Girl Meets World One-Shots

Through Her Eyes

Prompt: It's been over a year since Maya last spoke to Riley, the triangle broke apart their friendships, Lucas won't talk to any of them, Farkle transferred to a different school, and Maya has gotten new friends, she's the popular girl in school, she sits at the popular table, laughs and smiles with everyone. But is seems as if something has been missing from her life something that has been missing since that fateful night almost two years before. After an accident leaves her unconscious, Maya is sent back to the past to relive everything that happened since yearbook, but through Riley's eyes... and what she sees makes her realize just how big of a mistake she had made by breaking her best friend's heart.

A/N: This is an AU so some things will happen in the same way they had on the show while other things will be completely different. I haven't written a one-shot in a long time... There are a few notes at the bottom.

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Sophomore year of high school was half way done, and Maya couldn't believe she had gotten as far as she had. Everyone in the school knew who she was, she was popular and as crazy as it sounds she had good enough grades that she didn't worry about disappointing her mother. But as the year came to a close she felt something pulling at her heart, something that had been missing since middle school and she couldn't understand why everything had ended the way it had. It happened the year before as well right around the holidays, as the lights around the city began to glow with festive fairy lights, and those little pop up shops appeared everywhere.

She missed Riley.

The one person that had always been there for her, through the hurt and the pain of her father leaving, through the uncertain times she had once had with her mother, through the good and the bad. She couldn't figure out where everything went wrong and she lost her best friend, everything had been fine until the summer after the end of middle school. After those two months had passed without Riley who had spent it with her brother at their grandparents' place. Everything changed after that, Riley had let go of their friendship, Farkle had gone to Einstein Academy with Smackle, Lucas stopped talking to everyone, and Zay just tried his best between the bunch of them. They all separated from one another, and Maya couldn't understand why it had happened.

At the end of the first month of freshman year Maya went to see Riley to ask about what had happened and why she wasn't talking to them, to talk about what was happening. Their friendship ring, Riley's ring was sitting on the center of the bay window, pillows no longer there no bears, no stuffed animals, no color at all. The window was bare, a curtain covering it from the room, she couldn't see into Riley's room anymore, the windows had been sealed shut.

It had hurt Maya, more than she let anyone see, but instead of dwelling on how everyone in her life abandoned her, she pushed forward and moved on. Just like when her father had left so long ago. She no longer saw the Matthews, unless she went to see her mother at Topanga's. She didn't talk about them, she moved on because she didn't want to deal with what had happened. She sealed her heart away... she didn't need these people.

Yet when the holidays came she could feel the pain in her heart, the pain of something missing. Christmas with the Matthews, seeing Josh and acting like she was cool and mature, talking with Riley over hot chocolate at the bay window which was covered in decorations. It hurt to think about it, so she tried to push it aside.

Lucas, Zay, and Riley all went to the same school, but they never saw one another, she never saw any of them at all, the school was too big. Some days she swore she saw the flutter of Riley's long brown hair, the top of Lucas's blonde hair in the crowd, or she could hear Zay's loud voice in the hallway. But they were almost always out of reach. So, she stopped looking for them, and started living her life. Art Club, choir, drama club, keeping herself busy was the way to go.