The last bell of the day rang, signifying the day was over.

The four best friends and their newfound friend Yoshi walk out the door.

"Hey Yoshi why don't you come over my house with the rest of the gang so we can get to know each other." Brian says.

"Sure. I'll call my host mom and let her know." Yoshi pulls out his cellphone and calls his host family as he makes his way towards Brian's car. Brian had his mother's Cadillac Escalade. His mother gave it to him because she got a new car. Brian parked his car in the far parking lot because he didn't want any of the other kids seeing it. He didn't want them to start hanging with him because of his car.

"Ugh I so glad school is over for today. This is going to be a long year." Rey says and gets in the passenger seat.

"Hey don't you have to be above 5'4" to sit in the front." Evan teases Rey as he and Shannon gets in the back seat.

"I'm 5'6" thank you very much." Rey says back and Evan laughs. Yoshi gets in the backseat.

"Hey I can go but my host mom wants your address so she can pick me up." Yoshi says and hands the phone to Brian. Brian grabs the phone and tells her the address. He hangs up the phone and gives it back to Yoshi. "Everyone good to go?" Brian asks and looks at all of his friends. They all say yeah. "Lets go."

Randy, John, and Dave were getting ready for the late practice when Adam came rushing in the room. He was already dressed in his gear.

"What's up man?" Dave asks, while putting on his practice jersey.

"You three are going to ask them out." Adam demands.

"What?"

"Did you not just hear me?" Adam starts. "You three are going to ask your crushes out so I can get close to Yoshi since Mr. Barrett just basically cock blocked me in class today." Adam says.

"How are we going to do that? We supposed to ignore them." John says.

"No the politics of this school says we are supposed to ignore them but we are the jocks, we make the rules around here." Adam states like some type of political figure on TV. "The only question is: Do you want to be happy or do you want your finally year of high school to be miserable?"

"Alright tomorrow we'll start the process of the relationships." Randy says and gets off the bench. "But for now we need to get out on the field."

Mark walked into his huge house and set his briefcase on the table. He went upstairs and changed into something comfortable. He went back downstairs and grabbed a beer and sat on his couch. He hated being at home, no at his house. This was not a home. It was lonely and quiet. Mark hated it. He wished Shannon were here. Shannon would turn this house into a home. Mark laid back on the couch. He had to stop thinking about him like that. Even if this was legal, Shannon would never want to be with a man as old as him. Shannon would want a young guy, someone who wouldn't date before the relationship ever really started. Mark sighed. "I need Shannon."

"Hey mom." Brian says upon entering the kitchen. "Hey Mrs. Kendrick." The others say. Mrs. Kendrick turns around and sees her son's friends plus and extra one.

"Who is this?"

"That's Yoshi Tatsu. He is studying in America for is finally year in high school. He is from Gifu, Japan."

"Oh then nice to meet you. I used to live in Japan my family is military."

"Oh nice to meet you too." Yoshi says and slightly bows.

"Well anyway to the basement." The five boys left Mrs. Kendrick and went down in the basement, which happened to be Brian's bedroom. They all through there stuff on the floor next to Brian's chairs and sat on the floor in a circle, like they always do. Since this was the first day of school there was no homework so they could talk all night.

"So Yoshi." Evan starts. "We asked you a ton of questions in the car. Do you have any questions for us?"

"Do you guys have boyfriends?" The others look at each other and start to laugh.

"What did I say?" Yoshi questions, confused as ever.

"We are the nerds, we don't have boyfriends."

"Nerds. I think you guys are pretty cool and someone has to like you." Yoshi retorts.

"Umm no." Shannon says while trying to get his sketchbook back from Rey.

"Yeah if they liked us, it would be like social suicide." Rey says and knocks Shannon's hand away and starts flipping through the pages.

"Well that's stupid. I think you guys are the coolest and the prettiest people at school."

"What about the cheerleaders?" Evan asks and Yoshi looks confused. "You know the girls with the short shirts."

Yoshi forms an O with his mouth before he speaks. "I think they are…how do you say in English…sluts." The other boys fell out in laugher until Rey brought them back.

"Hey guys." Rey starts. "Doesn't this look like Principle Callaway?" Rey flips over Shannon's sketchbook so the others can see the picture.

"Yeah it does except he looks better in this." Brian says and looks up at Shannon. "Why were you drawing the principle?" Shannon gets up and goes over to the computer, not bothering to answer or acknowledge the question.

"Ohhhh." Brian says and jumps up. "Someone has a crush." Shannon doesn't say anything. He just turns around and blushes.

"Yep he's blushing." Rey says and walks towards Shannon. "See." Rey turns the chair around so everyone can see.

"Ohhhh." They all say. "Shut up." Shannon says. "So what if I like him."

Evan throws up his hands. "I never said anything. I don't judge."

"Yeah age ain't nothing but a number." Brian says and waves his hand.

"In Japan many older men date younger woman or men, but the men part is secret." Yoshi says.

"I agree with Brian but you run a risk." Rey starts. "If you two get caught, he could go to jail."

"That's if he even likes me. He probably doesn't even like me. He is not a pedophile." Shannon says and looks at the ground. Principle C never looked at him like that, like he wanted him. "What do I do to get him to notice me."

"Dress sexy." All of his friend say at the same time. They look at each other and laugh.

"I guess I have to." Shannon says, contemplating the idea of seducing the principle.

"Whatever you decide to do we are with you." Rey says and the rest of the gang nods in agreement.

Tomorrow let the games begin.

A/N: The more I write the more i realize that I'm giving them personalities of my friends and family.

Tell me what you think.

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