A/N: Thank you to all my Beta-readers.


Rose and Asher were walking through the halls of Abigail Adams when a voice called from behind them. "Hey!" the two of them swung around to see a girl of Asian descent speeding towards them, a red-haired girl followed at a slower pace.

When she reached the two of them, she paused and placed her hands on her knees so she could catch her breath. Once she had her breathing back to normal, she looked up at the two of them."Hi!"

Rose backed up a bit. "Hi."

"I'm Yulia."

"We know," Asher says looking down in amusement at the shorter girl. "You're in homeroom with us, and you have studio art with me."

"And you're Lily I believe," Rose states as the red-head final reached them.

Lily blinked at the two of them. "That's surprising."

Rose's head tilts to the side. "What's surprising?"

"The two of you just seem to be in your own world all the time. It's been two weeks since school started and you two haven't really reached out anybody."

"We could say the same thing to you two. Sure you 're nice to everybody but you don't really go the extra mile to be friends with anybody. You two are seen together as much as Ash, and I are."

Lily leaned forward in excitement. She had wanted to talk to Rose and Asher since she saw them in class, the two of them just seemed interesting, and it's been a long time since anything interesting has happened. When Yulia told her that she needed to talk to them, she took this chance to possibly get to know them.

"Anyway," Yulia cuts in. " asked me to make sure that everybody in our homeroom class made a social media account."

"Is it mandatory?" Asher asks.

Yulia shakes her head. "It's not mandatory, but Mrs. Englund wants the students in her homeroom to be able to have easier access to each outside of school so we can help each other. She wants us to be able to help each other for the next four years."

Rose looks at Asher. "I mean it wouldn't hurt to do it."

Ash shrugs in response. "Whatever."

Lily claps her hands together, a grin on her face. "Great then during lunch we'll come get you."

Rose and Asher blink at her. "Why?"

"So we can feel out our social media questions together of course," Yulia answers for her.

The warning bell rings.

"There's the bell. Come on Lily we have Spanish class. You know Señora Feinstein-Chang hates when we're late."

"Bye," Lily waves as she scurried after her friend.

Rose and Asher gazed after them before looking at each other. "What just happened?"


When lunch arrived Rose, and Asher found themselves dragged out of the cafeteria line and into the computer room.

"Are we allowed to eat in here?" Rose asks the two girls that had dragged them in here.

"No we're not but who's going to tell," Yulia responses.

"I like you," Asher tells her giving her a dazzling smile.

A pink flush rose on her face. She couldn't help it, Asher was very good looking. Like very good looking.

"Okay, so the first question is interests," Lily says before taking a bite of her chicken wrap.

"Fashion, animals, horses," Rose types.

Lily gives her a look. "Aren't horses animals?"

"Don't question it," Asher tells her. "She loves animals, but she loves horses on a whole other level."

"I have one back in France," Rose says. "Asher's parents are taking care of him for me right now."

"What's his name?" Yulia asks her.

"Windbreaker, he's as fast as the wind. I miss him."

Asher who knew how Rose gets up Windbreaker decided to move things along. "Favorite movie?"

"Amélie," Yulia says.

Rose grins at her. "That's my favorite too and A Little Princess."

"Mine's is John Tucker Must Die," Lily tells them.

"I am surrounded by chick flicks," Asher mummers.

"Okay, that's what's your favorite movie wise guy?" Lily asks him having heard him.

"Petits frères," he responds.

Lily and Yulia look at Rose for translation. "Little brothers."

The sound of the door opening caused the three of them to go about hidden their food. Yulia had just thrown the there waste in the trash can when Riley came into view.

"Can I talk to you?" she asks her eyes directly on Rose.

Rose raises her eyebrows at her twin."Sure."

"Alone," Riley says this time she was looking at Asher who was standing up.

"I don't think so," Asher tells her.

Rose looks back at Asher. "J'ai eu ça."

Asher sat back down slowly. "Ignorez-la et revenez ici si elle en reçoit trop."

Rose nods before looking at her sister. "Lead the way."

Riley led Rose out of the computer room and into an empty classroom.

"Stay away from Lucas," Riley demands as soon as they were alone.

Rose gives her a blank look. "What?"

"I said stay away from Lucas. I don't know what you're planning hanging out with Lucas, but it's not going to work."

"And what exactly do you think I'm trying to do?"

"You're trying to hurt me. You're always trying to hurt me."

