Just a little rant before we start the story. So there's a huge issue I have with Girl Meets World and it's that they have no idea how to do basic math. Lucas was born in the year 2000, while Farkle, Maya, and Riley were born in the year 2001 yet in the second season of the show they started eight grade which means they should be turning thirteen or already thirteen. How is it that in season 1: Girl Meets Master Plan Maya turned fourteen unless she was held back a year too that makes no sense. I guess it makes sense cause the show aired in 2014 which means they should be thirteen, but still they're in seventh grade so everybody except Lucas should be twelve.
And Josh, oh my God, Josh! Josh was born February 14, 1999, in the episode My Baby Valentine which aired February 12, 1999. So Josh is actually 2 years old then Maya not three like the show says, and even if he was three years older than them why is he a freshman in college the final season? He should be a senior in high school. Now they pushed mostly everybody from Boy Meets World's birth two years back; Cory, Topanga, Shawn were born in 1980 but they changed it to 1982- and that makes even less sense.
So for the purpose of my sanity, the show starts in the year 2013 and Josh will be born in the year 1997 which means he will no longer be three years older but four years older, and Cory, Shawn, Topanga will have their original birthday. That way my life is easier and it makes more sense in my mind.
Ilaria woke up to the feeling of gentle but persistent pats on her face. Opening her hazel eyes, her vision was obscured by bluish-gray furball.
"Morning, Dasha," she groans out.
Green eyes peered at her, still persistently patting her owner on the face, Dasha meows. Knowing that she wouldn't stop until she got out of bed, Ilaria tosses her duvet off and gets up.
"Come on, Dasha off, I need to make my bed."
Dasha meows before leaping off the bed and onto the nearby dresser. Once Dasha was off the bed, Ilaria quickly made her bed. With her bed made she made her way over to Dasha, rubbing her gently under the side of her chin. Dasha purred before jumping off the dresser the floor and moving on to her next victim, Ilaria, on the other hand, made her way to the bathroom to get ready for the day.
Thirty minutes later, she stepped out of the shower, grabbing two green towels from under the sink and wrapped them around her body and hair. Once back in her room, she sat on her vanity and did her makeup and hair. She got dressed in a black and white striped cross wrap off shoulder bodysuit, over it she wore ripped bleach wash skinny jeans, she finished the look with white converses.
Grabbing her school bag and dance bag, she headed out of her room and into the dining room.
"Morning Aria," her little cousin mumbles through his bowl of cereal.
Ilaria sets her bag on the floor and walks over to him, ruffling his hair. "Morning Auggie. Where is everybody else?"
Auggie yawns. "They went to talk to Maya and Riley."
"Okay," Ilaria takes a bag of cat food from the lower cabinet, the sound of the cat food hitting her bowl had Dasha running into the kitchen. Moving towards the fridge, she took out a box of Kellogg's Eggo Nutri-Grain Whole-Wheat Waffles and popped two waffles in the toaster. While she waited for it to toast, she took out the blender; she adds one-third cup of tart cherries, one third cup blueberries, and 1 tablespoon of raw cacao powder.
Ding!
Taking the waffles out of the toaster, she places them on a plate and pours herself a nice tall cup of smoothie. She sits beside Auggie as she enjoyed her breakfast. A few minutes into her meal, Cory and Topanga walk in.
"Morning Ilaria, Auggie," Topanga greets the two of them placing a kiss on both cheeks.
"Morning," Illaria greets back, she takes notice of the fact that Maya and Riley weren't with them. "Maya and Riley on the way to the subway."
"Yes, they are," Cory confirms, stealing a piece of her waffle.
She raises an eyebrow at her. "Are you ready for that?"
"Nope," he pops the "p." "But I have you to watch over, at least on the subway."
She rolls her eyes. "I thought so." she finishes her breakfast before taking the plate to the sink. "Well, I better get going, before I miss the subway." she places a kiss on Auggie's temple. "Bye Uncle Cory, Bye Aunt Topanga, Bye Auggie."
Thirty minutes later, Ilaria was sat on the subway with a book while keeping an eye on Maya and Riley.
"Hey Aria," Ilaria looks up and smiles when she caught sight of a familiar head of black.
"What's up Nari?"
Nari shrugs and takes a seat beside her. "Did you finish your Bio homework?"
Ilaria raises an eyebrow. "Yes. You didn't?"
"I did everything except one question. I couldn't figure out what happened in the boiled meat experiment."
