Val Meets Rules
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The class was waiting for Cory to arrive.
As the minute hand of the clock moved, Lucas asked the twins "Alright, where's your father?"
"Are we getting a sub? I don't want a sub. You never know where they've been." Farkle freaked out.
"Will you calm down? He's one minute late. Stop overreacting." Riley told them.
Annie chuckled softly and Val elbowed her.
"What if he never shows up? What if I never learn anything else? I'm going down, sir! Oh, he's not even here." Farkle fell over.
Riley stood up "We lost Farkle. A little help, Maya?"
Maya got up, but instead of helping Riley, she went to Cory's desk "Matthews is out, Farkle is down, it's Maya time."
"Farkle's fixed. No Maya time." Riley tried to prop the genius up but he fell over to the other side "You may proceed."
"During Maya time, we open the confiscation drawer and take back all the stuff from the land of unfairly taken toys." Maya opened the drawer.
"Maya, don't." Val warned.
"Maya! I don't think anybody really wants..." Bu Riley was interrupted by the class's loud cheering.
Maya pulled out a frisbee "All right, whose is this?"
A student raised his hand and Maya threw the toy to him.
"What'd I miss?" Farkle asked, standing up just in time to be hit by the frisbee and fall over again.
"Maya! He is going to walk in and catch you and you're going to be in trouble and I am here to keep you out of trouble, and I will have failed. Do you want me to fail?" Riley asked.
"Do you want me to show you how to have fun?" Maya laughed.
"Behaving is fun."
"Come here!"
"I really don't want to."
"You come here right now. Ring power!" Maya ordered.
"When we say 'ring power' you have to. It's a rule." Riley told the class as she moved to the front of the class with Maya.
"Why would you make that a rule?" Val asked.
"Tell me this isn't fun." Maya said, taking out a ping-pong shooter and firing all the balls at the class.
"Yeah, that seems like fun, but now you did it, so I don't get to do it, so are we sitting down now?" Maya passed Riley a second ping-pong shooter "Of course there's another one!"
"Do it!" Maya commanded.
"There is nothing in this world that can make me do it." Riley shook her head.
"Ring power."
"Ahhhhhh!" Riley screamed and fired the toy.
"What'd I miss?" Farkle asked, standing up only to be hit by a barrage of ping-pong balls shot at him by Riley and Maya.
The rest of the class, except for Lucas, Val, and Annie went crazy. Screaming, laughing, and throwing things.
Cory came in.
He looked incredulously at Val who shook her head and sighed "I have no explanation, sorry, Dad."
"When did you guys decide there are no rules in here?" Cory asked "When did my generosity in allowing you express yourselves make you think you could turn my class into a zoo?"
"I'm sorry." Riley and Maya muttered and sat down.
Farkle blew a ping-pong ball out of his mouth "I'm sorry."
"I'm sorry." The rest of the class said.
"Lucas, Annie. Why are you the only ones here that didn't say I'm sorry?" Cory asked "And Val why did you say you were sorry?"
"Because I couldn't stop them." Val shrugged "I figured that warrants an apology."
"Lucas, Annie?"
"Because it's not my fault." Annie smiled.
"Because I never do anything." Lucas said at the same time.
"No. Because you respect the rules. Because you know without them, civilization becomes chaos. The rest of you are gonna spend the afternoon thinking about that, with the exceptions of Lucas the good, Annie the 'innocent', and Val the wise."
"Oh, boy! Is that gonna stick?" Lucas asked.
"I'm already making t-shirts." Maya snickered.
"You put me in a real bad position here, sir. I gotta do something."
"You can fight this, Lucas."
"No, I can't, sir." Lucas sighed "Everyone's looking."
"Okay. Do what gotta do what you gotta do." Cory shrugged.
"How bad could the cowboy be?" Annie whispered.
Lucas took out his phone and texted Cory something.
"Detention." Cory said, slightly impressed.
"Oh, thank you, sir."
"How do you have my Dad's phone number?" Val questioned.
"And what did you say?" Annie asked.
"I'm not supposed to say it out loud."
"Feel better, Huckleberry?" Maya teased.
