SOPHIA WAS getting ready to leave and go to Riley's apartment when somebody knocked on the door.

She opened it, seeing Lucas standing there.

"How did you find my place, Lucas?"

"I asked Farkle." He said walking in.

Sophia looked at him and she pushed the door up.

"What are you doing here?"

"I came to apologize."

"For what?"

He didn't have to. He did not harm really.

"You know exactly why, I hurt your feelings and I didn't mean to." He said stepping forward.

"All is forgiven."

"Do you really mean that?" He was only stepping closer.

"Yeah, why wouldn't I?"

"Because I hurt you and I didn't what to."

Whatever came over Lucas, was screaming on the inside.

He grabbed the side of her face.

He almost felt like she melted in his hands.

"You didn't know."

He started leaning in.

Sophia began to panic.

For one, she's never kissed a boy in her life, two, all she could think about was how Riley was going to feel.

"Maya and Farkle." She heard from the door.

"Go out the window." She urges him.

"Why?"

"Just go."

He did as she asked and once out of sight she answered the door.

"Hey."

"You were supposed to meet us at Riley's." Maya said.

"I know I was just on my way out, let's go."

Earlier

"Where's Sophia?" Riley asked Farkle and Maya.

The three were waiting on Sophia.

"I'll go see if she's home." Maya said.

As she stood she up, out the corner of her eye she saw the two following her.

"Riley, you stay here just in case she comes, Farkle comes with me."

"Okay." Riley said.

The two approached Sophia's apartment building and walked towards her apartment number.

Farkle stopped Maya from walking in.

"What are you doing Farkle?"

"Be quiet Lucas is in there."

They walked up to the door to see Lucas grabbing Sophia's face, this was it the wait was over.

That was until Maya's foot hit the wall.

"Maya and Farkle." She quickly said.

"What did you do?" Farkle asked.

"I accidentally kicked the wall."

"Go out the window." Sophia told Lucas.

"Why?"

"Just go."

Sophia soon came to the door.

"Hey." she said.

"You were supposed to meet us at Riley's"

"I know I was just about to leave, let's go." She smiled at the two.

History: Mr. Matthews

"Ancient Greece-" Mr. Matthews started.

"What that? What that that?" Riley asked.

He pointed to the box, "What thi-this? This is a present."

"Is it for me?" She asked.

"What's your game, Matthews?" Sophia asked.

"Game? I mean no game. I just want to know who here wants this present." He said.

Everybody but Maya raised her hand.

"Oh, Maya, what? You assume by playing hard to get, I'm gonna give it to you?" He asked.

"Well, yes. That's one of the many arrows in my quiver." She told him.

"Medieval talk- What are you doing to me, woman?" Farkle said.

"Riley." He said giving the present to her.

"Yay!" She said opening the box.

She pulled the horse out of the box.

"The Trojan horse"?" Sophia asked.

Mr. Matthews smiled, "Surprise!"

"This isn't a present. This is one of your life lessons wrapped up in a class lesson wrapped up in a box of nothing." She told him.

"How you doing, honey?" Sophia asked Riley.

"I'm worked up." She answered.

"I know." Maya said.

"You assumed because it was all neat and pretty that something good was inside. Ancient Troy was protected by walls. The Greeks couldn't get in, so they built a big wooden horse and left it behind. What do you think the Trojans did?" He asked.

"They left it there because they were afraid that somebody was trying to teach them something." Riley said.

"They captured it as a trophy and brought it inside. That night, the Greek soldiers crawled out of the horse and defeated Troy." Sophia explained.

"What have we learned here?

Lucas raises his hand.

Sophia felt kinda awkward to be around Lucas after what happened.

"Mr. Friar?" Mr. Matthews asked.

"Don't make assumptions based on what you see?" He said.

"Riley, listen, I'm sorry I made an example of you. So here's a gift for you." He said giving her another gift.

"Ooh- No! I want to- No! Pretty ribbon- No!"

"I'll take my chances with that, sir."

"No, Lucas. You have to assume it was no good because the first one was no good. Aren't you all proud of me, dad?"

"No!" He said.

He handed the box to Lucas.

"Get out of detention free." He read.

