We Meet Again

Ch. 2


The next morning, Shenzi woke up bright and cheery; She was really eager to tell Chuckie where they met. She just didn't realize that he already knew. After putting on her glasses and taking a shower, she dressed herself for the day; She put on a white, sleeveless dress with black bats, polka dots, and collar, black socks that reached just above her knees with two grey stripes on each of them, simple black combat boots, and black bat earrings. After clipping a white extension in her bangs, she pulled a black chiffon bow headband on her head, leaving her hair down. She dashed downstairs where Felicia, Frankie, and her breakfast were waiting for her. On the way, she heard them talking about the fiasco in New York that her father reminded her about the night before.

Frankie was already dressed for the day, in a neon pink and green sleeveless dress, with cut-outs on the sides, a turquoise bow-back top with short, lace sleeves under it, a neon pink and green striped hoodie with cat ears on the hood, rainbow combat boots, umbrella stud earrings, a music note charm ear cuff on her left ear, and a neon shapes charm cuff on her right. Her hair was in a half ponytail once again, with a black chiffon bow band. "You look colorful today, sis," She remarked before eating a spoonful of milk-less Lucky Charms.

"Yeah," Frankie shrugged, "I was in a bit of a colorful mood after I woke up. You seemed to be a bit late."

"I couldn't sleep last night," Shenzi explained, "All I could think about was that now, we know where we met Tommy and his friends!"

"I was pretty excited about it too," The blonde admitted as she finished her breakfast; She had a head-start due to waking up earlier. After Shenzi finished hers, they ran out the door after grabbing everything they needed. This time, they arrived at the bus stop a bit earlier. After around a minute, the bus drove up so they boarded and sat around in the middle. Their friends were surprised to see them not rushing in.

"You guys are early," Roxy remarked.

"Yea," Frankie shrugged, "We just had a bit of an early start. By the way, our parents told me and Shenzi where we met those kids at!"

"They did? They told me and Matt too!" Maxie said in surprise.

"We were told too," Bobby chimed in.

"I was hardly able to sleep last night," Shenzi remarked, "I was almost late for breakfast. Man, why's this bus going so slow?! Let's go!" She exclaimed excitedly, while kicking her legs.

"Hold your horses there, young lady!" Lou exclaimed back to her, "I'm only going as quickly as the law tells me to."

Soon enough, after what seemed like years to the four-eyed girl, they arrived at the building. As soon as the bus door was opened, Shenzi sped out like a rocket. "S-sorry about her," Frankie sheepishly apologized to Lou, "She gets excited."

"Think nothin' of it," He assured her, "My two grandsons are the same way. Now you and your friends have a good day, y'hear?"

"We will," Frankie giggled, before she walked out of the bus, and along the sidewalk with Maxie, Matt and the twins following. As they readied themselves for their history class, Shenzi was dashing up and down the halls like Sonic on coffee, narrowly dodging her fellow students. "That's my baby sister," Frankie giggled.

"Yep," Maxie nodded in agreement.

"Chuckie! Chuckie Finster! I have something important to tell you! Where's Chuckie?!"

"Oh boy," Maxie shook his head, "She'll be in the nurse's office, or Pangborn's, for looniness before Chuck even hears her."

"And I thought Matt was off," Frankie muttered.

"I'll take that as a compliment," Matt smirked.

Meanwhile, Shenzi was still running around the halls like she was in a marathon, looking for the redhead. "Chuckie!" When she ran around a corner, she suddenly collided with another body, making her fall forward, and the other person fall backwards. She even felt something thin and light fall on her head, just behind her bangs. When she looked down after recovering from the fall, she saw that she had collided with the redhead that she was looking for. Their faces were only inches apart. "Found you," She giggled. Just then, she noticed something: Where were his glasses? "What happened to your...?" She was about to ask him, when she realized that they had shot up from the fall, and landed on her head. "O-oh." Feeling embarrassed, she carefully grabbed his glasses, and handed them to him. "Here; Sorry about that."

