Girl Meets Season 4

8. Girl Meets Friday Night Party

There was a party at the house of one of Lucas' and Zay's teammates after their baseball game on Friday and Riley wanted to go, but she was certain of one thing and that was her father's inability to actually let her do anything that would keep her leaving the house for anything that wasn't school, the café or Maya's house. But she knew from experience, and a little tatter tot, that lying was never the answer so she worked on gathering up the courage to ask her parents for permission to go to the party. As she walked back and forth in her room she realized that the only thing she could do was outright ask them and hope that they would be okay with it.

She walked into the living room to see her parents sitting in front of TV watching and episode of 20/20 they had on DVR from last Friday, since they had gone out on a date and missed it. Riley knew that her parents loved that show, and 60 minutes. They never missed an episode, and they always waited until her brother was asleep to watch it because they didn't want to be disturbed.

"Mom... Dad," she said as she stood by the couch. Her father engrossed in an exposé they were showing, her mother looking at her really quickly.

"Yeah Riley," her mother said smiling. "Is there something you need?"

"Well yeah, there's a party for the baseball team on Friday... and... well I want to go, and I thought I should ask now since I just got the invite."

"Yeah, sure whatever," her father said too engrossed in the show to actually notice what she was asking. Her mother nodded and kept watching the show along with her father. Riley couldn't figure out if they paying attention to what she was asking or paying attention to the show, but she knew one thing, and that was that they had given her permission.

She ran to her room and sent Maya text saying that her parents had said yes, Maya was more surprised than anything because she was sure that she would have to stuff a fake Riley into the bed and sneak her out.

When Maya came over the next day to pick her up for school Riley had walked out as quickly as she could. She didn't want to give her parents the chance to change their minds about letting her go.

"I can't believe they said that it was okay," Maya said as they walked towards their school. "Seriously did you ask them while they were sleeping?"

"No I asked them while they were sitting on the couch watching TV," Riley smiled. "It's so weird that they would say yes though, and now I'm afraid that they would change their minds."

"It's a good thing that the pep rally is during your dad's class because otherwise we would be in for a lesson about this, and he would probably tell you that he didn't want you to go."

The two of them walked into the school and dropped their stuff off at their lockers before going off to their first class. Riley kept her head down most of the day, answering questions from her teachers when she could, but always afraid that her father would burst through the door and tell her she wasn't allowed to go to the party. The pep rally for the baseball team started, they were in the finals as the season was winding down and the school was excited.

Lucas had finally found his groove in baseball after tryouts, and both him and Zay had gotten better. Farkle joined the team but only as the team manager, helping the coaches figure out the plays and to help with the training regime for the team. Together, the team was stronger and it made Riley smile that they had all found a rhythm in something sports related. Her three best guy friends were as close as she and Maya were, and Riley hoped that she would be able to bring out Smackle more often now that her boyfriend was on the team as well.

The game was after school, and the party was an hour after the game ended, so it didn't give Riley a lot of time to prepare. She had dressed like she would on any normal day and figured that it would be good enough for a party. She went to Maya's place so that Maya could change, because Maya didn't want to wear the same clothes she had on all day for the party. Unlike Riley, Maya had already gone to a couple of these parties, usually with Zay. Lucas normally spent his Friday's with Riley even after a game.