take me home: interlude one.

summary: a series of one-shots that depict how lucas and riley discovered themselves while learning each other. / interlude #1: tidbits of the rest of the gang.

a/n: this chapter's a little different because it's more of head cannons I've created for this particular universe. I'm posting it like this because I honestly don't know if I'll ever address them in any of the one-shots. plus, while i am 100% a rucas girl, i miss some of these characters (esp. Farkle!).

anyways, the next chapter is going to be all about Rucas' attempt to becoming pregnant. Also, the quote doesn't actually fit into the "story". I just liked it.

rated T for love/sex.

WARNING: RACISM TIGGER. PLEASE PROCEED WITH CAUTION. VERY SENSITIVE SUBJECT.

disclaimer: i do not own girl meets world or train's 'drop of jupiter'.

"When you find someone you really like, you don't date them in high school. You stay good friends with them and date them when you're both adults, when you can stroll down city streets, share kisses over coffee, and ask them to marry you."

— theiratewriter (via tumblr)

Maya Penelope Hart-Carpenter

1. She does eventual forgives Kermit for abandoning her and her mother and makes peace with it. She visits him once a year and has befriended her half-siblings. However, she has never referred to him as her father. Even if his relationship with her mother failed, Maya always considered Shawn Hunter her father.

2. She meets Ryan Carpenter in their freshman figure life drawing class. She sat down next to him and introduced herself. He stuttered so bad that she thought his name was Bryan with a "B". She ended up calling him Bryan for a year before someone finally corrected her.

3. When Zay broke up with her (on the phone even though they were both in New York for the summer), she was devastated. She cried for hours alone in her bedroom.

4. While she considers Ryan the love of life, she will always have a soft spot for Zay. He was her first love, and nothing can ever change that. Even when Josh confesses his love for her (no matter how surprised she is to hear it after so long) and rejects him, she knows that it wouldn't be the same with Zay.

5. After college, she joins a Cirque du Soleil show in Vegas as an aerial silk performer. She got into during her freshmen year of college because of her roommate for fun but realized she had a real talent for it. It starts out as a joke, but when she goes to the audition, she realizes how much she wants it. Fortunately she gets offered a job and spends two years as an aerialist.

Isaiah "Zay" Babineaux

1. When he still lived in Texas and Lucas was in New York, he would hear stories of Maya and fell in love with them. When he moved to New York himself, he met the real girl and fell in love again.

2. Dancing was his absolute passion, but he was a natural at basketball. When it came down to picking which one to devote his life to, he chose basketball. It wasn't necessarily because he liked it more, but simply because he was black. He thought it would be easier for him to get to the NBA than join a professional dance company because of systematic racism. (That's the harsh reality.)

3. He asks Maya to be his girlfriend on June 4th, 2017, the summer before junior year. They aren't even dating at the time. He's walking her home like he does every night from Topanga's, and they're talking about something. She's making him laugh, and he just blurts out, "God I love you so much." She freezes, and so does he. Finally he goes, "Fuck it. Maya, I'm crazy for you. Will you be my girlfriend?" To his surprise, she says yes.

4. He doesn't mean to break up with Maya on the phone, but it just happens. He doesn't know what goes wrong, but he never stops regretting the way it ended.

5. He eventually gets married to a beautiful, black woman from Barbados. They have two wonderful sons. When his eldest son is sixteen years old, he takes Zay's car out to the convenient store to buy his mom some orange juice. Zay is reluctant to let him go because it's late, but his boy insists to go alone because he just passed his license test. He's stopped by an older, white police officer on his way home. Without rhyme or reason, the officer roughly asks the boy of step out of the car. Being the obedient child he is, he follows his direction. He is then beaten savagely before arrested. It's only when they're booking him do they realize his father is a famous, soon to be inducted into Hall of Fame NBA star.

The backlash is severe, and Zay and his family become a poster family against police brutality and institutional racism. While Zay is happy to bring this issue into light (He and Riley organized a "#BlackLivesMatters" rally their freshmen year of high school), he still blames himself for letting him go out in the first place. Cory is the one who brings him back to reality.

"You can't protect them forever," he says. "Trust me. I've been trying to protect you guys for years, but you just can't do that."

Farkle Minkus

1. He dated Isadora "Izzy" Smackle from eighth grade to senior year. He dumps her after homecoming after she rejected his request for sex. While he cared for her deeply, he couldn't deal with the lack of intimacy any longer. The break-up on her end is fine, but Farkle can't help to be offended when he sees her thriving after the end of the relationship.

2. He loses his virginity to Missy Bradford. They grew close after she asked him to tutor her in AP E&M Physics during their junior year. While he was with Smackle, nothing ever happened between them. When they broke up however, Missy made her move automatically. They end up with a friends with benefits deal for a couple months, but it ends when Farkle asks Cameron Stewart to prom.

