"I'm just saying," Terezi said whilst pushing her mashed potatoes around on her plate, "I can't see why you guys think that this can be sold in a 'school thingy'."
"You can't see because you're blind Terezi." Dave chuckled as he stared down at his own plate, "And, yes. This sucks ass."
John scooted closer to the group as he talked, "I don't get why you don't just make your own lunch and bring it in."
"Eh," Terezi shrugged, licking her plate and spitting the gross paste out again and shuddering.
"Hey," John asked, "Where are your friends Terezi?"
"Are you suggesting we're not friends?"
John shook his head violently.
"No no! I mean, you have threatened to kill me a few times but that's not what I meant. I mean like... Your troll buds."
Dave snorted, "Troll buds?"
John kicked him in the shin and he groaned.
"I don't know," their grey skinned friend mumbled, adjusting her red specs, "I don't know where Vriska ran off too. And I haven't seen your Human associates either. Sollux had to find his bro, Eridan went with Feferi and Tavros... No clue."
"I have no clue who the fuck they are but pretending I did, are those the ones in your class?"
"Yup. But shouldn't you know where your classmates are?"
"Well, we had art. Which is a split group anyway. So we only saw Karkat, Kanaya and Gamzo."
Terezi scoffed.
"You mean Gamzee?"
"Yeah sure."
Dave took a tiny bite of the meat on his plate before answering.
"Betcha Karkats lost. Or got stuck in a vending machine somewhere."
He and Terezi giggled wildly before spotting some horned students lining up for lunch. John and Dave threw a glance at Terezi, expecting her to elaborate.
"Umm, I smell my sis and her friends and I think... Gamzee and Karkat."
"You can smell that?"
She grinned and waved to her companions. They headed towards their lunch table and Karkat sat next to John whilst Gamzee squeezed himself next to him to be with his 'Best motherfucking friend'.
"Hello Karkat. How ya liking your first day?" Terezi mockingly asked as she lightly kicked him under the table.
Karkat just grumbled and stared at his lunch displeasingly. Not that he was ever pleased though.
John stared across the table to his shade wearing best friend. Even with his sunglasses John noticed Dave had hardly taken his eyes off Karkat ever since he sat down. John gave him a little kick, to send a subtle message that he was being rude. Dave jumped a little, his sunglasses slipped down a bit and his cheeks speckled with a slight redness, suggesting a blush.
John raised an eyebrow and took a bite of the ham sandwich his father prepared for him.
He was the only one at the table who had brought his own lunch with him and wasn't forced to eat the mess the cafeteria served.
"So... Karkat." John asked, turning his head towards him.
"What?"
"Gonna introduce us to your pal there?"
Karkat turned and looked at Gamzee, who was pressed up uncomfortably close to him.
"This..." he began, "Is Gamzee. My sore excuse for a moirail."
Gamzee waved at john, his expression staying calm and relaxed. John found his clown-like face paint a little intimidating but all in all he seemed nice enough.
"Whats a moirail?" Dave asked.
"A moirail is like your soul mate," he said throwing a glance at Dave, "But in a human friendship sorta way."
Karkat continued to try an explain their Quadrants until Rose, Jade and Kanaya turned up.
"Oh hey, Kanaya." Karkat mumbled as he saw his friend approach.
Kanaya waved at him and sat down opposite him. Rose sat herself next to her and they continued a conversation they were probably having earlier as they chatted excitedly about something.
"Hi!" Jade chirped, standing in front of their table, "Oh Dave! How's your arm?"
Dave looked down at his red cast, little scribbles scrawled all over it.
"Meh. It's ok I guess."
"Can I sign it?"
He nodded as she took out a black pen from her squiddle bejeweled pencil case. Then she wrote in cute, curly letters: Get well soon! -Jade :)
"Hey, I want to sign too!" Terezi groaned, reaching out for Jade's pen.
"Me too!" John and several other students crowded around him, desperate to sign his arm.
At the end he had many little messages written on his cast. Some of the more memorable ones were: 'Stop breaking shit.' and 'Dumbass.' but Dave didn't need a signature to know who they were from.
After they had finished lunch, the group separated and headed back to class for their final two lessons. Dave and John volunteered to walk with Karkat and his 'Troll Buds' to their next class, seeing as they had it together.
"So, uh," John said as he walked next to Kanaya, "How are you finding school so far... Kanaya, right?"
"Yes, and it's alright, which is pleasantly surprising. However I do find some things rather confusing."
"Yeah? What do you find confusing?" he asked, walking a bit further ahead from Dave, Karkat and Gamzee (who was way behind).
"I don't really understand learning all the other languages, especially French."
