Chapter 2

It turned out that the silver haired guy and Kyo were in Ryouko's next class, so she had no objection to being walked there. When they arrived, Ryouko noticed Kyo tense up as the silver haired guy came into view.

Sitting down, she found herself between Kyo and the silver haired guy again. She was so wrapped up in thinking about the bracelet on Kyo's wrist; she almost didn't notice Kyo staring daggers at the guy on the other side of her.

When the all the students left for lunch, Ryouko found herself forced to eat alone, as no one would come within 10 feet of her. Sighing, Ryouko sat down under a tree, grateful for the shade on the hot day. She gazed out to all the other students, happily eating their lunch and chatting with their friends.

Sighing again, she opened her lunch box as three girls walked up to her. One with shoulder length blond hair, one with long brown hair and yellow ribbons in her hair, and the other with long black hair tied back in a braid.

The blond one cleared her throat. "You do realize you're in our spot?"

Ryouko looked up. "I am?"

"Yeah, this is our spot under the tree, so move, before I make you"

The brown haired one spoke timidly. "Uo, can't you see she's new?" She gestured to Ryouko's uniform, the one of her old school. "How was she supposed to know that this is our spot?"

"Oh, well I guess you're right Tohru." Uo said, slightly taken aback. "Well this is our spot anyways, remember that" she said to Ryouko.

The one with black hair spoke up, her voice mysterious "Her waves, they are… different, strange."

Ryouko froze. No, she couldn't know, but what if she does? What would happen? No! Don't think about it.

Tohru laughed, "Don't let Hana scared you, she just has her wave report whenever she meets someone new." Tohru smiled, "Seeing as you're eating alone, would you like to eat with us?"

"Um, ok." Ryouko said.

Tohru, Hana, and Uo promptly sat down and opened their lunch boxes and started talking away, and eating their lunches.

This was the first time Ryouko had ever had friends to eat her lunch with, the fist time someone had ever come up to her and not turn away in disgust.

Well Ryouko thought Not the first time, the second, after Usagi. Usagi was a guy from her elementary school, he was sort of like her. He always wore a black mask over his nose and mouth, and his dark hair covered most of his face. He was the first person to ever say hi to her, her very first, and until now, only friend. But then he moved, in 6th grade, and it was back to the normal teasing and mockery, without him to help her out.

"Ryouko?"

"Eh?" Ryouko snapped out of her thoughts. "What?"

Uo laughed. "Wow, she zones out almost as much as you do, Tohru."

Then they were laughing, all of them including Tohru, and it was contagious. Ryouko couldn't help herself, she laughed alongside them, her new friends.