3 Hours Laters…
Usually, the first day of school was a cakewalk for most students. Sure, you might get homework, but it would be the easy stuff, like multiplying fractions or something like that. Unfortunately, that wasnt the case in Royal Woods, especially for Colin.
After probably the longest 3 hours of his life, he staggered into the lunchroom, hoping for something to eat to take off the edge on his mind. It was only the first day, yet he had been given homework in 3 classes already, been yelled at a teacher for not knowing how to do a math problem, and he had known absolutely no one in this classes. So it wasn't exactly a banner day for him up to that point.
Once he got to the cafeteria, though, his hopes soared. Maybe he would finally get to meet new people, for once!
He got his food from the line and walked into the eating space, looking for a place to sit down.
"Ok, just go sit down at a table. Anyone is probably gonna let me sit down... at least, I HOPE they do. Maybe they'll move, or maybe I'll be laughed at and forced to-"
"Hey Colin! Sit over here!"
He looked to ver to see Leni, Luna, and Luan all sitting at a lunch table together.
"Well, so much for THAT dream..." he mumbled as he sat down at the table.
"So how's the first day going, dude? Stressed out yet?"
He sighed and put his head on his hand.
"Well, I can't name any of the presidents in civics, I can barely do long division, and I can't tell the difference between an aardvark and an anteater. But on the bright side, I'm decent in gym basketball."
"I guess you could say he's SHOOTING for the stars!" Luan laughed as the table groaned. Except for Colin, who laughed.
"Oh yeah, I'm the best player we had today! It doesn't really do favors for them that I'm huge, either. It's like 5 years old niños playing against Lebron!"
Luan laughed at the joke. After spending time around Lynn, she knew quite a bit about basketball.
"Hey, where's Lori, though?" Colin asked, looking around.
"Who?"
"Just ignore Leni, unless it's really important, mate. She sits with Bobby at the table 2 spots behind us."
Suddenly, a familiar voice rose above the crowd.
"Lori, check it out! Let's eat lunch over there!"
"Uh, Bobby, are you sure you want to sit next to my sisters? They can be-"
"Yeah, yeah! Besides, Colin can speak Spanish! It'll be fun!"
Even though it was crowded, they could still hear Lori groan with disapproval.
"Ugh, fine! But you owe me for letting you do this!"
With that, she walked off to sit with her friends, leaving Bobby to walk over and sit adjacent to Colin.
"Oye, Colin! ¡mucho tiempo sin verte!"
"Lo sé, es como si no te hubiera visto desde el primer período!"
"Wait, what are you guys saying?" Leno asked, still as confused as ever.
"Well, shouldn't you know, Leni?" Colin smirked.
"Well, sorry! I don't speak Italian!"
"Oh, boy…" he said, silently laughing to himself.
"Wait, you're a junior, right?" Bobby asked Colin.
"Yeah...I'm actually the exchange student for the year," he lied, figuring it much easier to explain than the truth. "I'm from Mexico."
"Hey, TACO bout a close relationship! Ha ha, get it?"
Colin looked at Luan, shaking his head with a smile.
"Im guessing you like comedy," he said, relieved that someone else liked what he liked.
"Heck yeah! I could probably tell you all the jokes I know right now! Both setup AND punchline!"
"Oh god," Luna said as she laughed. "please save us the torture!"
Colin didn't even know what was happening then. It was if all of a sudden, he didn't care about the jokes anymore.
He was too busy focusing on the girl with the short, brown hair and rock star look who was just laughing her head off in front of him. She looked...nice. Really nice.
He saw her flip her hair to the side, showing her soft, brown ey-
"Colin? Colin!"
He snapped out of his trance, confused.
"You ok, chico? You look sick…"
Not really knowing what had happened, he lied again.
"No, I'm ok, Bobby. It's just that... that..."
"That what?"
"It's just that this cafeteria food is DELICIOUS!" He said, changing the subject at the last minute. "Best thing I've ever eaten!"
"Dude, you think that the fish sandwich they're serving is GOOD?"
"Hey, as long as it goes DOWN, it has no business being brought UP again," he said. He was done talking about it.
The bell rang overhead. It was time for class again.
And so, Colin ate the last of his lunch, went to class, and went back to the Loud House, not really knowing or realizing what had happened earlier at that lunchtable. But little did he know that it would lead to the biggest moment of his life.