbled voice deep from sleep.

"Come with me. This is the cutest thing ever!" I squealed before basically pulling him out of bed. He fumbled up the stairs and I turned on the video camera doing a quick introduction, "This is the cutest thing ever! " I made Martin hold the camera and motioned for him to be quiet as I opened the door.

Martin made an "awe!" sound as we walked to the side of the bed. Riker woke up and started rubbing his eyes.

"What's going on?" He mumbled.

I bent down and kissed his forehead saying, "Nothing. Just go back to sleep." He yawned and snuggled back into the blankets re-joining Iris' hand with his. I pulled the blankets up to their chest and smiled. We walked out of the room and stopped the video.

Martin looked at me and said, "He definitely loves her."

I nodded and said, "He told me he did last night. Just in a bunch of different ways all at once. He said he needed to figure out what ways they were."

He looked thoughtful for a moment and said, "He's a good kid, smart and mature. He's good for her." I nodded and went into the kitchen to start making breakfast. I figured they'd be up in about half an hour anyway.

Riker's POV

I never really fell back asleep after they came in. I watched Iris fast asleep for a good thirty minutes before she started moving. Her eyes fluttered open and I quickly closed my eyes to look like I was sleeping and not staring at her.

"Faker." She yawned while I did a fake snore. She started laughing and pushed me off the bed.

"Ow! What was that for?" I said rubbing my head.

"I don't know. Just felt like it I guess. What do you wanna do today?" She asked.

"I don't know. Do you just wanna go swimming and hang around the house?"

She nodded and slipped out of her bed walking into her bathroom. While she was in there I re-made the little trundle bed and pushed it back in. She was still in the bathroom so I did what any good friend would do while the other wasn't looking. I snooped through her stuff, it was nothing interesting. But I found a green scrapbook with white polka dots on it. There was a picture of what looked like a young Iris and a girl with red curly hair and green eyes. Underneath it said," Iris and Amanda." I opened it up and started looking through it. There were a lot of funny looking pictures in it. Iris came out of the bathroom and saw what I was looking at. She was wearing her bathing suit from last night with the shorts and tank top over it. She smiled and put her hair up in a ponytail before coming over to sit next to me and look through it. She was pointing at random pictures and telling me what they were when we got to the last page. I looked over it and saw a picture of Iris and Amanda on a swing set. Amanda was pushing her on the swing while Iris was laughing.

She smiled and said, "That's the last picture we took together." She then took out Amanda's funeral program and flipped through it. "She would have liked you." She said before getting back up and sitting it back on her desk.

We walked downstairs and there were two plates with eggs, bacon, and toast on it. We started eating and after we were done walked back to my house.

Iris' POV

After eating we ran back to his house. While he was in his room getting changed, I went into Rydel's room. She was sitting on her bed listening to some music on her portable CD player. She saw me come in and motioned for me to sit down. She took out her headphones and sighed.

"What's wrong Delly?"

She looked at me and shrugged. "Nothing. We're all just dying of sexual tension that seems to be coming from you and Riker."

I choked on my own spit and flung myself back on the bed, because I was laughing so hard. After Rydel and I calmed down enough to breathe again I sat up and said, "Yeah right. The day he likes me is the day the world ends."

She gave me an 'are you kidding me?' look and said, "Well you obviously didn't see him staring at you all last night. And when you came out in your black dress, I thought he was going to have a heart attack from his heart stopping too long. Nice dance moves by the way. That definitely didn't help."

I chuckled and did a fake bow, "Well thank you! I've been told I could dance before. And how do you know he likes me? It's clearly just speculation. I'm nothing special."

She looked surprised and said, "Are you kidding me? Your gorgeous Rissy! You can sing, dance, skateboard, play just about every instrument there is, wrestle, your hilarious, and our absolute best friend! Tell me, how could anybody not like that?"

I just nodded and said, "I am really awesome, aren't I?"

She jumped up from her bed and said, "There's the Rissy we know and love!"

I just laughed. "Okay! Go get your suit on, I wanna throw you in the pool!" She ran into her bathroom and in two seconds flat was out with an extra towel she threw to me before running downstairs.

We ran at full speed outside, barely dropping our towels on a chair before cannon balling into the water. Rocky, Ross and Riker were outside already and gave us fake scores. We all decided to have Stormie come out and she could judge us while we did tricks into the pool. Ross ran inside and came back a few seconds later with her in tow. She had the video camera out and sat on the chair while we did tricks. Ross went first and did a little flip, then Rydel did a cannon ball, they each got 7's. Rocky went next and did a weird backwards flip into the pool, which got him a 9. Riker went and did a front wards flip with a twist and got him a 10. I was next so I started running and did a backhand spring into the pool with a twist before I hit the water. I swam around under water for a minute before coming back up. Everyone was clapping and Stormie gave me a 10 and a half.

