A/N: Hey guys, sorry this is so long coming. I had a death in the family, and it seemed as though my muse died with him. But I figured I can't stay depressed forever, so I have worked continuously this past week and have come up with this and another story! Hope you all enjoy! Ciao for now!

SPOV

I sigh as I plop down in the bus seat. I stare out the window at the familiar scenery; the same trees and, hills, and old dirt roads I had grown up with.

Time for day two, hopefully it would be better than yesterday.

I wasn't sure how long I had been sitting and staring when I felt movement on the seat beside me. I snapped my head around, not knowing who to expect, and was met with beautiful, smiling hazel eyes.

"Good morning, Miss Stackhouse." Godric said cheerfully as he tossed his bag onto the floor beneath him. I saw Eric Northman and a young pretty blonde girl I recognized as Pam Ravenscroft making themselves comfortable on the bench seats across from us.

"Um…hello?" I wasn't sure how to handle this situation but I got the feeling that that wasn't exactly the right response.

Godric however just chuckled and smiled. "I'm sorry, how rude of me." He puts his hand out in front of me and waits. "My name is Godric Godfrey. It is a pleasure to meet you."

I shake his hand, but stay silent because apparently this morning the cat got my tongue. When I finally am able to speak, I seem to have developed a stuttering problem. "I…I um…I know who you are….Godric."

He just continues to smile at me, and laughs. "Of course, I am sure we have seen each other around."

One thing I have noticed about Godric over the years of going to school together, is that unlike a lot of the other stereotypical popular people at our school, he is not self-centered. I have seen him volunteer in the cafeteria at school, with a smile on his friendly face, and I know for a fact he has been dating the same girl, Sophie-Ann Leclerq, all throughout high school.

I don't really know what's going on so I dumbly nod my head. Godric looks over his shoulder.

"Have you met my brother and sister? Eric Northman and Pamela Ravenscroft?"

I shake my head as I look over his should at the two in question. Pam waves her fingers while Eric just nods his head in my direction. They go back to whispering to each other and ignoring me, but Godric keeps talking to me. After a few minutes I lean closer to him as to not be overheard and whisper in his ear.

"Why are you talking to me?"

His eyes widen a little in surprise and he seems to think about it for a second before responding. "Do you not want to talk to me? I didn't mean to be rude."

He seemed legitimately remorseful and I felt stupid, so I start shaking my head and waving my hands out in front of me, all the while a blush creeping up my neck.

"No, no, no! It's not that! I just…I am not usually the type of person that…you know, you and your friends would want to talk to."

He seemed to mull this response over. "Would you like to be that type of person?"

My breath hitched in my throat. Did I want to be that person? That person that wasn't invisible? That person that people would look at and smile, or think back on the years they spent in school with me and laugh at the memories we made?

The answer was simple.

"Yes, yes I do." I whispered almost so quietly that I was certain that he didn't hear me. But the fact that his smile widened into almost skull splitting proportions suggested otherwise.

"Then please, allow us to introduce you around." He said as the bus came to a stop in front of the school. He stood and motioned for me to follow, and as I did so I felt someone watching me. I turned slightly to see the vibrant blue eyes of Eric Northman watching me with a paralyzing intensity.

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"So this is Quinn, and Jake, and Sophie-Ann. That there is Isabel and you've already met Eric and Pamela…Ah! And Rasul!" Godric was really having fun with showing me off to his friends.

They all seemed nice enough. Sophie-Ann actually greeted me with a hug and a cheek kiss.

"You are just so adorable!" she said when I started to blush. She moved to Godric's side and kissed his cheek lightly.

"Sookie is a little on the shy side, Annie." He said as he wrapped his arms around her.

I stood there, feeling kind of awkward, before Sophie-Ann looked back at me and smiled again.

"I get the feeling we are going to be great friends, Sookie." Her emerald eyes shimmered with her honesty and tenderness. I couldn't help but beam at her in return.

Jake came to stand next to me and put his arm on my shoulder. "It's going to be a fun year, Stackhouse!" he practically screamed to the entire school. I couldn't help but laugh.

Next thing I knew, Sophie-Ann was wrapping her arm around my waist and pulled me away from the others.

"Come on, Sookie, I believe our lockers are close to each other." She said gleefully as she blew Godric a kiss over her shoulder.

As we walked to our lockers, she told me about seemingly everything; from her brother, Andre, to her parents, to her going to LSU for a degree in Interior Design. I couldn't believe that I was walking through the halls of my school, arm-in-arm, with Sophie-Ann; and from the looks other people were giving us, neither could they.

"So, Sookie, tell me about you. If I recall correctly, you are Jason's little sister right?" she said as we got to our lockers, her on the opposite side of the hall from mine.

"Yup, did you know my brother?" I was internally cringing, and praying that he hadn't offended her, or Godric.

Sophie-Ann chuckled as she grabbed some things and slammed her locker shut. "Oh yes, he was quiet…the big dog, for lack of better term."

I could only snort in response. Jason definitely thought he was the big man on campus; QB1, ladies' man, all around golden boy.

Sophie-Ann laughed and continued telling me about everything under the sun. I was looking around us as I listened to her and noticed my friends Tara Thornton and Lafayette Reynolds watching us in amazement. Lafayette raised his hands in question and I shrugged my shoulders slightly in response. He probably knew as much about this as I did.

"Are those your friends?" Sophie-Ann asked suddenly snapping me out of my daze.

I expertly nodded my head again.

Sophie-Ann walked herself over to my two best friends to introduce herself. They both seemed unbelieving that this wasn't some sort of weird practical joke, or dream we had been sharing. But Sophie-Ann embraced us all the same and treated us as though we had all always been friends.

Tara and I had been best friends growing up, and we were like two sides of the same coin. Different in every way possible. I was physically fair, while she was darker. She was blunt, and wouldn't put up with anyone's bull, whereas I had the regular problem of letting people use me as their doormat, wiping their shit covered shoes all over me.

Lafayette I had met just a couple years prior. He was older than we were, closer to my brother in age than myself, but as the only openly gay man in our little Southern parish, he got bullied a lot. So he had eventually stopped coming to school. And now, instead of being in some college dorm, drunk as a skunk, he was finishing high school with his cousin and her best friend. Or as he affectionately called us, his favorite bitches.

As the bell rang, we all slowly and depressingly made our way to our classes.

"Oh! You three should come to Godric's parent's end of the year barbeque this weekend! It'll be a blast!" Sophie-Ann sang as she pranced off to class.