Disclaimer: I do not own Band of Brothers. I don't mean any disrespect to the real men. I admire them quite a lot. This is based off the series and the actor's portrayals of the men. I do however claim to own all the girls minus Helen McCrory who is a real person and married to Damian Lewis in real life who played Dick Winters in the show. I also don't own Kitty Grogan either cause she really lives and she married Harry Welsh in real life.

Chapter 2- Lunch Table Chat

Fifth hour held the Senior-only lunch shifts, so Dick left College Composition to meet his friends. Lunch was divided into 4 shifts for the seniors. The sophomores and juniors shared lunch during 4th hour in five shifts.

Dick found Harry, Nix, and Luz already seated and joking around. Dick took his usual seat next to Nix. They were soon joined by Buck, Don, Bull, David, Roe, Bill and even Ron. Only one of their female friends had the same lunch shift. It was Shiloh Hawkfeather.

If her name didn't give it away that she was half Native American, then her long dark hair, almond colored eyes and her darker skin did. Her mother had died giving birth to her, and her father remarried when she was ten. Her father had married their friend Joe Liebgott's mom. His parents had divorced when he was seven on account his dad being an alcoholic. They had gotten really close and now Joe took on the protective "older' brother role.

The guys knew that if they so much as looked at Shiloh affectionately in front of him, he'd blow up. He'd about killed Don when he'd asked her to the Homecoming dance their sophomore year. The only thing that stopped him was Dick and Nix telling him that if she didn't go with Don she'd say yes to Joe Toye or Floyd Talbert who were far worse than shy and nice Donald Malarkey. He'd conceded his permission and they were now a couple. Shiloh sat next to Don and David, comparing the different schedules for the girls' and boys' cross country teams.

When left to themselves, the boys typically talked about either sports or sex. Shiloh was the only girl, except maybe Kellie, whom they considered "one of the guys," that they could talk to and joke normally. She had grown up without much feminine influence in her life till her father had remarried but Shiloh had stayed true to her tomboyish ways . She'd played sports with them when they had grown up even before her and Liebgott became siblings. She'd lost some of her tomboy outlook but still spent most of her time hanging out with them. The only topic she wouldn't talk about was her and Don's sex life. She let him discuss it when she wasn't there and neither was Liebgott but the other couples were free game.

Her and Don used traveling cross country meets to satisfy their hormones because it was the only place Liebgott couldn't catch them. They loved each other a lot but Liebgott's protectiveness got annoying after awhile. The rest of the group sided with them.

It was a good thing that when they graduated Joe would be going to USC, to study theology while Shiloh and Don were both going to Georgia Tech. Don was going to be a chemical engineer while Shiloh was going to be an architect. They all knew what they were going to be in life.

Harry and his girlfriend Kitty had both been accepted to Julliard. Harry was specializing in music composition and Kitty in contemporary theatre. David had just received word on his full ride scholarship to Harvard for journalism. Roe was headed to Medical school at LSU. He'd wanted to be a Pediatrics Oncologist since his little sister Madeline had been diagnosed with Leukemia two years before. Bull was headed to Texas to major in business management.

Nixon was going to Yale much to Webster's dismay. It would be the first time they wouldn't be running for the same team but running on rival teams. Nix assured him they'd still be friends despite college rivalry. They weren't the only friendship that would be strained.

George Luz and Frank Perconte were best buds and even on the Swim and Dive team together, but their colleges were certainly not friendly. Luz was headed to Iowa St. for theatre and Perconte was going to Nebraska to major in secondary education, which made everyone laugh. At about 5'3", Perconte was shorter than not only the guys, but most of the girls too. All of his future students would be taller than him. Suddenly the topic at the table changed to the girls. Shiloh just resumed eating her lunch to let Don join the conversation. The girl up for discussion was Erica. She was a junior that was dating Luz. He'd met her through Buck's girlfriend Kellie. He had asked her to Prom the year before and they'd ended up dating. Apparently the week before Luz and her had finally had sex. They'd tried a second time two days before school, but Perconte had tried to sneak into Luz's room window to escape his parent's fighting while they were going at it: neither blamed Perconte.

The entire group knew about Perconte's home life. His parents argued a lot, and sometimes were drunk and got violent. Luz's parents told him he was welcome anytime if the situation got bad. They'd even given him a house key. He'd forgotten it that night when he'd left and he'd found the front door locked he'd climbed up the tree near Luz's window and climbed in. Perconte wasn't the only one with family problems.. Some of the other guys had divorced or separated parents. A couple of them had workaholic parents that were never there.

The topic moved on to the Newspaper and Yearbook staffs. Dick and Web related the Newspaper had a bigger staff this year and would have it's first draft by the second week of school.

Shiloh asked Nix, "When's the first yearbook meeting?"

"I thought maybe right after school today for returning members and next Wednesday have an informational meeting for interested freshmen. I'll have to check with Johnny but I'll expect him to say yes. I take it you're returning then?"

"Of course I am! I'm your best photographer. Well… aside from you and Johnny but Johnny's chief editor and student chief of staff this year. We need a replacement. Any suggestions oh great and enlightened one?"

The guys laughed at that. There was a running joke that Nix found out everything about the school, the other students, the staff and the school board before anyone else. No one knew how he did it so Shiloh and Johnny Martin started calling him the Great Enlightened One.

The yearbook staff was made of students from every social circle. They were known for their antics by students and the staff alike. Johnny Martin was the student head of it all. Johnny was senior in their group of friends. He along with Nix and Shiloh had been photographers together since freshmen year but this year but this year he was chief of staff mostly because of seniority but because Nix would goof off too much and Shiloh would become the hag bitch from hell dictator type. It was finally set up as Johnny being chief while Nix and Shiloh would be co-assistant chiefs. They'd even made t-shits with their nicknames on the back and everything. Johnny was the Chief, Nix was the Enlightened One and Shiloh was the Feminist.

Nix sat there and said, "I haven't a clue. Any ideas guys?"

The guys pitched names for five minutes to Nix and Shiloh before three names they liked were suggested. Roe suggested Babe Heffron, Harry suggested Carwood Lipton and Ron suggested Floyd Talbert. Nix and Shiloh started talking together in their own kind of yearbook terminology.

That continued for a few minutes when Nix said, "I'll talk to Lipton while you get Floyd. Roe can talk to Heffron since they work together. I have Johnny I my next class so I'll run it by him. We have a plan?" Shiloh nodded and Nix continued, "Good! Glad that's taken care of!" Finally the bell rang and they headed back to class.

Author's Note: I thank you who are reading this story. It means a lot when I get a new person alerting this story or reviewing. A lot of this is based on my real life high school experiences with some twists here and there. I'd like to personally thank first my beta on here, Scratchy Wilson and my most loyal fan Iloveboyswhosparkle who is addicted to this and notices my somewhat subtle Life references I slip in here and there. Thanks a lot and I do love reviews and respond to them always.