gmw oneshots

first day of school ; riarkle

in which riley and farkle see each other for the first time ever on the first day of high school ༄

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Hugging my textbooks to my chest, I looked up at the huge sign at the top of the entrance. Abigail Adams High School. Maya and Lucas were supposed to be here with me, attending high school together, being the kings together here, and graduating together. But things didn't work out as I wanted it to, and they ended up in different schools.

Riley Matthews in middle school was going to be totally different from the Riley Matthews in high school, I knew that. Without my friends, without my dad as my teacher, new classmates. Who knew what was going to happen?

Butterflies fluttered around in my stomach as I walked through the doors along with the stinky crowd and quickly found my way to my locker, which was on the ground level. When I finally reached it, I opened it up and stuffed all my textbooks in. Taking out my timetable, I saw that I had History first. The good old days in middle school; Maya, Lucas and I ruled history class.

I sighed and grabbed my History textbook before slamming the locker door shut and walking towards my homeroom which was pretty nearby.

I stepped into the classroom to hear soft chattering and groups of students huddled up at different corners. Cliques, already? So fast?

I saw an empty seat by the window and near the back so I walked in that direction. I walked down the column and saw a guy in a black hoodie sitting in front of the seat I was heading towards. I took a glance and melted internally. His jawline was so sharp I could bleed touching it, and all his other features on his face were perfect. He moved his hand through his soft brown hair and then back to his phone, which he was using to scroll through something. He sat casually, with his headphones on and bag by his side.

I walked past him and blushed even though he literally did nothing at all and didn't even notice me, then put my bag by the table and sat down in my seat. I pulled my pencil case and textbook out of my bag and set them on the table neatly. After plugging in my earphones, I just stared at the boy's back for a really long time before the teacher finally came in and everyone scrambled to their seats.

"Good morning, class. I'm Mr Fowdey, your history teacher. I'll be in charge of your class for the rest of the year too. I appreciate jokes to lighten up the humor but you shouldn't take it too far," said the middle-aged teacher as he took his pencil case, a few pieces of paper and a clipboard out of his suitcase. He looked through each of them and then took a stapler out of his pencil case. As he stapled the papers together, he said, "I'm hoping for a staple relationship with you guys this year."

We all burst out laughing and he asked us to quieten down before he spoke again. "So now, I'd like each of you to introduce yourself a little. Tell us your name, your hobbies and an interesting fact about yourself, perhaps! Let's start from the right side of the room!"

Then, people started standing up to introduce themselves and when it finally came to the left side of the room after 15 minutes, the boy in front of me finally stood up. "Uh, hey. I'm Farkle Minkus," he paused as everyone chuckled. "Yep, I know. It's a funny name, haha. Anyway, I like photography and science, and for the interesting fact, well... I can ride a unicycle?" Cute.

We laughed, and then Mr Fowdey pointed to me. "You?"

Farkle turned to look at me and I clumsily stood up. "I'm Riley Matthews, I love painting purple cats and reading! Oh, an interesting fact about me would be that I'm clumsy...?" Everyone giggled and seeing that Farkle did the same made me feel happy and warm on the inside.

I smiled, blushing, then took a seat.

Even as the rest of the students behind me started their self-introduction, I didn't really listen at all, but was instead, thinking about him. What a year to look forward to.

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there we go!!!!! my first ever oneshot!!! I know it really kinda sucks and all but eh 🙃 can't wait for requests so that the coming plots would be better than this one ʕ⁎̯͡⁎ʔ