-Chap 4 What A New Girl Doesn't Know

Jojo walked into the lunch room and was immediately found by his cousin James.

"Hey dude, what's up?" he said lightly punching him in the arm. Jojo shrugged, "Yeah me too." He snapped his fingers and Jojo knew that that was never good. "Dude, I met this girl this morning and I think that there is a slight possibility that she could be shorter then you!" he said getting existed. "We have got to find her!" he said looking around. Jojo shook his head violently.

There is no way you are going to make me talk to her; I don't want to meet any one. I'm not a people person! He yelled in his head. He looked up at his cousin who was making puppy eyes. They didn't work after all Jojo had sisters, he was immune to them. He shook his head again. Suddenly a smile spread across James's face. Oh great.

"You wouldn't say anything in protest so… I guess that means I win!" he said. "Come on off to meet the new girl. I think you're going to like her!" He grabbed his wrist and half dragged Jojo into the overcrowded center on the cafeteria.

Crap, crap, crap, James, don't do this to me! Jojo silently screamed.

"Look there she is!" James said pointing. Jojo didn't see what he was pointing at and shook his head. "There over there," he grabbed Jojo's face and moved his so he was looking at her. She has short black hair and gray and purple striped fur. He nodded.

Have I seen her before?

"Good now let's go say hi!" James said smiling and pushed Jojo in front of him over to the table.

NO!

"Carey!" she turned around to see the boy she had bumped into earlier walking over to her and he was pulling along the boy from her Pilaties class. "Hey!" he called. She waved and they sat down opposite of her. "How's your first day at Whoville High going?" he said smiling.

"Okay I guess I've been late to almost all my classes but everyone has been pretty nice so far." She said and glanced at the boy next to him. He was looking down at the table slumped in the seat.

"Oh by the way this is my cousin Jojo, he wants to say hi but he's a little on the shy side." He said laughing. Jojo punched him in the arm. "Ow! Gez I was just telling the truth you don't have to hit me, eh oh well."

He pulled out a paper bag out of his back pack and emptied the contense of his lunch onto the table. His apple rolled off the table into Jojo's open hands and he bit into it. "What, now you're going to eat me food?" James said, and Jojo gave him a look as if to say 'that's what you get.' And Carey saw that he had caramel colored eyes.

She laughed at the pair. She was enjoying their company. She had said that everyone was nice to her but that didn't mean that they had really talked to her, so now she was happy to have someone to have a conversation with.

"So what's the best place to hang out in Whoville?" Carey asked hoping to get a better look on her new town.

"Well the parks are all really nice, and there is the mall of course. Um can you think of anything Jojo?" he shrugged. "Um, let's see the Autumn Who Festive will be coming up in a couple months. There's spirit week here at school, the whole town seems to participate in that, thought I don't know why." James said and took a bite of his sandwich.

"Cool, well it sounds really fun!" the little who said. She heard a sound and looked over at Jojo who was smirking.

"Why are you laughing?"

"He doesn't like spirit week, you see his dad gets really into it and it's kind of embarrassing to all of us in the family."James said. "Like last year when one of the days was toga day and Uncle Ned wore one but kept tripping over it. Trust me when I say he caused a three car pileup, a fruit stand to fall over and a staple to get stuck in his head."

"Again," Jojo whispered smiling.

"Yeah again," James said surprised to hear him say something, but he knew that he shouldn't make a sense of it. "Let's just say that he has a problem with staplers." Carey laughed thinking about her dad and what crazy stuff he had done. It was good to know that she wasn't the only one with a weird family.

"So what's your family like? We don't get a lot of new comers here in Whoville." James said.

"Um I have a dad who works a lot, that's why we moved here for his job, my mom who stays at home and my two siblings, Holly and Jeremy." She responds.

"There's just the five of you?" James said astonished.

"Yeah, is that bad?" Carey said a little hesitant.

"It's not bad it's just…uncommon."

"What do you mean?"

"Well family's here are usually really big like mine I have 34 siblings." James explained.

"34!" Carey gasped, unable to comprehend having that many people in one house.