"The second flask broke, and the broth spoiled due to the bacteria."
Nari takes a notebook and pencil out of her bag. "Thanks. Is that Riley?"
"Yep, Aunt Topanaga Uncle Cory finally let her come on the subway."
"Big girl moves."
"I know, right."
The two girls share giggle before making small talk only for their attention to be pulled away from each other when they heard Riley let out a scream. They watch as she lands on a blonde's lap and blush.
"Hi," the heard Riley squeak.
"Aww, Riley as a crush," Nari notes.
"Uncle Cory is not gonna be happy about this."
Soon they're destination arrives, and the girls get off the subway. Ilaria looks back at her cousin. "I'll see you later, Riles!"
Riley turns to her and grins. "Bye Aria!"
"Morning girls," a tan skin blonde greets as she walks up to Illaria and Nari who were hanging by there lockers waiting for class to start.
"Morning, Bella," the two girls greet.
"You do not look happy to be here," Ilaria notes.
"It's school. Nobody is happy to be here," Bella response opening her locker, and taking out her chemistry book. "Anyway, Ilaria have you spoken to Rayden."
Ilaria scowls. "No, I have not spoken to the asshole."
"I don't know why you haven't broken up with him yet," Bella notes.
"I want an explanation then I'm gonna decide."
"Bullshit," Nari coughs. "You've put too much effort into this relationship, and you hate when your effort goes to waste. You're not gonna break up with him."
"I think she might," Bella argues. "He ignored her all august, if she doesn't, there's something mentally wrong with her."
Ilaria glares at the two of them. "She's standing right here, you know. And speak of the devil."
"Hey Babe," a blonde hair adonis walks up to the three girls, he tries to place a kiss on Ilaria's lip, but she dodged, glaring at him. "What did I do?"
"We'll see you later Aria," Bella tells her as she and Nari walked away.
"See you guys," Ilaria waves, before glaring at her boyfriend.
"Babe, what did I do?"
"I don't know Rayden, maybe it has something to do with the fact that the last month of summer break you ignored me. Then yesterday when school started, you avoided me, and today you came up to me trying to kiss me when you know I don't like PDA."
"Oh come on Ilaria I wasn't avoiding you yesterday I was just caught up in the excitement of the first day. And I had football practice this summer, I made varsity I have to prove to the coach that I deserve it."
She raises an unimpressed eyebrow at him. "And I had dance practice, but I still had time to text my undeserving boyfriend yet he didn't reply."
"Ilaria I'm sorry, but we both know when we got in this relationship we were gonna be busy, with you in dance and me in football. It's why we started dating because we understand each other."
Her glare softens, he was right beside the fact they had known each other since middle school, the reason she accepted his offer to date was that they understood each other. "Fine, I forgive you."
Smirking a quickly sneaks a kiss on her lips. "You're the best Ilaria."
She smiles hestainly back at him, she was gonna hear it from Bella.
"Why the hell didn't you break up with him!?" Bella hisses.
"He said sorry," Ilaria defends taking a seat at the lunch table.
"Oh yeah sorry. Sorry makes everything okay."
"I mean he did have a point we were both busy this summer."
"You deserve better plus I don't trust him!"
"Who don't you trust?" Nari asks, walking over to their table with her lunch tray. "And why didn't you guys remind me that high school lunch is disgusting?"
Ilaria looks over at her. "We didn't think you needed one."
"And I was talking about Rayden. I don't trust him, he was acting completely wired this summer, I honestly believe he's…" Bella trails off when Nari gave her a significant look.
Ilaria raises an eyebrow. "And what? Spit out, Bella."
"Nothing, I was just thinking too much," she quickly takes a bite of her turkey sandwich.
"Aren't you always," a husky voice says coming over to them with a copper headed teen. He places a kiss on Bella's cheek. "Now what's got you so worked up I can feel your anger from the other side of the cafeteria."
"Can't you guess?" the redhead asks, taking a seat beside Nari. "There's only one person that could get her this worked up, well besides you."
"Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. So why are we talking about the tramposo… ow!" he glares at his girlfriend. "Why'd you kick me!?"
"I'm so sorry, Julio," Bella apologizes leaning in. "I didn't mean for you to get hurt," she gives him a significant look, gesturing lightly to Ilaria who was giving them a bewildered look.
