Hey! I know I haven't posted a story in a LONG time... Sorry 'bout that! I was really busy with the end of school and then the summer the the start of school... But I figured I'd take a break from SWAC and write a story about my new obsession. Girl/Boy Meets World! I cannot tell you how excited I am about this show. I can't read the writers tweets without feeling like I'm going to explode. Speaking of tweets, you have to check out the Girl Meets World Podcast. Their website is and follow them on Twitter TheGMWPodcast. They are AMAZING! If anything didn't make sense in the show, they talk about it. And they got an interview with the Property Master from GMW. So go check it out! And with out further ado...
No ones POV
"Mommy, are we there yet?" Auggie asked from the back seat of the car.
"About half an hour sweetie." Topanga replied.
"Ugh! We've been driving forever!" He said with a tired voice as he slumped over in his seat. Cory chuckled. "Why do we have to live so far away from grandma and grandpa?" Auggie continued.
"You can blame your mother for that one Auggie." Said Cory, staring out at the highway.
"What do you mean, dad?" Riley asked him.
"The reason we moved to New York was because I got an internship here. We almost didn't move. But, here we are!" Topanga said.
"I'm glad you moved. 'Cause I wouldn't know Maya if you didn't! Right Maya?" The brunette said and looked over at Maya who was sitting next to her, asleep. Riley smiled at her. Her mom was out of town for the weekend so they took her with them to her grandparents house in Philadelphia.
"Are we there yet?" Auggie asked again.
"Not yet, but-"
Suddenly they heard a loud crash and a squeal like tires on pavement and everything went dark.
Riley's POV
When I woke up, I noticed I was in a blue and white room. It looked like a hospital room. I turned my head and saw Maya next to me, reading a book. Weird. She never reads! She had a few scrapes and bruises all over.
I felt a pain in my arm and looked down at it. It was in a cast. Shocked, I gasped.
"About time you woke up. How could this place not have a TV?" Maya said after putting the book down.
"Maya! Where are we?!" I exclaimed.
"We're in a hospital sweetie." She replied as if she was stating the obvious.
"Why?"
Just then, a nurse with black waist length hair walked in.
"Oh good, your awake!" The nurse said with a smile.
"What happened to me?" I asked her. Maybe she could tell me.
"You and your friend here were hit by a car. The driver brought you in. She said she would pay for everything," the nurse, whose name tag read Megan, looked down and continued gently: "seeing as you don't have any parents."
What? I have parents! What did Maya tell her? Before I could object she kept talking. "We're going to keep you over night to make sure your alright and then send you to the orphanage. I'll be back in a minuet with some medication for your arm." She walked out and I turned to Maya.
"Maya! Explain! Right now!"
"Ok ok! I woke up a while ago and I asked the nurse what year it is, 'cause if you didn't notice, her clothes aren't really from 2014 if you know what I mean. So she told me its 1993. Riles! We are in 1993!" She exclaimed.
Whoa. 1993! That's when my dad and mom were 12!
Yeah, I do math fast.
Wait. How did we get to 1993? So I asked her just that.
"How'd we get to 1993?"
"I don't know... But until we figure out how to get out of here, just pretend that we are orphans. Okay?"
"Why Maya? Why do I have to pretend?" She gave me a look. "Oh alright, I will. But I don't like this."
"Neither do I but hey, let's enjoy it while it lasts! Oh and by the way, we are in Philadelphia." She said nonchalantly.
"Philadelphia?! But that means..."
"Yup! We're in the same place your parents grew up!"
The lady from the orphanage came the next day and signed a bunch of papers so she could take us with her. After she was done, she took us out to her car. When we got to the orphanage she led us inside, up a flight of stairs, down a long hallway and finally, into a room with two beds. The room was about the size of my bedroom. There was a small closet and a door that led to the bathroom we shared with the room next to us.
"I know it's not much but we make the best with what we have." Carly, the orphanage lady, said to us. "We have meals together in the main room down stairs and game time on Saturdays. We call it mandatory fun. I'll let you get settled in now. There are clothes in the dresser for the two of you. I'll come back in a little bit with some papers for you to sign." Carly smiled and walked out.
So Maya and I got settled in. There wasn't much to do though. A few minuets later Carly came back with papers for us to sign. She left us alone to do just that. There were a bunch of questions on it but I managed to get through all of them. The last thing I noticed before I was done was the school we would be going to.
Jefferson Middle School.
I couldn't believe it. I would be going to the same school as my parents.
