Exhilaration | Shawn Hunter [Boy Meets World]

Pairing Off

At school-

The boys stared at...

"Richard and Cindy?" Cory questioned.

"Very deeply in love," Shawn answered as Richard and Cindy were just making out.

"Since when?"

"Lunch," I answer.

"What did they eat?"

"I don't know, but it was enough from the way they're kissing," I say.

Mr. Feeny saw us. "Ah, Mr. Heckle and Mr. Jekkyl, don't we have classes to attend?"

Cory motioned to them. "Mr. Feeny, shouldn't you break them up or hose them down or something?"

"Oh, I wouldn't interrupt their tryst, Mr. Matthews. They're both A-minus students and happily struck by Cupid."

"So, if they were C-minus students, you wouldn't let them kiss?"

"School policy, don't you know."

"So I can't kiss?"

"With your grades, Mr. Matthews, you can't even shake hands."

Cory stopped Mr. Feeny before he walked away, "Just watch, Mr. Feeny.
By the end of the year, I plan to have an A-plus average and a hickey."

Mr. Feeny patted his shoulder. "Dare to dream, Mr. Matthews."

I look ahead. "Oh great, another one."

"Holy cow. Jerry and Shoshanna?" Cory questioned.

"Deeply," Shawn said.

"Has the whole world paired off?"

"Pretty much," I answer. "Except me."

"Is there a list posted somewhere where I find out what girl's been assigned to me?"

"You want a girlfriend?" Shawn asked.

"No, not a girlfriend, just a girl who's like a friend, but not a girlfriend."

"And I'm stepping back now," I say, doing so.

"Not you, Betty."

"Thank God," I heard Shawn mutter.

"So something I have with Archie?" I ask.

"Yeah, that's good. Like that," Cory said.

A girl walked by. "How about her?" Shawn asked. "How about the new girl?"

"No." We both look at him. "I mean, I don't know her." We continued our looks. "Shut up. Look, I want someone I know, someone who knows me, someone who we know each other, someone like, uh Topanga!" Cory walked up to the girl, placing an arm around her. "Topanga, my honey. May I call you honey?"

"No," she answered.

"Well, this should be good," I watch. "Bet you five bucks she turns him down."

"You're on," Shawn agreed, shaking my hand.

Then we watched.

"Topanga, my girl, my friend, my girly friend. Believe me, I don't want this any more than you do, but everybody around here is pairing off, and I think you and I should spare ourselves a lot of uncoolness and walk through life together," Cory said.

"Cory, my dear little butthead-May I call you butthead?" Topanga asked.

"Sure."

"I can't walk through life with you."