the rest of the day was a blur for the most part. nothing too special, apart from lunch. lunch was alright i guess.

"gregory, listen to me honey. you have got to stop thirsting over these fictional men. they aren't even attractive! damn!"

"yeah, nene's right, but that guy with the glasses was cute."

"which one?" i ask.

"the, uhm, paul dano guy."

"ugh. girl he's so ugly." nene laughs, leaning back in her chair.

i pulled my phone back, scoffing. "at least he isn't fictional! look, let me show you another picture, wait."

"my god, you have a whole album dedicated to these ugly white guys." she jeered.

i frowned and rolled my eyes, putting my phone in my pocket. "not just any white guy, paul dan-"

"hey can we sit here?" a voice asked, i turned my head to look in the direction of the sound.

oh, cool. the new kids. it was specifically cal who asked that.
i glanced at my friends for a moment, then back at the other two.

andre was still glaring at me. maybe he just has a rbf.

"uh, yeah. sure." i shrugged, scooting a bit to the side to let the two sit down at our table, i shot kim a nervous glance.

it's not like i don't like them or anything, it's just kinda awkward.

you'll feel the need to include them in your conversation, but they won't understand any of the inside jokes you and your friends make, so it'll just get awkward.

and also, they're guys, but it's fine. we'll just ignore them.

"so, uh," the blond spoke up.

never mind.

"what're you guys' names?" he asked.

there was an awkward silence as i glanced around at nene and kim, who were doing the same.

nene was the first out of us three to speak, "i'm nene." she said, pointing towards herself, "that's kim." she said, pointing towards, well, kim, "and gregory." she pointed to me.

cal nodded his head at this.

"cool, uh, i'm cal. this is.." he gestured over to the brunette.

"andre." he said, giving us three a blank stare.

i nodded my head at this, so did nene and kim.

"cool." kim mumbled.

there was another, longer, more awkward silence after this

"i'm going to the dance friday." i said.

"you told me that you weren't going-" nene scoffed, i could hear in her voice that she took offense to this, but her words were cut short by kim.

"with who?" kim asked, turning her head towards me.

".. with you guys? unless, you aren't coming, i'll just go with nene."

kim's mouth formed an o-shape.
"ohh, yeah, yeah. i'm going. don't worry." kim grinned.

i nodded my head.

andre and cal glanced at each other, cal spoke up, "are the dances here any fun?" he said, looking at us.

"if the dances weren't any fun at iroquois, what makes you think they'll be fun here?" andre said bitterly, furrowing his brows at cal.

cal just shrugged, "fair."

another moment of silence

"yeah, well, dances are only fun if you go with really good friends. and also a lot of crazy shit happens, so, yeah." nene shrugged.

"yeah, like last time, there were these two guys and they had this huge fight, like there was blood everywhere." kim geeked.

i had to do a double take at this, "wait what?! which- when??" my jaw dropped slightly.

"the, uhm, winter one! the winter ball? the one in february?" she said, raising a brow.

"jesus, what? who was it?"

"like, jyquez and some other guy. i forgot who, i think it was jonathan?"

nene furrowed her brows at this, and glanced at kim.
"wait, jonathan? which one? the one in 9th grade or-"

"jonathan rigby. the one who got, like, that std."

nene's jaw dropped, while my expression didn't change much. who even are these people?

"wow, that- that's crazy." nene scoffed, giggling a bit. i glanced around the table and looked at andre and cal, i guess they were just as confused as me, since the stayed out of the whole conversation and they had this expression, it was a mix of concern, shock, and confusion.

i glanced back at my two friends, and then at cal and andre, seeing that andre had mumbled something to cal. i thought nothing if it, probably talking about how weird we were being. it's none of my business though. it kinda irks me though. like i said, i'm already just getting bad vibes about andre. maybe even cal.

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