Disclaimer: I only own Emerald, Anna, and Seth but no one else so far.

Word Count: 891

Pairings: Riley/Lucas, Maya/Farkle, Zay/May


John Quincy Adams Middle school halls were crowded. Kids going to class and lockers a real problem for new girl Emerald Bell. She was a little late for her first class. When she walked in the teacher asked for some paperwork. "You can see that I was on the top of my grade."

"Emerald Bell from Austin, Texas. Lucas? Zay?"

"Em what are you doing here?" Lucas asked.

"Anna let me move up here with Seth."

"How do you know each other cowboy?" Maya Hart asked Lucas.

"Oh. I went to school with him and Zay." Emerald said. She was in a black Nickelback shirt, blue jeans, and black combat boots.

"You better than Mr. Friar over here." The teacher said.

"Really? I did know that. I was always better than Luke. You should've seen his grade back in Texas."

"I'm Riley Matthews." Riley Matthews said smiling and trying to poke Emerald's face. Lucas saw this.

"Riley that's not a good idea." Lucas warned Riley but she poked her face anyways. Lucas and Zay jumped when they saw Emerald tense up but she calmed herself down. "Em, are you ok?"

"Yeah. So this is the happy going-lucky gal you two been talking about."

"Yeah." Zay said.

Maya shook her head at Riley then turned to the new girl and asked, "What's going on between you three?"

"Well let's just said that we are best friends."

"Miss. Bell please sit behind Farkle." The teacher said. "Oh by the way I'm Mr. Matthews." Emerald went and sat by Zay and behind Farkle. "Ok Belgium 1831."

"Luke and Zay I need to talk to you after class." Emerald whispered.

"Ok meet us in the hallway." Lucas said then turned back to Mr. Matthews.

"Are you fine learning that Miss. Bell?" Mr. Matthews asked.

"I learned it last year."

"Ok if you learned it last year then tell us about it." Mr. Matthews said then Emerald walked up there.

"It was the Belgian Revolution. The far-reaching meddling of the Protestant William I irritated various groups in the South, including the Catholics, the French speakers, and the Liberals. However, imminent revolt was still out of the question. This changed after the July Revolution in France of 1830, which saw the overthrow of the French king. Soon thereafter, incidents also broke out in the Southern Netherlands, beginning in Brussels.

The king sent both his sons to Brussels, but to little avail. A truce was ultimately negotiated, after which a long period of political bickering ensued. William I refused to meet the demands of the Belgians, making secession inevitable. In a final attempt to have his way, he deployed the army one more time, part of which was already stationed in Rijen in the province of Noord-Brabant. It crossed into Belgium, at Poppel, on the 2nd of August 1831."

"Wow." Farkle said. "And I thought I was a genius."

"Well if that is good for you Farkle, can we do something now?"

"Yeah." Farkle said.

"Ok everyone we are going to do group projects. I will assign the group and give you a list of a project to do." Mr. Matthews said then started assigning groups. "Emerald, Riley, Lucas, Zay, Maya, and Farkle." Was the last group he said then handed out the list. "This is due Friday October 30th. Now get in your group to see what you are doing." Riley and Maya their desk to everyone and Lucas and Farkle turned their desk to face each other.

"So what do you want to do." Lucas said then saw Emerald reading the list that was in her face. "Forgot?"

"They are is Texas. Anna is sending them up here so I have to go without for the next week." Emerald said then Lucas grabbed something from his backpack.

He handed her a pair of glasses. "Here use mine." Emerald put them on.

"Wait Ranger Rick has glasses?" Maya asked.

"Yeah. Is that a problem?" Emerald asked a little cocky.

"No but he never wore them before." Maya said.

"Ok good." Emerald said then finished reading the list.

"How about we do this at my house tonight?" Riley asked.

"Yeah. Um... Is it ok if I bring my laptop?"

"Yeah sure." Riley said

{Time skip to the hallway with Emerald, Zay, and Lucas}

"So what do you need to talk about?" Zay asked looking at Emerald.

"I reason why I come here is because Michael got out of jail. He is looking for us."

"Crap. Are you staying with us?" Lucas wondered

"Yeah. I was waiting for then I came here to tell you so Anna booked me a room." Emerald explained. "He got out a few day again that is why Anna sent me to live up here. I flipping hate it. Michael won't stop looking for us as long as he or us lives."

"We know." Zay said then looked at his watch and saw it was time to go home. "How about we take you to the hotel to get your stuff then we go home? We can also show you Riley's place."

"Ok." Emerald said then the three of them walked out of the school.