"What are you doing here?" Cory asked Lauren.
"I rode a bus for four hours. Is that all you have to say?" Lauren smiled at him.
"No!" Cory shouted. "You haven't gotten my message. I'll send it one more time, loud and clear: I love Topanga Lawrence! You kissed me, and it meant nothing to me. You need to move on to someone who is not taken! You don't understand that you've singlehandedly ruined my life!"
"Cory, we stayed up all night, talking. Doesn't that mean something?"
"It means that we are both nice people. What it doesn't mean is that I would throw my relationship with my girlfriend away just to be with you, which I wouldn't. You don't understand that I'm not interested!"
"Cory," Lauren said, "why don't you like me?"
"I do like you, Lauren."
"You what?" Topanga walked downstairs into Chubbie's, and had only heard that sentence.
"He likes me." Lauren smiled at Topanga.
"If it wasn't totally immoral and illegal, I could strangle you right now, on this very spot, Lauren!" Cory yelled. "Since we met, you've been trying to force me to do something I don't want to do. Did I kiss you?" Cory asked, loudly. Lauren's cheeks turned red. She didn't answer. "Did I kiss you?" Cory asked, in a quieter tone. Wordlessly, Lauren shook her head. "I didn't hear you." Cory said.
"No." she said.
"Did you kiss me?"
"Yes."
"Do you understand that unless you and Topanga, Angela, Shawn, and I can all be friends together, you are not welcome into any part of my life, ever?"
"Why?"
"You just bring trouble! I was about to make things right with Topanga, to be totally honest with her, and hope that she would be able to forgive me and trust me again. You walking in here just screwed that up. Do you want to screw up my life? Do you?"
"No." Lauren shook her head. "I'm sorry, Cory, but I'm attracted to you."
"I'm sorry, Lauren, but I am in love with Topanga. Please don't ever come here unless you can deal with that."
"Okay." Lauren agreed, and walked out.
"I'm sorry for ever doubting you, Cory." Topanga said, quietly. "I should have trusted you."
"It's okay." he slipped his arms around Topanga and hugged her tightly. "I love you."
"I love you, too." Topanga smiled at Cory, and he knew that everything was going to be okay.