It was there, sitting in the lunchroom, trying to make conversation with seven curious strangers, that I first saw them.
They were sitting in the corner of the cafeteria, as far away from where I sat as possible in the long room. There were five of them. They weren't talking, and they weren't eating, though they each had a tray of untouched food in front of them. They weren't gawking at me, unlike most of the other students, so it was safe to stare at them without fear of meeting an excessively interested pair of eyes. But it was none of these things that caught, and held, my attention.
They didn't look anything alike. Of the three boys, one was big — muscled like a serious weight lifter, with dark, curly hair. Another was taller, leaner, but still muscular, and honey blond. The last was lanky, less bulky, with untidy, bronze-colored hair. He was more boyish than the others, who looked like they could be in college, or even teachers here rather than students.
The girls were opposites. The tall one was statuesque. She had a beautiful figure, the kind you saw on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, the kind that made every girl around her take a hit on her self-esteem just by being in the same room. Her hair was golden, gently waving to the middle of her back. The short girl was pixielike, thin in the extreme, with small features. Her hair was a deep black, cropped short and pointing in every direction.
weight lifter 舉重運動員
statuesque 雕像般的
pixielike 小精靈似的
crop 剪短
就是在那裡，我坐在餐廳吃午飯，試圖跟七個好奇的不認識的同學聊天的時候，我第一次見到了他們。
他們坐在自助餐廳的一個角落裡，在這間長長的屋子裡距我坐的位置最遠的地方。他們一共5個人。他們沒有說話，也沒有吃東西，不過他們每人面前都有一盤沒有動過的飯菜。他們沒有呆呆地看著我，不像絕大多數別的同學那樣，所以，盯著他們看很安全，無須擔心和那些非常好奇的眼神接觸。但吸引了我注意的並不是這些，我開始留意他們。
他們絲毫沒有相似之處。三個男孩子中，有一個塊頭很大，肌肉看上去像一個結結實實的舉重運動員，一頭黑色的鬈髮。另外一個高一些，瘦一些，但也很強壯，一頭絕妙的金髮。最後一個瘦長瘦長的，塊頭小一些，一頭不整潔的古銅色頭髮。他的男孩子氣比另兩個更重一些，而另兩個看上去像大學生，甚至像這裡的老師而不是學生。
兩個女孩子截然相反。個頭高的那一個體型猶如雕像般的勻稱。她身材優美，就像《體育畫報》泳裝專刊封面上的那種，就像每個女孩子只要跟她袋在同一間屋子裡自尊心就會備受打擊的那種。她有一頭金色的齊腰長髮，飄逸地披在背後。矮個子女孩則像個小精靈，奇瘦，五官很小。她留著一頭深黑色修剪得參差不齊的短髮，指著每一個方向。
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