Hey guys!
SO here's the gist: I haven't seen Big Hero 6 yet. I know, I know, I'm a terrible person and I really want to see it. Sooo if there are any inaccuracies with the characters, that's why. Please feel free to point them out! I wanted to wait 'til after I saw the movie to start writing this, but I COULDN'T WAIT. So I bought the Junior Novelization of Big Hero 6 (I'm not afraid to read a 116 page kid's book, what's wrong with that?...) and these will basically be based off of what I picked up on from the book, at least until I get to see the movie.
Anyway, I'll stop rambling and just..yeah, just let you get to the actual story.
"Out of the way, loser!" a jock shoved into the spindly, tall girl. She stumbled on her platform heels and ended up backing into the biggest bully in the entire high school.
"Watch it, nerd! I thought you had glasses so you can see, Spencer." the shorter brunette shoved her as she passed, and the tall girl fell, her thick textbooks falling as well as her glasses and pink backpack. Her face blazed red as she watched the brunette, Lizzie, saunter off, giggling with her friends. Sighing, she shoved her pink-framed glasses onto her face. She was new to San Fransokyo High, and because of this, she was bullied constantly. It didn't help that she had aced her chemistry exam on her first week at the school. It was hard to maintain her bubbly personality when she didn't know anyone and everyone that talked to her were speaking simply to insult her!
Blinking, she saw a pair of sneakers that had stopped in front of the mess surrounding her.
"You okay?"
She glanced up and saw the dark haired boy watching her, eyebrows furrowed in mild concern.
"Yeah - thanks," she nodded, her face burning redder.
"And my next question is if you need help picking up the incredible amount of textbooks they knocked out of your hands. Do you?"
"Oh! Well, I'm running late to class, so that'd be fantastic, if you would..." she explained, laughing, and the boy knelt, piling the science textbooks into her thin arms.
"Sure you can carry all these?" he chuckled, impressed by the girl's strength.
"Yup! Thanks so much!' she grinned, pushing her glassed up further on her nose as she tried to remember the boy's name. "Um...your name is...?"
"Hamada. Tadashi Hamada," he said dramatically, grinning. "You're Abbey, right?"
"Yep." She glanced up at the huge clock centered on the wall opposite her. "-oh! I-I'd better get going! See you!" she jumped up, racing for her chemistry class. Tadashi shuckled, shaking his head and sticking his hands into his pockets are he watched Abbey Spencer race down the hallway, platform heels and all.
At lunch, he saw she was sitting alone, which seemed to be her norm. She was completely absorbed in her textbook. Tadashi glanced towards his group of friends and waved to catch their attention. "I'll catch up later, guys!" he jogged over to where the girl sat. She hadn't touched her cafeteria pizza, but instead was still poring over her textbook, which Tadashi now recognized as a chemistry textbook.
"This seat taken?" Tadashi clunked his lunch tray down to catch the blond's attention.
"Hm? Oh! No, sit - please!" she grinned toothily and shut her book over a forefinger, using the other hand to shovel in a mouthful of pizza.
"So what's the deal with those kids? I mean, from earlier. When they knocked you down," he added.
She shrugged, grabbing her carton of sweet tea and sipping it. "I'm new and I'm a nerd. That's all, I suppose!"
"Hey, nothing wrong with being a nerd. My brother's a robotics prodigy - he's starting in high school soon."
"How old is he?" she asked.
"Ten."
She nearly choked on her tea. "Ten?!"
"Yep. Hiro's pretty great," he grinned. "What grade are you in?"
"Eleventh. Well, I'm a grade ahead, so I guess I'm technically a sophomore.." she admitted when his eyebrows shot up in surprise.
"And you're taking chem?"
"Yes! It's amazing!" Abbey giggled before diving into a detailed explanation of what she was studying. As a senior, Tadashi understood it, and enjoyed her nerdy babble. At least...until Fred slid into the seat beside him.
He listened a moment to the blond's eager chatter, scratched his head in confusion and shook his head before speaking up, overlapping her. "Bro, you said you'd catch up."
Tadashi coughed. Whoops. "Uh, sorry. She-"
Fred broke him off. "No prob, bro. You're new, right?"
Startled at his swift change of direction in the conversation, Abbey re-situated the glasses on her face. "Yes. My name's-"
"No, no. I'm bad with names." he broke off, eying her tea carton. "Honey Lemon."
"What?" her eyebrows furrowed in confusion.
"Your nickname. It's going to be Honey Lemon. You've gotta have a nickname created by Freddie to be in Tadashi's group of friends. You've just been officially inducted into Team Tadashi." he pointed to the carton of tea and grinned.
Abbey - no, Honey Lemon - laughed, not quite sure she understood whatever Fred was talking about. The nickname Honey Lemon was strange, but better than some of the other things she'd been called at the school. Fred finally left, expecting Tadashi and Honey to follow him to their usual table.
"I'll stay here for today," she smiled at Tadashi's silent and awkward invitation, which was no better than Fred's silent invitation - if you could call it that.
"Okay. Hey, if you, uh, want to hang out sometime, you know, o-or if you need help with your chem homework, lemme know." he scribbled his number on a napkin and tore off.
Abbey laughed, thankful for the time he'd spent with her. She'd had a rough time of it in this new school. Grinning, she carefully folded the napkin with the scribbled cell phone number and stuck it into her backpack before delving back into her textbook. The nickname Honey Lemon might even grow on her.
