Author's note: this fanfic is quite ridiculous. I mean it. It's going to be so ridiculous that you can take this as a huge joke so some of the situations don't frustrate you or make you want to slap me.
"Hello, Jane. How are you in this lovely morning?".
Bewildered, Jane stared at the girl in front of her. Daria was wearing, instead of her black skirt and green coat, a white skirt and a pink shirt that resembled the one Quinn had the first day she had arrived Lawndale High, except that Daria's didn't expose her belly. Her brown hair was now a ponytail and her combat boots had been replaced with white flats.
"Daria?" Jane asked with a look of extreme confusion and almost fear sprinkled on her voice.
"Shall we go know? It would be awful to get late to school. We have class with Mr. O'Neill this morning and I would hate to miss his wonderful words. Oops! Sorry for using such a rude word".
Daria's smile was bigger than Jane had ever seen. Still somehow horrified it took Jane a moment to go back to herself and answer to the brainwashed version on her best friend.
"Daria, what the hell happened to you?" Jane yelled in shock.
"What do you mean?".
Jane looked at Daria once again, trying to make sure she was not hallucinating it.
"I mean... just... who" she hesitated unable to articulate her words properly ". Your hair and your clothes and your shoes, this is... this is really creepy, Daria. Hahaha" she laughed nervously ". Okay, I get it. You totally got me. Now go back to normal before I reach the point where I have a nervous breakdown".
"Oh, dear, that sounds serious. Should I take you with a doctor?" Daria replied with no aparent sarcasm ". But I still don't understand what you mean".
Jane couldn't find herself able to say anything else to attempt to explain what this new Daria couldn't unserstand.
"Are you okay, Daria?" She asked.
"Sure I am, who wouldn't in such a wonderful morning? Did you already have breakfast?".
"Uh... sure... just wait here for a minute, I will go grab my backpack.
Daria nodded with a wide smile and Jane closed the door trying not to scream.
She ran up the stairs to Trent's room.
"Trent, wake the hell up. Something weird is going on" but she couldn't say anything else because that was when she noticed Trent was not there. His room was... different. The mess that was always there wasn't anymore.
Since when does this room have a floor?, she thought.
The room was perfectly organized. She didn't see Trent's guitar anywhere.
Suddenly, a noise made her turn around. It was her mom, wearing an apron and carrying a birthday present.
"Mom?" Jane was now even more confused.
"Darling, what are you doing here? I thought you had already gone to school. You'll be late".
Jane dropped her jaw as Amanda Lane put the present on Trent's bed.
"What are you doing here?" Jane asked.
Her mother laughed softly.
"What are you talking about, honey? I live here. By the way, Summer and I will go out with the kids for lunch and will be back around 6 pm so if you are going to be home please tell your brother I left him a present on his bed when he's back from college".
Jane was about to scream even louder than she was when she had seen Daria.
"Now, hurry up, sweetie, I left you a bag with lunch on the kitchen's table".
Jane, astonished but somehow able to function went to the kitchen and took the brown paper bag in silence, then took her backpack and opened the door.
"What took you so long?" Daria said as soon as she saw Jane ". It doesn't matter, we can still make it if we go now".
Jane followed Daria without saying anything until Daria asked her a question.
"Jane, you've been awfully quiet this morning. Is everything okay?".
"I believe it's too okay".
Daria laughed.
"I can't understand anything you say this morning, but you are funny".
Jane frowned and said "yeah, funny" almost whispering. When they finally arrived Lawndale High what Jane found was even more astonishment. Everyone looked different. Too different. She saw some of the weirdo guys she had shared the self esteem classes with and they all looked drastically different, had smiles on their faces and approached an amount of people she had never seen them talking to before.
"Daria!" A squeaky voice called.
Jane saw Brittany walking towards her and Daria in the company of a black haired girl she couldn't recognize.
"Brittany, it's so nice to see you" Daria greeted as soon as Brittany was close enough to her. The girls gave each other a hug and Daria smiled to the other girl.
