Love Is Always Stronger •Rucas•

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Riley P.O.V.
"Lucas, for the last time you're not staying home any more! You have already missed so many days because of me!"

"But I don't want you to be alone."

"I've already told you that Maya will be here only an hour after you leave. I'll be fine. I promise."

"Ugh. Fine, I'll go."

"Now get up and go before you're late!" I said before giving him a quick kiss.

"I'll miss you!" He said standing at the doorway. Stalling. He's stalling...

"Bye Lucas."

"Okay. Love you!" He said before finally leaving. I mean, its not like I don't like having him here with me, but I don't want him to fail school because of me either.

Maya won't be here for another hour so I still had some time to...you'll never guess! Sit down and do nothing! My favorite thing to do! Not. I could go around on my wheelchair to get food. They can bring it to my room but I want to get up and walk around a bit. Well, roll.

Just so you know, Maya has been visiting everyday as well but she just can't stay for as long because her mom can only bring her 30 minutes before her work shift. Her house is pretty far and she would only go by foot if there was an emergency.

I got up and sat in my wheelchair that was next to my bed. I was a little weak from being in the hospital bed for a while so it was kind of hard to push myself around. But I didn't want any help from anyone. I had to learn how to do this on my own anyways, for going around my house.

I got to the cafeteria and examined all of the food choices. Honestly, there food wasn't too bad. I kind of wish that our school lunch tasted like this, at least then it would be edible. I got my food and went to find a table. It wasn't too hard since it was a hospital not a restaurant and there weren't too many people in here. I was trying to move a chair out of the way so that I could roll my wheelchair in instead, but it wasn't working very well. It must've been obvious that I was struggling because a nice boy came up to me and moved the chair for me.

"Thank you." I said to the nice boy. He was wearing a hospital gown, so I knew he was a patient.

"No problem. Do you mind if I sit here?"

"No its fine. Its not like I have anyone else to talk to anyway." I said while gesturing to the empty table.

He chuckled before introducing himself. "I'm Noah by the way."

"Riley," I said with a smile.

"So how long have you been in here for?" He asked me.

"About 2 weeks. How about you?"

"About a month now. I got hit by a car and fractured my ankle. I also had some breathing issued because I broke one of my ribs and it punctured my lung," he finished before I looked at his foot and realized that he had on a boot.

"Oh wow. I'm so sorry. Well, I was bringing water to my friend Maya and I passed out. I dropped the glass of water before I fell, so I have a couple of cuts here and there but that isn't why I'm still here. I'm here because they had to see why I passed out. They said it was because of my cancer, but I don't know exactly why. I had to stay so that they could remove my tumor and get rid of my cancer."

"Oh I didn't know that you had cancer. I'm sorry."

"You see, the key word in that sentence is 'had'. I don't have it anymore. I'm fine, no need to apologize for something that wasn't your fault anyways."

"Well okay then."

We then ate our food which was kind of cold after talking for a while, bit it was still okay. After we finished he took both of our trays and put them with the other dirty trays on the rack.

"You're a very nice girl Riley. How about for the next couple days you're in here for, you can come here and eat breakfast with me?"

"Yeah, I would like that. But my friend should be here soon so-" he cut me off by pressing his lips to mine. I have to admit, he is a good kisser. But I didn't feel anything like I do with Lucas. LUCAS! I instantly pulled away.

"I'm sorry, I have a boyfriend." I said still in shock from what had just happened.

"Oh my god I'm so sorry, I had no clue."

"Riley?" I heard a families voice call my name.

"Peaches!" I yelled.

She came over to me and pulled me out by my wheelchair and started to walk away.

"Okay let's go back to your room."

"Bye Noah!" I called to him.

"Bye Riley!"

We got to my room and she helped me on my bed before sitting down on the chair next to me.

"What the hell Riley?!?"

"What?"

"May I remind you that you have a boyfriend! You can't just go around kissing other guys!"

"Oh. You saw that. I pulled away and told him that I had a boyfriend though."

"That's good because when you tell Lucas he won't get as mad."

"Maya."

"Riley."

"Peaches."

"You have to tell him Riley."

"Okay. Fine. Can we enjoy the day that we have together now?"

"Yes we can."

I'm not looking forward to telling Lucas. He will no doubt want to break up with me. Who wouldn't want to break up with someone who cheated on them. I hate that word. Cheated. I Riley Mathews cheated on my boyfriend.

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Yay I'm back! I just want to thank srz283 for giving me the idea to start this story up again. I wanted to dedicate this chapter to you, but I don't know how to do that.
I'll let you guys process what just happened for a bit. Please just don't kill me.

~Lola