Four weeks later.
Topanga and Cory are living in one apartment while Shawn and Eric take the one next door. They hang out at Java Sun, a coffee house in which most college students hang out. Topanga quickly made friends with the student manager, Kristen, and was able to get herself and the others a job. Cory works but not as long of hours for he is taking a few summer classes so that the regular year won't be as demanding. Shawn works as a cashier following the same plan Cory is, taking classes over the summer. Eric is a janitor. That's it. A janitor. (Kristen felt that he wasn't quite ready to take on the register after he pressed the eject button so much that he broke it. He has to pay for half of the new one.)
Cory and Topanga have almost completely moved in making the apartment all their own. They decided to go with what was there since didn't want to pay for new things. Eric and Shawn felt that the apartment was perfect as it was, and after a bit of help from Topanga they felt it was a bit more perfect. They decided that they would all have meals together as often as possible that way money would be saved.
Cory is majoring in journalism, Topanga in political science; Shawn hasn't figured his out yet but is leaning towards journalism also, and Eric toward meteorology. Topanga is continuing to do the internship but not going as full force as she originally thought she would after finding out the university offers an extra one-time only class this summer.
"What time do you have class Hun?" Topanga asked Cory.
"One," Cory answered simply.
"I have it at one thirty so I guess I'll just meet you at home" she said getting up to check on the customers. While going to get a coffee and muffin she states that her class is probably going to run a bit late today seeing as she has some questions for the professor about his last lecture, which everyone knows is the college code for I must see what I got on my last paper.
"You're going to get an A," Shawn says. "You can add it to the gazillion other A's you have gotten. Now you will have a gazillion plus one."
Topanga smiles and says, "and you wonder why you didn't do well in math last year."
Cory looks down at his watch; it reads 12:45. "Oh shoot! Kristen, I gotta go, class."
"Okay, see ya later," she yells from the back.
Shawn and Cory dash out of the café and out towards the main street. Both running as fast as they can, they make it out to the street in record time. They stop to catch their breath but begin again as Cory looks down at his watch and sees it read 12:50. The boys run down the sidewalk dodging people right and left hoping to make it on time. Shawn, just behind Cory jumps up to avoid being hit by and umbrella. He finds it odd that someone would have an umbrella open on a warm, August afternoon. To his amazement though, most people have an umbrella open and he stops to look around. He notices that his clothes are soaked with rain. He groans, starts running again but in ten seconds he is back to standing after colliding with another man.
Shawn, without looking at the man, immediately looks down to find paper, soaked with water, scattered throughout the sidewalk. He bends over and begins to pick up the papers, as does the man he collided with.
"I am so sorry," he says still hunched over picking up papers. "I just really had to get to class on time or my professor is going to kill me."
"It's alright, this isn't the first time it has happened," the man says doing the same thing.
Shawn looks at the man and finds the way that he is bent over a little odd. He looks at the guy's right leg and realizes that two metal crutches were on either side of him. Guilt begins to flood over Shawn as he stands up. The man, doing the same, looks up into Shawn's eyes. Cory, now realizing that Shawn is no longer with him runs back as fast as he can. Shawn meets the man's eyes and quickly looks down. The man is leaning his weight on his left leg and the crutches. "I really am sorry, I was just in a rush," Shawn says as he sees another paper on the ground. He leans over to pick it up. Shawn hands it to the man standing fully up. Their eyes meet and although Shawn wants to look away he can't. He backs away and suddenly realizes whom he is staring at. The dark brown, almost black, curly hair and brown eyes caught Shawn's eye. The man was wearing a green shirt, jeans, and a colorful tie that matched the shirt. Shawn realized that the man he was staring at was none other, than Jonathan Turner.
All of a sudden Shawn feels a pulling at his sleeve. He turns to see Cory motioning him to get going. Shawn stands there for a second looking at space. He turns back to Turner but is pulled away before he can say anything else. They begin to run again, Shawn looking back not believing what he saw.
"John..." whispered Shawn only loud enough for Turner to hear as he ran away.
"Hunter...?" Turner said, hearing what Shawn had said. Turner looked on as Cory pulled Shawn away from the biggest surprise of his life.