Hey everyone! I'm really sorry I haven't updated in forever. I've been doing school stuff for the past week, and I got the new iPhone so I've been using it non stop for the past few days. I know getting a new phone is no excuse for not updating but I'm truly being honest. And plus I just didn't have the motivation to finish the chapter. But for some reason I woke up today and had this really great idea on how I wanted to finish the chapter. There is going to be at least 2 more chapters in the story. I've been having a lot of fun writing this and I wanted to thank everyone for all the amazing reviews! The next story I'm gonna be working on once I finish this is called Girl meets the letter. I hope you enjoy the chapter and remember to review, and if you ever have any questions don't be afraid to PM me! so without further ado, here is chapter 8! :)
It had been a few days since Cory and Maya were released from the hospital. Maya was told to wear her neck brace for at the least 2 weeks. She didn't think much of it because no one would see her for 2 weeks, when her suspension is over. Besides the choking thing, things in Maya's life had been going pretty great. The same could not be said about Cory.
Turns out that the medicine he was given for his hand made him really sick. He was throwing up more than he had when he had food poisoning. Cory and Topanga's bathroom reeked of vomit, so they were forced to shower in Riley's bathroom. Cory was lying in bed with his head against the headboard and his arm draped over his stomach. All he wanted to do was take a shower, brush his teeth, and eat a meal with puking it up. He also wanted to go back to work. Being cooped up in this house was not very fun. As Cory tried to fall asleep his phone started to buzz like crazy. Sometime in between getting food poisoning and breaking his hand Topanga had bought him a new phone. Cory moaned and he rolled over to the table. He read the message he had just received.
Emily: I heard about your "accident." I can't wait for you to come back to school. I have a surprise for you…
Cory wondered what she meant by surprise. As he was thinking his stomach began to churn again and he darted towards the bathroom.
Maya was currently sitting on her bed drawing a picture of the bunnymart across the street. Maya was still deciding if she should tell Riley about her and Lucas. She didn't want to ruin their friendship even more than it already was. She just didn't know if she should tell or keep to herself.
As Maya put the finishing touches on her drawing her phone started to ring. Maya headed to her dresser leaving the pen and pad on her bed.
"Hello?" Maya said. "How ya doin'?" Emily asked in her usual snarky tone. "Emily what do you want?" Maya asked. "Look, I'm getting tired of messing with Velcro head." Emily replied. "Velcro head?" Maya asked. "Ugh, Cory the annoying one!" Emily said. "Mr. Matthews is not annoying, ok so maybe a little… but still that's mean!" Maya said. "Whatever, anyways I'm gonna need your address so I can come there because you can't come to school." Emily said. "I wouldn't give you my address if my life depended on it!" Maya shot back. "And if you don't I'll tell Riley all about you and Lucas!" Emily said. "It wouldn't matter if you did; Riley wants nothing to do me anyways." Maya said. "Actually she's been talking about you nonstop, she's actually gonna come by your house tomorrow after school." Emily said.
Maya wasn't sure if she should trust her or not. But Maya was willing to do anything to get Riley back. She told her the address and then hung up the phone. She headed to her window and looked outside. The only thing she could do was wait and hope things would be ok.
Cory woke up the next morning, actually feeling really good. He stretched and kissed his wives forehead before he headed to the bathroom.
He brushed his teeth like 20 times before he got into the shower. It was a little hard washing with the cast but he managed. When he was finished he grabbed his brief case and headed to the kitchen. Cory could smell the chocolate chip pancakes and bacon Topanga was cooking. Cory was starving; he hadn't really eaten anything in days.
"Good morning!" Cory said in a cheery tone. "Someone looks like there feeling better." Topanga said as she pecked Cory's lips. "Topanga I feel a million times better than I did yesterday." Cory said as he sat down at the table. "Good, do you think you keep down some pancakes?" Topanga asked. "Yes." Cory replied. He licked his lips before he dived into the pancakes.
Riley came down the stairs wearing something very unusual. "Hey." She said as she sat down at the table. When Cory looked at her he began to choke. "Riley, what on earth are you wearing?" Cory asked. She was wearing a pink mini skirt, a tube top, a whole glob of makeup, and her breasts were 2 times bigger than usual.
"You like?" Riley said as she twirled around. "No! I don't, and where did you get all of that makeup from?" Cory asked. Riley shifted her eyes to the left and tried to ignore the question. "Is that my eyeliner?" Topanga asked pointing at Riley's bag. "Look I don't have time to answer all these questions I gotta get to school." Riley said as she shoved a piece of bacon in her mouth.
Cory and Topanga looked at each other in disbelief. "Riley Elizabeth Matthews, you get back here right now!" Cory and Topanga yelled in unison. "Ugh, why are you two so annoying!" Riley screamed. "First of all, don't ever talk to us like that, second go and get that crap off your face and change your clothes, and finally, what the heck is inside your shirt?" Cory said in a furious tone. "My bra!" Riley replied. "Then what's inside of that?" Cory asked becoming annoyed. "My boo-." Cory cut her off. "Riley, honey now we all know that is not what's inside of there." Cory replied. "Cory!" Topanga yelled before she spanked his arm. "Owww that hurt!" Cory replied rubbing his arm. "Good, and Riley I think your dad is trying to say that aren't they a little, umm what's the word…. Bigger than usual." Topanga said.
