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Chapter 34

"Riley, please come tomorrow." Maya was on Riley's bed practicing fishtail braiding on her long brown hair.

"And watch Lucas dance with Missy? No thank you. You know she'll rub it in my face and i'm one comment away from punching her in that fake nose!" The girls giggled.

"First of all you'd never, you just like scaring her. Secondly, you look drop dead gorgeous in that dress, you would literally take his breath away." The brunette lowered her head and grinned.

"Thank you." The blonde could tell she was bothered by something, but before she had a chance to ask Riley's phone rang.

Hey beautiful.
Hey Lucas.
Sorry to bother your girls night, you just didn't text me back earlier and I wanted to make sure you were okay.
I'm as okay as I can be.
Thank you for the spray.
No problem. Is it working?
Oh yeah, a little too well. Makes me miss you more.
I don't know what to say to that.
You miss me too. That'd work for me.
I can't tell you that.
Why not? I know you do.
Lucas, if I keep telling you all the stuff you want to hear it will only hurt you in the long run.
In the long run, you and I will be together. So, nothing you can say will hurt me.
How are you so sure?
Because, you and I were meant to be together. We were meant to tame each other. Come on, out of all the cities in Texas I move to Burleson, that's not coincidence.
Lucky.
Fate. It might take days, months or even years but what's meant to be will always find a way. Sweet dreams baby girl.

Riley hung up the phone and exhaled. "I felt like I was holding my breath that entire conversation."

"You were, your pretty face was turning blue." The brown eyed girl glanced towards the ground, trying to hide sadness. "You have to go to the dance!"

"Why? Why do I have to go?" Riley rotated her body and looked into her beautiful blue eyes.

"Because you aren't happy. If you were mad at him and angry i'd understand. But, you aren't you're sad, he's still one of your best friends and you're still in love with him."

"Of course I am, it hasn't even been a full week since we broke up." Maya chuckled.

"Don't be dense. You're still in love with him because you want to be, yes it takes awhile to fall out of love, but let's be honest, you aren't even trying. Which tells me one thing."

Riley clenched her jaw and broke eye contact. "Please tell me something I don't already know peaches."

"You want to be with him still. There isn't anything wrong with that."

"There's nothing wrong with that?" Riley stood up and glanced down at her best friend. "He kissed someone else Maya! Everything is wrong when I want to be with someone who cheated on me!" The blonde stood up and even though she was several inches shorter, she somehow intimidated Riley.

"Riles, don't be idiotic. You love him, I would still be with Josh if he kissed someone else in a drunken stuper and immediately regretted it. But, for giggles let's just say I did break up with Josh, if he did half the stuff Lucas has for you I would run back to him and be smiling in his arms. By the way a stolen kiss does not constitute as cheating."

"I'm not going to put myself back in a relationship that's hurting me, it isn't worth it and quite frankly you've never been in one so you don't understand!" They were starting to raise their voices.

"This isn't you and Charlie. This is you and Lucas. But, you're right, I have no idea what it's like to be in a bad relationship." The blone put up her hands in surrender. "But, can you name one other time in the 2 months that you and Lucas dated that was 'bad'? Don't even reply, because the answer is no, i've never seen you happier. You're relationship with him wasn't toxic." Riley didn't say anything. "Exactly my point! So, give me another reason that you don't want to be with him."

"I don't trust him."

"Yes you do, or you wouldn't spend so much time with him. Even if you truly didn't trust him, that's earned over time. Do you want to spend the rest of your senior year unhappy?"

The cheerleader's shoulders relaxed. "No."

"No, you don't. So don't be dumb about this." Riley fell face first into her bed.

"So, what does- What do I do now?"

"Let yourself breathe, first of all." The girls giggled and the brunette rolled her face out of the comforter.

"I can't see him dance with the girl he kissed while we were dating." She eventually rolled on her back and her best friend fell beside her. "That's like a punch to the stomach." Maya got a mischevious grin and Riley turned to look at her. "What are you scheming?"

"Do you believe in showing up fashionably late?"

"Like, how late?" The brunette started to smile during her reply.

"Like, in the middle of the King and Queen dance late?" The girls giggled.

"I'm not a show stopper Maya. I can't do that."

"With the right dress, shoes and music you can do anything!" Riley put her hands over her face trying to hide her cheeks. "Leave it to me peaches, we're gonna get you back your man."

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"Good morning sleepy head. Wake up, wake up, wake up!"

"Saturday, no school." He pulled the blankets over his head.

"It's Saturday you're right but it's also 1:00." Taylor chuckled. "I know you're tired both physically and emotionally but as your mother I advise heavily against sleeping this late." She drew the covers off of him. "How are you feeling?"

"Tired." He exhaled and rolled onto his back. Mrs. Friar put her hand on his cheek. "I miss her mom." She heard the pain in her son's voice.

