p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"I hope you all enjoy! This chapter is less heavy./p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"As Lucas was walking home from school, he walked alone, and he thought long and hard about what a bad summer Riley must be having. He can't believe that she didn't come to him, but who can blame her. He did cheat on her with Alison and lied to Riley until he was caught half naked in bed with Alison./span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"His Fitbit kept going off, showing him that Alison was calling. He didn't want to talk to her at the moment, because he had no idea what to say to her about this issue. /span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"He went back to thinking about Riley, and he thought about how he used to be a safe zone for her, but yet today as he tried to ask her questions she sounded panicked, nervous and she was shaking. In his head, a part of him wanted nothing more than to grab a hold of her, and embrace her in his strong arms until she quit shaking. She had a reason to be nervous, but as he thought more about it, probably the touch of any guy could cause her to panic./span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"He decided he wanted to go and check on her, so he made a b-line for her apartment, climbing up the fire escape with ease, and looking into her bay window. /span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"Riley was taking a nap on her bed, but she looked restless. Her left hand was resting on her swollen belly. He decided that it would be best to leave her alone, and let her sleep, so he made his way back home, anxiously waiting to apologize to her tomorrow./span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"The next morning Lucas watched Riley's locker but no one ever came by and touched it. He watched it after school as well, and still no one came by and touched it. No one had touched it all week. Not even Mr. Matthews. Lucas was also realizing that he had not seen Maya at all this school year. He began trying to hunt down Maya, but that did not work./span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"He sat down in his next class, creative writing, with Harper. He pulled out his phone and texted Maya. /span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"L: Maya, is Riley okay?/span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"No response. He waited a few hours, going in-between classes, unable to focus before he looked at his phone again to see that it had been blown up with several texts messages from Maya./span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"M: How dare you ask how Riley is! You didn't care about her over the summer and the only reason you care about her now is because of your name sake! /span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"M: I don't know what any of us ever saw in you!/span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"M: If you want to know how Riley is maybe you should try and be a friend instead of an ass./span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"M: Because of you she keeps having panic attacks, and has been in the hospital! You sent her to the hospital Lucas! You bruised her wrist! I ought to bruise something of yours! Maybe whatever you use to f*** Alison with./span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"M: Your girlfriend is a bitch!/span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"The texts stopped there. Lucas began to panic thinking he hurt Riley's wrist bad enough to land her in the hospital./span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"L: What do you mean, she is in the hospital?/span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"Lucas could see his iPhone saying that Maya was typing back. It took five minutes before a response finally came back./span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"M: When you grabbed her wrist it scared her. I'm assuming you know by now what happened to us. I'm fine, but Riley got the worse end of the deal during the attack, and on. She's okay. You didn't break her wrist, but when the panic attacks become too much, to where she can't calm herself down, and her parents or I can't calm her down, she has to be taken into the hospital. Once in there a therapist comes and visits her every couple of hours, and helps talk her through the panic attacks./span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"M: She is in a lot of emotional pain, Lucas. Your guy's breakup may have hurt her, but this has almost killed her emotionally./span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"M: She has been home for a few days, and she will be trying school again on Monday./span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"Lucas let out a sigh of relief but he still couldn't help but feel guilty for being aggressive with Riley when she needed a soft delicate hand. At lunch Lucas, pulled out his phone and called a flower company sending a bunch of sun flowers to Riley's house with a card attached saying "I am so sorry! Please forgive me! Lucas"/span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"Thanks for reading!/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"As Lucas was walking home from school, he walked alone, and he thought long and hard about what a bad summer Riley must be having. He can't believe that she didn't come to him, but who can blame her. He did cheat on her with Alison and lied to Riley until he was caught half naked in bed with Alison./span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"His Fitbit kept going off, showing him that Alison was calling. He didn't want to talk to her at the moment, because he had no idea what to say to her about this issue. /span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"He went back to thinking about Riley, and he thought about how he used to be a safe zone for her, but yet today as he tried to ask her questions she sounded panicked, nervous and she was shaking. In his head, a part of him wanted nothing more than to grab a hold of her, and embrace her in his strong arms until she quit shaking. She had a reason to be nervous, but as he thought more about it, probably the touch of any guy could cause her to panic./span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"He decided he wanted to go and check on her, so he made a b-line for her apartment, climbing up the fire escape with ease, and looking into her bay window. /span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"Riley was taking a nap on her bed, but she looked restless. Her left hand was resting on her swollen belly. He decided that it would be best to leave her alone, and let her sleep, so he made his way back home, anxiously waiting to apologize to her tomorrow./span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"The next morning Lucas watched Riley's locker but no one ever came by and touched it. He watched it after school as well, and still no one came by and touched it. No one had touched it all week. Not even Mr. Matthews. Lucas was also realizing that he had not seen Maya at all this school year. He began trying to hunt down Maya, but that did not work./span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"He sat down in his next class, creative writing, with Harper. He pulled out his phone and texted Maya. /span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"L: Maya, is Riley okay?/span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"No response. He waited a few hours, going in-between classes, unable to focus before he looked at his phone again to see that it had been blown up with several texts messages from Maya./span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"M: How dare you ask how Riley is! You didn't care about her over the summer and the only reason you care about her now is because of your name sake! /span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"M: I don't know what any of us ever saw in you!/span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"M: If you want to know how Riley is maybe you should try and be a friend instead of an ass./span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"M: Because of you she keeps having panic attacks, and has been in the hospital! You sent her to the hospital Lucas! You bruised her wrist! I ought to bruise something of yours! Maybe whatever you use to f*** Alison with./span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"M: Your girlfriend is a bitch!/span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"The texts stopped there. Lucas began to panic thinking he hurt Riley's wrist bad enough to land her in the hospital./span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"L: What do you mean, she is in the hospital?/span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"Lucas could see his iPhone saying that Maya was typing back. It took five minutes before a response finally came back./span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"M: When you grabbed her wrist it scared her. I'm assuming you know by now what happened to us. I'm fine, but Riley got the worse end of the deal during the attack, and on. She's okay. You didn't break her wrist, but when the panic attacks become too much, to where she can't calm herself down, and her parents or I can't calm her down, she has to be taken into the hospital. Once in there a therapist comes and visits her every couple of hours, and helps talk her through the panic attacks./span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"M: She is in a lot of emotional pain, Lucas. Your guy's breakup may have hurt her, but this has almost killed her emotionally./span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"M: She has been home for a few days, and she will be trying school again on Monday./span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"strongspan style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%;"Lucas let out a sigh of relief but he still couldn't help but feel guilty for being aggressive with Riley when she needed a soft delicate hand. At lunch Lucas, pulled out his phone and called a flower company sending a bunch of sun flowers to Riley's house with a card attached saying "I am so sorry! Please forgive me! Lucas"/span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"Thanks for reading!/p