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Lucas gulped nervously, as he eyed the building looming over him. He gulped once again and glanced at Ness. He was just glaring bitterly at the building.

"Ness?" Lucas said quietly.

"What?" He asked grumpily.

"Don't you think we should just try and make the best of this? Maybe make a few friends like Peach said?" Lucas asked timidly.

Ness looked at him for a moment then sighed. "I guess you're right. Come on, we don't want to be late or anything. Peach will kill us if we are."

Lucas nodded and started walking towards the large school building, his nervousness increasing with each step. He had almost reached the building when he stopped suddenly, noticing that Ness wasn't beside him.

He quickly looked back and saw the boy frozen where they had been standing earlier. Lucas just rolled his eyes and walked into the building, knowing his cousin would come into the school soon.

Besides, they didn't even the same classes; they'd have to split up sooner or later.

Ness stared at his cousin, wondering how the timid boy was coping with this so easily. This was kind of scary... Taking a deep breath and pushing his nerves back as far as he could, he squared his shoulders.

If Lucas could do it, then so could Ness!

However this attitude was short lived, for the moment he walked into the school; he immediately froze again. People were swarming everywhere; the hall was absolutely crowded. There were just... so many people. It was astounding.

Taking another breath, he maneuvered himself around everyone and looked around for a teacher that could point him towards his classroom. He was in Classroom 122, but none of the rooms so far seemed to have numbers on them.

It was quite peculiar, but nevertheless Ness continued looking for a teacher. He also absentmindedly hoped that it would be a nice one that would help him out.

He finally found a teacher; she looked like a nice old lady. Inwardly he just hoped that her appearance wasn't just skin deep.

"Excuse me Ma'am, where is classroom 122?"

Thankfully Ness' prayers were answered and she smiled brightly at him.

"Just a little ways down this hall and on your right, son."

"Thank you," he muttered politely, before quickly running off and following her instructions.

Looking at the right side, he noted that there were now numbers.

'Odd,' He thought, 'There weren't any numbers up the hall, earlier.'

He continued to look for his classroom. '116, 118, 120... ah there we go. 122!"

Ness smiled as he found his classroom before turning around and looking at the hallway.

It was strange... still pretty crowded, but it was exactly how he'd envisioned it to be. His smile widened a little bit as he saw Lucas disappearing into the classroom directly opposite his, he didn't seem all that nervous today.

Ness swallowed nervously before mustering all his courage and walking into the classroom before him. It had bright signs around the room, encouraging homework, happiness and reading among numerous other things.

As he was looking around the classroom, Ness wasn't paying attention to where he was going and soon bumped into an older woman.

"Well, who might you be?" The young woman asked, beaming at the little boy. "Are you the new student? Ness was your name, wasn't it?"

"Y-yes," he stuttered, his nerves struck again.

'Stop it Ness! You can do this!' He thought to himself.

"My name is Ms. Applebee, it's a pleasure to meet you, Ness! Well, why don't you sit down and pick a seat?" Her smile -which was as bright as her glowing blonde hair- didn't falter for a second.

Ness sat in the seat furthest from the door and in the very back of the room, trying to get as far away from everyone as possible.

There were only a few kids in the class at the time, and they all slumped in their seats looking extremely bored. Since they were seating in different area of the room, none of them tried to talk to each other, it even looked like a few of them were sleeping.

Ness felt so out of place... he didn't belong here. This was too different.

It was too quiet, Normally, if he was in the same room with as many people as there were now, it would be hard to even think of keeping up with the numerous rapid conversations. Especially when Peach, Zelda, and Samus were involved in the conversation. Though they had soft and gentle voices, the trio could talk to no end.

Ten minutes passed before the classroom was filled and the bell rang.

'I thought school started earlier than this...' Ness sighed. He could have been outside with Lucas instead of inside this dreadful building! And even worse, it seemed as if his plan to sit away from everyone else wasn't working. Everyone, and he meant everyone was sitting in the back of the class.

The teacher started off the class by calling out the roll. It was interesting, there were a variety of different names that Ness heard that he'd never even thought existed.

"Ness?" Finally the teacher called out his name.

"H-here!" He stuttered as the whole class stared at him.

"Class, this is our new student. Make sure you look after him today and make sure he has a nice time at school."

Well, he wasn't having a nice time. That much was for sure. He couldn't wait till this would all be over.

Ness tuned out the teacher as she began the lesson and decided to look out of the window; it was such a nice day outside. He really wished he could be outside instead of cooped up in the school building.