"What, Jojo's one of 97." James said shrugging. Carey hit her head on the table.

"And I thought my siblings were too much to handle! 97? How the heck do you do it?" she asked looking at them.

"With a lot of pain killer and caffeine," James said laughing at the look if shock on her face. She sighed and sat up.

"Well there are obviously a lot of things I will have to get use to here."

"Oh you'll be fine everyone's easy going, the only one you have to watch out for is the chairmen, he's kinda ruff around the edges." James said. They were silent as they finished their lunches.

"Um I have to use the bath room so I'll see you later, thanks for sitting with me." Carey said picking up her satchel and walked off into the crowd.

Once Carey left James turned to Jojo smiling.

Oh great here it comes, he said to himself.

"So what do you think of her?" he said. Jojo sighed and shrugged. "What do you mean you not know?" he scoffed.

"Well, I don't know much so how can I tell?" Jojo replied quietly.

"Dude, she's like exactly like you! She's short, has black hair, wears dark colors, is funny and has an interesting personality, what more do you need to know?" he said throwing his hands in the air. Jojo just shrugged again. The bell rang and they made their way to Chemistry.

When Jojo entered the room there was a giggle he looked around to see three girly girls smiling and whispering as they stared at him.

"Hi Jojo, how's your day been?" the one in light green and pink asked. This sent the other two into fits of laughter and a shiver to roll down his spine. He rolled his eyes and continued walking.

Fan girls.

"Gez Jojo I didn't know you were such a lady's man." James said as they sat down in the back. He glared at him. His cousin just laughed softly shaking his head. "You really need to open up more."

You're lucky to talk to you; if this had been a couple of months ago I would be dead silent and probably not even sit with you. "I am. It just takes time." he whispered.

"Whatever you say, hey Carey, over here!" Jojo looked up and saw the short Who standing in front of the class room. She walked over and sat down next to Jojo.

"Hey what a coincidence, this makes this class ten times better, I get my favorite cousin and the awesome new girl!" James said. Carey blushed. The teacher came in and class started.

The class just stood around waiting for the bell to ring.

"So what do you guys have next?" Carey said casually.

"I have Cooking class." James said. Jojo handed her his schedule.

"Choir, you can sing?" she asked. He nodded.

"Are you kidding me, this kid has the voice like a god, after the Horton Incident every singing group has been begging for Jojo to join them!" James said nudging him. "What do you have?" James asked her.

"Creative writing" She said adjusting her back pack.

"Cool," he glanced at the clock. "God why does this day have to be so long?" he moaned. Both Carey and Jojo shrugged. Finally the bell rang.

"Hey which direction is the Creative writing class in?"Carey asked as they entered the hall way.

"That way," James said pointing to the right. "Jojo show her, the writing and music room are in the same part of the building." He said looking down at his older cousin. Jojo sighed and nodded. He walked down the hall motioning for Carey to follow. He put his hands in his pockets and walked slowly not looking at her.

Please do ask any thing, please! He begged wordlessly.

Carey glanced over at the dark Who wondering what was going on inside his head. He's always so silent, there had got to be a reason, no one is that quiet unless their hiding something. She thought as she followed him down a flight of stairs.

"Um, thanks for showing me to my class room," she said figuring with her jacket zipper. He shrugged. "Um I was just wondering what exactly the Horton incident was?" Jojo stopped mid step. She almost bumped into him. He turned around slowly.

"You…you don't know?" He said slowly.

"No, should I? What happened?" Jojo looked at her for a very long time then smiled slightly. She wondered what had made him happy.

"You'll find out soon enough." He said and walked away. Carey turned and watched the mysterious dark haired boy disappear around the corner.

"That was so strange." She said and walked into the writing class. I wonder if that event is part of the reason he talks so little. She thought sitting down on a stool at one of the tables.

AN- what's going to happen? Why does Jojo not want Carey to know about the "Horton incident"? What's going to happen when he goes to choir? Keep reading to find out! Carey's Family is my family they love me enough to let me use them in my oppression in HHAW fan ficdom. Haha Ned and the staplers couldn't help it!