Riarkle: How love evolves

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Riley Matthews
Maya text me earlier this morning and said she wasn't gonna be at school today. So I have to find another ride home from school. I don't have a what's it called metro card yet. So Maya's been driving me home. The bell rings and students rush out of class. I walk outside and pull out my phone. I call my mom it goes straight to voicemail. The only people here I know are Maya my mom and Lucas. And Lucas has detention. I stand against a tree texting Maya.
Riles🇬🇧: Maya I'm stuck at school I need a ride
Peaches😈: Sorry I'm at the gallery. What about Lucas
Riles🇬🇧: he got detention
Peaches😈: idk what to say. Gtg my boss just got here. Ttyl
Uh the parking lot became empty. Except for one car. With a particular boy standing next to it. I walk towards him.
"Would you care to give a special girl a ride home." I say and bat my eyes. He looks up from his phone.
"Get in gorgeous." Farkle says in a fake British accent. He opens the door for me. I get in and he smiles before he shuts it. His car is messy. In the front there's a bunch of books on the dash. And in the back there's a football uniform. And on the floor there's a bunch of CDs. He starts the car. He hands me a cord.
"You can put on music." He says awkwardly
"I'm fine." I say.
"Ms. Matthews afraid to sing." He says in his fake accent
"No." Yes. In London I was a singer. Like professional singer. But I went by a different name.
"Rileys hiding something." He says
"No I'm not." I say in a huff.
"I'm not taking you home till you tell me."
"Farkle I'm not hiding anything." I say with an attitude. He abruptly pulls the car over. He puts the car in park.
"Tell me." He says.
"If I don't tell you how long will we be sitting here." I say quietly.
"Long time." He says with a smirk. I sigh.
"Google Annabelle Lupton." I say. He takes out his phone.
"15 year old Annabelle Lupton wows crowd singing original song. Wished On You." He reads aloud.
"What's so special about some girl named Annabelle Lupton." He continues
"Go to images." I say. He's quiet for a minute. He soon gasps.
"Your famous." He says loudly.
"No I'm not. I'm Riley Matthews. New girl from London. That's Annabelle Lupton British pop star. Who I've never met." I say quickly.
"Your a singer. I'm even more attracted to you." He says with a smirk. "sing for me." He continues.
"No no no no. No. Can we go." I say loudly. He starts driving. He turns on the radio. I start humming.
"We're here" he says snapping me out of the song.
"Thank you." I get out. "keep this between us freakle." I say before I shut the door. He nods. I open the door to see Maya sitting on my couch.
"Where the hell were you." She says with a sigh.
"Farkle drove me home." I said as I threw my coat on a chair.
"I got out of work and I came here. And you weren't here yet. And I thought you got kidnapped." She said in a rush.
"Did you try calling me." I say as I check my phone.
"No. Jesus why didn't I think of that." She says as she walk off to my room. I follow her.
"So what took you so long." She said as she sat on my bed.
"Farkle wouldn't keep driving till I told him about Annabelle." I said while taking my shoes off.
"Wait what. You told freakle." She said while examining my shoe.
"What the hell are you doing." I asked confused
"Your foot is oddly small." She says and laughs.
"My foot is perfectly normal." I say while laughing and throw my other shoe at her. She ducks and runs over to the window seat.
"Your view sucks riles." She says and gazes out the window.
"Yeah. That stupid buildings in the way." I sit next to her.
We sit in the window having random conversations.
"Have you seen anyone at school your interested in." She says while going through my phone.
"No but Farkle is always flirting with me." I say while holding her foot from squirming so I don't get nail polish all over her foot. My phone rings.
"Ooh lala." I hear her say. She turns the phone to me. My uncle Josh is calling me. He's the same age as me. He lives in Philly. I take the phone.
"Hello." I say while Maya makes weird faces at me. Causing me to laugh.
"How's the city Annabelle." He says. I hear it twice.
"Why am I hearing you twice." I say confused. My door opens. Revealing my uncle Josh. I hang up the phone and run to him.
"I haven't seen you in months." I squeal. He puts me down and looks around the room. He spys Maya.
"Who's your friend." He says smirking.
"Maya. Maya Hart." Maya says quietly. Mayas nervous. I smirk.
"So uncle Josh how long are you hear. Maybe you can hang out with me and Maya." I put emphasis on Uncle.
"First don't call me uncle. And second. I moved here. I'm staying with you guys." He says. I notice him staring at Maya out of the corner of his eye.
"What." I squeal. "wait" I continue. "you got in trouble. So you had to move here. Joshua what the hell did you do." I yell.
"I got kicked out of school." He says sheepishly.
"I'm intrigued. What'd you do." Maya said with a smirk.
"I got into a couple fights." He said shyly. She looked him up and down.
"I know your kind. Your a really good guy but something happened that made you change. Something that makes you angry with the people around you. Sometimes your closest friends. And then you lose them. Which is hard which most of the time makes you do something you'll regret." She says in one breath.
"Roll up your sleeves." She continues.
"You have me all wrong." Josh says annoyed. He's hiding something.
"Then roll up your sleeves." She says
"Your wrong." He says in a tone I've never heard from him.
"Then prove me wrong." She says with her arms crossed. He scoffs. I roll up his sleeves. Revealing scars all over his wrists. I gasp. He quickly covers them.
"Josh." I whisper. He leaves the room.