Darkness Surrounding

After getting our crappy lunch we walked out into the courtyard and sat on one of the ends of the grass steps, near the bottom. It's been our spot since freshman year and no one dares sit there unless we tell them they can. I don't know why, since it's only us two, but everyone's afraid of us. Maybe it's the dark clothes? Ah well, who cares.

So we sat down and commenced grease drainage. See the school actually makes really good pizza, they just load it with too much grease. So you have to take ten napkins in each hand and press them onto the pizza, and then it's safe to eat. And along with a banana, a small bag of chips, and a little carton of milk, you have your lovely and fulfilling lunch.

We were sitting there, eating, and discussing the usual thing we discuss on first days of school: the changes that people went through over the break. Lot's of them turned orange, lots of them got fat, lots of them got sluttier (which we thought was impossible). It's quite fun.

"Oh my god, look at that fat cow over there," I pointed to a fake blond in skin tight clothes, but with obvious bulges.

"Oh shit, is that Deborah West?"

"Yeah, she got even fatter!"

"No fucking way! That's rad!"

We watched as she leaned over to get something that she dropped, trying to hold her pants up to her muffin top but not succeeding, seeing as her plumber-like ass hung out all over the place. Her stomach looked like she was pregnant and her face even had collected a few pounds.

"That's just awesome," I sighed with content.

"Ohh," Val said, sitting up. When Val said 'Ohh' like that, it only meant one thing: she found a hot guy.

"Which one?"

"That one over there, in the white shirt," she smiled, pointing out a certain buff dude I've come to know and love.

"Oh, well you know those guys I was mentioning earlier?"

"Yeah," she said, grin getting bigger.

"He's not one of them."

"Oh," she frowned. I cracked up. She realized that I was lying and smacked me on the arm, but with the big grin back.

"So he's one of our new friends?"

"Yup."

"YAY! I thought you were lying when you said they were cute!"

"Valary, we have the same taste in guys," I said bluntly.

"I know, but, um, I dunno! God, he's hott!"

I just laughed and looked over at Matt. He had just gotten his lunch and walked over to a group of four guys, who already had their trays, who were waiting for him. Once together, they started to look around for a place to sit. Jimmy caught my eye and I gave a smirk, wiggling my fingers at him. He grinned and pointed over my way, saying something to the guys. They turned and walked over, Val getting a little nervous, seeing as she's the shy one of the group.

"Calm down, hun, they may look mean, but they're like puppy dogs."

"Ok," she said quietly, keeping her head down.

"Hello, girlfriend! Girlfriend these are the guys, guys this is my new girlfriend!" Jimmy proclaimed, sitting down one step below me and grinning.

"Not even in your dreams, Romeo," I laughed. All the other guys situated themselves around us and everything went quiet.

"Well since you guys obviously don't want to start, I will," I said. "To the two that don't know, my name's Moanna, but you can call me Mo or lose whatever excuse for genitalia you have."

One of the two, the one with the septum piercing, laughed while the other shot me a funny look and glanced down at his crotch.

"I was kidding, sweetheart; I don't want to reach down there. Lord only knows what'll come up."

That got everyone else laughing. While they were I shot Val that stop being so damn shy because your introduction is next and you want to impress Matt so you can't seem all nervous and whatnot because guys like confident girls oh and can I borrow your Zombina and the Skeletons tour sweatshirt tomorrow? look. That's right, all of that in one look. I pWn.

"Well, I guess I'm next. My name's Valary, but I'll go by Val. I don't really care what you call me, I really don't want to touch your penis."

"Damnit."

"Shut up, Jimmy, you can't get every girl on the planet."

"Yes I can!"

"Hold up," Matt said. He glanced from Valary to me, to Val, to me, and kept doing that, looking all confused. I stared at him before I realized what was going on. Then I laughed.

"What?" Val said, noticing Matt looking at her funny and me laughing my ass off.

"He met Michelle earlier," I said, calming down.

"Oh," Val said, then started laughing. "That was my twin."

Matt just gave her a bemused look. "How can she be all bitchy but you be all cool?"

"She takes after our mother. I'm daddy's little girl," Val grinned.

"Ah," he said.

"Why, does she have three heads?" Jimmy asked.

"No, but she has horns and a tail," I said with a straight face. "Anyways, on with our little introductions!"

"My turn! Ok, my name's Matt," Matt said, speaking directly to Val since she was the only one who didn't know. "And, uh, I guess I just go by Matt. And I ain't touching no balls either."

"But you said you loved me!" Jimmy buried his face in his hands, pretending to cry.

"Matt, how could you break his heart like that?!" I cried out dramatically.

"I'm sorry, man! It's not you, it's me!"

Everyone laughed and then we continued around our little sewing circle. It was septum-ring's turn.

