Now, as high schoolers in Emerald High, Emma, Hailey, Jewel and Sadira were settled in their history class on the Friday morning of that exciting week when they all observed the first entrance of a mysterious person that change their lives forever. Their teacher, a spectacled owl named Mr. Jefferson, was recording historical lesson on the blackboard until a knock sounded on the closed door. The owl stopped making notes and stared towards the door as two people slowly walked into the room. One was the school's principal named Richard while the other was a teenage rabbit. The rabbit has pale yellow skin and violet-blue eyes as well as bright pink highlights in her shoulder-length hair. She was wearing a hot pink hoodie, dark blue pants and black shoes. The entire class gazed at the new students.
"Students, there's a new student in High." Principal Richard explained the entire class. "Her name is Trish. I'm sure you all show her our way of having a great school year."
Trish smiled confidently at her new teacher and her new class. Hailey and Sadira, who were sitting at the desks side by side, faced each other with suspicious glare and turned back to look at Emma and Jewel sitting behind them.
"The girl looks very boyish but cool." Hailey whispered to the other girls. "Should we let her be part of our group?"
"Yeah." Emma replied. "She looks pretty cool."
As Mr. Jefferson finished talking to the principal and continued his lesson, Trish looked up at the four friends sitting at the back of the class. When Trish reached her new desk, she dropped her backpack on the floor and took a seat. Emma, Hailey, Jewel and Sadira all grinned at her as Trish smiled back and waved her fingers at them before turning to face forward again. The five of them remained silent throughout the rest of the History class.
Few hours later, it was lunchtime. The four friends entered the cafeteria line to fill their lunch trays with food and took their usual seats together at a table that was close to the side wall. As they settled onto the table's benches, the speedy hedgehog, the intelligent fox, the tomboyish echidna, and the silent hedgehog noticed the laidback rabbit they met in History class leaving the line and walking into their table. When she reached it, she placed her tray next to Sadira's, sitting down between Sadira and Hailey and across from Emma and Jewel.
"So..." Hailey said, smiling at Trish once she was settled onto the bench. "How have you been?"
"I've been fine." Trish replied thankfully. "What are your names?"
"I'm Hailey." Hailey replied, extending her hand to Trish. "The brains of the group."
Trish had extended her own hand and shook Hailey's hand. "Hi, Hailey! I'm Trish."
When the two girls released each other's hand, Emma quickly extended her hand to Trish. "I'm Emma the Hedgehog, the leader of the group."
"I'm Jewel." Jewel introduced as she seated beside Trish, offering her own hand. "The muscles of the group."
"And I'm Sadira." Sadira smiled who was seated at Hailey's other side, offering her hand to Trish. "The chaos of the group."
"Literally." Emma joked.
Trish, Jewel, and Hailey let out a hard laugh while Sadira gave Emma an dead glare.
The five teenagers spent the rest of lunchtime catching up, exchanging news about their past years. They endured the afternoon classes seated close together and made their way outside into the schoolyard once the bell rang.
"Well, I've gonna go." Trish said to the girls. "See ya tomorrow."
"Bye!" Emma, Jewel, Sadira, and Hailey waved at their new friend and each of them turned to the opposite directions and headed home.