A Moment in Time (Adult Rucas AU)

Chapter Four

"Wake up sleepy head," someone said next to Riley. Someone she wanted to kill for waking her up because she was having a particularly dirty dream about having her way with Lucas. Riley opened her eyes to see her very pregnant friend sitting on the edge of the bed.

"What do you want Maya," Riley said yawning as she turned over to face her. "Do you have any idea what time it is?"

"Yes, it's after 2 in the afternoon, geez Riles what time did you go to bed last night?" Maya said as she stood up.

"I think it was 10 in the morning when I crawled into bed," Riley sighed sitting up and moving towards the edge of the bed. "I need some freaking coffee."

"Let's go get you some, and you can tell me about your date with Lucas that the whole freaking town is talking about but I have no idea what happened because my best friend didn't think to send me a message about. What did I do to deserve this Riley?" Maya said acting fake hurt.

Riley rolled her eyes as she brushed her teeth. "Not my fault Maya, I kinda stayed up all night writing, but you're welcome to read it if you want."

"Oh my god you wrote the night into a novel didn't you, I was just joking about that, but you went and did it. Give it to me now," Maya said walking out the door before Riley could stop her.

By the time Riley had showered and changed into clean clothes, Maya was waiting in the study reading through what Riley had written, with a cup of coffee waiting for her. Riley sat down on the soft couch next to the desk and waited until the blonde had finished reading.

"Shit Riles, is this all true?" Maya said looking over at her. "I only know the part of the plan was for you to get ideas from Lucas for your books."

"I talked to Charlie about this," Riley sighed thinking about her earlier conversation with her other best friend. "And I know he told you about this crazy plan to use what happens in real life in my novels but seriously I think I may have added more than usual into that story."

"Riles did Lucas go down on you on the front porch," Maya said bluntly, and Riley knew that there was no way she could lie to her best friend.

"Yes he did, and he didn't ask for anything in return either."

"Wow, and according to this you think that the reason why he didn't do anything more is because he thought you were drunk, Riley you're literally writing your encounters with him. Everything else is made up unless he came to the house on a white horse, but yeah you've written everything else down. By the way where did the horse come from?"

"He works on a ranching business, I think I just let my mind get away from me on that one," Riley felt herself sink in the couch as she looked at her very pregnant best friend. "Is this okay, I mean the writing about our almost sex life in the book."

"I think it is because this is hotter than anything you've written before, and you're writing better smut now than before. God I could kick myself for letting you date Evan at all because apparently he never inspired you to write literal porn."

Riley groaned at what Maya was saying before standing up. "I'm going to get some food, and while we eat we need to discuss the possibility of me seducing a certain cowboy and how to do it because I was just winging it last night."

Maya smiled at her and followed her out the door, the two of them gathered bagels and donuts in the kitchen before settling on the porch to take in the summer breeze and so that Riley could clear her head. She needed to get the image of Lucas out of her head but it was permanently trapped in her mind.

"You and Josh aren't really friends with him," Riley said as they started eating.

"We're kind of outsiders here, we only moved here because they offered Josh the job so we only know a few people, anything personal about Lucas that I know comes from what Josh hears at the station but the man is a very private person."