Pretty Please - Riley McDonough Fanfiction

Chapter 8

Avery's POV

I had thought that hanging out with my friends would get me forget certain someone, but no. I was still trying to have fun and laugh with my friends. And I was, before Ellie opened her mouth.

"So Avery, tell us something about your new friend Riley." She smirked.

Sky stiffened next to me. He turned to look at me and I felt his breath on my cheek. "You have a new guy friend I didn't know about?"

Oops. So I may have forgotten to tell Sky about Riley, but in my defense the only reason why I had not told about Riley was because there was nothing to tell. I cleared my throat and realized five pairs of eyes were focused on me. "What? I can't make friends anymore?"

"Yes, you can", Sky nodded, "but do they have to be guys?"

I rolled my eyes. Sometimes I didn't talk to Sky for a couple of days, but when there was a talk of a friend that was a guy he switched to his jealous-mode. "Why is this such a big deal, we're just friends. I have other guy friends." I pointed at Josh sitting across the table.

His lips curved. "If it was up to me, we would be so much more." He winked, but started laughing when Sky reached to hit his arm. "I'm just joking!" Josh laughed. "You take everything too seriously! I wasn't serious." That arrogant smirk of his came back to his face. "Or was I?"

Jerk. I knew Josh was kidding, because if he really wanted to be more than friends with me, he wouldn't have the guts to say it out loud. Not with Sky on my side. Sky was able to get really scary if he wanted to. A lot of girls drooled over him because of his looks, but I knew he was much more than just that.

Ellie interrupted Josh and Sky's fight. "Hey, for real Avery, tell us something. None of us has seen him."

And I'd like to keep it that way. I didn't want to talk about Riley, because every time his name was mentioned, I was feeling all warm and nice inside and it didn't feel right. On the other hand it did feel right and made everything else seem wrong, which scared the hell out of me. I didn't want to tell my friends anything specific so I had to choose my words. "He's nice."

Okay, maybe that was too unspecific.

"Wow, I can almost see him in front of me", Jenny said. She was sitting on Scott's lap. Scott was looking at her and it looked like he saw nothing more than his girlfriend. They had finally gotten together and I couldn't fully decide if it was better or worse this way. Before they had blushed every time either of them glanced the other, but now they seemed to be in their little bubble, ignoring the rest of us.

"Ha ha. What do you want to know?" I sifted on my seat, feeling utterly uncomfortable with this situation.

"Is he hot?" Sky asked.

"Ummm..." Lie or not to lie? "I don't think you want to know."

Sky sighed loudly and started to pout.

"What did you expect?" Ellie asked as she watched Sky's reaction. "Riley is a hot guy's name."

"Is it? I promise there's an ugly Riley somewhere." I felt sorry for Sky, but I didn't fully understand him. He was friends with Ellie and Jenny, why couldn't I be friends with Riley?

After a while Sky drove me home. He killed the engine in front of my house and faced me. We had just spent the whole drive sitting in the car in silence.

He was the first to speak. "I'm sorry. I overreacted."

I nodded. It was my fault. I should've never told Ellie about Riley. She had made it sound like a big deal because her obsessions. I made myself a promise not to tell her anything that could have anything to do with her bands.

He reached out and cupped my face. He saw the look on my face and realized I was not mad. He placed a kiss to my lips. "Good night."

I smiled against his lips. It was good that Sky had passed his weird face and started to act like he had used to. I jumped out of the car and I waved him 'good bye'. As I watched him driving away I smiled by myself. Even though I felt more comfortable when I was alone, I was happy I had gone and been with my friends. I was happy that Sky was protective, it felt like he cared. I knew he did, but it was nice to get a reminder of it.

Even when I went to sleep with Sky in my mind, those hazel eyes came to my sleep.