The School!

[Humus]

The ferret's ensuing teasing made Jacob's brows furrow deeply as he blushed even more, his ears throbbing and radiating heat from a flurry of mixed emotions. And then to his utter shock, Samuel boldly yanked down his briefs to reveal that he did in fact have a folded sheet of previously crumpled paper, wedged neatly between an obvious, flaccid penis and a quite complementarily sized scrotum. The buck only got a split-second look before letting out a squeak and reflexively retreating into himself. He hugged his backpack between his limbs like it was a lifeline and buried his face in it in such a way that his glasses where knocked off his head and left dangling by one of his long, sloped ears.

Sam was astute in his observation of the rabbit's quaking, but Jacob had every reason to be concerned. He'd just been shown another boy's penis in a bathroom stall. On day one of high-school. This was not what he'd signed up for! And certainly more than he was going to take sitting down... literally. Fear was quickly replaced with cold, calculating anger, and the buck was able to deftly reason that it could have been any folded piece of paper. It might have been his specific paper, but it was fifty-fifty chance. A chance that was based on the premise that getting the paper back would make a difference. But assuming the Roberts' twins pocketed it in homeroom, they could've made dozens of copies by now, either by taking a picture or just photocopying it.

The symbolism of that particular paper was what the ferret was hinging his bets on, but Jacob was too smart for that. He knew that once it was in their possession, all bets were off. So reaching into Samuel's pants and subjecting himself to the degrading act of rubbing up against another boy's privates, just to retrieve a piece of paper was pointless. Thus there was only one other appropriate alternative.

"How's this for lightening up?" he said with a firm grunt as he kicked the ferret square in the balls as hard as he could. He didn't really care so much about aim as power, but once he'd sufficiently distracted the older teenager, Jacob leaped to his feet and jumped straight over the stall partition, using Sam's head as a stepping stone.

Landing hard on the other side, Jacob shouted, "Stay away from me, you sicko!" Then he bolted out of the room on stinging feet, hugging his backpack as he ran straight for the cafeteria and, most importantly, witnesses. When he arrived though, rather than barge in, he came to a stop and quickly composed himself, dusting his shoulders from where his back had grazed the ceiling. Then he calmly entered, like nothing had happened and searched for the nearest table with an empty seat and the highest frequency of familiar faces.

[azirik]

[Lunch]

Robert got up with a scowl and stormed off to the restroom to wash soda off his muzzle and to try and blow his nose , as he keen nose was still burning from earlier. As he weaved through the tables and other students, his height was a clear advantage being able to see over most of the student body. Leaving the cafeteria he made his way to the restroom and pushed the door open easily and went right to the sinks. His ears perked up towards and keened in to the far end of the restroom hearing talking, not really listening to what Samuel and Jacob were saying, Robert went about taking off his shirt and leaning over the sink to try and wash off the soda that did spill and drip onto his chest fur. Growling about sticky shit in his fur. He was no jock but he had the build to be one. Roberts ears snapped up and he began to look towards the far stall when suddenly a rabbit leaped from a far stall. Robert damn near stammered back as he watched Jacob bolted from the restroom hugging a backpack. Robert did his best not to take chase after the buck but rather he looked down towards the stall the bunny popped up from and walked down towards with a cautious readiness. Once there he simply looked over the stall door, seeing a ferret there Robert simply asks  " Hey ..... you ok bud?"

[kepora]

Samuel sighs, slumping his shoulders. "Dude, relax. I'm not gonna-" The ferret's attempt to reach out was suddenly interrupted by a two-footed rabbit kick to the groin. He jumps with a yelp, then grunt in pain as the act of having his head used as a springboard sends his jaw into the toilet seat. He whimpers and curls up, grabbing his jaw and crotch, leaning on the seat. “...I was...trying to say..." He pulls himself onto the toilet sest, just sobbing softly. "Little bastard...kicked me in the nuts.."

