Jane was sixteen. A new year had jut started.
She was now alone, again, as, she thought, was her natural state. No friends, no annoying siblings waiting inside la Casa Lane, no Daniel. All she had was Trent, who was spending most of his time sleeping in his room or practicing with his band, Mystik Spiral. They used to play sometimes at a place called The Zon. She used to be the director of band graphics but after that controversy among the the band members about what side was the direction that the spiral of the band's logo was supposed to have, she quit.
She was going to those stupid special classes after school, to treat her problem of low self-esteem. She didn't really have low self-esteem. She was just taking the classes every year, even though she already knew how to get out of there, because it was at least something to kill the time.
She sat behind a girl with brown hair, a green coat, combat boots, a skirt and glasses.
I haven't seen her before, thought Jane, she must be new.
"Excuse me?" said the girl while Mr. O'Neill, the teacher that was in charge of the self-esteem classes every year, kept talking.
"He doesn't know what it means" she explained to the new girl "he's got the speech memorized. Just enjoy the nice man's soothing voice".
Jane was always glad that she had decided to apply for those classes that year again, that she had sat there and, most important, that she had decided to talk to that brown-haired girl in front of her, Daria.
"We could hang out on the weekends and eat pizza" was, thought Jane, the best phrase-and also almost the only one- that she had ever used to befriend someone like Daria.
Note: I know they didn't use that phrase on the show, at least not in the first episode, but I just really liked it.