After he sat down I managed to pull myself together. “Hi” I said. “Hello. I’m Mark. Pleased to meet you.” He replied. He looked happy and smiled. I tried to make it into a conversation. “You probably get this a lot, but you look just like Marik Ishtar from yu-gi-oh.” “Yes” he said, “I do get that a lot, that’s why I cosplay as him.” Wow! He was into cosplay! “Are you in a cosplay group at all?” I asked. “No why?”
“Well you could join our group!”
“That would be nice!”
“Say, can I call you Marik, it’s just if you put an I between the R and the K, it spells Marik?”
“Of course you may!”
“Therefore, x equals...Tanja?” Mr. Brandon was talking to me. I’d completely forgotten I was at school. “Umm” Mark leant over and whispered the answer in my ear. How considerate. We could become good friends. At recess we showed Mark, or Marik as Jess and I now call him, around the school. He seemed very popular, especially for his first day. He had all ready made a few new friends. Now I just couldn’t wait for the weekend. It would be our first cosplay meet up with Marik there. I’d only just met him and he was already my BFF.