Scream For Me (Scream fanfic)

Chapter Four

The cafeteria was buzzing with conversations as always and Alyssa, bagged lunch in hand wound up at her usual table. It was off to the left side of the large room where all types of people were welcome and was filled with her teammates and other acquaintances.

"You're really something!" Terra said with a laugh as the other girl sat down. Alyssa looked at her and noticed the way the gossips eyes glinted with annoyance. She had always been a green-eyed monster.

"Yeah I can't believe you'd stand up and tell your entire class off, you our sweet little 'Lyssa." Grey chortled.

"And I thought only your pep talks were that impressive." Cody said as he took a drink.

"Did anyone read my article?" Terra interjected, and there were some mumbled responses but no one continued with that line of conversation topic. Alyssa sighed and tucked her chestnut brown hair into a pony then turned her attention towards her team.

"We're going to do a lot of sprints and a few miles today, but no drills; Coach wants us to get home before dark." Terra groaned, her own mass of blonde curls covering her face as she slumped to the table in despair.

"My legs hurt already!" The boys snickered as the other members of the team sighed.

"We need to be fast on our feet. We have the skills already, but if we can't get to the ball fast enough than it doesn't matter. If we can't cover our positions there's no point, that's why we got slaughtered last week." There were begrudging replies of agreement and she scanned the rest of the lunch room. The center table was full and there were many others who were not seated that were standing around it and laughing. Even Stacey, whose face was still covered in tears for the loss of her best friend, was laughing. In fact all of the attention seemed to be focused on her from the trickster.

Kyle was, of course, at the center of the group, waving around his hands and shaking with silent laughter. Kyle the trickster, Kyle the clown. He smiled, the group was in stitches and he job was done. People were beginning to pull themselves together and were adding light to the darkness that hovered about them like a cloud. He beamed and bowed to his loving public, he was like a court jester and he would drink in the applause like they were a fine wine. He mouthed a 'thank you' and stepped down from the table, and received several affectionate claps on his shoulder and some scattered hugs from other students and the happiness light his face and those around him.

"What's going on over there?" Terra chirped her notebook already in hand and her eyes glazed with a hungry look for a new story.

"Looks like Kyle is trying to lighten the mood." She responded before turning her attention to her food.

"The mute kid?" The blonde asked her pen already working against the page.

"Yeah." Alyssa spoke without care. The boy never seemed to look at his lack of speech as a disadvantage, rather wanting to make life like a silent movie, one filled with humor that made the audience flood over with laughter.

"You know him?"

"No. But everyone knows of him." There were murmurs of agreement around the table. And even though she refused to turn around and look she could feel a pair of eyes burning into her back.