As Time Goes By
Glimpse
The cafeteria buzzed with gossip of the new girl. News doesn't travel very far in Wammy's.
"Did ya hear?"
"There's a new girl attending Wammy's."
"Do you know how she looks like?"
"All I know is that she has long black hair."
"That's almost every girl here!"
Mello, who was sitting in a table next to them, chocolate bar in hand, listened closely to the conversation.
"I'm just saying what I've heard."
"Hey, what's going on?"
Mello turned to see Matt sitting down and taking out his PSP, goggles hanging loosely around his neck . "Just people talking about some new girl." He said while taking a bite out of his chocolate.
"Oh yeah,I heard people talking about her on my way here." Still playing his game. "Sounds like everybody's talking about her."
Mello leaned back, propped his feet on the table and took another bite of his chocolate bar. "I don't know why everybody makes a big fuss over new arrivals."
Matt looked up from his game. "Please, I know you're just as curious as anybody to know who she is."
Mello smirked. "Yeah right."
"All right."
"Speaking of," Matt turned off his game and stood up. "I'm getting something to eat, do you want anything?" Mello started to say something but Matt interrupted. "Other than chocolate."
Mello closed his mouth and started to eat the rest of his chocolate. Matt shrugged his shoulders and headed towards the line.
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Rayna and Crystal walked through the hallways hearing whispers of a new arrival.
"Do you have any clue as to who she is?"
"Everybody's saying that she has black hair."
"That's like every girl here."
"Sounds like you're the talk of Wammy's." Crystal whispered to Rayna.
She didn't say anything and twirled the lollipop that was in her mouth.
When they arrived at the cafeteria, the room was bursting with questions of the mysterious arrival.
Rayna's eye started to twitch. 'Why is everybody getting so worked up about this?'
Crystal nudged Rayna. "Oh come on, you know you like all the attention."
"As if." Rayna scowled and walked off into the cafeteria.
Crystal shrugged her shoulders and followed Rayna.
"Are you going to get some real food for once, or are you gonna find us a table?" Crystal asked when she was next to Rayna.
Rayna gave her a look that said "Are you seriously asking me that question?"
"Ok fine. I'll get you something and see if you'll actually eat it." Crystal headed towards the line and Rayna was left to find a table for them.
--
Matt was at the cash register, he paid for his food and started to walked back to the table. He bought a piece of chocolate cake, an apple, a plate of spaghetti, and soda. He never said that he wouldn't get Mello something.
When he was four steps away from the register, someone bumped into him. He lost his balance but regained his balance a few seconds later. The person a little and yelled "Sorry!" and kept walking.
When she turned, Matt saw her face a little and she looked strangely familiar.
--
Rayna finally found a table for her and Crystal. She leaned back on the chair, hands on the back of her head, and her legs crossed under the table. The lollipop now gone and the stick hanging out of her mouth. She was thinking about the red head that she bumped into. Rayna didn't get a good look at him, the thing she noticed was his red hair. He seemed familiar somehow. Why does it feel like she knows him? That was the question that lingering in her mind.
A loud slam made her come out of her thoughts.
"Thanks for telling me where you were."
Rayna looked up and saw Crystal hovering over her, her hands on her hips and her face and eyes showing a hint of anger.
"Sorry, there's no need to get so worked up about it."
Rayna looked the other way and crossed her arms. Crystal sat down and scooped a spoonful of rice that she bought.
"Don't worry about it. It's my fault actually, I shouldn't made such a big deal about it."
She ate the rice and notices something hanging from Rayna's mouth.
"I didn't know you smoked." She said with a mouthful of rice.
Rayna looked at her, not knowing what she was talking about. Crystal pointed with her spoon at the stick hanging from Rayna's mouth.
Rayna looked at the direction Crystal was pointing at. Rayna's eyes grew wide and took the stick out.
"This isn't a cigarette, it's the stick from the lollipop that I had earlier."
She tossed the stick at the trash can without looking and it landed in.
"It sure looked a whole lot like a cigarette." Crystal said still eating.
"Please. I wouldn't do something so stupid as to smoke."
"Whatever. Oh...I almost forgot."
Crystal got a caramel apple from her tray and handed it to Rayna.
"What is it?" She looked at it curiously.
"Caramel apple."
Rayna examined it, contemplating wether to eat it or not.
"Just try it."
Rayna unwrapped it but, still wasn't sure if she should eat it or not.
Crystal sighed, "Just think of it as a giant lollipop with caramel on it."
Liking the idea of a giant lollipop, she took a bite out of it. After chewing for a while,she swallowed it.
"So? Do you like it."
"Yeah. It's not half bad, a little chewy though." She took another bite.
"Yes!" Crystal pumped her fist in the air. "Operation: Get Rayna to eat real food is complete."
'I need to remind myself why I'm friends with her in the first place'
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"Bout time you came back." Mello said as soon as Matt sat down.
"What took you so long anyway's?"
"Nothing." Matt said while taking big forkful of spaghetti and ate it.
Mello smirked, "Probably flirting some girl again."
"Hey!" Matt swallowed, "At least I don't look like one."
Mello glared daggers at him and Matt knew to shut up. Or else.
There was a long silence and Matt was thinking about the girl he bumped into. She looked so familiar somehow. He couldn't help but think he knew her somehow. Then again, he knew almost everybody in Wammy's and would sometimes forget about them if he hadn't seem for a while.
When he came out of his thoughts,he saw a hand waving in front of his face, "Hello. Earth to Matt."
"What?" Matt half whined.
"Just making sure you weren't dead."
Matt had a puzzled look on his face.
"You seemed so out of it. I that you died or something."
"Whatever."
A few seconds of silence, besides Matt scraping the fork at the hole where the heapful of spaghetti was.
"You gonna eat the cake?" Mello said breaking the silence.
Matt looked at Mello, then the cake and back at Mello again. Then he shoved the cake into his mouth. Matt's mouth was covered in crumbs and smirked.
"Basterd."
