INCIPIENT

four - EVA

Mandag 11:58 | Monday 11:58 am

Eva

"Did you guys hear about the new guy? I hear he's hot," Vilde gushes as she opens her Tupperware container and rips the ranch packaging open, heavily staining her greens with it.

"There's a new guy?" Chris asks in disbelief.

Vilde eagerly nods, "I know! It's weird right?"

"Huh. Interesting. I haven't heard about any new people at this school in the longest. Not even in the other years," Chris replies.

"So it isn't common?" Noora asks as she takes a big bite of her burrito.

Sana shakes her head, "Noora is the only new person Nissen has seen in about three years." Noora and I share a look and continue munching on our food.

"I heard he was at the party yesterday." Vilde takes a bite of her salad and directly looks at me, waiting for me to say something.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" I ask. I shift in my seat, uncomfortable by her intense stare.

"That guy you were with at the party..." she trails off, taking another forkful of her salad.

I know where this is going. She thinks Lukas is the new guy here at Nissen, but I highly doubt it. It'd be too coincidental.

"What about him?"

"I've never seen him before. He might be the new guy," she shrugs as her eyes wander around and then suddenly widen.

Sana and Chris are the first to turn around and both of them also seem to have been caught off guard as their mouths hang open.

"What are you guys—" I don't finish my sentence as I turn around and my eyes lock with a pair of caramel colored eyes.

My breath hitches, "Lukas?"

He smiles, his half grin making him look a little boyish and kinda nervous, "Hey." He gives a small wave to the rest of the girls. "Do you mind if I sit with you guys? I don't know anyone except you, Eva, and everywhere I go I'm being stared at and whispered about," he forces a laugh, "It's kind of uncomfortable. Not to mention that it's not only the girls that are doing a lot of staring and whispering," he says.

I look around the courtyard and Lukas is right, everyone's staring at him and whispering amongst themselves, but now, they weren't just looking at him but at us too. I already feel uncomfortable and it's been less than five minutes, I can't imagine what it's like to be Lukas right now.

As I'm about to answer I hear movement from behind me and suddenly, Vilde is standing face to face with Lukas, "Hi, I'm Vilde." Her facial expression and composure change completely, her I-just-meet-you-but-here's-my-number — as Noora, Sana, Chris, and I like to call it — game face is on. She stretches her hand out and shakes Lukas's hand, her smile only growing more by each passing second. I can't help but roll my eyes.

"Lukas." His smile is small and sincere. He let's go of her hand and looks at me, "So are you going to introduce me to the rest of your lovely friends?"

Oh. Right.

I go from left to right, introducing Sana first, then Chris, and finally Noora. He shakes each one of their hands and then an awkward silence falls on our shoulders. Thankfully, we're saved by the bell.