"My name's Zacky," he smiled. "I'll take Zack, though, if you guys feel like calling me that." He looked at me and smiled. Oh dang, cute smile...

"I like your hair, Zack," I smiled back.

He grinned and ran his hand through his purple and black hair. "Thanks," he said, green eyes sparkling.

HOTTIE ALERT.

I turned to Brian and gave him a smile.

"My turn?" he asked.

"You guessed 'er, Chester."

"Actually it's Brian, and I don't really think there are nicknames for that?"

"Trust me, Mo will think of one."

I just grinned maliciously and turned to the next dude.

"And your turn, pee-wee."

"Pee-wee? I'm at least 7 inches taller than you."

"Fuck you buddy, I'll call you what I want."

"Well my name's Cameron."

"Cam. I'ma call you Cam."

"Ok, doesn't bother me," he said, looking like it bothered him.

"What crawled up your ass and died?" I said annoyed. I hate people when they're in bad moods. Unless I want them in bad moods.

"What the hell makes you think you're so high and mighty?" he shot back.

"Whoa, calm down Rackam, you don't want to blow a fuse," Jimmy said. He turned to me and Val as Cameron scowled. "He's got temper issues. He'll calm down once he hangs around you guys longer."

Val looked at Cam Rackam cautiously, and then shot me a glance that said I thought you said these guys were all cool? I shot her one saying don't worry Jimmy said he'll calm down and I'm sure he will so chill out and oh my god Matt just snuck a glance at you!

"Uh, are you two ok?"

Val and I blinked, looking at the rest of the guys. I guess our silent conversation didn't go unnoticed.

"Oh, were you two doing that thing girls do by communicating without speaking?"

"Yup," Val said, leaning back. "We have that special talent."

"I wish I could do that..." Jimmy said. Which reminded me...

"Hey, Val still doesn't know who you are, dippy!"

"Huh? Oh, I'm Jimmy. Remember that, because you'll be screaming it later," he winked at her. She rolled her eyes. Matt gave Jimmy a warning glance. Then Matt looked over at me and saw me smiling, and he knew I saw the glance. And then he blushed. AWWWWWW.

MATT AND VAL SITTING IN A TREE, K-I-S-S-I-N-G! FIRST COMES LOVE, THEN COME MARRIAGE, THEN COMES-

"So, what's the school like?" Zacky asked.

"It sucks."

"Very much."

"Well isn't that lovely," Zacky said looking put-down.

"Don't worry, we make it interesting."

"As interesting as possible, anyways," Val muttered.

"What do you guys do for fun?" I asked.

"We're starting up a band," Matt said proudly.

"Awesome! What kind of music?" Val asked. Matt seemed pretty happy that she was impressed.

"Hard rock, metalcore. I'm gonna be screaming and singing, Jimmy's on drums, Brian and Zacky are on guitar, but we're looking for a bassist."

I turned to Cam. "Music ain't your thing?"

"I like it, but I don't play it. I'm into art."

I nodded respectively. Hey I like art; I just think it's for pansies. Not really. I'm just saying that because I think Cam's a dick. :D

"Hey, you guys don't play bass, do you?"

"Nope, I'm musically challenged."

"Yeah, last time Mo picked up a guitar she ended up giving herself a black eye," Val grinned.

"Psh, whatchoo talkin' 'bout, biatch?!" I said all gangster status.

"Pfft, foo, don't get all up in my grill, yo," Val said back. "I'll curb stomp yo face!"

"Oh snap!" Jimmy said, covering his mouth like them gangsters do.

"Alright, sistas from da hood, calm down," Brian laughed.

We just grinned.

"What about you, Val?" he asked.

"Sorry guys, I can't play."

"She can scream really good though."

"Shut up."

"But you can!"

"So!"

We glared, then smiled. Just to confuse them. It worked.

"Girls are confusing," Brian wined.

"Get used to us, kid, we ain't going nowhere."

Just then the bell rang.

"Off to science, with thee!" Val pointed at me.

"Yes, master," I hunched over like Igor from Nightmare Before Christmas.

"Science? With who?" Zacky asked.

"Um," I said, whipping out my handy dandy schedule. "Mr. King."

"That's what I have next," he grinned.

"YAY SCIENCE BUDDIES!" I grabbed his arm and dragged him off in the direction of the science hallways.

"Good luck with her!" Val shouted after us. Zacky threw her a helpless look. Was I really that bad?"

*smirk*

False List:

- I don't know if the kids at Huntington Beach High are allowed to sit on the grass steps to eat their lunch. Oh well.

- Cameron isn't really an ass. I'm just going for a certain thing and you'll find out about it later on. Cam's cool =]

- Obviously Matt and Val are meeting for the first time in my story but in real life they've known each other since elementary school.