We were out to change the world. This was our time, our senior year. My best friend Beth and I had big dreams and hopes for our last year in high school.
"Kris, did you see the girl standing by us in the lunch 1ine—she looks so lost, so out of place." We had heard of a family that had just moved to our town from the country of Cambodia. We knew there was supposed to be a new girl at our school from that family, but we had yet to meet her until now.
Lucy was a small dark-haired beauty. She was starting her freshman year in this new country. She struggled with the little English she knew and that made it very hard for her to get to know people in our small town.
In most cases, students of the same grade would sit together. We watched in the lunchroom from our "Senior Table". This table was reserved (预留) for our "senior sports jock (运动健将) friends," and no one else. Most of the time, Lucy would get her lunch tray (托盘) with the rest of we students but she always kept her head down with her eyes focused on the floor. She would then head to the table of the freshman class. Unfortunately, it was the table for the most popular girls in the freshman class. Every single day Lucy would sit at the very edge of her seat and eat as fast as she could. She kept her eyes fixed on her food and we never, ever saw her look up. We would watch quietly as the other girls were interacting with each other at her table. They would make gestures to one another and laugh at Lucy while she ate.
As we paid attention over the next week, we never heard anyone at her table say "Hi" to Lucy. We decided to try our hardest to let one lonely girl know that there were people who knew she existed.
Para1: We sat with Lucy at the freshman girl's table.
Para2: From then on, Lucy began to change.
