"I hope you're right," said Meg.  "You deserve to be recognized."

Lori gave Meg a sideways look. "Don't you think you do, too?"

Meg gave a wry smile.

"...that's what my problem generally is.  Getting recognized."

"Ah," Lori said. "Well, let's say appreciated, then."

"I hope that happens," said Meg.  "...well, that's not why I'm doing this, though, so in the end, whatever.  I'll still be there helping."

The bell began to ring.

"And off we go," Lori said.

"Yep," said Meg.  Okay, Meg.  Keep it cool.  You can handle this.  It's going to be OK.

She ran off to class.

As you arrived in classroom, your teacher was waiting for you. She was a woman dressed in a pantsuit with her blonde hair in a bun.

"Take your seats, please," she said.

Lori took her seat by the window.

Meg sat next to her.  One side covered by a definite friend was good.

"Now class," the teacher said. "My name is Ms. Green and your morning class will be normal school classes and those in the afternoon will be focused on magical girl training. This is English class, please take out your assigned novel and we will begin readings..."

Eventually time passed and after math class was lunch.

"Well, let's get going," said Meg.  She was hoping that she could buy a lunch, or something-- she wasn't clear how it worked at this school.

"Sure," Lori said. "Hey, where's the cafeteria?" she asked the nearest student.

"Head left out of the class and keep going. It'll be on the right," a girl said.

She was right. It was a very large cafeteria with plenty of tables. Today it seems it was a variety of pasta and salads.

"That is a bizarre combo of no-carb and high-carb eating," Meg observed.  She set out to get both.  Live dangerously.  Eat different kinds of food.

Lori's meal was more restrained. "I don't know if I still need to keep up my training diet, but it can't hurt," she said.

Most of the tables were already taken. You can see one that is mostly open, just a pair of girls sitting at it.

Well, that was pretty obvious.  Meg went to sit down at it with her pasta and salad.

"Hey," Lori said to the girls, sitting next to Meg.

"Hi, I'm Mary and this is Shauna," the girl said indicating her friend. "Are you guys newbies too?"

"Well... I've got a little bit of experience," said Meg.  "Uh, I'm Meg, and this is Lori."

"That's cool," Mary said and looked over to Shauna who was signing something. "Oh, it seems we're really close in the areas we've been assigned. That's cool."

"Oh, cool," said Meg.  "We should work together when we can."
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"We're a couple areas over. i'd still like to be friends though, if we could," Mary said.