A/N - An Orange Star is anybody that's an official part of the school. Just thought I'd let you know so that it didn't seem weird when they say stuff like, "You're an Orange Star."

Chapter Three - Being an Orange Star

Brentyn stayed back with Gohan for a minute. "Do they do this for everybody?" he asked Gohan.

"Yeah," Gohan said. "And it's not always as easy as it was today. The last new person has to get the new student to the back lawn. In this case, it was me, of course. But, before me was this girl, Brittany. Unfortunately, I didn't really want to cooperate. In the end, she nearly dragged me out here."

Both Gohan and Brentyn laughed. "I'm having a hard time imagining a girl drag you." He paused for a moment. "You know, it's a good thing they gave me the pin. I was starting to wonder where everybody had gotten theirs from."

"Yeah, well, Orange Star is big on school spirit, and tradition, too. I suppose, no matter what happens, you can always rely on Orange Star. Something really bad could happen, but you're part of one big family here. Here, you can call on people for support, and someone will come, because we all go to the same school."

Brentyn seemed surprised by Gohan's statement. "Really? At my old school, there wasn't a lot of school spirit. Maybe that's because we didn't really have anything to be spirited about. We didn't have money for anything."

He walked over to the table of food, and piled some cookies onto his plate. Gohan did the same. "So," Brentyn said, "now what?"

Gohan swallowed, and replied, "You stay here and eat until you're bored, I guess. You just leave when you feel like it." However, he no longer had all of Brentyn's attention. A bunch of other people were introducing themselves, and congratulating him, and just talking.

Somebody was pushing their way through the crowd. "Excuse me," she said. When students noticed her, they started to move away. Soon, everyone had backed up enough. She approached Brentyn with a big smile

"Hello, I'm Celeste, Orange Star's publications guru and the person responsible for the student directory." She shook his hand. "For the directory, I'd like to ask you a few questions. First, I'll need your full name, your phone number, your address, and your e-mail."

Brentyn stepped back a bit. Gohan guessed that his old school didn't have very extensive directories, if they had one at all. "Umm…My name is Brentyn Randall Crocker," he started.

Celeste had a notebook, and was jotting down the answers as he told her. "Okay, your birthday?"

"February twenty-second."

"Hobbies, or areas of interest?"

Brentyn paused. "Uh, percussion, singing, dancing, acting, and musical theatre."

Gohan just realized that she was carrying some sort of stand when she began to set it up. He figured out that all it did was support a sheet, to make a nice background for a picture.

"Okay, Brentyn. If you'd just stand in front of this for a picture for the directory."

Brentyn followed her directions. He smiled, and he had a look like he was sharing an inside joke with whoever was looking at the soon-to-be picture. Celeste had two cameras that she took his picture with. One was regular film and the other was digital. She took two pictures with each. I've also tried to ease the confusion by

"Thank you, that's all I will be needing for now," Celeste announced, and she walked off. Brentyn turned to Gohan.

Gohan just shook his head. "You'll have to excuse her. She does what she has to, to make a good directory. It can come off as rude sometimes. But it's really good. You can see tomorrow, what her smaller productions are like."

"You'll bring it in? I'd really like to see it," Brentyn said.

"No, no," Gohan said. "She makes her smaller productions throughout the year. It just has the information on the students currently attending Orange Star. Her big production is over the summer. It contains information on everybody that ever stayed at Orange Star for over a month. That means, of course, that they went through what you did today. But, all her directories are free, as long as you don't loose the one she gives you. Everybody attending Orange Star gets a small one as it is updated. Everyone that would be in the big one gets it over the summer.

Brentyn stepped back, not that there was really any reason to do so. "Really?" he asked incredulously. Gohan nodded. It was pretty normal for him now, but when he was new, he had felt the same way. "Isn't she, well, a bit obsessive?"

It was Gohan's turn to step back. "You don't say that kind of thing about a fellow Orange Star. We're like family, and that remark was like an insult. You just don't go around insulting your family. Not if you want to stay a part of it." Brentyn had a look that made Gohan think that he could hardly believe his ears.

"We can't kick you out of the school, but we can disown you. You know, like the opposite of what happened today. They take away your pin, your stuff, and they isolate you. I haven't seen one, but there is a girl here who got disowned. It was the girl you used to sit with at lunch."

"Used to? I sat with her almost everyday, including today!" Brentyn exclaimed.

Gohan chuckled. "That was all before you got accepted. You wait and see. You're life is going to be different, now that you're an official Orange Star."

Brentyn didn't say anything.

"If the insulting was lesson number one, then here's number two: You don't hang out with people who aren't an official Orange Star. If they haven't been there for a month yet, then being casual with them is acceptable. But if they're weren't accepted after a month, which is rare, since we like to give people a chance, or if they were disowned, then any association or contact is forbidden. It leads to becoming disowned yourself."

"There's so many rules. Don't do this, don't do that, you have to do this, and you'd better do that. How am I supposed to keep track of everything?"

Gohan was shocked at the mini outburst. "You'd better not let anybody else hear you say that. I'm cutting you a little slack since you're new, and I like you, but you should never mock our system if you want to a stay a part of it." He advanced on Brentyn. "You do want to be a part of all this, don't you?"

Brentyn stepped back. "Why, of course I do! I

Brentyn stepped back. "Of course I do. It's just that, I, um…"

Gohan didn't let Brentyn finish. "Then you've got to know and obey the rules." Brentyn opened his mouth to say something, but Gohan held up his hand. "The book's at the bottom of your bag."

Brentyn set the bag full of Orange Star stuff down, and stuck his hand in. From underneath the shirts, supplies, and whatnot, he pulled out a book. On the cover were the words, "Being an Orange Star."

"I suggest you study that book when you go home tonight. It's going to help a lot."

Brentyn nodded, picked up the bag, and headed off. Gohan smiled, and went to find a hiding place to change.

Special Thanks - Where I thank those who have reviewed my story so far…

Okay, thanks to SerinityRules and Takarra for reading and reviewing my second chapter.