[Jessito]

Edwin took his time gandering around at the clustered lunchroom, quite enjoying the activity. He lagged behind his friend a bit while he tried to see if he recognize familiar faces. Catching up with Kenny after he waves him over, Edwin stops and looks down at the meal wide-eyed. "Wow, Kenny, this looks better than most my dinners at home!" He leaned over and gave Kendall a small snug, smiling with a bit of a blush. There was something he found strangely exciting about this. "Man, you're the best... let's eat - I'm starving." Within moments of sitting down Eddy had grabbed the sandwhich and mowed down, dropping a bit of loose ingredients as he messily ate looking like a chipmunk with stuffed cheeks.

The meerkat perks up still chewing as Kaien sits down across from them. He offers as best of a smile as he can manage back to him, around the mouthful of sandwhich as he looks over to Kenny. Best not try talking with his mouth full.

[Riana]

When Miriam entered the cafeteria, it was already bustling with students, and there was nary an empty spot. The most secluded table was the one the wolverine girl was sitting at, which the mouse recognized from her class. She also recognized how threatening she appeared, perhaps lending to the seclusion of her table. This could work in her favor, she thought. With Katya there, no one else would wish to sit nearby and bother Miri. So with that logic in mind, she made her way for her table, scurrying around other students and tables until she was safe in her corner.

"H-hi... I-I h-hope you d-don't mind me s-sitting here," she breathed, barely above a whisper, sounding more like the rustling of a leaf at your window or the flutter of a moth's wings against a lamp than a girl asking to sit at your table. Whether the wolverine heard her or not, Miri settled down across from her, and began unpacking her lunch, her eyes darting up at Katya every now and then. In her lunch bag she had a couple peanut-free granola bars, a few rice cakes, an apple, and an 8 oz carton of almond milk. Taking one of the granola bars in one hand, she dug around in her backpack with the other, and pulled out a book. She flipped to the page she had bookmarked, and nibbled daintily on her home-made granola as she hid behind Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy.

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Max didn't look forward to lunch as much as the other students did. It didn't matter where they sat; the cafeteria was a noisy place regardless of one's physical positioning in it. Soon enough, the students' voices made their way into Max's mind and settled there like it belonged to them to begin with.
"I have so much homework to get done, it's crazy."
"Thursday I have an appointment at 12..."
"...then I can cash in my e-bucks for a gift card!"
"My sister met this guy online..."
"I hate my life."
"...tired of hearing her talk."
"Mom got mad at me cus I was listening to music."
"My dream is to be a youtuber... but my family tells me that it's unrealistic."
Max shook their head and looked down at their food, and then around them. The civet had been on autopilot until then, and didn't really remember waiting in line, or getting their food, or taking a seat at a table full of jocks!

[Nykel]

Casey's head snaps up from her sketchbook abruptly. "...you! And you! Hi! I'm Casey!" She slams her book shut. "You may recognize me from such moments as Homeroom Outburst and Homeroom Outburst 2: Electric Boogaloo!" She seems to suddenly remember she has food and pulls open her sandwich bag, taking a big bite before continuing. "Nuhweh huh? Yuh dun fuwnd ike yuh fwom Nuhweh." Swallow. "Actually... what do people from Norway sound like?" The squirrel waves wildly at Robert in response, then suddenly vaults the table. Well, it's more like TRIES to vault the table, lands in the middle, scrabbles and scratches her way to the other side, slides between the two of them, falls off face first (and tail in the air), then spins herself around and plops down on the bench next to Julie, opposite Lexy.

"Wuzzat." She points at the glowy tube hanging from Julie's neck. "Is it medicine? Or maybe it's just like a rave stick thing? OOH, is it radioactive? Do you turn into the Hulk?"

