Chapter 3-A New Home

Topanga stood in awe. She looked at Cory questioningly. "Cory". "It's beautiful". "But". "How"? Cory grinned. "Wanna tell her Eric"? "Ok lil bro". Replied Eric "You see Pangers, we all pitched in". "As it was, Cory had a little money of his own but not near enough to buy this". "Cory let us all in on the plan.." "He wanted to surprise you with a house of your own". "So we all decided to help". "Rachel loaned some money to Cory, Jack loaned some money to Cory, Alan & Amy loaned just a TINY bit, Topanga's dad and his girlfriend loaned quite a bit, (Topanga shifted her feet) even Trailer boy pitched in"! (Shawn felt upset at first when Eric had called him that. But he knew well enough to know that Eric meant nothing by it. So he smiled) "Angela also helped out".. "She had it sent here specially". "Suprisingly". Chimed in Shawn "Eric over there lent a couple hundred". "Well, I had already bought all the Strawberry Shortcake dolls anyway". "I just didn't know what to do with the rest". (The others glanced at Eric oddly. But they all knew Eric enough to know that he was odd) "Don't worry about paying me back lil bro". "They're paying me pretty good money over at McDonalds". "I'll just have to wait until they come up with more Strawberry Shortcake stuff". Sighed Eric (Everyone else pretended not to hear)

"Yeah, don't worry about me either". Said Jack "My dads filthy rich". "Even if I was stupid and spent all my money on Strawberry Shortcake dolls, my dad'd still pay me". Eric glared at him. "I'll have you know that Strawberry Shortcake dolls are not stupid"! "They smell good"! "I wish every girl smelt like that".. Said Eric distantly "You think the New York girls will smell like em"? "The Philly girls sure didn't".. "Um.yeeeeeeah".. "We'll".. "See Eric". Said Topanga "Well come on Topanga"! "This is our home now"! "Lets go in"! And they all followed the enthusiastic Cory into their home. (it even had a small nook!)

Topanga stared around her new home. Completely shocked and speechless. It must have been planned for months. Furniture lay all over. There was even a new coffee machine! "Cory this is all so wonderful". Said Topanga "But where are you going to get the money to pay back everyone"? (except those who had protested) "Oh". Said Cory as he began. "We have everything we need here Topanga". Topanga looked at him questioningly. Yes, there was a couch, and a leather chair, and a cabinet to hold their television and stereo, (they were in the living room) But surely there wasn't a bed or anything. "We don't have some things". "But we can just move stuff from our old home as well". Said Cory Topanga entered the bedroom. Not a scratch. It was beautiful.. "Cory".. "I".. "I just don't know what to say"! Said Topanga as she sqeezed those first words out of her mouth. "Say I love it Cory". "Thank-you". "Oh Cory it's wonderful"! "Thank-you so much"! And with that she ran into Cory's arms. Those strong soft arms in which she felt so safe and protected. Now to just move in. "We'll start moving our stuff from our old home soon". Said Cory-Still holding Topanga. And with that the three sat on the couch and drank some coffee.

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