"It's not that he's psycho… he just isn't, well."
The young freshmen sat up in his seat at the lunch table, intrigued, but confused. His new friends weren't doing a very good job of explaining why interacting with the young man was so wrong.
"It's like this, freshie;" Green had spoken up at once, attempting to make sense of Gold's broken explanation, "Silver is just, a very mad person. He has his own reasons, I'm sure. But it's best if you just ignore him. Don't go off like that again." Go off like that again? The boy thought to himself. I was only trying to be friendly.
"Yeah, you had us worried there for a second. Silver doesn't really like kids." Gold let out a chuckle. The young boy, new to the campus, scrunched up his nose slightly in annoyance. Did they really see him as that young?
"Hey guys! What's up?" The trio looked to their right, and noticed a tall girl of about 16, with long blue hair that was done on the sides like braids. She came towards them with eagerness, and Green, whose attention was now off the boy, turned to face her. "Nothing much. Just showing the 'fresh meat' around." She let out a small laugh. The boy, who resented that statement, did not.
"So," She began, "What were you guys talking about?" Gold, who couldn't help but pick on her, grinned, and promptly replied; "Your pussy."
The girl, of course combated this comment with a series of blows to the back of Gold's head. "Oh, come on Crys! Can't you take a joke?" Shouted Gold as he rubbed his aching skull. Crystal just turned her attention towards the new student. "Can you give me the correct answer, by any chance?"
Green spoke up once more, stating that Silver was the topic of the discussion. "Ugh! Not that monster!" Gold, who had been listening in, began emitting a series of mock coos, "Aw, is whittle Crystal afraid of big bad Silver?"
Crystal, who was now annoyed, decided to set the record straight with the freshman. "That boy is a complete demon!"
The new student, still not getting it, cocked his head slightly to the side in confusion. Complete demon? Monster? I don't see why she hates him so much.
"Ah, don't listen to her kiddo. She sort of deserved it." Said Gold. Crystal was ready to unleash hell upon him, had Green not stepped into the situation. "So, he lit your hair on fire once, big deal." Green couldn't help but laugh when he recalled the day the hothead committed his crime against her.
On the very first day of their freshman year, Green, Gold, and Crystal, (who had just met at the time), noticed him sitting by himself in that very lunchroom. Crystal, who was feeling flirtatious towards the young man at the time, brought herself over to his table and introduced herself.
Throughout the entire lunch period, Crystal bombarded Silver with inquiries about his life, his style, and views. Silver, who did not want to be bothered, answered none of these questions. A minute or so before the bell was to ring, Crystal paused her one-sided conversation just long enough for Silver to ask her a question;
"Do you like fire?"
"….um, not really."
"Sucks to be you right now."
The rest went down in Goldenrod High School history.
The boy was all at once frightened by the thought of going near Silver. He had seemed so harmless! The freshman rotated in his seat to face Silver's now empty table.
Crystal, who was now very annoyed, proceeded to bring down her wrath upon Gold and Green, who still couldn't stop laughing.
"Come on Crys! It's your fault and ya'know it!" Said Gold, who was now clutching his sides from his hard chackling. Green had calmed down, but couldn't help rubbing salt in Crystal's wounds.
"If you had left him be, he probably wouldn't have gone postal on you."
True enough, thought Crystal, "But that doesn't give him the right to do that to anyone!"
Just at that moment, the bell had rung. The four teens gathered their belongings and stood up from the table. Other students quickly filed out of the café, rushing to their next class.
The group split from the boy when they reached the hallway. "Stay safe kid!" said Green.
"Don't get run over in the hallway!" Gold added, laughing at his own joke.
Crystal, who rolled her eyes, patted the boy's shoulder and said; "See ya'later!" and with that, they were gone.
They didn't know that the boy had no intentions of staying here for the rest of the year. After all, with a guy like Silver around, how could anyone ever feel safe?