The bell rang, and everyone rose from their seats chatting away loudly and exiting the door. It was third period and Gar realized that he and Rachael had many classes together. Gar looked over at and saw that Rachael had already exited the classroom. He soon found her at her standing before her locker retrieving her history book. He became nervous. His palms became sweaty as he approached her. He took a deep breath and walked towards Rachael.

Rachael closed her locker to find green big eyes staring at her. She jumped back, startled by the blonde. She looked confusingly at him.

''Uh, hey." Gar nervously replied as he rubbed the back of his head.

"Hi?" replied a very confused Rachael as she looked at the nervous blonde. Rachael shut her locker and headed off to her next class ignoring the random noticed her walking away and ran up to her. He stopped when he stood in front of her. Rachael looked up Gar annoyed.

"Are you pulling a joke on me or something?" Rachael said in an annoyed voice.

Gar realized that he was annoying the girl and broke out of his nervous it.

"Oh, uh, no, not really. Anyway, I was just wondering if you wanted to sit next to me during lunch"

Rachael looked at him, confused. She never really noticed the blonde. She knew that he was in her class, but that was it. Also, no one ever invited her to sit next to them at lunch. She never had friends so why is someone asking her to sit next to them?

Rachael looked at him hard. She thought hard about it. "There's nothing to lose for." Rachael shrugged her shoulders. "Sure, why not."

Gar's green eyes lit with excitement and hope. He had a big grin from ear to ear. He felt triumphant. "Yes! I got her!"

"Awesome! I'll see you at lunch" Gar said as he happily walked away to his locker, leaving Rachael standing confused in the hallway.

Rachael stood there for a moment processing what has just happened. She thought to herself. "He just asked me to sit next to him at lunch. Why is he all of a sudden taking notice of me? I bet he never knew I even existed…..It's probably a prank. He is the class clown anyway."

Rachael put her thoughts away as she went on to her class. Forgetting about the blonde.

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The bell rang giving everyone a notice that it was lunch. Rachael sat in her seat while everyone got up to leave the classroom. She looked up and saw everyone racing to the lunchroom to get in line first. Rachael sat In her seat. She was kind of worried to see the blonde. She really did worry that it would be a prank. She slowly got up from her seat and slowly walked to the lunchroom dreading what was to come.

_xXx_

Gar looked around the lunchroom trying to spot Rachael. He was anxious to see her. He wanted to show his friends how pretty she was. He kept searching until Victor called his name.

"Yo man, why do you keep looking at the lunchroom door? I don't want to see your butt." Victor said while he stuffed his face with his BLT sandwich.

"I'm looking for a girl. I asked her to sit next to me at lunch.", Gar said still staring at the lunchroom doors.

Richard and Victor smirked at each other.

"Ooooo! Is this the lucky girl?" Victor said teasingly.

Gar blushed and rolled his eyes again at his friends. "Shut up. You guys might scare her."

"You might already do that." Victor said with a laugh.

Gar turned to his friend. "So how was your date with Kori last night?"

Richard soon became quiet. Victor turned to him to see his response.

"Yeah man! What happened?" Victor said as he turned to his rich friend.

Richard shrugged "It was good. We had a nice dinner, and talked and everything."

"Did you get your smoochin' on?" Gar said teasingly to Richard.

Richard blushed and turned his head. "Shouldn't you be looking for your new girlfriend?"

Kori soon walked up with her tray of food "Hello friends. May I sit with you?"

"Yeah, sure." Gar said as Kori sat next to Richard.

The doors to the lunchroom opened and Rachael walked through the double doors. Gar's eyes lit up as he saw her. He waved his hand and call out to the girl.

Rachael looked at the blonde who was waving at her. She sighed as she walked towards the table. Gar wrapped his arm around Rachael as he introduced her to his friends who stared at her.

"Guys, this is…." Gar blushed as he realized that he didn't know her name. Gar smacked his face. "How can you not know her name you idiot!?"

"Rachael", she replied quietly to Gar, who still stood embarrassed.

"Rachael!" As Gar continued acting as if he never forgot her name. "Rachael, this is Victor, he's my best friend." Victor turned to her and nodded his head saying "Well hello there little lady." Rachael nodded as Gar kept going on. "This is Richard. He's my other friend." Richard gave her one of his winning smiles and said "Hey". Rachael, not amused, nodded her head again as Gar introduced her to the final person at the table."And this Kori, Richards' girlfriend." Kori gave her a warm smile as Rachael quietly nodded once again.

Rachael, starving from not eating breakfast, said "Well it's nice to meet you all, but I'm going to get some lunch. I'll be back."

Gar smiled at her "Alright cool! We'll be waiting for you right here!"

Rachael nodded and walked to the nasty looking lunch lady to get her lunch.

Soon after she left, the three of Gar's friends both looked at him as if he was crazy.

"Dude, you must be out of your mind to like that girl" Victor said after eating his sandwich. Richard soon joined in.

"Yeah. She looks a little off." Richard said trying not to get his friend angry

Gar looked at him angrily. "You're just saying that because she didn't go all gah gah after you gave her the smile." Gar smirked as he saw his friend get angry.

Kori soon chimed in giving a warm smile "She seems…depressed. Maybe we could cheer her up."

The two boys looked at the girl, but shrugged it off. Usual Kori, always happy and trying to make other people happy.

Gar looked at his friends angry "I don't care what you guys think. I bet once I get to know her she'll be more opening."

Victor chuckled in disbelief "Good luck dude, cuz' I don't think she's popping out of her shell anytime soon.

Gar ignored him and smiled as Rachael came back with her tray of food. She sat next to him as he and the others chatted away sometimes asking Rachael some basic getting to know you questions, but still chatted with Rachael chiming in here and there.

Gar thought to himself as he watched Rachael "I'm gonna' get her out of her shell. Just you watch.

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