After a solid night's sleep and a good breakfast, I headed off to school, safely this time. I arrived fairly early and I was surprised to see Shinohara and the other girl sitting in their seats. Shinohara stood up to great me.

"Hello Suzumoto. You're here early." she said as she placed both her hands on my shoulders.

"Yeah…" I said, a little uncomfortable at the situation. Luckily for me the other girl intervened.

"Come on Seiko. Don't scare the poor girl."Shinohara did as she said. The girl turned to me and smiled. "I'm Naomi Nakashima. And I believe you've met my friend." I nodded. I walked over to my seat and sat down facing them. Nakashima pulled her purse out of her bag.

"Here…" she said pulling out a note. "...to pay for the crepe Seiko had."

"Oh it's no problem. Really. It was only a bite." I said waving my hand dismissively, although I was a little confused as to why she was offering to pay and not Shinohara.

"Well if you're sure." Nakashima said putting her purse away.

For a few moments no one said anything until Shinohara suddenly jolted a little.

"Cheers for helping me by the way." she said.

"It's no worries." I replied. "Are you okay?"

"Oh I'm fine. It was only a few bruises and scratches. Nothing I haven't dealt with before." Nakashima spoke up.

"Well if you won't let me pay you for the crepe. How about we go somewhere together? It'll also give us a chance to get to know you."

"Oh! Let's go to that fancy place. The coffee place. You know? The French sounding one." Shinohara said excitedly.

"Do you mean 'La Soleil'?" Nakashima asked.

"Yeah that's the one." Shinohara turned to me. "So what do you say Suzumoto? You wanna get some coffee with us?"

"Yeah sure. That sounds great. Thank you." I replied. I was delighted by the fact that on the second day I had already made two new friends.

"So say Friday?" inquired Shinohara.

"What about your Dad?" asked Nakashima "Isn't he working?"

"Nah." replied Shinohara. "He's home earlier that night so I don't have to be back." Nakashima turned to me.

"Friday good for you two?" she asked. I nodded.

"Yeah, Friday's fine for me."

"Great." said Shinohara loudly, clapping her hands together. "Naomi can buy us all coffee." I looked to said girl but she just shook her head slowly and smiled. Not too long later, students slowly started to trickle into class but we continued to chat together until the teacher arrived. Classes came and went and before I knew it it was lunch time. Nakashima waved me over so I brought my chair over to sit with her. Shinohara spun around to join us.

"So Shinohara…" I began but she interrupted me before I could finish.

"Please, call me Seiko." she said.

"And you can call me Naomi." Naomi said.

"Well in that case you can call me Mayu." I replied. "So Seiko, what kind of things are you interested in?"

"Well...I like food and Naomi." Naomi blushed.

"Don't be so silly." she said.

"So how long have you two known each other?" I asked to the both of them. They answered at the same time

"Too long."

"For a billion years." I laughed.

"You must be very close friends." I said.

"Oh we are!" agreed Seiko. "We're the greatest of friends the world has ever or will ever see. Who's your best friend?"

"Well all my friends went to different schools." I told her. "So I don't really have any friends."

"Oh that's so sad!" shouted Seiko. "You can be our friend." Naomi nodded.

"You can be friends with us." she said. I coughed a little as I felt my throat getting a little dry. I was touched that these two girls would so happily accept me into their group so quickly.

"Well thank you very much." I said. "I hope we can stay good friends throughout middle school." It was from this moment on that I know that I would stay friends with these girls for years. And sure enough…we did.

A/N: Well if you guessed 'Naomi' good job. I mean who else was it gonna be right? Ayumi? or maybe someone else we haven't seen turn up yet. Yet…. Anyway if you enjoyed feel free to leave a review. Thanks for reading, goodnight.