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DJ nods to Max as they sit down, which leads to catching a glimpse of Katya as the wolverine pauses, debating where to go. There's a moment of debate for her as well, one of ~Do I call her over, or just...~ That was the crazy one, right? The girl with the anger problems? She turns back to her jock friends. Said friends are current checking out some of the cheerleaders across the room and attempting to pull Max into a debate over which ones they're going to try and fuck this year. Lewd gestures, laughing and smacking each other (and Max) on the back. In her junior year, two years ago, she'd be right there with them, talking about chicks and games and parties...

When they try to draw her into the conversation she sighs and gets up, grabbing her bag and taking her tray with her. "Maybe later, guys. I'll see ya outside." There's a couple joking comments about her turning into a nerd with all this extra study, but she brushes them off. She locks eyes with Max and tosses her head slightly to indicate where she's going, then heads over to the wolverine's table. There was also the shy mouse there now, trying to disappear into a book.

"Hey. Katya. Miri." She nods to one, then the other. "Right? Mind if I sit here? Too much of a circle jerk goin' on at that other table."

[Tally Cat]

Julie looks over as Lexy sits next to her and waves at her, mouthing 'Hey!' Then she anxiously looked over to Casey as she began bombarding her with questions.

"I-uh-yeah I do remember you. My mom has an accent but I guess I-...I uh... picked up on the American accent more easily from TV and stuff. I don't know how to describe how Norwegians sound... ever played Skyrim?" Julie uttered anxiously. After Casey's incredible triumph of grace, Julie giggled and then caught herself, thinking she sounded weird. At the mention of the glowing tube around her neck, she clutched it and shook her head. "It's, uh, it's mine. I mean... it's medicine, yes. Kind of hard to explain. I need it, though," she said and smiled a little, lightening up her expression. "It kinda looks radioactive, doesn't it? But no... it's just... glow-y stuff. Happens to be my favourite colour so I guess that's why I wear it around my neck," Julie continued and smiled a little wider, thinking about the antics of Casey and finding herself laughing hard again. "You know, you are really something!" she called to Casey. She looked back to her other side and made a funny face at Lexy, expressing how silly she thought Casey was. She pulled her notebook from before out of her backpack and wrote something on a piece of paper, tearing it out and handing it to Lexy. It reads:

Want me to tell this girl that you're deaf? I want to hang out with you and not fail to include you!

[Shani]

After a while, Eugene came back to his table, carrying a tray of food. He'd taken extra time to grab a can of Mtn Dew and Doritos from a vending machine to snack on later. Sitting down with it, he looked around the table and spotted his bag, now sans egg. "Hey, did anyone see my egg?" He asked, narrowing his eyes and shooting an accusing glance at Samantha.

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"Oh, it's nothing. Really!" Kenny said to Edwin, blushing a bit as well from receiving such flattery. He did not expect the hug, though, and it threw him off balance. Straightening his glasses, and checking to make sure his shirt and vest were in order, he got to eating too. He perked up along with Eddy when Kaien sat with them. "No, you won't be crowding us at all," he said before taking a bite of his sandwich.

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Lexy tried to keep up with what Casey was saying, but she was talking so fast, that she just couldn't, and it was impossible to read her lips while she was chewing. She enjoyed watching her antics, though, as she bit into her kiwi, and thought she looked like a very fun person to be around. When the spunky squirrel shlooped between them, Lexy moved over a bit to make room, and to avoid getting pushed off the bench. She smiled at Julie's silly expression and took the note from her. Reading it over quickly, she nodded, and reached for her own notebook, as well as her smartphone.

