Lucas Friar
19 years old.
In spite of his good grades and extracurriculars, Lucas still hesitated when applying for colleges. No matter the circumstances, getting expelled from school for putting a racist into the hospital and getting held back a year was never something schools were happy to see for when considering applicants.
Baylor was a surprise. Not only had they seen him play football, but baseball too. And they wanted him. And so did a handful of others.
Before the end of his junior year, he had more than half a dozen schools reaching out wanting him to come and play for them.
Then tragedy struck.
A drunk driver nearly took out Auggie when they were celebrating the first day of summer. Instead, Lucas shoved him out of the way and was hit instead.
He lost part of his left leg, his scholarships, and his identity in an instant.
It took eight months to come to a decision to even go to college at all. But after watching Topanga fight when Zay was arrested for just walking around, he decided to apply to NYU for law so he could help people too.
He's been single ever since he broke up with Riley three weeks after his accident. It was too much to have her worrying and doting on him.
And he didn't feel like himself after seeing himself in his prosthetic. If he couldn't give her all of him, she deserved a chance to be with someone who could.
He's working on himself now. Wanting to be able to fully accept that he's not Mr. Perfect, and that's okay. And when that day comes, if Riley is still open, he wants to try and rekindle what they had.