Girl Meets Season 5

Episode 6 - Girl Meets Protest

Riley writes an article, with the help of Zay, about the trouble with Racism and the growing acts of violence against people of color, which sparks a debate in school.

Riley had to work on Friday night, closing the café so that her parents could have a date night, she was lonely, mainly because Lucas had flown out to Texas with his parents for the wedding of one of his family members so he wasn't there to keep her company. She only closed on nights when her parents wanted to spend some time together, so Auggie went over to Ava's and Riley helped out at the café. Of course all of her friends were on dates or with family members so she was alone at nine o'clock at night counting out the register.

"I feel so alone," she sighed, but decided to make the best of it and turned on some music while she cleaned. Her house was close by and usually her parents stopped by to pick her up on the way home from their date.

A knock on the door alerted her to Zay standing outside waiting, it was still warm even though it was October so she knew he wasn't there for coffee.

"Hey Zay," she said opening up for him. "What brings you over here at this time of day?"

"Well Lucas asked me to help you out since he's the one who normally helps out, he was also afraid that something might happen, so I'm here as your temporary knight in shining armor," Zay said walking into the café.

"Can you help put all of the chairs on top of the tables while I get the mop? Start with the ones inside, and we'll do the ones out there together since I have to chain them up."

"Sure thing sugar," he said.

"Zay," she said pushing the mop bucket through the seating area. "I need help with something, because honestly I don't know where to start."

"Is this a relationship question, a life question, or something in general?"

"I need an idea for my monthly article for the magazine I write for."

"You're still doing that, and cheerleading and this, plus hanging out with us, and dating Lucas? Riley where do you get the time to do all of this stuff?"

"I need to get scholarships for college so I do things, my parents and Lucas are very supportive of everything that I do, but they also make sure I stop every once and a while."

"Well I'm very proud of you too, now what do you need from me?"

"An idea, I'm drawing up a blank right now, I was thinking on doing it on friendships, using our group as a part of it but I can't get it right."

"Why not just interview all of us, and write about how different we all are but also about why that's a good thing, why you need close friends that really care about one another, you can talk about all the things we all do, and show others that hey everyone has some kind of problems but we all try our best even when our best isn't what's needed... or something like that."

"Maybe, I still have a week before submitting the draft to the editor so I'll think about it. Thanks Zay it's a really good idea, we're all so different so maybe people would understand that everyone has something they're going through."

"Maybe I should write something for you one day?"

"You could, maybe something to make your parents proud, and if they take it, well it'll look good on your applications."

"Those applications rear their ugly heads again."

Riley laughed as she walked outside. "Come on let's get these chairs set and we can go home, my parents would drop you off if you want."

"That's fine with me, when are they getting here?"

"Maybe another ten minutes, they're usually here by the time I'm done so I'm never sure," she said linking the chairs to the chain that normally held them together overnight. "Oh shoot, I forgot the lock give me a minute."