Cory pov
"Remember you can work on your project all year, it's the only project I'm assigning you since all of you are seniors. Consider it my gift to you." Making everyone cheer as they exit out the door. "Mr. Matthews may I speak to you sir?" I hear from the one person who I hope would continue to leave. "What is it Mr. Friar?" I say never looking up from my papers. "Well I was hoping to talk to you about Riley sir." I look up and see him rubbing the back of his neck and look down again. "No." I state. "Wait what?" Lucas ask seeming confused.
"I said no Mr. Friar, beside you should be heading to your next class." "But sir-" I stand and look him in the eyes and say "unless it's school related we have nothing to discuss Mr. friar, and my daughter is not." Lucas steps back and says "she use to be." "Well" I say gathering my papers "people change, secret of life." And with that I walk out.
Flashback
"People change people dad" she said wiping her face. "Isn't that what you said?" "Secret of life right?"She whispered looking at her hands. "I did but...." He said sitting next to her. "I didn't think like this." I wrap my arms around her and listen as she sobs. "I thought they cared about me? I thought they loved me? I thought he loved me?" Riley says so quietly I barely heard it. "Sweetie" I say lifting her chin to get her to look at me. "I know it hurts now and nothing I say will give you the magical answer but... sometimes the secret of life isn't necessarily your secret of life. You decide what you want and if they don't want to love you and see what an amazing person you are then that says a lot more about them than you. The truth is life will try to keep you down, throwing you a curveball every now and again but you gotta keep pushing back and before you know it you realize nothing can break you. You come out the other side stronger than ever before."
"Okay Riley...honey?" I look down and noticed she had fallen asleep. Carrying her to her bed I knew she would have a long road ahead of her but she would be stronger for it
End of flashback
Zay pov
"So after practice you want to get some food?" I ask Thor opening up my locker. Noticing he didn't respond I start laughing knowing exactly why he was quiet. "What?" He asked me after hearing me laugh. Shaking my head I respond with "and here I thought our little Gracie had hearing problems ." Knowing he was the only one to call Riley Gracie I had him. "Hey!" He shouts punching me. "Only I can call her that!" Tossing my arm around him I say "dude it was the only way I can pull you outta your Ri Ri induced trance you were in." Smiling like the biggest idiot of them all he says "can you blame me? I can't get her off my mind and quite frankly I don't ever intend to."
"Well I'm glad to hear it. Ri deserves nothing but the best." I say in a serious tone. "ZB don't worry I could never hurt her, I love her to much to ever do such a thing. Plus I've met every male in her family who said if I ever hurt her they would personally kick my ass." Even auggie" I chuckle. "Especially Auggie! He scared me the most." Thor said smiling at the memory. "Shit" he murmured. "What?" I say looking at him balling up my fist thinking he was about to tell me he cheated.
"Whoa easy there killer!" He held up his hands when he saw my fist. "I just meant now I owe Gracie 10 bucks." Exhaling I shake my head at him saying "dude next time choose a better choice of word. Why do you owe her $10?" He smiles and looks at me saying it's a bet Ri and I have. Whoever says I love you first owes the other money." Noticing my expression he elaborates "you know Ri and I." Thinking that answered my question I say "but haven't you two already said that to each other?"
"Yeah" he says and sighs "okay I know after I tell you this you'll probably laugh at me, but I'm gonna say it anyway." I nod for him to continue. "I know Gracie hasn't had it easy after all that shit freshman year" he pauses "so when I first told her I said she didn't have to say it back I just wanted her to know that's how I felt." "But she did didn't she?" I ask curiously. "Yeah she did" he said grinning like a madman. "But I knew she was skeptical so I told her will make a game out of it, whoever said it first at any given time owe the other 10 dollars." "What she say to that?" I asked him. "She smiled and kissed me. Saying she'll have me shouting it from mountain tops first."
Smiling I nudged him and say "looks like she was right." "Yeah and it's a bet I'll gladly lose to her any day." He said glancing at his phone. "Let me guess Ri escaped the girls clutches and needs some Thor loving?" I say with a wink. Laughing and playfully punching me he says "yeah when my lady calls I come running, everytime. See ya ZB." Waving as he goes I turn back into my locker and hear a voice I never wanted to hear again. "We need to talk." Shutting my locker with force I tell him "the hell we do."
Walking away he says "it's about Riley." That stopped me in my tracks. Turning around I pull him into a empty classroom and with anger in my eyes I say "leave Riley the fuck alone! Don't you think you and your so called friends did enough damage to her?" Backing up he says "I know and no amount of apologizing will ever fix things." Looking at him I will myself not to hit him as much as him and the rest of them hurt her she wouldn't want me to. "Whatever you have to say Farkle say it quick I like to be done with this." I gesture between him and I. "Look I just thought I tell you Lucas is hell bent on trying to get her back I don't know if he's serious or if this is some game between him and maya but.... I would look out for him." And with that he walks out.
Ready to go find Lucas and attempt to kick his ass my search is pulled up short when I get a text from Riley pulling me back.
RiRi📷💃🏻-ZB ZB Patrick just gave me my money you know what that means?! 🤗
ZBbestie🎭🏈-Starbucks coffee and pastries!! 👍🏼
RiRi📷💃🏻- yes!!! 😄 I can already smell it! Where are you class is about to start?
ZBbestie🎭🏈-Lol sorry Ri I got held up. On my way now.
Trying to compose myself so she doesn't get suspicious I walk into class seeing the one face I wanted to punch. Lucas.
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Riley 2.0
Fanfiction"People change people dad" she said wiping her face. "Isn't that what you said?" "Secret of life right?"She whispered looking at her hands. "I did but...." He said sitting next to her. "I didn't think like this." That was then and he was right peo...
