Getting Closer - 3 (The Cafeteria)

Mýa rolled her eyes, "You guys are impossible." She said.

Before anyone said anything to Mýa, the groups attention was focused on some commotion that was happening in the middle section of the cafeteria. When Mýa looked over she saw a girl in her grade who had a mental disability was laying on the floor and her tray was on the floor next to her with all the food spilt. A table of guys were laughing at her, apparently one of then had tripped her. When Mýa looked closer she saw that Zeke was sitting at the table and he wasn't laughing with the rest of them.

Illa got up when she saw the girl on the ground because she is friends with her, she rushed over to help her up. Mýa also walked over to her and helped her, Illa was really mad and started saying, "Why do you do this?! She did nothing to you and a lot of people don't find it funny, if you look arou---"

Mýa stopped her. She touched her arm and whispered, "It's not worth it, they will just laugh what you saw off then make fun of you for helping her. Let's go." They then made sure the girl was ok and started to walk away.

Mýa turned around to glance at Zeke quickly and saw him telling the guys at his table to "Knock it off." He then looked at her apologetically. She gestured toward she table where her friends and her were sitting and pointed at an extra seat. She meant to tell him that he could sit with then if he wanted. He hesitated for a second. Zeke then picked up his tray of food, and without saying anything to the group of people he was with, he followed Mýa to her table.

When he got there Mýa smiled at him and started introducing him to her friends. "Zeke this is Illa, Hailey, Mia, Payton, Mabel, and Tilly. Guys, this is Zeke." She said as she pointed to each of her friends as she said their names.

"Hey, thanks for letting me sit here with you guys." Zeke said thankfully. "I haven't been able to make a whole lot of friends who aren't pretending snobs or jerks."

"That's ok" Payton said.

"Yeah," Tilly agreed, "Most people here are attracted to certain things. Things like popularity, good looks, 'normal people', and things like that. So there are a lot of jerks, snobbish people, hidden personalities, and cheerleaders."

"Cheerleaders? How do they fit into the mix?" Zeke asked.

"They just do!" All the girls at the table answered. Then everybody started laughing.

Zeke smiled at Mýa, glad that she involved him. He liked that she didn't stay away from him at school, he didn't want to get involved with the wrong crowd. He has gone to two other schools before he moved here and he was often surrounded with the 'Popular Crowd' and he would rather stay away from them. That's way he stayed away from the large groups of people who obviously were 'above' the other students that approached him.

Zeke noticed that Mia was looking at him amused. So he said, "What?"

Mia smiled and said, "You two are a cute couple."

*cough cough* Mýa looked up, and her entire face was blushing red. Zeke laughed, "I guess we would be a cute couple. We are just friends though."

Mýa had successfully recovered by the time Zeke was done talking. "Why do you guys do this to me." She started, "I already told you that we are just friends. Do I look like some Zeke would date? We just met and are only friends, ok you guys?"

The girls at the table other than Mýa looked at each other and sighed. "Alright" Illa said, "We get it, you guys are just friends."

She then looked at Hailey and laughed, "For now....." she teased.

"Ughhh", Mýa exclaimed. "You guys never stop."

Zeke joined in with the tables laughter, soon everyone was laughing and talking including Mýa.

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After school Zeke and Mýa rode the bus back from school together and had a fun time. They got off the bus laughing and Zeke kept making fun of her. They really had gotten closer the past few weeks.