p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"He walked down the streets towards his new school he would attend from today on. The holidays were over and he hoped this year would be a new start, a new beginning, a new chapter in his life. The streets were busy even though it was the early hour of 7:30 AM. Shades hid sharp eyes, appearance level boosting up causing the blond to look as cool as always. He was Dave Strider after all, no one would expect any less from a Strider./p
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p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Dave if you had just waited for me like I told you to this meet up would have been much easier." his cousin yelled after him, taking ahold of his wrist, "So, are you ready for your first day of school?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Sure it'll be easy. I'll make it."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"She gave an amused laugh, "I'm sure you will."/p
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p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"Rose walked along with her cousin until she bumped into another. A black haired girl perked up in front of her and turned around. Her eyes were blue, behind a pair of black rimmed glasses; her outfit consisted of a blue color scheme with the exception of her black flats. A panicked look covered her features as she saw that Rose had fallen./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Janey, careful." said Rose, standing up and rubbing her hip./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Sorry, I just saw Roxy behind you and got a little too excited. I'm sorry." She replied./p
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p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"Jane's eyes couldn't help but look over and glance over Dave who was watching in silence. A small smile formed on her lip as she tilted her head and pointed over at the blond boy. It wasn't kind to assume without any answers but she couldn't help herself from asking./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Who's that? Is he your boyfriend Rose?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"Rose shook her head, "Do we really look that charming together?...No. Hell no. He's my cousin."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"Dave nodded, his lips curling up to form a smile at Jane with the old Strider-charm; Jane blinked a few times, cheeks starting to pinken. A small squeak escaped from her lips as she looked aside. The boy was irresistibly cute./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Gotta go. Rooooooxy, Wait for me!" she exclaimed and dodged around Rose./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"Dave looked after her, as she jumped at his other cousin, Roxy Lalonde, and hugged her tightly. Roxy beamed with joy and squealed from joy, greeting her best friend. The two have known each other since they were 13, now 17./p
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p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""They seem very acquainted." mentioned Dave, Rose nodding in agreement./p
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p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""I think Roxy likes her, and I bet she likes Roxy as well."/p
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p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"Dave nodded, walking alongside Rose who was now chattering and informing him about the school they were going to. The blonde told Dave about some of the cliques, teachers, hangout areas, anything to her current knowledge./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"When they entered the school, Rose guided Dave to his classroom. It was fairly sized with just about the whole class already inside. People chattered and reunited with each other, talking about what they did over break and showing each other whatever they had in their hands./p
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p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""This is your classroom. Behave yourself and everything will be fine. Have a nice day, Dave." she smiled before walked away./p
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p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"Looking around he saw no familiar faces, of course, and nearly every seat was occupied whether by people actually in the class or just hanging about before they had to scurry on over to their actual class. There was one seat next to a boy with black hair. He had big, blue eyes and wore thick, black rimmed glasses. His white shirt had a big green, slimy ghost on it. The kid seemed very shy and, with no other choice, Dave walked up to him./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Hey, may I take this seat?" Dave pointed at the one next to the boy./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"Said boy looked up surprised, but nodded as a response. The dark haired teen didn't usually get a lot of attention outside of pulling pranks so this was something new to him. Nobody really did ever speak to him unless it was required to./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""What's your name?" asked Dave, trying to get a conversation going with his new seatmate./p
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p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""John. John Egbert. You?"/p
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p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Dave Strider."/p
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p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"John's mouth parted as a smile soon came, "Dave Strider? Rose's cousin right? That's awesome, I can start to see the resemblance a bit now."/p
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p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Oh you know her?" quirked Dave./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""She's my cousin's best friend, I guess making me and her friends as well. And her sister is my sister's crush or something. Whoops~ I shouldn't have said that." he brought his hands in front of his mouth./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""This Jane-girl is your sister? She bumped into Rose this morning and was very excited about seeing Roxy."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Yeah. That was her." nodded John, "I think they like each other, but they're too shy to say anything."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"How small the world is isn't it? Looks like every person he's met so far has a link with each other. He wondered if John knew his brother Dirk as well It's impossible not to pick out a Strider from the crowd. It really doesn't matter though./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"The teacher entered the classroom and everyone went quiet, the two boys looked at their new class teacher. He welcomed the class and wished them good luck for the upcoming year. Mr. Vantas, as he introduced himself, gave the teens their schedules./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""And now the elder students will show you around. Group up in a pair of two and wait for your guides to show up."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"Dave looked at John, who seemed very confused and insecure. He was biting his lip and staring down at this desk. Seemed like he didn't really have any friends in this class./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""C'mon. Let's look for our guide." Dave stood up, John looking at him surprised./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""You… you want to pair up with me?"/p