(A/N: That part with her falling on top of him was celrock's idea!)

"It's alright, thanks," Chuckie accepted his glasses and put them back on his face. "So, what's the big emergency?"

"I have something to tell you. Something important," She replied.

"I do too, to you," He told her as he adjusted his glasses. "My, my dad told me where my friends and I met you and your friends."

"Really?" Her eyes widened in shock, "I was told the exact same thing!"

"Were you told that you and your friends got lost in Manhattan around Christmas time, almost 10 years ago?"

"Uh huh!" She nodded, secretly getting excited.

"Well, that same thing happened to me and my friends; And at the same time too. According to my dad, we met while we were all lost."

"C-cool," She started to calm down. There was some awkward silence between them, before the bell rang. "Come on Chuck," She smiled at her new(?) friend, "Let's get to history."

"Fun, fun," He smirked; Hand-in-hand, the two headed for their first class together.


The day went very good for Shenzi, so far. The history teacher mistakenly assumed that she and Chuckie had already hooked up, due to them holding hands upon arriving in the classroom, and they denied his claim. She and her friends re-met Tommy, Dil, Kimi Finster, and twins Phil and Lil DeVille.

They even re-met 12-year-old Angelica Pickles; She was in a red turteneck tank top, a purple skirt, floral platform slides, a light turquoise waist belt, silver hoop earrings, and lilac purple eye shadow. They were also introduced to 12-year-old Susie Carmichael, whom they didn't meet in Manhattan all those years ago. The African-American girl was in a cropped, purple t-shirt, denim capris, red Converse low-tops, a light pink bracelet above two that were hot pink on her left wrist, a turquoise stretch bracelet on her right, a green bomber jacket, alexandrite stud earrings, and a hot pink bandana in her dreadlocked hair, which was in a high ponytail.

But soon came the class that Shenzi was dreading the whole day: Phys ed. She considered ditching, but she didn't want to worry anyone, so she kept her uneasiness to herself. Plus she didn't want to get in trouble on only her 2nd day. She pulled on her blue ombre velour shorts under her dress, her white knee socks with black stripes, black and blue Converse low-tops, and replaced the white extension in her bangs with one in a berry blue color, and her bat earrings with spike barbells.

After shyly stripping out of her dress and putting on her white sports bra, she realized that the same ringer t-shirt that she wore yesterday was in there. She must've thrown it in while getting ready in a hurry. Feeling more dread, she reluctantly pulled it on over her head, wishing that the hem would magically go down to her waist. She stayed silent while Frankie, Roxy, Kimi, and Lil made small talk. After discovering where they had met, they were making up for the "lost time" by bonding once again. After they were dressed, the girls headed for the gym. When they lined up for the start of the class, and after stretching, she saw Chuckie in the boys' line; She waved to him after he saw her, and he waved back with a smile. When she saw him gesture to his hair, she realized: Hers was still down. So she hastily pulled it up in a low ponytail with the hair band on her wrist. She felt a few strands fall loose, but made no move to fix them. She felt some eyes on her when her shirt had ridden up from her movements.

"Mornin', ladies!" Pangborn's loud, yelling voice startled the new kids, as Shenzi squeaked again. She was never going to get used to that.

After they were loudly assigned to perform certain exercises, they went to do them; Shenzi was doing pull-ups with some other kids in the class. She felt uncomfortable when her arms were straight up; She knew that her shirt was ridden up once again every time, so her belly button was visible for the whole class to see. When she performed her assigned exercise, she could see Mr. Pangborn taking occasional, unnecesarily long glances at her. Her breath hitched in surprise when someone suddenly stood next to her, but relaxed when she saw it was Chuckie. "Hey Shen," He smiled as he started doing pull-ups with her.

"H-hi," She smiled back. Just then, she realized something: No matter what situation she was in, she always felt comfortable when Chuckie was around. She was going to like it in Jim Jr. High School; She knew it.


(A/N: There you have it; They're friends again! You know the disclaimer.)