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'I have no interest living in a world without Riley or Farkle. Do you know where I can find them?' 'In the school yearbook. Keep in touch and have an awesome summer' Maya wishes that everything could be just like in the yearbook but she forgets that little clause about her and Lucas being a couple. And that comes true. Just for a week. And when she goes back, well she doesn't want to.


"Guys, listen," she said, squishing her petite frame between 'Morotia' and 'Donnie Barnes'.

"Okay, I know you're hurt. I know what people say can be upsetting, but I have no interest living in a world without Riley or Farkle, and I'm not going anywhere until you two come back, ya hear me?" Maya had never felt so lost before, knowing that the two people she was sitting next to, weren't the people she really knew and loved. On the verge of tears, Farkle had to unknowingly make it worse, "Maya, the people you knew aren't here anymore."

Fighting back the urge to break down and cry, she asked, "Then, can you please tell me where I can find them?" Just then, something happened that she never thought would ever happen in her lifetime. Riley said, "They're in the school yearbook, keep in touch and have an awesome summer." With a flip of her hair, she resumed her persona as Morotia Black, brooding over everything in the world. Maya couldn't take it anymore, so she walked off, muttering a 'Knowing you is so hard'.

Closing the door behind her, she leaned against it. She had meant every word she had said. If Riley or Farkle didn't come back, she wouldn't have anyone. Sure, Lucas was a good friend, but she had known Riley and Farkle since the 1st grade. And if the people she had known for 7 years weren't there anymore, then who had she been friends with? She bit her lip as a single tear trickled down her pale cheek. She had to tell herself to be strong. Big girls don't cry. They don't cry when their friends are gone, they don't cry when they have no one. They just don't, right?

She looked up to the sky. She didn't believe in any of that stuff, but if there was someone up there listening to her, maybe her ancestor, someone, anyone who cared about her, she was hoping they would listen. She muttered, "I wish everything in the yearbook would happen. I wish Farkle would be Farkle, I wish Riley would be Riley. I just wish everything in the yearbook was true." She stood there for a few more seconds and was just about to walk home - out the Matthews door and not the window - , when she realised she had forgotten her phone. In her despair, she had left it on Riley's bed. Wiping away all signs that she had been crying, she opened the door.

She had expected Farkle and Riley to be sitting in her dark room, 'pondering the futility of caring'. That was what she had expected to see. She, however, had definitely not expected seeing smiley faces plastered all along the wall, along with a very very happy Riley dancing about.

"Um, Riles, when did all this happen?" Maya asked. Riley giggled and pulled Maya to the window.

"Oh, Maya, isn't today such a wonderful day? There's no homework, the sun is out, everything is just so chip, chip, chipper! Oh I could just go on about lollipops and circuses and things that rhyme with that!" Riley exclaimed. Maya raised an eyebrow and asked, "Riles, what's going on? What happened to… Morotia?" She gestured to Riley's clothes, which had now become a bright pink dress with polka dots. Cocking her head to the side, Riley asked, "Who's Morotia? Is she a new girl?" Maya shook her head, was all this real? Firstly, when did Riley have the time to take down all her black decorations and put up all these bright ones that simply barfed happiness? Secondly, what happened to overreacting to the yearbook? Grabbing her phone, which she was glad had not been Riley-fied, she ran out the window, saying that her mom needed her help.


The next day, Maya was mind numbingly chucking books into her locker. While she was physically in school, her mind was thinking about all the possible things that could have happened to Riley. Maybe Maya's speech had finally gotten to her and she realised that she didn't have to care what other people thought of her, only what she thought of herself. Maybe she had finally realised that she should only listen to those that cared about her. The only lingering question was how she had gotten rid of all the black cloth…

Smiling to herself, she was too preoccupied with her thoughts to notice a figure looming behind her. She took a step backwards to close her locker but it swung shut by itself. The figure turned her around and put his oh-so-muscular arms by either side of her. Her eyes swept up and saw the all too familiar face of a certain cowboy.

