we were so young and invincible.

summary: i look back to that one and only summertime, when my girl was the envy of every friend of mine / fearsome foursome take a road trip.

a/n: Based on the song "Kids in Love" by Mayday Parade (more the music video rather than the lyrics). I'm putting the lyrics that inspired each chapter in the beginning of each day, but please note that they are not in order. If you're wondering about pairings it's mostly Rucas with a little hint of Markle, Joshaya, and one-sided Rilaya.

Please note that I did not do too much research about the distance between New York and Texas.

Disclaimer: I do not own the show or any characters on Girl Meets World nor the song "Kids in Love".


Day 1

"I look back to the one and only summer time..."


It was a hot day July as Riley Matthews, Maya Hart, Farkle Minkus, and Lucas Frair gathered in front of their regular hang out spot, Topanga's. Today was the long await day that the foursome had been planning for years.

The plan was first incepted their first day of their freshmen year by Riley. The four friends along with Zay Babineaux were eating together like they did in their middle school days. On one side of the table sat Farkle, Maya, and Zay. Directly across from Maya and Zay respectively, sat Rily and Lucas. Farkle and Riley were engaged in a lively conversation about their shared class while Maya picked half-heartedly at her food. Lucas and Zay were reminiscing about their childhood in Texas when the sandy blonde boy blurted out, "I'm definitely moving back one day."

Maya, who was loosely paying attention to the conversation about Advanced Algebra 2 between Farkle and Riley, snorted, "Seriously Ranger Rick? Could you be anymore of a cowboy?" Lucas glared at her, but she knew him enough to know it wasn't a serious glare.

"You know Maya," Zay swung his arm around the girl catching the attention of other two sitting at the table. "There's more to Texas than cowboys and hee-haws."

"Oh really?" Maya raised an eyebrow at the boy. Zay smirked.

"Of course there is," Riley pointed out. "There are armadillos!" the rest of the group stared amused at her abrupt entrance into the conversation.

"Of course there are Riles," the blonde boy absentmindedly smiled at the girl. The three friends on the other side of the table looked among themselves knowingly. "But Zay's right!" Lucas turned to his friend. "There's so much more to Texas than country!"

"Farkle would love to visit the place you called home," the smart boy said.

"I'd love to take you guys there," Lucas said. Maya rolled her eyes.

"Yeah? Well, we don't exactly have the means to go there," she said sourly. "We don't drive and we don't have money."

"Of course not," Riley reasoned. "But we will in couple years. I say we do a road trip!"

"A road trip?" Zay questioned. Riley smiled brightly.

"Yes! Oh my god, it would be perfect! We can do it after high school!"

"This is a serious plan?" Farkle asked. Riley just continued to nod estatically.

"Come on guys, we can drive there after Lucas gets accepted into Texas A & M and-" Lucas cuts her off. "What?"

"Oh naturally I assumed that still is your first choice of schools..." Riley trailed off.

"It is," he said quietly. "I just didn't think you would remember that."

"Of course I did," Riley beams. Lucas reaches for her hand under the table and squeezes it. Farkle watches amused while Maya and Zay made gagging faces at each other.

"Wow Riles, that means a lot that you remember that sort of thing." The two continue to stare at each other with googly eyes when Zay moved his arm from Maya's shoulders and snapped at them (literally).

"Aye, hate to cut into your little lovefest, but you were saying?" Riley snapped out of her moment with Lucas as she casually formulated a plan for a big trip following their graduation. Maya had her doubts and Farkle wasn't all into that idea, but Zay pressed them to continue talking about it. Eventually, all five them agreed that Riley's road trip idea would be great. The conversation lasted until the end of lunch period.

After that first conversation, the four continued to elude to the eventual possibility of committing to the Texas trip. In the middle of the their sophomore year, Zay transferred back to Texas. He and Lucas remained close, but his communication with the other three kids slowly decreased over the years.

Their senior year of high school, Lucas was granted early admission into Texas A & M. When he announced this to the group at Topanga's, Riley was the first to congratulate him, Farkle slapped him on the back, and Maya took this opportunity to bring up the road trip again.

"So I guess we're really going to Texas, huh?" The group looked blankly at her before breaking out into smiles. "Hell yeah we are!"

Months later, the four kids were standing in front of Topanga's.

"I want you kids to be careful," Cory Matthews said wearily. His wife Topanga bit her tongue understanding that his paranoia was justified at this particular moment. Riley, his oldest, rolled her eyes and smiled at her parents.

"Dad," she scolded mildly. "We're been planning this trip for ages now. Plus we're all 18, we'll be fine." She stood confidently. Her father glanced down at her mother pleading for assistance. The older woman smiled.

"We know, but we, as your parents, still reserve the right to worry about your well being." Riley pouted.

"I don't see anyone else's parents badgering them about safety!" She complained. Little did she know that a couple feet away, her best friend Maya was being lectured by her mother and sort-of-step-father Shawn Hunter.

"Be careful, Maya." The older man said.

"Okay dad," she rolled her eyes playfully. She threw her duffel bag into the back of Lucas's SUV.

"I'm serious," Shawn grabbed the girl by her shoulders. "I've done the whole travel across the country thing. I want you to pay extra attention to your surroundings and make good decisions." Katy smiled at Shawn's protectiveness.

"He's right baby girl," Katy caressed her daughter's cheek. "Be careful out there." Maya shrugged her shoulders free from Shawn's grip and pulled the two adults into a hug.

