Like Father, Like Son
Author's Note: Hey guys! I apologize I haven't updated this story in some time, work has had my hands tied and also paying attention to the NBA Finals. I actually wanted to get this uploaded after Game 2 between the Golden State Warriors vs the Cleveland Cavaliers but I'm working tomorrow so, gotta get it done while I can. I hope everyone has been well and doing well in life. I hope you're ready for this chapter people, do you think Aaron was the bad guy last chapter for not giving Melanie any attention? Well, that gets settled this chapter. Here we go! Oh and by the way, since I am a Toronto Raptors fan and the Cavs beat my team, I am rooting for the Warriors and also Stephen Curry lived in Toronto for a year since his father: Dell Curry played for the team.
Disclaimer: I obviously don't own Girl Meets World. I'm not getting paid by the writers to write stuff like this (but I wish I was) Sadly they wouldn't let stuff like this air because it's Disney!
Sabrina, Melanie and, Natalie were all looking at Aaron. Sabrina and Natalie were all giving a death stare towards Aaron while Melanie looked rather hurt as she was laying her head on her sister's shoulders. Aaron slowly walked towards them to a reclining chair facing them. He knew he was walking into a hornet's nest for reasons unknown to him. "So, what's going on?" Aaron asked.
"Aaron, shut up! You know what you did!" Natalie exclaimed to her brother.
"What the hell are you talking about idiot?" Aaron asked raising his voice towards his sister.
"You hurt Melanie!" Natalie explained clear as day. Aaron snapped his head back not knowing how that was possible.
"How did I do that? I didn't do jack shit!" Aaron raised his voice as Riley stormed out of her room.
"Language Aaron!" Riley scolded her son as she sees her niece hurting.
"Melanie, what's wrong?" Riley asked softly walking towards Melanie and comforting her.
"Your son over here hurt Melanie!" Sabrina answered angrily.
"Aaron, explain yourself." Riley said.
"No, I can explain it myself." Melanie said bringing her head off of Riley's shoulders to find the strength to sit up straight.
"What did I do Mel?" Aaron asked.
"My parents kicked us out for a bit so that they can have some privacy for whatever reason, so we eventually passed by Sakura's and we saw you and Chloe together." Melanie began to tell Aaron as her voice was getting weaker. "You looked through the window and you saw us there. I know you saw us Aaron because you saw the pain in my heart. All of us thought you would come out of Sakura's to see how I was doing. You always placed us above everything and you would always check up on all of us to see if something was wrong. But I guess…You've changed Aaron, ever since this Chloe girl came into your life, it's like she controls your thoughts now. Your world is revolved around her." Melanie rambled on as Aaron and Riley could see her point.
Riley remembered how Maya liked Josh, the difference between that situation and now with her son and her niece is that Aaron and Melanie have known each other their whole lives even with a difference that Aaron was older than Melanie by two years. In a way she could also see their relationship between each other like Cory and Topanga's. The legendary story of Cory and Topanga was that the two have known each other their whole lives since the age of two when their mothers would take them out on their strollers and walk with them. She now sees that Maya was talking about earlier when they had lunch, Melanie clearly likes Aaron however, Aaron likes Chloe. Aaron was in a terrible predicament.
"Look, I'm sorry I hurt your feelings, but can't I have a life of my own? My world doesn't revolve around you guys either? Chloe doesn't have a perfect life like you think and, she doesn't control me, Mel! We're just friends! I'm sorry, but I've always seen you as my family. Nothing more, nothing less. If you can't handle that I don't have the same feelings for you then you just need to suck it up and deal with it!" Aaron placed his feelings for Melanie out there right in front of everyone present in the living room.
Melanie looked as though she just got slapped in the face by him. She never felt the pain of rejection before like what happens on TV shows and movies, but now knows what those heartbreaks feel like. It felt like she just got stabbed in the heart and every little fantasy of her and Aaron crumbled to pieces and burned to ashes. Her bottom lip quivered and tears were blurring her vision. She tried to stay strong, but she was breaking down. Aaron wouldn't want a little girl who easily cries at everything anyway.
Aaron realized his mistake at his poor choice of words and knew that she was still young and couldn't take it. He stared at her mortified and instantly regretted his behavior and yelling at her. He frowned at her reaction. "Oh, Melanie, I-I'm sorry. It's just that you're younger than me and-" Aaron began to take back his words before he was cut off.
"Save it, Friar! It's too late for your apologies!" Sabrina marched toward him with a livid expression. She looks angrier than how her mother looks when Maya would act the same way. Sabrina looked like she wants to kill him and didn't care if his mother was present. "You've done enough damage! You've hurt my sister and acted like her feelings don't matter!"
"Sabrina, I'm" Aaron was about to say a million apologies, but Sabrina slapped him across the face instead.
"Sorry, Aunt Riley!" Sabrina had quickly grumbled her apology for hurting him in front of her. She took her sister and slammed the door and they went back to their home.
