Hey guys wow I'm on a role!!! Well I hope you guys like this story so far. I'm trying to make the chapters longer but it gets kinda hard.

Well I hope you like this chapter and I promise things will get more exciting soon!

Ok so I have a fever of 101 and I am bored as shit with the beginning of this chapter. Nothing relevant will happen for the next few weeks in the story.

I know this story must be killing you all with boredom, and I have no clue why most of you are my fans, but it brings me to tears knowing you still read this.

Wow I'm getting off topic. Anyway please if you have any good ideas for how the machine will come back TELL ME PLEASE!!! I'm stumped on the matter, and the only way that I can think of doing it has already been used by a different story.

Ok enough of my babbling, onto the story!!!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Chapter 7 What is this?~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Noah/9 POV

The smell of every different kind of chicken filled the air as I walked into the cafeteria with Christi. I looked around the room for an open table, while Christi went to go get her lunch. I saw an empty table and sat down on, saving a seat for Christi.

"Finally lunch!" I exclaimed to Christi as she walked over. "Why do we have to get stuck with D lunch anyway? It's the latest one!" I took my food out of my bag and bit into my sandwich. "Ih mehn ish not ike I" Christi hit me with her new math textbook, almost making me choke on my food.

"Don't talk with your mouth full, you sound retarded!" she said as she stabbed her fork into her mac 'n cheese and eating it. I rolled my eyes at her and swallowed.

"Whatever. Anyway do you like you teachers so far?" she nodded and held up a finger telling me to be quiet for a minute. She then proceeded to put a hand over her mouth and started talking as best as she could.

"So far I like Mr. Burr and Miss Hickey, but I hate Mrs. Dunlap." And swallowed. "I mean she's like a bitch!" she shook her head "Oh how I hate her so. What about you?" she said taking another bite.

"Uh, Mr. Burr is ok, but other then him I have a super monotone teacher and a dumb blond." At that Christi kicked me, hard. "OW! What was that for?"

"No dumb blond jokes you know that." I rolled my eyes and avoided another one of her kicks. I looked away, and laughed at her pathetic attempt to kick me from across the table, when that feeling suddenly flooded through me. I looked around and my eyes just happened to fall upon Michael.

He was looking around for a place to sit that didn't already have people at it to no avail. After a while he looked down and sat down against the wall and began eating.

I looked at Christi who had been looking the same way as me. We knew what each other was thinking at that moment and we nodded at each other. "Should I invite him over or do you want to?"

"You can do it, it's a male bond thing." She said smiling as I nodded and headed over to where Michael was.

Michael didn't even notice that I was standing in front of him until I spoke. "Your name's Michael right?"

Michael looked up startled and stared at me for a moment before looking down. "Y-yeah my names Michael."

I smiled and nodded. "You and I are in first period together, I don't know if you recognize me."

Michael glanced up, as if confirming whether he knew me or not. "Yeah, your name was…Noah right?" he said nervously fiddling with his shirt.

"Yeah, that's right. Well I was wondering if you might want to sit with me and my friend Christi."

Michael looked up at me for a moment before responding. "Sure." He grabbed his backpack and tray and got up. I smiled and walked him back to our table. Christi smiled up at Michael as he sat down.

"Well, it seems you weren't scared off by Noah's hideous face, so you must have some guts in you." Christi said smiling pointing a fork at Noah. "Ha, well my names Christi and you were Michael right?"

Michael nodded as he poked a fork into today's chicken.

"So, Michael what classes are you taking?"

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6/James POV

I looked around the crowded lunch room nervously, looking for a seat at an empty table, but was unsuccessful. I sighed and looked down at the floor. I wasn't going to eat lunch, but I wanted to sit down somewhere and draw more of my visions.

One of my hands grabbed my book bag and held it closer to my side as I thought about earlier, and what happened to my drawings then; a wave of sadness went through my body. 'But found 3 and 4.' I thought trying to make myself feel better. 'That's good, and found 2 to.'

I smiled slightly remembering 2. Before, in my last life, I hadn't been that close to 2, but he and 5 would visit me occasionally just to see how I was doing, and he and 5 would help me whenever I was injured.

'5…' I thought. That hadn't gone as well as I had wanted it to. He didn't remember me at all. '"They will, just give them time." ' 5's words ran through my mind. "But, why can't they just remember now?" I muttered under my breath looking up for one final attempt to find an empty table.

I turned around and glanced at every table. After a second I stopped, staring fixated on one table, or more specifically the people who sat at the table. I smiled as the feeling suddenly flowed through me. 'I found them, I found them. 9 and 7, I found them.' I looked at the other person and noted that it was 5.

My eyes widened and I took a step back. 'I can't talk to them.' I realized. 'They, they don't remember me and…' I looked at 5. 'he's met me; he knows I'm a freak.'

~Talk to them. ~a voice in the back of my mind whispered.

I had heard this voice before, it was always there when I was having visions, or sometimes even if I wasn't.

'No, they won't like me they'll run just like 3 and 4.' I felt the small stinging in my eyes as I thought of the two, and when they actually ran from me.

