Riley

Chapter 24

Peters POV
I feel like an arse...I needed Riley to see and understand my feelings but in the end, I needed up getting slapped...again. She left me. I made her cry, and then she left me here. She may never speak to me again.

But she does play with my emotions. She knows I'm in love with her. Hell, I just thought that. I actually am in love with her. I know she is in love with me too.

I sip my drink, it's very bitter. I down it and request another. I should actually eat something too. I order a steak.

"Sir that'll be about a 20 minute wait."

"Sure that's fine. But I'm starved."

I turn and look for Riley and see that she's actually very close. Her and Daniel are walking back this way. She's trying to pull him in the other direction.

I don't know what she's told him, but he looks pissed. He stalks towards me and I stand. My guess is that he wants to fight.

"What's wrong with Riley?" He nods his head in her direction

She looks fearful. I know it's not for me. She must be fearful for him. She doesn't want us to fight.

"She's in love with me and she doesn't know it yet. Or better yet she won't admit it to herself. " I say.

He looks me up and down. "So if she is in love with you. Why's she here with me instead of you."

I roll my eyes. How dumb can he be. "I just told you. She doesn't want to admit it to herself. So of course she wouldn't something like that to you."

"Daniel, let's just go." She places a hand on his chest.

"No this idiot here made you cry. I don't like seeing you upset Riles." He looks at her

He turns his attention back to me "how dare you make her cry on a night that was supposed to be wonderful for her. If she was with me she wouldn't ever have the need to cry."

Her hand falls from his chest and he takes her hand in his. I eye the connection and meet his eyes.

"First off, she wouldn't date you. Not before she would date me. Second, 'Riles' doesn't know anything about her own feelings apparently. It would take you quite some time to get her to admit her feeling."

"Oh" I add "and before she admits her feelings for you, which I doubt she would ever have seriously, she will play with yours in the process of learning who she wants. And doesn't want." I look him up and down.

"Peter!" Riley gasps

Daniel throws a punch and I catch it in my fist. I twist his wrist and bend it. He bends in pain. And I push him away from me.

He throws another punch and I block it and punch his color bone on the left side. Not hard enough to brake it but heard enough to immobilize his left arm. I push him away and turn into the bar and grab my drink and turn back to face them.

"Fights over." I down my drink and slam the glass back down, putting a crack through the glass.

Riley is trying to calm him down. He glares at me angrily and grinds his teeth together. There are people everywhere and some in the area have turned to see the fight. Riley moves him to a bar stool and I turn around and wait for my steak.

A bartender brings him an ice pack and I smirk to myself. He shouldn't have tried to punch me.

"Your stake. Hey what happened. The other bartenders were telling me that some guy had needed an ice pack because some guy in a button down shirt, you, had hit him. "

"Well the girl I was telling you about. That I want to be here with. She saw my date smack me and came to see what was up. I told her my feelings and called her dumb. Then she cried and went to her date who tried to fight me. Long story short."

"Wow man. She better be worth it."

I glare at him and he raises his hands in defense. "She is. She's sitting next to the dude who needed the ice pack."

He turns his head and his jaw drops.

"Man she's gorgeous. Deffinately worth a fight im or two. I know I'd want to fight anyone who even looked her way of she was my girl."

I laugh "yea man. I'm Peter by the way."

"I'm Jack." He shakes my hand.