I laughed up at the tall young man who came up to sit with us: "Hi, you're Nero aren't you? I'm so glad you made it! I was getting worried when there was only the four of us here at first; but it looks like there will be quite a few of us at this meeting after all."
When Kiya reminded me of the name tag, I grumbled, still laughing: "No... no... food first, especially ice cream!" I scooped up the rest of ice cream as politely as I could, and trust me I didn't spill a drop! "Now, where did I put my pen?" I dug around in the front pocket of my backpack and found no fewer than 10 pens, 3 permanent markers and 3 highlighters (blue, pink, and yellow). Choosing a permanent marker, I quickly printed my name on my name tag. Then I noticed it was way too small to be seen very far: "Damn! Oops sorry all!" I blushed and scratched through my name and then grabbed a red permanent marker and wrote [color:"red"]DQUEENE[/color] in bold letters.
At that point, I felt Nero tugging on my sleeve and heard Hypatia smothering a laugh. I looked up to see what was going on and spied Kiya's face, and covered my mouth to stop from laughing too hard. My eyes had little tears in them and I kind of hiccuped a little: "Uh, Kiya, uh..." I had to stop for a little breath. "You know that pen you had? It's..." I couldn't continue, I really was laughing so hard, tears were rolling down my cheeks by now. Hypatia and Nero were in the same condition. I kept trying to say... "Sorry..." but it was almost impossible. Just then a young man walked up to stand by Hypatia. I waved my hand hi at him, because I still couldn't speak. He must have thought he'd wandered into an insane asylum, poor thing.
Through my tears, I saw that the older guy with the long curly hair, who had been here before us, jump up and rush toward us with something in his hand...
