The Forgotten Scott

Chapter 7 Episode 4

Riley's POV

There was a game and for some reason I was really nervous, I just had a feeling that something was going to go wrong. I was drinking some water as Whitey started to yell at us.

"Damn it this is a team, not a Chinese fire drill. Scott your playing selfish." I glance over to him and all I could think was which one of us is he talking about. "Just go out there and pretend you know each other." I drank the last few drops of the cool liquid and ran back onto the court. I was open nobody was blocking me at all, and Tim had the ball but was trying to pass to Nathan but he was starting to get super guarded. You could barely even see him with all of the players in front of him. I got fed up and I started waving my hands, then Tim finally passed to me and I made a three pointer and the crowd started cheering. I could barely help but hear Nathan complaining about something, most likely Tim passing to me, but I could have cared less at this very moment. I jogged down to the other side of the court and we finished the game, 63 to 24, we won. I walked over and I saw someone with my brothers instead of Karen. I ran over to make sure everything was okay. The person turned around and it was my mom. I ran up to her and gave her a giant hug.

"Mom, I can't believe you're here I thought you said it would be a few more weeks." I exclaimed.

"I thought it would be but at the last minute someone purchased our house. Now about that game, you did amazing sweetheart! You making that three pointer was..." She stopped and stared at Dan, the shock of seeing him was very clear to see. "I'll meet you at the hotel." She grabbed my brothers hands, squeezed them, turned around and started walking out of the gym. I was gonna run after them until Lucas walked up to me.

"Hey, quick question can I stop over at your hotel to take a shower, the water at my house has been turned off?" He asked.

"Yeah, sure." I said glancing out the exit, seeing if my mom would turn around. I was about to walk off when my least favorite person showed up.

"Two decent games in row you guys, getting better or just lucky?" he said. I just looked at Nathan and just sighed, "The team's gonna party tonight, my parents beach house."

"Why are you telling us that?" I questioned. Lucas just stared at Nathan with disapproving looks.

"Cause I said the team, didn't I?" There was a brief pause," Look, its gonna be a long season, alright? Might as well deal with it." I look at Nathan then back to Lucas, I just shrugged. Nathan walked off.

"I think it would be a great idea for us to go, we are finally being included as part of the team." I respond.

"I don't know, I just have a bad feeling about this." Lucas replies.

"What's the worst that can happen?"

"A lot of things, and also how would you be able to go don't you have to watch your brothers?" I just shook my head.

" Not anymore my mom came up sooner than she was planning too. And she also saw Dan again I don't really wanna deal with that drama right now. All I wanna do is go to a party that our team invited us to, get wasted and forget about all of my problems for one night. Is that too much to ask because I don't think so." He just stared at me and shook his head.

"I guess not." I gave him a hug. Then I called my mom, her phone went to voicemail.

"Hey mom, don't wait up for me I'm going to hang out with the team for a little bit, and I might stay the night at my friend Lucas's house. Umm, I think that's it, bye love you." I grabbed my keys out of my duffel bag.

"Hey Luke, I'll meet you at your house, cool." I gave him a thumbs up and didn't even wait for a response. I drove to his house just thinking about how everything is gonna change now that my mom knows that Dan lives here. She's going to try to force me to get to know him and become aquatinted with him and Nathan. I worry that now that she knows she might force him to start being apart of my life and seeing how he's treated Lucas and Nathan, I don't think I could do it. I was happy before I knew he was my dad, I would still be happy if I never found out he was related to me. I was sitting at a red light coming into reality realizing I was almost to Lucas's house, it was scary to think that I had driven this far without even realizing it. I pulled down the mirror above me and looked into it, I saw that I had been crying, which I didn't notice. I get out of my car and sit up on Karen's porch just tying to calm down, I just needed a break tonight, and for some reason I still felt really anxious about something. I sat there till Haley and Lucas pulled up. I ran into the truck and made Haley scootch over so I could fit.