𝓓𝓐𝓝𝓓𝓔𝓛𝓘𝓞𝓝𝓢

꧁⁂✯Oɴᴇ✯⁂꧂

3rd Person POV

Lillian Hart was walking down the bustling streets of New York as she made her way to the Mathews' apartment. Her mother knew about the Christmas surprise she planned for her baby sister and gave her the address where her youngest daughter would be.

She arrived at the Mathews' apartment along with a man who had a beard and sort of scruffy hair. She smiled at him and he smiled back before the two made their way up the stairs and to the same apartment. That's when the man turned to her and asked her a question. "Who are you?", he asked as he put his hands in his pocket.

Lillian looked him up and down before replying with a slight smile on her face. "Lily. Who are you?", she asked politely while intertwining her fingers and letting her arms drop in front of her.
"Shawn. You also here for the Mathews Christmas party?", Shawn asked, gesturing to the door in front of them. Lily nodded before the adult opened the door for her and closed it quietly behind him.

𝔸 𝔽𝕖𝕨 𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕦𝕥𝕖𝕤 𝔼𝕒𝕣𝕝𝕚𝕖𝕣

In the Mathews home, Topanga was freaking out over Christmas as Riley was finishing decorating the Christmas tree. "Honey, this is our first year hosting the holidays. Is your mom gonna go easy on me?", Topanga asked wearily.
"You want comfort or truth?", Cory asked as he used his hands to gesture both options.
"Comfort."
"It's gonna be hideous", Cory said through slightly gritted teeth.

Topanga looked at him with furrowed eyebrows before restating what she wanted. "I said I want you to comfort me!", she exclaimed before Cory wrapped his arms around her and repeated his statement.
"It's gonna be hideous." Topanga rolled her eyes before closing them and enjoying her husband's embrace before Riley was talking about Maya. "It's Maya's first time with us, and I need the holiday to be good for her."

Cory switched it in himself while also making a point for his wife as well. "Well, I need the holiday to be good for your mother." Topanga furrowed her eyebrows, turned around, and called him out.
"Liar!" Cory smiled at her before repeating her words and pointing at himself with his thumbs.
"Liar! I need the holiday to be good for Shawn. Shawn's coming!", Cory said excitedly with a smile on his face, making him look like a kid in a candy store.

The intercom buzzed and Cory ran over to it with hope that it would be his childhood friend whom he hadn't seen for years. "Shawn!?", he asked with hope while answering the intercom.
"Maya!", Maya replied, but it didn't seem to go through Cory's head as he repeated Shawn's name.
"Shawn!?"
"Aw, what's the matter? Your boyfriend's not here yet?", Maya asked while teasing him. He scrunched up his eyebrows and acted like a young teenage girl who's obsessed with a boy while replying.

"He's not my boyfriend!", he exclaimed while stomping his foot and using his free hand to make a fist pointed at the ground. Topanga lifted a giant ornament out of the white box she was holding while contradicting Cory's statement with a question. "Oh, then what are we going to do with this 'CORY AND SHAWN 4-EVAH!' ornament?", she asked while holding it up for her husband to see.

Cory made his way over to his wife while talking to her. "Oh, that? That goes right in front of the Cory and Topanga wedding ornament", he said excitedly while hanging it on the popcorn garland right in front of their wedding ornament as he said. Riley turned to her mother with a questioning look on her face while she smiled at her and replied to her daughter's questioning look. "My whole life."

She then grabbed her youngest child's hand and pulled him over to the little kitchen area. "Auggie, wanna help with dinner?" Just as she took him over Maya stepped through the door while contradicting the existence of Shawn.
"I don't even think he exists."
"He's real, Maya. I've known the guy my whole life, and he's real."
"You're fun to play with", she said before walking over to her best friend.