I Came Here

‘I love you’ meme

Lucas was still trying to wrap his head around all of this. He didn’t know what they were supposed to do, or where they would go from here. He knew their families would be just as devastated as they were. Maya was probably getting ready to punch out a nurse just to get into their room to see Riley.

It was hard for Riley to process this. She lived in a world where nothing that bad ever really happened, but how was she supposed to justify this? In what world was this fair? She felt like glass. Any sudden movement would shatter her into a million little pieces.  

“Hey, no, shh,” he murmured, tightening his arms around her. “This is not your fault, Riley.” He didn’t know who to blame. The universe? God? Charlie, somehow, if he could? But it wasn’t Riley. Never Riley. “You did everything you could for them. None of this is your fault. I could never hate you.”

Lucas was supposed to be meeting the others at Topanga’s to do homework, he’d just gotten there early. Finding Mina in a rather distressed state brought a frown to his lips and concern filled him. “Hey, Mina… Is everything okay?” he asked, for the moment ignoring her offering to get his order. That wasn’t important right then.

The blonde appreciated that he seemed concerned. It wasn’t very often that anyone asked her what was going on with her. “Just some jerk who thought he could grab me,” she shook her head. “It isn’t a big deal, happens all the time. I’m probably just being sensitive about it.” She worked as a model, she should be used to creeps by now. She just thought it might change if she worked here, but it seemed like it didn’t. “Anyway, enough about me. What can I get you? I’m sure your friends will be here any second.”

Lucas’s frown only deepened when she said what was wrong. “It happens all the time doesn’t make it not a big deal, Mina. If anything, that makes it worse,” he said. Seeing her upset and knowing it was because of some creep definitely didn’t sit well with him, and he wished he could do more for her. “You sure there’s nothing I can do?” What he wanted could wait, it didn’t matter if his friends were showing up soon or not.

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“You are not funny,” she glared at him. “Come on, I will drive,” she grabbed his keys out of his pocket. Whenever someone she loved was hurt Riley turned into a total mom, ready and willing to do anything that was needed. She grabbed a fresh towel. “Here just put it on top. If the towel latched onto your skin, you don’t want to make the bleeding worse, this will start absorbing if it soaks through the other one.”  As they got down to the car she opened the door for him and helped him buckle up. “What were you trying to do in the kitchen?” she asked as she started up the car.

Lucas didn’t fight it, fight her leading him out and obeyed and placed the fresh towel over the first one. “Yes, ma’am,” he murmured as he followed her down to the car. “I was trying to cut things, that weren’t me. And it slipped,” he explained as he settled into his seat, not fighting her assistance. He tightened the towel around his hand, hissing softly at the pain. 

Lucas grinned when they were flipped over. “I do like guessing,” he sighed, tipping his head back to let her kiss wherever she wanted. He slid his hands up her thighs and squeezed her hips.

Lucas laughed to himself, turning his head to playfully bite at her hip. “Hey now, I’m a cowboy, not a horse,” he reminded. It didn’t take too much longer though to get to his car, and when he did, he finally sat her down on her feet, only to push her up against it as he kissed her hard.

She squealed when he bit at her lip, then smacked his butt again.  “You’re my cowboy,” she muttered before she was placed back down on her feet.  She just had a moment to meet his eyes before she was being kissed hard, her hands clinging to him as she kissed him back just as roughly.

Lucas bit at her lips and stroked his tongue against them a moment later. He squeezed at her hips and pushed his hands up under her shirt, stroking her sides. He pressed kisses down her throat, nipping and sucking at her skin. “M’guessing when you asked about my car,” he murmured between kisses, “your plan wasn’t to make out against it, right?”

Lucas brushed her hair out of her face as he nodded. “Yeah I get it. That’s fine,” he assured. As much as he loved spending all their free time together, he knew the girls still needed their Riley and Maya time, and he didn’t want to monopolize all of Maya’s time. He dropped another kiss to her lips and offered a half smile. “We can reschedule our movie night for another night.”

“We will reschedule our movie night for another night,” she corrected, brushing her thumb along his jaw as she cupped his cheek before leaning up to kiss him sweetly again.  “I should get going.  I’ll text you?”

Lucas smiled, leaning into her touch before returning her kiss. “Yes, ma’am,” he agreed. “Okay. I’ll see you later. And I look forward to your text.” He leaned to kiss her again, then kissed her forehead. “Have fun with Riley.”

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That question felt so un-Riley-like, it made Lucas’s stomach turn all over again. Surely it was a test of some kind. If nothing else, the heat of the moment. Because that wasn’t something Riley would demand. Right? “You wouldn’t ask that of us. Not really,” he said softly. She loved Maya too much for that. “We know this is a lot to take in, but we’re not going to break up if you don’t like us being together,” he agreed. He and Maya had already decided that, going into this. As much as he knew they both cared about Riley, they cared about each other, too. Too much to break up just to make Riley happy. Especially when it wouldn’t actually succeed in making her happy, it would only succeed in making them all miserable.

Riley remained serious before sighing and nodding.  “If this is something you two are really serious about, then I’ll get over it.  I love you both, and I just want you to be happy.  If that’s with each other, then how could I stand in the way of that?” she asked, causing Maya to smile softly.  Maya let go of Lucas’s hand to walk up and hug her best friend.  “Thank you…  I am happy.  Happier than I’ve been in years.  That’s all because of Lucas,” she admitted, looking back at her now-not-so-secret-boyfriend.

Lucas felt a small rush of relief as Riley spoke again. He was sure things would even out with time, once she had time to digest them being together. He was just glad she wasn’t going to press them breaking up for her. He didn’t protest Maya letting him go, but he stayed where he was, watching the girls, and he gave Maya a small smile when she looked back at him. “Thank you, Riley.”

Lucas leaned into her touch, hands coming up to grasp her wrists gently, thumbs rubbing against them gently. “Okay,” he said softly. It didn’t magically make his worry go away entirely, but it helped. He turned his head to press a kiss to her palm. “I love you.”

Maya hated seeing how much the idea of losing her to Josh hurt him.  She didn’t think he worried so much about it since she admitted her true feelings to him, but clearly she wasn’t the only one worried this would come to a tragic end.  “I love you too.  More than I’ve loved anyone.  Nothing and no one can change that, I promise.”

Confidence had always been something Lucas was sorely lacking in. As the years went by, he had just grown better at hiding that. Fake it ‘til you make it was a general rule of thumb with him when it applied. Things rarely shook him to the point his worries showed through. But the idea of losing Maya, that definitely left him shaken. He managed a small nod at her words, squeezing her wrists gently. “Good. Same goes for the other way around, you know,” he said softly.

“You’re the one who told me we needed to stop,” he pointed out, a teasing grin on his lips. “I’m only doing what I’m told.”

“Well if we don’t stop, I’ll make sure you’re too tired to go to this party, and I know how much you want to go,” she pointed out.

“You’re so mean to me, baby,” Lucas sighed, but his smile didn’t falter. “And I did stop. But then you complained that I did like you told me to.”