*GASP*
The start of a new school year. Her start at a new school. You know, no big deal. Her name was Quinn: Quinn Chrysalis. And she did not like being here one bit. Her family had recently moved here from far to the south, beyond Froud Valley, and it was far too hot for her here. She wore a turquoise tank-top, a matching skirt and some ripped old stockings were the openest and coolest thing her parents would allow. Her hair was a slightly duller green colour with a front rat’s tail trailing over her nose along with some oddly curled spots that left gaps, making it look like there were holes in her hair. All in all, it matched her black skin quite well. And the green lipstick didn’t look bad on her either.
She missed her old school. She had friends there, friends that truly loved her and she fed off of that love. Metaphorically of course. Here however… she was just pissed off! The heat, the new school, her parents who’d dragged her here and worst of all, she had no one to talk to. Well, she might as well make some friends here so as soon as her first lunch break came around she was off to the cafeteria. She’d just grab her food and introduce herself to someone.
She made her way to there and hopped in line to grab her lunch. In front of her was a guy in black and in front of him was a lightish-red-haired girl. The two of them were messing about, pointing and pushing… actually it looked like the girl was the only one doing anything, where as the guy was just standing there with a bemused expression that almost matched Chrysalis’s own. She was going to introduce herself to them but before she could one of the redhead’s stronger bumps sent the guy slamming into her.
He briefly turned to acknowledge the person he’d bumped into. They met eyes for a second before he turned back around without even saying sorry. What a jerk! Chrysalis just grumbled as he did so and continued to wait in line. Her plan to introduce herself to these two had changed to speaking with who ever took the spot behind her instead. Besides, she didn’t want to get between this obnoxious boyfriend and girlfriend couple.
The line moved on and eventually she got to the serving area. The two in front of her were now fighting over who got what, once again the guy not actually caring and just looking annoyed. He grabbed a hot dog and the girl grabbed it off his tray. He just growled and grabbed another one. Then he suddenly did seem to care about something and quickly reached past the girl to grab the last rainbow-frosted cupcake. Naturally the laughing spaz who’d been messing with him wouldn’t let him have it and started making grabs at it.
As all that happened another girl with pink hair grabbed a tray and took a spot behind her. Chrysalis turned to face the yellow girl, not noticing she was still frowning from getting bumped into before. The newcomer took a little back-step as she practically hid behind her tray. Chrysalis raised an eyebrow, which only seemed to scare her even more. Uh, screw it. She furrowed her brow at the girl and just groaned “Uhrr…” which made this new girl cower even further.
Stuck between those too having a lover's quarrel and this meek little geek was really starting to annoy her. Luckily, it was her turn to grab her lunch. She skipped the salad, skipped the hot dog, and picked up a burger. Now, she could finally get away from these weirdos. Those two in front of her were laughing… well, again it was really only the girl laughing as she was still making grabs for the cupcake while the jerk had his hand on her face pushing her back and his other hand held behind him keeping the last cupcake away from her.
The pink girl made a lunge for the treat but the jerk’s arm stayed strongly pressed against her face in a way that had to have broken her nose. Unfortunately he was pushed backwards by her assault and pretty much punched Chrysalis in the face as a result. It was a hard hit too and left a good mark on her face. The yellow girl behind her let out a meep and ducked away out of sight as the loud girl finally quieted down and stopped pushing at the jerk.
He slightly turned to look at who he’d just hit before Chrysalis’ own gaze shifted to him…
WA-BAM!!!
After that was settled, Chrysalis took her tray with a burger and the last rainbow-frosted cupcake on it and went off to find herself a seat. She walked up to an empty spot between two girls, pulled up a seat and sat down. The conversation they were having instantly stopped. Chrysalis had just set her tray down as the girls next to her grabbed theirs, stood up and quickly left… everyone had just seen her deck that jerk with her lunch tray. Great, first day at school and everyone was now scared of her.
It didn't take much longer until the whole group had left, either from getting away from her or following their friends who had run away from her, leaving Chrysalis to just sit there alone. Honestly, she wanted to cry at this point and was about to just stand up and leave without even taking her food when a girl with very long fluffy pink hair [there’s a lot of pink haired girls] sat down beside her. They stared at each other for a moment. Chrysalis was just about to smile and say something when suddenly “Nom.” the fluffy girl took a bite out of a piece of paper and started chewing on it… well buck.
Chrysalis just let this retard, factual description not an insult, eat her paper as she slowly ate her own lunch while trying to avoid looking at the girl sitting next to her. Soon enough though, lunch ended, but frankly it wasn’t soon enough for her. She didn’t want to hang around this fluffy girl anymore than she had to in order to seem polite and not like those people who'd run away form her. But as soon as the bell rang she stood up, dumped her tray on the pile and left to find her locker.
Despite being new to the school, she found it without issue. Chrysalis opened up her locker and pulled out her book for her next class and then closed it again. When she closed it however, a certain long pink-haired girl was standing next to her ideally lapping at her lips with her tongue like a cat. “Mmrrr…” Chrysalis groaned about this girl following her. Whatever, she’d lose her in her next class. And with that thought she turned and began to walk.
The fluffy girl just started walking alongside her though. She turned and glared at this annoying shadower and kept her stare locked on her. It didn’t have much effect though as she just aimed her eyes right back at Chrysalis and smiled. Then blew a raspberry. Chrysalis should’ve just given up trying get rid of this girl like that and turned back to look where she was going as she accidently bumped into someone.
