Cowboy Meets City Girl

First Dance

"Look at that ninth-grade woman!" Riley grinned as she pointed at the pretty older girl, Allison that was seated in the hallway "She's putting on makeup, we're going to be ninth-grade women someday!" she continued to tell her blonde friend in happiness.

Maya didn't share her friends excitement and instead her face dropped to horror 'This thing goes to ninth grade?!"

Riley ignores her friends moment of horror and goes back to focusing on what Allison was doing to her eyes "Why that?" Riley pointed to the eyelash curler in the older girls hand.

"Brings out your eyes." Maya informed her.

Riley's face turned to horror as she looked at Maya "Why would I wanna take out my eyes?"

"She's not taking out her eyes."

"And I think she is." Riley points back at a slowly annoyed Allison.

"It's just an eyelash curler. It doesn't even hurt." Allison told the younger brunette and held out the eyelash curler for the other girl to take.

Riley takes the eyelash curler and examines it "I have eyelashes."

Maya looks on in amusement before turning towards the older girl with a grin on her face "Watch this."

Riley puts the curler up to her eyelashes and starts to scream, gaining the attention of the other students in the hall including Alora and Lucas as they both where heading to class.

The two instead head over to a highly amused Maya and Alora questions the older girl as she knew Maya would never answer her.

"What's wrong with her Allison?" Unlike most other eight graders Alora had friends in every grade from sixth to ninth.

Allison continued to smile wide and quietly laugh before she answered her little friend "Eyelash curler" and that's all she said.

"Right" Alora shook her head in result to her cousins stupidity.

Lucas watched in worry and couldn't help but wonder if Mr or Mrs. Mathews had dropped their daughter on her head as a baby. "I feel like anybody else would stop."

Cory had been walking down the hall to his class when he heard his daughter screaming and looked to the group of kids surrounding her for an answer.

"Eyelash curler" all four kids supplied him.

"Right" he breathed out lowly before looking at his still screaming daughter "Open it."

Riley finally stops screaming as she opens the eyelash curler "Thanks, Daddy."

"Yeah, okay." he exhaled as he enters his classroom.

"Can I have it back now" Allison spoke as she held her hand out.

"Yeah, okay" Riley copies her father and hands the curler to Allison who bids a goodbye to Alora.

Farkle now stood in front of the group as he had kept his distance as Riley screamed "Ladies."

Maya and Riley greet him in unison "Farkle."

Alora on the other hand goes for a hug "Hi Bubbu"

"Morning A-B." he hugs her back.

"A-B?" Lucas questions.

"Her(My) first and middle initial." Farkle and Alora speak in unison as Lucas nods his head in understanding.

Farkle than went on about the upcoming dance "School dance. I'm gonna put you all down for Dance Numbers one through all of them. We will alternate. You and me, me and you. When you're not dancing with me, you may not dance with anyone else. So you may sit and wait until you dance with me again." he explained to the three girls before looking at Alora " Except for you, you can only dance with Lucas."