Memories 》Riker Lynch 》R5

• Four •

• Isabelle p.o.v •

"Don't drink that." Cole said walking into the kitchen, I sighed shaking my head why shouldn't I ? The last week has sucked, Riker dumps me, all my mom and dad do is argue all the time, my brother came home, I failed in two classes, I didn't get into the college I wanted, anything else want to hit me ?

"I need to-"

"Someone spiked the drink." Cole said pouring the drink down the sink "I know the last week hasn't been the easiest but you know we're always here for you." He said moving my hair behind my ear.

"Cole you're dating my best friend, if you seriously think I'm about to let you make a pass at me, you can shove that pass up your ass." I said going to walk past him, groaning I got pinned up against the fridge with left hand on my shoulder and his right by the corner of my head "you know what, lately I've been noticing that you're starting to become a little like a bitch towards me-"

"Let go of me." I said struggling against him.

"Oh come on Is, you didn't sleep with Riker because-"

"Because what ? You think I'm in love with you, I would sleep with every other male on this planet before I even kissed you, you know nothing about my relationship." I spat making him laugh as the back of his hand went gliding across my face.

"Riker !" Danny shouted over the loud music, Riker tapped Cole on the shoulder, greeting his face with his first "don't you ever fucking talk to her again because believe me I will kill you." Riker said throwing punch after punch.

Danny looked at me and nodded silently asking "are you ok ?" I nodded and watched as he pulled Riker off of him, the blood dripping from his hands.

"Take her to my car." Danny said handing Riker his keys, Riker didn't look at me, just walked straight past and outside.

"His just pissed." Danny said, I nodded putting my hand on his shoulder "will you make sure his ok ?" I asked, Danny nodded as I walked out.

Walking through the crowd of people and out of the gate, I walked down the street and sighed finding Riker sat on the trunk of Danny's car pouring water over his hand flinching.

"I didn't even know you were coming here." I said getting some tissue out of the car, wiping his hand clean of the blood, the skin slightly broken.

"I wasn't going to but I needed a break, your cheek is starting to swell." Riker said handing me a gel pack, a gel pack is exactly like an ice pack part from you keep it in the fridge, it helps takes swelling down but you can actually hold it without your fingers going numb.

"I think you broke his nose, there was a lot of blood, you could be kicked out of school-"

"For what ? I saw my supposedly 'best friend' smack my girlfriend across the face while he had her pinned against the fridge, kick me out of school for that I don't give a fuck, not like I'm going anywhere." Riker said going quiet.

I sighed bringing his hand up to my lips, kissing each bleeding cut, noticing a small line going across his other arm.

He hasn't. I grabbed both of his wrists and turned his arm over, revealing small white lines all across his wrists and fore arms.

"D-don't tell Danny." Riker whispered.

"Wh..why ?" I asked running my fingers over them.

"Because I hate my life, everyone has these expectations for me to be this amazing person, people expect me to be just like Ross, they want me to do well in school, they want me to be the person I'm not, all my friends are going to college and I'm stuck in shitty LA, I can't control what goes through my head, I'm scaring my mom and dad with my anger, Rydel is scared of me, I'm scared of me, something in me is changing and I can't control it." Riker said.

I sighed closing my eyes as his hand stroked my cheek gently, tucking away my hair behind my ear, my fingers intertwining with his "do you remember when Ian went to college and a couple weeks later my dad and I got into a massive fight and you came round once they had gone out, you stayed up all night convincing me not to run away ?" I asked opening my eyes.

Riker nodded "your dad was trying to force you into accounting and you didn't want to do it so he started calling you names and shit."

"You told me I was old enough to know what was right and wrong, what way left and right was, I was old enough to know who I am and who I wanted to be, it's my life, my path, I have to be true to myself and my dreams, even if it hurts a few people on the way, if I end up where I want to be, those people won't even be important enough to be a distant memory." I said making him nod.

"Are you ok ?" He asked tilting my face into the light, rubbing his thumb across the bruise that was slowly forming "I just didn't expect him to hit me, thank you."

Riker smiled sliding down the trunk, lifting my chin up he kissed me. Boys say girls are so confusing hello! We have to deal with your craziness and your confusing ways, I know we're sometimes confusing by the ways we act but you boys don't deal with periods, our emotions are all up and down during those days.

"Don't." I whispered grabbing onto his shirt "don't stop."

"Not the first time I've heard you say that while you have death grip on me." Riker said making me laugh "I'm home alone tonight and tomorrow."

"Suggesting something ?" Riker asked.

"Well if came back to mine then it probably won't be the last time you hear me say that while having a death grip on you." I said.

Riker nodded laughing and went silent "or wouldn't it be weird because we're now ex's even though you just kissed me and I'm super confus-"

"I've got a better, slightly painful idea." Riker smiled.

Don't smile as you say that!

"I'm not sure if trusting you is a good idea." I said, Riker laughed and hid Danny's car keys, taking my hand we took the long, hour walk back to my house, talking, laughing and bitchin' about people from school.

Riker's life isn't hard there are people in the world far worst off then us but Riker does have a lot of pressure on his shoulders, he has to keep up with school and his always asked to baby sit his siblings and Ross is going into TV but I never imagined it being that bad that Riker had to the only option to self-harm, the amount of times I've seen his arms and I never saw them scars..

"How did you hide the scars ?" I asked softly.

"Rydel, you gave me a hickey once and no matter what I did I couldn't hide it so she saved me and I asked if she could show me how to do it just in case you decided to give me another one but in reality I was hiding the scars." Riker said.