John grinned and turned around the corner, heading towards the Music classroom.
"I take it trolls didn't learn other languages than English?"
She shook her head.
"I'm sure Rose will give you a hand." he said opening the door, "She's s french master!"
Kanaya smiled before she spoke, "Yes, she has offered. I think I will accept her offer."
The two of them sat down on the little stools set out in the room and sat in a slight awkward silence until the others arrived.
In the meantime Dave had been held up in the hall, waiting for Karkat and Gamzee.
"Karkitty!" a short, grey-skinned girl approached them, flinging her arms around Karkat.
Karkat groaned before answering, "Hello Nepeta."
"Nepeta. Remove yourself from Karkat immediately. I believe you're making him uncomfortable." a stern voice scolded the tiny cat-like troll.
"But Equius..."
With a groan Nepeta jumped back and pouted.
"Where are you guys going next?" Karkat demanded, folding his arms making him seem like a bratty child.
"To Meowsic class!"
"...Meowsic class?" Dave, who had been standing next to them the whole time, asked skeptically.
The small troll girl stomped her foot angrily.
"She means Music class. Its her cat-like quirk." Karkat said and turned to Equius, "And that's the same class as us. Let's just walk over there now."
"Alright. But I don't know the whereabouts of the classroom." Equius mentioned.
"Walk with us," Karkat sighed and pointed to Dave, "He'll show us."
"I have a name, you know."
"Yeah-yeah-yeah, DAVE will show us."
Dave sighed and nodded. They started walking down the hall to the music classroom.
"Hey Dave?" Nepeta warbled and walked next to him, "What is music class?"
"Well," he said as he distanced himself a little from her, "We just sing a bit and play instruments. It's not much and it's kinda boring."
"Ah, alright!" She said cheerfully.
"Here we are." Dave pointed to the wooden door labeled 'Music Room A'.
Next to it was a little sign with the timetables of the class. Dave could see the little 'Music 7A' written in at 1.30 p.m. That was their class.
"Hey! What took you guys so long!" John yelled from across the room.
Dave shoved out a sarcastic apology before grabbing a stool and placing in next to John's. The others did the same, forming a tiny circle around the glasseswearing boy.
Finally, once all the students assembled, the teacher Mr. Boxcars entered the room.
As he began talking, John started whispering to Kanaya.
"Hey Kanaya. Do you guys play any instruments?"
She pondered a moment.
"Well, we did have some similar devices," she began, "But I don't believe any of us were notably talented or even interested in the subject."
"Plus," Nepeta hushed, obviously having eavesdropped the conversation, "I'm pretty sure Karkat's not aloud anywhere near them."
"Hey!" Karkat exclaimed loudly, resulting in a stern look from Mr. Boxcars.
Kanaya chuckled quietly.
"We'll have to wait and see then."
"Dirk! Hey wait up!"
Dirk stopped and turned around to see Roxy waving and running up to him.
"Roxy? Where were you this morning?" He asked her once she caught up to him.
"It's a long story," she huffed, walking with him towards the cafeteria, "But anyway, let's go eat lunch kay?"
Dirk nodded and she grabbed his hand and dragged him the cafeteria. Once they arrived Roxy waved to the table where Jane and Jake were sitting.
"Hi Roxy! You made it back, I see?" Jake said as he unpacked his lunch.
She grinned and slid down the bench to Jane, who was knocked over again by the force of Lalonde.
"Roxy! Watch out!" Jane grumbled, picking up the tupperware box that had been thrown onto the floor.
"Sorry Janey!" Roxy said as she helped her pick her lunch back up, "What's this?"
"My lunch."
"No shit." Dirk interjected and Jane stuck her tongue out at him.
"I meant what dya got for lunch?"
"Well," Jane explained as she opened her lunchbox, "I made a chicken salad yesterday. So its leftovers for me."
"Salad?" Roxy spluttered, "Jane, don't you hate salad?"
"Well... It's not that bad... and... yeah."
Dirk and Roxy exchanged a glance before turning back to Jane again.
"Jane, are you ok?" Dirk asked, sounding concerned.
"What?" Jane snapped, "Just because I'm eating healthy? You think I can't?!"
"No, Janey-" Roxy said, reaching out for her best friends hand but Jane just pulled it away.
"I... I don't wanna deal with this right now. I'm just sick of- Agh, never mind."
She stood up and left, without even packing up. Roxy naturally ran after her, leaving Jake and Dirk speechless at the table.
"Should we-?" Jake asked nervously as he stared in the direction the two girls ran off in.
Dirk shook his head.
"Roxy can handle it."
"Oh, alright then."