[Bashur's POV]

I was planning to sit at my table in the cafeteria alone. Again. It happens everyday. I come down to the lunch room and sneak my way over to a table in the corner and pray that no one sees me. It works on a good day. But most days the other kids in my class pick on me. On those days I usually end up with no lunch either. It usually doesn't get any worse than that though. Hey, we're in second grade. There's really no hardcore bullying. But either way I still don't like having no lunch.

Today I got down to lunch before everyone else, so I figured I'd be okay just going over to my lonely table. But there was already someone sitting there. The new kid, Harvey.

Harvey joined a week ago, and as far as I know, no one know a thing about him. At recess he just stands by the wall and stares at the ground. In class he never says anything. I'm not even sure if he can talk. Usually he'll just sit at a random table in the cafeteria, no matter who's sitting there. Today apparently he was sitting at my table.

So there he was sitting alone eating his food. And here I am, standing ten feet away from him, debating whether or not to go sit next to him. Then I heard feet pounding down the stairs. I panicked a bit, then ran over to the table with my lunch and sat next to Harvey. He glanced up from his food at me.

I gave him a nervous smile. "Uh...hi!" I said way too quickly. "I saw you sitting here alone and I thought-"

"You don't have to lie," Harvey interrupted. "I know just hiding over here. It's fine. I really don't mind." Great. It's the first time I heard the guy speak, and he's already making me feel guilty.

For a few minutes while everyone else got their food and sat down, Harvey and I just sat and ate in silence. I hate silence. Just ask my friends in my neighborhood. So I blurted out, "My name is Bashur."

He gave me a weird look. "I thought your name was Brandon."

"Yeah, no one calls me that though. Just call me Bashur or Bash." I changed the topic so it didn't get quiet again. "Well, welcome to California! Where'd you move from?"

"Illinois."

"Do you have any friends there?"

"I don't work well with people."

"So… you've never had any friends? Ever?"

Harvey shook his head. "I don't really mind. Nobody really gets me anyways. I leave people alone and they leave me alone. I prefer it that way." Then we both went back to eating our lunch in silence. I felt sorry for Harvey. I may not have any friends at school, but I have plenty of them in my neighborhood. I can't imagine what it must be like to not have any friends.

Eventually the bell rang and we both headed back to the classroom.


The next day, I had a mission. I called it Operation Friendship (it's a terrible name, I know). Basically I'm going to try to become Harvey's friend. It's gonna be hard, considering I know basically nothing about him. But I am determined.

It started in class, when we switched seats I made sure that I was sitting by Harvey at the back of the room. I tried talking to him there, but he just ignored me and doodled in his notebook. Strike one. My next attempt was later on in the day when we were told to partner up for a worksheet. I chose Harvey. We worked on the sheet together, and by 'together' I mean we sat next to each other and didn't say a word while working alone. Strike two. I tried to play with him at recess, but he just sat by the wall and looked at the ground, not moving. Strike three. That's it. It's hopeless. I give up.

I started shuffling through my stuff in my locker, looking for my lunch while moping about my failure. I had to take a lot of stuff out trying to find it. I'm just going to say that I'm probably the messiest person in the school. I couldn't anywhere after five minutes of searching. Where is it?! I'm starving and I refuse to take the crappy school food!

"Looking for this?" I turned around and saw a trio of three girls, each my age. Tiffany, Allie, and Victoria. The three that usually pick on me. Tiffany was holding my lunch in the air.

"Yeah, actually. Can I have it back?" I asked.

She smirked. "How much will you give us for it?"

"Uh, what? It's my lunch!"

"Well, we have it, and you don't. So technically it's ours. Ten bucks for it."

"I don't have ten bucks."

"Well, then I guess we don't need this anymore." Tiffany tossed my lunch to Allie. "Just trash it."

A locker slammed from down the hall. Harvey's. He stormed over to us. "Just give him back his lunch," he said.

Tiffany rolled her eyes. "Since when do you care Harvey? You haven't done anything since you came here to make friends. Why try now?"

He grit his teeth and snatched the lunch out of Allie's hands. "I just don't like bullies. Now lay off. What did Bashur ever do to you?"

Tiffany scoffed and the trio walked off to the cafeteria. Harvey handed me back my lunch and I gave him a grateful smile. "Thanks man. I appreciate it."

"No problem," He replied, then looked down at the ground. "Sorry about ignoring you. I just have never had a friend before, so I don't really know how to act."

I smiled. "Well, I'll tell you one thing that friends do. Sit and talk with each other at lunch. Do you wanna come?"

Harvey smiled. "Sure. Why not? Actually having a friend might be fun."

(Okay, I'm just gonna answer a couple questions for Ravenstar and for anyone else who might be wondering.

Who's going to be included in the story? -This is it. Everyone is now in the story :D. I'll be finishing up Harvey and Bashur's story and then get everyone to meet. That might take a while. I'm not including Zek. Sorry. I really don't know much about him.

Is there going to be a sequel? -I'm not quite sure yet. I have an idea for a sequel using other YouTubers that I like but I still have a lot of chapters to go in this story first. I also have other fanfic ideas that I want to eventually get started too. I'll ask what people want to read once I'm done with this story.

And before anyone asks, I'm pretty sure no one really knows Seto's real name, so I just used Harvey, which is one of the theories about his name. Just incase you were wondering.

If any of you have questions, feel free to ask. If you have an account, I'll PM you the answer. If you don't have an account, leave a guest review and I'll answer your question in one of the A/N. Jeez, speaking of which this is a long one. I'll end my rambling. Thanks for reading and PEACE OUT!