I DO NOT own Girl Meets World.

A/N: I could literally just write all night long. I love to write, but I hate reading… Ironic right? Anyways this chapter is my twist on Girl Meets Forgiveness. Please review and tell me what you think! I love feedback!

First things First-

1.) Not Much has happened since Texas (yes their only an episode apart but just work with me here.)

2.) Maya will attempt to forgive her father like in the actual episode, but her reactions to him will turn out differently.

3.) Maya's father will first appear at Topanga's like so… but will also show up at Maya's school.

4.) Maya's father drops a major bomb on Maya and her mother.

5.) How does Lucas play into all of this you ask? Let's find out (:

It all started with that stupid assignment… Forgiveness. This was all Matthews fault.

**Lets jump straight to the part where Maya has just read her letter to her father aloud to the class… just a bit after that actually.

Maya had put her books in her locker and was headed for the front of the school to meet Riley. Even though Riley & Maya had lockers right next to each other they always managed to never be at them at the same time at the end of each day.

Maya was walking to the front of the school when she saw Riley come back in the front doors.

"Peaches!" Riley exclaimed.

"Riles… What's going on?"

"Let's go out that back today… I heard that something interesting was going to happen back there and I don't want to miss it!" Riley was lying straight through her teeth.

Maya didn't question it although she knew something was up.

The two girls reached the back of the school, but no one was there.

"Hmm. I guess we missed it." Riley pretended to be upset.

Maya just looked at her confused. Riley just smiled at her.

**Jump to the next day at school.

'Knock Knock'

"Mr. Matthews I presume?" the man said walking in.

"Yes and you are?" Cory said.

"Maya's father."

Cory just looked at Maya. Everyone did. She was in shock or something.

"Well what can I do for you sir?" Cory asked Kermit.

"Would it be alright if I borrowed Maya for a few moments?" Kermit asked

"If it's alright with Maya I don't see why not. Maya?" Cory said looking at her.

She looked at him nervously.

"Peaches?" Riley said to Maya causing her to look over.

"I guess I'll be right back…" Maya said standing up heading for the door.

"Maya?" Cory said before she exited the room.

She just nodded at him giving him reassurance.

As she left the room Riley just turned to look at her friends. She was nervous for Maya and she didn't even know what was going to happen.

Maya walked out of the classroom, making sure to close the door behind her. Kermit was sitting on the soon to be friendship bench.

"Would you like to sit?" he asked her.

"I'm okayy." Maya replied.

"I came to your school yesterday… I was hoping to speak with you about your letter."

Maya looked confused.

"I was waiting out front but you never came."

That explains why Riley made her go out the back.

Maya still hadn't said anything. Kermit was doing all the talking.

"Maya I'm sorry I left. It wasn't anything you did. I just wasn't ready for the responsibility of being a father."

Maya didn't say anything. She was trying not to show emotion. He could tell she looked somewhat hurt though.

"You turned out great. You have amazing friends, a teacher who cares, and-"

Maya cut him off. "A mother that stayed." She said this very cold and harshly.

Kermit let out a breath and looked down.

"You deserved better Maya."

"I deserved a father." She said coldly. "Was that to much to ask?"

"Actually yes." Kermit stated. "I wasn't ready to be a father. I didn't have a steady job, I wasn't a natural at caring for you, and no matter what I did it was the wrong thing."

Maya was feeling hurt and confused.

"If you were me you would understand." he said.

"Hah." Maya laughed. "If I were you I wouldn't have lied. I wouldn't have said I was going for a walk and then never had the intention of coming back. I would've stuck by the two people who I was supposed to love most in the world. I would've stayed. You had one job, and that was to stay."

"Maya."

"No. It's my turn to talk now." Maya's voice was getting louder. "Mr. Matthews taught us this phrase "I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.", but you know what… You failed. You didn't try. You left."

"Maya I wasn't ready for a child, I had made a mistake. Can't you just forgive me so we can move on and get to know each other?"

