After the little hallway skirmish, turned one sided fight, Byte and I found ourselves in the principal's office. I wasn't sure what to expect, and started to fear that our little royal rumble might have landed us in some hot water. I took in a deep breath and told myself it would be alright, but it didn't help. ‘Mom and Dad are gonna kill me’ I thought to myself when I anxiously thought about the pending consequences. The principal entered the room with a grave look on his face, and my heart sank. I had never really been in trouble before.

“........I am so sorry for the trouble that those students caused you, they’ve been making quite the name for themselves for a while now, but we were trying to explore other options of changing their behavior. But no need to worry, their expulsions are imminent” the principal stated in an apologetic tone. “I hope that you both are okay.”

“We are fine Mr. Principal, I just feared Erika’s life and my own were in danger so I took defensive procedures” Byte said in his usual stoic tone, and his extra ordinary vernacular.

“That's quite alright, it's apparent to me that you did only what was necessary to decommission them without using excessive force. So I think that wraps everything up, thanks for listening to my little spiel.” the Principal announced while smiling at us.

“T-Thank you so much for understanding sir” I exclaimed as I bowed my head.

“It's nothing at all,” he said with a light smile.

Byte and I left the Principal's office and before I knew it the last bell of the day had rung and it was time to go home. Byte and I were walking silently through the hallway toward the building exit when we were approached by two students, a guy and a girl. The girl had cherry red hair that was well to the middle of her back that she wore down, and had thick black glasses. She also had freckles that dotted her face and gave her face a cute charm. The boy on the other hand had jet black hair that was cut short, but the style was a little messy. His face was pretty plain, but he was slender, and a bit on the shorter side, a little smaller than his girl companion even.

“Hey, can we talk to the both of you for a second” The redhead announced in a hyper active tone.

“This time, I'll activate the turbo” Byte whispered to me.

“No you are not!” I said in an exaggerated whisper, not knowing, or wanting to find out, what the ‘turbo’ was.

“W-we are super sorry to interrupt you guys on your way out, but we just wanted to say thank you” the boy stated in a hushed tone.

“Yeah, you have no idea how long those bullies have been messing with people at this academy, and they especially liked to pick on Rei here.” She spoke while gesturing toward the boy.

“I see” Byte spoke as he looked down to the boy. “Well you don't have to worry about them anymore, they've been expelled. Schools out.” Byte ‘joked’ with a completely serious look on his face. ‘Good grief his comedic timing is excellent’ I thought sarcastically to myself.

“That's relieving to hear” the boy voiced as he cracked a half smile.

“Wellllllll enough chit-chat I think some introductions are in order” The girl announced in her hyper tone of voice. “I'm Yua Yoshida, and I'm a freshman here at this school,” Yua said grinning ear to ear.

“Im Reiji Arai, and I'm also a freshman, but you can just call me Rei if you like” Reiji commented in his hushed tone.

“I see” Byte said in a stoic tone while looking at the both of them. I let a few seconds of silence pass before I thumped him on the back of the head.

“This is where you introduce yourself, ding-dong” I told him as I gave him a cold look.

“Im Biito Saito” he said without missing any further beats.

“A-And Im Erika, Erika Saito” I said in a nervous clamor. I had half forgotten that Byte had decided he'd be using my last name.

Yua went wide eyed and got closer to me “Wow are you guys related?”

“No, It's just a common last name is all!” I declared while forcing a laugh.

“Yeah that's true” Reiji said as he perked up a bit.

‘Phew, bullet dodged’ I thought to myself.

“Anyways, we just wanted to say thanks and ask you guys a question, would either of you guys maybe want to hangout sometime? Y-you don't have to if you don't want to but Yua and I thought it would be fun, we have been looking for some new friends…” Reiji explained as his words trailed off.

“We would love that” Byte suddenly interjected while still keeping his cool and calculated tone. ‘Why did he suddenly throw himself in the conversation?’ I thought to myself.

“Awesome!” Yua exclaimed with a pleased look smeared on her face. “We should meet here tomorrow at the school and find something to do, how doessssss (Yua pauses as she checks her phone) 12 oclock sound?”

“Sounds great” Byte replied as he smiled.