Let's Do This! by Disney Book Group

Author:Disney Book Group
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Disney Book Group
Published: 2015-12-23T05:00:00+00:00

By the time the lunch bell rang, Riley was feeling better. She had decided there was no possible way Lucas was the guy Zay had suggested he was. She knew Lucas. He was the guy she and her friends had known for the past year. The New York Lucas. Nobody’s words—especially words from someone Lucas knew before—could change that. Because if those words were true, that would make Lucas a…No, she couldn’t even think it.

“We don’t know the story yet,” Maya said between bites of salad, clearly unaware that Riley had already figured out the whole thing. “Let’s know the story before you go to Rileytown.”

“I’m not going to Rileytown. I’m calm.”

“I like it worse when you’re calm,” Maya complained. “Come on, be you!”

Maya grabbed Riley’s arms, lifted them up, and made them flail all around her head as she did her best Riley impression, complete with an enthusiastic “Yyy­yyy­yaa­aaa­aay­yyy­yyy!”

Riley had to laugh when pieces of food flew off the fork that was still in her hand. But then up walked Lucas, and she grew serious. “Deny it,” she told him with a kind but determined smile as he sat down at the table.

“Riley—” Lucas said.

“Tell me whoever this Zay kid is, he can’t just come in here and change you from the Lucas we know,” she continued, reciting the instructions she’d been practicing in her head since first period. “Tell me nothing changes.”

“That’s all you have to do, Lucas,” Maya chimed in, backing up Riley, as she almost always did. “You hear me? I just called you by your actual name for the first time ever. That’s how important this is to me. Because it’s important to her.” Maya paused for a moment, placing a hand gently on Riley’s shoulder, and then urgently whispered, “Deny it.”

Lucas shook his head and simply said, “I can’t.”

Who knew those two little words could bring Riley’s whole world crashing down? She sat there for a moment, trying to wrap her head around what Lucas had just revealed.

“I like you,” Riley finally told him, determined to be as honest as she’d ever been in her whole life. Something he, apparently, hadn’t been. “I went on my first date with you. Do you think it’s right to let me like you without telling me who you are?”

The way he smiled when she told him she liked him nearly melted Riley’s heart. Nearly. But relationships weren’t based on smiles.

“You know who I am,” Lucas insisted, his green eyes as sincere as they’d always been. “I’m Ranger Rick. We rode on a white horse. I asked your father’s blessing just to go on a date with you. Who does that?”

He had a point—a lot of points. But what about the stuff Zay had said? “Were you thrown out of school?” Riley asked.

“Yes.”

“For a whole year?”

“Yes.”

“I finally like you,” Maya interjected, pointing a forkful of lettuce at him.

“You told me you wanted to be a veterinarian,” Riley recounted. “You told me you gave birth to a horse.”

“That had to hurt,” Maya added with a slight southern drawl.

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