Xander walked to the lunch lady. Sure enough it was mystery meat day. He smiled on the outside, barfing on the inside, as she labelled the globs of meat onto the plate, it landed with a sick sounding plop and looked oddly like something other than food. He tried to keep his happy smile, at least the soda machine worked today so he could have something to get the taste of nutrition out of his mouth. He paid for his food and stepped over to the drink machine. He put his money in and got a coke. He put it on his tray and stood waiting for Willow and Buffy. He looked around, only one table… and it had 6 seats… and there were six people in the line, one being Cordy, one being a new girl, 2 being his besties and one being the cone of silence man.

“Looks like we’re sharing a table… well except Cordy who’ll be hovering above us with her head doing a 180 screaming stuff in Latin”

He couldn’t resist that dig, it was hanging out there all pink and naked just begging to be yelled out. He somehow manged to open his can of soda and was about to take a sip when another person joined the line, he didn’t know who they were or even if they had a name but there was only one table left and he wasn’t about to give it up.

“I’ll go save the table, meet ya’ll over there”

He walked back, cursing himself for using the word ‘ya’ll’. Who said that apart from hillbillies and hippies? He headed for the table, dodging food flying and a skateboard that had been left on the floor. He got there and put his food on the table, he threw his hands up in the air in a rocky motion… then instantly sat down and wished he wasn’t the captain of the nerd squad. He looked back and smiled as Buffy Willow and friends (And Cordelia) walked over.

Sure, Oz knew Cordelia as she came by. He knew her quite well actually, though didn't care to say much to her. Xander had always been a bit of a loudmouth that he tended to shy away from. Buffy was new, cute, but he didn't really know what to say or anything like that around her. And then there was Willow, the one that he actually could see himself talking to, even if there wasn't a lot to say. She was sweet, innocent, and liked to ramble when things got quiet, which was undoubtedly cute and kept her from being too freaked out by his own lack of conversational skills.

He had himself a sloppy joe from the lunch lady which looked like she went and put the extra heart and care to make it extra sloppy. Oh how she must have adored him. He looked at it for a couple of seconds before leaning back in his chair and looking out towards the doors. He could probably sneak out of here and get himself a little bit of practice before heading back sometime during the next period. People here seemed to be alright with chit-chatting amongst themselves, though he didn't have himself that beautiful exiting line that he was so hoping for, to make it all dramatic and fun like the movies.

He was wedged between Willow and Buffy it seemed as he simply looked up towards the 'Queen' of the school. There would likely be some witty retorts from Xander towards her, and her back to him as they sat there and looked on. He looked towards the blonde beside him, shrugged a bit before looking over towards Willow.

"When did they get married?"

He muttered, though likely loud enough to be heard by everyone. Oh no, Oz with the quick embarrassing dialog? For shame.

Xander wished that the earth would open up and swallow Cordelia whole, it would make all their lives so much easier and way less stressful. He was so tempted to put a death foot grip on the chair so he didn’t get any Cordy hatred on him.

“And if you were a lady the world would implode”

He thought his slightly mumbled comeback was pretty adman good, of course he was probably alone on that. He cricked his neck and picked up his fork full of food. It looked so not edible in the extreme but he had to eat at some point. He picked up the little plastic crappy spork that some stoned moron must have designed and scooped some of the meat mix onto it. He put it in his mouth, it didn’t need to be chewed it just sort of slid down. He looked art the new girl who Cordy was obviously trying to recruit to a life of shoes and shopping and stupidness. He liked her name, ‘Alexia… sounds fancy’ he thought in a slightly hormone driven state. He smiled at her and nodded, a light laugh in his voice

“Well they try, but they really suck at it. Heck look at Cordy, if they can’t kill her and she’s roughly half human than we’re gonna be fine”

There was no way he was going to resist a dig at Cordelia’s expense, even though it might make him look like a bit of a butthead in front of Alexia. He tried to scoop another spork full of food but it just fell of the utensil. He opened his can of soda and took a sip to try and wash the taste of cafeteria food out of his mouth. He got most of it but there was some leftover flavour sticking about like a stubborn jerk. He put his can down and looked at Alexia

“So you’re the newbie, well spill the life story, and details if possible”

He knew he had to try and be nicer to Alexia than Cordelia tried to be, get her to resist the evil bitchy cheerleader side and go straight for the OK nerdish types.