Taking My Shot- Adopted by Hamilton

Chapter 6-If Only He Knew

Riley's POV

Lin had been gone for about 10 minutes now, hopefully everything was alright. I took out the speech I was supposed to give after our break and read over it. It's strange how just this morning I was looking the same piece of paper but with different eyes. This morning I would've said this is one of the best things I've ever written and that it was honest and real but now that I read through it, not even four hours later it has a completely different meaning. I start re-thinking the, 'what does Hamilton mean to me' question as Lin walks in.

"Here I got you some pizza," he says, handing me a plate with two pieces of cheese pizza on it.

"Thanks," I reply, taking a bite of the pizza, I now realize how hungry I am since I didn't eat this morning thanks to Jake putting my boot in the hall.

"Hey, so I need to talk to you," Lin says, he looks nervous but also with a mix of sad and anger.

"Okay, shoot," I say, setting my pizza to the side realizing this is a serious talk.

"So I'm going to foster you," Lin says, my breath catches in my throat. My idol wants to foster me? This can't be happening, no this is all too good, it must be a dream.

"What?" I ask, still not fully understanding how this is happening.

"I totally understand if you don't want me to, but I don't think it's safe for you to be in that house with that man anymore," he says. My eyes widen, he thinks I don't want to live with him!?

"No! No, I want to live with you! I couldn't be more glad, I'm just surprised," I explain, he smiles at me and I smile back and without even thinking I hug him, and surprisingly he hugs back. He then pulls back and looks at me with a mixture of anger and sadness in his eyes and my smile drops.

"There's only one thing, I can't take you with me until tomorrow," Lin says. My heart drops, tomorrow? I have to go home today? If I go home I don't even think I'll make it until tomorrow, with what Mr Brown will do to me. Lin can tell I'm freaking out, he grabs my shoulders rubbing my arm reassuringly.

"Lin if I go home I won't even live until tomorrow," I say and he knows I'm not exaggerating, "What am I supposed to do?" I start shaking thinking about all the horrible things that could happen between tonight and tomorrow.

"Hey it's gonna be okay I have an idea," Lin says, "Do you have any friends you can stay with tonight that your foster dad won't know about?"

"No he knows all my friends," I say going through my very short list of friends, "Plus none of them know about my at home life and I don't feel like explaining to them that I need to stay at their house so I don't get murdered."

"Well there has to be someone," Lin says, "I would just take you but if your foster dad calls the police and they find you at my house they could say I kidnapped you and then I wouldn't be allowed to foster you." He's right, and if I get taken from Lin I'm screwed. I then remember Alex and how he wanted me to tell him what happened anyway, and Mr Brown has no idea he exists, let alone where he lives.

"I think I might know someone actually." I say, Lin raises his eyebrows, "Trust me this is my last option, but it could work."

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I walk out into the lobby leaving Lin backstage since he said that he had to take care of some things. Once I'm out of the backstage door I see Alex, he's talking to some of his guy friends, I walk over and tap him on the shoulder. He turns around and his smile drops, he turns back, saying something to his friends and then grabbing my hand and pulling me to the side of the lobby.

"Riley what the hell happened?" He asks, regarding my new bruises from Mr Brown that I'm sporting.

"It's a long story and I'm willing to tell you all of it on one condition," I say. He looks at me skeptical at first but then seems to accept my bargain.

"Okay, what's your condition?" He asks, I take a deep breath, hoping he won't laugh in my face and walk away.

"Can I stay at your house tonight?" I ask, looking down at my feet. He doesn't respond so I look up, expecting him to have walked away but instead he's standing there looking at me with a mix of confusion and worry on his face. "Just tonight I promise, I just need somewhere to stay, my life kinda depends on it." His eyes widen and he envelopes me in a hug.

"You can stay over anytime you need to," he says, while he's holding me. I let out a sigh of relief.

"Thank you," I whisper. He pulls out of the hug and looks at me with a serious face.

"But you do have to tell me everything," He says, I nod and he smiles down at me.

"Riley," I hear Lin's voice behind me I turn around and he motions for me to come over. I give Alex a reassuring smile and walk over to Lin who is standing half way in the door to backstage, hoping no kids will notice him and bombard him for pictures and autographs. He pulls me backstage and closes the door.

"So do you have a place to stay?" He asks, I can tell his worried.

"Yeah, I'm staying at my friend Alex's house," I say.

"Was that, that boy you were just talking to?" He asks, sounding concerned.

"Yes, but it'll be fine, he understands and I'm going to explain everything to him and stay there and then I'll be with you by tomorrow afternoon and everything will be alright," I say, wow that feels weird, saying that everything will be alright.

"Okay, well you should go join your class the for the speech that your representative is giving," he says, hugging me. I hug him back and head out into the lobby where everyone is filing back into the theater. Oh, if he only know who the representative was. I mentally evil laugh to myself and join my class in the theater.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Hello Hello Hello so here's six hopefully it makes up for the shorter chapter that I had last time. And I know I'm posting a ton of chapters right now but it's because I just wanna get the basics out of the way, I'll probably start putting stuff up on a regular basis once I get to chapter 10. Anyway, thanks for reading guys I'll see you in number seven :)