I'll Do it for You

During "Brave New World" of Boy Meets World. Direct references to "Girl Meets Pluto" in Girl Meets World.

Cory still couldn't believe they were leaving.

All the way to New York City. Away from his childhood home, his parents, the backyard fence and Mr. Feeny, and everything he knew.

Hearing that Shawn and Eric would be coming, too had helped, but the idea of moving a new city and attending a whole new university still scared him to death. He gazed at his wife and reminded him what Mr. Feeny had already told Cory. That Topanga needed a chance to grow, and she couldn't do that here.

He couldn't deny her this chance. But why couldn't there be a way to hold on to everything they had in Philadelphia, while still giving his Topanga a chance to grow? After all, Cory, Topanga, and Shawn had already grown quite a bit from the kindergarteners who met at the zoo.

He and Topanga had grown from two children who called each other husband and wife because they had a close platonic friendship to a married couple who were preparing to live in a new city and even pay their own rent. Shawn had grown from that leather jacket wearing trailer park kid to a college student with a major in photography.

How would the three of them grow in the future?

Cory didn't know whether that idea made him even more scared or whether he was sort of looking forward to it. But an idea was forming in his mind, as a way to hold on to everything they had in Philadelphia, while still allowing them to grow, like Mr. Feeny wished them to do.

"We should make a time capsule before we leave," he said to Topanga and Shawn as they drove back from speaking to Mr. Feeny one last time at John Adams High.

"A what?" said Shawn from the backseat.

"A time capsule," Cory said. "We'll each put in something that's important to us in a box and then bury it in my backyard. Then in about fifteen years, we'll come back and see if those things are still important to us." The more he spoke, the more excited Cory got about this idea. It just might make this move to New York City easier.

"Cory, almost everything we have is already packed." Her beautiful face looked sad, but her voice was firm. "We'd have to go through the boxes all over again to find one thing for this time capsule, let alone one thing each." Cory knew Topanga was generally more rational than he was and sometimes he was grateful for her wisdom, but not this time.

"And I don't have anything important enough to bury," Shawn said, chuckling. "Sorry, Cor."

But Cory knew this was something that they needed to do. "I know you can find something if you think hard enough, Shawn. And we can go through the boxes again for something as important as this, Topanga. It might even be easier to find things if they've already been packaged rather than in being stuck in the back of our closet."

The car was silent for a moment.

"All right, Cory," Topanga said finally. "I'll do it for you." His heart sang at those words.

"And I suppose I could give it a shot," Shawn said. Cory's heart warmed.

"You guys are the best, you know that?" he said, looking at each of them as they got out of the car. Throughout his life, there was nothing more important than Topanga and Shawn's support. He was so glad all three of them were still friends.

"Then we'll meet back in Cory's backyard tomorrow night," Topanga said, taking control of the situation as she often did. He beamed at his wife, glad that she'd become so attached to the idea.

Cory couldn't wait to look through those boxes to recover their old memories.

OOOOOOOOOO

Two hours later, as Cory and Topanga went through box after box of old things, he wondered if Topanga still thought this plan was worth it. He knew exactly what he was looking for. The old jean jacket he'd given to Topanga when he'd first told her he'd loved her. She'd later found it when she was packing her things to move to Pittsburgh, and he told her to keep it, as a symbol of their decision to love each other and stay committed.

But where was it?

Topanga gave an unladylike grunt from across the room as she shook her head and repackaged the box she'd been looking through. "I'm sorry, Topanga," Cory said. "I really thought this wouldn't take this much time."

Topanga sighed and began searching through another box. "I meant what I said in the car. I'll do it for you, Cory. You're willing to move to New York for me, the least I can do is help find some memories before we leave." She gave him one of those special smiles that made Cory feel as if he were falling in love with her all over again. "Besides it might be kind of fun to see how much we've changed and how much is still the same in fifteen years."

"O Topanga," he said, once again wondering what he'd done to deserve someone as great as she was. Without thinking, his legs moved him across the room so he could give her a kiss.

Now where was that jean jacket?

OOOOOOOOOOO

The next night, he and Topanga arrived in the Mathew's backyard, the jean jacket tucked carefully in his old backpack. Topanga, on the other hand, carried no backpack. Where was she hiding whatever, she'd chosen?

"You're not going to even give me one little hint?" he said again as he studied her body closely. It was a body whose details he'd been interested in as long as he could remember and one, he'd become particularly intimate with in the past few months. How could she hide whatever she was planning to bury so well that Cory couldn't notice anything? There was no bulge under her jacket. There was no shape in any of her pockets. There was nothing extra on her cute little tush. She carried no extra weight on her beautiful chest.

"No Cory," Topanga said firmly. "We agreed we would wait until we opened the time capsule until we found out, so that's the way we are going to do it."

Cory huffed. That sounded like fun in theory, but he was growing more and more curious about what Topanga could have possibly brought here tonight. You'll find out in fifteen years, he reminded himself again.

But then Shawn rushed over to both, carrying a string bag. "I've got it. You were right, Cory. I found something important enough for me to bury. A few somethings."

Cory grinned, so happy that his best friend still had things of value, even if they were sentimental value. He gave him a hug. "That's great Shawn." Then he glanced at Topanga again. What was she hiding?