1. Prologue

"You don't just disappear for two years and then come back expecting everything to be the way it was. So tell me, Maya, where were you?"

"Where is she?" Riley asked as she looked at her two friends. "This isn't like her to just disappear without any warning."

The two exchanged a glance before Farkle stood and grabbed Riley's arm, "I'm sure she just forgot to tell you that she wasn't coming in today. It's probably nothing." He knew, however, that his attempts were doing little to calm the girl down.

"No," She objected. "There's something more to this. She didn't turn up this morning at my house like she normally does. She never misses it without a good reason. And she always tells me why."

The bell rang, echoing over the chattering students, telling them to get back to classes. Neither Lucas, Farkle or Riley moved at the first bell, the boys seeming to have a conversation between themselves while Riley stared hard at the floor.

Finally, the warning bell echoed overhead and without a word, Riley stood, slung her bag onto her back and walked away with the other two following.

The Matthews family sat around the dinner table that evening eating in silence. It was a Wednesday and on Wednesday, Maya always ate with them, that had been the tradition since they were seven years old.

"Where is Maya tonight, Riley?" Topanga asked, trying to stir up a conversation, "She's always here."

Stabbing a baby carrot with her fork, Riley shrugged, "She didn't come to school today and she's not picking up her phone or answering her texts. Your guess would be as good as mine."

Cory, who had been sat at the head of the table silently eating, spoke up, "About Maya." He caught the attention of the table, who turned towards him. "I went down to the office at lunch time to find out where Maya was and… I don't know how to put this but, Riley, Ms Hart pulled Maya out of the school yesterday."

Riley just stared blankly at him for a few moments before, "She can't do that, can she?"

Cory nodded, "Unfortunately, she can. Katy is Maya's mother, she has custody over Maya and she can do as she wishes, within reason of course."

"May I be excused?" Riley asked. The food on her plate didn't look too appealing to her sick stomach now and she just wanted to lay down.

Topanga noticed her daughter's expression and nodded, "Of course, you can have the rest later if you feel like it."

Riley didn't reply, focused on making it to her bedroom for the time being. Despite what she originally wanted to do, she changed her route and directed herself over to the bay window and sat down. The day had begun to turn into the night and all the street lights were beginning to switch on.

But Riley couldn't focus on that. Instead, she was too focused on wondering where Maya had disappeared to and why she didn't tell her she was leaving.

As this is the prologue, this chapter is going to be a little shorter than what I'd normally write (1000+ words). Also, I'm fairly new to Girl Meets World, but I really enjoyed the show and wanted to test the waters in the fanfic side of things. I probably will get a few details wrong here and there in the beginning but hopefully, someone would be kind enough to point me in the correct direction. I'm not too sure if I'm going to keep going with this story, I haven't decided yet. Anyway, if you enjoyed, I would really appreciate it if you could leave me a little review/favourite/follow. Thank you :)