The New Girl

Chapter 2: New Acquaintances

"We'll talk more at lunch if you can find us alright?"

I felt my heart beat rapidly at the comment. Now I had two groups of people wanting to know more about me at lunch. Despite the shit start, it seems like things are going out smoothly.

I gave Viney a thumbs up, before redirecting my attention forwards, but before I fully did, I glanced at the green hair girl once more. There was something in my subconscious that was wanting me to talk to her, but how would I even be able to? What could I even say?

I'll figure that out later I suppose.

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By the time the lunch bell rang, I was pretty exhausted. Math class was killing me with all the formulas the teacher hit us on the FIRST DAY. I did them obviously, but god damn some teachers really don't know when to lay off with work.

Anyways, lunch finally came around and I felt my excitement rise up through me, but so did my anxiousness. This was new to me, I never had anyone do this willingly. No one at my old school chose to sit with me, so I honestly didn't know what to expect.

I left the food area and entered the sea of kids all around the enormous room. Given the size of the school itself, it wasn't surprising to see this place packed, but that meant finding Willow, Gus, Viney and Jerbo kinda difficult.

Fortunately, Viney wasn't too hard to find as she surprised me from behind with Jerbo. She chuckled as she saw me fix myself, as I almost dropped my food.

"Jesus, you know how to get the attention huh?" I dryly chuckled as I let my heart relax from pumping so fast.

"Just what I do best." She winked at me, while Jerbo lightly sighed from behind. "Anyways, you find a seat yet?"

"Not yet no. I'm also waiting for two other people as well. They wanted to talk with me as well." I was about to inform them who to look for, but my eyes caught a glance of Gus's head within the mix of other heads and bodies. Sure enough when I walked over, he and Willow were chatting about something else.

"There she is!" Willow pointed at me while Gus spun around to see me.

"Hey Luz, glad to see you again." Gus said, while noticing the other two. "I see you made some other friends here too."

"Yeah...this is Jerbo and Viney. I believe they are in our homeroom." Willow chuckled for a moment, which momentarily confused me.

"Oh I remember Viney alright. Can't forget the lab incident from last year." Viney then started chuckling with Willow as we all sat down at the table. 

"Oh man that was insane! The teacher was PISSED!" Viney threw up her hands in exaggeration while I listened in surprised and confused.

"No duh, you blew up half of a god damn table! How did you manage to only get a few days of ISS?" Viney shrugged her arms.

"They said something about it being my 'first offense' last year or something. I didn't even have to pay for it either. The school replaced it." I found myself lightly chuckling at the story, but at the same time being in awe on how this girl is still alive.