This isn't much of a story, it's more of a brief description of how the OCs introduced in chapter 8 of The Longest Journey became friends.
Alex and Kyle have been friends for as long as either of them can remember. As neither of them have any biological siblings they like to think of each other as brothers. They started attending the same dance classes as Dylan when they were twelve.
Dylan occasionally hung out with the other two boys at school when they were in middle school, but when they started high school he joined the basketball team and ended up being drawn into the popular crowd. Around the same time, Alex officially came out, which surprised no one, but that combined with his and Kyle's general geekiness effectively alienated them from the social circles Dylan had become a part of. While Dylan was still friendly with Alex and Kyle at their weekly dance lessons, he didn't really associate with either of them at school.
At the beginning of their sophomore year, Dylan started to realise that he was just as attracted to one of his teammates as he was to any of the cheerleaders. He went to Alex for advice. With Alex and Kyle's support, it didn't take him long to accept that he was bisexual. He quickly learnt to take it in his stride.
At one point he asked Alex to kiss him so he could make sure he really was just as interested in guys as he was in girls. Alex consented because he had never been able to kiss a boy before and he wanted to know what it felt like. Dylan remembers that Alex is a great kisser. Alex remembers feeling like he was kissing his brother.
When Dylan came out, his 'friends' made it clear that he wasn't welcome in their group anymore, though they never actively bullied him. Dylan wasn't too upset about that as he'd never been particularly close to any of them; he just liked being invited to their parties. He wasn't about to hide any part of who he was just to please other people. He does, however, have a tendency to overcompensate a little by flirting outrageously with both girls and boys.
Zoe is the youngest child and only girl in her family. She is fairly close to her father, who has always doted on her, but her relationship with her mother has always been strained. Zoe's mother abides by a very rigid moral code has always had very specific ideas about who her daughter should be. She puts a lot of pressure on Zoe to do well in school and thinks that dancing is inappropriate and a waste of time.
Zoe transferred to Westerville North High School at the beginning of junior year. She initially started hanging out with the three boys because she knew being friends with two openly queer people would annoy her mother and she never misses an opportunity to rebel. She quickly found that she had a lot in common with all three of them. She and Dylan both have very strong personalities that clash occasionally. She finds Kyle intriguing, though she feels he hasn't really opened up to her yet.
Kyle is much more reserved than the other three but he's always happy to go along with their insanity. He was fairly shy when he was younger and still occasionally struggles to feel comfortable around people he doesn't know well. He hopes to become an author one day. He isn't sure when he started to think of Zoe as more than a friend, just that it happened, and he's terrified of either being rejected or ruining their friendship.