Icehale: This is definitely more light hearted than the previous one. I really love the concept, but I can't really tell if I did well when I wrote it. This is another one-shot from the series, and the next one will be the last one. Hopefully I can regroup after that and decide what other kind of fanfiction I'd like to share with y'all. Maybe a chaptered fic, maybe an one-shot, I'm not sure yet. But anyway, I hope you guys enjoy reading this!

I do not own Girl Meets World.

Unfortunately for Lucas, his current position at work only offered night hours.

It wouldn't be too bad, usually, but his neighbor had apparently decided to mow their lawn at about eight a.m. every morning. And Lucas was desperate to get some sleep then.

Everyone told him to get over it. They kept saying that it would only last for the summer months. But the problem was, Lucas's job was only over the summer. He had to start teaching classes once again when September came along. And he needed some kind of sleep before that began.

Hopefully his neighbor would stop mowing the lawn so early in the morning and save it for the afternoon like nearly everyone else in their neighborhood.

No such luck.

Throughout the whole summer, from the first week of June through nearly all of August, there was a rumble of a lawn mower starting outside at eight in the morning. A day was never missed and the time was never even a minute later.

But during the last week of August, just before Labor Day, Lucas got his week off before the school year began once again. And he was planning on figuring out exactly who this lawn mowing neighbor was.

Really, Lucas knew he should have found out a while ago, but in his defense, he woke up at a time that was pretty unnatural to introduce himself to others and had to get ready for work nearly right after.

He was finally here though, and ready to meet them. Taking a deep breath, he rang the bell, waiting outside nervously.

The door opened, revealing a pretty brunette girl. Lucas stared in shock, not expecting this to be his eight a.m. - lawn mowing - neighbor. The two faces just didn't match up.

"Can I help you?" she asked in her opal sounding voice. Lucas stared uncertainly at her, unsure of what was happening here.

"Hi, sorry," he answered after a moment, clearing his throat. "I was just here to greet the new neighbors. I've been pretty busy at work and haven't been able to come over the summer. It's nice to meet you. I'm Lucas." He extended his hand to her, wondering if he had said too much.

She laughed musically, shaking her head. "I'm not — I don't live here," the girl tried to explain. "I'm visiting my brother. He and his fiancée moved here at the beginning of summer and I couldn't visit either. I was kind of in the same situation you were."

"I see," Lucas replied, suddenly glad that he had chosen that particular day to greet the neighbors. "It was still nice to meet you…" He realized he hadn't gotten a name from the brown haired girl with the opal voice.

"Riley," she introduced. "By the way, come in! Farkle and Isadora are up, you can meet them if you want to."

"Yes," he said immediately, then tried to backtrack a little. "I mean, if it's okay this early. After all it's eight."

"It is?" Riley asked, surprised. "Oh shoot, I have to call them out anyway then. For some odd reason, Farkle has it set in his head that he has to mow the lawn everyday. He never forgets a day either, but he made me promise to start reminding him as autumn starts. Isadora finds it hilarious and just comes out to watch him."

Lucas couldn't help but smile. "Yeah, I've noticed," he said. "I'm usually trying to sleep then."

But in that moment, he couldn't find it in him to be as annoyed as he had been throughout the summer. After all, he wouldn't have met Riley if it hadn't been for her brother and his daily lawn mowing.