Girl Meets Drabbles Part 53
*Author's Note – Okay as our deadline approaches I am working my donkey off to make sure I finish in time. Boy am I glad I changed the deadline lol. And I'm glad to see my old friend from Statefarm back again! It just occurred to me after this ends my life is going to get pretty dull… so I guess we'll have to do this again! And as always Enjoy! *
Prompt #1: From It's .FromStatefarm - Riley is in an abusive relationship and on this day Farkle just happens to see him hit her ant that sends him into a rage and the guy receives to wettest of the work (Farkle beats the crap out of him, just in case you didn't understand the phrase "wettest of the work")
I've never been a very angry person. Sure I have gotten angry at something or someone from time to time but it's usually for a very trivial reason and gets resolved. But when I saw Charlie Gardner grabbing Riley's arm so tight his fingernails were causing blood to drip from her beautiful veins, I snapped. My brain shut off and instinct took over. I charged at Charlie and tackled him to the ground. Once he was down I crawled on top of him and just started punching, I didn't even aim at anything in particular, except maybe his stupid face. I just kept hitting him thinking 'you have to protect Riley; you're doing this for Riley'.
I didn't stop until I felt myself being pulled off him, I turned and saw Lucas and Zay trying to hold me back as Riley stood with Maya both of them staring at me in disbelief. Maya had fear in her eyes but Riley, in Riley's eyes I saw something else. I could feel his blood dripping off my fingers as Lucas walked me down to the boy's bathroom to clean up.
We both wound up in the principal's office and I got a week's suspension but I didn't care because Charlie was getting a sentence that was far worse. Apparently this wasn't the first time someone had to come to the defense of someone dating Charlie Gardner. My father was disappointed in me for acting on primal instinct instead of intellect but my mother was proud of me for defending my friend, yeah, friend.
After they sent me to my room I took the train down through the gift shop and out the secret back door, I had to make sure she was really okay. I made it to the bay window I'd been through so many time and climbed right in. Riley was sitting in the middle seat all alone. She had a bandage on her arm and now that I saw her up close that wasn't the only mark she had on her. Her arms were covered in bruises as well as her legs, and she had scar healing on her cheek.
"Are you okay?" I asked her as softly as I could. She turned to me slowly and I saw the tears brimming in her eyes.
"No." she responded so quietly I could barely hear her.
"How long was he … how long had he been…?"
"A couple of weeks. One day he was fine and the next day he just … snapped. I thought I could help him change, like I did with Lucas, but I couldn't."
"Why didn't you say anything? Or just break up with him? You know we would've protected you."
"I know, it's just… I guess I was scared."
"Well you don't need to be scared anymore." I said taking her hand gently in my own.
"I know." She replied leaning her head on my shoulder. I could feel her tense body start to relax so I wrapped my arms around her slender frame and held on tight. I could've held her like that forever, and maybe after her wounds had healed, I would finally get the chance.
Prompt #2: a story involving Farkle or Lucas as a single dad to a teenage daughter, preferably Farkle.
After the death of his wife, Riley, Farkle was tasked with raising his daughter Penelope, or Penny, all on his own. His friends helped out when Penny was younger but as she got older no one could help Farkle wrangle her in as a teenager.
"I'm going out." Penny said as she headed to the front door.
"And just where are you going?"
"Out."
"With who?"
"Roxie."
"And when will you be home?"
"Later."
"Penny…"
"Geez Dad, enough with the third degree." Penny said as she walked out the door despite Farkle calling out after her.
He had no idea where this attitude had come from. Penny was practically the spitting image of her mother both inside and out. So when she started showing signs of teenage rebellion he thought it would be on the same level as Riley, he had no idea they were ending up in Maya territory. So he called the only person he knew, besides Riley, who could handle a teenage Maya.
"How did you do it?" Farkle asked Lucas as they sat in his and Maya's living room later that afternoon.
"Well to be fair I was dating her, I wasn't her father." Lucas said.
"Aww don't sell yourself short Huckleberry, I remember calling you 'Big Daddy' once or twice." Maya teased as she came to join them.
"I just can't stop myself from thinking, Riley would know what to do." Farkle said placing his head in his hands. "I never thought I'd ever fail at anything, but I'm a failure as a father."
"Hey you're a great dad. You think you're the only parent dealing with a moody teenager. Penny may be taking a walk on the Maya side but Roxie was born there." Maya said to him.
"Yeah, we never stood a chance." Lucas said with a chuckle. "Have you tried just taking to her about it. Not at her but to her."
"No, but I'll try. Will you guys be there?" Farkle asked.
"Always." Maya replied making Farkle a little nostalgic, 'Always' had been his and Riley's word.
It was then that the two teenage girls came into the house.
"Dad? What are you doing here?" Penny asked.
"We need to… or rather I wanted to talk to you about something."
"Hear him out Honey." Roxie said before going to join her mother and father on the other side of the room.
"Penny, lately I feel as though you're drifting away. You're not acting like yourself and I'm worried about you."
