Dima had been laying on her back on her board for hours. Her headphones were in and her eyes were closed and she was trying her best to not be overly angsty about her family's move to Oslo. Being a 17-year-old Norwegian girl, angst was kind of her thing, especially given her obsession with trying to show people she was different than most of the teenage girls in her country. She did have to admit, with a little more thought she would have realized a skate park was not a place to do her moping. At least not on a Friday night.

"Ay man, what did you tell them your name was?" Dima kept her eyes closed as she heard the laughs of a couple guys approaching. Not her proudest moment given it was midnight on a Friday night in a new city but she wasn't up for moving.

"Adrian Eksett. She just believed me when I said I had no ID, she's not a very good police officer." Another person laughed. Dima could guess from the sound of these guys that they were probably teenagers at youngest given the first one's deep voice and the topic of conversation. From her own experience, they were probably native to Oslo just based on their accents. She heard shoes scuffling and given the situation she guessed they were intoxicated in some way. With her eyes still closed she heard them stop dead in their tracks as they seemed to approach her.

"Shit, is she dead?" The first voice raised his concern.

"Dead? That's your first thought? Not just asleep or something?" one of his friends, obviously the least intoxicated one, responded.

"I'm fine, dumbasses." Dima opened her eyes and sat up. The four boys standing there were all obviously high. One more than the others as his eyes seemed more unfocused and Dima assumed another one could just hold his drugs better than his friends.

"Um, sorry?" The one with the deep voice replied after they had all found their bearings once they were relieved to find out Dima was alive and breathing. Dima noticed his unruly curly hair and massive eyebrows that took up an abnormal amount of his face. One of his friends, later introduced as Mahdi, just shoved his friend as if asking him why he's apologizing.

"Sorry for Jonas, he doesn't know how to talk to pretty girls." One of the blonde boys stood in front of his friends who began laughing.

"What, Isak? You can do better?" The boy asked the other blonde who had started laughing and who happened to look the most out of it.

"I'm too high for this shit, I shouldn't have taken that pill." Isak sat down on a bench near Dima.

"You're new?" Mahdi asked.

"Just moved from Tromsø. I start at Nissen on Monday. You guys are from here?" Dima was always up to talk to people who seemed alright and she thought these boys could be fun.

"Tromsø's far but I knew I heard some northern in your accent. But yeah we're all born and raised and it looks like you've just made some friends at Nissen." Mahdi seemed quite sociable which Dima appreciated.

"Funny, I hear some southern in your accent," Dima poked fun.

"You board?" Jonas, the boy with massive eyebrows pointed to the board Dima was still sitting on.

"Yeah, not much to do up north in the summer." Dima got off her board and showed Jonas.

"Can I try it out?" Dima was tempted to let him but she wasn't sure given the redness of his eyes.

"That depends on how much you blazed tonight." Dima raised her eyebrow while Jonas's raised in terror.

"You can tell?" just by his reaction Dima was sure he was fine, he may have smoked some that night but he still seemed to be able to function.

"Your eyes, man. Here, take it for a spin." Dima handed him the board.

"Ay, he's going to bail." The first blonde who had tried to hit on her sat beside to watch his friend fail.

"Is he usually good though?" Dima asked.

"Magnus over here has never seen Jonas skate. He's good though, he probably wont bail." Isak added in the last bit quickly once he realized that Dima was starting to get worried. She didn't think handing her board over to a guy who had never skated before and who was incredibly baked would be a good way to make friends.

"So, do you have a boyfriend?" Magnus asked Dima. She sighed along with Mahdi since Isak had his head between his knees, obviously greened out.

"Dude, you don't need to hit on everyone. We know you're desperate." Mahdi told his friend and Dima just laughed.

"Yeah, I mean, once you start hitting on a girl who dresses more like a dude than you do, it's a little sad." Dima said but immediately Mahdi recoiled. Ensuring her that it wasn't what he meant.

"It's all good, man. Everything I'm wearing if from the men's section. I think I'm wearing the same jacket as Jonas and the same pants as Isak." Just as Dima said this, there was a yell from the skate pit and immediately Mahdi, Magnus and Dima jumped into the pit to get Jonas. It turned out that he had tried to do some sort of trick but kicked the board up wrong and fell on his arm, scraping it up and Dima was sure it was going to be bruised.