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p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Sure. Who else. I don't know anyone else besides you, and you seem nice. So let's go."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"John smiled lightly and nodded. He grabbed his bag and the two boys waited for the guides to arrive. A tall, blonde boy entered the classroom, a black haired boy walked behind him. Soon a group of other older students followed in behind them looking for their group to escort./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Mr. Vantas, I'll be showing Jake the school as well. He's new to the school and in my class."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"Mr. Vantas nodded, "Very well, if that's the case."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"The blonde boy looked around in class and waved at Dave. Dave gave a weak smile and waved; John looked at the boy then back at Dave curiously, they looked alike. Are they brothers?/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""You know him?"/p
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p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Well… yeah… Just my brother. C'mon. He'll show us around. And no matter what he's saying about me just ignore it. Everything he's saying is 99.9% bullshit."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""He can't be that bad." said John following Dave over to the older students, "You're probably over reacting."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Let's go. I'll show you 'round." said the older Strider once they reached the pair/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"The quiet footsteps of the four boys echoed off of the walls filling the hallway, it was kind of awkward with the silence and their shoes making the only noise from them. Dave consciously tried to walk quieter./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Don't you want to introduce me to your new friend?" Dirk smirked causing Dave to sigh./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Sure. John, my bro Dirk. Dirk, my new friend, John."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"Dirk's orange eyes looked at John through the pointy anime-shades; Dave slid his shades a bit down and looked at his brother over the border of his dark shades in curiosity. John glanced at Dave and saw his red eyes, holding his breath as he looked away. He's never seen such eyes before. They were quite awesome to be honest, but yet alarming at first glance./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;" "What? And no he is not, don't get the wrong idea." the smaller blonde boy hissed and glared at the older one./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;" Dirk just smiled; Dave let his shades slip back to the bridge of his nose where they belong. Wearing shades inside does look douchey, but if it meant that he could keep his eyes hidden it was something to deal with. Dirk wore his too so he wasn't alone./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;" "Feel honoured." Dirk smiled at John, "Not many people are allowed to see his eyes, Jake and I rarely get to see them, even for a blink of an eye. Not even his ex-girlfriend got to see them."/p
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p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"John looked at Dave surprised, the other boy shrugged and stayed quiet. His eyes were quite a sensitive topic for him. Unlike his brother who can easily take off his shades at anytime and cousins who blatantly don't hide their eyes, he feels safer with his own hidden./p
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p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Do you have a girlfriend John? Or boyfriend if you..." Jake asked./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"John blushed lightly and shook his head. He's really never been in a stable relationship before so things like that are kind of difficult to relate too./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""You don't have to be embarrassed, you know." Dirk smiled leading them out the front door./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Where are we going?" John said changing the topic quickly./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""I'll show you the more important places, so I'll show you the sports ground and the places where you can hang out."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"Dave sighed; he knew it. They would hang out the next two hours, but he was okay with it. He really wasn't interested in the building in its eternity, everything he needed to know in there were his classrooms and the cafeteria. All the books he needed were at home or in the library close to his house./p
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p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"Dirk threw himself into the grass, next to the basketball court; Jake laid down next to him, looking over at John and Dave. The green eyed male patted the space next to him./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""C'mon, lay down with us. Don't just stand there."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"Dave nodded and laid down next to his brother. Glancing over at John, he saw how his body slowly relaxed. He himself was slowly getting comfortable on the ground./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"John sat down next to Dave and looked at his new friend. He's never made new friends so fast; he never really had friends… just… classmates who were nice. But could Dave be his first best friend? He seemed nice and John really liked him from the beginning, but why should such a cool boy like a nerd like him./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""So. What are your hobbies John?" Jake looked at him./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;" /p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"His eyes reminded him of Jade's own eyes, his cousin mentioned earlier. Wait. His name was Jake, right? He remembers something about an English guy that Jade had told him about a while back./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Are you Jake English? Jade's brother?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Yeah. You know her?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""She's my cousin." John told him./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Well. Pleased to meet you, cousin. So, what are your hobbies?" smiled Jake./p
