Riley's POV

Today is the day! I am dying of excitement! Oh, wait. I guess I should probably explain why I am so excited! Well today is the day were we start our "Senior Projects!" You see in my Life Skills class we are doing a project that is supposed to get us ready for life in the real world! Mr. Larsen basically just told us that so today we get to actually start the project!

I walked from lunch to the dance room for 5th period dance class. I had this class with a few friends. Like Maya, and two new friends, Lacy and Clarissa! I basically had to force Maya to do dance with me. It was the only way I would be able to have all but one of my classes with her!

I walked into the dance room and greeted Mrs. Kate, the teacher.

"Hi Mrs. Kate"

"Hello Riley"

I walked into the locker rooms to meet with my friends. I dropped my bags to get changed.

"Hey Riles!" Maya, Lacy and Clarissa chorused.

"Hey girls"

I changed out of my blue and white striped sweat shirt and ripped jeans with boots into my dance practice outfit. It was an all-black crop top with lace up at the top and lace sleeves, and black spandex shorts. We all had the same practice outfit for dance. As soon as we had all changed we headed out to the dance room for class.

"Alright girls! Get into your groups for stretches!" Mrs. Kate ordered as soon as everyone came out of the locker rooms.

Me and the girls headed into our corner to begin our stretches.

"So Riley, are you excited for the Senior Project?" Lacy asked enthusiasm written all over her face.

"Yes! Of course! How could I not be!"

"I know right!" Clarissa joined in. "What do you guys think it's gonna be?"

"Probably something fun." Maya answered "Mr. Larsen is the only teacher that does projects that I like! Well other than Mathews."

We all chuckled a little bit at that. My dad did give some interesting projects most of the time. We carried on our conversation until we had finished our stretches. Afterwards Mrs. Kate just had us practice for the dance recital until it was time to change and go to our next class, Life Skills!

Maya, Lacy, Clarissa and I all had that class together so we walked there together. It was the only class that me and all my friends had together, and my brother, Josh, he's my fraternal twin. We walked into class and went to our seats. This class was one of my favorites because it was with me, Maya, Lacy, Clarissa, Smackle, Farkle, Josh, Lucas, Zay and Clarissa's brother Oliver. Oliver is a year younger than all of us but he skipped a grade.

"Hello class! Is everybody excited for our senior project today?" Mr. Larsen asked as he walked into class. We all shouted yes with a few no's.

"Okay so as many of you have been dying to know, our project is called 'The Family Project' and you will be in groups!" He passed out a piece of paper to us all with all of the parts of the project on it. "Because we have exactly 20 people in this class, we will be spitting into 2 groups! I have decided to allow you to choose your group once you have been paired with your marriage partner."

We were all looking over the paper that he had handed out to us, and he continued to explain.

"Each of you will be married and have children!" Confused expressions filled the room. "This is a government run project so you will be provided with a home to live in and with some other necessities." At this point I'm pretty sure everyone was confused as hell as to what was happening. "Now I will assign your marriage partners; Clark and Jennifer, Max and Jessica, Terry and Kaitlyn, Presley and Alexis, Brandon and Carrie, Farkle and Riley, Joshua and Maya, Lucas and Smackle, Zay and Clarissa, Oliver and Lacy."

We all looked around to see our partners. Until Presley had suddenly blurted out a question.

"Can we get divorces?!" Presley practically shouted.

"If you have a valid reason, although if you just want to get a divorce because you don't like your partners you will get an F on this project." I saw Maya raise her hand and Mr. Larsen called on her.

"Umm you said we would have children… how will that happen?"

"Oh yes! I will be taking you all to an adoption center and you will adopt at least 1 child, 3 at most. And also, just in case any of you were wondering. I have gotten each and every single one of your parents to sign a permission slip to do this project." He finished pulling out a stack of papers. Sighs filled the room. "At this moment you guys can choose your groups, they must have five couples, once you get them then you come up to me and tell me who is in your group and I will explain why you have groups!"