Rose's mouth slackened before it snapped back up. "I'm trying to hurt you." she let out a bitter laugh. "Riley you're the one that decided to hate me when we were nine. You're the reason I went to France for schooling."

"I didn't force you to go to France," Riley responds.

"No, you didn't you were forcing Mom and Dad to choose either you or me. I left because they shouldn't have to."

"Then why'd you come back?"

Rose stepped into her personal space until they were practically nose to nose. "Because you don't get to win. And let's make something clear: I don't owe you shit. So if I wanna hang out with Lucas. I'm gonna hang out with Lucas." she steps back from her sister and walks past her to the door. When she reached the doorknob, she looked back at her sister and smirked. "You know he'll probably find me more appealing than you. I mean I don't hide my true self. Right Jexica."

Riley stood there in the empty room as she watched her sister leave. Everything was falling apart for her.

"Why couldn't she have stayed in France?" she thought. "Everything was better that way."

Back in the computer room Lily and Yulia were grilling Asher.

"Who was that?"

"Rose's twin sister?"

"Why did she want to talk to Rose?"

He shrugs, "I don't know."

"There's a lot of tension between them. Do they not get along?"

"Not since they were nine."

"Why?"

"If we knew we wouldn't have gone to France."

"Why did you go to France."

"Because I was spending more time at Asher's place than mine."

The three of them look up to see Rose walking over them.

"Why?" Lily asks, her curiosity taking over.

"Curiosity killed the cat," Rose responds taking her seat back.

"And satisfaction brought it back." Lily shot back. Rose just smiled at her. "You're not gonna tell us are you."

"Nope."

"Fine. Let's just finish our profile."

While the rest of them were focused on there, profile Rose took out her phone.

Meet me at Topanga's.

A second later she got a reply.

Kay.


Rose sat on the big couch in Topanga's in front of her she had a cup of tea, a teapot and a plate of snickerdoodles. At the counter, Asher was flirting with one of the teen employees her Mom had recently hired, and by the sound of giggling that was coming from the counter, he was doing a successful job.

She felt the couch dip as someone sat beside her. "You called me?"

"Snickerdoodle? Tea?" Rose asks him.

"Sure."

Rose poured him a cup of tea, "How much sugar?"

"Two spoons."

Nodding she poured two spoons into the tea and cut him a piece of the snickerdoodle. Passing both to him she took a sip of her own drink and watched him. The two of them sat in a comfortable silence as they enjoyed their snack.

"So Farkle…" Rose started placing her tea down. "Would you like to explain to me why Riley, who makes it a mission to avoid me at home and at school, sought me out?"

"She did?"

Rose nods. "She did. Do you wanna tell me why?"

Farkle's eyes roamed around the room in an effort to avoid the piercing blue eyes that bore through his soul. "How would I know? Why do you think I know?"

She takes another sip from her tea. "Oh, I don't know, Maybe because you spend all your time with her."

He lets out a sigh and conceded. "Lucas said he was trying to bring you into our group of friends."

Rose blinked at him. "And how did that come about?"

"You probably already know Riley is Jexica, right?" seeing Rose nod he continued. "Well we decided to tease her, and we walked up on her and Maya talking about it. Lucas asked if he could invite Jexica into our group saying "he felt like he knew her." We talked about it for a bit and then Lucas stated that he wanted to invite you and Asher into the group too. Riley asked him why and he said "Rose seems pretty cool I want to get to know her more. Her and Asher."

"Let me guess Riley forced a smile and said okay."

"She said she would talk to you about it and get back to us. I thought she was just saying it to pacify him. I didn't think she would actually go and talk to you, let alone warn you away from Lucas."

Rose hums. "Thank you, Farkle. So how's your week been?"

She spent a couple minutes talking to Farkle when he left Asher walked up to her.

"What are you gonna do?"

Rose shrugged. "Nothing. Lucas seems like a kind person, a little confused but a good guy. I would love to get to know him too. Plus he's pretty cute."

"And the fact that Riley likes him as nothing to do with this?"

She glares. "I'm not petty like that. If I gain feelings for Lucas, I gain feelings for Lucas. If Lucas gains feelings for me than he gains feelings for me. Riley would just have to suck it up."

"And the tension it's gonna cause in your family?"

Rose bit her lips unsure. Maybe it would be best for her to stay away from Lucas. That thought left her as soon as it came. No, she couldn't let Riley win again. "I'll deal with it."