Once they left, Riley glared at her son and Natalie looked upset with her brother as well. "I'm very disappointed with you, Aaron!" She scolded him. "You could've handled it maturely like I know you are! Just wait until your father hears about this!" Riley told him and left to get the laptop in her bedroom so she can get on Skype and chat with Lucas.
Aaron's face paled at the thought of having a one on one with his father. Being under his mother's wrath was one thing, but his father's was another. He remembered a time where he played a horror game called Outlast 2 behind his parent's back. Aaron had borrowed it from John. Troy was definitely not allowed to play that game because he was way too young for it. But there was one night when it was just Aaron with his siblings so he let Troy play it for a while. Unfortunately, he got scarred and horrified with the scene when Eddie Gluskin was about to torture Waylon Park by cutting his penis off! Troy got terrible nightmares from it and he ratted Aaron out for it which resulted him to be grounded. Then John got his game back and Aaron was glad that he got in trouble as well for lending him the game.
There was another time when he was into serious trouble. It happened when Aaron was a lot younger. He got dared by Anthony and John to stuck gum in Natalie's hair while she wasn't paying attention. There were a few sights back in middle school he was involved in and had some detentions in the past which was nothing serious, but his parents weren't happy about it.
Aaron was not really a bad kid, he's just stupid sometimes. Riley swears he inherited his rebellious side from his father.
"Oooh, somebody's gonna get in trouble!" Natalie teased in an obnoxious singing voice with her arms crossed. Shw was not happy at all with her brother because of how he treated Melanie who was like a little sister to her. "Quite frankly, you deserve it for being an ass."
"Shut up, Natalie!" Aaron snapped. "I don't need you to be harping on me now!"
Natalie glared at him and narrowed her eyes, saying. "Well, I know who's going to grow old and die alone!" With that, she went to her bedroom.
Aaron was about to go to his own room also, but his mother reappeared holding her laptop. She sat down on the couch and set the computer on the coffee table across from the TV.
"Aaron, I talked with your father about this and now he wants to talk to you." Riley turned the laptop and he saw on the screen his father staring at him with disapproval as he had his earphones on while Troy was in the background asleep with his Lucas Friar Knicks jersey on.
"Hello, Aaron." Lucas greeted firmly.
"Hey, dad." Aaron returned the greeting sheepishly. He walked towards the table and sat down on the couch turning the computer to him. Riley had already left them alone to talk in private.
Aaron started the conversation sounding awkward and uncomfortable. "So, I saw the Knicks won the game against the Nets. Congratulations…"
Lucas raised an eyebrow and gave him an "I'm not an idiot" look. "Do you really think I want to talk about that right now?" His son just hung his head down in shame. "Mom told me how you treated Melanie tonight. I thought I raised you better on how to treat women."
Aaron felt guilty and hated himself for how he spoke to Melanie. He acted out of his own emotions rather than being calm and rational. "You did. I was just an idiot and shouldn't have said what I said. I tried to apologize, but-"
"Your mother told me what you said to Melanie and I think you're going to need to do a lot more than just apologizing." Lucas told Aaron knowing how delicate Melanie is.
Aaron didn't fully understand him. "What should I do then? I don't have the same feelings so it's not like I can give them to her-" Aaron spoke out giving his point of view.
"Make a sincere apology and maybe even take her out and have fun together. Let Melanie trust you again and still maintain your friendship with her." Lucas advised.
"Okay. I'll try to do that if she even wants to talk to me." Aaron didn't like the thought of losing a good friend especially if it was his fault.
"Knowing her, I'm sure she'll come around. She has a good heart." Lucas told Aaron.
That made Aaron feel relieved. "Okay. So…I guess we're done here?" The young teen asked desperately wanting to get offline with him and was about to log out until Lucas had spoken again.
"Wait! No not yet. There's still your punishment," Lucas reminded making Aaron groan. "You don't think you're going to get away that easy, do you?"
"Fine, what is it?" He knew that was going to come which was why he tried to avoid it.
"You're going to wash the dishes and do the laundry for two weeks. No TV or playing video games and same thing with computer games, so don't even think about trying to play League of Legends 3 or Sword Art Online.
"Okay. Anything else?" Aaron asked feeling like most of his freedom has already been taken away from him.
"I was also going to add that you should make dinner, but I don't want you to burn the apartment building down." Lucas said throwing in a subtle punch at Aaron.
Aaron rolled his eyes. "Very funny, dad. So, dishes and laundry and no TV or games. Got it."
"Good," He approved and ended their conversation. "Now we're done. You should get ready for school tomorrow. You got a game to prepare for and practice after school." Lucas said remembering Aaron's practice schedule.
"Okay. Bye, dad. Love you." Aaron said.
"Love you too, buddy." Lucas said as they both ended their chat on Skype.
