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*Well, that went great,* she thought sarcastically to herself as she stepped out of the school's main office. As she checked her watch, she realized that she had been filling out forms for nearly an hour and a half, (which mostly consisted of well-thought up lies because she wasn't about to tell anyone that her mother was no longer alive and she had no clue about her father. Not to mention the fact that at the moment she lived on the streets and hardly had any money - they'd probably have her shipped straight to some sort of orphanage. *However, the thought did cross her mind that she would be much safer from them in an orphanage than she would be on the streets*

She looked at the time table that she had been given and noticed that her lunch break began in five minutes.

*Good,* she thought, *I am getting rather hungry*.

She walked down the hallway in the direction that she was told she would find her locker. As she started trying out her combination, the bell rang and students started piling out into the halls.

*C'mon,* she thought. *Open up already!* She tugged at her locker for the fifth time.

"Vould you like a hand?"

She turned to find what she thought to be a good-looking boy about her age standing beside her.

"Uh...sure,* she said shyly.

"You just have to give it a vittle hit," he said while he demonstrated. Sure enough, the locker door swung open,

"Thanks," Jessalyn replied with a smile as she stuffed in her duffle bag and the textbooks that she had been given at the office.

"Not a problem," he replied with a wave of his hand.

"Hey Kurt!" yelled a voice from down the hallway.

"Just a sec!" the boy yelled back. "And, uh, by the way, I'm Kurt," he continued as he turned back to face Jessalyn.

Jessalyn smiled at the already obvious comment. But just as she was about to introduce herself, a hand grabbed a hold of Kurt's shoulder swinging him around.

"Kurt, c'mon, let's get going. I'm starved," said a tall boy with brown hair and sunglasses, almost completely ignoring Jessalyn. He started dragging Kurt away as he protested but soon gave up because of Scott's strong grip on the back of his shirt.

"I - I'm sorry!" Kurt yelled to Jessalyn over the loud talking between the many students in the heavily populated hallway. "Maybe see you around, no?" And then he was out of earshot.

"Well, I almost made a new friend," sighed Jessalyn to herself. "And a cute one at that," she added as she smiled to herself. She then followed the majority of the students into what she hoped to be the cafeteria.

*Man, what a line up that was," Jessalyn thought to herself as she looked around for a place to sit in the nearly full cafeteria. She found one half empty table near a window. She walked over to the other side of the cafeteria where the empty seat was located and sat down with her lunch.

"Hey man, who's that?" as Todd from a couple tables over. One that Jessalyn had walked past to get to her seat.

"Who's who?" replied Lance still looking down at the quarter he was spinning on the table.

"Yo man, that chick over there by the window. The one with the blond hair."

Letting his quarter drop, Lance looked up in the direction Todd was pointing. "I have no idea, man," he said. "But one thing's for sure. If Pietro gets a look at her, then you can bet that she won't know what hit her. A good lookin' thang like that doesn't stand a chance against Pietro."

"Whodoesn'tstandachanceagainstme?" Pietro had just joined them.

"That chick over there."

Looking towards the direction that Lance had his head pointed to, Pietro caught sight of Jessalyn. "Man, that is one fine feminine figure, fellas." And then with an evil smile and raised eyebrows, he added, "And she will be the next one to fall in love with the irresistable and enchanting, Pietro."

The rest of the guys just rolled their eyes.

"What's stopping you then?" asked Lance. "Why don't you go over there and see if your theory holds true?" He knew that no girl had ever been able to resist Pietro before, but he was just so sick of his bragging about it that he wanted to get rid of him. And the best way to get Pietro to do something you want him to, is to challenge him.

Narrowing his eyes Pietro said, "FinethenIwill." He held his glare on Lance for a few seconds longer. "But you're all forgetting one thing. I can have ANY girl that I want. This will be a breeze!" And with that confident note, he headed off to Jessalyn's table.