Yay~ Second chapter out, I'm SUCH a procrastinator =,= but whatever, here it is

Tripped Up Chapter Two: And So We Meet

The silverette tossed his phone in the air, only to catch it when it descended. "Ma~n! I'm the first one here!" he pouted while flipping his phone open. "They're twenty minutes late… geez, I thought we were in this together!"

"Waiting for someone?" a sarcastic voice toned, causing Shinju to turn around. A teenage girl with shoulder length auburn brown hair and even lighter brown eyes extended her hand with a small smile. "Jun, I presume?"

"Haha, very funny. You must be Star, huh? Look a lot more innocent than I expected."

"What did you expect? A terrorist?" she asked with a scoff.

"Wouldn't be surprising," a third voice spoke up. A brunette teen with dark blue eyes smiled widely, shaking Shinju's hand. "You can't really trust who people say they are these days, am I right?"

"That's for sure," a cheerful, feminine voice agreed before a girl with long, chestnut brown hair and chocolate brown eyes walked up to them. "Since you're wearing an oddly colored lab coat, I'm guessing you're Sci?"

"And as long as there really were only two girls in that chat room, you'd have to be Cyl," the dark red lab coat adorning teen suspected.

"Correctamundo!"

"Ano, are you guys the ones who played Rabbit Doubt with me?" a brown haired man with sea green eyes and thin framed glasses asked curiously.

The long haired brunette grinned and patted the newcomer on the back. "Yeppers~!"

"You must be Needles. Now we just have to wait for Jason," Star observed before someone tapped her on the shoulder.

"Waitin' for me?" a deep voice asked. Everyone turned to see a red haired man, about a foot taller than most of them, and emerald green eyes. His eyes were sharp yet somewhat calming. "The name's Kimaori Jobajoba."

"J-Joba…joba…?" Shinju asked, clutching his stomach as his body convulsed with tiny tremors. The name was hilarious! "S-Sorry, just… your name is kinda… are you even Japanese?"

The redhead shrugged, brushing off the comment about his name easily. "Half; my mom is."

"Well it's nice to meet you, Kimaori-san. I'm Clara Yan, but everyone calls me 'Chi'," the girl with 'ShootingStar' as her handle name smiled a little while shaking the older man's hand.

They were calloused and worn, as if he used tools often. "No, it's my pleasure," he piped up, his eyes mischievous as he brought Clara's hand to his lips. "There's no need to use any honorifics; I'm sure we know enough about each other to do that much."

"U-Umm, yeah," the brown eyed brunette stuttered out in shock and embarrassment. Her cheeks were tinged pink as she pulled her hand out of the redhead's grasp and asked, "So what do you work as?"

"I'm in maintenance, so my hands are probably pretty rough," Kimaori explained. "How about you?"

"I'm just a student…"

The brunette wearing the lab coat coughed to bring the two out of their trance. "We do need to carry on with introductions, y'know. I'm Maverick Worthers, a student and lab assistant at XXX high school."

"So that's why your handle is 'SciLabRat'!" Cyl exclaimed while pounding her fist onto her open palm. She smiled warmly at the others before introducing herself as well. "As Maverick guessed before, I'm '12Cylinder'. M'name is Mori Harakura, born and raised up in Shibuya~!"

"I'm 'NeedlesN'Stuff', an acupuncturist. My name is Leon Kingsworth."

"So that's what was with your handle name!" Shinju chuckled. "I thought you were some BDSM fanatic. Not that I'd mind much," he smirked.

Rolling his eyes lightheartedly, Maverick smiled at the bespectacled student. "So what's your name?"

"Handle 'Jun'itsu', I'm Shinju Kiryu~! Nice t' meetcha guys!" the aforementioned teen smiled while stuffing his hands into his pockets.

"Why don't we eat something before heading off? I'm starved," Mori suggested while taking a seat at the ramen shop. "I'll have shouyu ramen, please!"

"I'd like some as well, please," Leon murmured while taking a seat next to Mori.

"Me three," Maverick raised his hand as he took the other seat next to the cheerful girl.

"I'd like tonkotsu ramen and a glass of oolong tea, if you will," Kimaori waved and took a seat on the end, two seats away from Maverick.

"Tonkotsu ramen," Clara smiled while taking a seat between Maverick and Kimaori.

"Shio ramen, ojiisan!" Shinju made his order while plopping himself down next to the shy acupuncturist.

"Comin' right up!" the ramen shop owner exclaimed as he turned around to get the noodles ready.

Grinning slightly, the silverette turned his head to the right. "Even though we've never met each other… it kinda seems nostalgic, sitting here all together like this."

"It does seem like that, doesn't it?" Leon asked while a small smile graced his lips.

"S'like some kinda high school reunion or something," Mori chuckled, a wide grin spreading across her face.

"You can say that again," Maverick toned amusedly.

Clara softened her eyes, a light smile brightening her expression. "Nostalgic is one way to put it. I'd like to say it's more…"

"Refreshing?" Kimaori offered, receiving a nod from the brown haired female. "Yes, it's more of a 'seeing your friend after a vacation' type of feeling," the man chuckled.

Shinju accepted his bowl of shio ramen from the old man. "Hmm… guess that works, too. Ittadakimasu."

All went well and all was peaceful. There was no reason to think it would all go to hell in one night.

Picture not out yet, sorry guys ^^; But please do tell me what you think~