Author's Note: This story has a slow build up over many chapters.
Jason groaned as he stepped off the bus. He couldn't believe his parents made him transfer schools in the middle of his senior year. And even then his new school was hundreds of miles away from anyone he ever knew. He thought of the girls he had left behind. Jason always felt that he was just a step behind getting with the perfect girl. Although far from ugly, Jason always had trouble with women. His raging teenage hormones coupled with the fact that he was still a virgin plagued his nightly masturbation sessions. His friends had thrown him a huge going away party. He had even almost hooked up with someone but that didn't help the dread he felt as he walked across the pavement.
Why the hell was the bus stop three blocks from the high school?
His mom had told him he'd get used to his new home. Jason told her as soon as he graduated he was going back to his old home, his only home. This had escalated into an argument. She said he needed to grow up if he was going to be a man. He called her a "heartless bitch". She took away his car. Jason's father wasn't home. He was at his new job. The reason they had moved.
Jason never thought he came from a broken home or even a dysfunctional one. He was just angry that, at 18, still had to follow his parents rule while he was still in high school. He didn't have a job to support himself.
Two more blocks to go. Jason thought about his mother. He had seen a florist while on the bus. He would drop by after school to buy her something.
In a way, she was right,
he thought.
I need to be a man.
One block. He could see the high school by now. The buildings were all the same ugly tan color with green.
Looks like a school for leprechauns.
He was seeing the other students now too. There didn't seem to be anything special in any of them. They were all slowly converging on the school.
Jason was in the parking lot now. He bent down on the sidewalk to tie his shoe. That was when he was tackled sideways by what looked like a stick with blue hair as a cherry red motorcycle tore by.
"ASSHOLE!" he yelled as the biker continued down the sidewalk.
"Hey, man, you alright?" said the stick standing up.
"Yeah, I'll be fine. Who the hell was that?" Jason asked from the ground.
"You're new." It wasn't a question. "That was Kyle. Everyone here knows by now. Asphalt is for walking. Sidewalk is for driving. You'll get used to it. The cars drive slow. Too many people moseying through the parking lots for them to speed. I'm Bryan by the way." He said as he stuck out his hand.
"Jason", he said, taking the outstretched hand and pulling himself up.
"Office is that way. Over by the library. If you're cool with it you can hang with me and my friends at lunch. We're at the pink one. See you later." And with that he left.
Jason stood in the middle of the parking lot dumfounded. He had just nearly been hit by a motorcycle, talked to a stick, and been invited to lunch.
Pink what exactly?
he thought as he walked to the office.
Everything was in order. Jason sat through four periods of teachers asking him to introduce himself and asking if he learned all of the material at his old school. Bryan was in his fourth period class, English. It turned out he was a genius despite his lightning blue hair. He was a bit of a class clown too.
Jason watched the second hand tick until the bell rang. Bryan leapt like a gazelle over a few desks.
"Food time, J-man."
As they walked through the school, Bryan filled Jason with every little detail he could about the school. Describing places, people, and events. His own personal tour guide. They were headed towards the quad.
Then he saw it. Every table in school was painted the same leprechaun green except one. Someone (probably Bryan, or at least someone like Bryan) had painted one table pink.
HOT
pink.
"I think my eyes just burned out of their sockets"
"You like? We're going to try to do the entire school like this. The original school colors were going to be pink and black. But the Admins didn't want the football team to be pink. I think the mascot was going to be a poodle."
Bryan introduced him to Danny, Rob, Andre, Kristi, Chris, and Bianca. Danny had long brown hippie-like hair that contrasted his narrow features. He kept sweeping it back out of his eyes. Rob had dark, almost black hair. It was cut short and spiky. Andre's hair was dirty blond. As was Kristi's but she had bright purple streaks throughout hers. Bryan told Jason later that they were twins. Chris was easily the smallest of everyone there. He had wispy white-blond hair and large blue eyes. Jason would have mistaken him for a girl had he not had an Adam's apple. Bianca's hair was like a rainbow. Each strand of hair seemed to be a different color or the spectrum. Her eyebrows (both of which were pierced) gave away her natural brunette.