"Hey man, you're going to be fine but maybe you should stay off the board." Dima patted his back. The four boys invited Dima back to Jonas's as she seemed liked the only one who could clean up Jonas's arm given the state of everyone else.

"No one's home so we should be fine." Jonas opened the door to his family's apartment and invited everyone in before going to the bathroom with Dima in tow.

"So, what'd you use? An apple?" Dima asked as she got disinfectant wipes ready.

"Water bottle."

"Did you make Magnus drink the bong water?" Dima asked and Jonas just cracked up, nodding.

"After Isak made out with one of the hottest first year's in our school. That guy has got game." Jonas laughed in disbelief which quickly turned into a painful one as the disinfectant was applied to his scrapes.

"Huh, I thought he was gay." Dima commented as she wiped down almost the entirety of Jonas's arm.

"Why?"

"I don't know, just got the vibe. I spent most of my time with LGBTQ people, I'm usually pretty good at spotting them but maybe I was wrong." Dima explained.

"Why did you spend so much time with them? Were all of your friends gay?" Jonas seemed to both be interested and trying to distract himself from the pain.

"No, well I mean yeah they were basically all gay but so am I. Well, pansexual but I'm part of the community. I think I have friends from most letters in LGBTQ+. Trans people, non-binary people, gay people, asexual people, I mean we were the LGBTQ community." Dima found some gauze and wrapped up Jonas's arm as to not get his scrapes infected. She wasn't sure Jonas was in the right mind to understand what she was saying but she was surprised as he nodded his head in understanding. Talking about being gay was usually when she lost the interest of straight cis boys but Jonas seemed to be picking it up.

"There you go, good as new but maybe ice it?" Dima finished with his arm.

"How do you know how to clean this?" Jonas asked as he stood up and lead Dima to his room where the boys were.

"I told you I've been skating my whole life, right? I've had worse falls." Dima walked into Jonas's room and fell into a comfy chair she saw as if she had lived there her whole life.

"So, what year are you guys in?" Dima asked, wanting to find out more about her new friends.

"Second and according to our friend Vilde, we're middle of the pack and nobodies." Isak kind of laughed as he said this but Dima wasn't sure if it was because of what she said or because he called Vilde their friend.

"Huh, nice friend." Dima giggled.

"She's definitely interesting. So, is Dima your real name?" Mahdi asked, also trying to get to know a new friend.

"Yeah, but it's short for Dimitra. Somehow a Greek family ended up in northern Norway and here I am." Dima shared.

"Hey, I'm a Vasquez, I don't even know how Spaniards decided Norway was a good place to settle." Jonas laughed a little before Mahdi just pointed to his skin which was at least three shades darker than Dima's and six shades darker than Jonas. He looked at them almost like they were stupid and the group just laughed. They spent the night at Jonas's just talking and getting to know Dima, while Dima got to know them. Dima was incredibly surprised with herself as she had fun with a bunch of random high guys while she was completely sober but she was happy to have made some friends before her first day of school.

"What If I can't make her come?" Magnus asked he group just as Dima approached them, looking just as masculine as the day before. She always wore loose clothing that hid her curves, though for special occasions she would sometimes switch it up.

"Go down on her." Dima replied before anyone else could.

"That's how Jonas got his rep last year." Mahdi added.

"No way, 16 and you were already going down on girls, that's impressive." Dima fist bumped Jonas to show her respect.

"So, it really works?" Magnus seemed surprised to hear it.

"Oh yeah, I mean I don't know if it was because a girl was doing it so I knew what she liked or what but this chick came fast." Dima explained her own experience.

"What, are you a lesbian?" Magnus asked, forgetting his previous question.

"Nah, I like boys too." Jonas smiled as Mahdi and Magnus looked a little confused. Dima was sure that she was the only one who noticed Isak's look he gave her, almost of disbelief.

"Hi, are you new? My name is Vilde." A small girl with platinum hair walked up to the group and shook Dima's hand.

"Uh yeah, first day." Dima looked back to her friends, remembering what they had said about Vilde.

"Don't ask her to join any groups, yeah? Her Friday nights are already planned, she's pregaming with us." Jonas said since he knew Vilde better than he liked to.

"She's going to be spending all of her time with boys?" Vilde asked as if it was the most surprising thing in the world. Dima thought maybe she hadn't properly looked at her.