"Oh yea it's these bra stuffers things, Emily gave them to me." Riley said. "I knew this had something to do with her!" Cory replied. "Now get upstairs and put on some more clothes." Cory demanded. "Ugh!" Riley replied as she stomped up the stairs. Cory put his face into his hands and groaned. "Oh honey she's just going through a phase." Topanga told him. "No she's going through an Emily!" Cory said as he got up from the table. "What?" Topanga asked. "That Emily girl, she's changing her!" Cory said. "Cory you are over exaggerating." Topanga said as she cleaned the table. Just as Cory was about to fire back riley came stomping down the stairs.
"See now you look cute!" Cory said. "I don't want to look cute, I want to look gorgeous!" Riley replied. "You do look gorgeous." Cory told her. "You'll never get it will you." Riley said as she stomped out the apartment. Cory sighed and got up from table. He grabbed his things, kissed Topanga goodbye and left.
When he arrived he saw Riley talking to Emily at the lockers. They both turned their heads towards him and shot him a dirty look. It made Cory feel uneasy inside. When he walked into the classroom something felt different about it. He tried to brush it off.
After a bit the first bell rang and people began to pile into the classroom. Cory began to write on the board when Emily came up behind him. "Hiya." She said. She made Cory jump a little. "Emily, go sit down!" He ordered. "Yea that's not going to happen." She replied. Cory took a deep breath and stared at her. "What do you want." He whispered. "Meet me after 6th period, I have something for you." Emily replied as she made her way back to her desk. Cory wasn't sure if he should believe her or not go at all. He was curious to know what was going to happen.
Maya was sitting on her bed playing with her hair, anxiously waiting to find out what Emily would do. Maya was planning on packing all of her things and moving to a different state. She decided she would change her name as well. But Maya didn't want Emily to win. Everything in Maya's life is always taken away from her, so this time she isn't going to let the little bit of happiness she has be taken as well. Maya wondered if Riley would come by. She really needed to talk to Riley, clear things up and be friends again.
Suddenly there was a knock at her window, it was Lucas. "Ranger Rick?" Maya said as she hopped off her bed and opened the window. "Hey gorgeous." He said as he climbed into her room. Maya had never had a boy in her room before, but she didn't want Lucas to know that.
"Shouldn't you be in school?" Maya asked. "It's free period." Lucas replied. "I didn't know you had a free period?" she said. "Well I do." Lucas said as he sat on her bed. "So how was Mr. Matthews's class, boring I guess?" Maya asked. "Yea, he came back today. He seemed kinda jittery." Lucas replied. "What do you mean by, jittery?" she asked. "I mean when Emily said Mr. Matthews, he screamed and threw the chalk towards her." he replied. Maya could totally picture that happening. "How was Riley?" she asked ever so curious. "Oh Riley, she seemed upset and didn't talk very much." He replied. Maya wanted to know why she was acting like that. Was it because she found out about her and Lucas or did Emily do something.
Maya and Lucas stared at each other awkwardly and sat in silence for a while. Just then Maya's phone broke the silence, as it buzzed loudly. Maya got up from the bed and headed towards the window sill to grab her phone.
Emily: Meet me at the school. After 6th period, you're gonna want to see this ;)
Maya squealed and dropped her phone to the floor. She was scared now. This was going on for too long. Getting these threatening messages and being tortured at every minute of your life was getting really old. Maya didn't want to be scared of this monster in a pink skirt anymore. She felt dizzy and she started bumping into things.
"Maya, are you ok?" Lucas said as he came over to her. "I have to do something." Maya mumbled. "What?" Lucas replied. Maya grabbed her green army jacket, phone, and book bag. She then headed towards her window.
"I have to go and take care of something." Maya said as she climbed out the window. "Maya, wait!" Lucas called out, but she was gone before he could say anything else. Lucas had this puzzled look on his face, he had no idea what was going on.
Maya ran throughout the streets of New York and headed towards bleaker street, where the subway was. She managed to keep her hair dry as she ran in the rain. She caught the train just in time. She sat down on one of the cold benches that were on the train. She rubbed her arms as the train began to move. It had been super cold in New York for the past few days. Maya checked her phone and 6th period was ending in 15 minutes, which gave her just enough time to get to the school.
Cory had felt really odd ever since Emily told him to meet her. He didn't like the fact that a 13 year old was telling him what to do. He could barley concentrate throughout the day. In fact Emily made him so nervous this morning, he threw the chalk at her. Riley had been ignoring him all day as well. He knew he had done the right thing by telling her to change though; he didn't want his daughter walking around the school looking like a slut, like Emily does.
The final bell of the day rang and everyone zoomed out of the room. Cory sat at his desk tapping his foot and fingers anxiously. He felt his heart racing and his mouth becoming dry. He didn't understand why he was getting so nervous, he was sure that whatever Emily had in store for him couldn't be any worse than what's already happened.