"I will." She leaned to give her mother a kiss on her cheek. "I'll miss you guys."

"We'll miss you too baby girl." Katy smiled.

The rest of the group loaded up the back of Lucas's car. They waved goodbye to their parents and were off. Lucas sat in the driver's seat with Farkle in the passenger's seat. Riley and Maya were in the back.

The car was stuffed and cramped, but they didn't care.

They were about to have the trip of their life.


Day 2

"...and my girl was the envy of every friends of mine.
She slept safely in my arms."


Riley opened her eyes towards the ceiling and immediately shut them. The sun was too bright and hurt her head. She gentle rolled to the side and knocked into another body. She slowly opened her eyes again. She found herself face-to-face to a sleeping Lucas Friar. She groaned when she felt another body curling into her... from behind. She slowly turned her head and found herself staring at Farkle. She groaned again. Maybe if she closed her eyes, this silly hangover would be nothing but a silly dream.

Unforunately, a petite blonde girl had something else in mind. The room to the motel they was slammed open. A giddy Maya, with food and coffee, sang, "Wake uuuup sunshines!"

She slammed the door shut efficiently waking up the two boys on the bed. Farkle shot up, yanking his arm from under Riley (which she didn't realize she was on top of) causing her to roll on top of Lucas. The other boy grunted in response. It was then that Riley realized that they were both were topless as she felt skin on skin contact. If she wasn't so hungover, she would have blushed.

"Maya, keep it down," Riley groaned for a third time. She rested her head on Lucas's chest.

"Jesus Christ, seriously," Farkle complained as he laid back down on the bed. Maya just smiled basking in the fact that her three best friends were hungover. She had surprised the group when they showed up at the hotel in Atlantic City with five bottle of vodka Josh had given her (well, he bought them for her; she paid for three of them).

Lucas was no stranger to alcohol as he was always going to jock parties although he usually was DD at said parties. Maya drank here and there if she felt like partying. However, Farkle and Riley barely drank. It was no surprised that the two of them woke up from terrible hangovers after the four of them polished off two bottles the previous night.

"Awww, what's wrong? Is little Farkle Warkle hungover?" Maya cooed as she plopped down next to him. He grabbed the pillow from under his head and placed it over his eyes.

"Fuck you," he cursed. Maya just laughed pulling the pillow from his face and handed him one of the coffees.

"Oh lighten up. I brought Mickey D's," She shook one of the bags of McDonald's she brought. "Greasy food is the best cure for a hangovers." Farkle sat up and snatched one of the bags. He scoured the bag for so much needed hash browns.

Meanwhile, Riley was still on top of Lucas. She had nearly fallen back asleep when she felt Lucas place his hands on her hips.

"Riley," he spoke softly. "Not that I don't mind, but I think I might be liking this too much." She picked her head up and looked him in the eyes. Lucas groaned as he felt her lower body pressing into him.

"What do you mean?" She blinked at him, still adjusting to the light.

"I just might be liking this too much," he repeated hoping she'll catch his drift. However, she was too hungover to understand.

"Lucas, what do you-" he slowly grinded against her to and suddenly she realized (more like felt) what he meant. "Oh. OH. I'm so sorry." She said as she quickly rolled off of him. Lucas sat up and faced away the group. Maya and Farkle eyed him curiously.

"I... I... uh..." Lucas stammered as he realized that he was actually naked. It didn't help that he's hard from the bodily contact he had with Riley. He grabbed the sheets off the bed and made a makeshift toga. "I need to shower." He all but ran into the bathroom. Maya and Farkle burst out laughing.

"Don't laugh at him," Riley defended. Farkle and Maya turned their attention towards the long hair girl, but Farkle immediately turned away and blushed.

"Uh, honey?" Maya looked around the floor.

"Yes, peaches?" Riley rubbed her eyes. Maya leaned down and picked something up.

"You might want to put this on," she handed her a shirt. Riley looked down and realized that she wasn't just topless but braless as well. She shrieked before snatching the shirt out of Maya's hand and hastily putting it on not realizing it was inside out.

"What the hell happened last night?" Maya just laughed as she explained how a couple of shots led to a drunken game of strip poker.

Hours later, Maya and Riley were curled up into each other asleep in the backseat of the SUV while Lucas drove away from Alantic City. The four friends were heading to Philadelphia next to visit Riley's grandparents. Lucas looked in the rearview mirror at Riley who was sleeping. She was resting in between Maya's legs and her head on Maya's chest. Both girls had their arms around either other. Maya had her hand in Riley's hair. Lucas felt a slight jealousy building up as he focused on the road.

"So are you ever gonna ask Riley out?" Farkle asked bluntly. Lucas gripped the steering wheel tighter.

"What?" He turned to face his friend, but quickly turned back.

"I mean, come on. That cold shower this morning from Riley just being on top of you?" Lucas blushed.

"Dude..."

"Look, I'm just saying. It was cute the first couple of years when you two were tiptoeing around each other, but now it's just annoying." Farkle said a matter-of-factly.

"It's not like..." Lucas paused.

"Like what?"

"I like Riley," Lucas admitted. "It's just that... I don't know if that the long distance thing is going to be a thing. She deserves better than that." Farkle nodded understanding.

In the backseat, a half-awake Maya stroked her girl's soft hair smiling gently.