Eat this! (open)

[Raine Ashton]

New school. The First day. The usual confusion, anxiety, and hunger for security tugged aggressively at her gut. So far she had managed to arrive at school and successfully navigate her way towards her destination, the office, unscathed. With her departure from the office and into the relatively empty cafeteria, there were a few stares from the students that had arrived early at school. More importantly, Raine was genuinely surprised by the violence that erupted out in the public of the school grounds, not because of the fact that it was early in the morning but the idea of fighting to such an extent was alien to the fun-loving girl.

The students that was standing around her acted as if it were just an event that occured every day as a regular routine, which Raine was not exactly used to. Sure, she had violent and rough brothers that were always up to go good and tackle her when she gets home, but to spill blood and punch the daylights out of random people? It was absurd!

Puft.

"There goes a tooth."

Omph.

"That's going to bruise."

Crack.

"Meep, did that guy just break that dude's nose!?"

Raine's eyes widened as she clutched her white messenger bag against her chest a little closer for a feeling of security as she watched the fight with intense concentration. She was starting to get more and more anxious as she tried to avoid the fighting by weaving in between the small crowd in order to buy breakfast. Looking around she wondered if anyone was going to stop them or if there were teachers that would deal with the issues. Picking up a cup, milk, a bun, and ordering some scrambled eggs, pancakes, and a side order of bacon, she settled herself down on a random table where two other girls sat as the fight continued.

Although there was violence in the school she transferred from the cases were not that serious and the people were not that strong either. Raine was beginning to think that these people here were nuts, but perhaps she was little more hysteric than the two that were fighting, at least she was about to prove that as a fact to some of the students around.

Soon enough the two girls that she sat with continued to complain about the noisy boys and decided to throw their buns at them to stop them from fighting. Standing up one of the girls, that claimed to have better aim, grabbed the buns from the tray and threw it.

Raine's eyes widened as she jumped up from her seat and soared in the air for a few seconds grabbing the bun in her mouth before crashing down onto the ground. Taking the bun in her hand from her mouth she angrily shouted back, "How can you waste precious food! If you want them to stop, I'll just walk over and tell them to stop, sheesh!"

The girls gave her a look of disbelief as Raine dusted herself of the ground and took a bite of the bun as she made her way over to the two boys. She weaved her way through the small crowd and situated herself a little bit away from the two boys.

"Yo. HEY. HEY YOU TWO!"

They stopped.

"It would be nice if you guys could stop fighting, we're trying to eat here."

Uh. Oh. The two boys started to advance towards her with bloodthirsty stares.

[Eric Nakagawa]

As always, Eric was ruining his health by smoking cigarettes. Instead of the usual one pack a day, he started smoking as much as two or three. He realized how less strict this school was compared to where he used to go to. No matter what the half-Japanese boy did, the teachers never really seemed to notice. He could get away with as much fighting, smoking, and class skipping as he wanted. He still hated school, but this still was pretty cool.

Eric gobbled down his fries and burger within five minutes. He was always careful with his manners at home, but it didn't matter that much at Paragon. All the boys at his table were just as bad as them. They were loud, rowdy, and thought nothing of the other occupants of the cafeteria who wanted to eat in piece. Plus, they were all boys, and there was this saying: "Boys will be boys."

However, Eric wasn't as loud as his male counterparts. He was content with sipping his soda and taking out another cigarette to smoke. Within seconds, the area was filled with smoke, and he let out a sigh as he put his feet on the table. Other students in the area were unable to stand the smell, but they would have to get used to it because this was how Eric was going to spend the whole school year.

"It would be nice if you guys could stop fighting, we're trying to eat here."

Eric took his feet on the table as he turned his attention to the girl who had the nerve to tell them all to shut up. How dare she do that! He was glad that two of the boys in the area were about to take care of her. Eric was pretty happy about that until he took a good look at her face and let out a low whistle.

Damn, she was so hot. He couldn't place her ethnicity, but it definitely wasn't from around here since she looked so exotic. Despite that, she still had this familiar look to her that Eric liked. He let his cigarette drop to the floor and extinguished it with his shoe when he stood up. Since was closer to her, he was able to arrive before the two boys.

"Making a boy shut up is as impossible as making the stars fall from the sky, but with a face like that... Damn."

It was a cheesy line, but Eric couldn't really think of anything else better to say. Plus, he was too intent on her face and body to think of how to finish his sentence. She was so attractive.

However, there were still two boys to deal with. Eric took another good look at Raine's face before he turned his attention to them.

"Go back to your lunch. I'll take care of her."

He wasn't sure if it would scare them away, but he was willing to use violence to get what he wanted. It was about time to show Paragon his strength anyways.