"Hola senore'." Emily said as she peeked her head into the classroom. "Oh you know Spanish?" Cory said. "That's all I know." She said as she made her way into the room. "Of course it is, now what do you want with me?" Cory asked as that nervous feeling began to return. "I told you it's a surprise, now come with me." Emily said as she held out her hand. "I am not touching your hand." Cory told her. "Ugh you're such a wimp." Emily said as they exited the classroom. She took Cory through the halls of John Quincy Adams, going down every stair possible.
Finally they arrived at an old door at the end of a dark hallway. On the door was a silver plaque labeled; Basement.
Cory gulped hard, his hands were clammy and his heart was beating out of his chest. "W-what are w-we doing h-here?" Cory asked shakily. "I told you, it's a surprise." Emily whispered. She grabbed Cory's hand and they made their way down the stairs. Cory began to cough from all the dust in there, it seemed like no one had been down here in ages.
When they made it to the second to last stair, Emily let go of his hand then kicked him in the gut; causing him to fall back to his back. Cory wheezed for air as he clutched his stomach and tried to get up. "Why did you do that?" Cory said as he stood on shaky legs. "You actually thought the surprise was gonna be good, I should have known you wouldn't have known that." Emily said coming closer to him. "What are you-." Emily cut him off by slapping his cheek. "Shut up old man." Emily said as she pushed him against the wall. Cory tried to fight back by pushing her to the ground, but that only made her angrier. "You shouldn't have done that." Emily growled as she picked herself up. Cory made a run for the door yelling "HELP ME!" Emily jumped on his back and covered his mouth with her hand. He bit her hand and tried to shake her off.
"Owww!" she yelled. She wrapped her hands around his neck, choking him. Cory's eyes widened and he tried to rip her hands off of him but her grip was to strong. He gasped for air, trying to make it up the stairs. "If you get to that door I will choke you to death." Emily said in an angry tone. Cory felt a tear escape from his eye as he collapsed on the stairs. She released her hands from his neck and got off of him. Cory's face began to return to its normal color as he clutched his broken hand. Cory built up the strength to stand up. Things started to become fuzzy and Cory felt like the whole world was spinning.
"Sweet dreams." Emily said as she pushed him down the stairs. He landed at the bottom. He felt his lip that was gushing out blood. He was breathing heavy and then things went black.
Maya rushed into the school, ringing out her jacket. She stormed down the halls calling out Emily's name. Just as she was running she bumped into Riley. Things felt super awkward and they both stared at each other. Riley bit her lip and looked into Maya's eyes. "I was thinking of coming to see you, I heard about your accident." Riley said to her. "Accident, more like sabotage." Maya thought. "Oh yea I had an allergic reaction to something." Maya said. "Look, I don't want things to be awkward between us anymore. We don't have to best friends again but I would at least like us to be friends." Maya said to her. Riley nodded her head and looked down at the ground. "Look Maya I would really like to forget about all of this and be best friends again, but I just don't think I can forgive you for what you did to me. You kissed my crush, the guy I really liked and that hurt me." Riley said as tears began to well up in her eyes.
"Riles." Maya said trying to reach for her hand. Riley pulled her hand away and stepped back from Maya. "Look I have to go, I'll see you later." Riley said coldly. Maya felt her cheeks burning and a tear stream down her cheek. Soon that sad feeling turned to anger, and she was ready to put it towards Emily.
Cory woke up with a terrible migraine. He looked at his arm and noticed it had a few cuts on it. He felt his lip and could feel a scab forming. His mouth tasted like blood. He looked down and realized that there were ropes around him. His hands and legs were tied up and his body was tied up around the wooden chair. He looked over to see Emily sitting on the stairs across from him checking her phone. "Emily, get me out of here!" Cory yelled. "Yea that's not gonna happen." She said. "Riley and Topanga are gonna come looking for me and find me. And then you'll be in big trouble!" Cory said trying to act confident that they would find him. "Oh they won't be looking for you." Emily said as she rose from the bottom step.
"What do you mean by that; you didn't hurt them did you?" Cory panicked. "I didn't hurt them, I did this." Emily said holding up Cory's phone. She held it to his face and he read the message she had sent to Topanga.
Cory: gonna be home late tonight, because of a meeting and I have to grade a lot of papers. Love ya!
Cory's eyes widened, "Give me that!" he shouted. "Yea, no that's not gonna happen either!" Emily said as she dropped the phone to the concrete floor. "And to make sure you won't be making any contact with anyone." Emily said as she stomped on the phone with her patent leather Chanel heels. She then kicked it across the room and headed to the stairs.
"Why are you doing this to me?" Cory asked. "Don't ask dumb questions." Emily said as she headed upstairs. "You're just gonna leave me here by myself!?" Cory panicked. "I promise, you won't be alone for long." Emily said as she headed out of the door. She slammed it behind her and then Cory heard a lock. Emily placed a do not enter sign over the basement plaque. She grinned to herself and then made her way down the long dark hallway to find her next victim… Maya.
Wow that was a long chapter! I really hope you enjoyed it and remember to review and tell me what you think is going to happen! until next time :)