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Riley Matthews. FIERCE FUTURE LAWYER. To everybody who told me while I was growing up that I was going to be just like my dad, HA! I'm going to be an amazing lawyer, just like my mommy. (I'm not planning on running a cafe in my spare time yet, I want to focus on being amazing at one thing first before I take on the world.) I'm in my first year at Columbia Law School, and even better than that, I'm living on my own for the first time ever with my best friends Maya and Farkle. They may not love the fact that I tried to decorate my room with a ton of purple cats, or that my alarm wakes us up every morning with the Cuddle Bunnies theme song (some things are just too great to outgrow!) but they're the best roommates in the whole world (even if my uncle Josh comes over all the time to see Maya, ew.) JOSHAYA/LUCADORA/RIARKLE RP

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What's one thing you want to cross off your bucket list before the end of the year?

I already did mine, I taught Smackle how to be a party girl!

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Get your party on, New York!

If you’re over the age of 21 (sorry, young Matthews and friends) and I’ve actually spoken to you in the last two years, you’re invited to a party of sorority proportions tomorrow night, Thursday, in my apartment. Alcohol and food will be provided, but of course feel free to bring more of your own. Consider tonight a test run - if it goes well, I very well may start hosting more of these soirees, and if not, at least I know I don’t have a knack for hosting. See you all then.

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Yaaaaaaaaaay! I already picked my dress, and yours, and I’m working on finding the perfect one for Maya, too -- what do you think, is this more of a red or a yellow party for her?

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[PM] Riley, I'm planning on throwing a shindig this Thursday evening. If you could come over slightly earlier to help me set up and make sure I understand all the party games sufficiently, I'd greatly appreciate it.

[PM] YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY![PM] I knew you had it in you! We’re going to be PARTY GIRLS. What time should I be there?

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[PM] As party girl as I can get. I’d really appreciate your company around 5 PM, perhaps? I’ll order food just for us as incentive.

[PM] Also Lucas might be there to help move furniture around. I hope that’ll be alright by you.

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[PM]: Do I need to bring you clothes? I mean, you have great clothes, but are they beer drinking, crazy dancing clothes? I’ll definitely be there, though.

[PM]: Totally! We’re friends, Smackle. Just like you and Farkle. No problemo :)

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TEXT MESSAGE ✉ RIARKLE

Farkle: Technically he's always had Targaryen blood, but until he gets proclaimed a Targaryen by a royal, legally, he belongs to no family. And the legal last name for bastards born in Dorne is actually Sand, so his name should be Jon Sand if we're getting really technically.

Farkle: At least they won't be alone taking care of the baby? They've got your parents who obviously got something right in the child raising process. And they've got us. You sound bitter about not getting that rabbit, though :P

Farkle: TRUE. Those were some weird days lol

Riley: Ew, I don't like that. He's much better as a Jon Snow. Do you think they're going to adopt him and give him a real name finally? I know he always wanted that!

Riley: I'm a lotta work :-p or so people keep telling me. They're going to be okay, though. They have to be. And I'm going to get to be the cool Aunt this time! I'll be way better than Josh ever was and I'll never make their best friend their uncle. No! I thought I was doing such a good job hiding it.

Riley: WHO EATS PICKLE PIZZA? :(

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TEXT MESSAGE ✉ RIARKLE

Farkle: Always

Farkle: Sometime this weekend, then. I'm sure it'll be fine, Riley. I know it's unexpected but your parents are the best. They won't let those kids go through this alone.

Farkle: Can you imagine if one of us had gotten pregnant that young? O.O

Riley: And he's one of the Targaryen's now, right? But I don't get it because he doesn't have Stark hair or Targaryen hair if you ask me. He seems like an imposter in the dragon family without being super blonde.

Riley: I know they won't, but I'm still just so worried about them. Nobody even trusted me with a pet rabbit when I was their age! And now they're going to have a real, teeny, tiny, human baby.

Riley: OMG no! It was weird enough when we were around Maya's pregnant mom :o

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[PM] Riley, I'm planning on throwing a shindig this Thursday evening. If you could come over slightly earlier to help me set up and make sure I understand all the party games sufficiently, I'd greatly appreciate it.

