Mikey started laughing and nodding at the same. Seeing his reaction, we started laughing as well. Frank grinned, "wow... you're bro's pretty hot Mikes!" Mikey made a gagging expression. I smirked up at Frank, "well I could say the same thing about you young man..."

His eyes lit up suddenly, "hey sit with us for lunch!" I gave a half smile, as he added shortly, "that is, if your friends don't mind." I snorted, "are you kidding me? My friends? I don't really have any here. Sure I'd love to sit with y'all. I was gonna sit alone anyway."

He reassuringly put his hand on my shoulder, "great! And Gerard, don't you ever say you don't have any friends here.... anymore." I broke out into a genuine smile. Mikey bumped in suddenly, "Guys, I'm starving. You can do all those peppy talks later. Now come on."

He started walking to a table where a cute guy with a giant fro' and a strawberry brown haired guy were sitting. Frank and I followed en suite. As we approached the table the guys smiled up at us. Frank wiggled his eyebrows letting out a short laugh, "guys, this is Gerard, Mikey's elder brother. Gerard, this guy with his extraordinary fro' here is Ray and that macho over there is Bob."

I smiled showing all my pearly whites. Ray and Bob both got up from their seats to shake my hand. Then once settling in, Ray spoke with a pitch that could only belong to a 10 year old, "So Gerard, you're in your Senior year right?" I nodded. Bob piped in while ruffling his fro', "Isn't that obvious?" Ray shoved his hand away while Bob let out a giggle.

Then Mikey said, "you know Gee, I was wrong. I think this place is actually awesome!" I smiled, "You know what I think the same. Except uhh-" I was cut off when Frank half yelled with wide eyes, "oh my god!" We all looked up at him from eating our hamburgers, with confusion written all over our faces. His face became a battlefield of emotions.

Then words escaped his mouth at a 100 miles an hour speed, "Shit! This thing has meat!" The rest of them rolled their eyes as if this was something they were quite used to. I raised a brow at them and Mikey mumbled, "Oh he's vegan." I shook my head. Then Ray said grumpily, "shut up dickhead. This thing doesn't have cupcakes... am I fussing about that?! Just take out the damn patty."

Frank's face suddenly relaxed as his mouth formed an 'oh'. I couldn't help but giggle a bit at that. Then suddenly Ray turned to me with a lit up face, "wait... Caméllia's in your class right?" My eyes widened hearing her name escape Ray's lips. A tornado of emotions flew through my head. I opened and closed my mouths several times before finally letting out a huff, "yes."

Frank piped in quickly, a bit too enthusiastic, "Oh my god... you're so lucky!" I looked at him as if he had grown another head, "what?! Why?" He giggled, "man! She's an angel....." I continued to give him the same look, just adding a little bit more amusement. I sarcastically rolled my eyes, "seriously now? Are you mad or something? She's a bitch."

Only then did I realise that the look I was giving Frank a few minutes ago was now bestowed upon me by Frank, Ray and Bob. And I did earn a smack from Frank as soon as the word 'bitch' left my mouth. I looked at them with questioning eyes. Ray spoke with the same expression, disbelieving, "Gerard, you must have a a screw or bolt in your brain lose. How dare you call her a bitch?"

I fumed this time, "because she is! Because of her ignorant, arrogant bitchy little self." Ray pretended to close his ears, so Bob spoke instead of him, "She's the sweetest person you could ever meet... Even though she holds quite a good reputation around here, she never treats anyone less than her friend."

As if on cue, Frank added, "Yes, and do you fucking know the only reason guys like US are not getting bullied, is her." This made me a bit curious though, "oh and how is that?" I took a quick glance at Mikey, who was being his same old self... just absorbing everything.

Frank replied, "If there were to be anyone here who could bully recluses like us, it hands down would've been Caméllia Jordan. We were a bit scared at first that she might, but she never did. And there wasn't.... isn't anyone in this entire school who can stand against her. She made sure that everyone was treated equally and fairly. Not only that, she even treats US like friends."

A smile made it's way over to all of their faces, even Mikey's. I still sat dumbfounded. Mikey spoke out of nowhere, "You know this morning when I was hanging out with Frank, Ray and Bob, she came over to us and greeted us. I'd have to admit... she was nice."

Okay now it made sense as to why I wasn't called an 'emo' or a 'freak' in the class. Now I know that why people smiled and nodded at me instead of giving me weird stares. It all made sense now. But what didn't make sense was that..... all of her good deeds these kids were glorifying her with.... she didn't displayed even a single one in front of me.

You're acting like you've been the 'nicest' person to her.

Brain, now stop guilt tripping me now. It was just as much her fault. She could've said sorry for the least.

And you could've made the first move and not call her a 'preppy bitch'.

Shut up! Just because she's nice to everyone else, doesn't mean she's nice. She could be a poser.

*sigh* Who am I kidding?

Yourself?

Ugh... fine I'll leave you to it.

Bwahahaha!!! I won this time!

Don't be so happy just yet *mentally sticks out a tongue at brain*

I opened my mouth, almost stupefied, "and you know JUST how fucking 'nice' she was to me this morning?! She bumped right into me, sending both of us tumbling down to the floor and then once she got up, she didn't even mutter a sorry... and" I told them the rest of the story, while they listened with disbelief.

After I finished, Ray was the first to break the awkward silence, "I still somehow don't believe you. But you're our friend now so..... look I don't know what's going on with you and Caméllia... but we won't drag this thing any further." I nodded my head in an understanding way. Frank said, changing the topic, "So tell me how come you guys moved here?"

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The rest of the lunch we spent chatting and laughing about random stuff. Then after lunch, most of the classes were a blur. The only good thing? Yes, you guessed it... she wasn't there. I don't know but I still can't quite believe what the guys had told me, well, the similar manner that they didn't believe what I had told them.

But I decided to not think about it further. Because honestly, for the very first time ever my first day of high school was actually pretty good. Well, you know the exception, so I won't elaborate on that.

Notes

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