Best Friend Meets Hope
By: Lord-of-Dragons2007
A/N: I do not own the characters, concepts, and so on so please enjoy.
Maya sat on the couch of the little living room of the little apartment she shared with her mother, even though she was outwardly cool about the whole situation she couldn't be any more excited than she already was. If she was any more excited people would have mistaken her for her friend Riley, though she supposed one of them (Maya and her mother) needed to be composed, they both couldn't be running around tonight like they were chickens with their heads cut off,
"Come on mom, you're gonna be late!" Maya called out as she went back to her sketch pad, the page Maya was on just showed a lot of eraser marks. She wasn't usually this unfocused when it came to drawing, though with what was going on it was understandable. A few minuets Katie Hart entered the living room, dressed up in a beautiful red dress, her long blonde hair straightened and curled slightly at the edges, and she wore make up that complimented the red dress she was wearing, on her feet where a pair of tall shiny red high heels,
"Wow." Maya said with a smile as she looked at her mom, Katie just smiled at her daughter,
"Thanks" Katie said shyly as she started to blush a little bit,
"How much time until Shawn gets here?" Maya asked her mom who was about to answer when the door bell rang,
"Umm none." Katie answered nervously before she gave out a little nervous chuckle, she quickly came over to the front door, and then Maya had a mischievous look on her face,
"Who is it!?" Maya called out playfully, Shawn who was on the other side of the door flailed a little bit hearing Maya's voice,
"Mr. Chin's Chinese!" Shawn called out joking as well, as the door opened and and Katie showed herself off to her date that's when Shawn just looked at her with an in awe smile on his face, she was just so beautiful, he couldn't get over how amazingly beautiful she was, she was like him, she cleaned up nicely. Katie gave Shawn a nervous smile as she tried to read his expression,
"So how do I look?" Katie asked him,
"Wow" Shawn replied after a second as his awestruck smile turned into an excited and happy smile, Katie smiled,
"Wow yourself, look at you." Katie said as she looked at Shawn. He trimmed up his beard, his hair was subtly slicked back but not oily or greasy, he wore a dark brown button down dress shirt with a light brown sports jacket with faded blue jeans that seemed to be well loved, on his feet were comfortable but stylish brown dressy like shoes. Shawn blushed a little bit and smiled at her words,
"Yeah Hunter, you clean up good." Maya commented in a chipper tone as she smiled and watcher her mother fawn over the guy she hoped would someday be her father, Shawn just blushed a little bit more at Maya's words now and just waved his hand to get her to stop with the smartass remarks,
"Ready to go?" Shawn Katie, his attention fully focused on her. Even though he wasn't sure he was husband or father material if he was true with himself he was liking the way things were looking right now, Maya was as cute as a button after she took his advice and changed the way she looked and of course her mother was always absolutely stunning,
"Umm, before you guys go." Maya called out to them sounding a little unsure,
"What is it babygirl?" Katie replied to her daughter,
"I was wondering if you both could walk me to Riley's house?" She asked them both hopefully as she bit her lip nervously, both Shawn and Katie smiled at her. Shawn motioned over exaggeratedly his hand and body towards the door,
"Sure, come on kiddo." He said happily, which elicited an excited little squeal from Maya as she grabbed her backpack which had everything she would need for a sleepover with her best friend and headed towards her mom and Shawn. Maya lead the way with Shawn and her mother following behind her, when they got down to the street she held her mothers hand and they started walking towards Riley's apartment. After a few steps Shawn caught up to the mother and daughter and he grabbed Maya's free hand and held it too while they walked, Maya was a little surprised by this but then quickly pushed the thought out of head. She smiled and let the previous thought be replaced by an even better thought, he looked to her left and there was her mother, beautiful and smiling. She looked to her right and there was Shawn who was strong and compassionate and she knew he cared very deeply for her, for a brief moment she imagined that Shawn married her mother and was her father. She wasn't Maya Hart, she was Maya Hunter, she smiled brightly enough to light up the whole New York block like it was midday as she thought about this was what she wanted, to have her hands held by her mother and and her father, that she was sandwiched between her parents as they walked.
