It was a circular table with eight seats in the back corner of the cafeteria. Everyone called it the bad touch trio's table and nobody else dared sit there.

The Bad Touch Trio were a group of three juniors who had banded together because nobody else would put up with them; Antonio because he was annoyingly cheerful and dense, Francis because he was a major pervert who hit on anything that moved and Gilbert because he was immensely arrogant. Everyone thought they were crazy delinquents, but in truth they weren't really. Okay, so maybe Gilbert used to be, but his time with Francis and Antonio had softened him up to a point where he wasn't really anymore.

The thing was, the table was more often than not almost or completely filled up. See nobody who didn't know the trio well would dare to sit there, but there were a few people who did. Most of them were other social outcasts.

Gilbert had a younger brother Ludwig, who was pretty much friendless for most of his childhood, being rather shy much more serious than the other kids, until a set of crazy Italian twins moved to town. The younger one immediately asked Ludwig to be his friend and, having never had a friend before, Ludwig agreed. Feliciano of course was nearly as dense and cheerful as Antonio, and that coupled with his brother Lovino's eternal grouchiness made people avoid them. Lovino stuck to his brother like glue and hated everybody, including Ludwig, although he put up with him because he made Feliciano happy.

Anyway, on the first day of freshman year of high school, Ludwig, Feliciano and Lovino were looking for a place to sit. The trouble was, anywhere they went, bags seemed to appear on empty seats, which people refused to move, or people's friends were sitting there and just got up to get more napkins, etc. After a while, even Feliciano saw that nobody wanted to let them sit at their table and, being the sensitive boy he was, was on the verge of tears when Ludwig spotted his brother's table and made his way over there. He asked, "Bruder, may we sit here?"

Gilbert grinned, "Sure, Luddy." Ludwig snorted at the nick name but sat down. The three of them sat there every day after that.

Then there was Mathew. He was twins with the most popular boy in school, Alfred, but he was so quiet that most people didn't even notice him; once a Russian kid named Ivan sat on him. Plus since his brother was so popular he got mistaken for him almost all the time, even by the one teacher who he was close to Mr. Castro. He used to sit at Alfred's table, which his brother let him do, but was sick of being ignored and Gilbert, Francis and Antonio were some of the few people who noticed him, along with Ludwig, Feliciano and Lovino once they started sitting at the table.

The last seat was for Arthur, if he came to school. He was a senior and a delinquent who Gilbert held a grudging respect for, having known him from his own delinquent days. He was feared by almost everybody in the school. He was also one of the smartest kids in all his classes, even if he only showed up about half the time. Although, he started coming to school more frequently his sophomore year once he started sitting with the Bad Touch Trio.

Nobody ever approached their table and the whispered that they were planning to bomb the school or something. In fact, Arthur brought the idea up every once and a while, but Antonio and Feliciano always balk at the idea and they never considered it seriously. Everyone in the school shuns the people who sit at their table, but they don't care because they have a table full of friends, or, at the very least friendly acquaintances/relatives, and that's enough for them.