We ate our dinner (which was hard to do with a cast. On my right hand. I'm a righty.) and went to bed. I started preparing myself for the first day of school tomorrow. I would see my parents as kids. This was going to be so weird!
The next day Carly sent us to school with more papers and told us to give them to the principle. So we did just that. He gave us a map of the school and our schedules. Are first class was with Mr. Feeny. Along with every other class we had. This school was different than ours. They only had one teacher for this grade. Maya and I made our way to the class room. When we walked in, I almost fainted. It was my dad, mom and my Godfather Shawn as kids!
Maya gave me a shove.
"Come on Riles! Go sit in that seat over there." She pointed to a seat behind a small boy. So I sat down. The seat was next to my dad. Oh my gosh this is so weird!
Maya sat behind me. I looked over at young Cory. He and Shawn were sitting on their desks talking about something. Young Topanga stood up and started talking to them.
"I think people who judge other people by their outward appearances are shallow and ignorant and will have much to answer for in their next life." She said. Whoa. My mom was smart for a 12 year old.
"Well that may be the way it works on Remulac but here on earth, your a nerd, you pay." Cory said. Wow. My dad was rude as a kid.
In the corner of my eye I saw Shawn turn to Maya.
"Hey, your new here aren't you?" He asked her smoothly, almost like he was trying to flirt with her. But it didn't work very well because, you know, we're only 12. Farkle is the only 12 year old I know who can flirt.
"Yes we are." I said with a smile. This is actually kinda fun! "I'm Riley Matthews."
Maya slapped her face and put her head on her desk groaning. Oops. My dad isn't suppose to know I have the same last name as him.
"Matthews?" Shawn asked surprised. "Hey Cor, this chick has the same last name as you." He said nudging Cory.
"Really? Well that's weird. I'm Cory Matthews. And you are?"
"I'm Riley, and this is Maya." I patted Maya on the head as it was still on the desk. She waved.
Just then, the legendary Mr. Feeny walked in.
"Good morning class. I trust you all had a good weekend. Oh hello young ladies!" He said noticing is. "You must be new here. What are your names?" He asked us.
"I'm Riley Matthews, sir."
"And I'm Maya Hart."
"Well good morning Miss Matthews, Miss Hart." He walked closer to me and lowered his voice. "Miss Mathews, are you in any way related to Mr. Matthews? Please tell me your not."
I almost said I was but caught myself before I did. "No sir."
He sighed audibly. "Oh good. Now let's get on with the lesson."
The rest of the class went well. It was weird though because my Uncle Eric (who was very handsome if I do say so myself) was there telling us about 7th grade. Maya snickered a lot witch caught the attention of Shawn. Oh no. Here we go. Maya and Shawn do have a lot in common... No! He's 20 years older then her!
At one point Cory asked Eric if he would drive him to school the next year when Eric was 16. Eric just told him to drop dead, causing my dad to fall onto the floor. It was actually really funny.
The whole time I watched my mom stare at Uncle Eric like she had a crush on him. It was weird.
I like using that word. Weird.
"...and make sure your working on the project due on Friday." Mr. Feeny said just before the bell rang. "Wait! I want to see the three of you" he pointed to Shawn, Cory, and Topanga, "and the three of you" this time he pointed to the boy in front of me, Maya and I, "for a minuet."
Everyone got up and ran out of the room except for the 6 of us. "Miss Matthews, I would like you to work with Mr Hunter and Mr. Matthews on the project. Please make her feel welcome." He said to the boys. "I'm sorry." He said turning back to me.
"That's alright Mr. Feeny I will take it like the woman I am." I said proudly. I looked over and saw Topanga smiling at me. That felt good to know she was proud of her daughter. Even though I wasn't her daughter yet...
"And Miss Hart you will be paired with Mr. Minkus and Miss Lawrence."
Minkus turned around and smiled at me.
"Oh my gosh Maya!" I whispered to her. "It's Farkle!" Maya gasped.
"Whose 'Farkle'?" Cory asked me.
"Yeah. His name is Stuart not Farkle." Shawn said.
"Uhh" Maya said trying to come up with a lie. "He's this guy we know who looks like you." Good one! And it's not even a lie.
"Really? I would like to meet this 'Farkle'. You know, I'm very partial to that name." Minkus said.
"Oh did I say know? I meant used to know!" Maya quickly changed. Mr. Feeny told us to get together for our projects and dismissed us to lunch.
"Hey Maya! Wait up!" I heard the voice of Shawn say. We turned around.
"What is it Hunter?"
"I just wanted to say that was an impressive lie back there." He said with a smirk.
"Psh! Lie? What lie?" She replied.
