Fighting For Her - A 'Warrior' Fanfiction

The Best Friend

Riley had gotten home that night with puffy eyes from crying. She told Anna everything. The ice bath, Miguel, the bar and then dinner. She couldn't help but cry again as she told her the story of Tommy's teenage life.

"So he was naked in front of you?" Anna asked on the edge of her seat, eyes as big as saucers.

"Is that really all you got out of that?" Riley scoffed and shook her head.

"No, no. I'm only joking." She got up and sat next to Riley, laying her arm on her shoulders. "So what are you going to do?"

"I'm going to talk to him tomorrow." Riley said matter-of-factly.

"Well look at you, making grown-up decisions!" Anna got up and poured some tequila into two glasses. She walked over and passed one to her best friend.

"What's this for?" Riley swirled the clear liquid around.

"I don't know about you, but I need a drink after hearing that story." Anna swigged the drink back, twisting her face up after swallowing.

Riley laughed and took the shot. She stuck her tongue out at the burn.

"Plus," Anna poured a little more, "Its almost a certain girlies birthday! So we can celebrate early!" They clinked their glasses as a toast and took the second round of shots.

Riley felt like a vampire as the sun shined through her windshield. She fumbled for her sunglasses and sighed happily when she placed them over her face.

"Ahhh, much better." She regretted taking all those shots with Anna the night before as soon as she woke up, feeling like the got hit by a train. She felt drained, but the first thing on her agenda was going to see Tommy.

Her All-Star high tops dragged through the front doors of Colts. Fenroy raised his eyebrows at her and stretched his arm to the side, ushering her to the gym. She nodded her head at him as a thanks and walked past the black fencing. She immediately saw Tommy in the corner, beating the crap out of a bag.

He froze as soon as he heard her dragging feet behind him. He let his breath catch up with him before he turned to face her. She stood silent, arms crossed over her leather jacket. Tommy finally turned and saw that she was wearing sunglasses indoors. He furrowed his brows together and smiled a bit.

Immediately she shook her head. "Oh no. Don't you smile at me Tommy." He dropped his head and looked up at her.

"Ri. I'm really sorry. I didn't mean any of that shit I said." His face was serious and sincere. His eyes searched through the dark shades for her own. "I know my dad told you everything."

"He did." She hadn't moved. Her arms still crossed. He pulled his gloves off and stood in front of her. He put his hands on her cheeks and brought his face closer to hers. Her chest rose, her breathing got heavy.

"The last thing I ever want to do is hurt you Riley." He kissed her forehead and took her in his arms.

She hugged him back and fought the tears that wanted to roll out of her eyes. He let go and stared at her for a moment.

"You're like my best friend, you know. Just don't tell Anna." It hurt him a little to say friend but he knew that's what she wanted to hear. She laughed at the Anna joke and finally smiled.

"So what's with the sunglasses? You know you're inside right?" He started to strap his gloves back on.

"Ah. Speaking of Anna. She thought it would be a good idea to take tequila shots until one a.m. last night." She peeled the glasses off her face but decided it was still too bright so she immediately put them right back on again. "I'm just going to sit here. Resume what you were doing, please."