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p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""I love movies, especially with Nicolas Cage and Matthew McConaughey in it. And I love games, computer games particularly."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""I love movies too. Every kind of movie."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Yeah…Literally any movie is good enough for English here. He loves to talk about them." Dirk sighed./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"John smiled and looked at Dave, "Do you like movies?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Hmmm, I don't know much about movies, but I love music."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""And Smuppets." Dirk commented, causing Dave to punch his shoulder./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""No. Don't you dare. I hate your smuppets more than anything."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""But you like my Lil Cal."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Oh you don't know how much I hate Lil Cal and how much he scares me." Dave said with disgust in his voice./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"John chuckled and Jake took out his phone to show the other boy some pictures. The pictures consisted of smuppets and Lil Cal. John gave a nervous laugh as he looked through the photos./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;" /p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Well… I agree. Cal is kinda creepy." John said./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;" /p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"Dave nodded and smiled triumphantly at his new friend. He really liked John, they could be great friends if this hits off. Before, all people ever did was fawn over him, trying to befriend him just to seem cool or whatever. Tryhards he called them./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"-/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;" /p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Why do you hide your eyes?" John looked at the albino who was walking next to him/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"The blonde boy shrugged, "Everyone acts crazy when they see my eyes. It's not normal. It's strange, they say…I don't know if I like them or not."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"John bit his lips. That was sad to hear. Someone as cool as he could be degraded for something as little as that? Even to question himself on his appearance./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""I don't think they're strange. I like them. Unusual and startling at first glance but not strange. Different, but beau-ahhh... uhm… nice." John blushed a bit and Dave smiled./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Thanks...Hey wanna hang out? This afternoon, my place?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"John smiled brightly, nodding. After school plans, something he's never had with a person that's not related or linked with Jade. This was exciting./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Well then, see ya later, okay?" Dave waved and walked the road down towards his house./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"John just stared after Dave and smiled, waving back at him. Friends… They… They're friends. Just because they smiled at each other./p
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p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Dave if you had just waited for me like I told you to this meet up would have been much easier." his cousin yelled after him, taking ahold of his wrist, "So, are you ready for your first day of school?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Sure it'll be easy. I'll make it."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"She gave an amused laugh, "I'm sure you will."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;" /p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"Rose walked along with her cousin until she bumped into another. A black haired girl perked up in front of her and turned around. Her eyes were blue, behind a pair of black rimmed glasses; her outfit consisted of a blue color scheme with the exception of her black flats. A panicked look covered her features as she saw that Rose had fallen./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Janey, careful." said Rose, standing up and rubbing her hip./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Sorry, I just saw Roxy behind you and got a little too excited. I'm sorry." She replied./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;" /p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"Jane's eyes couldn't help but look over and glance over Dave who was watching in silence. A small smile formed on her lip as she tilted her head and pointed over at the blond boy. It wasn't kind to assume without any answers but she couldn't help herself from asking./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Who's that? Is he your boyfriend Rose?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"Rose shook her head, "Do we really look that charming together?...No. Hell no. He's my cousin."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"Dave nodded, his lips curling up to form a smile at Jane with the old Strider-charm; Jane blinked a few times, cheeks starting to pinken. A small squeak escaped from her lips as she looked aside. The boy was irresistibly cute./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Gotta go. Rooooooxy, Wait for me!" she exclaimed and dodged around Rose./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"Dave looked after her, as she jumped at his other cousin, Roxy Lalonde, and hugged her tightly. Roxy beamed with joy and squealed from joy, greeting her best friend. The two have known each other since they were 13, now 17./p
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p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""They seem very acquainted." mentioned Dave, Rose nodding in agreement./p