"Your a mystery to me Maya Hart. And I won't stop till I find everything out about you." He said and walked away to talk to Cory.
"Oh no." Maya said and started walking to the cafeteria.
At lunch we made plans to meet with our groups for the project. I was going over to Cory's house after school and Maya was going to Topanga's. We sat with Cory and Shawn because we didn't know anyone else except for Topanga but she was sitting with her other friends.
"Hey Riley," Cory said "why do you have a cast on your arm?"
"Well I was hit by a car." I replied nonchalantly.
"What?!" Both Shawn and Cory said.
"That's awesome!" Shawn exclaimed.
"No it's really not..." I said eating another bite of my food.
We talked and ate until the bell rang and then went off to our next class.
Later that day I said goodbye to Maya and made my way over the Cory's house. When I got there, grandma opened the door.
"Oh you must be Riley!" She said with a smile.
"And you must be Mrs. Matthews! Hi! Cory, Shawn and I have a project to work on." I said as she invited me in.
"Ah yes. They are in the kitchen. Come with me." We walked through the living room and into the kitchen. Shawn and Cory were sitting at the table talking.
"Cory, Riley's here." She said and walked away.
"Oh hey Riley. You can have a seat here if you want." He said pointing to an open seat.
"Wait you want me to sit there? But no one ever sits on that side of the table."
Suddenly there was a knock at the door. Cory got up to get it and there stood Topanga and Maya.
"I have some freshly baked brownies here I thought you might enjoy." Topanga said when Cory opened the door.
"Thanks for dropping them off." He said and then tried to pull them out of her hand. Topanga held on to them and walked past Cory. Maya followed her.
"I thought perhaps we could stay here and enjoy them with you. Hello Riley!" Topanga continued.
"Hi" I said and sat in the 'forbidden' chair.
"Milks in the fridge babe." Shawn said as he picked a brownie up and ate it. "Hey, not bad."
Maya walked over and sat down in the chair next to me. Topanga and Cory came back to the table with milk and cups.
"My sister Nebby made them." Topanga said as she set the milk down.
"She has a sister?" I whispered to Maya. She just shrugged.
"Nebby? Don't you mean 'Debby'?" Cory asked.
"No, Nebby. Short for Nebula. Nebula Stopthewar Lawrence." She said and poured milk into the glasses.
"So your parents thought like, what, Linda was already taken?" Maya and Shawn laughed at that but Topanga just smiled.
Suddenly young Morgan came down the stairs and stopped at Topanga.
"Hey! Cool braid!"
"You like it? I could put one in your hair."
"You can?"
"Sure! Do you have some ribbons and a rubber band?"
"Upstairs in my room." She turned to talk to Cory and noticed us. "Hey, who are you?" she asked.
"They're just girls from school, Morgan." Cory answered.
"Oh. You know, I'd like to see more of them, and less of him." Morgan said pointing to Shawn. Topanga grabbed Morgan's hand and started to go upstairs.
"Maya, Riley would you like to come with us?" she asked.
"No thanks, I think we'll stay down here," turning to Cory and Shawn I said "and work on our project."
"Okay, suit yourself." Topanga and Morgan walked upstairs.
"Oh, she is so cute!" Maya said to herself referring to Morgan. Well that was weird of her to say...
Shawn turned to Cory with a look on his face causing Cory to look up.
"What?"
"Comes over with the brownies, tries to get in good with your sister…"
"So?"
"Dude, she likes you!" Maya outbursted.
"Cory and Topanga sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G." Shawn teased.
"No way! Minkus wants her!" Well that explains why when Mr. Minkus came over he kept talking about Mom choosing Dad instead of him.
"And yet, she's not over at Minkus's house unloading brownies."
"What are you saying, Shawn?"
Shawn made this whole speech about being 'squishy' and then said: "...one day your solid as a rock then the next day, squish!" he looked over at Maya "it happened to me..."
"Oh be quite." Maya said to him.
"Topanga does not have a 'squish' on me."
"She brought you brownies, dude. Its-o fact-o love-o you-o." Cory gave him a weird look and Shawn kept shaking his head with a smug look.
"You guys are insane." Maya said.
"Yes, now let's work on our project." I said, hoping they would listen this time.
Grandma, I mean Mrs. Matthews, walked in and eventually Eric did to. Topanga and Morgan came down the stairs at about that time also.
"Mommy, Mommy look! Topanga made my hair pretty!"
"She sure did!" Mrs. Matthews replied.
Cory stood up and walked over to Topanga. "Yup, brownies, braids, she does it all but uh, now she has to do it all at home." He said while pushing her out the door.
