A Table At Lunch

"I'm confused." I let my books fall on to the metal table in front of me and sat. She looked up at me with interest. "Can you just tell me everything so I'm not confused?" I crossed my arms in a definite pose. It felt weird and unnatural and I wished I hadn't done it, but I kept frozen still; I wasn't going to back down.

Her ten fingers tapped a rhythmic beat on the table-top as she observed my face. She smiled.

"It's not funny!" I glared at her. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Alec spot me at my new seating position. He threw a questioning look over, which I ignored.

Students around us were staring to stare. Felicity's usual posse were slowly walking, attempting to give me the hint to leave. Alec walked over.

"Jane, come on." I didn't look at him. People around were getting increasingly uncomfortable with our staring competition. My eyes started to itch as my scruffy contacts began to dry on to my eyes. This was bad; now if I blinked venom would eat away at them.

"Are you going to give in?" Her little harmonic voice chimed through a quietening cafeteria. I shook my head determined. She giggled. It was unfortunate that her friends had reached their regular table.

"Fey, um, are we gonna sit somewhere else today?" The girl in front asked. I didn't look at her because I was going to win. Felicity smiled and looked at her.

"Nah, Anna, guys sit down. These are my new friends." She looked back at us grinning. I tried to pull in my confused, horrified face but it wouldn't come. Not to worry, her friends looked just as horrified; or were they terrified?

The girl named Anna laughed politely. "Ohkay uh," she was stunned as Felicity turned back to her with the same heart-shattering smile. "Whatever." She sat down at the end of the table, her friends following her. I rolled my eyes and moaned silently, shifting over so Alec could sit next to me.

Awkward.

Felicity felt it. "Don't worry guys," she looked at us expectantly, "they won't bite." I sheepishly smiled at her comment. She winked at me. "So..."

Awkward.

"You guys heard about Jane and Alec, the transfers?" Some of her friends mumbled while others nodded. Felicity was beginning to realise that trying to incorporate us with all of the 'normal' students may not work out as planned. I noticed one small girl opposite me with straight black shoulder-length hair was staring non-stop at Alec. He had noticed to, he shifted his hands uncomfortably on his lap.

Awkward.

Felicity seemed to have saved herself by diving into a conversation with a curly haired brunette next to her. I snarled at her quietly knowing she would hear. Her moving lips stumbled as she received the threat. She glanced at me, rolled her eyes, and carried on with the conversation.

I really needed to blink. It was starting to get obvious.

"So, you speak Italian right?" Anna on the end of the table looked at us both, trying to break the ice. Our attention shifted to her. We stared; I think that just made the ice a little thicker. She wished she hadn't said anything.

"Yeah." Felicity entered the conversation. "They can." Her voice was clear, tight, trying to turn the capsized situation. Anna nodded.

"Cool..."

"They speak Latin too." Felicity looked at us, well, glared at us.

'Help me please!' By the way Alec bolted upright I knew he had heard it too. The guy sitting next to Alec jumped violently as he got a shock from Alec's sudden movement. His books flew onto the ground, and he fumbled as he slowly moved to pick them up.

"Cool..." Anna's voice trailed off again, uninterested.

"Yeah, we lived there all our lives, pretty much." I hardly recognised my voice as it tried to engage conversation with pathetic humans. Alec glanced at me in disbelief. Felicity looked at my sudden input, she too surprised. She smiled.

"Then how do you speak such good English?" The little girl who had been drooling over Alec piped up. I glanced at her.

"Uh, we leant it," I looked at Alec. He looked back unaware so I burnt his ear, a little. He flicked his head away from me. The humans observed out quick interaction with mild interest. Alec turned to her trying to smile.

"We learnt it because we went to a school where English is compulsory." He lied out, unsure whether it would work. "The building is massive, almost like a castle. We learnt in a tower, in a very special room..." he trailed off and I was reminded of our counsel room. Smooth Alec...

"Whoa!" The girl whom Felicity had been speaking to earlier began talking. "So you're like, trilingual's." I frowned at her logic.

"Yeah, I guess..." I trailed off.

"Cool!" This time the word was used in awe.

For the last twenty minutes of lunch both Alec and I were grilled for answers to simple human questions. Laughter erupted the loudest from our table from jokes, teasing remarks or idiotic questions that were asked with premature thinking.

I never knew that I could feel so important.

Aw I love Jane..she's sweet when she wants to be..I'm running out of ideas/twists to go into the story so if you have any suggestions feel free to tell reviews are magic!.so thank you X