"Oh, I didn't see you there, Jane" Brittany apologized ". My bad. It's nice to see you two. Anyway, Daria. Andrea and I wanted to talk to you about today's cheerleading practice at my house, we'll have to move it for tomorrow be-".
"ANDREA?!"Jane interrupted. The face was now recognized. A much happy and with less eyeliner version of Andrea was right in front of her.
"Uh, yeah" Andrea laughed ". And you're Jane".
"So, about the cheerleading practice" Brittany continued ". We can't do it today because of tomorrow's language arts test. We have to study so I'm sorry. I am sure we can practice tomorrow, after the exam".
"Sure, Brittany, no problem. It is more wise to study for the exam. I will see you later, now Jane and I have to go to Mr. O'Neill's class".
Jane and Daria walked away quickly through the hallway filled with unrecognizable students until Jane stopped Daria right in front of the classroom when she was about to go in.
"Jane, we are already late" Daria pointed out.
"Okay, Mogendorffer, what the hell is going on. Mom being home and going out with Summer and her kids? Trent in college? You in... the cheerleading squad?".
"I am starting to get worried. You are acting so strange".
"I am acting strange? Daria, you've smiled five times in the last ten minutes".
"Oh dear" Daria exclaimed ", only five times? I need to smile more, I don't want to give a look that might make people think I am rude".
Jane, bewildered, followed Daria inside of the classroom. She found all the students in the class. Brittany arrived the class shortly after Jane and Daria did. Jane was looking around the classroom, jaw dropped, and noticed how everyone looked extremely happy. Too happy for the average high school student.
Mr. O'Neill's class was the only normal thing about that morning. He was acting like he did every morning. The only weird thing was that during the class everyone payed attention to him with huge interest and seemed to agree with every tacky phrase he said. Jane thought that despite of the students acting weird during the class, Mr. O'Neill would somehow soothe her, but she ended up being even more distressed. Specially after she saw what had happened to the other teachers.
"Well, good morning, everyone" Mr. DeMartino greeted with a wide smile, not a psycho one, but a sincere one ". I suppose you all studied for today's test, right? ".
With smiles on their faces, all the students nodded and said yes multiple times.
"Excellent!" He cheerfully exclaimed ". I think we can do the test now, right?".
"Alright!" Kevin yelled with a smile on his face.
Mr. DeMartino, instead of annoyed seemed happy.
Jane stared blankly to the piece of paper during the whole hour, unable to concentrate on anything.
Then she saw Ms. Li.
"Oh, good morning, wonderful students" she said while walking down the hallway to her office ". And hello to two of my favorite students, Ms. Lane and Ms. Morgendorffer. How are you in this wonderful morning?".
Jane froze as Daria had a conversation with Ms. Li that didn't seem to bother Daria. She was trying to understand what was happening without finding any sense in it. The next shocking class was gym class. Ms. Morris sat on a chair in the middle of the gym and made all the girls sit on chairs to make a circle.
"Okay, girls, today instead of encouraging the unhealthy competitive sport activity we are going to talk. I believe we should also congratulate each other for our individual talents. I will start: Jane" she said as she turned her head to Jane ", I want to encourage your art talent and your magnificent running ability".
"Uh... thank you" Jane replied with a raised eyebrow.
"Daria, you are such a smart and enthusiastic girl".
Daria smiled and Jane couldn't contain a loud laughter.
"Uh, Jane, why are you laughing? Don't get me wrong, expressions of happiness are good but I'm curious" Daria asked.
"You... enthusiastic" she kept laughing ". You are smart, yes, but enthusiastic? This just got even more ridiculous".
"Do you... do you mean I am not enthusiastic enough?" Daria said almost crying, then she started to cry and ran out of the gym while everyone dropped their jaws. Brittany followed Daria screaming "wait!".
The whole class turned around in Jane's direction with disapproving glances.
"Jane, that was not very nice" were Mr. Morris' words before she followed Daria and Brittany.
The other girls shook their heads and left the room in silence giving Jane cold gazes.
Jane stayed on her chair for five minutes, wondering what the hell had just happened.
Finally, she got up and went to change her clothes. It didn't take her too much to decide to just go home early.