"Why? Because I'm not the sweet innocent little girl anymore. Face it Dad, you just can't accept that I'm growing up."
"I'm all for you growing up into the person you were meant to be, trust me I know how it feels to want to change and grow from who you were to who you are. But I don't feel like this is it. If it's space you need then I'll be happy to give it to you, but if it's something else I need you to know that you can always come to me."
"Thank you. And I already know that." Penny said crossing her arms.
"Mr. Minkus something is bothering her."
"Roxie!"
"I'm sorry Penny but it's for your own good." Roxie said looking at her best friend with pleading eyes.
"What's wrong?" Farkle asked his daughter quietly.
"I just feel like … how am I supposed to become the woman I'm meant to be without … without Mom." Penny said finally breaking down. Farkle said nothing, he just wrapped his arms around his little girl, comforting her like he used to when she was six and afraid of thunderstorms.
"She was supposed to teach me about boys, and make up, and… I'm worried I'm starting to forget her and that means I won't be... be like her. And you always said she was the best person you've ever known."
"Penny, you're already so much like your mother. You have her eyes and her smile and most importantly you have her heart. Unfortunately, you also have her insecurity."
"Mom was insecure? But I remember her being the bravest person I know."
"She was." Maya said joining in. "But that bravery came from knowing that she couldn't let her fears control her."
"You may not have your mother here anymore, but you have the three people who loved her the most. We'll make sure you grow into exactly who you're supposed to be." Farkle said wiping away her tears.
"And if you feel up to it, we have some home movies from when we were all in high school. You wanna see your mom at your age?" Maya said walking over to the TV and picking out a DVD from the shelf. "This one's my favorite." She said popping it in and pressing play. Everyone sat down on the couch to watch.
"This is Riley Matthews and I am here at Topanga's to ask the tough questions. Maya Hart, how do you open a banana?" Riley said causing her and Maya to laugh hysterically. They were sixteen and sitting in the bay window at the bakery, just a regular day after school.
"What's so funny?" Lucas' voice was heard saying in the background as the camera quickly panned over to him.
"Uncle Huck! You were a babe back in the day!" Penny said causing everyone to chuckle.
"Gimme that." Maya's voice said. "Come on baby, pose for the camera. Let everybody see that cute butt."
"Maya, cut it out." Lucas said as Maya chased him with the camera trying to get a clear shot of his behind but instead they got a cute shot of them sharing a very sweet kiss.
Penny looked away from the screen to see her Aunt and Uncle looking at each other the exact same way as the video, and her attention went back to the screen when she heard her mom's voice again.
"Talk about a cute butt, look at this fine specimen over here." Riley said aiming the camera directly at Farkle who, unlike Lucas, was glad to pose in embarrassing positions for his lady love. "Hubba hubba." Riley said.
"Alright Riley, time to show some true beauty." Farkle said taking the camera and turning it around on her. Riley blushed and looked away from the lens.
"Farkle."
"Don't you want proof of how beautiful you were when we're all old and wrinkly."
"Are you saying I won't still be beautiful when I'm old?" Riley asked in a joking way but anyone could see the flash of hurt in her eyes. It was then that Farkle put the camera down on the table to you could see both of them sitting in the bay window.
"Riley you will always be beautiful to me. Inside and out." Farkle said taking her hands in his own. It was then that she smiled one of her signature Riley smiles and gave him a loving kiss before turning to her best friend.
"Don't I have the most wonderful boyfriend in the whole wide world Maya? … Maya? Oh god, my eyes!" Riley said screaming and covering her eyes.
"Get a room." Farkle said lifting the camera to show Maya and Lucas making out while laying across the two chairs.
"Good idea. Come on Huckleberry." Maya said giggling while dragging an equally giddy Lucas out of Topanga's.
"Mom! Dad!" Roxie exclaimed.
"Okay, movie time's over." Lucas said getting up and taking out the DVD.
"I could've lived my whole life without seeing my parents making out, and in a public place no less." Roxie said staring forward with a horrified look on her face.
"You think that's bad, once when you were four you walked in on us having…" Maya started to say but Lucas covered her mouth with his hand.
"Ice cream. We were having ice cream and you got really mad and didn't talk to us for a week. Right, okay here's fifty dollars, go buy some clothes. Love you." Lucas said dragging Maya away to either fight or finish what they were doing in the video.
"Well I may be scarred for life, but at least I'll have some new clothes. You coming Pen?" Roxie said heading out the door.
"Can I Dad?" Penny asked Farkle, who was still fondly remembering the day that they had just watched on tape.
"Sure, you need any money?"
"No I'm good. I'll be home by ten." She said giving Farkle a big hug and a kiss on the cheek. "I love you Dad."
"And I love you." Farkle said as Penny and Roxie left to go shopping. He decided to go home and finish some work, seeing as Lucas and Maya were now, otherwise engaged. But before he left he looked up and smiled.
"Well my darlin', I think everything's gonna be just fine. The only thing missing… is you." Farkle said blowing a kiss in the air before walking out of the apartment and closing the door behind him
THE END
