RICH

Chapter 3

Riley's POV

"What do you want," I shouted.

"You do know that if it weren't for me you would be on the concrete with a bleeding face right now right?" he said. How dare he sass me.

"Yea well I don't need a superman. I'm a big girl and can take care of myself," I said with no kindness. "Besides if you wouldn't have been in my way I would have been fine," I told him.

"Well your the one who should have stopped I wasn't looking that way I was thinking," he said, kind of sadly.

"Well so was I so don't go making assumptions, Barney," sheesh dude we all walk and think, that's not safe.

"I'm sorry Jerry," is he apologizing? Wow.

"Well I gotta go thanks for not letting me break my face I guess," wow that was hard to say.

"Your welcome, so where are you headed?" he asked.

"Why do you care," I said in a snappy tone. When I realized what I said I told him a quick sorry and told him I was going to the pizza place.

"Cool do you mind if I tag along," he asked with hope. Does he not have friends?

"Sure I guess," and with that we started walking to the pizza place.

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"and he runs out of the bathroom, with this look that could kill," we both laughed hard. Barney was telling me a story of when he stole his best friends hair products, and he chased after him for hours before he gave up and have his friend the hair supplies. While we were laughing a thought came to me. I don't know his name.

"Hey I don't want to come off as rude, but I realized I don't know your name," I said trying my best not to offend him.

"That's cool I'm Michael," he said "like microwave," that wasn't funny at all, but for some reason seeing him smile made me smile, an hearing his laugh made me laugh because it's so contagious.

"Well I'm Riley, nice to meet you Michael." We shook hands.

"Well I'm sorry but I have to head back home," I said to him with a sad smile. I actually didn't want to leave.

"Here I'll walk you home," he said to me, and I was in no place to deny the company.

"Oh I almost forgot to pay," I laughed as I grabbed my wallet. I was honestly a little shocked that Michael didn't jump to pay, but I wouldn't have let him anyway. He didn't eat anything so why should he pay? Now that I thought about it why didn't he eat?

"Hey Michael," he looked up really fast. I swear it have him whiplash. I held out a piece of pizza and asked, "you hungry." He slowly nodded. "Well then take the pizza," I told him in a serious tone, but he looked at me like I was joking, and made no move to take the pizza. So I put it in the box and said "C'mon I gotta get home," and with that we walked out of the pizza place.

When we got to my house I looked at Michael and told him, "Thank you for the company today, and not letting me break my face," we laughed. And then I got serious if he won't take the pizza then I will trick him into I haha. "But it's a shame, I'm so full and I don't know who would like this pizza," I looked at him with a serious look, "Do you want the pizza? I sure don't want it to go to waste." He looked like he was in deep thought, and I thought he was going to say no, but then he slowly nodded. I handed him the pizza. He took it and quickly said, "I promise I'll pay you back when I get the money." What did he mean? Is that why he wouldn't eat? I looked at him and smiled, "Don't worry about it. We're friends now, and honestly, I don't need the money. Your good." He smiled back and asked, "We're friends." I just laughed and said, "Duh who else can I pick on for their awful hair," I joked. He gasped in fake offense, "You love my hair," he said. My only response was "sure."

"Well I hate to go but my curfew is in one minute," I said as I checked my phone for the time. "Ok well can we hang out again sometime, as friends?" he asked with hope. "Sure, bye Barney," I laughed at the nickname. He smiled and said, "Bye Jerry, and thanks for the pizza." Why won't he let that go? "It's cool now I really have to go, bye. For real this time," I told him. He smiled again and said, "Bye for real," and with that we went our separate ways.

As soon as I got inside I was bombarded with questions. 'Who is he?', 'Is he a sweet kid?', 'Does he go to your school?', Did you make a friend?' I just ignored them and went to my room. I curled up next to Fifi and I couldn't help but let my mind wander to the purple haired boy. Am I developing a crush? Oh no this isn't gonna end well.

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I am sorry I failed, epically. I know this is so late but I updated twice yay. Now to clear up any confusion because I let my best friend read this an she was confused, so she asked why did they hate each other at the beginning and then they were besties at the end? Well if you don't remember in the first chapter they ran into each other and she fell and they started arguing, yea that's why the were arguing in the beginning of this chapter. Then she saw how lonely and sad he looked and decided to give him a chance. And the more they talked the more they liked each other. Now that I think about it that's what happened with my mom and dad that's hilarious. Well I hope that helped if you have any more questions just leave a comment or message me. I'm sure you can get ahold of me somehow. Anyway thanks for reading, and I'm sorry if this didn't help, bye.