"What? But it only goes to ten!" Riker yelled.

"That's only if you do a trick that's worth a ten!" I shouted back.

We swam for two more hours then got out and toweled off. The others went inside to watch a movie while Riker and I decided to go to the park. I ran home and changed into some khaki shorts that went to my knees, a plain white t-shirt that had a pink and purple sparkly pattern on it, and my black converse. The park was only five minutes from our houses so I grabbed my board and met Riker in the middle of the sidewalk. We went to the park and walked around until we found the play area. I saw an open swing and immediately ran to it. Riker caught up to me just as I was sitting down and started laughing.

"What? I don't care how old I get, when I see an open swing I run to it." I said. He started laughing again and went behind me to push me.

After a couple minutes he said, "Your just really cute when you get excited."

I looked back at him and started laughing. When it was his turn he came around in front of me and grabbed my legs to stop. Our faces were inches apart and I noticed him look down at my lips for a second then back up into my eyes. When he stares at me he doesn't stare at me, he stares through me. His usually brown eyes flickered with specks of gold and green and I could've gotten lost in them. I finally stood up and offered him the swing. He blushed and sat down. He grabbed onto the chains with his hands and I grabbed onto his hips to push him. After I got him up high enough, I ran away, purposely in front of him so he could see me.

"Hey wait!" I heard him yell. I quickly started running until I heard soft music playing. I walked to the other side of the playground and saw a little platform with string lights around the bottom and couples were slow dancing to whatever song was playing. I heard Riker run up behind me and put his hand on the small of my back. He looked over and saw what I was staring at.

"Oh yeah! One day out of the year we have this dance thing for couples at the park."

I nodded and smiled when "This I Promise You" By NSYNC came on, it's one of my favorites. I felt Riker move his hand from my back to hold onto mine and pulled me out onto the dance floor. Many couples smiled sweetly at us and quietly 'awed'. I blushed and looked down onto the ground. Have my shoes always been this interesting?

Riker's POV

I saw how her eyes lit up when this song came on. The soft string lights from the stage lit up her face and reflected into her eyes. I hesitated for a moment then grabbed her hand and led her out onto the dance floor. I smiled when the other older couples started awing. She blushed and looked down. I had one arm around her back and my other hand was clasped gently in hers. I looked up for a moment and saw an elderly couple look and smile at us. The old man winked at me and suddenly my cheeks turned red as well. She finally looked up into my eyes and that's the absolute moment I knew. I loved her. I loved her with all my heart and soul and nothing was ever going to change that. It's only been two months since I've known her and we've become such good friends. What if she didn't like me back like that? I looked to the side for a minute and I could've sworn I saw a flash of long blonde hair and part of a tutu. I just brushed it off and continued dancing.

Rydel's POV

Where are they? They said they'd only be gone for half an hour and it's been two already! The sun was starting to set so Rocky and I slipped out of the house to go find them. We knew they would be at the park and walked around for a good ten minutes until I abruptly stopped with a silent gasp. Rocky ran into the back of me and stumbled back a few steps.

"Hey! What gives?" He said.

I covered his mouth with my hand and we dived underneath a play set and ducked down. "Sshh! Now, when I take my hand off of your mouth, I want you to quietly look through the peep holes onto the couples dance floor and tell me what you see."

He nodded and I took my hand off of his mouth. He silently crawled over and peeped through the little holes. "Well, I see one elderly couple dancing, some twenty year old couple kissing, Riker and Iris slow dancing..." His eyes got wide and slumped down onto the ground. I raised my eyebrows at him and suddenly he whispered, "Oh my god. They were slow dancing! They...they,"

I rolled my eyes at him and whisper-screamed, "They love each other doof!" I crawled over to see what was happening. The way they were looking at each other was breathtaking! I looked over at Rocky and said, "Run home and get the video camera! I'm going to climb up top to get a better view! Try not to be seen!"

He nodded and took off. I very carefully climbed out and made my way around to the ladder. I quickly climbed up and army crawled to the little telescope look out thing. I peeped through and looked at Riker. There was a small smile playing on the corner of his lips and his eyes seemed lit up yet dim at the same time. To put into words how he looked I would say: love dazed. I saw Rocky climb up the ladder with the video camera and motioned for him to hurry. He army crawled over and handed me the camera. I flipped it on and pressed, "record".

I then cleared my throat and said, "What your about to see is so sweet you might need to go to the dentist afterwards." I then sat onto my knees and got a clear shot of them slow dancing. They were looking at each other with such intensity I could feel it from where Rocky and I were sitting. I stopped recording and let out a sigh.

