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Chapter 3: Lunchroom incident

Lucas
I sat there kept on staring at Riley, but whenever she turns around I would stare at Mr. Matthew as my distraction. Right before he was about to talk about the Roman Empire, the bell started to ring. I talked to Riley to see what her next class was.

"So, Riley... What's your next class?" I said
"I'm off to art. That's my next class. You?"she said with excitment. I never knew she liked to draw or paint.
"To tell you the truth, art is my next class!!" I said trying to hide my excitement.
"Great! Follow me." She said with a smile.

I followed her to the art room and WOW! The art room was huge. And there was only 7 people in this very room which took up huge space. I stared in awe with my mouth hanging open, until then Riley was trying to hide her giggle.

"What?" I said in awed.
"Oh, nothing Lucas" she said still giggling. Boy, I really do love her giggle and that sweet smile of hers.

I sat down right across from Riley and next to her was her friend Maya. I still don't quite understand that girl, she looks like a trouble maker. As the teacher came, she told us that we will be drawing Farkle. Mmmm... Farkle is a weird kid, but he seems the type to be my friend. As I try to draw Farkle, I caught a glimpse of Riley smiling at me. I decided to smile back, until then the teacher broke our gaze by getting in between us.
"My! What a great drawing you did there Lucas!" She said as she clapped.
"Thank you Ms. Everdeen" I said smiling.
"Why don't we draw Lucas?" Riley said cheerfully.

The teacher started to stare at me hard.

"Because Riley, nobody looks like that." She said in a disgust face.
The teacher walked over to Farkle and praised him with compliments.
"He's, the best thing to draw" she said happily and patting him on the back.
"I AM FARKLE!" Farkle screaming to everyone.

Right before I was finishing drawing Farkle, I heard the bell ring. As soon as the bell rang, everyone left, except for Riley who stayed. She was finishing drawing. When I see her draw, it just makes me want to draw with her. But that would probably be weird for her. I packed up my things and waited for her to finish.

"Almost done drawing?" I said
"Actually, I'm done with it. Thanks for staying!" She said smiling.
I wonder what she was drawing. After art class, it was time for lunch. Riley and I headed towards the lunch line. I looked at selections of food and picked: Pasta, jello, salad, and lemonade. As soon as Riley and I got our food, we started walking toward Maya and Farkle, until Riley tripped over someone's foot. Her food started to splatter all over her face which makes it even cuter. I broke my gaze from her and to see who Riley tripped over and there she was, the girl who won't stop talking to me in World History.

Riley
We both walked into the art room, I couldn't help myself, but to keep staring at him. There's just something about him that just makes him even charmer. The way he was admiring the art room, I couldn't help but to put out a little giggle.

"What?" He said still in amazement.
"It's nothing." I said still trying to hold my giggle.

We both sat down, but not near eachother. I sat right across from Lucas. I couldn't help but smile, until then he saw me smiled, which made him smile back. Then our gaze got broken by the teacher, who was apparently right in front of us. Ms. Everdeen was giving a compliment to Lucas, something about his drawing. Then Maya nudged me to say something to Lucas...that's when I realized words were coming out of my mouth and caught Lucas's attention.

"Why don't we draw Lucas?" I said a bit too loud.
Then the teacher turned around and looked at me.

"Because Riley... nobody looks like that." She said giving me a hard stare.
I noticed everybody is staring at me and kept on whispering, which made me really embarrassed. As the teacher moved to Farkle, I noticed Lucas was smiling so bright that made me just want to kiss him.

"He's the best thing to draw." Ms. Everdeen said with a look of comfort.

Without knowing what's happening around me, I heard Farkle always saying his motto.

His motto finds everyone funny, but for me it's really annoying. Even though Farkle is my friend, I will never say anything bad to him. As I was about to daydream about Lucas, the bell started to ring. I stayed there and decided to finish my drawing. As soon as I was done with drawing, there he was...waiting for me. I walked up to him and we both headed to the lunch line. I grabbed my usual meal I liked: Spaghetti w/garlic bread, strawberries, caesar salad, and pink lemonade. When I picked out my food, I couldn't help, but stare at Lucas while he was picking all kind of various food. As we both were walking to our friends, I felt like I was tripping over someone's foot and realized this girl Missy was the one who made me tripped. As I was tripping, food was starting to splatter all over me. I couldn't decide why Missy would do this all of a sudden, she never even picked on me before Lucas even came here. I started to suspect that Missy was jealous of me, because I was hanging out with Lucas, which she expected him to sit with her.

Maya
I cannot believe time has fly by. First of all, I was about to see my best friend in the whole wide world, until then the dean had to ask her for something. Second, she was smitten to this new boy named Lucas. Third, now she is being tripped over by our nemesis Missy. I hate her so much, because she thinks she's all that and all this, which was completely ludacris. Nobody is perfect Missy, unlike your selfish ways. Missy had blonde hair, blue eyes, etc. Everyday Missy always wear pink, like what is it with pink? It doesn't look special at all. I feel like everything is starting to crumble down. Now that I know that Lucas is from Texas, I can tease him. But now is not the time, now that I saw my friend got tripped by Missy. I jumped up from my lunch table and started to walk towards her.
"Missy, you know that tripping is quite rude." I said in my stern voice.
"Maya, Maya, Maya, always the savior in this scene. Why don't you go back to your little nerd squad and take back poor little Riley back to you. She said looking all snarky.
"Well I can't, because your hideous face makes me want to puke and want to give you one penny to fix that little face of yours." I said in a sarcastic laugh.
"Pffft. Whatever." She said looking away.
When she says "Pffft, whatever" it means I won the battle. I always win the battle with this one. I can't believe I used to be friends with snobby kid.

~FLASHBACK~

Before Riley went on her vacation to Denver, she wanted me to get my ears pierced, and I told her I will.

"Maya, before I leave...can you please get your ears pierced like me?" She said giving me the puppy eyes look. I can't help, but to say yes to her, because I can't deny those puppy eyes of hers.
"Great! Your going to be fine!" She said smiling. She then started to leave.

I went to visit Claire's(erring store)to get my ears pierced. I started to head down and asked one if the staff if I could get my ears pierced. As the staff started to get the supplies ready, I saw a girl about my age getting her ear pierced. I walked up to her and see what kind of earrings she got.

"I see your getting your ears pierced. What kind of earrings did you pick?" I said staring.
"Yup! It's my first time ever!" She said smiling at me.
"I'll be getting mine soon. Waiting for one of the staff to prepare the table. What earrings did you pick?" I said happily.
"I picked the pink flower. Hey, you should get the same erring as me!" She said cheerfully.
"Sure!" I said smiling.
"The name is Maya, Maya Hart. You?" I said holding out my hand.
"My name is Missy, Missy Gildan." She said shaking back.

~PRESENT~
And yet, here she is being rude to my friend! I wish she could just go away. I can't believe I fell for her innocent look, even though she looks like the devil. I walked up to Riley and carried her to "our" table where no one can break our friendship between us.

A/N
Sorry it took me so long in creating chapter 3. I was caught up in studying and school work, which caught me off guard. I hope you enjoyed the story! There will be more coming when I start break.
Thank you!
Emma