"You know what a mistake is? A mistake is when you misunderstand stand something, a mistake is when you do something wrong and are able to fix it, a mistake is when your taking a test and you're moving so fast you look at the correct answer but circle the wrong one, a mistake is when-"

"Okayy, I get it. I made a mistake." Kermit cut her off.

"Apparently you don't get it." Maya said coldly. "You didn't make a mistake. You made a choice, a choice in which you can never take back, a choice that affected others too. So you know what? No. I can't forgive you and I can't move on from this and I definitely don't want to get to know you." Maya said before walking away.

Kermit looked hurt, could you blame him. Maya did the same as he did to her, she just left (not in the same way but you get it.)

Maya didn't go back to class, shocker right? She went to the art room. There was no art class today so the teacher wasn't on school property, but the classroom was open to students who needed to get their artwork or so.

Maya got herself an easel, put it in the middle of the room to where her back was facing the door, and set a blank canvas on it. She wasn't exactly painting a portrait of something as usual…

The bell rang releasing the students for the day.

"Riley." Cory said.

She just nodded her head understanding that he was telling her to find Maya and make sure she was okayy.

Riley walked out of the classroom to find Lucas, Farkle, and Zay waiting for her.

"So where do we start?" Lucas said looking amongst the group.

"Let's spread out." Farkle stated.

"Bay Window." Riley said immediately and walked away.

"Topanga's." Farkle stated and walked away.

"I guess I'll check Maya's apartment…" Zay said walking away.

"Where else was left?" Lucas asked himself. He had to think for a minute. It finally hit him, the art room.

Lucas took off knowing that Maya would be there. Yes the Bay Window was a good idea but he was sure Maya didn't want to talk just yet.

Lucas got to the art room only to find Maya standing there flinging paint onto a canvas. He couldn't tell what she was trying to paint but he could tell she was angry.

"Hey." He said walking in the room.

"Hey." she replied sternly not moving her line of vision from the canvas.

"Interesting…" he said walking up behind her looking at the canvas.

It was nothing but random colors of splattered paint.

"Yea well I wasn't trying to hard."

"So I take it the talk didn't go well?"

"What was your first clue?" Maya said angrily.

"Well the fact that there is paint everywhere."

"Huh?" Maya snapped out of her anger painting to realize she made a mess. "Crap." she muttered. "I guess I just can't get anything right can I?" she tried to mutter under her breath.

"What do you mean by that?" Lucas said staring at her.

"Nothing." Maya said looking away.

"Maya, what did he say to you?" Lucas was concerned now.

She just looked at him, tears forming in her eyes. She turned around because she didn't want to look at him.

"Maya… You can talk to me." Lucas said reassuring her. "What did he say?"

"He told me I was a mistake. There are you happy now?" she said angrily.

Lucas said nothing, he was to in "awe" (in a bad way) of how someone could've said this to a child, let alone their child.

Maya and started to fling paint again.

"He said he made a mistake, that I was a mistake." You could hear the heart break in Maya's voice.

She had stopped vigorously flinging paint everywhere but was still trying to paint to distract herself. Lucas had put his hand on her shoulder.

"He basically said that I didn't deserve a father because I was a mistake." Maya stopped painting all together. She was crying now.

Her sobs hurt Lucas. He hated seeing her in pain. When she hurt, he hurt.

He couldn't take it anymore. He broke his boundaries with Maya and pulled her into a deep hug. She just cried into his chest. His shirt may have been getting tear stained but he didn't care, not as long as Maya needed someone in that moment.

Once Maya had calmed down she and Lucas took a seat.

"Maya, do you believe you were a mistake?"

"What?"

"Do you believe you were a mistake? If that man out there that you know nothing about believes that you were, then he's crazy. What only matters is what you believe and what your friends believe.."

Maya didn't say anything, she was thinking about what Lucas just said.

"Maya…"

She looked up at him.

"What do you believe?" Lucas asked again. "Because I believe that you were not a mistake. I believe that you are here for a purpose, and that purpose being is to be Maya Hart. Not anyone else."