"Anyway… So who do you guys think is going to be a sophomore captain?" Nari asks quickly bringing Ilaria attention to her while Bella and Julio had a quiet conversation.
"I have no idea," Ilaria replies. "Besides we won't find out until tomorrow anyway. I'm more interested in freshman tryouts next week."
"Oh come on Ilaria we all know you're gonna get sophomore captain. The team loves you, the seniors adore you," Bella tells her, leaning on Julio's shoulder.
"You think so!?" a happy gleam in her eyes.
"Duh!" Nari responds. "You're one of the best dancers on the team," she sends a mischievous smile at Bella. "And Bella will be your sophomore vice-captain."
Bella glares. "Don't put that course on me. I don't want to be irresponsible for whiney freshmen."
"Is being sophomore captain really that big of a deal?" the redhead asks stealing a grape from Nari's plate.
Nari slaps his hand. "Yes, Nikolas it is. Sophomore captain are in charge of making sure the sophomores and the freshmen know the routine."
"Plus it's an unspoken rule that if you make Sophomore captain, then you make junior captain, and you will be senior captain."
"Which is why it's going to be me," the four of them look up to see, Kourtney Thomas a brown skin teen with steel grey eyes, smirking at them. "I'm the best dancer on the team, and I have the advantage of the coach being my mom, plus my sister was, sophomore captain, junior captain and will be a senior captain this year. It's in my blood."
Ilaria scoffs. "You're good, I won't take that away from you. But Alicia was junior captain for a reason. She's likable and well… your not."
Kourtney scoffs. "Who cares about being likable? I have the best technique on the team plus I'm the best acro dancer, nobody is better than me."
"You do know that we get to vote right," Nari reminds her gesturing to Bella, Ilaria and her.
"That's just so you feel like your "voices are heard." Mom as the final say." she flips her hair back. "Tote lo."
They watch her walk back to her table where some of the sophomore cheerleaders were seated with the sophomore football players, Rayden included.
Bella let out a growl. "Why is it that when we got to high school, the sweetest people change to assholes?"
"Once you figure that out tell me," Ilaria replies her eyes narrow as she watches her boyfriend grin at Kourtney who ran her hand down Rayden's arm.
"Good morning, class!" An Asian woman greets as she steps into the room.
"Morning Mrs. Uehashi," the class greets back.
Sui Uehasia sends her class a warm smile, they were the fastest class that was able to pronounce her last name correctly. She stands in front of the class.
"Tomorrow is, which means that you would have all finished your first week of high school," the class cheers. "Only 35 weeks to go. Boo! I know. Before we start the class, I'll be giving you your assignment for the weekend. We start reading the Great Gatsby next week and to prepare you for it. I want you all to write me an 800 word paper on what ambition is to you. Now, will everybody hand in their vocabulary homework…"
Ilaria spaced out as the homework was collected. "Ambition, huh?"
Once English class was over Ilaria rushes out of the room, dodging bodies as she headed to the female locker room. When she arrived, she saw that most of the girls had arrived.
"Over here, Aria!"
Ilaria grins and walks over to where Bella and Nari stood changing.
"You ready for Hell?" Bella asks her.
Nari elbows her. "Just because you don't like working out doesn't mean it's hell."
Ilaria chuckles as the two of them bicker, she pulls out her dance bag from her locker. Taking out her pom-poms and her practice wear which consisted of fitted black crop tank bra with blue ladder back cutouts, fitted high waisted black shorts, and white sneakers.
Jessica Thomas walks into the locker room. "Good Afternoon, Girls!"
"Good Afternoon Coach Thomas!"
"Those that are done changing head to the gym. I want you running laps. Every girl on this team needs to run a total of ten minutes. they longer you take to change the longer those ready have to run."
Groaning Bella turns to Nari. "See hell."
After the dancers spent half an hour working out, Coach Thomas had them gather around. "Before we start practice, I have a few announcements to make. I will be announcing senior and junior captain along with their vice president. Making Junior Vice Captain is Bailey Mclean!" the girls clap as a light skin blonde stood. "Our Junior Captain is Mary Morris!" the cheers were louder as a dark skin female stood. "Our Senior Vice Captain is Naomi Adams! And out Senior Captain, the one in charge of the whole team is Alicia Thomas!"
Once the cheering had calmed down the four dancers sat back down, and Jessica continued with her announcement. "Tomorrow I will be announcing sophomore captain, so today is your last day sophomores to prove to me you are the one for this job. Don't forget to hand in your votes before you leave. Now everybody up, Pirates on three."