"He looked like he could jump over rainbows and quite frankly, it made me wanna barf up rainbows." Rocky deadpanned.

I looked over at him and said, "I'm now making it my mission to get them together."

"How are ya gonna do that?" Rocky asked with a confused expression on his face.

"I don't know. But it's so completely obvious that they love each other." I said.

"Then how come they don't just tell each other?"

I smiled and said, "One of three reasons my dear Rocky. 1: They are just oblivious to the other's feelings. 2: They're both too stubborn to actually admit that they like each other. Or 3: They know they love each other but just don't want to risk their wonderful friendship."

Rocky smirked and said, "Well if it's one of those three then I wish you luck."

I smirked back and said, "Yeah, well I just chose you to help so C'mon!" I said grabbing his hand and walking over to the little stage. We were just far away enough so that they won't see us. I walked up to the DJ. "Excuse me sir, but would you mind helping a hopelessly oblivious yet totally in love couple make their feelings known tonight?"

He looked contemplative for a minute then said, "Well, it is couples night. Which couple and what do you need me to do?"

I smiled and whispered into the man's ear.

Iris' POV

We were slow dancing when the music slowly faded a bit. Then a smooth, jazzy like voice filtered through the speakers saying, "Alright ladies and gentlemen, we're gonna do something different this year. If the spot light hits you, fellas, pull your ladies close and give her a nice kiss."

I stiffened immediately. I looked up at Riker and he seemed to be nervous too. I cleared my throat and said, "Uh, what are the chances of that spot light hitting us?" Just as the sentence left my mouth a blinding spotlight erupted onto both of our faces.

"I'd say a pretty good chance." Riker said.

We just stood there and stared at each other. Drowning in the awkwardness. Everyone started chanting, "KISS! KISS! KISS! KISS!"

The DJ's voice then filtered through the speaker saying, "Come on man! Don't be scared! Times a wasting go on!" I looked up and Riker's face resembled a tomato right now. What's the worst that could happen?

I looked up and quietly whispered, "Just do it."

His eyes snapped to mine and said "What?"

Riker's POV

Things where getting really embarrassing by this point. Everyone was chanting and the old man was motioning for me to do it. But what would Iris think? That's when I heard it. I heard Iris whisper, "Just do it."

My eyes snapped to hers. "What?"

She looked up at me with small, scared eyes and said, "Just do it. It's not going to change anything. Everyone will stop staring at us."

I nodded slowly. I licked my lips and put a hand on her cheek. I turned my head ever so slightly and slowly brought my face down to hers. Just when my lips were about to touch hers, I saw Rydel. My head snapped up and I looked straight at Rydel and Rocky. They were laughing and high-fiving right next to the DJ booth. I looked down at Iris who had a very confused and slightly disappointed look on her face. I got close to her ear and said, "Rydel and Rocky are over there. They put us up to it." She whipped her head onto that direction and glared at them both. I looked over and notice them both look back over at us. Rydel's eyes widened and a terrified look filled her face.

"They wanna see us kiss. Lets give them a show."

Iris head snapped back to mine and she barely got out a "What?" before I crashed my lips onto hers. I heard everyone around us whoop and cat call. I slightly cracked open one eye and looked over to see Rydel and Rocky with scared and shocked looks on their faces. I smirked into the kiss and put my hand onto her neck to deepen it. Iris seemed to know what I was thinking and put her hands on my chest, slowly rising up until they got to my shoulders and tugged on the hair on the back of my head. We started moving our mouths in sync and we weren't even out of breath. We just kept going until we felt small hands tug us apart. We opened our eyes and sent a secretive smirk to each other. Rydel looked furious and Rocky looked beyond grossed out.

"What do you think you guys are doing? We just wanted you to kiss, not completely suck each other's faces off!" Rydel screeched.

"That was nasty. But somehow entertaining..." Rocky mumbled.

Iris faked a shocked expression and said, "So, you mean to tell us that, you, put us up to kissing?"

Their eyes widened and in two seconds flat they bust out into a run at full speed. We took off after them and cornered them by the big yellow curly slide. I grabbed Rydel's arms and Iris grabbed onto Rocky's. They started screaming, "Let us go!" I looked over to Iris and she signaled to see what was up.

"Not until you tell us why you did it!" I said in a firm and scary voice.

Iris' POV

Rydel's eyes turned towards Rocky's and said, "Well, um, it was a...prank."

I looked down to Rocky and said, "Is that true Rocky? You wanted to prank Riker and I?" I said it in a soft voice, so he wouldn't get scared. He nodded and didn't say anything. I looked over to Riker and he looked furious.

He started yelling. "Why would you guys do something like that! Do you know how embarrassing that was?"

