Who: Riley Matthews and Ash Lynburn What: Riley Cares About Strangers When: Thursday afternoon Where: Around Town Warnings: TBD Status: Closed/Match-Up/On-going
The whole having to tell the truth thing had actually been really good for Riley. Without that, she never would have talked to Lucas about what she hadn’t seen at home yet, and he probably would have never asked her to be his girlfriend. Again? For the first time? It depended on which one was being asked, probably. It was good that they’d talked.
A part of her wished that Maya or Uncle Shawn had taken advantage of the situation to ask her how she was, because she wasn’t really okay and she didn’t think they knew that. She thought that she put on a good front, didn’t think anyone knew anything was wrong, that she’d come back from being upset by her mother’s disappearance and every other thing that wasn’t right.
She was walking home from school, alone, having lied and said she had to make a stop, refused company, when she spotted a boy, a few years older, maybe her Uncle Josh’s age, who looked like he was going to be sick or something. And Riley, being Riley even at her worst, didn’t think for a second before going over to him.