••• Written by Wendy's POV •••

It was lunch time, and my best friend Carrie had been home with the flu, while my boyfriend was busy doing some sports activity with Kevin Fischer. There was no way I would be hanging out with Ashley and Ashlyn, and my sister Julie would always avoid me at school.

I walked alone on campus, my eyes drawn to a book I held clenched in my hands. I looked up for a brief moment to see Erin Ulmer, one McKinley highs Goth students. We didn't speak very much, but she was good company to have.

"Hi Erin" I greeted with a smile as I approached the auburn haired teenager.

"Hello Christensen~" she replied coldly.

I really didn't like it when people called me by my last name, it was one of my pet peeves, but I would just let it slide this time.

"Where's Ian?" I questioned, going over to sit beside her.

She scoffed, trailing her pencil against the blank sheets of the sketch book she held.

"You have some business with him?"

"No, it's just, he's usually with you"

"He didn't show up for school today" she mumbled, extending her hand to grab a marker from her pencil case.

"Do you know why?" I smiled, taking a bite from my lunch.

"That's my business, not yours" Erin scoffed, closing her sketch book and turning to look over at me

"I'm sorry Wendy, I didn't mean to sound rude"

"It's totally fine, really" I smiled, brining my knees into my chest.

"Are you not hungry?" I raised a brow, looking over at the Goth girl.

She stayed silent, and shook her head, then getting up from where she sat to stretch an arm over her head.

"I'm going to go for a walk, would you like to come?"

I thought about the suggestion, and nodded, getting up and brushing myself off.

"Where too, Pip?"

She raised a brow, folding both as across her chest "Only Ian calls me Pip..."

"Err is a bother? I'm sorry, I won't call you by it anymore"

She nodded, and turned on her heel to begin walking. I followed close behind as the two of us turned into the corner of many sidewalks. I had no idea where Erin was going, but I wasn't going to ask questions.

"We're here" she spoke out coldly.

I looked around, we had found ourselves in a dead end, in an ally way. What a strange place to be, it looked so menacing, and unnatural.

"Is there a problem Wendy?"

"Huh?" I nearly jumped from her voice "Oh there's no problem at all Erin!"

She nodded, and went to take a seat, pulling out her sketch book to continue drawing. I felt awkward and slowly went to go sit beside her. The two of us were silent for the longest time, the only actually sound was the sound of pencil lead marking the white sheets of paper with a silver marking.

"What are you drawing?" I finally spoke out, leaning a bit on her.

"It's a mix of a zombie and a black cat, what do you think?"

The redhead picked up her paper to turn it over to me. It looked so well drawn, and the shading looked excellent, though I was never really good with art, photography was more of my talent per say.

"Wow Erin, you're really good! Well, all your artwork is fantastic really"

She smirked, pulling the paper back to her "Thank you, but, I need to work more on my blood and guts detail"

I felt sick to my stomach with the subject, I never did well with blood, or guts, so talking about such a subject gave me a -I want to throw up- feeling.

"Oh! What time is it!? We could be late for class!"

I shot up from my seat, searching my pockets for my phone to see what time it had been. Damn it. I hadn't forgotten my cell phone back in my locker, out of all things.

Erin began to chuckle, closing her sketch book and packing it away in her bag "Don't worry Wendy, we're going to make it on time"

I bit the corner of my lip and grabbed my arm feeling a bit awkward.

"Wendy?"

I nearly jumped, and quickly turned to look at Erin with my mouth making a small -o- and my eyebrows raised.

"Huh?"

"Don't worry" she laughed quietly, getting up.

I cleared my throat, and fixed my hands so they were nested in the depths of my pockets.

"Lunch will be ending soon, should we get going?"

I nodded, and went to grab my bag, sliding in both my arms through the loops. I cleared my throat as both Erin and I walked back to campus in silence. Once we arrived back at the school, the bell rang, sending a sigh of relief to my lips.

"I'll see you around Wendy" Erin smiled, turning to leave.

"Wait" I called out, walking quickly over to her.

"Jason and Kevin will be busy with sports activities and Carrie will be home with the flu, so I was wondering if I could have lunch with you tomorrow too?"

Erin stared at me for a really long time. I began to feel slightly nervous about her outcome. That's when she chuckled, sending me to relief

"You won't mind Ian?"

I shook my head, smiling "Not at all!"

Erin smirked, trailing a hand through her hair "Better not get any idea Christensen"

I began to blush nervously. She had to be joking, right? Even if she was, I didn't like it at all.

"Wha?"

She laughed, and patted a hand to my shoulder "Never mind Wendy, I'll see you tomorrow"