Girl meets Love

11.

Riley's POV.

Jake and I sat there like an hour and talked about life and stuff. He told me that he moved new from Miami to New york. I told him that I'm a veternarian and forgot all about Lucas. We just laughed the whole time and then he asked me why I cried earlier.

"Well...it's about a boy. My best friend actually. He just...he just makes bad decisions right now and I don't know how to handle them. I never wanted him to get hurted but...curretly he always breaks my heart and..."
I looked at my hands and then to Jake.

"You like him, don't you?"
He smiled I saw his pretty white teeths.
"Yeah you can say that..."
I licked my lips, smiled and looked to to ground.
"Well...I don't have much to say...but all I got to say is...stay strong! And,hey? You just made a new friend you can trust."
He said,putting his arm around me.
I got closer to him and smiled.
"I think I should go now"
I said and stood up and he did too.
"We're friends now? Then I need your number."
He took his phone out and waited for me to tell him my number and I did.

After that I wanted to walk away but he suddenly hugged me.
"Uhm..Jake? Why are you hugging me?"
I asked him confused it was kinda awkward.
"Because I know that you need a hug. Riley, I know we just met but, don't let anyone make you cry again and if someone makes you cry...I'll be there for you. You can count on me."
I don't know why but his whole little speach made me emotional and think again of Lucas and my eyes filled up with tears.

He let me go walked away  looked back and smiled. Now i noticed his dimples. I walked back home with the hope that I wouldn't meet Lucas and thank god I didn't. I entered my house and sat on the couch and within 10 seconds I began to cry. It's the worst when you are crying,suffering,dying inside and you have no one to comfort you. No one. Everything Lucas has said was in my head it was like a broken cd it just kept rolling the same thing. And I couldn't do anything against it.

Lucas' POV.

I walked into my house and stood against the door. I knew Riley was in her apartement,because I heard some noises coming from there but I thought she'd prefere to be alone.

I noticed like 5 minutes later that Farkle was there too and I got suprised.
"What are you doing here?"
I muttered.
"Um...I'm living here?! Hey you seem upset. What happened?"
Of course. Farkle knows me. He knows when I'm upset. I couldn't tell him. Riley was like a sister to him and if he would fimd out what I did to her, he'd kill me. But I had to.

I took a deep breath and sat next to him.
"I said bad things to Riley...that she's a bad person...that she deserves no one and well...I might have said that she's a slut."

Farkle didn't say anything. He was calm but then he stood up what made me automatically stand up too. I didn't except anything but suddenly he punched me in the eye. I held it and gave some awkward noises.

"I deserved that"
I said but he already walked away. I know that he was walking to Riley's house and I followed him after couple of minutes. I wanted to enter her house but the foor was closen so I walked again to my house,grabbed the emergancy keys for her house and opened the door.

I could hear someone crying. It was Riley. And the worst is that I'm the reason. They were in her room and she was listening to sad love songs. I looked into the room, in a way they wouldn't see me and looked away then. Riley had her pajama pants on and a big t-shirt and laid in her bed. Everywhere was a tissue and Farkle was next to her  holding her hand.

They began to speak and I sat down to the floor.

"Riley please stop crying. I'm sure he didn't meant these things like that."
Farkle tried to comfort her but she wasn't convinced.
"What? Are you serious? Of course he meant that! Why would he still not come over and apologize?"

Because I'm scared.

She sniffed. I thought she would stop crying but she just cried more and louder. And that made my heart break. I never could see or hear people crying but Riley is different. When she cries it's like my heart cries too. I wanted to go to her and hug her but I couldn't. I wanted to walk away but then Riley started talking while crying.

"Why am I doing this to myself ,Farkle? This boy treats me like shit. He treats me like he doesn't know me for 10 years. Why am I crying over a guy like him? Why am I hurting myself?!"

She almost started yelling. She was so hurted I never heard Riley like that. I really hurted her. But why did she care so much ? I mean , she would cry and stuff but why would she let herself suffer? Best friends always fight. We faught many times. Why is it this time different?

I looked into the room again. Farkle was still holding her hand but looked onto the floor and Riley expected an answer from him with a asking face. She cried so much but she still looked great.

"Riley...You--"
Farkle started to stutter and Riley smiled. I looked away but still listened.
"Yeah Farkle...I.know why i am doing this to myself. Everybody does it. Why is he so blind? Why does everyone know it except Lucas?"

I was really confused and wanted to know why I'm blind. And then she said the reason...

"Everyone knows it Farkle...I know it...I know why I am letting myself suffer..because I am still in love with Lucas..."

A/n:
1. For those who have watched How I met your Mother,just imagine the hug between Jake and Riley like Barney and Robin's after she told him she would never get kids.

2.And...Lucas FINALLY found out that Riley loves him... How will he react?

3. Can we hit the 3k readers???  I didn't even expect this to get 1k readers but it already got 2.8k readers. IM SO HAPPY AND I LOVE ALL OF YOU.