Girl Meets Junior Year

I don't own GMW!

Riley Matthews was a ray of sunshine and joy. She loved her family and her friends and her life. Her best friend was Maya Penelope Hart, she was in love with Lucas Friar, and she was happy with her life. Riley Matthews didn't want anything to change, it may be her junior year of high school but nothing could go wrong, ever. Her life was pretty great if she did say so herself.

It was the first day of junior year for Riley, Maya, Lucas, Zay, Farkle, and Smackle. They went to their advisor and got their schedules to find that they had almost every class together, per usual. Their first class was taught by Riley's father, History, with Cory Matthews.

They strolled into the classroom, chatting cheerfully, and took their seats, front and center. The bell rang and Mr. Matthews started class.

"Welcome back everyone. I hope you all had a great summer and are as excited as I am to be back at school." Cory said. He was met with groans and a couple of grunts.

Suddenly the door swung open to reveal a girl standing in the doorway, her black hair falling to her hips and her wide green eyes framed by long lashes. She was the most beautiful girl the class had ever seen. Even dressed in just jeans and a bright red blouse she looked like a princess.

"Oh hello?" Cory asked hesitantly "Welcome to history. You can call me Mr. Matthews. What's your name?"

"Lilith. Lilith Pane." Her musical voice floated through the room, and at the sound of it Farkle, who had been gazing at her transfixed slumped out of his chair and to the floor. At the thump Lilith looked startled and watched as Maya dropped Farkle's book from the desk onto the boy's stomach.

"Okay then!" Mr. Matthews smiled "Miss Pane you can sit over there next to Mr. Minkus. Farkle stand up please." He sighed, sometimes he really missed middle school.

"Thank you." Lilith smiled politely and took her seat next to Farkle. "So, I'm sorry maybe I misunderstood, but is your name 'Farkle?'"

"She said my name..." Farkle sighed dreamily.

"I'll take that as a yes then." Lilith stuck out her hand and shook Farkle's firmly. "Nice to meet you."

Meanwhile Cory was liking the new student more and more. She was nice to Farkle and, looking at her report card, he saw that she was a straight A student.

"Well," he started class again "I know most of you but you might not all know each other, so let's go around the room and introduce ourselves and say one thing you did this summer. Sound good?"

Riley stuck her hand up "Me first Daddy! Please!" Lilith's eyes widened for a moment before Riley began "My name is Riley Matthews and this summer I spent time with my best friends!"

Clearly this was the teacher's daughter Lilith realized and breathed a sigh of relief. As the class went around the room introducing themselves Lilith listened carefully and wrote down everyone's names in her notebook. She liked to know who she had class with, that way if she missed a day she would know who to talk to.

Finally the class got around to Lilith. "Hi my name is Lilith Pane and this summer I traveled a lot."

"Where did you go?" Riley asked curiously.

"Paris, Spain, Rome, France. A lot of places." Lilith told her.

"What did you do there?" Riley pressed.

"Oh my parents work has them travel a lot so in the summers I go with them." Not a lie but not the truth either.

"Cool!" The class chorused and Lilith blushed lightly.

Farkle stared at the black haired beauty before him. He couldn't think straight. She seemed so familiar but he couldn't figure out from where. So instead he smiled and watched her take notes in neat small print. He watched her sign her name in perfect cursive with swirling loops and perfect letters.

Lucas watched transfixed. The girl in front of him was pretty, funny, and smart. Every time Mr. Matthews asked a question she raised her hand and answered correctly. He found himself wishing he could get to know her better, maybe she could be a part of their little group of friends.

Maya smirked at the new girl's sassy comments and bright smile. She liked this chick's style. This girl was clearly going to be popular, and honestly, Maya thought she was really pretty awesome.

The bell rang for lunch and Lilith stood up, packing her blue and grey backpack with her notebooks and binders, she grabbed her lunchbox and headed out the door. On her way to the cafeteria she stopped by her locker and grabbed her textbook for her AP psychology class. As she closed her locker a tall boy with curly red hair cane up to her.

"Hey, How you doing?" He asked, then without giving her the chance to respond said "Look you're hot. I wanna date you. Be my girlfriend?"