"Ness, pay attention please," the teacher soon said, as she saw him staring out of the window.

He felt his face heat up momentarily and turned to the board, staring blankly at it.

'I wonder how Lucas is doing...'

Lucas was having a great time, this wasn't as scary as he'd thought it would be!

His teacher was nice and had quickly pointed him to where his assigned seat was. It was one of the closer ones to his desk; the teacher said he was putting him there in case he had any questions, and to keep an eye on him.

This room looked like a nice and happy place where everyone had fun, with bright colors and signs filling up the walls. Lucas just sat in his seat and watched everyone as the classroom slowly filled up with more kids.

Lucas was startled when a boy came and sat down next to him.

"Hi! I'm Johnny. You must be the new kid, what's your name?" The boy smiled.

"L-l-lucas," he stuttered, shocked.

"Well, hi Lucas! Is today your first day?"

"Y-yeah," Lucas replied, still slightly flabbergasted.

"Well Lucas, I hope you like it here. Maybe we could be friends?" The boy said sticking out his right hand.

Lucas smiled slightly and shook, "S-sure. I'd like that."

Johnny's face lit up "Great! I'll introduce you to my other friends at lunch!"

"O-okay." Lucas didn't really expect to make a friend so quickly but he was glad that he had.

Then the bell rang and the teacher spoke up.

"Okay kids, settle down, it's time for roll." He proceeded to call out the roll and then continues straight into the lesson.

Lucas was absolutely fascinated the entire time, loving the information he was being taught and soaked it all in.

Time flew and before he knew it, it was time for lunch. Digging the sack lunch Peach had made for him, out of his backpack, he began to follow Johnny only to stop suddenly.

"Uh, Johnny? Can I go get my cousin really quick? It's his first day too, and he's not very friendly so…"

"Yeah, sure! Let's go!" Johnny said excitedly, interrupting him.

Lucas smiled and scanned the hall for Ness. He had forgotten what the room number was, and was disappointed when he couldn't find the signature red cap of his cousin anywhere.

"Maybe we'll see him in the cafeteria?" Johny said optimistically as he noticed his new friend's disheartened face.

Lucas nodded slowly. "Yeah, maybe…"

"Come on then, let's go find him!" Johnny said, practically bouncing with energy as he lead Lucas to the cafeteria.

The reason that Lucas was unable to spot Ness is because the boy had shot out of the room when the bell rang, sack lunch in hand. He followed the flow of kids into the large room and sat at a table in the back, away from the rest of the people.

He sat there until he noticed a familiar blond head coming towards him. He perked up a bit, but the happiness drained a little when he realized that there was someone following behind him.

"Ness!" Lucas greeted him. "Come sit with me and my new friend! Please?"

Ness shook his head coldly. "No, it's fine. I'll make my own friends."

Lucas looked crestfallen. "Can't we just have the same friends?"

One look at his face was all Ness needed to cave in. "... Fine."

Lucas smiled and gestured with his hand towards the table where Johnny was. Ness just sighed picked up his uneaten lunch, following Lucas back to a table crowded by people.

Right before he sat down, something- or rather someone- caught his eye. She was sitting a few tables away and had curly brown hair with big green eyes that looked like they could see through your soul. His breath was caught in his throat; he'd never seen someone so pretty before.

"Ness? Are you okay?" Lucas asked, staring up at his cousin from his sitting position at the table.

"Huh? Oh, yeah, I'm fine. So, who are all these people?" He ignored the girl for now.

"I'm not sure. I only know Johnny," Lucas said, pointing to the boy next to him. Johnny grinned and began to introduce everyone at the table and saying a little bit about them.

Ness just sat there and looked bored while Lucas seemed happy to meet every one of them. Ness was just thinking about going to his table back in the corner when his head was pushed down, almost into his food. He also glanced at the girl every few minutes... he wondered what her name was.

"Whoops, not sorry," said someone from behind him. Ness turned around slightly and saw a guy over a foot taller than him sniggering with two other large boys.

The tallest one -the one who had talked- had black hair while the shorter two had honey brown eyes. Strangely enough the three of them all shared the same, cold and distant, soulless brown eyes.

Ness was starting to stand up and go tell him off when he felt a tug on his arm. He looked down to see a worried Lucas.

"Ness, just let it go. We don't need to get into trouble on our first day."

Ness grudgingly agreed and sat back down, resisting the urge to get up and pummel the guy. Why weren't the teachers doing anything?

Shaking the thoughts away from his head, he began to eat, trying to be friendly and talk to those around him.

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