City Streets

Chapter IX

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The day was seemingl slow but of course didn't bother me much, in fact this was probably the most I've ever ENJOYED school, I mean it's more amazing then I sounds when you make a new best friend on the first day at a new school, and to have someone NOT judge you feels so..sooo.....AWESOME!!! Things I guess we're really turning my way.
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"I'm guessing you don't really have anywhere to sit at lunch do you?" Claire said, her eyes not once looking away from mine.
"No not really, I mean you the only person I've gotten to know." I replied.
"Well lucky for you I have the most wonderful idea of asking you if you would like to eat lunch with me?"
Of course I couldn't turn down the offer and I didn't want to, to give up an offer like this you'd have to be MAD.
"Oh my god yes, thank you so much!"
"Don't mention it, besides your gonna make more friends than just me, you'll love them."
This day couldn't get any better, and here I thought making friends would be as difficult as last time, guess the gods above had better plans.

As we made our way to lunch the more people were seeming to just stare at me, as if I were something from another dimension, of course making feel more uncomfortable than I was at the beginning of the day. Of course I just kept my eyes forward to where Claire was leading me.
After a few short moments we found ourselves in front of quite a large tree which had two boys that sat beneath it. One was leaning against the other in a tired manner, his eyes just seeming to close before swiftly raising them back up again. His hair was a fair light brown, his hair wavy as if he actually used took the time to style it, but I was messy anyway, from the slight gaps separating his eye lids his eyes seemed to be a shade of a light ocean blue.
The second boy was much more slim, much more pale. His hair was a thin shade of jet black which was parted down the middle and sat either side of his head. His eye which shone a thick shade of emerald green were glued to a thick book titled "The book Theif." I imediently  recognised it as I had read it before. He was quite tall and didn't seem to care about his friend who was drifting on his shoulder, he seem calm and gentle until I notice a large purple bruise on his left shin.
"Hey guys!" Claire shouted to them.
Grabbing me wrist she slightly pulled me forward as for them to get a better look of me.
"This is Josephine, she just moved here from Italy! Josephine this is Padgett and Levi."
As those words were said Levi gave Padgett a small nudge as to wake him, of course succeeding in the process.
"Dude wake up." Levi spoke to him.
"HUH, what?!" He said as his head shot up like a bullet. As he rubbed his eyes he turned to Levi who shited his head towards me as to indicate Padgett that I was there.
"Oh hi, I'm Padgett or if you want you can call me Page, either way I don't care." He told me as he spoke between yawns.
"Page she already knows who we are." Levi told him, giving him a small bop on the head with the thick book that was clenched in his hands.
"Well sorry not my fault that damn cat kept me up all night." Argued Page.
"Oh sorry." Levi finally noticing me he stood up as to shake my hand.
"Of course we both know our names now but it's nice to meet you." He said as both our hand finally met.
"It's nice to meet you both." I replied.
As our hands separated Page finally found the effort to get and shake my hand too.
"Well you already know my name but I think I wasn't awake to know yours so what was it again?" He said as he swiftly grabbed my hand as to shake it too.
"Josephine." I told him. "It's Josephine, but friends call me Joseph, or just Jose."
"Well it's nice to meet you!" He said with a grand smile slapped on his face.
"Um, I hate to say but isn't Padgett a girls name." I asked.
As I said those words his smile quickly changed to a frustrated figure.
"Why does everyone I meet keep on saying that, even the teachers tell me." He said as he raised both arms in the air before dropping them back at his sides in frustration.
"Hey leave her be, it's not our fault you have such a girly name." Claire teased.
"What d'ya say, come say that to my face!!!" Page spat.
"Guys stop, Josephine's only know us for about 3 minutes and your already fighting, for once can you two just please be normal?" Levi said, grasping them both on the shoulder and pulling them back.
"You do realise that's not an option right." Page told him.
"Yeah but it was worth asking."
I knew that these people were for me, It seemed like I was the perfect puzzle piece for this group, they were funny, nice and from their personalities i was guessing that they were not very judgmental unlike some of the people who kept staring at me, yep this was the right crowd for me.

As we all sat down to where the two boys once more Page insisted that is sit next to him, and guessing by his expression he had some questions to ask, of course I didn't refuse because over all he seemed like a nice guy.
"So.." He began. "Where you from again?"
I rolled my eyes.
"I'm from Italy." I told him.
"Cool, sorry I had to ask, I don't think I was awake when you told us." He exclaimed.
"Oh it's ok."

As the time went on everyone seemed to just want to talk with me and just seemed to want to know about me, the asked so many questions with I had no trouble answering. To hear what curious questions they had on their minds seemed to build up the type of personalities I saw in them.
Claire seemed to as a friendly confident kind of person, the kind that wouldn't be afraid to kick a complete stranger.
Padgett seemed to be a really goofy kind of character, he was friendly, funny and had a fantastic sense of humour, and Levi....well I couldn't quite figure him out yet but from what he seemed like now was just a normal, chilled out dude, but from this bruise on his leg he seemed to have a lot more to him than what she'll I laid before me. It would only take time to figure him out so I'd just have to be patient it I knew he had a lot to hide behind his so called mask of his, I knew this calm, placid nature was just covering up something, but what?