Ch. 3: Oh, Great.
(A/N: This chapter intro's 2 new charries. They're the evil villian dude type peoples. And a few others. Star's friends.)
"Hey, Wolfgirl! How's life in the forest?"
Holding back a growl, Star whipped around, thinking, "Not today, Matt. Not now."
Two boys approached her, one with light blond hair and blue eyes wearing a Spurs jersey with Ginobli's name on the back, the image of the perfect little boy.
The other had dirty blond hair, green eyes, and wore a Hard Rock Cafe shirt and cap, the image of a studious child. They were not what they seemed, as Star had quickly found out last year.
"Shove off, Matthew." she murmured. "Oh, I see you've brought your crony with you. Can't fight without a fellow jerk at your side?" Star snarled, salting the wound she had made to Matt's pride by using his full first name and then calling him cowardly.
Adam came up behind her, his hands in fists, and a growl deep in his throat.
"Adam, save it. They're not worth it." She told her brother, quickly spinning him around and walking off, grasping her brother's arm tightly above the elbow and pulling him along behind her. A few silent minutes followed this quick confrontation as Star ran to her favorite in-school haunt, the library.
Picking up a Japanese translation book, she started reading the words aloud to herself, monotonously chanting them in a mantra of sorts. That was the kind of thing that got her called names like "geek" and "bookworm". Her brother slipped his headphones on, so as not to hear his sister's incantation broken by the occasional sob.
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"Oh, very funny, guys!" Star smiled as her brother, Drake, Peter and Zach laughed their immature heads off.
Adam had just made a very stupid joke, something about vampires and baseball. Of course, Star wasn't paying attention.
"Oh, oh, guys." That was Zach, the bad joketeller usually. He and Peter lived about two or three streets away from Adam and Star, and she could at least put up with them.
"Oh, ZACH!" Star yelled, knowing that he was about to launch into one of his worse jokes. "Boys." she muttered under her breath.
Peter managed to tear his ears away from the joke and turned to Star."So how was your day?" he asked, his green eyes expressing genuine concern.
He was the only one that really understood what she meant, even when Star herself had no clue. "Hn. About the same."
"Filled with jerks and idiosyncrasy?"
"Yup."