"No thanks." Lilith turned away only to find the boy's hand on her shoulder.

"Why not?" He growled "In case you didn't notice, sweetheart, I wasn't exactly asking."

Suddenly he was pulled off her by the boy who sat behind her in history class. She couldn't remember his name at the moment but pressed herself against the lockers for a second then going over and stopping the boy from hurting the red headed boy.

"Hey! Stop! I'm okay. You don't need to hurt him. I'll report him to the principal during lunch." She gently put her hand on the boy's shoulder and he instantly relaxed.

"Are you sure?" He asked and Lilith nodded "Well I'd feel better if I came with you anyway. My name's Lucas, Lucas Friar."

"Lilith Pane." She introduced herself.

"Hey? You wanna eat lunch with my friends and I?" Lucas asked.

"Sure. That would be cool." Lilith was glad he was inviting her to hang out with his friends and not just him alone. They walked into the cafeteria together and Lucas got in the lunch line and told her he would introduce her to his friends when he got his food. Lilith waited a few minutes before he came back and they walked over to a table by the window.

Farkle was already sitting there and when Lucas and Lilith sat down next to him he went back into the dreamy state he was in in class.

"Hi Farkle." Lilith greeted "How are you?"

"Blah-la-la-la-loo!" Farkle said sighing.

Lilith laughed "Well I hope that's good!"

"Very." Lucas explained "It means Farkle's found his third."

"Third what?" Lilith asked confused.

"The third love of his life." Maya plopped her tray down across from Lilith. "Riley and I are the first two."

"First two what?" Riley skipped over and set her tray down. "Hi Lilith. Can I call you Lily? I love lilies!"

"Oh, um, no. Please don't." Lilith said nervously.

"Why? Don't you like lilies?" Riley asked.

"No I like the flower fine. I just don't like the name."

"Oh," Riley slumped a little "Okay."

"Hey! What's the big idea?" Maya asked rudely "She wants to give you a nickname. It's what she does. I'm Peaches, he's Huckleberry, and Farkle's, well, Farkle."

"I'm sorry. I just don't like the name Lily. You can call me Lil if you want." Lilith told Riley.

"Lil!" Riley grinned widely and sat up. "I like it!"

"Okay, I'm gonna call you Flower Girl." Maya decided.

"Okay, I guess." Lilith smiled.

"So..." Riley leaned forward "Tell is about yourself. Who are you Lil? What's your favorite thing to do? Favorite place you've been to?"

"I'm Lilith Pane, read, swim, and sing, and Colorado." Lilith answered.

"Really? Why Colorado?" Maya asked.

"It's so beautiful. There are trees everywhere and it's so full of nature. Not to mention I love to ski." Lilith told them.

"Yeah we know your name, but who are you? Tell us all your secrets!" Riley said excited.

"Um, I'm sorry. I don't know you guys all that well. Can we start slower?" Lilith shook nervously.

"We know everything about each other. Riley and I can read each other's minds." Maya told Lilith. "Ready?"

Together they said "One, two, three clouds! One, two, three rainbows! One, two, three Farkle!"

"Wow. That is impressive. But I prefer to keep some things private. Now if you'll excuse me." Lilith stood up and walked away, tired of the questions and pushing.

"Hey!" A girl with long blonde hair, a short boy, and another girl with long brown hair and glasses came up to her.

"Are you okay? You seem upset." The blonde said "My name's Darby. This is my boyfriend Yogi and our friend Sara."

"Nice to meet you. I'm Lilith and yes I'm fine. Just annoyed."

"With the golden group?" Sara asked.

"Who?" Lilith quirked an eyebrow.

"Riley, Maya, Lucas, Farkle, and Zay." Yogi explained.

"Oh. I guess, a little. They just ask a lot of questions. I prefer to keep some things private." Lilith told the group.

"Well you're welcome to hang out with us if you want. We are pretty popular so you're gonna have to deal with everyone else, but, you are very pretty and you seem cool. I think you'll fit right in." Sara told her.

"Okay, I think you guys are pretty cool too." Lilith walked away with the new group.

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