Parking lot

Katkin stops her BMX-bike by a lamppost where they usually meet, and checks the time on her phone. She's just a few minutes early. She had biked all the way to the stable, taken care of the horses, and biked back. All during Thea and Dabrias practices. She and Bree had hung out on the lunchbreak, and realised they had pretty much in common. Katkin thought Bree seemed cool, and invited her to meet her other friends.

As Katkin sits there, waiting, she sees a car roll up on the other side of the parking lot. A person comes walking up to it from somewhere behind the school building. The person seems to be talking to the driver through the side window. They exchanges something and the car drives away. The person looks around, sees Katkin, and starts walking towards her. Katkin squints her eyes, and as the person gets closer she realises that it's Sel.

Sel reaches Katkin, and as he does, he feels a mix of smells he can't really sort out.

"What is that?" He asks and wrinkle his nose a little.

Katkin raises her eyebrows, unimpressed.

"Probably both horseshit, horse, and maybe sweat? But really are you the one who should ask?" She says and points to what Sel is holding.

Sel looks at the little package in his hand, and then puts it in his bag.

"No worries, it's not drugs or anything, I only smoke what I grow at home."

Katkin holds her eyes locked at Sel. He eventually sighs and holds his hand up in defence.

"It's for a project I'm working on. It's gunpowder."

"Are you making a bomb?" A new voice makes both Katkin and Sel turn around.

Dabria is standing beside them, and now it's she who has a judging look on her face.

"No not really. More like a fire explosion…" Sel tries to explain.

"Sounds like a bomb to me." Katkin cuts him of.

Sel just shakes his head.

"I'll show you when it's done. Anyway, where's Thea?"

"Saying goodbye to Amber." Dabria points with her thumb over her shoulder.

Sel and Katkin looks over towards the football changing rooms. Sure enough they can see Thea giving an intense goodbye kiss to a redheaded girl. They look back at Dabria.

"I thought they had some kind of a break?" Sel asks.

"Dude don't ask me. I'm just happy that they can play together on the field."

Thea walks up to them. They all greet each other.

"So what are you guys talking about?"

"Nothing important. Sel is building a bomb." Dabria shrugs.

Before Thea can answer, Katkin cuts of and says that they should leave now if they want to eat their burgers before McDonalds closes.

Burgers

They all make their orders and sits in their regular corner at the back of the semi-empty restaurant. Thea immediately starts eating. Dabria looks to Katkin.

"Did you say that there was someone we were supposed to meet?"

"Yes! I met a girl named Bree today. And I think that you all will like her too."

Thea gives a thumbs up, one hand still holding the burger she's eating. Sel leans in over the table.

"So you like her huh?" He smirks.

"No not like that. we just talked and really hit it off. Nothing like that at all."

"Yet." Sel winks.

Soon enough, Kaktin sees Bree enter the restaurant. She stands up to meet her, and waits with her as she makes her order. When they reach the table, Katkin introduces everyone, and they sit down and eat.

"So what is it that you do Bree? Like what's your thing?" Thea asks as she's finished her burger first.

"My thing? Well we go to the same school, nothing much to say there. I'm involved in the anti-bullying group, and help keep the halls safe I guess. I live with my aunt, and like to shoot in my freetime."

"Shoot?" Dabria looks suspicious.

"Yes. Mainly anything that can fire projectiles. But I have this really nice crossbow that I built myself, following a youtube video. I don't know. It's fun."

"Building stuff from youtube? Sounds like you could get along pretty well with Sel. He composes the weirdest things." Dabria says and shoulder bumps Sel who's sitting next to her.

"Well you didn't call my ice-cube-water-balloons weird when you could use them to prank Garthan."

"Ha! No those came in real handy!"

The gang laughs at the shared memory, but Bree looks a little concerned.

"Don't worry bully-cop, Garthan can take care of himself. You could say we have kind of a prank war with him and his friends." Thea tries to lighten Bree up.

"Yeah. you should have seen that time Katkin sneaked one of Sel's famous stink bombs into Bethany's locker." Dabria fills in.

Bree isn't fully convinced about the fun in pranking, but lets it go and decides to just try to have fun with her new friends instead.