"But I was hoping I could stay-"
"You can't. We're over the legal hair limit of this room." He closed the door but then opened it again and took the brownies from her.
"I guess that's my cue to leave also." Maya said and stood up to follow Topanga out.
"Do you have to go babe?" Shawn asked standing in her way.
"Now I defiantly need to go. Bye! See ya later Riles!" she walked past Shawn and out the door to catch up with Topanga.
"Well that wasn't very polite." Mrs. Matthews said.
"I can't afford to be polite, mom. I'm polite, squish!" Cory said making a squishing motion with his hands.
"I hear a lot of men treat the woman they love like that." Shawn said. Mrs. Matthews and Uncle Eric turned to look at Cory.
"I'll kill you, Shawn."
"We got a little girlfriend action going on here?" Eric asked. Shawn said 'yup' and Cory said 'no' at the same time.
"Cory and Topanga sitting in a tree, G!" Morgan sang.
Eric walked out with the garbage and Mrs. Matthews and Morgan went to the living room.
"Can we work on the project now?"
The next day at lunch we found Shawn and Cory and sat down across from them.
"Oh, man she's got a thang for you!" Shawn said as we sat down.
"What do I care? All I want from her is brownies and videos."
"It's not gonna be like that for long." Maya whispered to me. I giggled and the guys gave us a weird look.
"Maya." Shawn greeted with a flirty look.
"Oh get a life" she replied, annoyed. Just then Minkus walked up to us.
"You maggot." He said to Cory.
"Huh?" Cory said looking confused.
"All these years pretending to be my close friend..."
"Close? As in Philadelphia is close to... Neptune? "
"...all so you could get to her."
"Her, Topanga? I don't think so."
"Oh please. The whole school is talking about you two."
"It's true." Maya interjected. "I heard they were even going to put it in the school newspaper."
"I ate a couple brownies! I said I'd watch a video."
"Aren't you forgetting the trip to Hawaii?" I asked.
"What?" He turned to Shawn.
"I embellished!" He explained.
"Do you really care about her?" Minkus asked getting back in the conversation. "Or are you just doing this to humiliate me?"
"I give up. Take it Shawn."
Shawn stood up and walked over to Minkus.
"Minkus! Wanna play walnut?" Shawn rapped his arm around Minkus's head.
"Your body guard can't be with you 24 hours a day Matthews. Be afraid. Be very afraid."
"Let him go Shawn." I said and he obeyed.
"I've got two words for you. Anti perspirant."
"That's three words." He said as Minkus walked off. I slapped my forehead. He was so dumb at the age of 12!
"What's going on?" Cory said "I don't want girls to like me! Why is everything changing?"
"Hey, Topanga forgot her note book." Shawn said picking up the note book.
"Oh no." I thought aloud.
"Wanna trash it? I gotta little Mac and cheese left." He continued.
"Shawn! That's disgusting and mean! And if it weren't Topanga's I would totally do that to! But no, do not trash it!" Maya said.
"Yes ma'am." He sat down and gave the note book to Cory.
"Nah lets not. She'll probably think it's some kinda love code. Oh why do I have to be so attractive?"
"Pfft." Maya said almost choking on her chicken. Cory gave her a look.
"Oho look!" Shawn said opening the note book. "It's a heart with a name doodled in swirly things! Mrs. Matthews!"
"Oh give me a break."
"Mrs. Topanga Matthews." Cory groaned. "Mrs. Eric Matthews."
"Would you get off my- what?"
"Ha! I knew it! Topanga likes Eric!" I exclaimed. Wow that's so weird. I pictured my uncle as my dad and shivered.
"Wait, you knew she had a crush on my brother and you didn't tell me?"
"Well I wasn't sure. Until now!"
After school Topanga invited us to go watch a movie over at Cory's house. So we went with her. I mean, we had nothing else to do.
She rang the door bell and Eric answered.
"Topanga, right? And you must be Riley and Maya. Have a seat." He said gesturing for us to sit down. But Topanga sat down on the floor and we almost tripped over her.
"Uh yea that's an interesting way to go but I was thinking... Couch?" Eric said to her.
"Whatever you want." Topanga said as she walked toward the couch.
"Oh brother." Maya said walking past me and sitting in a chair.
Eric shut the door and followed Topanga to the couch.
"So, what's that?" He asked pointing at the tape in her hand.
"Movie." She stared stepping closer to him.
