Bailey School High

By: FunahoMisaki

(A/N: I own nothing and this is a fic about the Bailey School Kids being in High school, Sophomores to be more precise, and trying to survive high school drama and a blast from the past in the form of their math teacher! AU OOC Femslash and some bashing.)

"Aw come on Liza. Just one little date?" Star Quarterback of the High school football team, Eddie, asked pleadingly as he looked at his childhood friend, crush, and the most desirable girl in the school.

"No Eddie. I'm not going on a date with you." Liza said flatly for the third time since she arrived at the high school…ten minutes ago.

"Oi! Eddy boy!" A female voice shouted causing Eddie to look up in time to get nailed in the side of the head with a soccer ball. It was thrown by his other female childhood friend and the star striker of the soccer team, Melody, who had deemed herself as Liza's protector and made it her sworn duty to fend off any boy trying to get Liza's attention…not that Liza needed it.

After a near rape last summer Liza had taken up Karate classes for self-defense…and became a third degree black belt within a year and was currently working on being a fourth degree. Not that anyone but Liza, Melody, Liza's teacher and Liza's parents knew that though.

"I thought I'd told you to keep from asking her out more than once a week!" Melody called as she fought past the other students, who quickly got out of her way when they saw what was going on, as she glared at Eddie.

"I just want one little date with Liza!" Eddie whined, pouting at Melody's appearance since he knew from experience that if he got too insistent on Liza dating him then she'd give him a broken nose…again.

"And she said no so back off Eddie. Go on a date with someone else. Half the girls in the school are falling over themselves to get near you, even some of the Seniors!" Melody retorted as she stood beside Liza, wrapping a protective arm around the strawberry blonds shoulders.

"I told you not to ask more than twice Eddie." Howie said sighing and shaking his head from nearby where he had watched the whole thing play out.

The four friends had changed since third grade, although they still remained friends.

Howie had grown taller and was actually the tallest of the four standing at about 6'7 with a lanky frame. He had his square glasses perched on his nose and would occasionally push them up, his blond hair was short and slightly wavy which many girls fawned over…he also had straight A's and was well on his way in becoming a doctor. He often got experience patching Melody or Eddie up after one of the two would either beat up someone else…or try to beat up each other. Although due to needing an Extracurricular activity he had taken up band class and was good on the flute. He was passing school with the highest GPA of the four so far at 3.8.

Eddie was the stockiest of the group. He was just a few inches shorter than Howie, standing at about 6'0 even and was 250 pounds of pure muscle, mischief, and pain for anyone who tried to beat him up or insult his friends. He was passing with Liza, Melody, and Howie's help although it was with only straight B's instead of A's like Howie. He had physical education teacher as a backup career although he was well on his way to being a pro-football player since even some colleges were eyeing him to see how he'd do in his three remaining high school years. He scored no less than four touchdowns a game although his point average was more around the 6-7 range instead, and he had once caught an interception less than two feet from the opposing teams touchdown zone and ran it the full 99 yards and 1 foot to his teams touchdown zone. His GPA was the lowest of the group at a mere 2.3 but he promised to try and bring it up some.

Melody was the tallest girl in school, standing at around 5'7 and was also the most athletic girl. She was Eddies 'rival' as the two claimed although they both would be the first in line to defend the other…well except for Liza. She was always the first in line to defend any of her friendsperiod. Melody had forgone the pig-tails she had in third grade and either kept her hair short, in a pony-tail, or in whatever bun or braid Liza felt like putting it up in. She was passing school with all A's just like Howie but her backup career was a lawyer should pro-soccer not work out for her, although by the teams eyeing her it was a good chance her childhood dream would come true. Melody was the best soccer player that Bailey City ever had, she scored no less than five points in every game but she usually score around a 7-8 point average on her own. Although she never got cocky about it, and she usually kept Eddie from getting cocky about his high football average too, usually by poking fun at his GPA. She had a pretty good GPA herself at a solid 3.0 and was going to try and get it higher this year.

Liza seemed to have changed the most without hardly changing at all. She stood at about 5'5 and had a petite and deceiving appearance that belied her black belt status. Her nosebleeds had calmed down a lot during Junior High school and they rarely ever happened now unless she got hit in the nose, which had gotten her more active in sports although she wasn't as good at them as Melody and Eddie. Her strawberry blond hair had darkened to a more red than blond color, giving it a flaming kind of look, and her once normal blue eyes now seemed like sapphires, glittering and precious. She was passing school with straight A's and a solid 3.5 GPA that she was probably going to increase without meaning too. She was studying mainly to become a writer, although she had a promising career in the only sport she participated in, Track. She was the fastest person in school, which is how she had managed to escape her would be rapper last year.

Another thing that was different was that whereas the four had mostly been just friends back in third grade it was a bit different now. Howie and Eddie were closer to each other than either of the girls, often spending hours talking about whatever it was boys talked about. Liza and Melody were closer to each other than either of the boys. Every Friday and Saturday was spent with the two of them alone, together at Melody's and Liza's house…that was another thing that changed. After a huge fight with her parents, Melody stormed out of her house and ran to Liza's where Liza was having a fight with her mother and sister.

Both of the fights ended up with both girls leaving home and moving into a small two bedroom house that was fully furnished and stocked curtesy of Liza's sympathetic father. The two usually spent their free time doing odd jobs around town to pay for their bills and groceries, although whenever the more sympathetic family members could they would slip some of their spare cash into the two girls shared bank account. Now whenever the two boys of the group needed a place to crash cause of either an argument with their family or each other they passed out on Liza and Melody's living room couch.

Unknown to the two girls they had been voted last years 'cutest non-couple couple' even though they had just been Freshmen at the time. They still didn't know that that was the reason Eddie had laughed himself sick while Howie was clutching his side laughing…

"It's almost time for homeroom. We'd better get to our classroom." Liza commented softly to the three, breaking up the name-calling argument between Eddie and Melody that Melody was winning hands down.

"I still say it isn't fair we have math class first thing in the morning!" Eddie complained, the four heading to the classroom immediately since they had grabbed their books while Melody and Eddie were trying to diss each other.

"That's cause you can't understand half of it." Melody said with a snort while Eddie opened his mouth to retort only to bump right into Howie who had stopped dead in his tracks the moment he entered the math room. Melody had done something similar with a frozen Liza, accidently knocking the girl to the floor.

"Sorry Liza. I hadn't noticed that you stopped." Melody said helping the girl up to her feet immediately while Eddie picked up Liza's fallen books for her.

"Why'd you two stop like th…that…"Eddie said trailing off as he stood straight up and stared where Liza and Howie were looking. There in the teachers desk was a very familiar woman with flame red hair, jade green eyes, a green brooch around her neck and wearing a polka dotted dress. Melody had seen the woman too and was looking at her shocked while Liza voiced the name on everyone's mind.

"Mrs. Jeepers?"