Yes, another multi chapter story. This one contains Royai, AlMei, EdWin, HavocxRebecca, DennyxMaria, GraciaxHughes, (anything I'm missing?)

Topic: FMA in a modern American style high school. Public, of course. Ooooooh, this is gonna be fuuuuuuun.

Dunno if they're in Amestris or the US yet. I'll figure that out later. No alchemy, just the charries being their normal selves. Only in teenage form. *evil grin*

Many thanks to sunarose. I love her.

They're going to swear- it IS high school. Nothing major, but the occasional 'damn' and 'hell' and such.

Central City Public High School was a whirlwind of activity, filled to the brim with all kinds of people- the teachers had as much variety as the students. In the midst of the early morning chaos, Mei Chang stood in the doorway, a foot shorter and much more lost than anyone else.

"Excuse..Could…um…Where's…No…Wait! Please!...Will..Ah…Uh…" No matter what she did, no one paused to look at her. Maybe her thoughts had been right. Maybe homeschooling was a better idea than high school.

"Are you lost?" Mei whirled around on the ball of her foot, accidentally smacking the newcomer- a blond boy with golden eyes- in the nose with one of her braids.

"Oh, I'm sorry!" He just shrugged and smiled.

"That's okay, it's no big deal. You look confused, though. Are you lost?"

"Could you please tell me where Mrs. Dorsche's office is? I'm supposed to get my schedule there." She said sheepishly.

It's not too far from here. C'mon, I'll take you. What's your name?"

"I'm Mei Chang."

"Alphonse Elric- call me Al." Mei smiled, relieved. This Alphonse was so kind.

Clutching her map and schedule, Mei stepped from the relatively calm office back into the chaos of the hallway. She tugged on one of her braids and looked at the map. Room 156 was either right or left, and she wasn't sure which it was.

"What do you have first, Mei? Maybe we have a class together." She jumped.

"Alphonse! You didn't have to wait for me!" He smiled again- it was a nice smile, Mei decided.

"I pride myself on being a gentleman. What sort of gentleman would I be if I didn't wait for you?" Mei blushed a bit. "So what do you have?" She handed him her schedule. He scanned it, then pulled out his own. "I think we have everything except 3rd period together! What do you play in band?"

"Vibes and bells. What about you, Alphonse?" She was led to English by a happy Alphonse, and Mei discovered she was happy too. Maybe high school wouldn't be so bad, if she had Alphonse next to her, guiding the way.

"I swear, the freshman get smaller every year. Look at the girl with braids next to Fullmetal's brother. She's even smaller than he is." Roy half listened o Jean's rants- the size of freshman really didn't concern him unless they were trying out for sports, and he had a feeling a little shrimp girl wasn't going out for the football team. In his shallow contemplations, his eyes wandered around the paused on Riza Hawkeye's table for a second longer than anyone else. She and her friends were laughing. What were they laughing at? A joke about him, no doubt. Or maybe all his friends- they weren't exactly on friendship terms with Riza, Gracia, Maria and Rebecca.

"Oi, chief, you're staring again." He felt his arm being punched by Jean. Roy looked at him, punching right back. Havoc rubbed his arm. "Why them, anyway? There are prettier girls." He cocked his head in the direction of the next table over. Roy glanced briefly. Leave it to Havoc to think of the cheerleaders. "I hear Solaris is into you, dude. Grab it." The dark haired head cheerleader gave him a flirtatious wave. Roy returned it with a halfhearted trademark smirk.

"Nah, there's no one prettier than my Gracia!" Maes boasted. Everyone else at the table groaned. Havoc gave him a sound thwack in the head.

"Maes, shut up. She's turned you down 12 times"

"Someday we'll settle down and have a lovely daughter named Elysia. She'll look just like her mother, charming smile and all." Maes was definitely the oddball at their table. Girls weren't just hot to him. A lot wondered about the sanity of the football team, keeping him around. But Roy had known Maes since 2th grade- he and Riza had been the only ones to talk to Roy when he was the new kid from the East.

"At least stop calling her 'your' Gracia, Maes, because she's not suddenly going to fall in love with you."

"But she'll be mine soon enough, so you might as well get used to it!"

"Shut up, Maes." Roy leaned back in his seat. Maes shut up and continued to stare at Gracia with a forlorn look on his face. She caught his eyes and blushed.

"So, Roy- if you're not going to jump on Solaris, I will. Last chance." Roy shrugged. He could get any girl on the cheerleading team- that's why he had a reputation of a womanizer- but he didn't want any of those empty headed girls.

"Go ahead, Jean. There's nothing there, anyway."

"Makes her easy to please." Jean sauntered up to Solaris. This will end badly. They exchanged a few words, and then she flipped him off and turned back to her friends. Jean returned, looking absolutely pitiful.

"The queen of lust has rejected you!" The entire table erupted in laughter. Solaris had been the last girl on cheer to reject Jean. Now, all 15 of them had turned him down- most multiple times.

The bell rang- lunch was over. Roy looked down at the remains of his lunch as he threw it away. Most was just garbage, but there was an entire apple untouched. Riza liked apples- he had never been especially fond of them. Whenever he used to go over to her house- before 6th grade, when their friendship had fallen apart- she had always been eating an apple, engrossed in some book. He had always crouched down next to her and read a page or two before she had snapped the book shut with a playful twinkle in her eye.

Yes, they had been inseparable. Even then they were opposites-she had been shy, but not afraid to stand up for herself and fight back, and he had been the charismatic kid who went with the flow. It had been an interesting friendship, though surprisingly, most of the time she followed him. Roy wasn't sure if he regretted caving into the teasing or not- it had been a trade, Riza for the friendship of everyone else. He went off to chemistry with a philosopher's thoughts.

A small group of freshman passed by- two blondes, two brunettes, and a redhead. Those were the weirdos. They spent lunch reading books backwards and shrieking at odd intervals. They passed, and Roy found himself staring into Riza's deep amber eyes. Damn, those things were scary. They sparkled when she smiled, though. That was nice.

And there we have it. Tell me if you think they're OOC (I think Al and Mei are okay, but everyone else…

The freshman are me, Sunarose, Conifer, Heather (who is, at the moment, STILL not done with FMA and I'm going to rip her head off) and sunarose's friend- not sure if she had a fanfiction account…

And I still haven't gone to Japan, which means I still haven't met Arakawa, which means she still owns the rights to FMA. I own myself, though. DON'T FORGET THAT.

Please review….