Abducted

Lucas

LUCAS POV
This just doesn't make any sense. It's been 3 months and no one has called. Why did they decide to do it now? Do they want something? I'm so confused with this whole thing. How are they even going to find her? There's a billion places she could be in Florida. I want to call Zay and the others but I can't. I can't get their hopes high, they've been so indecisive about "hope". What if someone is just playing with us. Nah, no ones that terrible of a person. I remember the first day I saw her. I noticed her as soon as she came through those subway doors. You can see that bright face a mile away. When she "fell" on my lap, it didn't feel wrong. It felt like she was supposed to be there. It's hard to believe I've know her for almost four years. It's hard to believe she changed me, for the better. She even stopped me from becoming "Texas Lucas" back when we went to Texas for the first time. Back when everything changed between us. Everything about that trip was just so uneventful and unexpected.
FLASHBACK
This was after I rode Tombstone the Bull. I was with Riley, Zay, and Farkle, we were on our way back home. I still didn't know where Maya was, to be honest she wasn't the first thing on my mind. I mean come on, I rode Tombstone the Bull, I was surprised I didn't die. Anyways, we were walking home when my old pal Rider came up to us. Rider, Zay, and I we were all great buddies back in elementary school. Rider was a bad influence on the both of us. We'd always get in fights with other kids, we would bully them. I can't remember why, to be honest I don't think there ever was a reason. I just did it because Rider did. We stopped talking after the incident happened when we were 10. In the summer we would always go swimming in the river near his house. His little sister Sally joined us this one hot summer day, the day after the Fourth of July. Zay and I went to go grab some burgers from inside, when we came back, it was, unbelievable. Sally drowned in the water, she was 7. After that, our parents didn't let us hang out with him. So we stopped, that's when he stopped bullying other kids, and starting picking fights with us. One day, before I moved to New York, Rider picked on Zay, he said some really mean racist things to him. Zay started getting really upset about it and so he started to "fight" him, that's when I came in. That's when I got expelled.
Rider came up to Riley, Zay, Farkle, and I
Rider - Well, well, well, if it ain't my old buddies Zay and Lucas
Riley - You three know eachother?
Rider - Darling, not only do we know eachother, we all used to be the three musketeers. Ain't that right Zay?
Zay gave Rider a nasty look
Lucas - Used to.
Riley - What happened?
Rider - Well you see
Lucas - That's enough. We have to go now.
Rider - Little lady
Riley - Yes?
Rider - How about I take you out on a date tonight?
Riley - That's okay, I want to enjoy my first night here with my friends. Thank you though
Rider - Come on, I'm better to hang out with than Lucas.
Lucas - Stop it Rider.
Rider - You don't want her to know about me? You already told the entire school, what's one more person?
Riley - Know what?
Lucas - Nothing, let's go.
Rider - He told everyone that I killed my 7 year old sister.
Riley - Lucas!
Lucas - Riley, no you don't understand.
Rider - Do you know what that did to me? To my family! To my reputation?
Rider started pushing me. I do not like to be touched, only by Riley. And my momma. I pushed him back. And then the punching started. Then I heard the most heartbreaking voice. Riley yelling at me to stop. I turn to her and saw her looking at me with that face. That look that I never want to see again. She was scared. Scared of me. I stopped and walked away.
FLASHBACK OVER
I don't think I've ever wanted to see Riley and just hold her more than I do at this exact moment. I love her and what if I never get to tell her.