"Ooh, I could use one of those. Gimme that and I won't call you "Ranger Rick" all week." Maya said.

"Here you go." He said.

He handed the card to Sophia to hand to Maya.

"Thanks, Ranger Roy." She said.

"Lemme guess. Ranger Roy is filling in for Ranger Rick?" Sophia asked.

"All week. And now, you." She said.

Mr. Matthews smiled, "Oh, is something gonna happen to me?"

"Yes, it is. A d-d-d-d, a d-d-d-d, a d-d-d-detention. But not today. Boom!" She sang.

She was dancing on top of his desk.

"Read the card." He said.

"Huh?" Maya said.

"Card." Sophia said.

"Say 'get out of detention free' then give worthless card to Maya then watch her dance on my desk." She read returning to her desk.

"Never assume. Look more deeply. Just because something is wrapped up all pretty, doesn't always mean it is." Mr. Matthews said

She looked back at Lucas, "You were in on this!"

"I'm Ranger Roy and I'll be here all week." He said tipping his imaginary hat.

She only shudders and turned back around.

Interscholastic Debate

"...in conclusion, school uniforms reduce individuality which will be unnecessary in the real world when you're all working for me. Thank you. I am Farkle!"

The whole gang stays at the debate as they were there to support Farkle.

"I don't understand the debate." Riley said.

"I say you do." Maya told her.

"Okay." She answered.

"I like debates- exploring two sides of the same thing- good and bad, light and dark, right in front of you at the same time. Where else are you gonna get that?" Lucas said looking at the girls.

Riley and Sophia smiled at him.

Maya glared.

"Oh, right here. Look at you." He said.

"And now from Einstein academy, "undefeated this season, seventy-two pounds of raw intellectual power! She is who your mama wishes she gave birth to!" The one, the only... Smackle!" Mr. Matthews read off the card.

"You goin' down, chump. Wearing a uniform makes you surrender to conformity and sacrifice uniqueness, which is our most valuable freedom. Don't let anybody tell you what to wear. Don't let anybody tell you what to be. Smackle, the one and only, out." She finished.

"Well, before I announce the winner, let me remind you all that our final debate of the season will be held right here next week, where our thought-provoking topic will be "Is beauty only skin deep?" Great, thank you. So the winner of today's debate is... Isadora Smackle, Einstein academy."

Everyone clapped and left shortly after, leaving Riley, Maya, Farkle, Smackle, Lucas, and Sophia.

"It looks like our debate team could use some help." Sophia said.

She was actually looking at Lucas, eye-to-eye for the first time.

"Yeah, Smackle's definitely got game."

"She beats Farkle every time. You think he's gotten used to it by now?" Riley asked.

Farkle groaned, "It hurts."

"Nope. Good thing we're there for him. Being there for him is the most important thing we can be-Melon balls." Maya said walking away.

"Valiant effort, as usual, my arch-nemesis. Perhaps a smoothie would take the sting out of my latest victory." Smackle told Farkle.

"Yeah. Perhaps you're right. I'll go see." He said.

"Smackle, you fool. You forgot how literal he is. Farkle, I meant would you like to get a smoothie with me?" She said, speaking to herself.

"Isadora, what part of "Arch-Nemesis" do you not understand?"

"Farkle, you might find this hard to believe, but I am a significant amount of fun. Would you like to see my funny face?"

"That would be of interest to me. Proceed."

"I'm doing it!"

"Well, Farkle, good job being smart and everything." Riley congratulated.

"Thanks for coming, Riley and Sophia, Sorry you had to see me lose again."

Sophia smiled, "Wonderful debate, Farkle. A memory that will live with me right up until the next thing happens."

The two of them hugged and he walked away.

"Well, Smackle, good job being smart and everything." Riley said as she and Sophia began to walk away.

"I am sad." She said.

"What?"

"Farkle and I are perfect for each other. Why does he prefer you two?" She asked.

Sophia joked, "I don't know. If I knew, I'd stop."

"Well, there's nothing left to do now but get a smoothie all alone and continue this good cry I'm having." She said.

"You're crying?" Riley asked.

"Yes. A-wah A-wah." She cried.

"I don't think that's actually--"

"A-wah A-wah..." She cried louder.

