"Krystal." replied the beautiful blue girl with a smile. She was in fact, very beautiful. A lot of the guys in the room and even some girls seemed to snap out whatever they were thinking about and fixated on Krystal. 'Wow, I don't think I've ever seen a girl like that in my entire life.' Fox thought. Bill seemed to snap out of stoner land and gave Fox a look and mouthed 'ohhhhhh shiiiiiiiiiiiit'.

"Okay Krystal, you can sit over there next to Fox, the guy in the back." Krystal quietly made her way over to the desk and sat down briefly making eye contact with Fox but eventually looked away. Fox looked over to Slippy looked directly at him, giggling and making obscene hand gestures detailing sexual intercourse. Fox just rolled his eyes.

They continued on with class activities until they were given an assignment to learn more about the person sitting next to them. Mostly everybody cheated and just did it with their friends but Fox was forced to work with Krystal. They just looked at each other for a few seconds until Fox broke the silence.

"So, uh, where are you from?" he asked.

"I came from Cerinia." She replied with a small smile.

"Cool, is that like close by?"

"Unfortunately not, the trip here took forever."

"How come you moved here?"

"My dad got some sort of fancy job here, he says it's tons better than his last job."

"Really? I didn't think there was any other jobs except McDonald's here." Fox joked, getting a laugh out of Krystal.

Krystal seemed to get a little comfortable around Fox, which made him feel a little more comfortable as well. 'She seems pretty cool and… well, normal.' Fox thought to himself. 'She's also easy on the eyes.' Despite thinking this, Fox looked over to where Fara was sitting and saw her looking back at him. Once they made eye contact Fara smiled at him and went back to talking to her partner.

Fox and Krystal used their worksheet as a template for their conversation. They found out about each other's favorite color, sport, movie, other boring stuff like that. Fox could see Slippy's partner getting pretty annoyed and uncomfortable really fast.

"Favorite sport? Katana dueling duh." Slippy said matter of factly as the ferret raised an eyebrow. Fox felt bad that he already knew the answer to that.

"How are you liking Corneria so far?" Fox asked, deviating from their project.

"It's a pretty city... the people seem pretty interesting." Krystal said as she watched Slippy act out a katana duel.

"You can say fat if you want to, us Cornerians learned to embrace it a long time ago. We had a parade celebrating our rise to 5th in obesity last month." Fox said, trying to get another laugh out of her.

Krystal laughed and said "That's not what I meant by interesting, honestly!"

"Don't lie, I heard it in your voice." Fox continued. She almost came back with a response but was cut off by Mrs. Haffer asking for volunteers to share. Slippy raised his hand but his partner immediately yanked it down. Fay excitedly raised her hand.

"Alright, Miyu and Fay come on up."

Fay bounced her way up to the front while Miyu dragged behind like there was nothing more she didn't want to do ever.

"Do me first." Fay whispered very audibly to Miyu.

"Fine. This is Fay, she's 16 years old. Her favorite color is pink. Her hobbies includes listening to music and singing." Miyu said that last word with a complete disgust like she was just reminded of a flavor she hated. Fox couldn't blame her, he's heard Fay's singing before. "Her inspiration is… herself. That's it." Now Fay happily started to share facts about Miyu.

"This is Miyu. Her favorite color is black. Her hobbies include thinking about death, writing about death, filming death, and stapling people's fingers together when they're asleep. Her favorite quote is 'The fuck was the point of all this' which was said by her grandfather minutes before he died." Fay finished and Mrs. Haffer would have scolded her about cursing if she wasn't already disturbed by the other stuff. The class gave an awkward ovation as the two sat down.

The bell rang saving the class from another awkward presentation. Krystal started asking around for people that shared her second period so she wouldn't get lost again, and fortunately Slippy shared the class with her and volunteered to escort her there. She didn't seem to mind either, which Fox thought was good considering he needed more people to think more highly of the eccentric frog.

"Hey Fox!" He heard as he was walking towards his second period. Fox turned around and saw Fara coming up towards him.

"Oh hey." He said. 'Smooth McCloud, really dropped the ball with that greeting.'

"I haven't seen you in a while, how are things going?"

"About as same as always I guess, you?" he asked back.

"Fine, I actually wanted to give you this." Fara handed him a piece of paper with a bunch of numbers scrawled on it.

"I kept on forgetting to give it to you before the summer, I really want to hang out." Fara said quite bluntly. Fox was a little taken aback but was happy to hear it.

"Would this weekend be cool? Actually, me and my friends always hang out on Fridays, we could hang out a little then and maybe if you want to spend time with just the two of us we could do something that Saturday?" Fox quickly thought up.

Fara smiled and said "That sounds great just give me a text about any more details."

"So what did you and Fara talk about?" Falco asked to Fox as they booted up their computers for their Adobe Graphic Design class.

"Nothing." Fox said.

"Awwwwwwww yeeaaaaaah, you're totally in there dude." Falco said with a knowing smile. Fox just rolled his eyes as he listened to the teacher talk about boring old first day stuff.

"What did you think about Krystal, she's pretty hot right?" Falco continued.

"I guess so."

"Guess so?" Falco leaned in more. "Did. You. See. Her. Ass?"

"I didn't really think to look." Fox lied. He was a teenage guy, he had to take a peek. Needless to say he was pretty blown away.

