Kinkajou was chattering on and on about my situation, saying things like; "he asked to be your partner? I knew he liked you!!! I'm telling you Moon, he's got the hots for you!"

"Kinkajou, I honestly doubt that he likes me in any possible way, in fact he probably asked to be my partner to give me a hard time." I said.

"Moon since when has he tried to give you a hard time?" Kinkajou asked.

I opened my mouth to respond, but I realized I couldn't really think of a time, images of his sister, Icicle, doing things like stealing my lunch money, pulling my hair, and throwing things like pencils, spit balls, and any possible object-she'd even thrown a ruler at me in science, which had hit my forehead and cut me.

But I couldn't think of any times Winter had tried to make my life any more miserable than it already was.

"Exactly," Kinkajou smiled triumphantly, "you can't think of anything, can yah?"

I sighed in defeat.

"Well, I still don't think he likes me like that, honestly I doubt anyone likes quiet people, in real life anyways. I mean fanfiction or movies or shows or books is different. But not in real li-" I was cut off by Kinkajou gripping my shoulder with one of her death grips, which were really strong and really painful by the way.

"Moon," she breathed like she was about to pass out, "is Carnelian Cooper walking towards us or am I hallucinating?"

I looked and saw that indeed, Carnelian Cooper was walking towards us, and she was following Winter.

When he saw me, he waved, grinning. Which nobody really ever sees him do. The two stopped and Kinkajou stood completely frozen next to me.

Let's just say Carnelian is kind of her idol.

"Hey," Winter says, "could Carnelian come too? She's kinda my best friend."

"Uh," I looked down, fidgeting with the hem of my hoodie again, what was my mom gonna say when these two strangers walked into the house? "Sure."

"Okay, cool." Carnelian spoke, then smiled at my friend, who looked like she was about to die of happiness.

"YAY!" Kinkajou exclaims, then her face went red with embarrasment. "Um, I mean yayyyyy . . ."

I bored my bus, anxious about getting on it before it left, I knew the busses would be leaving soon. Kinkajou followed, and so did Carnelian and Winter.

When I sat down, I saw a few kids whispering to each other, I also felt a few small pieces of paper that had been crumpled up thrown at me, I even felt a pencil hit my face, just barely missing my eye.

But the second Winter boarded the bus, silence fell. I herd people begin whispering their theories to each other immediately.

"Why is he on here? Did he get a different bus? Then where's Icicle?"

"I heard he's Moonwatcher Gemstone's partner for a math project, my friend's in the same class as them."

"Oh wow why's he here?"

Kinkajou had been right behind Winter, he sat down next to me, and Kinkajou and Carnelian sat in the seat behind us, Kinkajou was chatting about some shit, I don't really know what.

People were starring, clearly curious about why Winter Greene was on their bus as he put a Bluetooth earbud in his left ear, put on a song on his phone, and sat calmly as if like thirty people starring at him was the most normal thing ever.

I just did what I usually did, which was scroll on Pinterest looking at fanart of the many things I liked, like Warrior Cats, Trolls, The Dragon Prince, etcetera.

I was looking at fanart of Firepaw, Greypaw, and Ravenpaw when I felt breath on my shoulder.

I immediately turned off my phone and peered at Winter.

"Woah, chill, I'm not gonna judge you. I like Warriors too." He says.

It took me five point four seconds to realize what he'd just said.

"Wait . . . really?" I managed to say.

He nodded.

I looked down, at my backpack, which was in my lap, and took out my earbuds and put them into my ears. I put on 'Dance With You' by Brett Young, and waited for the bus to leave.