"Look, I am going to ask you something really fast and then I'm going to regret it. You wanna come to my house? Ooh." Riley said.

"Yes, I would like to come to your house. There is much I can learn from you." Smackle said.

"Oh, no! I already have a weird friend."

"She means me."

Bay Window

"Why do I have to be a part of your campaign to befriend every little woodland creature?" Maya asked.

"Which woodland creature am I in your mind?" She asked.

"You're like a little gopher... chipmunk combo deal." Sophia said.

"Maya, Sophia, Smackle needs our help."

"Yes. I need you to teach me the equation for beauty." She said.

"Why?" Sophia asked.

"Smackle loves Farkle." Riley told the duo.

"Why?" Maya asked.

"But he prefers you both to me because you're both aesthetically pleasing. I, on the other hand, am less aesthetically pleasing, but am superior in every other area." She told them.

"Okay, so you want us to make you beautiful?" Maya asked.

"Yes, but I don't expect you to be able to change a trillion years of evolution in five seconds."

"Let me know when it's four seconds." Riley said.

"Go."

A couple of minutes later Smackle is finally dolled her up.

"I'm... pretty?"

Maya smiled, "You're the hottest little gopher-chipmunk in the whole forest."

"Who's the genius now?" Sophia asked.

The three flipped their hair, "Stop it."

"My outward appearance now seems to represent the current trends agreeable to the general populace." Smackle said walking towards the mirror.

"Then why are you still talking like you don't know what you look like?" Maya asked.

"Ah, my speech. That's an easy fix."

"I don't think so." Riley told her.

"Awesome, like, giggle, question, omigosh." Smackle said.

"Do you wanna lay that out again for us normals?" Sophia asked.

"Observations reveal that if I merely insert "awesome," "like," "omigosh," and giggle at everything like it's a question, I will assimilate into the general teenage population."

"It's not that easy, Smackle." Maya told her.

"E=mc2"

"What did you do that for?" Riley asked her.

"Like "E" totally equals M.C.Squared! Omigosh, awesome!" She said.

"E=mc2" Maya repeated.

"I understand the universe."

John Quincy Adams Middle School

"Ladies." Farkle welcomed.

The three took notice of Lucas in the debate team's clothes.

"Farkle."

"Sophia, why are you wearing glasses?" Lucas asked.

She pushed them up close to her face.

"They're Smackle's. I'm just holding them for her... on my face."

"We want to see if people will treat Sophia differently now that she looks smart." Riley said.

One of the boys from the debate team approached her.

"Hello, suddenly approachable woman. What's your prescription? Mine's twenty/eight hundred. I can basically only hear you."

Sophia recognized the boy.

He was the top half of the pretty boy from the party.

She smiled, "I don't have a prescription. Although I must say, you guys are looking a lot less blurry."

The boy who was on the bottom came up to them.

"That's the nicest thing any girl's ever said to us."

"I liked you better blurry." She said.

She put the glasses on top of her face.

"That's the second nicest thing a girl's ever said to us."

"I think you look nice any way you are, Sophia." Lucas said.

Sophia hasn't even talked to Lucas since the whole almost kiss thing.

"Thanks. You wanna go out with us Farkle?" Sophia asked.

"Out like "out on a date"?" He said.

He fell on the floor.

"Aw, no. Out like out there with Riley, Maya, and I because there's someone else we want to introduce you to." She said bending down towards him.

"Yep. We think you'll really like her." Riley said.

"I have a very specific taste in girls. Is she one?" He asked them.

"Uh-huh." Maya replied.

"That'll do it!" He said.

He jerked up from the ground and walked out.

Svorski's

Riley, Maya, and Sophia were getting ready to introduce the new Smackle to Farkle.

"Presenting your date from the modeling runways of Paris, France-" Riley said.

"The new face of Geek Chic-Isadora Smackle." Maya finished.

Smackle came in modeling her clothes and new look.

"Wow. You made her over?" He asked.

"You know, just us girls playing with our hair and clothes." Sophia told him.

"Are you finally intrigued by me, Farkle?" She asked him.

"I'm intrigued that my friends don't realize that you are an evil genius."

"But a pretty evil genius, don't you think?" Riley asked him.

