MOMENTS ( rucas )

vi. best birthday ever

a/n: so hello everyone!!! it's been a while since i posted here, but i've been getting everything ready for my new rucas multi chapter (#shameless self promo, check it out on *wink wink*) that i completely forgot to post a new one shot here!! thank you to everyone who has left any kind of feedback, it truly means the world to me to have so many people reading my writing and enjoying it! so truly thank you so much it means so much. so this fic was written for day four of rucas fanfiction on tumblr and is 1000% teeth rotting fluff (nothing wrong with that tho right?). it takes place during rucas' junior year and they're dating and it's just cute fluffy stuff. apologies for any mistakes, please let me know what you think!! thanks y'all ily.

prompt: "who crawls through someone's window at 4am to go for ice cream?"

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Cracking one eye open, Riley groans softly to herself. There has been an incessant tapping noise on her window for the last, oh five minutes, and for the first four she had convinced herself that it was the wind, and for the last 45 seconds she had been chalking it up to a dream, but she can't escape the truth. Someone is outside her window and there's a good chance that she's about to get murdered.

The window isn't locked, she can't remember the last time it was, and her friends and family were always warning her that someday someone would realize her window was open and do something. Of course, it was always said with a smirk and laughter, but now, she was unarmed and someone was definitely coming to kill her.

She was going to die, and on her 17th birthday, how rude.

In her head, she goes back and forth between a couple different options, she could pretend to already be dead, then the murderer wouldn't bother. Of course, he or she would probably still kill her, just to be safe. She could roll out of bed, on the opposite side of the window, and lay under her bed, but chances are the murderer would still check under the bed. Or, she could find something in her vicinity and throw it at them. However, before she can truly make a decision, her phone dings, casting a blue-ish glow into her room.

Without looking at the window, she grabs her phone and dives under the covers, attempting to hide, her heart racing in her chest. The text message is from Lucas and it immediately slows her mile and minute heartbeat.

Lucas: I know you're awake. Please let me in, it's freezing out here.

While she's relieved that the person tapping at her window is in fact her boyfriend, not a murderer, this doesn't stop her confusion. It's almost 4 in the morning and Lucas isn't allowed in her room past ten, not that he hasn't snuck in here before, but never this late. She immediately moves from the under the covers and opens the window for him. She knows he could have easily opened it himself, but she appreciates how he didn't violate her privacy, even if they have been together for two years.

"Lucas what are you doing here?" The words are out of her mouth as soon as his feet hit the ground but he doesn't answer right away. Instead he gives her a small smile and steps forward to kiss her on the forehead. She smiles slightly at the gesture, feeling slightly better that he's not here because something has gone terribly wrong, but she's still confused.

"What, I can't come here and make sure to wish my girlfriend a happy birthday, you only turn 17 once." She laughs softly, and he smirks, leaning in to kiss her again, this time on the lips.

"Of course you can wish me a happy birthday, but may I ask why you're here at 4am? It was so important that you couldn't wait until tomorrow morning at school?" Her eyebrow raises and she knows that there's something more going on here.

"Well, call me competitive, but I knew Maya would be walking you to school in the morning, and I kinda wanna to be the first one to wish you a happy birthday." He sends her a small wink and she blushes in the darkness of her room. "She's had first dibs for the last ten years, I just wanted to be first this one time." She giggles and despite her exhaustion she can't help but think that this is one of the cutest things he's ever done for her.