"Well, she's our friend," Isak looked at Vilde like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"But she's a girl! She needs girl friends." Vilde put her hands on her hips.

"I'm right here, guys. Okay, I'm sure I'll make some friends who aren't boys." Dima was done with the conversation and walked away, knowing she left Vilde annoyed. Dima couldn't see but Jonas followed her, trying to hide his laughter as he passed Vilde.

"Hey, not all the girls are like that, my ex Eva is pretty cool. Isak said her friend Sana can be a little scary but she's okay." Jonas basically just wanted Dima to keep optimistic about her time at the school. As her friend, he thought it was his job to help her realize that her life wasn't going to suck.

"You're still friends with your ex?" Dima knew it happened but in her experience, it wasn't a common occurrence.

"Yeah, she helps me talk to girls," he laughed, causing Dima to laugh as well.

"Jonas, what happened to your arm?" A redheaded girl came up to the two who had entered the school. She looked concerned as she grabbed his gauze wrapped arm.

"Oh, Friday night I fell off a skateboard." Jonas explained, letting the girl check over his arm though Dima knew it wouldn't do anything since it was already wrapped up.

"You mean the same Friday night you got high off a stash you left at my house when the cops showed up?" The girl quickly turned judgemental.

"Hey, that was Isak's fault, he said he'd take the stash." Jonas defended himself.

"Whatever. Who's this?" she put her hands on her hips as she turned to look at Dima, knowing that there was nothing else to say on the stash matter.

"I'm Dima, the one who was stupid enough to give Jonas a board to ride while he was stoned." Dima stuck her hand out as Jonas introduced the redhead as Eva. After exchanging casualties, Eva left to her group of friends and Dima couldn't help but notice the whispering.

"She just showed up and now she's friends with them?" Chris asked Eva as the girls surrounded her, just a few feet from where Dima was eating lunch with Jonas, Isak, Magnus, and Mahdi.

"Yeah, she said she gave Jonas a board to ride, that's how he injured his arm." Eva explained. The group of girls were suspicious of Dima, almost as if they expected drama to ensue.

"She can't spend all of her time with boys! She'll take all of them!" Vilde exclaimed. She always had issues with people who did things different than how she believed they should be done.

"I'm sure she won't take them all. She just found friends." Sana reasoned with the group though she knew it was such a big deal because of Jonas and Eva's past.

"I bet she just wants to sleep with Jonas, that's why she's latching onto him." Eva assured the group. They didn't want to say anything but Sana and Noora shared a look, knowing Eva still had feelings for Jonas.

"It kind of looks like he's latching onto her." Noora nodded towards the group. It was true, the boys were all laughing along with Dima but Jonas specifically was nudging her and seemed to be poking fun at her. The girls all looked over and saw what Noora meant.

"I mean, aren't guys usually touchier when they like girls?" Chris asked harmlessly. Eva got up and walked away. Sana sighed but Noora quickly got up to follow her, only after assuring Chris that Eva was just overreacting.

"Hey, last week didn't you assure me that you didn't have any feelings for Jonas?" Noora asked Eva as they sat in the stairwell.

"Yeah, I mean I don't, I just don't want some girl trying to come into this year and mess everything up." Eva said, throwing her hands up.

"Eva, come on. It's okay to have feelings for him, it's okay to be jealous." Noora tried her best to comfort her best friend.

"I'm not jealous!" Eva exclaimed and stomped away just in time to bump into Dima.

"Oh, sorry. Hey, you're Eva, Jonas's ex, right?" Dima noticed the slightly familiar face as she got her balance and stood straight.

"I'm Eva's friend, Noora. Dima, right?" Noora made conversation after noticing the stink eye Eva gave Dima.

"Yeah, so, uh, do you know where room 221 is? Jonas tried to explain it but then he just started yelling at Magnus when he tried to help." Dima kind of laughed as she explained the situation. Just three days with those boys and she was already wondering how she would deal with them in the future. Eva rolled her eyes and Noora sighed.

"Spanish 2? We're going there right now." Noora ushered Dima with them, up the staircase and down the hall. Dima ended up sitting beside a random guy, just behind Noora and Eva's table.

"You don't sound like you're over him." Dima heard Noora say before Eva gave her a look to tell her to shut up.