Mimi Marquez walked into lunch. On the outside she looked calm, cool, and like she already ruled the school, but on the inside she was incredibly grateful she would be sitting with some people who actually seemed to like her for her and not her looks. Now if only she could find them…
"Yoo-Hoo! Mimi!" called Maureen, causing half the school to look up. Mimi made her way over to a table that was nicely crowded, but not overly so, pulled up a chair, and sank into a seat between Maureen and Angel.
"Hey, I'm glad you could join us," said the black girl from earlier. "You're Mimi right? I'm Joanne, this is Collins (she pointed to the tall guy on the other side of Maureen who seemed to be teasing her about something), you know Maureen and Angel, this is Mark (a skinny, nerdy looking, white boy), April (a smiling redhead who was filing her nails while eating a unique lunch of sushi ), and of course you met Roger earlier. He's still in the lunch line."
"He still buys his lunch and he's a senior?" Mimi asked incredulously. "I did that once, on Wednesday, and trust me, I'm not doing it ever, ever again."
"Yeah, well, that's Roger. You get used to it." Said Mark in the resigned voice of one who has long since given up trying to change a friends ways.
"I don't. It's gross!" said April, wrinkling her nose. I mean how can he eat that stuff! The best of it smells like cat food and the worst…smells like what cat food can become."
"But I like cats!" exclaimed Maureen, displaying both excessive optimism and bizarre randomness.
"Well, yeah, but you wouldn't want to eat their food, would you?" asked April.
"No, but they're so cute!" squealed Maureen.
As the conversation turned to cats, a subject Mimi had very little experience with, Mimi sat back and watched. Although she had known them for a very short amount of time she liked them very well already.
Unlike other groups she had encountered they weren't at all cliquey and accepted her Maureen, and Angel very readily. Indeed Maureen, Angel, and April's conversation had become a shoe comparison and Collins and Mark were looking on, laughing at the girls.
Just then Roger arrived. He first greeted Maureen, Mimi, and Angel, "Hey, I'm glad you could join us. The bullies haven't given you any more trouble have they?"
Three heads shook 'no' and Roger took a seat and kept talking. "Anyway, I can tell you've been saying that these school lunches are gross, but really, I'm far too lazy to pack my own and they aren't that bad. I mean look at this salad. The only thing that seems to be wrong is that Bunnicula got to it first. That's Bunnicula the vampire rabbit for those of you who had no child hood." He stared pointedly at Joanne who grimaced.
"Well, I'm sorry, the only Disney movie I ever saw was The Lion King!" she exclaimed.
This announcement met stunned silence, except for Roger sniggering in the background, which was finally broken by Maureen who said in a hushed voice, "You mean you've never seen Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs?"
"No"
"Pinocchio?"
"No"
"Bambi?"
"No"
"Cinderella?"
"No"
"Alice In Wonderland?"
"No"
"Peter Pan?"
"No"
"Lady And The Tramp?"
"No"
"Sleeping Beauty?"
"No"
"The Jungle Book?"
"No"
"The Aristocats?"
"No"
"The Rescuers?"
"No"
"Beauty And The Beast?"
"No"
It was clear that Maureen intended to continue the questioning and Joanne planned to continue answering calmly, hiding a smile as Maureen's incredulity grew. Luckily Mark intervened, "Maureen, we get the point. You don't have to list every Disney movie you can think of!"
"Are you absolutely sure you haven't seen any others?" Maureen asked Joanne, still unwilling to believe this.
"I'm sure," said Joanne, slightly exasperated.
"Well, you'll just have to come over to my house tonight and watch them all!" exclaimed Maureen cheerily.
"Wouldn't that take a while?" asked Joanne.
"Well at least the good ones," said Maureen, not deterred in the least. "In fact why don't you all come over and we can have a 'We-Survived-the-first-week-of-school' party and watch Disney movies."
"Are you sure your parents wouldn't mind?" asked Mark.
"Of course!" said Maureen. "They'll be fine. They're out of town after all. My cousin's supposed to watch me, but she'll be out partying anyway."
Joanne laughed, "Well I can't meet right after school since I have to oversee Speech and Debate team tryouts, but after that I'll be their."
"That works out, I'm going to be their trying out!" exclaimed Maureen and April, almost as one.
"Really! That's great! I hope you make it!" said Joanne happily.
"And I've got dance team!" added Mimi.
"I have band practice!" chipped in Roger.
"I guess it looks like we'll meet up at Mo's place around half past four then?" asked Collins.
Just as the bell rang everyone murmured their assent and dashed off to their afternoon classes.
A/N: I'm back! Sorry it's been so long. Obviously the characters are not mine.
On a more interesting note all of my chapter titles will be the titles of songs from musicals. The last one was from Flower Drum Song and from now on you can tell me in your review if you know (sorta like a contest) and I will announce winners and the answer in the next chapter. Also if anyone had any Disney movies you want them to watch please tell me, because I have seen very fey.
Finally, there was a question abut this so I will clarify: Freshmen9th Grade,Sophmores10th Grade, Juniors 11th Grade, and Seniors12th Grade.