Collide ✖️ Rucas

Chapter One

Okay, girls, warm up!" a petite girl called, clapping her hands to get the attention of her dance team. A fast song came through the speakers of the radio and the girls in the room began stretching, pulling at their arms and stretching their legs.

    "Okay, guys, twice around the field!" a tall, blonde-haired boy yelled across the field. His team mates all finished stretching and started jogging around the field, their feet falling into rhythm with each other.

    "Step left, step right!" the girl yelled at her team, so the girls all moving in unison with each other and the music.

    "Keep throwing it! Hit! Hit!" the boy yelled, throwing the ball hard at his comedic partner.

    "Okay, girls, slow it down!" the girl yelled, sweat gathering on her forehead and the girls around her looking hot and sweaty, and their breaths coming out in short, hard pants.

    "Okay, guys! Slow down!" the boy yelled, slowing stopping from running around the field, the boys around him kneeling with their hands on their knees, breathing heavily.

    "Hit the showers!" they both yelled from their separate rooms.

    Riley Matthews took a few deep breaths and wiped her forehead with a towel which had been slung over the back of a chair. Her face was sweaty and a bit red as she turned the CD player onto another one. It was Right There by Ariana Grande. She licked her lower lip and moved to the middle of the dance floor, and started dancing, her body swaying to the music.

Finally the stars align

Never has it been so easy, to be in love

And to give you this heart of mine

You know what I need (Eh!)

I know what you like (Eh!)

Put it all together baby we could be alright (Hey)

    Lucas Friar had finished showering and dressing and made his way out of the gym and down the hall and made his way out of the field and down the hall, toward the library where his dad was waiting to pick him up. As he made his way past the room where Riley was dancing, he looked at her. She paused for a moment and saw him. Glaring, she stalked over and slammed the door shut. Lucas sighed and rolled his eyes. He continued walking, and finally made it to the library. Mitchell Friar was already waiting for him, and stood up, nodding at his son as he arrived.

    "Training go well?" Mitchell asked.

    "Yeah," Lucas replied. They walked to the hair in silence, and Lucas pulled open his door when Mitchell had unlocked it. When they got into the car, Lucas got his iPod out of his pocket and slipped the headphones in his ears. Mitchell looked over at his son, raising an eyebrow as the volume of the music went up, and Mitchell could clearly make out what song was playing at the moment. It was the same one Lucas had been playing over and over again, Don't Let Me Down by The Chainsmokers.

    "What did you do in class today?" Mitchell asked. Lucas looked at his dad and nodded and smiled. "You enjoy your lesson with Roberts?" Another nod and smile. "You want a million dollars?"

    Lucas took out his earphones and said, "What you going on about?" Mitchell let out a short laugh and shook his head.

    "You just passed up a lot of money," Mitchell replied. Lucas's eyes widened.

    "Huh?" he asked. Mitchell laughed.

    "Don't worry," he said, shaking his head and turning down a side-street. Lucas shrugged and put his headphones in his ears. When they arrived home, Mitchell leaned over and took a headphone out of one of the son's ears and said, "Make sure you turn it down before you say hello to your mother, you know it annoys her when you listen to it loudly." Lucas nodded and got out of the car, putting the headphone back in his ear.

    "Hey, boys, how was practice?!" Laura Friar asked as they walked into the kitchen. Mitchell just nodded in Lucas's direction who was bobbing his head to the music coming out of his iPod. Laura rolled her eyes, leaned over, and tugged the earphones out. "How was practice?" Lucas grinned, taking the earphones back.

    "Fine mom," he replied, kissing her quickly on the cheek. Laura nodded and offered him a muffin.

    "Hot from the oven," Laura said as Lucas bit into it. Lucas smiled, stuck the earphones back in his ears and jogged back upstairs. "He's going to be hearing impaired by the time he leaves school." Mitchell shrugged.

    "As long as his baseball doesn't suffer," he said. Laura let out a laugh.

    "You're hopeless," she said with a smile as she kissed her husband.

    Riley arrived home later that night, at almost six-thirty. Cries were coming from the upstairs room and Ms. Topanga Lawrence was looking flustered. Riley dumped her stuff on the floor and started jogging up the stairs.

    "She won't stop, Riles!" Topanga called after Riley.

    "No problem!" Riley called over her shoulder as she reached the first room on the right and walked in. The room was dark, due to the sun going down and the curtains being closed, and the cries were coming from the bed in the corner of room. "Baby! It's okay!" Riley called, crossing the room quickly and kneeling over the bed. Alice Matthews halted crying and resorted to whimpers and Riley leaned over and picked her up. "Hey, honey, it's all right! Riles is here..." She rocked the baby boy back and forth in her arms. "Why weren't you being nice for Grandma, huh?"

    "Maybe I should pull you out of school and you can look after her," Topanga said wryly from the door. Riley turned away and smiled sadly at her mother. Topanga nodded at Alice, who was now sucking her thumb and fast asleep. Riley gently lowered the baby back into the bed and pulled a blanket over her.

    The next day at school, Maya Hart squealed and ran down the hall when she spotted Riley. Riley widened her eyes and laughed as Maya practically jumped into her arms. They hugged quickly and Maya then said her news, "Guess what?!"

    "Okay, that hurt..." Riley mumbled, covering her ears. Maya glared at her. "All right, okay, I'm listening."

    "Great. Okay, we've been given permission to dance at the baseball game. Instead of the cheerleaders doing their whole fling-pom-pom-things in intermission, we're going to dance!" Maya squealed. Riley bit her lower lip and nodded slowly. "Umm...this is where you scream and jump up and down with me..." Maya said bluntly. Riley laughed tightly and shook her head.

    "You know this means extra practice time," Riley began. Maya nodded. "And I only just manage to fit it in and get home to look after Alice..." Riley trailed off and Maya clicked, and finally nodded.

    "Right, I get you," Maya licked her licks and leaned against the lockers beside them. Isadora Smackle bounced up and told them what she had just told Riley. "But she has to look after Alice so there isn't any time to do practice for the intermission..."

    "Bring Alice to the extra practice," Smackle said in a 'duh' tone. Riley blinked. "She doesn't sleep on Saturday afternoons, right, so we'll have practice then...and then we can just work around the other times. The girls will be cool. They'll just think you have to babysit your little sister."

    "I am babysitting my little sister," Riley muttered with a pointed look. Smackle nodded.

    "Um, yeah," Smackle nodded. The bell rang. "Anyway, we better get to class." The other girls nodded and all started walking. As they walked to their classes, they were completely oblivious to the boys walking in the opposite direction on the other side of the hallway. Riley bumped into Lucas, but they barely glanced at each other before walking off.

A/N: There are obviously a few changes I made to the storyline to fit the story., Lucas lives with both of his parents instead of just his mom.