<Morning tea time at school...>
"How was that Ezra?" asked Ja'far as they left the classroom and went to morning tea.
"It was... different," said Ezra following Janan and her three best friends Ja'far, Tilda and Seishuun.
He'd learned their names during class. Ja'far and Seishuun were male fraternal twins who had an older brother in Jexxel's grade called Sinbad and Tilda had an older brother called Bain and and older sister called Sigrid. Bain was in Jexxel's grade and Sigrid was in Chopper's grade.
But Ezra still missed Neeran very much.
Ezra fished into his pocket and pulled out the tiny blue coloured marble Neeran had given him that morning before she'd left to go to work. He just stared at it for a moment and thought about how much he missed Neeran.
Then suddenly, it was gone from his hand.
"Hey!" exclaimed Ezra turning to face who'd stolen the tiny blue marble. Ezra came face to face with a mean looking girl who was a dark tan-skinned human with brown eyes and near-black hair that was faintly blonde on the ends.
Normally, Ezra would be scared out of his wits, and in fact he was, but the marble had belonged to Neeran and he didn't want to lose it.
"Give it back."
"This worthless piece of junk?" questioned the girl staring at the marble.
Ezra suddenly clenched up and froze with fear at the girls words. They had been said to him many, many times before under seemingly similar circumstances.
"Hey, that's Ezra's Shan-Ti!" shouted Janan, snatching the marble back from the girl. Janan placed it firmly in Ezra's hand and he held it tightly.
"Oh, look at that," sneered Shan-Ti. "You need your big 'sister' to come to your rescue."
Ja'far, Seishuun and Tilda all came over to support Ezra and Janan against the bully Shan-Ti. When Ezra didn't reply, Janan spoke up for him,
"No he doesn't! You're just being mean to him, like you are with everyone else!"
Suddenly, two familiar older people came to help them along with three unfamiliar.
"Defuse the situation, Janan," said Jexxel, placing a hand on her shoulder. "DTS."
Janan glanced up at Jexxel for a moment before looking back at Shan-Ti, taking a few deep breaths and...
Poked her tongue at her.
"That's not defusing the situation Janan!" exclaimed Jexxel, putting a hand over her mouth while Chopper, Ja'far, Sinbad, Bain, Sigrid, Seishuun and Tilda failed to hide snickers of laughter.
Ezra anxiously looked between the two groups. He could see a fight was about to break out.
Shan-Ti had gone very red with embarrassment and was seething with anger. And Ezra could see that anger was directed at the mismatch group before her.
"You idiots are the strangest people ever," said Shan-Ti turning and walking away.
"Yeah, well at least we're nice!"
"Janan!" exclaimed Chopper.
Janan looked at them and shrugged, "What?"
"You know Zaera," said Neeran with a sigh.
"Oh dear," replied Zaera.
"I have a distinct feeling that I'm in trouble when I have to go pick those kids up this afternoon."
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SWRC: Gaining Trust. (Book 1)
FanfictionNeeran has been on the run for most of her life. And Order 66 has only made it worse. After rescuing Ezra from slavery on Jex, Neeran has bought herself into something that will change the course of the history in the galaxy. But will she be ready...
