A Moment in Time (Adult Rucas AU)

Chapter Two

He was nice, but Riley didn't want to move to fast, her former self was rearing its ugly head and she wanted to take it slow. Her relationships usually started with her becoming friends with the guy first but Maya had continued to insist on her having a rebound.

"Riley," Maya said rolling her eyes. "Your last boyfriend an asshole, when you brought him to my wedding I wanted to strangle him but you were head over heels in love with him so I didn't say anything."

"But Maya, I can't have a rebound with someone you would know in the same town for the rest of your life... even though he's freaking hot," Riley said trying to get the image of Lucas' green eyes out of her head. She knew how hot the guy was, and she knew where he lived because he had pointed it out to her so she could walk over there and say hi.

"I can see your mind working, and stop," she said as she rubbed her belly. "Riley, I don't know Lucas very well he's very personal person I think Zay is the only person outside of his mother and probably anyone who has been here long before me which is pretty much the whole town. Anyway, take a chance for once and stop thinking, and over thinking. Don't be friends first."

Riley sighed, looking over at her very pregnant friend wondering what her life would have been like before her ex, but she chased the thought away as fast as it came because she didn't want to remember something bad.

"I'll do it, but you know me I'll mess this up at some point and say something stupid," Riley said remembering how she has the tendency to string along a relationship in hopes that it would go somewhere. "I'll just do what the women in my novels do and go for it while silently lusting for the man."

"I still can't believe you write those novels and that no one I know actually knows about this. I hate that you use a pen name," Maya said before pulling out Riley's latest book and chucking it at her. "Don't ever use me and Josh to write one of those please."

Riley cringed at the thought of using her Uncle as a subject in her work. "Oh god Maya that's gross."

"Yeah but we're a sexy couple and you know it," Maya said smiling at her causing Riley to jump off the chair she was sitting on and running away.

"I'm leaving, before this gets too weird, plus I have to finish drafting the book before I send it off to my agent."

"I'll stop by tomorrow," Maya said walking Riley to the door. "I need to get out of this house before I go crazy."

Riley drove off towards her now air conditioned house, but when she was finally sat in front of her computer she couldn't figure out what to write. Her agent had told her that her writing was becoming too predictable lately so she wanted Riley to trying and spice it up a little more but she couldn't figure out how. Every time she started a new paragraph she erased half because it reminded her of the last book she wrote.

"This isn't good," she said to herself trying to figure out why she was in a slump. Pulling up her messenger account on her computer she messaged the only other person who knew that she wrote these books, telling them to call her immediately.

The call came twenty minutes later, "Charlie you have to help me with this I can't figure out why I'm hitting a slump."

Charlie Gardner had been her high school boyfriend until the two of them realized that they were better off as friend and broke up. The break-up had actually made them closer, and Riley had set Charlie up with the woman he was now married to.

"What kind of slump," he said over the phone and she knew he was working on something himself because she could hear the taps of his keyboard over the phone. The two of them had promised that no one would ever know that he actually liked to read Riley's novels, or that he knew that she wrote them.