Tessa stood up as Ruby confirmed that she would like to grab something to eat. Tessa smiled, slightly, as Ruby came up with her own nickname for her. Tessa was happy that it seemed like Ruby treasured her friendship with her as much as Tessa treasured her friendship with her. Tessa reached out a hand to the sitting Ruby, offering to help her to her feet. As she did so, Tessa's stomach growled, very audibly, causing Tessa's face to turn beet red, and mete out a very soft "S-sorry, guess I really am hungry." Tessa hadn't ate for hours, and was always a person who needed food in her stomach.

Ruby now stood next to Tessa and giggled softly about the noise her stomach made but right after Tessa's stomach was done, her own stomach made almost the same sound and she giggled even more. ''Look, they are talking.. Probably complaining to each other how bad we are for them'' she said with a wink and a giggle. ''Can you show me the way?'' she asked with a confused look, she did know how to get to the dorms now, thanks to that male student and how to find the courtyard but the cafeteria was something totally different.

Tessa's face lighten considerably as Ruby managed to turn the situation into an enjoyable once, causing Tessa to laugh from her own stomach noises, "Yeah, of course!" Tessa said, with a bright smile. One of the few things she new to get to at this school was the cafeteria. Typically one of the first thing Tessa's always finds first when she goes to a new place is the place where she can get food. Tessa confidently took Ruby's hand in her own, her slender fingers wrapping around Ruby's pale ones, "It's not that far! I'm starving!" Tessa exclaimed and she hurried along, leaving her bag at the tree, confident that no one would take her belongings. She stayed at a reasonable pace so that she was pulling too hard on Ruby's hand with her, but was moving at a fast enough pace that they were making good time towards the cafeteria.

Ruby giggled, looked at Tessa's hand holding hers and closed her pale fingers around her new friends and walked along. She liked the way Tessa could laugh and how she had turned red when her stomach started to make silly noises. She looked around during their walk and kept in mind how to get to the cafeteria. ''Tess, are you sure your bag is save under that tree?'' she asked right before they entered the cafeteria. She didn't mind going to get it for her friend because she knew how it felt to lose something you really liked.

Tessa felt truly comfortable and at home for the first time in a couple of years as she led Ruby to the cafeteria, "I'm sure my bag will be fine, I doubt anyone would want it." Tessa said with a chuckle. Nothing but school supplies that she kept with her for 'just in case' scenarios. As the pair entered the cafeteria through a set of double doors, Tessa released Ruby's hand, "Here we are!" Tessa beamed towards Ruby. Thoughts of what Tessa was going to grab to eat was already flying through her mind, the thoughts tantalizing in nature, and sent Tessa into an ecstasy-like state as she played with the thoughts of what kind of food combinations she could have. She slowly made her way towards the area of the cafeteria where one would get their food, making sure Ruby was keeping up with her.

Erin stood outside the gates watching the others mingle and find their friends from the year before, he hadn't yet gone to this academy and the mark on his cheek blazed its ember glow as he looked on at the large building, with a sigh he brushed his red hair over his mark and tossed up his hood. Erin put one head phone in and played some music as he moved forward through the gates, his eyes scanning the crowd for a familiar face, not that he'd find any, this was his first year here so he settled on looking for someone who intrested him, what better way to start the day then having made a new friend.
Erin smiled kindly and moved through the crowd like mist, his eyes skimming the scene as he passed through the academy doors, he pulled his hood back a little and followed the signs to the cafeteria, upon entering he smiled as the smell of food assulted his senses, making his way to the line he got a cinnamon roll and looked about for a table to sit, his mark once more lighting up with its firy glow.

Ruby followed Tessa and scanned the cafeteria for a place to sit while she was filling her plate with some frozen fruit salads, which seemed to be just some simple fruit pieces with some ice cubs, a sandwich and she ordered a warm cup of tea when the older women asked her what she wanted to drink. As a snow dragon she always loved the winter and so also loved cold food. Her uncle was driven nuts after making all the warm dinners for her and she just waited till it was cooled down. She smiled at the memory of the day he had given her ice cream as dinner because 'she only at cold stuff'. She looked at Tessa and smiled again.

She really felt good around her, when she wanted to grab a appel, her hand touched the one of the guy behind her. ''Oh.. S-sorry'' she said and pulled back, she looked at the guy with red hair and his dragon mark on his face. Why did it glow like that? she wondered but she wouldn't dare asking.

