The five teens attempted to push their way through the bustling crowd of students. Wen had to let go of Olivia's hand to avoid a girl carrying heavy looking box. Charlie failed to see the way Olivia's face fell when Wen quickly let go of her hand, but Mo and Stella, being the observant girls they were, saw the entire exchange. They flashed each other knowing grins and looked ahead for other oncoming obstacles.
Wen and Olivia had been this way the entire year. Throughout the tour, they had been practically been inseparable. Obviously this came with consequences, for recently the press had captured a picture of them holding hands in a small café, and the paparazzi had gone wild with the idea that they were an item. Luckily, they hadn't given them a couple name, as Mo and Stella had teased Olivia about one night in their shared hotel room. Needless to say, the next morning Mo and Stella had woken up to an unpleasant surprise. That week Lemonade Mouth learned that Olivia was a mastermind for pranks.
Stella snuck a glance at Charlie. As usual, he was staring longingly at Mo, who was too caught up in a conversation with Olivia to notice. Ever since Scott had been fired, Stella would always catch Charlie staring at Mo like this. Many times she had to save him before the dark haired girl could notice him. Stella elbowed him in the ribs, none to gently, and the tall boy let out an 'oomph' before he realized what he had been doing and gave Stella a grateful smile. Stella smiled back, and didn't see the boy with black hair and a gray fedora, nor did he see her. The two collided, and were enveloped into a flurry of notebook paper.
Exclamations of "Stella!" and apologies were thrown around as the sheets of paper settled on the ground. The band members, and the mystery guy were hurriedly picking up papers to save them from being trampled on by the masses of people scurrying by. Wen took a glance at the papers, and recognized the writing as song lyrics. He was too caught up in reading the scribbled words he didn't see that Stella, Mo, and Charlie had all handed back to papers to the embarrassed boy. They all stared at him expectantly, and he looked up when Stella cleared her throat loudly. He turned pink and shoved the papers at the tan boy.
"I-uh, was, just reading the lyrics you wrote." He explained, pointing to the papers in his hand. "They're pretty good."
The other boy flashed a bright smile. "Thanks. Hey, any of you guys know where the main office is? I'm new here and I'm kinda lost."
Olivia smiled, and opened her mouth to reply, but was interrupted by a very loud shriek that echoes through the hallway and made some students stop in their tracks. Wen, Charlie, and Stella winced as they saw whom the commotion came from.
Miss Reznick shuffled through the students that had not managed to move out of her way, and threw open her arms to collect Olivia in a tight hug. One by one, she made her way through the band, letting out yells of unintelligible words, and stopped on the unknown boy standing next to Stella. She astounded look on her face as she glanced from the boy to Stella. Her next words shocked the entire band into hysterical laughter: "Ooh, lookit you, Ste-lla, you've got yourself a boyfriend!"
Stella glared at Mo, Olivia, Charlie, and Wen. The boys shut up immediately, seeing Stella's one-more-peep-outta-you-and-I'll-rip-your-head-off glare, and the girls stifled their loud laughter into quiet giggles behind their hands. Stella turned back to Miss Reznick and put on a polite face.
"No, Miss Reznick, he's not my boyfriend. We just ran into each other." The music teacher frowned, but plastered her usual bright smile onto her face.
"So, you guys are back for the rest of the school year?" The quintet nodded, and Stella turned to the boy she ran into to ask if he needed help to the main office, but the space next to her was empty. She frowned, but turned back to the group in time to hear her old music teacher shooing them to the office for their school schedules.
In the office, they were surrounded by greetings (by some teachers and staff) and whispers (by the student population residing in the office before homeroom.) Sitting outside the principal's office, they found the same guy they had run into before. He flashed them all a smile.
"Hey. Sorry I just left I just wanted to get here and get my schedule before I get detention for getting lost. My name's Brent by the way; Brent Nakamura." He held out his hand and Wen was the one who stuck out his own to shake it.
"Hey. I'm Wen Gifford, this is Olivia White, she's Mo Banjiri, he's Charlie Delgado, and the short one on the end," Olivia stepped on his foot, hard, "Is Stella Yamada."
Brent laughed at their antics, his slanted eyes crinkling in mirth. Principal Brennigan stepped out of his office, along with another person the band recognized…..