As soon as he allowed us to choose our groups our group of friends went up to him to tell us who was in our group.

Josh told him each of our names. "Umm Maya and I"

Mr. Larsen cut him off and told him to say the family names.

"Umm ok, Mathews, Minkus, Jones, Babineaux and Friar…" Josh finished

"Ok you have two choices, you can be one family where you are all related in some way or you can just be friends that help each other throughout the project." We all looked at each other so as to make the decision.

Josh looked back at Mr. Larsen. "Can we mix those two options?"

"What do you mean?"

"Well, Riley and I are actually siblings and so are Oliver and Clarissa, so the Mathews and Minkus families will be related and the Jones and Babineaux families will be related, and then we will all be friends." Josh stated clearly.

"That sounds good to me. You may all go and take your seats."

We all walked back to our seats and talked while Mr. Larsen got everything set up for the next group. After about 5 minutes had passed the second group all went back to their seats, and Mr. Larsen stood up.

"Ok now that all of that has been settled let me explain everything. Tomorrow your class will be called out probably in your 1st or 2nd period class; you will all meet up in the cafenasium." The "cafenasium" is the cafeteria and gymnasium mixed, basically just the small gym. "Once I get a headcount to make sure you are all there we will load the bus and go to the apartments that you will be living in. You will get the key and get to look around. Each apartment has 3 rooms, therefore if you have 3 children 2 of them will have to share a room. I recommend that you pack up clothes and any other things that you want to bring with you into your new home. Although you will not have to bring this to school, moving trucks will be provided to you after everyone has their apartment keys. More instruction will be given to you tomorrow." And with that the bell rang and we all went to our next class.

RILEY'S POV

"Are you sure you don't want to come home with us?" I asked the girls.

"Yea, I have to pack for tomorrow anyways." Lacy answered

"Same, me and Oliver are gonna pack and then we have plans to go see a movie with our parents!" Clarissa pointed to Oliver who was talking with the guys.

"Well I can come over as soon as I'm done packing!" Smackle stated.

"Cool! What about you Maya?"

"Umm sure, it won't take me long to pack, my mom isn't working tonight so I can have her and Shawn help me."

"Good well I'll see you two tonight then!" I pointed towards Maya and Smackle. "And you two can text me!"

"Sounds good" Lacy and Clarissa chorused.

"Ok well I gotta go! Bye loves!" I walked away from the girls and towards the boys group to get Josh so we could go home.

He was my ride today since we carpooled so we wouldn't have to drive 3 cars to school counting my father. Technically, we could only take 1 car, if we carpooled with our dad, but who one wants to go to school an hour early and leave 2, sometimes 3, hours late? Not us.

"Josh can we get going now?" I asked coming up behind my brother.

"Huh? Oh yea sure let's go." Josh said turning around. "Bye guys."

"Bye Josh!" They guys chorused.

We walked out to his car. He had a Ford F-150 in white.

"Hey are you gonna have your friends come over tonight?" Josh asked

"Yeah Maya and Smackle are coming after they finish packing. Why?"

"Oh. Well I think Farkle is gonna come over, just to help me with my science homework."

"Oh! My husband is coming to join us today?" I jokingly questioned with my hands over my heart. Josh laughed.

"Wow!" He laughed as we stepped into his truck. "Actually, what do you think of the project?"

"Oh, I don't know, it seems exciting. Although I'm not sure I wanna marry Farkle." I said laughing a little bit. "But I'm excited none-the-less!"

"Cool I'm excited too but I mean it's gonna be weird when we aren't at home. You know what I mean?"

"Yea I get it." I looked out the window as we carried on our conversation until we got home.

We reached the front door and Josh unlocked the door.

"We're home!" I shouted as we walked in.

"Oh good!" My mom said walking over to us. I gave her a hug. "Auggie needs help with his math homework! Can you help him?"

"Umm I suck at math… And I have to pack!" I stated bluntly.

"Pack, for what?" she asked in a confused tone.

