It's award time again and Mr. Matthews was discussing graduation and awards. Although he was interrupted by Maya standing up in protest.

"Awards are a scam! A girl like me never had a chance Matthews, never had a chance!"

Lucas only laughed silently at her action. It was clear that she was only playing around since the last protest got way out of hand. Maya looked over at her best friend. Challenging her to join in on her shenanigans.

"Alright, I'll do it, but it's ridiculous." She mumbled before standing and staring at her father. "It's a scam Matthews she never had a chance!"

Maya looked back at Mr. Matthews while he just shrugged and continued with his discussion.

"Maya, will be receiving Griff Hopkin's Totally Cool Award." Both girls sat back down, the blond not saying a word as she leaned back on to Lucas' desk.

"Maya, you just found out you won the Totally Cool Award, yet you just sit there?" Riley seemed bewildered at the concept. Maya could only look at her friend, no discernable expression on her face. "Oh, you're being cool. Why won't you rub off on me?"

The blond only gave a soft smile Lucas couldn't help that his lips mirrored hers. She really was the prettiest little thing he ever saw.

"And the two finalist for the Scholar Athlete Award are… Lucas Friar and Billy Ross."

"I hope you're ready for some competition dude." The dark skinned athlete smirked.

"Oh, well you know how I hate competition." The sarcasm dripping off his tongue.

The boys laughed awkwardly before staring at each other and then repeating the action. Maya could only stare at the unusual behavior from the Cowboy. It was weird to see him bantering with someone else. It did go unnoticed that it was all about competition and his tone was drastically different than when he was messing with Maya.

"Hey, Golden Boys. You want to hope down from your cloud of awesomeness? You're making us normal feel bad." Her tone had no inflection, but Lucas didn't miss that she gestured to Riley and herself. Although, he couldn't decipher why.

"Yeah! Right after our hand shake of awesomeness."

With that the athletes stood up and began the overly complex handshake that involved weird body wiggling, slapping each other's hands, and doing a chest bump that honestly looked like they just ran into each other. The girls only rolled their eyes and a few of their classmates wondered how they were not getting in trouble for being disruptive.

"Every day." Maya's tone was slightly annoyed, but still mostly monotone.

"Girls should have their own hand shake of awesomeness." Riley claimed.

"What would it be?" The girls shared a look before simultaneously crossing their legs flipping their hair and waving their hands in a dismissive fashion while stating in a very flirt tone "stop it".

Lucas looked back at Billy with a smile that claimed aren't they adorable. Billy could only shake his head, although the reason why wasn't that he disagreed with him. It was something deeper that he wasn't even able to grasp. Corey Matthews continued to list off recipients for awards beginning with Farkle, who will be getting an award for confidence.

"Farkle?"

"Farkle can't come to his desk right now. If you have a question for Farkle say one. A comment say two and fill in questions three." A robotic recording of the small boy's voice rang out through the small call box on his desk.

"One! Where are you?" Lucas was more focused on Maya's expressions than what was going on next to him. The way her eye's scrunched together in confusion at their missing friend. Her blue eye's widening the weirder the message was getting.

"You have selected three."

"No! I said one!" Corey was getting louder; more frustrated.

"I'm sorry, but we are experiencing rather high call volume. Your call will be answered in approximately thirty-five minutes." The number was stated in a much deeper pre-recorded tone. Maya's head tilted to the side. Confusion and worry evident in the way her lips formed a straight line.

"Representative!"

The bell rang to dismiss the class. Maya looked back at Lucas, silently telling him to wait in the hall. The blond knew Riley would pitch some kind of fit with her dad about not receiving an award and a few moments later she was proven correct.

"Hey, hop-a-long, something is going on with Farkle." Maya stated as soon as she saw him leaning against the lockers.

"Yeah, do you ladies have any idea as to what it is?" The response he got was negative. "Okay, well let's go find him. Riley, you check the classrooms. I will check the Library. Maya and Billy can check the computer lab and anywhere else you can think of."

They all spread out, Maya and Lucas went down one corridor while Billy and Riley walked down the other. With the computer lab being on the way to the library it only seemed logical that they would walk together. Lucas checking the class rooms they passed.

"Where could he be?" Lucas mumbled.

"I don't know, this is so not him."

Lucas looked at her. The concern in her eyes worried him. There was no doubt that he was worried about their friend as well, but he couldn't help but question if she would ever be this concerned about his well-being.

They checked the library to no avail and Lucas almost collapsed into one of the chairs. Maya didn't notice at first since she was talking to the librarian about where else Farkle could be. When she turned around Maya noticed the crinkle of skin between his eyes and the deep frown marring his face.

"Penny for your thoughts, Ranger Rick?" She had walked over and was leaning against the table next to him.

"I'm just worried about him. I just know something is going on and I doubt it's good."

"Same, but we need to keep looking. Come on, Cowboy, let's meet up with Riley and see if she had better luck."

"You really are amazing." He gave her a heart melting smile

"You really need to stop saying that. I'm no angel."

"Whatever you say, ma'am."