Blind to my Love

Chapter 6

Chapter 6

The Next Day...

Riker POV

I saw Riley walking down to the beach, and figured she would be there for at least the next 3 hours. After yesterday, I wasn't sure if she was still mad at me or not, so I decided to go see what she was up to. I really liked her, and even though I probably shouldn't even think about asking her out because of the whole Dylan thing, I should at least start doing some things to make it up to her. And even though I didn't exactly do anything wrong, I didn't want her to be mad at me. I didn't know if she even believed me or not. But I was falling more and more in love with her every day. And I just wanted her to be happy.

I walked down to the beach, and found Riley where she was yesterday, sitting on the edge of one of the docks. I walked down, and sat next to her, just like yesterday.

"Hey Riley."

"Hey Riker."

She was upset about something. I could hear it in her voice already.

"What's up?"

"Oh you know, just down here for 3 hours."

"Sorry..."

"You didn't do anything!"

"I know, but I just feel bad."

"Uh... Ok...?"

"So what are you doing for the next 3 hours?"

"Probably sitting on this dock."

"That's it? Isn't that boring?"

"Yup. But I have nowhere else to go. No money to get gas to put in my car, no job to work at, nothing to do, nowhere to be."

"Well do you want to do something with me?"

"Like what?"

"I don't know. We could go somewhere, or we could do something here at the beach. Whatever you want."

"I don't know."

"Well what do you feel like doing?"

"I don't know..."

"Ok, then let's stay here at the beach."

"Ok, and do what?"

"Uh... We could go swimming."

"I don't really feel like it. The water's cold."

"Ok... Uh... We could go kayaking."

"Please, I don't want to have to rescue you too."

"Ok... Uh... We could make a sandcastle."

"A sandcastle? What do you think I am? 5?"

"Riley, what do you want to do then? I've made so many suggestions. If you don't like any of them, then how about you tell me what you really want to do."

"I don't know what I want to do. I want to go home, but I can't."

"Ok, well until you make up your mind, I'm going to build a sandcastle. Feel free to join me."

Riley POV

I followed Riker back to the beach from the docks. I sat in a chair and watched him. He seemed to be uncomfortable. And he didn't really seem to have a plan in mind. He didn't have buckets or anything, so he just kind of started pushing sand up into a big mound with his hands. I could tell he was trying to be proud of it, but it was just a giant mound of sand. It wasn't really something to be that proud of.