"Tomorrow! The project in LSC!"

"Umm I'm lost…"

"Life Skills Class" Josh chimed in.

"OH! You guys get your apartments tomorrow?"

"Yep!" Both Josh and I chorused.

"Who do you guys get to marry?" My mom asked as Auggie walked in.

"They're both getting married?!" Auggie questioningly shouted.

"It's only a school project." My mom stated, and Auggie sighed in relief, me and Josh let out a chuckle. We walked over and took a seat at the kitchen table.

"Anyways, I am marrying the one and only, Maya Hart." Josh stated a smile crossing his face. My mom shared the same ear-to-ear smile, almost as if she knew something that I didn't. I looked between the two.

"Wait! What am I missing here? Do you know something mom?"

"What? Oh! Umm no!"

"I knew it! JOSH LIKES MAYA!" I shouted

"No I don't!" Josh shouted back as he stood up and walked to his room.

"Yes you do!" I shouted after him.

"Shut up!" He called back.

"Ok anyways, who did you get?" My mom asked.

"Oh I got Farkle!"

"Good! That sounds like fun! Now, go get packed!" She ordered as I stood up and headed back to my room.

I dropped my bag down as soon as I walked into the room, before heading over to my closet to get out my Victoria's Secret Pink duffel bag and my tan suitcase with blue elephants on it. I began to pack my clothes in the suitcase along with a few pairs of shoes. Then I moved to my bathroom with my duffel bag to pack all of my toiletries and then I came back out to my room to add all of my makeup and perfumes to the bag. About an hour and a half later I had finished and Maya and Smackle were on their way over.

I heard a knock on the door and ran to open it.

"Hey girls!" I said as I opened the door, only to reveal Farkle standing there. "Oh its you."

"Wow what a way to talk to your soon to be husband!" Farkle joked I laughed and hugged him and told him that Josh was in his room. Soon after another knock broke the silence throughout my house. I ran to open the door again revealing Maya and Smackle.

"Girls" I hugged both of them

"RILEY!" They chorused. We went back to my room and discussed what we thought about the project.

"Maya I think Josh likes you!" I stated

"What makes you think that? I have liked him for years now and he knows and hasn't done one thing about it!" She questioned

"Oh just the way he smiled from ear to ear when he told my mom you guys got partnered up!" I could see the blush on Maya's cheeks.

"Really?"

"Yep"

"Maya he totally likes you!" Smackle chimed in.

She began to blush more and then the boys came in and joined us in our circle on the floor.

"Watcha talking about?" Farkle asked sitting next to me.

"Anything juicy?" Josh added as he sat next to Maya laughing.

"If you consider talking about dance class juicy then yes." Maya improvised.

"Nope, not really." Josh said talking to Maya.

"Well girls, since tomorrow we will be moving in together, we thought we should play a game of never have I ever!" Farkle suggested "With soda of course."

"Yea with soda! If my parents caught us with alcohol we would be dead!" I stated

"Ok then, let's go get soda then!" Josh said standing up.

I followed him out and we grabbed 5 cans of dr. pepper from the refrigerator before heading back to my room. We played until we all finished our drinks. Smackle finished hers first, then Maya, then Josh, then me, and Farkle never got to finish his in the game.

"Well that was fun" Maya said standing up and walking over to her phone, which she had placed on my dresser. "Come on! Let's get a picture!" She ordered holding up her phone to take a group selfie. She looked at it once before announcing that she was gonna post it.

She came over to me and Smackle and hugged us before saying she was gonna leave, Smackle turned to me to tell me she was gonna head out as well. I hugged her too before she left the apartment. Smackle and Maya were by far my best friends! I'd known the both of them for quite a while longer then Lacy and Clarissa. I turned to face Farkle and Josh.

"Well I have to go to the bathroom." Josh stated bluntly, as he walked out of the door.

Farkle hugged me and went home.

And then I had been left alone.

Authors Note: Hello! I'm back with a new story I hope you guys enjoyed it!