How It Happened... Chapter 2
The three friends walk into the classroom and see Farkle already sitting in his seat.
"Hey Farkle what's up?" Lucas asked his punctual friend.
"Nothing much I just wanted to get here early to see if Mr. Matthews could finally teach me about Belgium." The melancholy boy shared with his friends.
"Let me guess, you didn't get to learn about Belgium did ya Farkle?" Maya asked using Farkles sad demeanor to make her judgement.
"NO I didn't! Why do things always happen to me! I just want to learn is that too much to ask for! It's killin me! It's killin me!" The Farkle yelled hysterically while he stood up and waved his hands in the air.
"Farkle, why don't you just look it up on the internet?" Riley asked curiously.
"That's true, that would be the simple solution. I guess I never thought of that. Thanks Riley, you really cheered me up." Farkle smiled at her thinking that she looked especially beautiful today. Just about then Mr. Matthews entered the room with a wide grin on his face.
"Good morning class. Today we are going to be covering the presidents of the United States. So in order to cover all of them on the short amount of time that we have, we will be doing a project where you and one other person will research a president and then give a speech in class about that man. Okay, will the first row of desks turn around and face the person behind you, that person will be your partner for this project and we have the rest of class to work on it so get to it." After his monologue, Mr. Matthews walks to his desk and lays his head down, taking a nap.
"No wonder Matthews looked so happy this morning." Maya looked at their teacher, disgusted.
"Well howdy there ma'am looks like we're partners for this rodeo." Lucas joked.
"Great, Riles gets Mr. Einstein and I get Bucky McBoingBoing." She replies giving Lucas one of her many names for him. Lucas smiles at her wondering how she manages to light up his face even when she's trying to make fun of him. Maya catches him smiling at her and she gives him a face, "I can't get to you, why can't I get to you!" Maya exclaims but Lucas just keeps on smiling and says with a wink,
"I guess you'll just have to stick around and see."
With that Maya turns around slowly accompanied by her song of "ooh's". Meanwhile, one seat over, Riley and Farkle are hard at work doing their presentation.
"So Farkle, what president do you want to do?" Riley asks not really caring who they researched as long as they did well on the assignment.
"Well Riley, seeing as everyone else is doing a well known president, why don't we do one not so well known so we can look impressive to your dad?" Farkle responded with a plan already in mind.
"Farkle, I like the way you think!" Riley response giving the kid genius a high-five.
Just then the bell rang signaling the end of the class period.
At the end of the day Riley and Farkle had gone off to work on their project which left Maya and Lucas to work on theirs.
As they enter Topanga's, Maya and Lucas sit down and begin working on their project.
"So Ranger Rick, which one of these guys do you want to do?"
"I don't care Maya, how about you pick." Lucas offered, not really paying attention. He hadn't been to get Maya out of his mind all day and being alone with her wasn't helping. Apparently Maya noticed him not being all in the present because when he finally got out of his head she was looking at him, genuinely concerned.
"Hey Huckleberry, are you okay? You look a little, well you look too happy to not be on drugs." Maya asked adding in a little bit of Maya sarcasm.
"Yea I'm fine short stack, just thinking about someone." The boy confesses with a smirk.
"Okay, one: if you ever call me that again I will mess you up, and two: who is this person that good'ole Ranger Rick has taken a cotton to?" The snarky blonde questioned.
Lucas looked scared yet amused.
"Wow Maya I'm impressed you looked up some cowboy slang. You actually put thought into our little game don't you?" The cowboy asked trying to sidetrack the blonde before him.
Maya smirked, "I actually do Huckleberry. You still haven't answered my question though. Who were you thinking of cowboy? Could it be a certain brunette we both know whose father just so happens to be our teacher?"
Lucas looked down at his hands in his lap. He nervously started to talk, "Actually I think that ship has sailed Maya."
The blonde sitting across from him looked at him puzzled.
"What do you mean that ship has sailed? I thought you liked Riley?" Maya questioned, starting to get a little protective of her friend.
"I used to, but now I just like her as a friend. I kinda have feelings for someone else." The high-strung boy replied honestly.
"Who is the devil witch that is going to break Riley's heart?" Maya asks getting very angry and asking too many questions.
"Well...I...you...you don't know her, she's a girl I used to know back in Texas." Lucas lied to the blonde.
"Maya we should really get started on our project now. We haven't even picked out a president to research and it's due in a couple of days." Lucas persisted.
"Alright Buckaroo, but don't think we're done with that conversation."
He looked at Maya, "Buckaroo? That's a new one."
"Yea I'm keeping things fresh. How do you like it Huckleberry?" The blonde looked at him with her clear blue eyes.
"I like it, it's a change."
He smiled at her and wondered if he could get her to like him back. He wondered if they could ever be something without someone freaking out or him losing a friend. Lucas decided that very moment that he would try to win over Maya Hart. Lucas Friar was in big trouble.
End Chapter 2 of How It Happened...