[PM] YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY![PM] I knew you had it in you! We’re going to be PARTY GIRLS. What time should I be there?

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text ✉ rucas

Lucas: Yeah, Riley. I'm okay. I'll see you later, okay?

Riley: Yeah, see you :)

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Lucas: Yeah, I know. Forget I said anything, okay, Riles?

Riley: Do you promise you're okay?

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Lucas: And you guys were really happy here, without me.

Riley: We're happy here now that you're back, too!

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Lucas: Yeah, I know you did. Sometimes I just wish I didn't leave.

Riley: You shouldn't wish that. You seemed really happy in Texas!

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text ✉ rucas

Lucas: That wasn't what I was trying to say. You think I don't know life went on without me? I got back to New York and everything was different.

Riley: We weren't that different, were we? We missed you :(

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I think I’d personally be okay keeping my job a secret, but you’re more gregarious than I am so that doesn’t surprise me. Mr. and Mrs. Smith is highly improbable in real life - real spies have more knowledge as to who their surrounding spies may be, but I see what you mean. For the record, it’ll be a future husband, if I ever find someone who can keep up intellectually but is also emotionally present, understanding, and yummy enough to justify keeping around forever.

If it’s a purple cat that gets sneaked my way, I’ll know who to blame.

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Even if they’re competing spies? I feel like James Bond and also the Totally Spies girls never knew who their enemies were until it was too late. Just making sure! I wanted you to know that I was totally accepting of your future choices -- except maybe if you wanted to marry an animal, I learned at a very young age that that’s totally inappropriate and that I was not allowed to marry a bunny one day.

Hair dye is hard enough to use on humans; a cat would totally claw me before I could ever turn it purple, silly.

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TEXT MESSAGE ✉ RIARKLE

Farkle: I thought it was cute :-P And you've always had a magical quality to you, if anyone could end up pulling a rabbit out of a Phillies hat it would've been you. LOL, you have a thing for the bastard? XD

Farkle: When's the next time you have a full free day? We can start then.

Riley: It would have been cuter if a bunny had come out of it like it was supposed to :( But thank you for always believing in me and my magic career, Farkle. Wait, I thought he wasn't one anymore now?! See, I told you this show was too confusing for me!

Riley: Sometime this weekend? Unless an emergency Matthews family meeting gets called :( I'm still waiting for the baby bomb to drop.

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text ✉ rucas

Lucas: You never watched it with me, I couldn't be sure!

Riley: My life still happened when you weren't there, silly. Just because I didn't do stuff with you doesn't mean I never did it.

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Lucas: Have you seen The Wabbit Who Came To Supper?

Riley: Have /I/ seen The Wabbit Who Came To Supper? Who do you think I am, buddy?

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TEXT MESSAGE ✉ RIARKLE

Farkle: Literally crazy! The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, Captain Riley! iZombie it is, then! You've done more than enough work on shows you don't like to deserve some fun ones, anyway :-P

Farkle: I can't pretend you probably won't get other great gifts from me in another three years, no :-P You're already giving me the best gift, though - living with your best friend in New York is the dream!

Riley: Let's not talk about all those times I tried to pull a rabbit out of my Phillies hat, okay? I learned eventually. I just watch Game of Thrones with you guys because Jon Snow is cute :-p

Riley: It totally is the dream! We need to start our Maya-free decorating sometime soon, though. I've been kind of stockpiling purple cats in my room...

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I imagine it simply gets easier with age and experience but I’ll let you know if I think of anything else. I’m not a secret member of the army, though if I were, admitting it to anyone would be a bad move. It’s just some research I’m doing to potentially submit to a grant research project to win enough earnings to make my findings applicable. 

Soulmates don’t exist, and my house is very animal-proof, but perhaps. It’d be foolish to say anything was completely impossible.

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I don’t think I’d ever be able to have a job that I couldn’t tell my family and friends about. And what if I was a spy or something and I got married to someone who was also secretly a spy and we were opposing spies and our marriage fell apart like Mr. and Mrs. Smith? I don’t want that for you, Smackle! I want you to be able to tell your future husband or wife what you do all day because you’re so smart and you should be able to tell them about it. 

Maybe one of your friends will sneak you a cat because they want you to have a pet! That probably sounds more like us.