"This is debate preparation, isn't it?" He asked Smackle.

"What?" Maya and Sophia asked.

"The next debate is "Is beauty only skin deep?" Smackle doesn't want to be like you guys. Smackle only wants to win. You ladies have been played." He told them.

"Is this true, Smackle?" Riley asked.

"Affirmative."

"Riley, Sophia, do I please have your permission to mess her up now?" Maya asked.

"Negative." Sophia said.

Maya looked over at Sophia.

She knew that Sophia liked Smackle from way back when, but she didn't understand why she couldn't mess her up.

"Smackle, did you assume this outward change in your appearance would not affect your inner self?" Farkle asked.

"Of course it won't. I am Smackle. But look, four red nails and one blue one. I don't know why."

She lifted her hand to show him, "That said, how could any outward change possibly affect the inner Smackle?"

Sophia looked over and saw Lucas walk in.

"Hi, guys."

He looked down and saw Smackle, "Wow, Smackle, you look great."

To say that Sophia was annoyed was an understatement. She knew she was ignoring Lucas, but every single turn he seemed to be there.

Smackle giggled, "Did that just come from me?"

"Smile at her." Farkle told him.

So he did.

"Omigosh. Omigosh, I just said "Omigosh." Like, awesome. Question?" She said.

"Are you okay, Smackle?" Sophia asked.

"I don't understand what's happening to me." She told.

"Why don't you sit next to her, Lucas?" Farkle told him.

So he did.

"No one that's ever looked like you has ever sat this close. Are you sitting here because you want to be my mate?"

"I'm sitting here because the seat was empty."

"You smell like pine trees."

"Thank you."

"Our feet are touching."

"You're doing that."

"Hmm, Smackle, would you mind telling me, what is the square root of thirty-six?" Sophia asked.

"Who cares?"

"Excellent. Lucas is on our debate team. Will that be a distraction to you?" Farkle asked Smackle.

"Should be, yeah."

"Good. Let's go. We've got a debate to prepare for." Farkle said leaving with Lucas.

Smackle was confused, "What have you done to me? I'm broken. I'm pretty. I'm confused."

"We can put you back." Riley told her.

"Oh, I'm not goin' back! I'm not
that confused." She said.

Bay Window

"Okay, who's first?" Sophia asked.

"I am." Auggie said.

He walked over and sat in her lap.

"Farkle, do you have an appointment?" Maya asked.

"No, I'm a walk-in." He said.

"I'm sorry, Farkle. Feel free to read one of our waiting room magazines. We're jammed." Maya told him

He looked over and saw the magazine and sat down to read one.

"Go." Riley told her younger brother.

"I want to be with Ava until I die." He said.

"She doesn't feel the same way?" Riley questioned.

"She's vague, man. She's messin' with my mind." He told her.

"But it doesn't matter what she says, it matters what she does." Sophia explained.

Topanga walked in to see what they were talking about.

"Did she actually break up with you?" Maya asked.

"No."

"What? Wait a minute. Auggie, I assumed you guys broke up." Topanga said.

"Oh, Mom. You should never assume. Didn't Dad teach you that?"

"Yeah, don't you get the home versions of these lessons? You're married to the guy." Maya asked.

"Of course I do. There's just so many of them. Oh no, I married Feeny."

"So, how is Ava messin' with you?" Sophia asked.

"She says we might not be together forever. But she also says we might." He said.

Sophia smiled, "So you still have a girlfriend."

"And I let you eat cake and whipped cream." Topanga said.

"Hmm, so I had a pretty good day!" He said.

He hopped off Sophia's lap and walked out with his mom.

"Next!" Riley yelled.

Farkle sat in between Sophia and Riley.

"Yes?" Sophia asked.

"I'm tortured." He said.

"What about?" Riley asked.

"Smackle's not gonna be at her best at the debate." He said.

"Why not?" Maya asked.

"Because you made her better. Except you didn't." He said.

"You want us to change her back?" Sophia asked.

"If we do, Farkle, you'll lose the debate." Riley told him.

"I only want to beat her when she's really her. She's the best arch-nemesis I could ever have." He told them.

"Otherwise, if you beat her, it doesn't count." Sophia said.