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p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""I think Roxy likes her, and I bet she likes Roxy as well."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;" /p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"Dave nodded, walking alongside Rose who was now chattering and informing him about the school they were going to. The blonde told Dave about some of the cliques, teachers, hangout areas, anything to her current knowledge./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"When they entered the school, Rose guided Dave to his classroom. It was fairly sized with just about the whole class already inside. People chattered and reunited with each other, talking about what they did over break and showing each other whatever they had in their hands./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;" /p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""This is your classroom. Behave yourself and everything will be fine. Have a nice day, Dave." she smiled before walked away./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;" /p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"Looking around he saw no familiar faces, of course, and nearly every seat was occupied whether by people actually in the class or just hanging about before they had to scurry on over to their actual class. There was one seat next to a boy with black hair. He had big, blue eyes and wore thick, black rimmed glasses. His white shirt had a big green, slimy ghost on it. The kid seemed very shy and, with no other choice, Dave walked up to him./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Hey, may I take this seat?" Dave pointed at the one next to the boy./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"Said boy looked up surprised, but nodded as a response. The dark haired teen didn't usually get a lot of attention outside of pulling pranks so this was something new to him. Nobody really did ever speak to him unless it was required to./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""What's your name?" asked Dave, trying to get a conversation going with his new seatmate./p
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p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""John. John Egbert. You?"/p
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p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Dave Strider."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;" /p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"John's mouth parted as a smile soon came, "Dave Strider? Rose's cousin right? That's awesome, I can start to see the resemblance a bit now."/p
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p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Oh you know her?" quirked Dave./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""She's my cousin's best friend, I guess making me and her friends as well. And her sister is my sister's crush or something. Whoops~ I shouldn't have said that." he brought his hands in front of his mouth./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""This Jane-girl is your sister? She bumped into Rose this morning and was very excited about seeing Roxy."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Yeah. That was her." nodded John, "I think they like each other, but they're too shy to say anything."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"How small the world is isn't it? Looks like every person he's met so far has a link with each other. He wondered if John knew his brother Dirk as well It's impossible not to pick out a Strider from the crowd. It really doesn't matter though./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"The teacher entered the classroom and everyone went quiet, the two boys looked at their new class teacher. He welcomed the class and wished them good luck for the upcoming year. Mr. Vantas, as he introduced himself, gave the teens their schedules./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""And now the elder students will show you around. Group up in a pair of two and wait for your guides to show up."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"Dave looked at John, who seemed very confused and insecure. He was biting his lip and staring down at this desk. Seemed like he didn't really have any friends in this class./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""C'mon. Let's look for our guide." Dave stood up, John looking at him surprised./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""You… you want to pair up with me?"/p
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p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Sure. Who else. I don't know anyone else besides you, and you seem nice. So let's go."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"John smiled lightly and nodded. He grabbed his bag and the two boys waited for the guides to arrive. A tall, blonde boy entered the classroom, a black haired boy walked behind him. Soon a group of other older students followed in behind them looking for their group to escort./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Mr. Vantas, I'll be showing Jake the school as well. He's new to the school and in my class."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"Mr. Vantas nodded, "Very well, if that's the case."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"The blonde boy looked around in class and waved at Dave. Dave gave a weak smile and waved; John looked at the boy then back at Dave curiously, they looked alike. Are they brothers?/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""You know him?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;" /p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Well… yeah… Just my brother. C'mon. He'll show us around. And no matter what he's saying about me just ignore it. Everything he's saying is 99.9% bullshit."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""He can't be that bad." said John following Dave over to the older students, "You're probably over reacting."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Let's go. I'll show you 'round." said the older Strider once they reached the pair/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"The quiet footsteps of the four boys echoed off of the walls filling the hallway, it was kind of awkward with the silence and their shoes making the only noise from them. Dave consciously tried to walk quieter./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Don't you want to introduce me to your new friend?" Dirk smirked causing Dave to sigh./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Sure. John, my bro Dirk. Dirk, my new friend, John."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"Dirk's orange eyes looked at John through the pointy anime-shades; Dave slid his shades a bit down and looked at his brother over the border of his dark shades in curiosity. John glanced at Dave and saw his red eyes, holding his breath as he looked away. He's never seen such eyes before. They were quite awesome to be honest, but yet alarming at first glance./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;" "What? And no he is not, don't get the wrong idea." the smaller blonde boy hissed and glared at the older one./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;" Dirk just smiled; Dave let his shades slip back to the bridge of his nose where they belong. Wearing shades inside does look douchey, but if it meant that he could keep his eyes hidden it was something to deal with. Dirk wore his too so he wasn't alone./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;" "Feel honoured." Dirk smiled at John, "Not many people are allowed to see his eyes, Jake and I rarely get to see them, even for a blink of an eye. Not even his ex-girlfriend got to see them."