No Reason
About three years before the beginning of Boy Meets World. During the "Lost years."
"I'm Batman!" Shawn said on the playground one day, putting his hand over his face like a cowl.
"No, I'm Batman," Nicholas said, standing right in front of Cory's best friend, clearly trying to scare him.
But of course, Shawn never got scared. Cory often wished he could be as fearless as his best friend. "I said, I was Batman," Shawn said, his fingers still over his eyes but staring at Nick in the same way.
"Well, I'm Spiderman," Cory said, pretending to use his "spider-sense" to distract both of his friends."
"Hi, Cory" Topanga said, interrupting their superhero game with her weird hair and nightgown-dress.
"What do you want, Topanga?" Cory said, shaking his head. He couldn't believe he'd once been friends with this weird girl. Eric had been right, being friends with girls was stupid.
"I made you a valentine," she said, smiling in that odd way that made him think of his mother for some reason.
Cory made a face. "Why would you do that?" He'd never understood anything Topanga said or did. What was even worse was he could hear Shawn and Nick laughing in the background.
"No reason," Topanga said, with that same silly grin. Worse yet, was when she placed a heart-shaped envelope into his hand.
"Cory and Topanga sitting in a tree," Shawn said, singing.
" – K – I – S – S – I – N – G," Nick said, finishing the most embarrassing song in the world. Cory knew his face was beat red. He shoved the envelope in his coat pocket so everyone could forget about it.
"Well, I'm still Spiderman," Cory said, once again hoping to distract his friends. "So, which one of you is Batman?"
"I am!" Both Shawn and Nick said at the same time.
OOOOOOOOOOO
Visions of the three of them playing, Batman, Spiderman, and Superman (which Nick eventually agreed to be) danced through Cory's head for the rest of the day, even though they had that stupid Valentine's Day party in class.
But when Cory arrived at home, he found his mom finishing a Valentine's Day card for his father. And the memory of Topanga's stupid "special valentine" for him slapped Cory on the face.
He needed to get rid of it before his parents, or worse yet, Eric found that card. Sneakily, he took the card upstairs, wishing he was Spiderman so he could just swing up there and destroy the card with one of his webs.
But when Cory arrived in his room, he found he couldn't destroy the card. Topanga's silly grin flashed through his mind when she said "no reason," and his stomach tightened.
Instead, he shoved it into a back drawer where no one would ever find it.