Girl Meets World | AU

S2 E12 - Girl Meets Yearbook

Today they're giving us the yearbooks! Well, Lucas and I already have ours. I don't know know how he got them but he gave me one while Riley and Farkle left not too long ago to take the box that contains all of the yearbooks to distribute them to the other students. Cool, I'm not even a category. Don't get me wrong but I don't think I'm important enough to be remembered.
"Ladies and gentlemen of the hallway, it's yearbook time!" It's them, they're back with the box and start giving the yearbooks away
"Hi, page 42"
"Hi, pages 27, 34, and 58. You're doing too much. You should calm down"
"Yearbooks! Find out who we are and what we really think about each other" I smile at Ranger Rick
"You wanna know what I think about you?"
"No, I do not" Oh, so he already knows
"But I wanna tell you"
"I don't think you need to"
I'm gonna do it anyway"
"Don't do it"
"It's been a while" Damn, that sounded very petty
"I'm asking you not to do it" That sounded even pettier
"I'm gonna do it. You wanna run, or you want it straight in the face?"
"Well, I wanna run, but how would that look?" I start humming some scales. Fun fact, I can also sing, well, kinda, I'm not sure
"You guys wouldn't judge me if I run, right?" I keep humming
"Come on, man. There's always another option" I take a deep breath
"Ha-Hurrr!" Woah, this was the loudest one yet, and the closest one too since our faces are just inches apart
"You okay now?" I pull away, I better not blush right now
"Hmm. That was good"
"You know else is good? Yearbooks. All of our classmates say what they think of us"
"Yearbook, find out how we'll be remembered. Guess what. You took another nice picture, you freak" Well, of course the cowboy took another god picture. Look at him!"
"Thanks, Farkle. How will you be remembered?"
"Did they do it to you again?"
""Most likely to be Farkle..." Farkle"
"I didn't think I'd win it again this year, but I did"
"What does that mean exactly, Farkle?"
"How should I know? They turned being me into a category"
"Hey, Riley won most likely to smile herself to death" How does he see it as a good thing?
"Aw. Well, who wouldn't wanna go that way? I mean, when the time comes, why you gotta be a gloomy Gus?" I scoff
"Riles, I don't think they meant this as a good thing"
"They're making fun of me, and they're making fun of you too" she frowns
"What?" why is she still smiling?
"Would you stop smiling?"
"I'm not smiling, Maya. This is my upset face. This is smiling" she proceeds to open he rmouth wide, very wide
"You know what? I don't care what they say"
"Neither do I" Lies, we all know how insecure Riley is
"I don't care what they say at all"
"Neither do I at all. How did this stuff even get in here? We're the editors"
"Wow, we must have very poor quality control" I try to change argument
"What did you get, huckleberry?"
"I got most likely to be okay with anything that ever happens" I tease him
"How do you feel about that?"
"Well, actually, I'm okay with that-Oh!" we stare into each other's eyes until Riley interrupts us
"I'm not all sunshine and rainbows. I have a dark side"
"Let me see your dark-side face" No sweetie, that's not a dark-side face, that's a puppy face. Lucas and I both aw at her
"Look, guys, we're not gonna make a huge deal out of this, are we?"
"Yeah. Who cares?"
"It's only what everybody thinks of us"
"What's more important to you? What you think of yourself or what other people think of you?"
"What I think of myself" Good girl!
"Yeah"
"And what I think of myself is that it really bothers me what other people think of me" Oh no, bad things are about to happen
"Yeah"
"Well, forget about it. It's not like you can just turn around and be someone new"
"Yeah" Farkle turns around and completely changes his outfit
"This is me now" this is one of the bad things I was talking about before
"Farkle?"
"Nope, Farkle is gone. You will never see him again" we enter history class, perfect, Mr. MAtthews will be able to bring him back
"Okay, what have we got here?" he asks as soon as he sees Farkle
"I'm Donnie Barnes" I furrow my eyebrows
"Really, Farkle, of all the names in the world you could pick for another personality, you pick Donnie Barnes?"
"You don't get it, do you? I'm Donnie Barnes, regular guy"
"I'd see that movie. Donnie Barnes is the real me. Farkle Minkus is my goofy other personality"
"No, you're Farkle. Look, I'll prove it to you. See?" he frowns
"How did you possibly do that?"
"I don't wanna be most likely to be Farkle"
"Face it, cowboy" hey! That's my nickname for him!
"There's a new pretty boy in town. Thank you. I am... Donnie Barnes"
"Are you gonna do something? Because this is where you do something, right? Are you gonna do something? Is there a lesson? You got a lesson? Is there a lesson?"
"Iceland"
Iceland! You all fixed? No? I don't think he's all fixed. If that was Riley, you know you'd fix her" Okay, he's just making fun of himself at this point
"Sit down, Lucas"
"Oh, you know I'm right" he whispers as he sits back down
"Iceland and Greenland. What do you think about them, Mr. Barnes?"
"When I look like this, I don't have to think, right, Lucas?"
"Dude, I won the scholar athlete award. Ooh, nerd alert!" he whole class chuckles except for me, not really in the mood. Only I can make fun of him, and I do it only with Riley and Farkle around, not the whole class
"Iceland and Greenland, anybody?"
"Iceland is a land of ice"
"Wrong" Maybe I should try to participate, maybe I could say something smart
"Then Greenland is a land of green"
"Wrong" Never mind, I will forever be stupid
"Then who cares? Stupid countries don't even know who they are. Stupid countries" I say, muttering
"The vikings discovered this beautiful green country"
"I come from vikings" Farkle adds.
"You do?"
"You don't know me"
"Okay" Not gonna lie, I don't like it when he disrespects Lucas like that, it's very rude.
"So, the vikings, they didn't want anyone else taking their new country, so they decided to name it Iceland. Everyone figures it must be cold. Nobody wants to go there"
"So they made everybody think of it in that way even though it wasn't true?"
"That's right. Then another viking comes along, Erik the red, and he discovers a land of snow and ice. And he wants everyone to go there instead, so he names that Greenland, and everyone goes there. The jerks!"
"So you're saying the perception of a thing doesn't make it so?" Why is everyone else smarter than me?
"I'm saying people are always gonna say stuff. How you react to what they say is what makes you the person you are"
"So don't react"
"That's right"
"Just keep on smiling"
"Would you, please? Lesson over"
"And nothing anybody else says is ever going to make me feel any different" Yes! She understood the lessons! Another day, another problem solved. Wait, no, a girl at the back of the class starts talking
"Hey, Maya, Lucas, congratulations on winning favorite couple" What?! I didn't see that before! Lucas and I-No! I mean- I'd like to but- No! I don't wanna be remembered as Lucas' girlfriend!
"I feel different"
"How is that possible?" I laugh nervously
"How could anybody ever see me and Lucas as a couple?"
"Everybody does" I can see that Riley tries to stay calm
"But we're so much alike"
"And they're so different"
"But we're like a summer rain"
"And they're like fire"
"Daddy, remember when you told me not to react?"
"Yes"
"I'm gonna react" What if this leads to something else? What if my crush for him gets exposed and he rejects me? No, I can't let that happen! I have to fix everything. I'll do it after school, I'll go to Riley's and have a talk with her.