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;" /p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"John looked at Dave surprised, the other boy shrugged and stayed quiet. His eyes were quite a sensitive topic for him. Unlike his brother who can easily take off his shades at anytime and cousins who blatantly don't hide their eyes, he feels safer with his own hidden./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;" /p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Do you have a girlfriend John? Or boyfriend if you..." Jake asked./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"John blushed lightly and shook his head. He's really never been in a stable relationship before so things like that are kind of difficult to relate too./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""You don't have to be embarrassed, you know." Dirk smiled leading them out the front door./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Where are we going?" John said changing the topic quickly./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""I'll show you the more important places, so I'll show you the sports ground and the places where you can hang out."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"Dave sighed; he knew it. They would hang out the next two hours, but he was okay with it. He really wasn't interested in the building in its eternity, everything he needed to know in there were his classrooms and the cafeteria. All the books he needed were at home or in the library close to his house./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;" /p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"Dirk threw himself into the grass, next to the basketball court; Jake laid down next to him, looking over at John and Dave. The green eyed male patted the space next to him./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""C'mon, lay down with us. Don't just stand there."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"Dave nodded and laid down next to his brother. Glancing over at John, he saw how his body slowly relaxed. He himself was slowly getting comfortable on the ground./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"John sat down next to Dave and looked at his new friend. He's never made new friends so fast; he never really had friends… just… classmates who were nice. But could Dave be his first best friend? He seemed nice and John really liked him from the beginning, but why should such a cool boy like a nerd like him./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""So. What are your hobbies John?" Jake looked at him./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;" /p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"His eyes reminded him of Jade's own eyes, his cousin mentioned earlier. Wait. His name was Jake, right? He remembers something about an English guy that Jade had told him about a while back./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Are you Jake English? Jade's brother?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Yeah. You know her?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""She's my cousin." John told him./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Well. Pleased to meet you, cousin. So, what are your hobbies?" smiled Jake./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;" /p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""I love movies, especially with Nicolas Cage and Matthew McConaughey in it. And I love games, computer games particularly."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""I love movies too. Every kind of movie."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Yeah…Literally any movie is good enough for English here. He loves to talk about them." Dirk sighed./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"John smiled and looked at Dave, "Do you like movies?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Hmmm, I don't know much about movies, but I love music."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""And Smuppets." Dirk commented, causing Dave to punch his shoulder./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""No. Don't you dare. I hate your smuppets more than anything."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""But you like my Lil Cal."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Oh you don't know how much I hate Lil Cal and how much he scares me." Dave said with disgust in his voice./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"John chuckled and Jake took out his phone to show the other boy some pictures. The pictures consisted of smuppets and Lil Cal. John gave a nervous laugh as he looked through the photos./p
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p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Well… I agree. Cal is kinda creepy." John said./p
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p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"Dave nodded and smiled triumphantly at his new friend. He really liked John, they could be great friends if this hits off. Before, all people ever did was fawn over him, trying to befriend him just to seem cool or whatever. Tryhards he called them./p
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p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Why do you hide your eyes?" John looked at the albino who was walking next to him/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"The blonde boy shrugged, "Everyone acts crazy when they see my eyes. It's not normal. It's strange, they say…I don't know if I like them or not."/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"John bit his lips. That was sad to hear. Someone as cool as he could be degraded for something as little as that? Even to question himself on his appearance./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""I don't think they're strange. I like them. Unusual and startling at first glance but not strange. Different, but beau-ahhh... uhm… nice." John blushed a bit and Dave smiled./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Thanks...Hey wanna hang out? This afternoon, my place?"/p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"John smiled brightly, nodding. After school plans, something he's never had with a person that's not related or linked with Jade. This was exciting./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;""Well then, see ya later, okay?" Dave waved and walked the road down towards his house./p
p style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.8004px;"John just stared after Dave and smiled, waving back at him. Friends… They… They're friends. Just because they smiled at each other./p