"I'm just like you now." Lucas grinned.
"Yeah, we're exactly the same." Maya scoffed.
"Yeah, you're all the same. Detention, all of you!" Cory shouted.
Riley raised her hand.
"What do you want?"
"I'm going to be home late today, Daddy."
"I know, honey."
After class, Cory pulled Val aside "Honey, can you stay for detention after school?"
"Did I do something wrong?" Val asked.
"No, but I have a feeling I'm gonna need another pair of eyes today."
"Sure, I don't have anything else to do." Val shrugged "I'll be there."
"You're the best, thanks sweetie."
"Anytime, Dad."
It was detention time. Val walked into the classroom with her father and sat down on top of his desk.
"I've always allowed you to bend the rules. But the best of students know just how far they can push before those rules are broken. Today you are not the best of students." Cory said, looking at all the kids sitting in front of him.
"But you know we're good people most of the time, don't you, Daddy? Daddy? You're my Daddy." Riley begged.
"Why do we need rules at all?" Maya asked.
"You think you could make it in a world without rules?" Cory asked.
"Oh, I know what you're doing." Val smiled evilly.
"I think I could do fine in any world." Maya ignored Val.
"The rest of you believe that?" Cory asked and everyone nodded "Okay. School's out. You've got the whole place to yourselves. No rules. One hour to behave however you want. Let's see what becomes of you."
"Well, I think we'll be perfectly behaved ladies and gentlemen." Riley said, folding her hands on her desk.
"And I think within one minute you'll be eating each other." Cory laughed.
"I have to agree." Val said.
Cory whispered to Val "Honey, you stay here but don't interfere with what they do, got it?"
"Got it, Dad." Val whispered back.
Cory walked towards the door.
"Where are you going?" Riley asked, panicking.
"I'm locking you in. The best punishment I can give is to force you to spend some time with yourselves. I'll see you in an hour. Whoever's left." Cory closed the door and locked it.
"I can't believe it. He locked us in." Riley said in disbelief.
"That's fine. I don't have a problem with that. I'm not claustrophobic or anything. We're trapped." Farkle freaked out and started hyperventilating "I can't breathe. There's more carbon dioxide than oxygen! The ratio is all wrong!"
"Okay, Farkle gotsa go." Maya said, standing up.
"I gotsa?"
"Stop." Riley stood up "This is exactly what my father wants. He wants us to panic and fall apart. We have to show him that we can get through this without turning into a pack of wild animals. Val, back me up here."
"No." Val shook her head "I'm not getting involved, Dad's orders."
"I'm hungry." Lucas complained.
"What do you mean by that?" Farkle asked nervously.
"Nothing, I'm just really hungry." Lucas got up and stood behind Farkle.
"Because we're best friends." Farkle pointed out.
"Yeah, you know what else? I don't think I've ever been this hungry." Lucas mused.
"I feel ya, Ranger Rick." Maya moved to stand next to Lucas "I'm kinda hungry, too."
"And it's not like a regular kind of hungry, right?"
"No, no. This one's deep. It must be attended to."
Riley walked over to Lucas and Maya "Oh, guys, can we just show a little discipline? I mean, how much more time in here could we possibly have?"
They all looked at the clock to see only a minute had passed.
"You know I could eat, too."
Farkle looked at his friends who were slowly advancing on him, ravenous looks in their eyes "What? What are you looking at? Guys! What are you seeing right now?"
"Stop talking, chicken." Lucas ordered, practically drooling.
Riley shook herself out of the trance "All right, come on! Let's prove my father wrong. Let's form our own perfect society. Rileytown is a land of goodness and rainbows where everyone folds their hands nicely like so." She folded her hands "Who wants to live in Rileytown?"
"Nobody wants to live in Riley-town! It's too lollipop!" Maya protested.
"You're too lollipop!" Riley retorted.
Val snorted "She is not lollipop."
"Sister, I'm a lot of things, but I ain't no lollipop." Maya laughed.
"Riley-town has order, structure and our hands folded like so! What do you got?" Riley asked.