[kepora]

"Oh, I saw it." Sam says, smiling as she rests her elbows on the tablet, lacing her fingers together before resting her jaw on the bridge they formed. "Don't worry, I didn't eat it; I just put it somewhere nice and safe where no one else could snatch it. You can have it now, but you gotta get it." She says with a wide smirk, wriggling her hips a bit. "Here's a hint; it's not in my hands, mouth, hat, or pockets.~" She winks, giggling a bit - hoping he'd catch on, and fast! "And another tip: it might be easier if you sit next to me, or get up under the table...~"

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Alex arrives in the cafeteria, one of the last to get a tray - though of everyone in the school, he looked like he needed it the most! He blinks at the blur of red tones at Casey's table, just...staring at the squirrel as she literally just went over the table. "...What a friggin' spaz..." He mutters to himself. Only he didn't say "friggin'". He shakes his head, then looks for somewhere...secluded. At least by a wall. Thankfully it seemed one table was beginning to clear out, so he took advantage of that. He kept his back to the wall, eyes warily darting around the room, paranoid as ever. He KNEW someone was going to try something. They ALWAYS did...

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"Great!" Kaien says, smiling still as he sits - giggling a bit at Edwin's mannerisms. "I gotta agree with him, that looks fantastic. You did that?" He asks, looking at Kenny. "If so, I'm very impressed! I enjoy cooking myself, too - but I figured I'd see what the food here's like." He says with a nod, picking at the-...what the hell is this crap? he shakes his head a bit, putting his smile back on. "So. Ohm and Joule, hm? So is it Ohms in a Joule, or Joules in an Ohm~?" He teases with a wink, hoping they'd get his joke - and hoping that they wouldn't take offense to it!

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"...Hm?" Katya practically grunts, looking up from her tray a bit to the small mouse. Someone who wasn't afraid to be near her? ...Well, alright then. "...s'fine." She says, grabbing her fork to start shoveling food into her maw - but stops, looking at the leopard and civet with a blink. "...yeah, that's me. And sure. Not much of a talker, though." She says, shifting her tray a bit to make more room for the others'. Much like DJ's plate, her's was piled up - but it had far fewer healthy choices. Unless interrupted, she'd start tearing into it - beginning to devours the mounds of food at an almost frightening pace. The wolverine's scientific name DID mean "glutton", after all...

[azirik]

Robert made a ouch face at hearing Samuel say he was kicked in the nuts, the wolf just shook his head and glanced towards the door a moment wondering if the attacking rabbit was gonna come back. then looked back down over the stall door "Ya need some ice or anything?" he offered with a chuckle "Or a cold drink from the soda machine?" Robert watched the ferret making sure he was ok and was still able to move.


Rose sat and ate her lunch as she watched the other students come in and get their lunches and took their places. She dug through her lunch and pulled out a avocado and frowned at it. Of all the things her mother had to put in her lunch it was THIS the most vile of wanna-be fruits in the known word. She lifted her head and scanned the cafeteria looking for someone anyone to trade or even give this alien egg to. She hated to waste food even if she didn't see it as food so she took a leap of faith and held it up above her head "ANYONE WANT THIS?!"

Venrosh sat with a book in hand and the other hand as she ate her rather large lunch. She would look up at times and watch the other students then go back to reading. She saw the two ferrets come then noticed one was missing after awhile, that some how worried her a little but shrugged it off. Seeing Jacob she waved but as he seemed rushed she lowered her hand and sighed. Sh nodded to anyone who looked at her and more then a few times she saw a few of the local goth students walk by as if the world ended or something. When a few noticed her and looked towards her she frowned and nodded to them and oddly enough it seemed to meet with their approval. She finished half of her food when she heard Casey's less then graceful move and crash move over the the table, Venrosh giggled thinking she was rather cute at how she didn't even seemed phased by the face plant. It was then she saw Alex enter the cafeteria, she watched him with a raised brow, she lowered the book she was reading and watched him closely as he got his food and shuffled to a empty table.

[Humus]

[Lunch]

Upon closer inspection, Jacob realized that picking a place to sit was much more complicated than it seemed. At least in his mind, within which laid a complete set of rules and guidelines on how not to screw up his premature high-school experience. Of course, he'd already failed on two fronts now. He let his guard down at the very beginning, and now he'd assaulted another student. Maybe I overreacted, he thought, already beginning to doubt himself. Though he'd only responded in self-defense, it was unlikely to be perceived that way from other perspectives.