Jessica takes over. "1, 2, 3…"
"P-I-R-A-TES. Pirates what!? Pirates what!? Pirates Win!"
That evening an exhausted Ilaria entered her home. "I'm hom…"
"Aria! You're home!" Riley runs up and grabs her hand. "I need your help!" before Ilaria could say anything, Riley rushes her into her room.
Ilaria blinks profusely at her younger sister before raising her hand to pinch her nose, at least Riley guided them to her room. "Okay, what's up?" she tosses her dance bag on to her bed and takes off her jersey, throwing that unto her bed also. She sat on her ottoman so that she could take off her shoes. "I'm waiting."
Riley sits beside her. "Am I the type of person who always plays it safe? Is this who I'm going to be for the rest of my life? Am I ever going to take a risk that changes my destiny?"
"What!? Riles where is this coming from."
"Dad said, I'm like him."
Ilaria raises an eyebrow pulling her coffee brown hair out of a ponytail. "And that's an issue why?"
"It's Dad!"
She chuckles in response, reaching out to ruffle Riley's hair. "There's worse people you can be like?"
"I wanna be like Maya."
"Why?"
"Because she's cool, she has a wild side. She does what she wants."
"Riley being cool and having a wild side isn't necessarily a good thing. And you're a good person."
Riley scrunches her nose up. "That's what Mom said. They think I'm one of those girls who follows all of the rules and never gets into trouble."
"Again, the issue is…?"
"That's so boring!"
"Trust me Riley nothing about you is boring," Ilaria chuckles. Dasha darts into the room and races up to Ilaria who bends to scratch her under the chin. "What do you think, Dasha? Is Riley boring?" Dasha meows in response. "See Riley you're not boring."
"Than what am I?"
"You're Riley what that means is up to you. Just remember being a good person doesn't mean you're boring."
"You think so?"
"I know so."
They hug. "Thanks, Ilaria you're the best big sister in the world." Riley looks up at him. "So did you make captain?"
"I won't know until tomorrow Riley, and I don't know there's a lot of great sophomore dancers on our team, and as much as Bella doesn't want the responsibility, she's good enough to get it too."
Riley shakes her head. "But you're so hardworking. Everything you do you work so hard on it until your perfect, dance included. If you don't win, there's something wrong with the coach."
"You think so?"
"I know so. You're Ilaria."
"I am aren't I?"
"So how far have you gotten with the English paper?" Nari asks Ilaria the next afternoon, while they got ready for dance practice.
Ilaria winces. "First paragraph."
"Ilaria! It's due in nine hours!"
"I know! I'm just having trouble. I don't have anything to be ambitious about."
Bella looks at her incredulous. "You're the most ambitious person I know."
"Yeah but not about anything big, I don't even know what I want to do in the future your two do."
"Yeah but Ilaria…"
Coach Thomas walks in with the captains and vice-captains. "Good Morning, girls!"
"We're gonna start with core exercises today. "Starting with basic crunch, crossover crunch, crossover crunch, topes pointed up, crossover crunch toes pointed, drop opposite leg, and finish with a five-minute plank. Is that understood."
"Yes, coach!"
"Okay, let's get to the gym girls."
Once they were done with there workouts, the girls sat in front of coach Thomas. "Now it's time for what you have all been waiting for. Sophomore captain and vice-captain. For your Sophmore captain,, we have Bella Foppe."
"Why me?" Bella groans standing up.
Coach Thomas chuckles. "Because not only are you a great dancer, you're a hardass. You and Illaria balance each other out." Ilaria gasps. "That's right. Ilaria Lawrance is the new sophomore captain."
The girls cheered as Ilaria stood. Most of the girls on the team voted for her, not only was she a great dancer, she was super helpful. When she was a freshman, she would help the other freshmen learn the routine, something that the upperclassman to notice of. Ilaria was captain material.
Kourtney glared at Ilaria as she brunette stood and walked over to stand beside her best friend. It was middle school all over again, Aria was always chosen for everything, this time she thought she really had a choice, I mean how could she not her own mother was the captain. Her own mother betrayed her.
