This is not what Lucas'd had in mind when he'd accepted Riley's invitation to "family game night". In retrospect, he should've known his nutty teacher well enough to assume he'd flip over their "interloping" or whatever he'd said they were doing.
Mr. Matthews, and then Mrs. Matthews breakdowns weren't the only thing that was making the country boy uncomfortable however. He had to admit it, it was weird seeing Maya in this situation.
For one thing, the girl was very at home at the Mattews', that was plain to see. She joked around with the family, and they treated her like one of their own. Auggie looked up to her, Mr. Matthews adored her, Topanga was so proud of her. He was glad that she had that sort of relationship with somebody, since it was no secret her mom wasn't around much. They definitely didn't have game night at the Hart house, that's for sure.
It was strange seeing her interact with Riley's uncle though. He should've been prepared- the older boy was all the blonde had talked about since she'd seen him at Riley's for Christmas, and again on the "family camping trip" they'd taken with her uncle Shawn. Still, he hadn't accepted her to act so, so silly and childish. She acted, well, she acted like Riley usually does around him, and it looked just as ridiculous when the blonde did it as it does when it was the brunette. Besides that though, there was another problem.
He was jealous, he was man enough to admit. The boy was older, good looking, and apparently very cool. He was mature and he impressed Maya Hart, which was one thing Ol' Ranger Rick certainly didn't do much of, no matter how much all the other girls at school liked him. He was jealous of Josh, and he didn't like seeing Maya, Maya, who was usually so cold towards him and all the other boys at school, who didn't realize half of them, himself included, were totally in love with her, throwing herself at the kid. It just didn't sit right.
And then they'd gone and played the long version of the game. I mean, yeah, sure, he was thrilled Riles was back on good terms with her parents, and he knows their lives have to match up with Mr. Matthews' life lessons from class, but he really, really wanted to get out of there. He'd been shocked when he'd called his mama, because just yelling "MA!" seems disrespectful, to tell her he'd probably be spending the night, and she'd allowed it. He knows she just wants him to be happy here and make friends like the ones he had back in Texas, but goodness, what kind of a woman abandons her son at strangers houses, especially when his crush was throwing himself at the host's uncle? His mama'd let him down on that one, but he'd been too happy to see her to be mad about when he got home. Too tired, too.