When he bailed on the ferret whom he'd clubbed good and hard in the groin, there'd been a shirtless wolf by the sinks. Jacob hadn't thought to even give him the slightest acknowledgement then, in favor of fleeing potential retaliation. Maybe if he'd stayed, he could've explained that Samuel had made an inappropriate sexual advance towards him. As it was now, he had to made the difficult decision between keeping his mouth shut about it, or taking the matter straight to the Principal. And timing would be important if the Roberts' twins decided to tattle first. But what if they were content to keep it a secret too? What if reporting the incident just pissed them off and made him an even bigger target?

Aargh! This was so frustrating! Jacob groaned out loud and threw his head back for a moment. He needed to sit and think and fill the growing pit in his belly. So with the efficiency of his genius-level mind, he pushed the emotions aside and focused on the simple task of retrieving his lunch from the cafeteria staff. Jacob had planned every aspect of his time in high-school, right down to the preparation of his meals, and not because he was finicky about what he ate; if he hadn't done the leg-work, his parents would have done it for him. And the last thing he needed was them controlling one more aspect of his life. So he organized the meal-plans, handled the wireless transfer of funds to the school, and was able to discretely request his preferred palette consisting of a light salad and a single-serving of ratatouille with a side of apple slices. His beverage was little more than a juice-box containing a specially brewed, nutritional shake. As a small rabbit of his size, he didn't need much, and he was lucky to even get the apples slices as his 'dessert'.

Once he had acquired his meal, the next task which he'd been avoiding had come. By now he'd eliminated more than half the tables as viable options for a place to sit. He wanted a space that was well populated, but not crowded. Where he'd hopefully blend in so he wouldn't have to encounter Samuel again so soon. But at the same time, he wanted a good vantage point. And on top of that, he had to think about who he was sitting with. Did he want to hang with the big, intimidating jocks? No way. Intellectuals like himself were polar opposites to thick-headed grunts like them. For a few moments he considered sitting with the wolverine girl who'd isolated herself. She looked strong and scary, and might deter further advances from the ferrets, but... in the time he'd taken to acquire his lunch, her table had quickly populated. And besides, trying to buddy up with the meanest looking student would just show weakness.

He considered the other tables that grabbed his attention, but the one with the excitable squirrel was more of a beacon than a hiding place, and tempting as the wolf's loud offer of an avocado was, Jacob steered clear of her table. Ultimately, the buck settled for the only other familiar face that he also knew by name. Venrosh. She was a little weird, but he found her quirks appealing. The feline had glanced at him in passing earlier too, and in the interest of appearing as unaffected by his earlier experience as possible, he made the final choice to join her table. As he did so, however, Jacob noticed the girl's gaze had become glued to one spot. So he followed with his own, to spot a nervous-looking raccoon sitting amidst the debris of a tables' previous occupants who were too lazy to take their trays with them.

Jacob shook his head as he came up beside Venrosh and seated himself a modest distance away on her left side. "Well he doesn't look very stable at all, does he?" he commented, setting down his tray to begin eating. "I'd be careful if you're thinking about going over and saying 'hi'. This school is utterly bonkers; I wish I was back in middle school. You don't mind if I sit here, by the way, right?"

[nightsound]

Violet waited a few moments letting the bulge that was under her backpack to disappear before shoving her book back into the backpack and quickly leaving the room before the teacher could ask her what was wrong. She knew she was lucky this time but she couldn't rely on luck all the time. Ducking into the woman's bathroom she decides to lock herself into one of the stalls to get her problem in hand before it becomes to big for her to hide.