Topanga Matthews woke up at her usual time and stepped out of her room fully dressed for the day. As she stepped closer to the kitchen the smell of coffee, banana and pear filled her nose. Stepping into the kitchen, she stopped in surprise when she saw Rose and Asher at the stove. Rose seemed to be frying pancakes while Asher watched the oven when the oven beeped he took out a skillet.

"What are you guys doing?" she asks them. She was used to the two of them being awake earlier than them, but she wasn't used to them making breakfast.

"Well since we're usually awake at this time anyway we thought that we could take over breakfast for you," Asher tells her.

In truth, Rose was feeling sorry about the trouble that was about to rise between her and Riley and decided to go out of her way to make her parent's life easier that included allowing her Mom to sleep longer.

Topanga sat at the table. "So what are you making?"

Asher placed a plate in front of her and poured her a cup of coffee. "So this is grilled banana pancakes, and the coffee is called Noisette. Basically, it's espresso with a drop or two of milk or cream in it. In your case cream."

"Thank you," she took a bite off from the pancake and moaned. It was thick yet fluffy, and with every bite, she could taste the pear, banana, a hint of hazelnut and… "Did you guys had caramel to this."

"It's caramelized crème fraîche," Rose tells her.

"And what is crème fraîche?"

"Créme fraîche is similar to sour cream expect it's less sour, more liquid and more fat," Rose answers platting some pancakes for her and Asher before covering the rest for the family. Asher poured the two of them some apple juice.

Topanga moaned again as she took a sip from her expresso. "Okay, that does it. I need you two as my chefs."

Rose chuckled as she sat beside her Mom. "I don't think that's possible, but we could give your current chef recipes, and we can help in the bakery sometimes."

Asher stared at her fork halfway to his mouth. "We can?"

She kicks him under the table. "We can."

Topanga smiled at the two of them. "I would appreciate that very much." she drained the rest of her drink before standing up with her plate and cup. "Once you two are done, I'll clean up. The two of you should get ready for school."


Lucas was walking through the hallways in search of somebody. When he found her, he couldn't help but smile. She was seated at the bay window with a book in her hand, she wasn't paying attention to the world around her.

"Hey," he greets walking towards her. "I see you're not dressed as Jexica."

Rose looks up when she noticed who was calling for her attention a smile broke through her lips. "Hay is for horses," she jokes. "And no, I'm not dressed like "Jexica," I like the way I dress."

Lucas couldn't help but agree. Rose was wearing a red and white striped t-shirt dress, over it she wore a blue denim jacket and blue sneakers. Locks of chestnut-brown hair curtained her oval face; in Lucas's mind, she looked perfect.

"Bad Lucas," he thought. "You're already in a triangle with Maya and Riley don't make things more complicated."

"Can I take a seat?" he asks her gesturing to the space beside her.

Rose scooted over, the corners of her lips tugged up into an inviting smile that refused to let him go. "It's a free world."

Lucas pulled off his bag and took a seat beside her. "So Riley told me you didn't want to hang out with us? Did I do anything to upset you? I thought we were getting along the other day."

She started to speak but huffed out a breath first. "Is that what she told you?" Lucas nods. "And you believed her right way?" he nodded again. "Why?"

He shrugged. "I trust her. She's never giving me a reason not to."

"Well here's a reason why: she lied to you. She never asked if I wanted to hang out with you guys, in fact, she warned me away from you. She said, and I quote; "Stay away from Lucas.""

Concern grew on his face as he listened. When she was finally done, he shook his head. "What!? Riley wouldn't lie to me like that."

She gave a one-shoulder shrug. "You don't have to believe me. Just know that when it comes to me, Riley's personality changes. The Riley you know is not the Riley I know, hasn't been since we were nine."

"Why are you telling me all this?"

"'Cause you like her and yet you want to hang out with me. I'm just letting you know that it might cause some tension between the two of you."

Lucas thought about it for a moment. Sure he likes Riley, but something was pulling him towards Rose, however, he didn't want problems between Riley and Rose because of him. He should have told her that they couldn't hang out anymore; instead, he said. "I wanna get to know you. I think if I don't, I'll regret it." he quirked a smile at her.

Rose placed her head on her chin covering her lips. "He has a nice smile." was the thought that went through her mind at that moment.


A/N: Question for you guys do you want Riley to be redeemable? Hope you enjoyed. Don't forget to comment, review, and vote.

Translation:

J'ai eu ça: I have this.

Ignorez-la et revenez ici si elle en reçoit trop: Ignore it and come back here if it gets too much.