3. He and Maya hook up once, and they never talk about it. It was the Valentine's Day after her break up with Zay, and he flies to Georgia for the weekend. They drink and have a good time. He takes her back to his hotel room. One thing leads to another and soon all their clothes are off. The next morning, he gathers up their clothing and orders them room service. They sit awkwardly before he cracks a joke about last night. And while the sex was good and they do end up doing it once more that morning, they agree never to talk about it again. (Riley doesn't even know.)

4. He surprises everyone when he announces that he applies and gets into the Peace Corps. He figures that he's going to have to run his father's company and eventually be just like him. While he loves his father, he needs to run free for a while before being tied down.

5. When he's 34, he gets a call from a woman he had a one night stand with. (She contacts him via Minkus International because he never called her back.) She tells him she's pregnant with his child. She chooses to have the child, and he agrees to pay child support (as long as the paternity test proves it to be his—and it does). Not even six hours after his son, Mickey Clark Minkus, is born, his mother leaves.

Farkle ends up being a single father. The first month was the hardest. He was so angry because he never asked for this. However, he wakes up one morning after a long night with Mick. The room is quiet, and all Farkle can hear is the sound of Mick breathing. He gets up from his bed and goes over to Mick's crib. To Farkle's amazement, Mick is staring up at him. Farkle lets out a little smile when Mick reaches up towards him. He tickles his chin with his finger, and Mick reaches out and grabs it. There's a moment of serenity, and then Mick grins up proudly at his daddy. That was the moment that Farkle Minkus really fell in love.

While he never gets married, he does become a doting father.

Joshua Matthews

1. His biggest regret in life was never having a chance with Maya Penelope Hart.

2. He meets Tessa O'Brien his first day of work. He's a working human resources for a large PR company when he gets an email from a woman claiming sexual harassment again one of her managers. He forwards it to his boss because he has no idea how to handle the case. When he finally meets her, he cracks an inappropriate joke that leaves her huffing. ("Wow, I can see why someone would sexually harass you.")

3. His favorite sibling is Morgan. Sure Eric is great for a laugh and Cory is almost like a second father to him, but he grew up with Morgan. Yeah, they were ten years apart, but he always looked up to her. When she left for college when he was eight years old, he cried for two days.

4. He and Tessa get divorced after six years of marriage. He wanted children. She didn't.

5. Of his siblings, he's the first to die. At the age of 36, he wakes up one morning not feeling well. It wasn't anything physical, but he just knew that he had to see a doctor right away. They ran a couple test and sadly confirmed that Joshua Matthews had stage 4 lung cancer. It's unknown how it happened (he wasn't a smoker), but Josh found it ironic. When he was born he had poor lungs, and now he was dying from it.

During his last days, his whole family was by his side. His mother was hysterical the whole time (But who can blame her? her baby was dying right before her eyes). Eric barely cracked any jokes, while Cory and Shawn couldn't stop ragging on each other and Josh (which kept him happy). Morgan held his hand the entire time. Riley, Lucas, and Auggie made sure to keep him entertained.

Although he lost his dream girl, he got divorced, and never had any children, he lived a happy life because he had a great family to share it with.

August "Auggie" Matthews

1. Dewey "Doy" and Ava Morgenstern are his absolute best friends in the world. However, when they are sophomores in high school. Auggie discovers that the two friends have been dating behind his back and loses it. He punches Doy in the face, calls Ava a "trashy slut", and declares them unworthy friends. His heart is broken, and he never speaks to Doy again.

2. When he's seventeen, he sneaks out of the house to attend a rock concert with his friend, Max. They have fake ID's, so they get wasted with a couple beers. They shuffle back into Max's place (his parents are never home) at 4am. Right before they fall asleep together in Max's bed, Max kisses him. He doesn't remember in the morning, but that was the moment that Auggie realizes that he's gay.

3. His dream was to take over Topanga's cafe. His parents wouldn't allow it unless he went to college, so he applies to Cornell and gets in. He gets a business degree for his parent's satisfaction and gets ownership of the cafe for his own.

4. He runs into Ava Morgenstern when they're twenty-six. She's in town for her father's funeral and stops by the cafe. He's working behind the counter when she's standing there jaw-dropped. They hadn't talked in ten years, but immediately she hugs him and apologizes over and over again. They sit and talk for hours, and Auggie realizes how much he missed her.

5. He doesn't come out until he's 28 and in love. His boyfriend, a nice man who works as an accountant, is dying of cancer. They've been together for nearly a year now, but he's still in the closet. It's absolutely destroying Auggie. When he comes out, it's Thanksgiving, and he's over at Riley and Lucas' place with the rest of his family. Grandma Amy is asking him about his love life, and he breaks down confessing about his lover.

His whole family is supportive (they even box up Thanksgiving dinner and bring it to the hospital), and Auggie doesn't even know why he hid from them for so long.