Author Note: I've had the idea of this in my head for a few days, I've tried a few ways with this, but if finally clicked when I heard this song for the first time in ages.
Also just an FYI, I have a new story that'll I'll start posting on Sunday (2/14/2016) called Let Me Be Your Hero, it's a new Rucas story.
Song Used: Hanging by a Moment- Lifehouse.
Hanging by a Moment
Desperate for changing, starving for truth
I'm closer to where I started, I'm chasing after you
"I'm not your girlfriend Lucas." Riley reminded him as she opened the door of her apartment. Why was that so difficult for him to understand? They were friends again, wasn't that why fate had them run into each other in Las Vegas; give them a chance to discover they both lived in Denver now?
"Come on Riley, you know that you and I will never just be friends." God why was she being so damn stubborn over all of this?
"That still doesn't give you the right to do what you did." She opened her fridge and took out a beer handing one to him and then getting one for her.
He opened the beer watching the sparkle in her eyes, "I was protecting you. Even if I'm not your boyfriend, who I want to be, actually no, that's not what I want to be."
Riley froze, "It's not?"
I'm falling even more in love with you
Letting go of all I've held on to
I'm standing here until you make me move
I'm hanging by a moment here with you
He put the beer down on the counter, stepping towards her, his fingers combing into her hair, "I want to be your husband; I want to spend my life with you Riley. I want us to get married, and find a great house with a nice yard, a place where our kids and Coconut can run around, where if you want to raise bunnies, you can."
Her heart was racing, she could hear it in her ears, and this couldn't be real. She was dreaming. Lucas Friar was not this right now. She didn't know what to say, she knew what she wanted to say, but she couldn't get the words out. Finally something escaped, "You've thought about that kind of stuff?"
"Yes." He kissed her forehead, "Want to hear a secret?"
"Always," she looked up into his green eyes, why was she letting herself to fall again. No wait, she wasn't falling again, that had happened weeks ago in Vegas when he kissed her. If she was honest she was about to let him catch her.
"I've thought about our future since you fell into my lap on the subway, at first it was me wondering if I would see this cute girl again, and then I did, and how I was terrified of becoming friends with you, but you bulldozed your way through the walls I was trying to put up. Even when we've been apart Riles, it's you who was in my mind, my heart."
Forgetting all I'm lacking, completely incomplete
I'll take your invitation, you take all of me now
Riley pulled away from him. She took a sip of her beer, trying to keep her eyes on anything other than him. "We didn't work out the last time Lucas."
"You broke up with me when we went off to college. Were you afraid I was going to find someone new and break your heart?"
She simply nodded, and didn't say anything. Thinking about that afternoon when they were at Grand Central. He was going to Texas; he had to be there first. She gave him a letter, told him to read it on the train, but he didn't wait. He read it right in front of her.
"What did I say then Riley?"
She released a shaky breath, "I love you Riley, I will love you forever, I don't agree with this. We will be together. We've been through too much not to end up together. But if you need time apart, you'll get it."
Lucas put his hands on her shoulders rubbing them gently. "That wasn't all I said, was it?"
She shivered when she felt his breath against her ear, "Fate will bring us back together, and you'll probably fight me on it, but it will."
I'm falling even more in love with you
Letting go of all I've held on to
I'm standing here until you make me move
I'm hanging by a moment here with you
I'm living for the only thing I know
I'm running and not quite sure where to go
And I don't know what I'm diving into
Just hanging by a moment here with you
"I'm scared." She finally confessed. "What if you realize you don't love me?"
His lips kissed the back of her neck, "Riley, I've loved you for years. I first fell in love with you in middle school, and more in high school. I loved you when we were apart, tying to forget you because I thought I had been wrong about fate."
"Until Las Vegas" She tilted her head as she felt his kisses get closer to her ear.
"When you left the club, want to know what I told my cousin?"
"What?"
"You're the girl I'm going to marry."
Her body fluttered with nervous energy.
"You thought that then?"
"I still think that, I believe it with everything in my heart."
There's nothing else to lose, there's nothing else to find
There's nothing in the world that can change my mind
There is nothing else
There is nothing else
There is nothing else
Riley pulled away, trying to clear her head as she sat herself up on the kitchen counter, but all that did was give her a view of him.
"Can you honestly tell me you don't love me?"
Riley looked down, trying to blink back the tears, "You know I can't say that. You know I've been in love with you since that same moment you first fell in love with me."
Lucas smiled, "Say it Riley, you know you want to say it."
"I love you Lucas." She tried to roll her eyes and seem like this was no big deal but she got lost in the feel of his lips on hers.
He held her tightly, feeling her legs wrap around his waist as she deepened the kiss.
"Wait." Riley pulled back as she looked into his eyes, "Are you asking me to be your girlfriend or your wife?"
Desperate for changing, starving for truth
I'm closer to where I started, I'm chasing after you
"Both, whichever you're ready for." His voice was steady, honest.
"I don't know a proposal without a ring?" She smirked, "What will all our old friends think? I can hear Maya now, 'Gosh Huckleberry, you couldn't even have a ring ready?' or Zay, 'That's just impolite, I don't like it' Or Fark—."
He kissed her again, "I will get you a ring, whatever you want, say you'll marry me."
"Yes." She could feel a calm wash over her.
He pulled her off the counter spinning her around her kitchen, "Riley Friar, I like the sound of it."
She made a face, "What, I like the sound of Lucas Matthews."
"We'll figure it out." He set her down before he kissed her again, feeling her body relax against his as her arms wrapped around him.
I'm falling even more in love with you
Letting go of all I've held on to
I'm standing here until you make me move
I'm hanging by a moment here with you
I'm living for the only thing I know
I'm running and not quite sure where to go
And I don't know what I'm diving into
Just hanging by a moment here with you
Riley sighed as they separated from kissing, "I guess since you're my fiancé now you should know something."
"What's that?"
"Every moment we've spent together since Las Vegas, I've been trying so hard not to fall back in love with you. The thing is, I fell back in love with you on the dance floor in Las Vegas, and I'm just now letting you catch me. I've been terrified you would change your mind about how you might feel once you got to know me again."
He kissed her forehead, "Riley, if you didn't scare me about during that Knicks/Nuggets game, nothing was going to scare me away."
She smiled, "Oh really, I'm that bad?"
Lucas laughed, "When you're in that mode, it's a little terrifying; you've made grown men weep. That passion you have for the team just spills out. I love it though, its part of what makes you so special. Just like the way when we're watching something off Netflix, and you try to not sit too close, but you always end up falling asleep in my arms."
"You're just so darn comfortable, and sexy, though I do miss you clean shaven." She kissed along the line of his beard before getting to his lips.
"If you keep talking like that Riley, I'm going to have to take you to bed."
She pulled back, "What better what to celebrate?" She raised an eyebrow as she smiled, giggling as she felt him lift her up off the ground. "Lucas Friar what are you doing?"
"I'm going to make love to you, the way I've been dying to for months." He kissed her before kicking her bedroom door open.
Just hanging by a moment
Just hanging by a moment
I'm hanging by a moment
Just hanging by a moment here with you