Lucas is at his locker when Missy Bradford appraches
"Hey Lucas" she says obviously flirting
"What do you want?" Lucas asks not in the mood to deal with Missy
"aww why so rude?" she asks
"Not in the mood Missy" Lucas says
"Well how about we go out Saturday?"
"Missy I've told you a thousand times I'm not interested"
"You'll be begging for me one day Lucas"
Lucas scoffs "Don't hold your breath"
Missy stomps away and Lucas just rolls his eyes. at that moment Josh approaches laughing as he sees Missy storming off.
"You rejected her again?" Josh asked already knowing the answer
"You would think she would take a hint" Lucas tells him as he leans by his locker waiting for Josh to get his stuff from his locker.
"Why don't you give her a chance?" Josh asks
"I'm not interested" Lucas repeats what he told Missy
"You say that about every girl that comes near you " Josh tells his friend
" I'm not looking for a girl Josh"
"Don't you want to find a girl and have a relationship?" josh asks
"What for so that in a couple of months we wind up hating each other and hurting each other until it becomes a contest to see who can hurt who the most?"
"Lucas come on man not every relationship is like your parents" Josh says
"Whatever man, lets change the subject please?"
Josh knew this was a sensitive subject for his friend and he didn't want to push him
"Sure man, so any plans for the weekend?"
"Nope Mom's going out of town for work, so it's gonna be just me at home" Lucas shrugs
"Well if you want you can come over, we'll probably be helping my brother move but we could use as many hands as we can get" Josh offers hating the idea of his best friend alone in an empty house
"Beats watching tv all day" Lucas chuckle
"Cool we'll head straight to my house after school Friday"
"Sounds good, let's get to class"
They begin to walk to their next class
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The week went by fast and before they knew it it was already Friday afternoon and the boys headed over to the new house where Josh's family was already there moving things.
They arrive to a house with a moving van in front and see Josh's father and who Lucas assumes is Cory loading boxes off the truck.
"It's about time" Cory Matthews teases his brother
"Hey give us a break we had school "Josh teases
Cory hops down from the truck and hugs his brother
"Lucas this is my brother Cory, Cory this is Lucas" Josh introduces them
"Hello Lucas nice to meet you and thank you for helping us" Cory shakes his hand
"Nice to meet you too and I'm happy to help"
A woman who Lucas assumes is Cory's wife Toponga steps out of the house
"Oh hey Josh your here" she hugs her brother in law and then turns to the other boy
"and you must be Lucas nice to meet you"
"You too"
"Uncle Josh!!!" they see a little boy running at Josh
"Auggie!!!" Josh catches him and hugs him and then they turn to Lucas
"Lucas this is Auggie, Auggie this my best friend..aside from you" Josh assures him
"Hi Auggie " he he puts his fist out for the kid to bump it after Auggie turns back to his uncle
"This so cool, we're going to see each other all the time" he says all excited
"You bet buddy, we can go to the movies and ball games." Josh assures his nephew
"Cool" the 6 year old replies. He turns to the blonde "You like basebal?" he asks
Lucas chuckles "of course"
"Cool well you can come with us, we can be friends too" he says excited
"Sounds like a plan" Lucas smiles at the little boy
"Well lets get to work" Cory announces
They begin to take boxes out of the truck. Lucas takes out a box labeled "Riley's books"
"That one goes in Riley's room" Toponga directs him to the last room down the hall.
He enters the room and sees that someone had already started decorating . They had things like flowers and butterflies painted and hanged around purple walls and pictures of what he assumed were friends and family.
He sets the box down and turns to go get more boxes when his body collides another body. He catches the person so they don't fall and comes face to face with a pair of big brown eyes.
"Sorry I wasn't looking where I was going" she says shyly
Lucas realizes that he was staring without saying a word and releases her immediately.
"It's okay" he tells her
"You must be Josh's friend " she says
"Yeah, I'm Lucas"
"Nice to meet you Lucas, I'm Riley " she smiles and they shake hands
Lucas pulls away quickly when he realizes he was holding no too long
"Hey slowpokes hurry up" Josh calls out to them as he passes them to drop off a box in Auggie's room across the hall.
Riley gives Lucas a smile and then turns to go get more boxes.
Lucas is left staring at her as she walks away.
"You okay man?" Josh asks coming up to his friend
Lucas comes out of his daze "Yea i'm fine man, lets get back to work"
They head back to the truck to get more boxes
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Give Love a Try (Rucas)
Random"Love" for him didn't exist It was just a 4 letter word He believed it was impossible that 2 people can fall in"love" and live happily ever after That was until he met her