Erin wasn't sure what to think of the Academy, he didn't know why all the sudden his mark flared to life every five minutes but he did know why he had butterflies in his tummy, he was always nervous about school and making friends, here was no different except now he was older and even more awkward and this was a much larger school, he looked down at his pitiful cinnamon roll as his stomach howled in rage at him.
Erin having moved to the salad bar drew back as he brushed the girl in front of him as they reached for the same apple, Erin laughed an apology and rubbed the back of his head knocking his hood from his wild red hair "You can have that one, my bad" he pulled out his head phone and dropped it in the front of his jacket "My name is Erin, I'm definitely new here, and you?" His eyes scanned the cafeteria looking for an open table before returning his gaze to her.

Ruby looked at the boy that just introduced himself like it was so simple for him, she kept her hood on so she could hide her snow white hair and looked at him. She took the apple and placed it on his plate. ''It's okay'' she said with a small smile. She was nervous. Was she gonna say her name? It was quit weird to be called Ruby, which was the most beautiful stone if you asked her, and have snow white hair, a pale skin and light blue eyes. ''I.. I am Ruby..'' she then said and looked at Tessa for a moment, when she looked at him again, she smiled softly. ''I am also new here..'' she then said and took an other apple for herself.

She walked to the counter where she paid for her food and reserved her tea, she grabbed two sugars and a tea bag with a strawberry on it. ''Ehm..'' she then said and looked at Tessa again. She didn't want to look rude and just stop talking yet she also didn't feel great and a lot more on edge around this new guy. After all it had been her father and brothers that had wanted to sell her as a slave when they found out what she was. She didn't know what to do and hoped Tessa would help her.

"And I'm Tessa. I'm also new." Tessa butted into the introductions, beaming her typical smile to Erin. While the glowing mark on Erin's face definitely intrigued her, there was no way she was going to ask about it, or be rude and stare at it. Tessa got her food, two sandwiches, a canned soda, a apple, a banana, two small cartons of milk, and finally she grabbed a small bag of chips and placed it on the tray she had grabbed. It was a feat all it's own that Tessa managed to keep such an amazing figure if this is what she ate on a daily basis. As she talked to Erin, and Ruby, she paid for her food, before looking for a place to sit, "Why don't you come sit with us, Erin? Three's company!" Tessa said, as she turned to look at Ruby. Tessa instantly felt a wave of guilt as she saw how nervous Ruby was. Was inviting Erin to sit with them really a good idea? Tessa gave Ruby a reassuring wink, to let her know that everything would be okay. Tessa waited for the other two, before making her way to an open space at one of the tables, and sitting down.

Erin beamed at the girl beside Ruby feeling instantly bad for having not noticed her earlier. As Tessa invited him to sit with them he was immediately flooded with relief, he was beginning to feel like a coward for standing around eyeing all the tables but never deciding on one to sit at, he was glad the girls had given him an opportunity to enjoy their company. After grabbing a bottled water and paying for his cinnamon roll, apple and water he followed after the girls and switched off his music player tucking it inside his jacket and tugging up his hood to control his wild mess of hair and better hide his glowing mark.
Erin growled inwardly at himself in an attempt to stop the flare ups of his mark, he was receiving all sorts of looks and not that it bothered him so much as it was indeed weird.

Kyle had made his way to the cafeteria and sat down, yawning. He glanced around occasionally , slipping his headphones back onto his ears and leaning back in his seat. He hummed quietly to the song blaring in his ears as he closed his eyes and began to relax.
Kura just continued to read.
Ari and Fionna had finally settled down on the grass outside and were still chatting.

Patricia looks up at the sun since she was sitting outside of a hotel like 3 miles from the American Dragon Academy. "I hope I make some new friends...," she thought to herself. The hotel manager looks at Patricia and slightly sighs at her; the hotel manager was a vibrant 25-year-old woman. "Should you get going to school, Tetra-Lira?" the hotel manager said. Patricia looks at the hotel manager and nods. "What time is it?" Patricia asked. The hotel manager looks at the time and it is around when people go to breakfast at school. "It is breakfast time at your school," the hotel manager said. Patricia gets up but slightly holds her right leg because it is in pain and she looks in pain and slightly smiling, at least she remembered to put on her cloak before she went out of the Hotel. "Thank you, kind lady I will be going now," Patricia said to the hotel manager. The hotel manager waves at her, goes back to work, walks into Patricia's room to clean it, and notices everything has been cleaned already. "What the, who is Tetra-Lira?" the hotel manager thought to herself, "She is the only customer I had that had her room clean before she left."

