dear riley → rucas

o5.

Hey babes so I'm in India rn which means I have a lot more free time so you can expect mostly daily updates until the 24th-ish bc I get back to the land of the free then.
Riley
"Riley Matthews, Farkle Minkus, get in here right now!"

Shit.

We roll out of bed and slowly walk into the kitchen

"Hi mom" I say timidly, "what are you doing home so early?"

"I'm decided I would finish work at home. The real question is, what are you two doing home? I let you drive to school on your own because I trust you and you decide to skip school for literally no reason? I'm so disappointed in you, both of you get to school now" my mom yells. We walk out the door without another word.

As soon as we get to school Farkle and I bolt to my fathers class because being late to that would make this situation 10x worse. The halls are practically empty which tells me that the late bell is going to ring any minute now. We make it to my fathers room just in time and he starts droning on about Pompeii or something. I stare at the seat next to me, Lucas used to sit there. I remember we would pass notes in class and always get yelled at for talking.

Oh yeah, Lucas wrote me a letter. I saw it with the mail that my mom brought in and grabbed it before we left. I pull it out of my bag and scan it over. I find my self laughing at Lucas's letter, he thinks I kissed this guy for a few minutes before pushing him off? I grab a new sheet of paper from my bag and begin writing

Dear Lucas
I pushed him off immediately, you know I would never do anything to jeopardize us. Yes, he was in my room, my dad wanted us to hang out in there. And yes, he was a MUCH better kisser than you. I don't think I could ever kiss you again after kissing an expert like him. Just kidding (obviously) he wasn't as good as you at all, I miss kissing you very much. Please visit me soon, Lucas, I miss you. Anyways, today me and Farkle tried to skip school, that however did not work out. My mom came home and saw my car on the street and realized that I wasn't at school. I am currently in my dads class, and he thinks I'm taking notes. I think he's talking about Pompeii or something but I don't really know. Oh he noticed I'm not taking notes, I have to go now babe. I miss you

Love Riley

P.S I think I'm getting my phone fixed soon so we can start writing letters for fun again instead of it being our only source of communication.

Lucas
"Okay everyone, today we have a new student, this is Lucas Friar and he is from New York" my new teacher says. I wave at the class awkwardly.

"Lucas why don't you tell us about yourself" the teacher says. I always felt bad for the new kid who had to tell the class 3 facts or something like that. Me. Matthews just said my name, I didn't have to say anything.

"Um I'm Lucas, I lived here in 6th grade so some of you might remember me. I'm from New York City, and uh I play baseball and football" I say before taking a seat in between my old friend Dylan and a girl with brown hair who keeps smiling at me. I smile back, after all you don't want to be rude to new people.

I pull a new notebook out of my bag and begin to take notes on whatever the teachers saying. You know what's funny? The girl next to me looks a lot like Riles. Riles and I used to sit next to each other in her dads class. We used to see each other every single day, I talked to my mom about visiting her and she said I might be able to go in two weeks. Our agreement for this move was that I could go up once a month. I wonder what Riley's doing right now. She has her dads class second period so she's probably learning a valuable lesson about whatever's going on in her life right now.

Why is the girl next to me sliding a piece of paper on my desk? Oh, it's a note

Hi, you're really cute. I'm Sarah, we should go out sometime.

Oh.