[Lunch]
Violet walks into lunch her backpack in her locker and her lunchbox in her hands as she looks around the room trying to find an open seat. She could see several tables were full and the noise was almost a dull roar as students find their friends and encounter new ones. Looking around she spots one of the Ferrets but it looked like She, or was it the male?, was already talking with people so she didn't want to bother her. Seeing a table with only one student sitting around it so far, she walks towards it only to walk up a second behind the Male Rabbit, Jacob wasn't that his name?, already making a comment about the school and its "Weirdness" before asking Venrose if he could sit with her. Normally she would back away and find another place to eat but having already taking more time than she would have liked in the bathroom she knew lunch wasn't going to last long so she took a silent breath and stepped up to the table. "Hi Jacob and Venrose, I'm Violet. I was in the same class as you and was hoping to sit with you for lunch...do you mind?" She asks her voice hopeful.

[Riana]

Perhaps fortunately, Max couldn't hear what the jocks were debating about. The civet's head was filled with a cacophony of noise, voice upon voice speaking simultaneously. They looked lost and out of it, being kept in the moment only by the occasional smack on the back. Catching the look from DJ, Max slipped out from in-between two of the larger students and followed her, not sure why, but not being able to concentrate or think properly, taking someone's lead was their best bet right now.

Startled by the new voice, Miri almost bit her lip instead of her granola bar as her attention was torn from her book and directed at the two new predators approaching her and Katya's table. She did not expect this! She wanted to protest them sitting there, and say that she does indeed mind, but she couldn't find her voice.

Max took a seat at the table after the wolverine moved over, and ran a hand through their hair, about to dig into their lunch, when they thought they heard something. Looking around the table, they finally rested their gaze on the mouse. "Oh, you do mind us sitting here?" they asked. Miri shrank back, her eyes wide. She hadn't said anything.

[Jessito]

Finishing his bite, Edwin took his time munching so he could respond easily. Seeing the school food made him feel a bit sorry for Kaien. He considered offering him half of his though he had already somewhat mauled it.

Edwin envisioned a hamster dying on it's wheel when the joke came up. He smiled with a small nervous chuckle, eyes darting to Kendall then back to see if he got it. "Not really sure what ya mean". Hopefully his homeroom course would educate him further on the coincidental meaning behind both their names. "-- But yeah, don't think I caught you're name. Kai is it? Nice to meet ya~"

[Humus]

[Lunch]

For the last several minutes, Lucas had fallen silent where he sat at the Jocks' table, staring boredly at his half-eat fruit salad still coated in half-congealed roach dressing. The kangaroo and star athlete had become considerably less animated after DJ's unfortunate departure. Thanks in no small part to his fellow compatriots' rambunctious behavior. Of course he hadn't exactly helped matters much by seeing her off with a casual, "Take it easy, hot stuff...!"

He hadn't intended for it to sound so lewd, but his teammates ate it up, hooting and suggesting the jaguar was better off becoming a bookworm. Something like that, anyway. Lucas had stopped paying attention by then, his focus shifting to the confused junior student that had sat next to him. They looked an awful lot like a mustelid; a weasel or maybe an otter. He couldn't pin down a specific species, though, nor be certain of a gender either. He barely had the chance to wonder if the kid had any idea what table they'd chosen to sit at, before suddenly the bizarre creature was off again. It seemed they were intent on following DJ around, so he quickly lost interest. Better that freak followed her around instead of him. It kinda gave him the creeps.

Unfortunately, Lucas seemed to have lost the remainder of his appetite. He gave a rugged sigh and rose from his seat, shouldering a big-armed badger named Carlos to one side. "Move it, dude. I'm done. See you losers at practice," he snorted disinterestedly in a vaguely Australian accent. With his lunch-tray in hand he carted it to the nearest trash-can, dumping the leftovers just as a girl called out with a random offer to the entire cafeteria. The kangaroo's gaze lazily tracked down the source until he spotted the proffered avocado.

In an instant the teenager ditched his tray and sauntered over to the wolf, oozing confidence as he lightly slapped the oblong fruit out of Rose's paw and caught it in his own to inspect like he'd just pilfered a priceless jewel. "Is that... an avocado? Beauty! I'aven't had one'a them in yeeears. Thanks, sweet-cheeks!"