Rydel looked slightly scared but otherwise stayed strong. Rocky had tears pool into his eyes, obviously not use to Riker screaming at him like this. I got down onto one knee and pulled him into a hug. He clutched onto my shoulders and started shaking with silent tears.

I started whispering, "It's ok, Rocky. I forgive you. You don't have to cry."

He calmed down a bit and looked me into the eyes. "I really am sorry Iris. But...but... Rydel made me do it!"

I laughed a little. Typical Rocky. I looked over to Riker and noticed his slightly amused face too. I wiped at Rocky's wet cheeks and gave him a little peck on the cheek. "It's alright sweetheart. Do you wanna go get an ice cream?" He nodded and grabbed my hand. I looked over to Riker and said, "I'm gonna take him to get some ice cream. You finish with Rydel." I sent her a very real looking but totally fake angry expression. She shrunk back into Riker's chest.

Rocky and I walked over to the ice cream cart and I got a strawberry while he got a Rocky Road. I also got another strawberry and a chocolate for Rydel and Riker. I paid the man and led him over to a little bench. I licked some of my ice cream and looked over at Rocky. He had ice cream all over his face and looked absolutely cute. I knew they weren't telling the truth back there, so I decided I'd ask him.

"So, what's the real reason? That's pretty cruel to just be a prank." His eyes widened and he looked over at me with a shocked look on his face. "Hey, I wasn't born yesterday. And I've pulled my fair share of pranks. Nobody would ever go that personal."

He swallowed and said, "Promise you won't tell anybody?" I held out my pinkie and we pinkie promised. "Well, Rydel seems to think that you and Riker, umm. Like each other like that. And started playing matchmaker, she chose me too help. I was totally against it and refused but she threatened death on me..." He added quickly.

I laughed and said, "Rydel, she's way to caring for her own good."

Just then Riker and Rydel walked up and I handed them each their ice cream. They said thanks and we ate it on our way home. Before we walked in the door to the Lynch's house, Rydel turned to us and said, "Please don't tell! They'd absolutely kill me if they found out."

We both nodded and they walked in. Riker decided he wanted to walk me home so I wouldn't go home in the dark. We were walking strangely slow. I then remembered what Rocky said and started laughing.

"What's so funny?" Riker asked.

"Nothing, Rocky just told me why he and Rydel really did that to us."

He looked shocked and said, "Really? Well why? I can't believe he told you! He must really like you."

We were at my door by then and I smiled and said, "He's really a cute kid. Funny too. I feel like he's my brother. And so are Ross and Ryland. Rydel feels like my sister. Being an only child, it's nice to feel like that. And, about why they did that, I think it would be better if you didn't know." I gently kissed his cheek and said, Goodnight."

He looked dazed for a moment then smiled and said, "Goodnight Iris."

I walked into my house and floated upstairs to my bed. I quickly changed into my pajamas and settled into bed, finally allowing myself to think about what has been on my mind. That kiss. Not only was it my first but also it'll probably be my best. It felt like a lightning bolt mixed with electricity shoot up and down my veins. It was the best kiss ever. I thought about Rydel. That smart, little evil, genius. This is what she wanted all along. I'm going to have to thank her one-day. I closed my eyes and went into a deep sleep full of dreams about blonde hair, brown eyes, and NSYNC songs...

Gosh it really has been long hasn't it? Well I got started editing a week ago but I got extremely sick and I'm still quite sick so I'm sorry! Anyone going to the Loud tour? Has anyone been to an R5 concert before? I've gone to three, and I'm going to one on the tour. I've been to the mag mile in Chicago in September, and I went to Madison and Milwaukee on the 3Mtour. I'm also going to the Chicago concert coming up! R5 concerts are the best, I'm telling you! I got an up close personal experience that was amazing! After Milwaukee, my mom parked backstage where their tour bus was and I played R5 songs through the speakers of the car. When the came out, Rydel, Rocky, and Riker came out dancing to the music. Then later Rydel came over to our window, eating baked cheetos, and started talking to us. Then Stormie came over with a girl named Morgan who apparently is Ross's costar in Teen Beach Movie, so we met her. Then Riker came over and I kind of went mute because I was in shock and I honestly like love him. He went over by Stormie and my mom said. "Oh Lora, it's too bad you didn't sit over here!" He heard that and walked over to my side and started talking to my friend and I through our window. It was pretty amazing. I cried after they left … so that was my amazing R5 experience. Do you guys have any?

I'm hoping Lizzie can go to her first R5 concert; she might make it to Ohio! Let's hope she can! So I will upload when I can. Thanks guys!

Oh and thanks for the 'you're an amazing author' comments but I'm just the beta reader. Lizzie (R5inmysoul) is the one who has written this entire amazing story so all credit goes to her! :)

Lots of love!

-Lora & Lizzie