"Godzilla Goes to Collage?!" They sat down on the couch and I sat on the arm of the chair Maya was sitting in. "Cory's gonna love this! He loves monster flicks! Oh he really loved those brownies you brought over too I mean uh... You must really like him a lot to do all those nice things for him."
"He's very nice. In a young kind of way."
"Here we go." Maya said.
"Um see that's why you to get along so well because your young to." Eric said, trying to get his point across easily.
"No. I've done my chart. I have a very old soul."
"Uh ya, here's a tip for you Topanga, uh, not a lot of guys are gonna be after you soul."
"Maya, I am so glad this didn't work out. I can't even imagine what my life would be life if Uncle Eric was my dad. He's sane now but you just wait a few years." I shivered again at the thought.
"When you were talking to us in class, you know what I noticed?"
"What?" Eric asked, curious but scared at the same time.
"Your Ora was glowing."
"Oh my gosh." Maya said exasperated.
"Be that as it may, my Ora is to old for you to be looking at."
"I don't understand."
"Me either, let's go Riles." Maya stood up to go but I pushed her back down.
"That's because your not ready to understand."
"I am ready."
"No your not." Eric said putting his hand on hers. Bad move Eric, bad move. Topanga looked down and put her other hand on top of his. She leaned in to kiss him but Eric put his hand on her face.
"Ok I was wrong. Hah. Maybe you are ready. Look, Cory told me about you and he told me your very smart." He put his hand down and she sat up.
"I don't have to be smart."
"No, look, your gonna have to be smart because, there are a lot of guys out there that won't take Ora for an answer."
"What do you mean?"
"Riley haven't we seen enough?" Maya asked annoyed.
"No I want to see how this turns out."
"I mean you've know me for like five mins and you think you like me because you thought I was cute and who could blame you? But a real relationship is based on so much more then looks and if your old enough to have these feelings then you should know that." As soon as he was done the door bell rang.
"You are so wise."
"Yes I am." He stood up to get the door. "And that wisdom comes from knowing that if you have a relationship based on looks it's stupid and superficial." He opened the door and there was a teenage girl standing there.
"Hi, I'm Topanga's sister."
"Hi I'm stupid and superficial." Eric said extending his hand.
They shook hands as she said, "Cory called and said Topanga wasn't feeling well, wanted to come home."
"What? No she's feeling feeling fine!" He said as he dragged Nebby inside. "Nobody has to go anywhere! I mean, just look at her."
"I think I'd like to go home." Topanga said. Just then Cory ran down the stairs.
"Is she gone?! Oh no, more hair."
Topanga walked past Eric and Nebby and left. Nebby followed her out.
"Can we go now Riles?"
"Yeah I guess. See ya later Eric, Cory." I said waving to them. They waved back as we walked out the door.
The next day in class, Eric came back and told us what it would really be like in high school. The class wasn't really that eventful... At lunch, Minkus was sitting at a table by himself, peeling paper pedals off of paper flowers saying "she loves me, she loves me not..." Over and over.
I sat down across from Cory, waiting for Maya to finish in the lunch line. Both Cory and Shawn were looking over at Minkus.
"Look at him." Cory said.
"The love bomb has blown his head off."
"This is big. This love thing, could kill us if we let it."
"You guys are so weird." I said to myself.
"You and I have to make a deal right now." Cory continued. "Let everyone else go nuts."
"We stay the same." Shawn said as they shook hands.
"Forever."
Just then Maya walked up.
"Hey could one of you goof balls help me with the soda machine? I can't get it to work."
Shawn looked back at Cory with a lovestruck look in his face.
"We have a deal." Cory said as Shawn looked back at Maya and then back a Cory.
"We have a deal!" Cory stated again.
"The soda machine?" Shawn asked looking back at Maya. "Sure I'll help you with it. I use it all the time." He said standing up. But Cory didn't let go of his hand as he tried to walk away.
"We have a deal!" Cory yelled as Shawn started dragging the chair and table away. I just sat there watching my food slowly get farther and farther away.
"Really guys?" I asked as Cory finally let go. Shawn and Maya came back a min later and helped us put the table back. The rest of the day was the same as all the others. Cory and Topanga, Shawn and Maya, and me left with no one. Oh well.
I hope we can get home soon. Even through this has been fun, I still miss my real parents. I wonder what will happen next? Maya says that in all the movies and TV shows about this the people always get home eventually. So I'm just gonna trust her and hope things turn out for the best. I hope this isn't like those things where we change the future...
The end! That took me a LONG time...so it might be a while before the next chapter... Hope you liked it and don't forget to check out and on Twitter TheGMWpodcast! Until next time! Oh and please REVIEW!