"I got Mayaville! No rules, no laws, no hand folding and nobody says no!" Farkle looked up at Maya "No."
"You got chaos is what you got! I got order, you got chaos!" Riley shouted.
"You got lollipop, I got whoo!" Maya whooped.
"Okay, detention may be bringing out the worst in us, but at least we're making the time pass."
The minute hand of the clock ticked to the two mark.
"Eat Riley!" Maya ordered.
"Okay." Riley held out her arm "But no biting."
The class had split into two groups. Maya's group was stacking desks on one side of the classroom and Riley's group was sitting in a circle watching them. Val sat on her father's desk eating an orange.
"Why are you guys over there? Why can't we just be one happy society that runs the way I think it should?" Riley asked.
"Because you want us to be all you." Maya pointed out.
"We're not all you, Riley. I mean, you know the only reason I've never been able to choose between you? Because if it was you all the time, life would be like, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la." Farkle sang.
Riley joined in "La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la."
Farkle turned to Maya "And if it was you all the time, life would be like" He growled loudly "Descensus in cuniculi cavum!" He screamed like a crazy person.
Maya snarled back.
"Easy, Farkle!" Val cried "Easy!"
"I need to be both of you guys." Farkle told them.
"But who are you going to be with right now, Farkle?" Riley asked.
"Before you answer that, you may want to consider a little thing I call this." Maya walked to the back door and opened it.
Val smacked her hand to her forehead "I owe myself five bucks. I bet you wouldn't notice it for two more minutes."
"He forgot to lock the back door?" Lucas asked.
"Maya, we're in detention. You can't leave." Riley protested.
"Hey. School's out. He said we get the place to ourselves. He said to make our own rules. Rule number one: See you around, Suckers." Maya said, walking out the door with most of the class following her.
"Farkle?" Riley pleaded.
"Hey. What part of 'descensus in cuniculi cavum' do you not understand?"
"All of it."
"It means we drop down into the rabbit hole, man." Farkle left the room.
"Lucas?" Riley asked.
"I never do anything, Riley." Lucas followed the rest of the class out and they heard him screaming in the hallway "Yeah!"
"Okay." Riley sighed.
Another minute tricked by, making the clock read 12:04.
"Oh, boy." Val groaned.
"We don't need them. We can just be in here, hands folded like so." Riley sat down with the students who remained "So, what do you guys want to talk about? Oh, that's right. You guys don't talk, do you? Well, the first rule of Riley-town is that everybody in here gets to talk. You there." She pointed at Dave "What do you have to say?"
"Hi. My name is Dave. I like corn chips and i'm sorry I didn't go with the other group." Dave said.
"Dave!" Riley admonished.
"I mean, don't get us wrong." Another student, Isabelle said quickly.
"We really do respect you and everything." Sarah smiled.
"You do?"
"You're one of the good ones and we'd follow you anywhere." Sarah continued.
"Thank you." Riley smiled proudly.
"It's just that without the others, we're kinda bored out of our minds." Dave finished.
"Dave!" Riley scolded again "We're safe and sound and not getting into trouble."
"Yeah, but with the problem with that is, all the good kids are in here." Isabelle sighed.
"We just know that they're having a lot more fun out there." Sarah said longingly.
Janitor Harley came in "What are you doing in here? They're having a lot more fun out there. Hi, Val."
"We're in detention, janitor Harley." Riley told him.
"How 'bout that? Little zippy crossed the line." Harley laughed "What did she do, Val?"
"She shot a ping-pong ball gun at the class."
"Maya influenced me."
"I've noticed that over the years." Janitor Harley paused "You do realize the back doors open don't you, Zippy?"
"We're aware." Riley nodded.
"And yet this group stays in here, while the other group is rampaging down the hallway." Janitor Harley mused.
"Well, what do you make of that?" Riley asked.
"I'm sure we'll find out. This lesson has your father written all over it." Harley made his way to the door and made tot shut it.
"You're supposed to lock the front door." Riley told him.
"Actually, I'm not. It's time to find out what Maya is up to. Goodbye."
"Maya will be fine. Lucas and Farkle won't let her get into trouble." Riley tried to convince herself.
