Senior Year-Rucas

Right Shoes.

Chapter 34

"Riley, please come tomorrow." Maya was on Riley's bed practicing fishtail braiding on her long brown hair.

"And watch Lucas dance with Missy? No thank you. You know she'll rub it in my face and i'm one comment away from punching her in that fake nose!" The girls giggled.

"First of all you'd never, you just like scaring her. Secondly, you look drop dead gorgeous in that dress, you would literally take his breath away." The brunette lowered her head and grinned.

"Thank you." The blonde could tell she was bothered by something, but before she had a chance to ask Riley's phone rang.

Hey beautiful.
Hey Lucas.
Sorry to bother your girls night, you just didn't text me back earlier and I wanted to make sure you were okay.
I'm as okay as I can be.
Thank you for the spray.
No problem. Is it working?
Oh yeah, a little too well. Makes me miss you more.
I don't know what to say to that.
You miss me too. That'd work for me.
I can't tell you that.
Why not? I know you do.
Lucas, if I keep telling you all the stuff you want to hear it will only hurt you in the long run.
In the long run, you and I will be together. So, nothing you can say will hurt me.
How are you so sure?
Because, you and I were meant to be together. We were meant to tame each other. Come on, out of all the cities in Texas I move to Burleson, that's not coincidence.
Lucky.
Fate. It might take days, months or even years but what's meant to be will always find a way. Sweet dreams baby girl.

Riley hung up the phone and exhaled. "I felt like I was holding my breath that entire conversation."

"You were, your pretty face was turning blue." The brown eyed girl glanced towards the ground, trying to hide sadness. "You have to go to the dance!"

"Why? Why do I have to go?" Riley rotated her body and looked into her beautiful blue eyes.

"Because you aren't happy. If you were mad at him and angry i'd understand. But, you aren't you're sad, he's still one of your best friends and you're still in love with him."

"Of course I am, it hasn't even been a full week since we broke up." Maya chuckled.

"Don't be dense. You're still in love with him because you want to be, yes it takes awhile to fall out of love, but let's be honest, you aren't even trying. Which tells me one thing."

Riley clenched her jaw and broke eye contact. "Please tell me something I don't already know peaches."

"You want to be with him still. There isn't anything wrong with that."

"There's nothing wrong with that?" Riley stood up and glanced down at her best friend. "He kissed someone else Maya! Everything is wrong when I want to be with someone who cheated on me!" The blonde stood up and even though she was several inches shorter, she somehow intimidated Riley.

"Riles, don't be idiotic. You love him, I would still be with Josh if he kissed someone else in a drunken stupor and immediately regretted it. But, for giggles let's just say I did break up with Josh, if he did half the stuff Lucas has for you I would run back to him and be smiling in his arms. By the way a stolen kiss does not constitute as cheating."

"I'm not going to put myself back in a relationship that's hurting me, it isn't worth it and quite frankly you've never been in one so you don't understand!" They were starting to raise their voices.

"This isn't you and Charlie. This is you and Lucas. But, you're right, I have no idea what it's like to be in a bad relationship." The blonde put up her hands in surrender. "But, can you name one other time in the 2 months that you and Lucas dated that was 'bad'? Don't even reply, because the answer is no, I've never seen you happier. You're relationship with him wasn't toxic." Riley didn't say anything. "Exactly my point! So, give me another reason that you don't want to be with him."