I Found You

Ch8- Losing My Religion

Hi guys!! I'm SO sorry this took so long. I forgot my password a while ago and I couldn't get on my account. Right now I'm at my sister's house on her computer and my password is saved on it :\ Hopefully I can figure something out so I can get back on here on my phone to post updates as I write them! 

Also: on my last chapter, I tried to type it by reading it to Siri on my phone because I had it written in a notebook. Thats why there was a lot of little things that didn't make sense. I tried to go through and correct all the little mishaps before I posted it but I guess I missed a couple. I got them now though!!

Anyway. I should stop talking. Here's Chapter 7. It's a long one to make up for my absence(:

LILLY

"So Ross," Andy said about halfway through the interview. "I heard from a little birdie that you've got a new girl!"

Ross smiled and blushed. "Well you heard right."

"What's her name?" Andy asked as the screen behind them displayed a picture of Ross and Cassie walking together, holding hands. 

Cassie leaned over to me and whispered, "That was our third date."

"Her name is Cassie," Ross' cheeks were a dark shade of pink.

"Mind telling us a bit about this mysterious Cassie?" 

"Well she's very important to me," He began. The audience aw-ed. "We've been together for about a month now. I met her through a friend actually. She's my friend Lilly's adopted sister. I have to say... I really do love her." 

He looked at us and smiled. 

"Oh is she here today?" Andy said slyly. No. No. No. Dont- The cameras turned in our direction. Cassie waved as our image was put up on the screen. My stomach dropped into my shoes. I tried desperately not to look at the camera. I tried to keep my eyes on the stage, the wall... anything besides the cameras. Finally, the attention went back onto the stage.

"And who is that lovely girl beside her?" Andy said. "Is that her sister, Lilly?" Riker paled. "Now, Lilly is Riker's girlfriend, am I right? Tell us about Lilly, RIker."

"Actually..." Riker said, looking down to his lap. He rubbed the back of his neck, nervously. "We broke up... yesterday."

I felt a hundred eyes on me and I wanted to came in on myself. The stares of fifty girls in the room who hated me burned my skin.

"Yeah, uh..." Riker continued, while the other members stared down at him stoically. "She's moving to New York for school soon and... well we didn't want to try long distance, I guess. Just cause you know, it hardly ever works out... And so we broke up."

Rydel looked at me with sadness in her eyes. A silent apology for what was sure to come my way when more people found out about this. 

Andy leaned forward with interet. "Pray tell," he said. "Which of you officially ended it?"

Riker looked me dead in the eyes and said, "She did."

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"Why are you here?!" He growled in my face when Cassie and I went backstage after the interview.

He nearly pinned me to the wall; his chest was against mine and his face was so close I had a sudden urge to throw my arms around him, kiss him and take it all back- the whole breakup. All of it. We could work it out if we tried. It was such an intense feeling, it took everything I had not to give in to it. 

I swallowed hard. "Cassie asked me to come. I'm sorry."

I was afraid he would crush me but Cassie intervened carefully, trying to pull him off me. "Can she please stay? I promise she wont be a bother."