As, Marron and Ariana walked into the lunchroom, they noticed there were no seats where the two could sit together. Ariana let out a small sigh of disappointment. Marron motioned to the seat between Aya and Duo. Ariana paled a little at the idea of sitting next to Aya. But he didn't even seem to notice when Marron pulled out her chair, and seated her in it. Then, Marron went across the table to sit between Wufei and Ken. From his seat, Marron looked directly at Aya and Yohji, who sat to Aya's left. Looking down the row, he noted that Duo sat between Ariana, who was on his left, and Heero, who was on his right at the end of the table. Next to Marron, on his left, was Ken, who sat next to Liz, with Trowa at the end of the table across from Heero. To his right, was Wufei, and Quatre assumed host position at the head of the table. Splayed out before them, was a large variety of foods, catering to everyone's tastes. Aya, Yohji, Wufei and Heero had fixed themselves with the typical bowl of rice and were eating mainly Asian foods. Quatre and Trowa both chewed on sandwiches and such, while Duo seemed to have a large mound of assorted foods on his plate. Surprisingly, the mound was almost gone, though Duo had just started. Liz and Ken stared at the boy across from them, engorging himself. It seems Duo didn't even bother chewing, he just shoveled food into his mouth, swallowed, and kept shoveling. Heero and Trowa didn't take much notice of the display of eating manners that situated their end of the table, as both efficiently and quietly ate their food. The two athletes of the pack, Liz and Ken had mainly taken fruits and vegetables to eat.

Ariana smiled, and handed Marron a bowl of miso soup, as she noticed he hadn't taken any food for himself. He just smiled back, reaching for the bowl. As he took the bowl from her, his hand touched hers warmly. Taking the bowl was as much of a caress as his touch earlier. Ariana blushed a little. Surprisingly, so did Marron. Unfortunately, Ariana almost dropped the soup all across the table as Duo shouted noisily into her ear.

"Yo, Ariana. Pass the mustard!" Duo spoke with food falling out of his mouth. Ariana gave him a disgusted but amused look. Before, she could reach the small jar of mustard, Aya picked it up and basically threw it at Duo. Not thinking much of it, Duo caught the flying projectile, and muttered his thanks. Aya and Marron had a glaring contest across the table. Liz didn't really like Aya all that much anymore. And was more and more scared for Ariana, since she was sitting next to him.

"Here eat this." Liz was caught off-guard when Trowa pushed his fork in front of her mouth. She just blinked at him, not sure of what to do.

"It will give you energy." was all he said.

Not particularly thinking, Liz just opened her mouth, and took in Trowa's fork. Trowa's eyes widened a fraction, as he watched his fork disappear into her mouth. Ken watched, not pleased with the situation. Oblivious, Liz just smiled at Trowa and turned to continue eating her fruit. (She hadn't really taken any vegetables since she despises them.) Ken looked at the bowl in front of her and blinked.

"What's that?" he questioned.

"Huh?" Liz looked at him curiously.

"You don't know what grapefruit is?" she asked unbelieving.

Ken blushed, "That doesn't look much like a grape." he pointed out.

Liz looked flustered, "Well, I guess not, but that's not why its called grapefruit."

"Then why?"

"Um, I don't know." Liz answered shyly, "It's good though."

"Oh" was all Ken said before turning back to his plate.

She smiled at him and offered the piece on her spoon, "Here, try some."

Ken looked at her bashfully, and slowly took the spoon into his mouth.

"Good?" she asked, still smiling.

"Yea." Ken was blushing so bad, it should have been hard for Liz to be so ignorant. But alas, she still didn't get it.

"Yo, can I try some?" Duo said, open the gaping hole that was his mouth at Liz. Liz looked down at her grapefruit, and was about to reach across the table, when Heero shoved his spoon in the braided baka's mouth.

"ACK!" Duo began coughing and spit out the disgusting piece of brussel sprout that Heero had just shoved down his throat.

"ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL ME OR WHAT!?" Duo shouted after he had chugged down two whole sodas.

"It wouldn't hurt to try eating vegetables every once in awhile, Duo." Heero stated calmly, still eating his tofu and rice.

"KISAMA MAXWELL!!" everyone turned to a red-faced Wufei who had Duo's spit- covered brussel sprout stuck to his forehead.

Duo began sputtering, but before anything coherent could come out, Wufei pushed back from the table, and stalked out of the room.

"Shit!" Duo began to get up from the table to chase down the Chinese pilot and apologize, but Heero grabbed him and shoved him back into his seat.

"Let him cool off." Heero growled.

Duo sat back down but didn't seem too happy. Liz looked at Wufei's untouched lunch and his empty seat and sighed sadly. Then she turned back to her food, thought of something, and began eating with enthusiasm. Everyone else went back to their lunches with an ackward air floating around them. Nobody talked much, until, Liz pushed back from the table, and jumped up.

"I'm done." she shouted excitedly. "May I be excused?"

"Yea, sure." Quatre gave her a curious look.

She asked where the kitchen was and left suddenly.

Everyone turned to look at Ariana, who just sat there dumbfounded.

"WHAT?!" she cried incredulously.

"She's your friend." Duo pointed out.

"SO!?" Ariana shouted back.

"Is she normally like this?" Ken asked.

"No. I don't know what's with her today." Ariana huffed, and returned to her soup.