~No they won't I promise they won't. ~

'Liar, you can't promise that.'

~Have I ever lied to you before?

N-no but,'

~Haven't I earned your trust? ~

'B-but'

~Trust me, it'll be ok. Just try to stay calm, and, for now at least, don't show them the drawings; don't try to have them remember. It will happen when the time is right. ~

I swallowed and nodded, making my way over to there table nervously. I glanced at the clock and noted that it was only 12:13. 'Twenty seven minutes before lunch is over. Twenty seven minutes with them.' I breathed out, trying to calm myself. The voice in the back of my mind telling me to be calm; that everything would be alright. It didn't feel that way at the moment though. My breathing quickened as I neared the table, I was only a few feet from it now. I could hear my heart beating in my ears as I shut my eyes, knowing how close I was and counted down the feet. "10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1." I whispered quietly, so that only I could hear it.

(A.N. so counting down from 10 actually helps if you are nervous or scared, and that's why 6/James did it. Not only to count the feet, but to try to feel better as well.)

I stopped in front of there table and opened my eyes. Some of the worry left my mind as I looked at them. 'They look just like they did when I drew them.'

The one I knew to be 9 stopped, and looked at me first, soon joined by 7 and then 5, who stared at me with a wide eye.

I opened my mouth to speak; it took a moment for me to make the words come out. "U-um w-would you m-mind i-if I sat here?"

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5/Michael POV

I stared at the boy standing in front of me. 'It's that guy from earlier.' I glanced down toward my bag, where the picture he had given me was.

"Sure." I heard Noah say; the boy from earlier smiled shyly and sat down.

"Hi, I'm Christi, what's your name?"

"James." He said quietly, his hands keeping busy by messing with the fabric of his shirt.

"Nice to meet you James. This is Noah and Michael." She said gesturing to the two of us. "Noah might be an ugly wimp and Michael quietly plotting for world domination, but there ok." She said smiling as Noah glared and I gave her a slightly confused look.

'One has to wonder where she comes up with this stuff.' I thought shaking my head.

"I am not ugly!" Noah said glaring at her.

"But you are a wimp."

"I am not!"

"Uh huh, prove it." She said crossing her arms with a triumphant smirk playing across her face.

"You know what forget you." Noah said turning away from her and looking at James. "Hi, I'm Noah, and forget Christi she's just a dumb blond." He said with a smirk.

"Take that back now!" she said giving him a death glare. I glanced over at James, who just sat there with a small smile while the two fought.

"Thank you for the picture earlier, I really like it." I said a small, forced, smile on my face. He just looked up quickly, nodded, and looked back down.

"Oh, you two have already met? Why didn't you tell me Michael?" she said glaring. Even thought I hadn't known her for that long I knew she was kidding as far as the glare went. It was weird though how close I felt to the two of them, even though we have only just met it feels like we've known each other for awhile.

"W-well, we just have second period together." I said as she continued to glare.

"Fine, but aren't forgiven yet. James is, but you're not." She said angrily. James looked up for a moment at the mention of his name, but looked down almost immediately.

'Forgiven for what? What did I do?' I thought confused, my mind going over every possible way that me not telling her that I knew James was a bad thing. My head was spinning as James laughed at me.

"Aw, now look what you've done. You made him confused. Ha, look at him!"

"Oh whatever." She said looking away as Noah continued to laugh at me and her expression.

I smiled and looked over at James, who was still looking down. His smile was a bit bigger then when I had last seen it. I couldn't see his eyes, both because his hair was covering them, and because of the light shining off of his glasses. 'At least he's smiling.' I thought as I redirected my thoughts toward the two others. I sighed and shook my head. "You two act like an old married couple." I muttered under my breath.

Suddenly both there heads snapped toward me. "What!!! We do not!!!" they said in unison.

The two proceeded to yell at me for thinking like that for the next five minutes before finally calming down, and began to ask questions to James, like they had done with me.

And that's how it was for the next week, before, due to a schedule change, twins named Chase and Chris joined our table. James, Noah, Christi, the twins, and I sat at the same table everyday. It was weird though, when we were around each other the feeling, that weird feeling, flooded inside me. It didn't feel bad though, it felt good, and I liked it a lot, and looked forward to lunch each day.

I started staying after school with Mr. Burr and we became friends quickly. It was still weird though, calling my teacher by his first name, but I got used to it quickly. Every once in a while James would join us and just watch or draw as Mr. Burr and I would talk.

Why did I feel like this though? Why does it feel like this has happened before, like I've met them before? I really don't know, but I also feel like it's meant to be, like we were meant to be friends, all of us. I haven't shared these feelings with the others, but I think they already knew, and have the same feelings as well.

Another thing that's weird also is that I want to call them things, numbers, like 9 or 7 but I don't. But I have to wonder why do I want to call them that, what is this feeling, and why is it only with them?

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Ok, well I don't exactly like the ending, but it'll have to do. The next chapter will take place a month later ok. So I hope you enjoyed, and keep reading!!! R&R R&R!!!