"She's stronger than them." Dave said softly.
"She's better when you're with her." Sarah told Riley.
"Oh, please. Fourteen years of good influence can't possibly come apart in..." Riley looked up at the clock which now read 12:05.
A scream came from the hallway.
"Yes, it can." Val sighed.
"Duck. Duck. Duck."
Riley patted the heads of each person in her group. They were playing Duck, Duck, Goose. Val still sat on Cory's desk, now snacking on an apple.
"She's actually too nice to make someone the goose." Dave groaned.
"Without Maya around, she's actually getting worse." Sarah rolled her eyes.
"Duck."
"Oh, my God." Val sighed.
Maya's group of rebels rushed in shrieking and hooting threateningly. They tossed nets over Val and Riley and tried to lift them up to capture them.
"Wait!" Riley shouted, making their attackers pause "Duck. Okay."
"Seriously?" Val tried to slap her hand to her forehead but found that she couldn't in the net.
The wild children picked up Riley and Val and carried them out of the classroom, into the hallway.
"Everybody clean off your faces, you look ridiculous." Riley ordered when they were set down.
She passed Farkle a cloth and Val started handing out her own.
"Lucas, I'll get you." Val said "Come here."
Lucas came over to her with a smile "You know, they call me Mad-Dog."
Val snickered "Mad-Dog?"
"Mad-Dog." Lucas confirmed.
"Of course they do." Val smiled.
"Would you call me Mad-dog?"
"That depends." Val teased "Would you call me the Queen of musical theatre references?"
"No, I would not."
"Well, there's your answer."
"I've missed talking to you, Val." Lucas grinned.
"I've missed you too." Val said softly "I think we should talk some more sometime."
"I'm okay with that."
"Good. Lunchtime, tomorrow?"
"That works for me."
Riley watched as her sister and her crush talked and laughed. She couldn't hear what they were saying but it was clear that they were perfect for each other.
The original wild bunch and Riley and Val were back in the classroom. Maya and the "good" kids came in, chanting and shouting.
"You have fun?" Riley asked.
"I did. It was quite enjoyable." Maya confirmed "And you?"
"Someone had the idea to put us in bags. Did you hear about that?"
"Really? Well, you know, there's some bad kids out there."
Cory entered the classroom "Okay, guys. Detention over."
"Dad?" Riley asked.
"Yeah?"
"Remember how you told us that people change people?"
"Secret of life." Cory nodded.
"Well, when you're not with those people, how do you keep from changing back?" Maya questioned.
"You went a little wild, did you?"
"Whatever I got is strong in me, Matthews." Maya shrugged.
"Yeah, me too, but the other way." Riley nodded.
"Harley! Val!" Cory called.
"Reporting for duty, Dad." Val hopped up and saluted her father jokingly.
"Right here." Harley said, walking in.
"You watched them?"
"Like a hawk." Harley confirmed.
"They kidnapped me, I didn't have a choice but to watch them." Val shrugged.
"What?" Riley asked.
"You're with him?" Maya frowned.
"Yeah. He's my good kid." Harley nodded.
"He's my Dad, of course I'm with him."
"What do you got?" Cory asked them.
"Everyone went nuts, except for Zippy." Harley told him.
Val snorted at the nickname "Why didn't you go nuts, Zippy?"
"I was without Maya. Without Maya, I don't think I'd ever unfold my hands." Riley explained.
"What about this one here?" Cory pointed to Maya.
"Maya was the ringleader. Maya was the first one out the door." Harley said.
"I was without Riley. Without Riley, I may never come back."
"Okay. Well, detention over, guys. Everyone out." Cory sent the rest of the class on their way.
"Dad." Riley tried.
"Everyone out." Cory said and the class left, leaving only Cory and Maya inside.
Val and Riley waited outside the door. Cory came out and locked the door.
"Riley! Val!" Maya's voice came from inside.
"Right here." Riley said, peaking through the window.
"We'll always be right here." Val said, joining her sister.
"Thanks, guys."
"Anytime." The twins said together.
Word count: 3013 words
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