"You're pretty smart, Sophia." He told her.

"Even without glasses?" She asked.

He smiled, "Yeah."

Interscholastic Debate

"You promised you'd change her back." Farkle said.

"We tried." Maya told him.

"She wouldn't go for it." Riley continued.

Farkle sighed and walked towards Smackle.

"I didn't want to win this way, Smackle. I hope you enjoy being beautiful." He said.

"Oh, I do."

Soon the debate began.

"How the once-mighty have fallen. The nation of Troy was charmed by a beautiful wooden horse. They neglected to consider what was inside. And they lost everything because of outer beauty. Don't be fooled by a pretty wrapper. I mean, who keeps the wrapping paper?" Farkle asked.

Riley raised her hand, "I wear ribbons."

"Okay. And our concluding statement will be made by Lucas Friar."

Lucas stood and walked towards the front.

"There can be absolutely no debate that the quest for outer beauty at the expense of one's inner self is a road to personal destruction. People make assumptions. I've been labeled a jock and a cowboy, and this is from my friends. But here's a little secret. I like school and I do pretty well. You might look at me and assume a baseball player. I look at myself and I know I'd better get good grades because what's on the inside has to be more important than what's on the outside to get into a good college and into a good life. Because beauty is not skin deep. Thank you." He said looking at Sophia.

The audience clapped and Smackle made her way up.

"Omigosh, I'm so totally unprepared and scared." Smackle said.

"We finally got her." One of the boys said.

"Maybe that's what you would assume I would say, considering the effort I put into my appearance." She continued.

"Uh-oh."

"I'm here to argue Today that beauty actually is skin deep. So I've done some research and I've learned... that it is. When you get compliments from people who don't ordinarily compliment you, when people look at you differently, the packaging does matter. I wasn't pretty, then I was. This is a world where "pretty" seems better somehow. Which is too bad, but it's not debatable. However, I also learned that if you get swept up by what you are on the outside you can lose who you are on the inside. Even though it is easy to be fooled by the beauty of a trojan horse, its real power comes from the army within- intelligence, compassion, integrity, courage. That army is the real you, no matter what you look like. So even though beauty may be skin deep, beauty is nowhere near as important as the army inside. And I'll try not to forget that. Well, look at all of you."

She finally put her glasses on.

"You're all very deeply beautiful. Especially you, Farkle. Thank you." She finished.

"She beat us." Lucas told Farkle.

"Yeah."

Smackle walked towards the girls.

"Thank you for taking me in. I hope we can be friends." Smackle said.

"Cool. We've got a lot to learn from each other." Maya told her.

"I continue to not understand anything." Sophia told Maya and Riley.

"That's what's so beautiful about you." Maya said.

Svorski's

Riley, Maya, Smackle, Lucas and Farkle, and Sophia were sitting in a booth together.

"Valiant effort, Lucas, perhaps a smoothie would take the sting out of my latest victory." Smackle said.

"Whoa whoa, back off, sister." Riley said.

Sophia smiled at her.

Maya and Farkle looked back and forth between Riley and Sophia.

"I actually think that Smackle is just enjoying some newfound confidence, Riley." Farkle said.

"You know me too well, arch-nemesis." Smackle said.

"She was using you to make Farkle jealous!" Sophia told Lucas.

"Well, that's a new one." He said.

"Tell me the truth, Farkle. If Riley, Maya, and Sophia weren't beautiful, would you still love them?" Smackle asked.

"They're beautiful? Oh yeah, I never really noticed."

Later on, one by one each one of them left.

The only ones left were Maya, Farkle, and Sophia.

"Why are you guys still here it's getting late?"

Farkle sighed, "We saw you and Lucas this morning."

She really wasn't ready to talk about it.

She saw her grandmother getting ready to leave, so she quickly followed out.

"We're not done." Maya said.

"I think we are!" She smiled and walked away.

Word Count:3610

Updated on: October 27th, 2018

Hey it's late where I live and it's Wednesday so I decided to add the new character in Girl Meets First date or even sooner so get ready for a new character

But anyway Lucas and Sophia were soooo close to kissing each other but they didn't they might soon but it just depends on what I'm thinking

I also might write a new story soon

Thanks for 1k reads