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The classroom looked brand spanking new. Obviously the cleaners had been working their butts off to get it all prepared for the new students. At the front of the classroom was the teacher's desk, beyond that was the large blackboard with 'Welcome!' written in colourful chalk accompanied by the usual happy face and star. That kind of thing. The tables were square, with the names of the students written on folded pieces of cardboard and it showed where they'd be sitting.

Of course there was a sitting area, for story time and free time. There was a blank corner left untouched; probably the naughty corner if the stories were true. Wilton glanced around at his surroundings, like the other children. Up on the windows were see through letters of the alphabet. He knew a few, since his parents insisted he knew how to read his own name. Wilton raised his finger and pointed at the W, mouthing the letter to himself before he went to I, L, T, O, N.

"...what is you doing?" Eduardo's small voice asked.

"Huh?" Wilton glanced at Eduardo, grinning when he realised he'd been seen. "Oh, nothing. Just spelling my name."

"Oohhh..." Eduardo nodded slowly, glancing up at the letters on the window as well. Unlike Wilton, Eduardo's parents never had insisted on him knowing his name. But he had spent so many nights sat in his mother's lap whilst she read to him from a story book he was slowly beginning to grasp what the squiggly things meant.

"Coco!"

The third voice came out of practically no where, and it made Eduardo jump in fright. Wilton turned around again, to come face to... er, beak with the girl he had seen before. Well, he thought it was a girl. She had eyelashes after all.

"Oh uh, hello." Wilton said, still a bit startled by her appearance and her, well, greeting. "I'm Wilton, 'n this is Eduardo." he motioned to his purple companion, who was still quaking a bit. "What's your name?"

"Coco!" she said again.

"Uh.. no, I don't think we have that here.." Wilton said, glancing around.

"Coco." the strange child echoed again.

"Coco?" Eduardo echoed her.

"Coco!" she said again, nodding.

"I is thinking her name is Coco." Eduardo said, to which the girl nodded her leafed head enthusiastically.

"Your name is Coco?" Wilton asked, intrigued by such a name.

"Coco." Coco nodded proudly. She then looked down at the table she was closest to, scanning the scribbles on card for her name.

Wilton and Eduardo followed suite, and even if Wilton couldn't spell Eduardo's full name he did know that it had two 'D's in it, and ended in a 'Do', which was rather unusual. So it didn't take long to hunt down where the purple child would be sat. Wilton quickly checked the nametags around the table, and thanked his lucky stars that 'Wilt' (short form of his name) was written just one seat down from Eduardo. "Look Eduardo, we're on the same table!"

"Oh, muy buen." Eduardo mumbled to himself as he tapped his hooves on the chair that would be his for the rest of the year.

Coco had found her seat, but it was a good few tables over. So, she picked up in her beak her nametag and simply trotted over to Wilton and Eduardo, dropped her name on the table and took some other child's nametag and put it back where hers was before finally getting back to her new seat. Instead of sitting on the chair, but unlike other children she perched herself on the back of the chair, like a bird does on a branch.

Wilton wasn't sure if what she'd just done was okay, but he didn't want to be a nag. He checked the name of the child that would be sat between him and Eduardo, but he wasn't sure of the first letter. It looked like two 'O's sat on top of each other, and accompanying it was an 'L' and two more 'O'. Loo. Wilton had to snigger a bit at the name. It was then that the other child, the one with 'Loo' in his name walked up to find his seat. He was.. much shorter then Wilt had anticipated.

The child barely came up to his hips, and was a blue colour. From afar he'd look like a blue thumb, or door, given his shape. Very simple in appearance. But the boy (obviously) pulled back the chair to check the name on the table. "Bloo." he read aloud, before snorting. "Stupid teachers, can't even put my whole name on."

Eduardo and Wilt glanced at the other before looking at the child who had taken his seat and was now folding the cardboard that had his name on it into various shapes. "Um... hello?" Wilton asked.

Bloo glanced up, as if finally noticing the other two, and stared for a while. "Woah." he said, looking from the skinny as a stick Wilton to the horned Eduardo. "Who the heck're you guys?" he asked.

"Oh well uh," Wilton reached over for his name card and held it up. "I'm Wilton," he said as he tapped the name with his free hand.

"Wilton?" Bloo asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Yep, 'n this here's Eduardo." Wilton gestured to his friend.

"Eduardo?" Bloo asked again, now the other brow meeting it's brother.

"Uh..." Wilton didn't care much for this child's response to their names, but continued and pointed to Coco. "And that's COco."

"Coco!" she greeted, balancing a few pencils along her bumpy beak.

"...those're all stupid names." Bloo finally said, "Stupid stupid names."

"Hey!" Wilton said, hurt by the insult to his name. That was his grandfather's middle name!

"Well they are! They're not cool like mine." Bloo said snobbishly as he now began to doodle in blue markers on the now folded cardboard.

"Why, what makes your name so cool?" Wilton asked, looking more and more annoyed by the insults.

"It's cooler then yours." Bloo replied simply.

"....is my name really stupid?" Eduardo asked Wilt in a quiet voice, but Bloo managed to over hear this.

"REALLY stupid." Bloo said loudly, "I mean, 'Ed-war-do? Who names their kid Edwardo? Pft. And don't get me started on Coco." he said with an eye roll.

Coco growled lowly, clicking her beak together to make a 'tsk' sound afterwards. Eduardo was practically near tears now at the insult to his name. He always liked his name; it was different to the names of kids around him now! But it was stupid? Really? How could his parents name him something stupid? He sniffled loudly before rubbing his nose on his arm.

"No Ed, no." Wilton said, shaking his head. "Your name's NOT stupid. Your name's cool! It comes from another place! Bloo's just being... being mean, you don't listen to him at all." he added with a glare at the blue child's direction.

Bloo just stuck his tongue out at him.

[to be continued]