Maya smiled a little and wiped a tear from her eye.

"Maya, you aren't a mistake. You are the farthest thing from a mistake." Lucas said grabbing her hands.

She looked into his eyes for a minutes before giving him a hug.

"Thank you." She whispered.

He smiled knowing he had gotten through to her.

"Always." he replied.

She ended the hug, wiped her face, and looked around the art room.

"I guess I have a mess to clean don't I?" She Joked.

"Well you don't have to clean it yourself. I'll help you." Lucas said getting up.

"Really? You don't have to."

"I want to." Lucas replied.

Maya gave a small smile.

"You know what could be fun?" Lucas said picking up a bottle of paint.

"What?" Maya said looking at him.

"This!" he exclaimed and squirted Maya with green paint.

"Lucas!" she yelled caught off guard. "What the hell!?"

"What? I thought you could use a little cheering up…"

"So you decide that staining one of my nicest white shirts would be fun?!"

"Maya I'm sorry. I jus thought-"

Maya cut him off by squirting him with red paint.

"What was that for?!" Lucas exclaimed.

"Payback." she simply stated.

"Oh its on!" Lucas said picking up another bottle of paint and squirting her with it.

The two of them were just having a good time until they were interrupted.

"AHEM."

"Mr. Matthews." Lucas said immediately stopping the paint war.

"What is going on here?!" he said trying not to jump to conclusions.

"We were… umm… we were just…" Lucas was embarrassed because they really did make a mess.

"We were just having a little fun alright? Lighten up Matthews." Maya jumped in.

"I think it's time you two leave campus."

"What about the mess sir?" Lucas asked.

"Just leave." Cory restated.

"But sir-"

"GO!" Cory shouted this time.

Maya and Lucas got off campus as quickly as possible 1-because they didn't want to get into anymore trouble, and 2-they were covered in paint and didn't want to track it all throughout the school.

In all honesty Matthews wasn't upset about all the paint being all over the room and floors, he was actually happy to see Maya happy since this whole forgiveness project was his idea.

After Lucas and Maya left the room he actually smiled at what they had done.

"Thank you." Maya said grabbing Lucas hand as they walked along the sidewalk.

"For what?"

"For distracting me from the real world for a while."

Lucas just smiled at Maya. She smiled back.

"Anytime." He said. "So can I walk you home?"

"Oh no." Maya said.

That's not what Lucas was expecting as an answer after the day they had.

"What?" he said stopping looking shocked.

"That'd be breaking our boundaries hop-along. You wouldn't wanna break the rules would you?" she joked but was also kind of serious.

He was confused. He look down at the interlocked hands and then back at her.

"But aren't we doing that right now?" he asked.

"Fine." she took her hand out of his. "If you don't want to hold my hand all you have to do is say so." she joked.

He smiled realizing what game she was playing now. He grabbed her hand again causing her to look at him.

"Of course I want to hold your hand." He smiled. "And I am walking you home."

Maya just smiled because he finally caught onto her little game. :)

Maya's father appeared back at Topanga's the next day.

"You're still here?" Katy said shocked as Kermit walked in. "That must be some kind of record."

Kermit just smirked.

"What do you want Kermit?" Katy asked as if she was exhausted.

"I would like to speak with Maya again if that's alright."

"Again?" Katy said confused.

"Yes again." Kermit said.

Katy looked at Maya confused.

"He showed up at school yesterday." Maya stated.

"WHAT?! You can't just do that!" Katy yelled at him.

"I'm sorry Katy." he said.

Katy just blew it off and walked away.

Maya and Kermit stepped outside for some privacy.

You all know what happens at this point… Same as the episode.

Maya and Kermit talk, Maya doesn't forgive him, she walks inside crying, talks to Cory about the projected saying she failed, he asks her if she forgave herself, she says yes, he tells he that she didn't fail because forgiveness starts with oneself, Maya bursts into complete sobs only to be comforted by Mr. Matthews.