Dear Diary,

Today is the first day of the second semester. Maybe there will be a new student who actually wants to be my friend. Dave blew me off for cooler people again. I hate when he does that, and lately I don't get to sit with him at lunch anymore. I gotta go! The bus is here!

Yours truly, John Egbert.

John finished up writing in the blue notebook and shoved it back between his mattresses before running out to catch the bus. There was hardly anyone on the bus, as usual. All of them normally drove to school. John still didn't have his license, though he did have a car. He took an empty seat and leaned against the window, watching the cars pass by.

The bus arrived at the school and kids pushed and shoved to get off the bus. John patiently waited, making him late to his first class. He sighed and took his seat in the back of the classroom. No new kids in class. The rest of the day went by pretty boring until lunch. The table that John normally sat wasn't empty for once. There was a boy with copper colored hair. John worried his bottom lip with his buck teeth before walking over to sit on the other side of the table.

"who the fuck are you?" said the boy in front of John, "I'm john…I normally sit alone here, but you're welcome to stay" He answered. The boy huffed and continued to eat. John stared at him for a moment before pushing his tray away and pulled out his sketch book. "Aren't you gonna eat?" The boy asked. John shook his head, "what is your name?" he asked softly, glancing up from his sketch book.

"Karkat Vantas." He said , "what are you drawing?" John shrugged, "nothing." He said, studying Karkat for a while. He turned back to his book, "You're new here." John said, focusing on his sketching. "Yeah, I am. What's it to you?" John shrugged again, "just wondering." He said and gave a buck tooth smile. Karkat's sneer wavered before he burst out laughing, "What was that?" John blushed and turned back to his book, "sorry." He said.

The bell rang and john took his tray, dumping it's contents in the trash and left to go to Gym. Karkat was in his gym class, making it hard for John to concentrate. He was intrigued by this new student. After Gym the day went by slower and slower as it came closer to time to go home.

Finally the last bell rang and John went straight to the bus. When he finally reached home, he pulled out his diary. He was embarrassed to have one, but it was good to write down your feelings once in a while. Or in Johns case, every day, twice a day.

Dear diary,

There was a new student today. I like him and I think we may be friends. I dunno, he seemed kinda mean. We only have Gym and lunch together. But I still wanna be his friend. He even sat with me at lunch. It was nice to have someone to talk to, I mean Dave talks to me, but it's always about him and his cool friends. Maybe he'll wanna hang out this weekend. I hope so. It'd be so much fun.

Yours truly, John Egbert.