Mine

Girl Meets Fallout

Mine

Girl Meets Fallout

"The moment, I can see it

Yes, yes, I can see it now"

While our four friends were gathered in Maya's room, trying to get a grip on all the goings-ons of the day, the four grown-ups were in the kitchen, attempting to do the exact same thing. Only they weren't just trying to figure out this particular day. In the case of Katy Hunter, she was still trying to wrap her head around the entire situation. She had been provided with some information concerning the Matthews over all the years she had known her husband. However, she was still a bit fuzzy on the details. Topanga Matthews, while having known both Cory and Shawn since they were young children and having been there at that pivotal day where things had started going downhill between them, had never fully understand what exactly had made Cory and Shawn stop talking altogether. Well, and as for Shawn Hunter and Cory Matthews themselves, they were both torn between excitement at finally being reunited and slight panic for not knowing how to even start talking about what kept them apart for so long.

That's how the four of them had ended up in the kitchen: Katy and Topanga were working on getting dinner ready and Cory and Shawn were sitting at the kitchen table peeling potatoes in deep thought. Nobody wanted to disturb the tentative peace that had spread over the room with the men working side by side and the women talking quietly amongst themselves. Their continuous work led both Shawn and Cory to let their thoughts drift off. Unbeknownst to the respective other party, they were both remembering one pivotal day about five years ago.

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Christmas 2014

It was the first year the Matthews family Christmas would not be hosted by Amy and Alan Matthews. It was the first year that this tradition would be taken over by the next generation. Which of course led to the Matthews household, New York location, being in a complete frenzy. Riley and Auggie had been tasked with making sure that the Christmas tree looked picture perfect while Topanga was busy preparing food that could probably feed a whole army in the kitchen. Cory, of course, was trying – and failing – to comfort his stressed-out wife who was worried that her mother-in-law would not like the way they did Christmas here. But let's not be too hard on the poor guy, this was a very special Christmas for him. After all, his favorite person in the whole world would be attending. Oh yes people, you heard right. "Shawn's coming!" was Cory's mantra of the day and, believe it or not, it actually helped distract Topanga from her worries a bit.

After the rest of the Matthews clan, namely Alan, Amy and Josh, had all arrived at the apartment and made themselves comfortable on the couch – Alan, Cory, Josh and Auggie – or in the kitchen – Amy, an exasperated Topanga and a very amused Riley – the guest of honor finally arrived. And after an excited greeting between the two best friends and a warm welcome from the rest of the adults, Shawn turned to the kids. He greeted both Riley and Auggie, but it was clear that he was somehow less enthusiastic than with the rest of the family. This was something that Riley had started noticing more and more over the years and it worried her quite a bit. She didn't know what she had done wrong and had come to the conclusion that maybe Shawn just did not like her very much.

But as always, she didn't make a big deal about it – she didn't really have anyone to talk about her thoughts to, her parents always told her that Shawn did like her. And so, after the greetings had commenced, Shawn and Cory fell into their old pattern: they talked about the good old days, how work was going and how they were doing in general.