Whoever she’d bumped into though had figured out who she was before Chrysalis could even recover. She gasped loudly and shielded herself with a book. And no, it wasn’t that same scaredy from the lunch line, this was a completely different person who was for some reason scared of her for whacking a guy who’d just punched her in the face! Bloody white-male-privilege.
That this girl was scared of her for that… Chrysalis groaned again, actually it was more like a growl this time. “Grrr…!” with a small hint of force behind it too as her eyes narrowed slightly. The girl quickly ran off, scared that she was about to get beaten up. Too late did Chrysalis realise that getting angry hadn’t helped her there. Her eyes softened as she turned to where the girl had run off… and they locked with the fluffy girl’s eyes.
For a brief moment she realised that this girl wasn’t scared of her… “Nom” which was quickly destroyed by the girl putting the piece of paper in her mouth once more.
“Uhh…” Chrysalis sighed and just walked off, leaving this girl behind to chew on her paper. With any luck this girl wouldn’t follow her into a classroom. She was wrong. Well, at the very least she would be removed. Her name was called on the role. Chrysalis could only facepalm as Fluffle Puff’s name was called out by the teacher. And naturally she was sitting in the desk next to her own. At least they were a small distance apart from each other.
SCCCRRRUUURRRKK!!!
SCCCRRRUUURRRKK!!!
Chrysalis had been resting her head in one hand, diligently reading her book when the piercing sound screeched into her ears as Fluffle moved her desk heavily across the floor putting them right next to each other’s. They regarded each other for a moment before, you guessed it, Fluffle started chewing on her piece of paper. It was all starting to weigh heavily on Chrysalis at this point as she put her other hand to her cheek, leant down to make it look like she was still reading and moped.
As the task at hand changed from just reading to doing some written work she pulled herself up and pulled out a hashtag2 pencil. To her surprise Fluffle was actually doing her work too, though all the while still chewing on her paper and slowly gnawing it away, which kept her from being annoying. Not that she was really doing anything other than hanging around her. But still.
It was nearing the end of the lesson and Chrysalis kept her attention on her work and off of the fluffy nuisance next to her. As she was writing and just about to complete the last question; pencil scratching away on the paper, it suddenly snapped. The lead tip broke off right before she could finish her work. Chrysalis lifted it and looked at it briefly. Yep, it was broken.
She looked to her right towards the… person of indeterminate gender and tapped… ‘them’ on the shoulder, reaching out and showing them her broken pencil. The other kid looked at her for a second, but before Chrysalis could say a word, the boy and/or girl quickly turned back and buried their face into a book, pretending they hadn’t seen anything. Needless to say it pissed Chrysalis off once more. She scrunched her face and clenched her hand, snapping the pencil in two between her fingers!
That was bullshit! Utter bullshit! And… and just plain unfair. Her face fell from anger to annoyance. Then it changed once more, finally showing her sadness outwardly for the first time today. She couldn’t keep it in, heaven knows she tried… she was about to let it go when a pencil came into her peripheral vision beside her and began to wave up and down to catch her attention. It was Fluffle’s hand holding it.
A small and very brief smile came to her face as she looked over at the girl beside her. “Pft pft pft pft pft pft pft pft…” her tongue was darting in and out of mouth. Chrysalis snatched the pencil away from this weirdo, a scowl back on her face and started up writing where she’d left off. Fluffle’s hand didn’t pull away though. It just stayed there where she’d been holding the pencil and made a few stationary grabbing actions for a couple of moments.
She’d finished her work now, and surprisingly Fluffle had finished hers even faster. Though whether any of it was correct was yet to be determined. The two of them just sat there now, waiting for the end of class. Chrysalis had her elbow on the desk and was leaning her head on her hand, staring blankly up the front of the class. She glanced at Fluffle beside her, only to see her take another bite out of that same old piece of paper before looking away once more.
She heard the scratch of writing on paper coming from beside her but didn’t really care. Shortly afterwards, that was replaced with a rustling sound but again she paid it no mind either. Then Chrysalis heard it again… and again… andagainandagainandagain and then just a constant frufrlering of the piece of paper being shaken right beside her ear. Angrily, she swiped at the paper and grabbed it away from the long-haired spaz.
Fluffle pulled both her hands up to her face “Hsuu!” she gasped, her eyes wide with excitement and her hands jittering with joy. Chrysalis just ignored her antics though and slumped back down on her hand. Despite her better judgement, curiosity got the better of her and she lifted the paper up and partially scrunched it from within her fist. It was the piece of paper Fluffle had been munching on all day and had clear bite marks all around it, making it look like a… look like a love-heart. It read…
Dear Chryssi,
I made you this cause
I love you!
(I’m not allowed to use scissors)
xoxoxo
~Fluffle Puff
Chrysalis continued to stare at the pseudo-loveletter for a moment before she turned to Fluffle. Fluffle, for her part, actually managed to look and act normal for once as she simply smiled back at Chrysalis. “Ehh…” Chrysalis just sighed and slumped back down on her hand, looking off at nowhere in particular. She kept staring off for a short while before her eyes glanced back to Fluffle for a moment before turning back away.
She was uncomfortable with this. And so she shifted in her seat, still leaning away from the girl beside her. After that Chrysalis realised she was a little closer to Fluffle Puff than she had been before. She quickly shifted in her seat again to correct this. Chrysalis was a lot closer to Fluffle Puff now.
She Smiled.
The End.
Author's Note
