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The cliche is to have dramatic meetings where a new student instantly becomes fast friends with a total stranger.

Run through your own friendships. How did you meet them? They lived next door? Your parents hang out with theirs? You get introduced by another acquaintance, who casually knows you're the two people in town who like punk rock. Most people you now know, you met through someone else. So have something simple like a next door neighbor who is forced to invite one of them along by his parents and then ignores them at a party or wherever the town's kid's hang out. A team mate invites the new kid along to a party, because he's inviting the whole team. The kid then casually chats her up.

Start with your own life. Take a good look at your present friendships and past ones. What made something click with those? What made one stick and one didn't?

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Maybe they bump into each other in the school bathroom when they're putting on makeup? Or maybe what happens is one of them has a dog and they walk past that girl in the park, and the dog... goes to the toliet on her. While apologising they get chatting etc; etc; etc; It doesn't seem realistic, but that was how I met my best friend (I had the dog).

I could say that they've been assigned seats next to each other but that is a bit cliche. xD Maybe the girl who is new doesn't like the school and goes into the girls bathroom to cry, and the other girl comes up to her later and says something like, "I heard you crying, are you okay?"

Nic,

Think of a way you'd like to meet someone other than the usual way. For instance, it could be a crash site at an accident where you and an unknown helped out.

PJ M

Some people are going to disagree with me, but I think everything's been ''overused'' one way or another. Everything's been done. It's just how you go about it, that makes its different.