"I know you do sweet heart, if we miss her I can only imagine how you're feeling." Lucas furrowed his brows. "That wasn't comforting was it?" She giggled.

"No, it wasn't. Am I being stupid? To keep fighting for her?" He questioned.

"No it isn't stupid. Do you feel like you're getting anywhere?" She sat on his bed.

"Sometimes yes, and other times no. It's kind of like taking 2 steps forward 1 step back kind of thing."

"Well, you'll get to where you wanna go just slowly. If you can hold out." Lucas pushed himself to a sitting position and scratched his head.

"I can, and will it's her i'm worried about."

"Luke, she doesn't do anything that she doesn't want to do and you know that. Riley wouldn't spend time with you unless she wanted to and if she really wanted you to stop what you were doing she'd ask. Riley is incredibly resilient, give her time she'll come around. She loves you."

"I know she cares about me, she's upset at what I did."

"Which, I will reiterate that i'm very disappointed in you."

"I know momma, don't hurt my heart anymore."

"That's why we didn't ground you, and we said no more drinking." Lucas glanced at his mom. "Is she going tonight?"

"I don't think so. I've asked her like 8 times." His mother laughed. "I'm desperate."

"Well, either way, get up, get moving. You have to be at the dance by 6, you have plenty of time but I figured you might want to see the sun." The running back grabbed his phone and laughed.

"3 messages."

Be at the dance by 5:30, they want pictures of us together for yearbook. He rolled his eyes and went back.

"Riley?" His phone couldn't load the messages fast enough.

You're probably asleep considering it's like 3 o'clock in the morning lol. I just um, well Maya was sleeping and I wanted to talk to someone. So, call me if you're awake.

I'm going to try and get some shut eye, sweet dreams and I hope you have fun at the dance tomorrow or later tonight? I don't know, okay bye.

Lucas chuckled and grabbed one of his many pictures of her off his bedside table. He smiled remembering taking this picture, it was the day after they started dating at school and he was taking pictures of her to put everywhere.

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"Riles, wake up it's like 2 o'clock." Maya pulled the covers off of her.

"Saturday, no school!" Riley pulled them back over her head.

"We have to do our nails."

"4 hours until the dance, plenty of time." The blonde jumped up and down on the bed until the brunette threw a pillow at her. "I'M UP! Unfortunately!"

"Orange Juice and cinnamon rolls." Maya passed her a plate, Riley's jaw dropped and turned to a smile.

"You're a saint!"

"I went over and got my dress, shoes and the makeup for tonight while you were sleeping." Riley took a bite of a cinammon roll.

"I have makeup." Her blue eyes rolled.

"I'm giving you a smoky eye with contouring, the whole nine yards. When I said we're going to take Lucas' breath away, I meant it!" Maya's tone was commanding and it made the brunette giggle.

"Am I sure I wanna do this? Is this the right thing to do?"

"Pretty darn sure it's as right as rain. Besides, the dress you have is too beautiful to keep locked away." Maya hung up her dress and turned towards her friend.

"I was thinking about wearing it to prom, if I didn't wear it tonight."

"Well now we can go shopping for prom dresses." The girls giggled. "So, I figured I could text you when the King and Queen start to dance and when I see the doors open i'll cue the DJ."

"This wouldn't be as romantic if we were doing it in our school gym like originally planned."

"Well, Missy threw a fit. Which works out in your favor tonight. Now, go get in the shower and shave your legs, I felt prickles last night!" Riley giggled and crawled out of bed.

"I hope this works out tonight."

Ding Ding

Good morning beautiful. I'm sorry that I wasn't awake last night.
-It was late, or early? Either way I wasn't expecting you to be awake.
Lol, couldn't sleep?
-I had a lot on my mind.
Wanna talk about it? Maybe after the dance? I can take you for ice cream, or anywhere you wanna go.
-Sure, but let's go to our spot?
You aren't joking are you?
-No? lol
I'll pick you up after the dance. Wow, i'm excited! I'll get out as soon as I can. Riley grinned.
-No rush. The school needs their king.
They need a better queen.
-Lol, even if I didn't drop out I wouldn't have won.
Smackle projected you to win. I talked to her about it when I picked up my tux.
-Well, either way Missy won. No big deal. I'll see you after the dance. I have to help Maya get ready!

"Was that lover boy?"

"Am I that obvious?" Riley put her phone on the charger.

"The drooling was a give away. SHOWER NOW!" Riley closed the bathroom door and started the shower.

"Confidence Riley, be confident with yourself." She hoped that Maya was right. The right dress, shoes, and music could make you feel confident. She'd never had an issue feeling this way before. Why now, on the night she most needed it did Riley feel like she had nothing left to give?

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