Patricia looks around her and notices a paper bag, which she made for herself, mainly since she has meticulous taste buds on her tongue. "I almost forgot about my breakfast," Patricia thought to herself. She picks up the paper bag and holds it close to her. She starts walking to the American Dragon Academy, wearing this beautiful rainbow cloak around her. She calculates she can get there in easy 10 to 15 minutes time if she walks a little bit faster. Patricia picks up the pace towards her school since she can feel a breeze going towards her and the Pulsar Dragon cloak is aerodynamic so, she kind a looked like she was flying with a breeze towards school but it was not really, she was moving faster a lot faster. She made it to school with ease she usually keeps to herself, was at the gate of the school, and saw the beautiful school, it was a lot better than others she felt, then suddenly she felt something glow on her 'left' leg and still does not know why it is there, that one dragon mark. At least her rainbow colored cloak that was 'shining' in all different colors covered her mark. "This school is a lot nicer than most schools I saw," Patricia thought to herself. Patricia walks into the school grounds and looks, and her ears picks up a lot of noise everywhere but it is very hard to pinpoint the exact location, her blue eyes and blond hair was shining somewhat within her cloak. "Err, is anyone here, Where's the cafeteria?" Patricia asked kindly and nicely since she is a very kind girl, "Because I am quite new." Patricia grinned slightly since she was feeling an intense field of pain coming from her injury and she kind a lost balance and fell on her right arm, scraping it. She did get up and calmly walked towards the school since she wanted to see it closely because it reminded her of something, the cloak hardly gets damaged, though her food was slightly worse for wear but she is happy nothing broke inside of the paper bag, the scrape on her right arm slowly vanished like there was constant healing magic getting poured into her body from some unknown source.

Ruby smiled some at Tessa and didn't know how to feel, of course she didn't know.. Erin was a man and he seemed nice. Before she sat down next to Tessa, across Erin, she took of her jacket. Revealing her pale skin and snow white hair, she hang her jacket on the point of the bench that was place around the table and tried to smile some, when she felt like it really looked fake, she stopped and took on a natural face. That directly felt much better. She looked up, hearing the door of the cafeteria open en close, she saw the boy that helped her find the dorms and thought of how rude she was just leaving him. She should stood up and tell him sorry but she did say thank you, twice... She didn't know if she needed to apologize. She concentrated on her tea to get the right color, so the tea wouldn't be to strong. She then dropped the tea bag on a little plate she had taken with her for it and softly blew the most warmth away from the tea.

Erin sat across from the girls and picked at his cinnamon roll, occasionally popping a torn off piece into his mouth and savoring the icing on his tongue. He chatted with them a bit noticing that Ruby seemed rather awkward toward him and let Tessa take the lead, he stretched his long arms above his head knocking off his hood, with a content sigh he rubbed absent mindedly at his mark that had flared to life moments ago. He knew it looked strange, he used to sit in the bathroom and stare at the mirror until it glowed, it looked like the embers on a log, black with glowing shimmering red, it would fade then flare to life only to die down seconds later, he wasn't sure why it did what it did and he wanted to talk to someone who knew something, he had tried Google but apparently Google seemed to think he had herpes or a skin fungi. Erin glanced around the Cafeteria and took a bite out of his apple, his red eyes coming to rest on a lone person indulging in the pleasures of reading a book and he smiled to himself. Turning back to Tessa and Ruby he stood up and bowed sweeping his hand elegantly behind him "It was a pleasure meeting you ladies, I hope to catch you around" with a departing wink he twisted and tugged up his hood in a fluid motion and made his was toward the man reading, making his way to the table he stopped a foot away and cleared his throat "Mind if I sit here?" He gestured to the seat across from the reader using his apple filled hand and smiled kindly.

Kura looked up from his book, his eyebrows raised curiously. "A-are you talking to me?" he asked, lowering his book and smiling shyly. "If you are, then sure. It'll be nice to have someone around.."

Erin's smile broadened and he slid into the chair and glanced at the book "Thanks, what are you reading?" Erin had a love for books and always had his favorite book with him, it was currently in his little bag at his back, he lifted his red eyes from the book to its reader "My name is Erin by the way" he took a bite from his apple before swirling it in his fingers

"And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie... It's great so far." Kura said with a brighter smile. "I'm Kura..."

Erin glanced out the large window beside him and let his hair fall forward to hide his glowing mark "I've never heard of it, what's it about? My favorite book is The Little Prince" Erin smiled an embarrassed smile and he could feel the heat rush to his cheeks, looking back at Kura from the window Erin rubbed the back of his head

Kura laughed softly, putting his bookmark back in his book. He set it down and resting his elbows on the table. "It's a murder mystery thing." he smiled warmly. "I haven't heard of that one before. What is that one about?" he asked sweetly, his blue eyes looking at Erin happily.