Chatting about Christmas traditions as well as meeting Dustin "DJ" Savage.

Chapter 2: Meeting DJ

When lunchtime came, Jojo and his friends went around their table, just talking about what's their christmas traditions. Jojo told them, "My dad would always put on his crappy Christmas tie that lights up in the bottom that says 'Dad's Christmas' on the center of it."

"Sounds cheesy." Marcus said.

"It's the most stupidest present he ever gotten."

"Not as cheesier as my dad's tradition-he makes Christmas pizza and get this-he puts cookies on it."

"Yikes!"

"Who puts cookies on pizza?" asked Misty.

"And snicker doodles."

"Snicker doodles and cookies on pizza?"

"Really?" asked Seth.

"Yes, really."

"Your dad's a pizza-holic." Zeke said.

"But that's how he is. It's a tradition he started some years ago and said that one day, he'll pass the tradition to me."

"So, you'll do the same thing."

"Actually, I'll make my own version and just leave out the snicker doodles and cookies out and leave them as desserts."

"How do they taste?" asked Noah.

"Honestly, they taste good, but it looks weird."

"Our traditions is to sing Christmas music and also rock out a christmas song as if we own the songs." Cody said.

"When we first started it, it was just me, Cody and Alex all together just jamming. How we miss those days." Mike said.

"Did you still do those?" asked Austin.

"Yeah, we have. This is also gonna be the first Christmas without Alex around, but it's not gonna dampen our spirits, so we'll get through it." Cody said.

"Man, you must be lucky. My dad kinda hates Christmas, because everyone's so happy and all. Even when I do get into the Christmas spirit, my dad would be against it." Zeke said.

"That is so cruel!" Misty said.

"Yeah, why even bother being a Scrooge?" asked Caitlyn.

"Exhibit 'A'." Mike said.

"Watch it, Mike! Otherwise, I'll ask Santa to put you on the 'Naughty' list." Misty scowled.

"Ooh, I'm scared." Mike said, sarcastically.

"Well, my parents always celebrate Christmas and our traditions are to just give to those less fortunate. We always go around giving out food, clothes and I give out all my toys I never use anymore to kids who don't need it." Noah said.

"Wow. That's amazing."

"Well, giving is better than receiving."

"Me, Seth and our dad always watch Christmas movies together and my dad would always take pictures of ourselves in the tree and he would be goofy on the holidays, but at the same time, he would always give us the Christmas spirit. He also helps out other people in need and drinks hot chocolate." Austin said.

"Sounds pretty cool."

"Definitely."

"And he would always play Santa to other kids in every Christmas party." Seth said.

"Does he really?" asked Zeke.

"Yep."

"Well, back in Who'aii, our Christmas was not like you guys'. Ours was kinda bleak and grim. So, we never had a Christmas before, even though Mana and I give each other gifts." Koa said.

"What was the reason?" asked Noah.

"Our dad always harms us during the holidays. After drinking too much eggnog, he gets angrily very easily."

"Who gets angry after drinking eggnog? I've heard of people being drunk after drinking way too much eggnog, but I never knew it would make you ticked." Misty said.

"You'd be surprised." Mana said.

Suddenly, Jojo sees DJ walking through the cafeteria and sits on a table by himself. The thought of him eating by himself really made him feel sorry for him. Marcus sees Jojo looking at someone and asked, "Who you looking at?"

Marcus sees DJ sitting at lunch by himself and asked, "Who's he?"

"A new friend I met earlier." Jojo replied.

Everyone else looked at him and realized that he's a loner. Caitlyn said, "Why not ask him to eat with us?"

"You sure about it?" asked Cody.

"Yeah, why not?"

Jojo stands up, walks over to the table and looks at DJ and said, "Hey."

"Hey, Jojo."

"You wanna...eat with my friends?"

DJ looks at Jojo and asked, "Friends?"

"Yeah, I know they'll like you."

"You sure?"

"Of course."

DJ looks at his friends and sees him staring at him. It made him feel a little afraid and asked, "What if they don't like me?"

"Come on. Why would they not?"

DJ sighed nervously and stood up, brung his food with him and went with Jojo to the table. Jojo introduced him with a smile and said, "Guys, I'd like you to meet my new friend, Dustin Savage. Dustin, this is Cody and Mike McKinney, Marcus Swift, Noah Keyser, Caitlyn Fanning, Misty Kirkpatrick, Seth and Austin Zimmerman and Zeke Silverman."

"Hello." DJ said, shyly.

"Hey, Dustin! How's it going, man?" Cody said.

"Fine."

"How'd you guys meet?" asked Misty.

"Some seniors were picking at him and I stopped it myself." Jojo said.

"Really?"

"Yeah. I had to let them get away by telling Misty that one of the seniors tried to kiss Caitlyn at the movies."

Caitlyn groans and said, "I hope you haven't posted it on WhoTube."

"Of course not. Took a picture of it to prove it."

Jojo whipped out his WhoPhone and shows the picture of it. Misty took a look at it and said, "How did this guy talk you into taking you to the movies?"

"He won't stop calling me, so I wanted to take him just so he could shut up, but unfortunately, he wanted to kiss me."

"Tell me where this guy lives and I'll give him something underneath a misteltoe."

DJ looks at Jojo and asked, "Is she always like this?"

"Kinda." Jojo shrugged.

"If you stay around with her long enough, her vein will pop out and explode." Mike said.

"Want me to pop your brains out?"

"This is how we roll, DJ. But we're all like family." Cody said.

"Always."

"If you say so."

Everyone starts to get to know about DJ a little more and throughout lunch, DJ is slowly starting to get used to being around them a little. What will the next few days bring for him?

There are more where these came from! Stick around!