Lie To Me

Riley’s P.O.V.

Luke and I stumbled home to be greeted by Sarah.
“Where have you two been? We’ve been worried sick.”
“Then why are you the only one awake?” Luke laughed.
I chuckled, “I needed some fresh air after the phone call from Hunter. Luke came with to make sure I was okay.”
“Luke. I need a minute with Riley.”
He saluted and walked upstairs.
“Riley...” Sarah spoke sternly.
“What?”
“You’re engaged! What are you doing?”
“You said you wanted me happy...”
“I do, but at least break it off with Hunter before falling back into Luke’s bed.”
I paused.
“Riley Ann... You didn’t.”
“I may have...”
“Riley! Oh my god!”
“Shhhh! We don’t need to wake everyone up.”
“You need to make up your mind. You have a freaking dress appointment tomorrow.”
“Oh crap.. I forgot.”
“You better start figuring it out.” she scowled, then walked off.
--
The next morning I jumped in the shower and got ready for the busy day ahead.
I played with my hair to get it to look okay.
“You look great, stop trying.” Luke spoke from behind me, I blushed.
“Thanks.”
“Where ya goin’?”
“Dress shopping...”
“Wedding dress shopping..?”
I nodded shamefully.
“Can I go?”
“It’s kind of a girl thing.” I laughed.
“Send me pictures then?”
“Will do.” I smiled as he walked away.
I tried facetiming Hunter, but it was declined.
I sent him a selfie on snapchat ‘Ready to dress shop til I drop.’ I captioned it, hoping it would get some sort of response. It was also my kind of apology.
I walked down to the livingroom and found Crystal and Sarah.
“Crystal do you want to go with today?”
“I would love to!” she smiled.
“Ready to go?” I asked.
Sarah nodded as they both got up.
--
“What about this one?” I asked, the girls shook their head.
A few minutes later I came out again “This one?” not a good response again.
I looked across the salon and saw the dress of my dreams. Literally. I had dreamt of this dress since seeing it on an episode of Say Yes To The Dress.
“Is that a Tornai?” I asked the stylist.
“It is. Straight from Kleinfeld this morning.”
“Can I?”
“It’s out of budget.”
“I can adjust the budget.” I smiled.
Sarah gave me a look, “Ry, that was in that cheesy wedding portfolio you did in fashion design in college. That was the dress you said you’d choose when-”
“I know.” I stopped her.
“When what?” Crystal asked.
“When I thought I would marry Luke. Sarah is convinced I still have high hopes of that.”
“Don’t you?” Crystal smiled.
“You know what. I want both of you up here in dresses too. Pick something you’ve always seen yourself in.”
“What? Why?” they asked.
“You’ll see. Go.”
The stylist came back with my dress and the girls came back with theirs. We each stepped out at the same time.
“Wow.” We all gasped.
Sarah was in a gorgeous lace dress, Crystal in a form fitted dress, and myself in the crystal bodice princess gown.
“If you don’t know who you’re marrying in that dress, you’re lying.” I smiled.
“Michael.” Crystal smiled.
“Ashton, for sure.” Sarah spoke.
Luckily they were so into their dresses they didn’t ask me.
“Is this the dress, Riley?” The stylist asked.
“It is.” I smiled.
I changed back into regular clothes and walked over to the cash register while Crystal and Sarah changed.
“It’s been taken care of.” The cashier smiled.
“What?”
“Your fiance took care of it. You are Riley Jones right?”
“Yes? But my fiance..”
“We know.” she smiled.
“Do you?” I asked, but she ignored me. She handed me the dress.
“You got yourself a keeper. He had it overnighted from Kleinfeld just for your appointment today.”
“Thanks...” I sort of smiled, taking the dress.
“You paid for it up front?” Sarah gasped as we got outside.
“I guess so.” I spoke, still confused. “I need to call Hunter.”
The girls smiled, taking the dress to the car as I stayed behind.
“Hello?” a girl answered.
“Who is this?”
“Who is this?”
“Hunter’s fiance. Is he around?”
The phone fumbled around and soon Hunter picked up.
“Sorry, new assistant. She hasn’t learned not to answer my personal.”
“Hmm. Well I was calling to check in.”
“I’m sorry for what I said last night.” he spoke sincerely.
“Me too... For going and not telling you.”
“I forgive you, if you forgive me.” I could tell he was smiling.
“Deal. And thank you by the way.”
“For?”
“Well the other day I went shopping and the cashier told me it was already taken care of, then today--”
“Wait, I didn’t pay for anything from this distance, love. I’d love to, but it’s impossible.”
“Oh..”
“What happened today?”
“I found the dress.”
“That’s amazing! You went over budget, didn’t you?”
I chuckled, “Uh, not exactly. It was tempting though.”
“God, I miss you.”
“I miss you too. How’s the trip?”
“Long and full of meetings. Sorry I missed your facetime.”
“That’s okay. I understand.”
“I have another one in a few minutes, so I’ll talk to you again soon?”
“Sure.”
“I love you.”
“You too.”
I ended the call.
“How’d it go?” Sarah asked.
“Good.” I smiled, so did she.
“The boys want to know if we’d like to go to the amusement park today.” Crystal stated, looking at her phone.
“Sure.” Sarah and I shrugged.
My phone buzzed.
L: Love all the pictures. You looked great in the last dress.
R: Thanks,,, Question.
L: Shoot!
R: Nvm. It’s crazy. See you at the amusement park?”
L: Can’t wait :)
Did Luke buy the things the other day? The wedding dress? If not... Who did?

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