"Sometimes I wonder if you're really straight or not."

"Why are we even taking this class? I don't know much about photoshop." Fox asked, deviating from the other conversation.

"I do, how do you think I get all them online girls?" Falco said while winking.

"Oh, is that why they're so disappointed when they see you in person?" Fox retorted.

"Fuck you." Fox just smirked in response to Falco's curse.

"How did you even pay for Photoshop anyways?" Fox curiously asked.

"Bill."

"Of course."

Second period went by smoothly as they photoshopped pictures of Slippy doing various activities, such as putting him in various renaissance paintings. Though Falco went a little far and photoshopped him into a gay pride parade. Fox just shook his head like he learned to always do. The bell rang and it was time for Fox's lunch. Him, Falco, Slippy, Katt and Bill all shared the same lunch. They sat down, ate the crap the school calls "food" and eventually started to talk shit about each other.

"I swear to god Falco, can you eat any louder?" Fox said annoyed.

"I can, in fact." Falco said with a mouth full. Katt decided to be funny and punch Falco as hard as she could in his back while he was swallowing. It only took half a second for everything in Falco's mouth to end up all over the table. Everybody but Falco couldn't stop laughing while he looked at the mess he made.

"Jeez Falco, I thought only female birds could regurgitate their food." Fox quipped. Falco gave him a look that could kill.

Eventually it was time to go to third period and Fox ended up in a Drama class and found Krystal sitting alone. He decided to sit beside her since he seemed the only person she's even looked at in this class.

"Hey, how are you liking your classes so far?" Fox asked. Krystal looked up saw it was him and smiled.

"Second was alright. Your friend Slippy was pretty nice." She replied.

"How do you know we know each other?"

"He told me, he said you were a pretty nice guy."

"Did he? Well I guess I must not have made a good impression these past eight years." Fox said sarcastically.

Krystal laughed at his joke and Fox felt pretty good that he could easily humor her. He liked good humored people.

"Hey Fox" He heard a monotonous voice come from behind him. He turned around and saw Miyu chewing gum and staring him down.

"Oh, hey Miyu. Krystal, you remember Miyu from first period right?" Fox brought up, officially introducing the two.

"How could I forget?" said Krystal as she forced a smile. "You're the one who likes death right?"

"No." said Miyu quite simply.

"But uh… didn't you say all your hobbies include death?"

"No."

"Well, I mean… Fay said it but… you told her, right?"

"No."

Fox just watched amusedly as Krystal stuttered uncomfortably trying to get a conversation out of Miyu, but he knew Miyu was just messing with Krystal. He's unfortunately been in Krystal's place many times before. Eventually class started and the teacher started to do a few improv exercises. She eventually did the thing where everybody has to contribute one word to a story to make it an interesting sentence.

"Alright, so my word is I. Let's go around the room starting with Fred. Continue with a word Fred."

"Went."

"To."

"The."

"Morgue." Miyu added with her typical monotone voice.

"...and."

"Saw."

"A."

"Lot."

"Of."

"Dead."

"Hillbillies." Fox added with a blank stare.

"But."

"The."

"Hillbillies."

"Were."

"Zombies."

"and ."

"WERE MADE OUT OF CHEESE!" said a fat bear.

"DAMN IT KEVIN THAT'S NOT HOW THE GAME WORKS, GO STAND IN THE CORNER." Yelled the drama teacher. Kevin dragged his feet over to the corner with his head down in shame. The rest of Drama class went pretty smoothly eventually they played the "Freeze Tag" exercise where they have to swap out. It went pretty smoothly except for when Miyu would always swap in and enact a torture scene, much to her partner's dismay, but the teacher seemed to really get into it.

Fox and Krystal shared the same fourth block with Falco, Bill, and Katt. It was Math so there wasn't much to socialize about. Fortunately Fox became pretty good at Math in recent years when he decided not to over-complicate it and eventually became the group's tutor when Slippy wasn't around. Finally the bell rang and school finally ended.

"THANK GOD!" Falco yelled as he ran towards the parking lot. Fox looked around the classroom for Krystal so he could ask her about her first day, but was a little disappointed to see she wasn't anywhere in sight. 'She was probably a little anxious to get out as well'. He met up with Slippy in the parking lot and walked over to his car to see Falco impatiently waiting to get out of the school zone.

"C'mon Foxy, I gots stuff to do after school." Falco said impatiently.

"Like play video games and masturbate?" Fox replied while he unlocked the doors. Falco just sighed and sat in the front passenger seat. Fox dropped them both off at their houses and gradually made his way back to his own. His parents weren't home yet, so he decided to just chill. He texted Fara just so she could add him as a contact, but they eventually had a short text conversation catching up on some stuff. He found out that her dad's company was doing really well in sales and some of the stuff she did over the summer, including her trip to Fortuna.

After eating, showering and doing his usual pre-sleep routine he perfected these past few years he finally hit the hay. As he laid in his comfy bed, he thought to himself as he drifted off to sleep

'Man, this was only the first day.'

Author's Notes:

I feel like these first two chapters have been wayyyy too short, but I feel like they get the job done. I just think I'm one of those "straight to the point" writers. Like, I'm not gonna write three paragraphs about just nothing. Plus, I'm still trying to get a feel for writing with these characters and the situations I can put them in. Oh well, any constructive criticism would be nice. Thanks for reading :)