When it was time to go, Coach Thomas calls Ilaria and Bella over to her. "Ilaria! Bella! can I see you before you go." The two girls walk run over to her. "I choose you two to be my sophomore captain and vice, knowing the issues that I'm gonna get at home with because not only were you the majority of the vote from the girls but you two her two of my best sophomores. Next week is freshman tryouts, you will be in charge of the ten freshmen that we have on the team. You need to make sure that you make sure that they know all the routines. You shouldn't wait for the junior and the senior captain to remind you."
"Yes, ma'am!"
"Good, you can go now."
"Thank you," the two girls reply before running for the gym door. Something told Ilaria to glance back, and when she did, she saw Kourtney having a heated argument with her mom.
Obviously, Kourtney didn't think Ilaria deserve sophomore captain, and Ilaria so wants to prove her wrong. "I think I found my ambition."
Later that evening, Ilaria was sat on the dining table with her laptop while Cory, Topanga, and Auggie mingled around her. She was placing the finishing touches on her English essay.
"The textbook definition of ambition; is a strong desire to do or to achieve something, typically requiring determination and hard work. I've come to realize that everybody as an aim in life, something that they want to achieve success in. Maybe it's becoming a doctor, maybe it's just living every day to the best of your ability, most people have one. I have not realized my long-time ambition, but my short term is to become senior dance captain. To be the one to lead the Abigail Adam Pirates to success. And in two years we're going to see the produce of my ambition, and in that period I'll have something to be ambitious about long term."
"And… done, " she, saving her document to Word before sending it off to Mrs. Uehashi.
"Finally finished?" Topanga asks her.
"Yep," she pops the "p." "Do you need help with dinner?"
"I would…"
The door slams open cutting Topanga off and Riley storms into the apartment with Maya. "Where is he?" Auggie, Ilaria, and Topanga point at Cory. "There is no way I'll let you break up my friendship with Maya."
Cory shakes his head, a confused look on his face. "Is that what you think I want, Riley?"
"No," Riley admits. "What you said you really want is for me to make the world my own. And you want me to do my homework. Well, I'm doing it right now. Here's what I think is worth fighting for. This is my best friend. She's gonna get me into trouble, and I'm gonna get us out of it. And I did because here we are. Look at us, Dad. We're right here. My Civil War is over, Dad. I won. What happens now?"
The next day was a Saturday, and Ilaria found herself at the Bleecker Street Subway Station with her family, Farkle, and Lucas.
"Friends, family, and all you other subterranean mole people. We're here today to celebrate Riley being Riley. Now, some may call this a New York City Subway pass," Cory turns to Riley. "But you, Riley, can consider this a ticket to the world."
"You think I'm ready?" Riley asks.
"You showed us you are," Topanga responds for her husband.
"Riley, I've already met the world. It's your turn," Cory tells her.
"And trust me the world is waiting for you, has for a while," Ilaria adds.
The younger girls smile at her before walking over to the subway, Ilaria watches them with a smile. She grins up at Cory when she felt him place his arm around her. "You know the world includes boys, right?"
He groans glaring over at Lucas where he stood with Farkle and the models. "I'm very aware of that. So what's the world of highschool Sophmore like?"
"I thought Sophomore year would be easier, I survived Freshman year. But being a sophomore is… scary."
"And it only gets scarier," Topanga notes standing on her other side. " But, if we didn't think you can handle it we wouldn't have given you your own Subway pass to the world."
"You did, didn't you? We're gonna wait for them to come back, aren't we?"
"We did for you," Cory replies.
"Yeah, yeah, you did."
Later that night, Ilaria was resting on her bad, her laptop open with a familiar face and Dasha sleeping on the ottoman.
"I still can't believe that you had a hard time with an essay on ambition,; you're the most ambitious person I know."
Ilaria sticks her tongue out. "Shut Up, Josh! Besides, you shouldn't be talking, Mr. future NYU Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering major."
"And don't you forget it. What about you? After senior captain, what next?"
She furrows her brows. "I have no idea."
"Well, whatever you decide, I know you're going to be amazing at it because you're amazing."
"Thank you, Joshie; you're such a good friend," Josh grimaced unnoticed by Ilaria. "you always know what to say. Love you."
"Love you too," he responds, knowing that she didn't mean it the same way he did. "Night Aria!"
"Night Joshie!" Ilaria closes her laptop, placing it on her nightside. Talking to Josh always left her with a warm feeling. Snuggling into her pillow, she fell asleep with a smile on her face.
A/N: What do you guys think of Ilaria? I hope you enjoyed this chapter let me know down in the comments. Don't forget to comment, vote, and review.