Chapter 11

Riker POV

"Riker, I have to go to the bathroom. This isn't fair."

"Neither is losing your girlfriend after making a stupid mistake!"

"Riker, seriously. Get up, come on!"

"I'm not moving!"

"Riker!"

"No."

"Fine."

Riley stood up, walked over to me, and held onto our rope. She started pulling on it, and I was slowly being pulled over to the bathroom. And I was kind of making this easy for her because she had to go to the bathroom. I wasn't exactly going to try to stop this.

"Riley, stop! I'm getting rug burn!"

"Too bad!"

I had to hold onto the rope too because it felt like my wrist was getting ripped off.

"Riley, wait!"

"What now?"

"My belt loop is caught on the door. Hold on."

"As you said to me, sucks for you."

Riley kept pulling, and my pants came down. Riley had made it to the bathroom, and I was outside in the hallway, pantsless. I realized Shane had been watching this whole thing, and he was trying not to laugh right now. And it probably looked pretty ridiculous to him. Girlfriend pulls boyfriend on floor by rope… Yup. Sounds ridiculous to me too…

Riley came out of the bathroom, and stood there with her hands on her hips, staring down at me.

"That was not funny, Riker."

"Neither was losing you as my girlfriend."

"Are you going to get up so we can go back to my room, or am I going to have to pull you back?"

"I'm not moving, Riley."

"Ugh! You're so stubborn!"

She thinks I'm stubborn? She's the stubborn one!

After a few minutes, Riley had pulled me back to her room. She seemed very tired. But I'd be tired too if I had to pull myself to the bathroom and back. But on the way back, I grabbed my pants, and pulled those back up.

When it got closer to dinnertime, I knew there was no way Riley was going to get me to the kitchen. But I decided to use this against her. I texted Rocky, and he agreed to bring me dinner.

"Riker."

"What?"

"What's going to happen for dinner?"

"I don't know, Riley. How hungry are you?"

"Well considering I've been waiting almost 6 hours since we had lunch, very hungry."

"Hungry enough to agree to be my girlfriend again?"

"No."

A few minutes later, Rocky showed up with my dinner. When Riley saw, she let her head fall to her hands. She was really miserable. But I needed her back as my girlfriend. As much as I wanted to stop doing this, I knew I had to if I ever wanted Riley back. She had to give in sometime, right? Either that, or I was pushing her even further away… All I could do was hope for the best…

"How hungry are you now?"

Riley just glared at me.

"You know I can't pull you all the way to the kitchen! The bathroom is right outside my door, so I only have to pull you a few feet, but there's no way I'll make it to the kitchen! Why are you being so mean?"

"Because I want you back!"

Riley got up and tried pulling me again. But I wasn't making it so easy for her this time. She tried pulling my arms first, but barely made it an inch. Next she tried my feet. My shoe came off, and Riley went flying backwards to the ground. She sat up and looked at me.

"Are you ok?" I asked.

"No! I'm starving to death, and you've got your own personal servant bringing you dinner!"

Riley grabbed my other foot, but the same thing happened, and she ended up on the floor again. Riley sat up and shook her head, laughing.

I smiled. It was nice to see her smiling and even laughing again.

"What?"

"Alright, Riker Lynch. I'm too hungry and this is absolutely ridiculous what you're doing! I'll take you back!"

"Really!?"

"Yes! Now get up so I can go to the kitchen and get something to eat!"

"Wait!"

"Riker Lynch, I'm yours, now get up!"

"Wait!"

"What!?"

I got up, and hugged Riley really tight. It worked! She's mine again!

"Oh my gosh, Riley! You're shaking!"

"Riker, I'm starving! I'm actually a little bit dizzy…"

Riley laid down on the floor. I got down on my knees next to her.

"Riley, you're really pale."

"I don't feel good."

"Can you walk?"

"Riker, I just feel really dizzy. I'm so hungry that I'm not even hungry anymore."

I picked Riley up, and carefully carried her to the kitchen.

"What do you want?" I asked.

"I don't even know," Riley said crying.

I was confused. Why is she crying?

"Riley, what's wrong?"

"I just feel awful! I haven't eaten anything in hours, and I feel sick!"

I got Riley some orange juice because that would start helping her feel better while I found her something for dinner. Riley sat on the floor in the kitchen while I made her something for dinner. She just wanted cereal, and we ended up eating that on the kitchen floor because she still felt dizzy. I could just feel Shane staring at us. We must be the craziest people he's ever had to protect before.

Riley suddenly looked up at me and started laughing.

"What?"

"You're ridiculous!"

"What!?"

"You want me back, so instead of trying something romantic, you lay on the floor and don't move. I don't get it."

"Well it worked, didn't it? Riley, I couldn't do anything romantic like set up a dinner or anything while being attached to you! And I couldn't take you anywhere because your dad doesn't want us to leave. What was I supposed to?"

"This."

Riley leaned in, and we kissed. Riley suddenly pulled away, and looked at me.

"But don't ever make me that mad again!"

"I won't! I swear! Riley, you don't know how scared I was that I seriously lost you! I thought you'd never take me back!"

Riley hugged me.

"Just don't ever do anything like that again. You looked so sad, I wanted to cry, but I was so mad at you!"

"I'm sorry!"

Riley sighed.

"I just want us to stop having fights and stuff. It's making me go a little crazy."

All of a sudden, Riley's front door flew open, and Rocky came running in, out of breath.

"What are you guys doing on the floor?" Rocky asked.

"Just having dinner," I said, as if this were normal.

"You'll never believe what I just found in our bedroom!"

"Oh my god!"