After some time they finally got to the building and stood outside, "Alright, heres your stop, kiddo." Shawn said with a smile,
"Need us to walk you to the door?" Katie asked her,
"No its ok, you two enjoy your date. Thanks for letting me tag along for a little bit of it." Maya answered and thanked them,
"Anytime, maybe next week we can all three do something fun together, just the three of us." Shawn said which made both women smile brightly,
"You're on Hunter." Maya said playfully trying to sound tough,
"Try not to stay up too late, ok, and don't forget to bush your teeth." Katie said having to go though the whole parent sepal,
"I know I know, go on get out of here you two." Maya joked as she waved her hands in a 'shooing' motion, both adults chuckled and waved bye and walked away to their date. Maya smiled as she watched them leave for a moment, she then turned around walked up to the front door of the apartment building and rang the button for Riley and her family. After a moment or two she was buzzed in and headed inside, she took the elevator the right floor and knocked on the door to the Matthew's apartment. Cory answered the door happy as always to see is second daughter,
"Maya, come on in." he greeted and then moved out of the way to let the girl come into the apartment, Auggie was watching tv in the living room/den, Topanga was still busy making dinner, Cory was grading papers on the dinning room table, and Riley was in her room working on her homework,
"Hey everyone." Maya greeted Auggie and Topanga,
"Hey Maya, dinner will be ready in a bit." Topanga greeted from across the apartment in the tiny kitchenette, Maya came over to Cory and looked over his shoulder in an annoying fashion that only she could pull off,
"Whatcha doing?" Maya asked in a sugary sweet tone to which Cory turned his head to look at her like 'was she seriously asking this?',
"I'm playing racket ball." He replied smartly to her,
"Kinda looks like today's quiz." Maya said musingly,
"It is." Cory confirmed to her,
"Oh look that's mine!" Maya said in feigned excitement,
"Yup." Cory said as he looked back and forth between the answer key and Maya's quiz,
"Looks like an A to me." Maya said hopefully, and as hard as it was for Cory to do it, he had a moral obligation to his profession. He marked the answers she got wrong as wrong and wrote a 'C'on the paper, Maya groaned a little bit when she saw what he did,
"Hey if its any consolation, you did a lot better than you usually do." Cory said trying to make things better, but didn't really work out,
"Its rigged Matthews, I never had a chance." Maya said smartly feigning a tough gangster tone,
"Its rigged daddy she never had a chance!" Riley called out from her bedroom which made Cory flail for a second and then he rolled his eyes and smiled,
"Alright enough out of the peanut gallery!" he called out to her which caused Riley to go into a fit of giggles that could be heard from out in the dining room/kitchen where Cory and Maya were at,
"Go on, you know where chuckles is at." he smartly but still lovingly to Maya. Maya chuckled and headed away from her teacher and towards her friend.
Maya entered Riley's room and found Riley sitting at her bay window reading the latest issue of the more recently trendy teen magazine,
"What up loser?" Maya greeted in her usual fashion as she crossed the room and sat down next to her best friend in the bay window,
"So I saw you coming down the street." Riley said in an overly excited voice, hearing her talk about her that way was a little embarrassing but Maya didn't care. She was happy holding her mom's and and Shawn's hand and walking in between them,
"Ok so?" Maya asked cooly like nothing was out of the ordinary,
"Oh come on, we're not going to talk about how much you smiled as you walked in between them on your way here? We're not going to talk about how happy your mom and Uncle Shawn were when they left for their date?" Riley asked her excitedly as she started to get huffy and puffy,
"Mmm no not gonna happen, not in the cards today, but how are you doing sweetie?" Maya asked patronizingly,
"I'm all worked up and want to know everything!" Riley said with a bit of a huff and a puff in her voice,
"I know pumpkin." Maya said in a feigned comforting voice as she put her hand on Riley's hand.
At that moment Farkle opened up Riley's window and poked his head though and smiled at both of them slyly,
"Ladies!" Farkle said trying to be sly and cool but was just coming off more like cheesy and geeky, but no one cared he was cool in own special way,
"Farkle!" the two girls greeted happily,
"Maya wont tell me whats going on inside that head of hers, her mom is on a date with my Uncle Shawn." Riley blurted out hoping Farkle would help her get the information out of her best friend,
"Why don't you wanna tell us Maya? We wanna know how happy and excited you are." Farkle said seriously,
"Yes, tell us, tell us right now!" Riley added as she started to get all worked up again.
"you wanna know why?" Maya asked them both,
"Tell us, tell us right no!" Riley repeated still just as huffy,
"Because I, don't, hear, you." Maya said before she started to sing her little diddy that she usually did when she wanted ignore an issue, when she was sure she was safe she turned to Farkle,
"What are you doing here Farkle?" Maya asked him curiously,
"I'm always on the prowl for my ladies." Farkle responded slyly which made both girls roll their eyes at him,
"Farkle?" They both chimed in, pressing him for the truth,
"Ok, I was gonna meet Lucas to go see the new action movie around the corner and he said he was running a little late." Farkle answered truthfully, even hearing his name made Riley giddy,
"Lucas, hello." Riley said with a suggestive voice almost like the response was programmed, Farkle and Maya looked at Riley like she was a crazy woman and then shrugged it off like it was typical Riley, which it was.
"What are you doing here Maya?" Farkle asked her curiously, "What? I'm always here." Maya replied nonchalantly, she received a look from Riley and Farkle,
"Her mom is on a date with uncle Shawn and she didn'twant to be home alone." Riley snitched on her which earned her a look from Maya that said if she didn't love her friend so much she would kill her, but Riley didn't care, it wasn't like it a matter of national security.
"So things between them are finally taking off huh." Farkle said with a smile, he was happy that this was going well. He had only heard the headlines of what was going on between Maya's mom and Riley's uncle Shawn, he hoped that things went all the way with those two. He had only heard things about Riley's uncle Shawn and he sounded like a pretty good guy. He hoped that he became her father, he knew that she was always looking for that father figure in her life. He knew she saw Riley's dad that and now more so with Riley's uncle Shawn.
At Farkle's words Maya couldn't hide the smile the grew on her face and neither could she hide the blush on her face,
"Yeah they are." She said happily with a happy and hopeful look on her face, Farkle was about to say something else before he was cut off,
"Girl's dinner's here." Topanga called out from the other room,
"Coming mom." Riley called out,
"Come on lets go eat." Riley said to Maya,
"You wanna come join us Farkle." Riley asked her friend,
"No its ok, I have a hankering for some chile cheese fries, I'll catch you ladies later." he said with a smile before he closed the window and the two girls moved out of Riley's room.
A/N: Ok so this is my first try at girl meets world, so please be gentle with me and I hope you all like it =)