"Huckleberry, what are you doing?" Maya asked, with a look of annoyance. Without saying a word, Lucas leaned forward, eyes half closed and a smirk forming, but jumped back when Maya shrieked.

"What the hell are you doing?!" She said as she ducked under his arms and ran off. Lucas' eyes widened as he made sure that no one had seen the very embarrassing scene that had just occurred. As Maya stomped off to her next class, she saw Farkle. Except he wasn't the Farkle she talked to yesterday. All signs of Donnie Barnes had been wiped clean. He had a turtle neck on, that familiar bowl cut and the cheeky smile on him. Too frustrated to even think about Farkle's sudden change, Maya walked off, ignoring Farkle's 'Hey Maya'.


Later that afternoon, the core four met at their usual hangout, Topanga's. There was one thing missing, one person rather. Maya. Lucas said he hadn't seen her since that morning's shock, Farkle's response was the same. At least, Riley had seen her at lunch and had told her about what she did the previous day. What was strange was that Maya hadn't even messaged Riley to tell her where she went. It was so… un-Maya. Even when she was angry, she would usually show up at Topanga's, at most 5 minutes late, to vent about it. This was something different.

"Wait, Lucas, did you just say Maya rejected your kiss? But you kiss her every morning before class!" Farkle asked, "Maybe she's going through a change in taste, y'know?" He said as he laughed to himself, shaking the turtleneck. Riley chipped in, a smile permanently glued to her face,"That's nonsense, Farkle. Maya did say she had to help her mom with something at home, Maya is a very responsible person, sometimes." Lucas rolled his eyes and pointed to the counter, "Uh Riley, Maya's mom is over there." Riley blinked several times and noticed the flaw in her argument. However, she could not think of any other possible reason for Maya's absence, not without putting Maya in a bad light, which she certainly did not want to do.

"Actually, maybe it's the opposite. Maybe Maya's going through family problems with her mom. Maybe it has something to do with her dad. Maybe…" Farkle went on, his genius brain skimming through a thousand and one possible reasons. But Riley could only wonder, what was wrong with Maya? She had never not told any of them what happened to her. Many years ago, she would usually tell Riley everything, every nitty gritty detail of each other's life. Recently, that person had become Lucas, when they had started going out. Sure, it was slightly difficult for Riley to accept, but she always wanted what was best for both of them. That's what made her such a positive person, after all.

In actuality, Maya was at home, staring at her ceiling. She spent the entire afternoon, evening and night doing this, too caught up in her own thoughts to even eat, not that her mother would really check up on her, being too busy working. First of all, Riley was way too happy for her own good. Usually, Riley was positive and perky, but the real Riley was realistic, down to earth, her head definitely wasn't stuck up in the clouds. Even when she had gotten a B+ on her test that day, that smile on her face never faded, which was starting to scare Maya. Next, Farkle. The turtle necks, the haircut, the lack of a beanie which he had recently taken a liking to, everything about Farkle today was way too… Farkle. It was like someone had taken the Farkle side of him, cranked it up about a thousand notches and left it there, the Donnie Barnes side of him left to rot and die.

Finally, Lucas. In the morning, she could have sworn he had tried to kiss her, which was absolutely idiotic. Riley liked Lucas. Lucas liked Riley. Of that she was sure of. Then at lunch, she thought he almost called her 'babe'. What in the world was happening? It's like he was attracting her too much - wait. What was she saying? This was Ranger Rick of all people, the one guy who never failed to constantly set her teeth on edge with his bright eyes and his perfect words and those beautiful smirks that she absolutely lov-. Nonononono, what was she talking about? What was going on with her? What was going on with all of them? That was when it hit her. Smiley Riley, Farkle Farkle, and romantic Lucas? Aw shit no, her wish had come true. Everything that was in the yearbook was now her reality, and who knew how long she was going to be stuck there. Riley was most likely to smile herself to death, Farkle was most likely to be Farkle, and she and Lucas were - she shivered - favourite couple.


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