"Hey, Faye!" a voice was heard as Faye and Makoto left the lunch line, trays in hand. The cafeteria was full of noisy students. It wasn't really big enough either. Not enough room for tables. White round tables as well as rectangle ones sat all round, red chairs to make the place look not quiet so boring. A few paintings of people playing sports hung on the light cream colored walls.
"Huh?" Makoto and Faye said looking for a place to sit.
"Who was that?" Makoto asked looking around for the person who had called out Faye's name.
"It sounded like Rachel," Faye replied as she looked at the food on her lunch tray. Eww they call this food? she asked herself with a somewhat grossed out expression on her face.
"Hey!" they heard the voice call again.
"I'm sure that's Rachael," Faye said looking around, forgetting about the disgusting looking meat for a moment.
"Hey is that her?" Makoto asked pointing to a girl who was waving at them.
"Yup, that's her," Faye said as they headed over to the table where Sally, Rachel, Andi, and Kimie where sitting.
"Hi guys," Faye said as she and Makoto sat down with them.
"Hi," they all replied.
"Hmmm…. Makoto can we borrow Faye for a minute?" Sally asked.
"Uh… yeah, sure," Makoto replied kind of confused.
"Thank you, come here, Faye," Andi said grabbing Faye's arm as she and the other girls went to the girl's bathroom.
"What's wrong? Why'd you do that?" Faye asked when they got out of the cafeteria and into the part of the school called the Corral; it held the vending machines and was a place where people could hang out if they didn't want to sit in the cafeteria.
"What's going on, Faye?" Andi asked with a smile as she dragged Faye through the Corral and to the nearby girl's restroom.
"What do you mean?" Faye asked once they got in the bathroom and away from all the noise. There were only a few other girls in the bathroom, most of them were upperclassmen fixing their make up.
"What's up between you and Makoto?" Kimie said as they all crowed around Faye.
"Uh well, nothing really," Faye replied.
"Right… I saw you two hugging in the hallway," Sally said with a smile.
"What do you mean?" Faye asked somewhat blushing from the embarrassment.
"Don't play dumb. You like him don't you?" Rachel asked. Faye keeping them in sapience like this was driving them crazy. They were teenage girls after all. They wanted to know exactly what was going on between their best friend and this guy.
"No, I hate him. Like I said before he's a brat," Faye replied.
"Then why are you sitting with him and why did you hug him?" they asked.
"I didn't, he sat with me and he hugged me," Faye replied trying to defend herself from their questions.
"But you hugged him back so you must like him," Rachel said.
"No, I don't," Faye replied.
"Yes you do!" Andi said.
"How do you know?" she asked Andi, a girl with brown hair that came down to her shoulders. She was a little heavier then the other girls, but pretty none the less.
"Because he loves you. You have to love him back, that's how love works," Rachel said.
"And what if I don't love him?" Faye asked.
"Then it won't work," Kimie said, "If you don't love him then love doesn't work, and if love doesn't work then neither does happiness."
"Hey, excuse me?" Makoto said as he peeked in the door.
"Ahhhhhh!" all the girls in the bathroom screamed.
"Makoto, you can't be in here!" Faye yelled as they grabbed his arms and ran back into the cafeteria.
"I'm sorry, I just wanted to know where you were," Makoto said rubbing the back of his head in embarrassment. He'd seen what happens when a guy goes into the girl's bathroom in cartoons, but he didn't think that's what actually happened.
"Huh?" they all said as they watched everyone leave the cafeteria.
"Its time to go," Kimie said as she looked at the clock that hung high on the wall.
"Looks that way," Makoto replied.
"Well, we better go," Sally said.
"Yeah," Rachael replied as they began to walk.
"Ok, bye," Andi said as she and Sally walked to their last class.
"Only one class to go," Rachael said with a smile as everyone headed for their forth hour class.
"Yeah, hey where are you two headed?" Makoto asked as he saw Rachel and Faye start to walk away.
"Keyboarding," they both replied.
"I have Career Skills. That's just down the hall from the computer classes, can I walk with you?"
"Sure," Rachael said with a big smile.
"K thanks," Makoto said as they began to walk.
"No problem," Rachael replied.
"Hey Faye, are you doing anything tomorrow?" Makoto asked.
"Tomorrow? What's tomorrow?"
"Saturday," Rachael said.
"Saturday… no I have nothing to do," Faye replied as she thought about what there was to do.
"Cool, would you like to go to the mall with me? Sally, Rachael, Kimie, and Andi can come too," Makoto said.
"Umm… yeah I guess I can go," Faye replied. She was glad he said her friends could go, if it was just the two of them she would have said no.
"I can too? Hey would it be alright if the other girls and I brought our boyfriends along?" Rachael asked.
"Yeah sure," Makoto replied.
"But I don't have a boyfriend," Faye said as they neared the keyboarding class.
"I'll go with you, Faye," Makoto said.
"You have one now," Rachael said to Faye with a laugh.
"Well here's our class, bye Makoto," they both said and entered the room where black computers sat on the tables.
"Bye, I'll see you tomorrow. Meet me at the pizza restaurant, ok?" Makoto asked.
"Yeah, ok," Rachael replied as they went into their class.
"Why did you say that?" Faye asked as they sat down at their computers.
"Huh?" Rachael replied confused.
"That about me now having a boyfriend," Faye said as they read the board and began typing their lesson.
"Well you two are going out and I can tell you like him," Rachael said.
"I dunno," Faye replied as she entered her ID number and password.
"Well see, before you said you couldn't stand him and now you're not sure. That's a sign you like him."
"Really?" Faye asked as she typed.
"Oh yeah, definitely," Rachael replied. Faye knew to believe Rachel. She was very popular with the guys and had various boyfriends before. She knew what she was talking about.
"Oh I hate this class. It's so boring," Faye said after a few minutes of silence.
"Hey, why are you changing the subject?" Rachel asked. It was surprisingly quiet in the class, most of the other students either didn't have any friends in the class since it was a small class, or were listening to their cd players.
"I'm not, I'm just saying."
"Yeah sure… but yeah this class is boring. I can't wait till after school. We get to make our video," Rachel said.
"Yeah same here, but I have no clue what to say," Faye replied as she thought about the video.
"Just say what you feel," Rachel replied.
"Yeah, but I dunno what I feel. I feel so many different things I'm not sure which feeling is real."
"Hmmm…. I see, well I'm sure you'll figure out what to say," Rachel said.
"Yeah," Faye replied.
"So hey, what are you going to wear tomorrow?" Rachel asked.
"I'm not sure yet."
"Wear something nice but not to nice. We're going to the mall, not a fancy restaurant you know," Rachel said.
"Yeah, yeah," Faye replied.
"So do you really like Makoto? I mean in the same way he likes you?"
"I dunno, I like him but I don't think I love him."
"Well he loves you. You are so lucky your boyfriend is one of the cutest guys in school," Rachel said with a jealous smile.
"Hey, I never said he was my boyfriend," Faye replied.
"Well you act like it."
"Whatever," Faye said trying not to give in to the truth.
"Well at least you're his friend. That's better than what you were and today was a great day to become his friend."
"What?" Faye asked.
"You hated him remember?"
"Oh yeah, well I guess he's not so bad, but today sucked thanks to that report."
"Yeah but you got a new friend and a cute one at that," Rachel said with a smile.
"Yeah," Faye thought to herself, I guess today wasn't so bad. I did get a new friend.