Aaron ran his hands through his hair, he couldn't believe what has happened. He really screwed up tonight and it was all because he acted out on emotions. He tried to go to sleep but it proved rather difficult for him with an unclean conscience. Finally, 6am struck as Aaron's alarm sounded. He did his usual routine of doing pushups in the morning as much as he hated them and also did 100 crunches before going to meet his mother who was finishing breakfast as he still got a dirty look from his sister.
"How'd you sleep last night?" Natalie asked mocking him.
"Can you for once in your life stay out of my business? Jeez you're annoying" Aaron snapped at her as Riley made herself a cup of coffee.
"You two need to stop fighting!" Riley exclaimed to her children.
"But mom, you hear her? She's always being nosy!" Aaron complained.
"Well I wouldn't, if you just didn't hurt Mel like you did!" Natalie shouted back.
"Ok you two! Can you please just give me some peace? Grandpa just told me that we will be having a staff meeting today. So can you two be nice to each other?" Riley shouted at her children wanting peace and quiet. Whenever Riley spoke out aggressively, Natalie and Aaron knew better and kept their mouths shut and even though the two siblings were fighting each other like cats and dogs, they want what's best for their mother and did as they were told.
As always, Aaron would walk Natalie to school but the two remained quiet as the tension between the two was still very strong. After Aaron dropped off Natalie, he conscience still played back the memories of what happened the night before with Melanie and Aaron begins to think of what he could do to make things up to her for what happened the embarrassment she may have felt during that sit down.
Aaron finally made it to school and as he was making his way in, he saw Xander with Chloe, it was weird for Xander to be around Chloe had it been for one certain memory. Aaron remembers Xander and how he acts around Natalie, maybe Xander is asking Chloe how to get to Natalie? Aaron couldn't speculate since it would be invading on their conversation.
Xander finally walked away and began to head towards his school, Chloe noticed Aaron from the sight of his camouflage jacket.
"Good morning, Aaron." Chloe greeted him.
"Morning, Chloe. You enjoyed last night?" Aaron asked wrapping his arm around her.
"Yeah. I did thank you." Chloe said as she noticed Aaron not his usual energetic self. "What's wrong, Aaron?" Chloe asked him.
He didn't want to talk about the incident especially since Chloe is around. So the only way to deal with it was the only way he knew how.
"Don't worry about it, I'll be ok." Aaron said sheepishly. "What was Xander doing here?" Aaron asked her in return turning the conversation on her not wanting the attention.
"Well, Xander wants my help to ask out your sister." Chloe said subtly lying to Aaron.
"Oh, that's cool I guess." Aaron grumbled. Chloe looked at Aaron not liking his tone of voice but decided to leave it alone, she sees the look on his face. It showed he had a long night and wanted to leave him alone until he's ready to talk about it. However, she too kept a secret from Aaron, Xander gave her something…A letter from Charlie.
Author's Note: Hey now! Charlie wrote to Chloe?! What will it say? Is Charlie still in trouble in the cops? And why did Cory ask for a staff meeting? Next time on Like Father, Like Son: Chloe gets time to herself and waits until she is all alone and reads her letter from Charlie, Cory holds a staff meeting while the basketball teams warm up together. What will Cory tell his staff? Find out next time on Like Father, Like Son! Oh man I have major plans for this story! One of them being a Rucas moment on Riley's birthday! Also, tragic news has been dropped. Former Heavyweight Champion: Muhammad Ali previously known as Cassius Clay has passed away at the age of 74. A moment of silence to not just a boxing champion but a man who refused to go to war for what he believed and helped change the world in the 1960s. RIP to legend and the greatest of all time, Muhammad Ali. Please reivew and add this to your favs and follow the story. It's gonna be a crazy next few chapter!
Let's Talk!
Rucas4Ever: Well if you can ship name, that will help! I can't come up with anything for those two and well Melanie has been kicked to the curb in a rather mean way...Hopefully Aaron can not only apologize, but make it up to her since they are like family. Thank you for reviewing the story and I hope to hear from you in the next chapter.
Mynameisjeff1400: Thanks brother, I hope everyone's doing ok for you man, I hope you like the chapter. Aaron will play a game soon same with Chloe. So we'll see how they do.
aliqueen16: Thank you very much and as for Aaron, the boy needs to redeem himself and man, Lucas put Aaron in his place but I understand Lucas' position since Melanie and Aaron have known each other their whole lives and for Aaron to do what he did to her, was a pretty low blow. Riley and Lucas had every right to be disappointed in him.
James Stryker: Oh yeah! Him being in big trouble was being nice! Lucas and Riley really want Aaron to man up to what he did. You gotta feel bad for Melanie though, the first boy she liked was Aaron and what he did to her, pretty cheap and pretty rough on her. Thanks for the support and I hope to read the next chapter of both Her Protector and Juliet's World really soon! :)
daghely: Melanie and Aaron is similar to Cory and Topanga in the fact that they've known each other their whole lives. They're also like Josh and Maya due to the age gap being the reason why they can't be together. I hope you liked this chapter and hopefully Aaron and Mel can patch things up. Thanks for the support and hope to hear from you soon! :)