Bailey School High
By: FunahoMisaki
(A/N: I own nothing and read last chapter.)
The woman looked up and over at Liza, giving a small little half smile that caused Eddie to gulp. Yep, no doubt about it. That was the one and only teacher who could get him to behave.
"Yes?" Mrs. Jeepers asked raising an eyebrow at the four.
"Do I know you four from somewhere?" She asked causing Liza to smile slightly.
"I'm not surprised you don't recognize us right off the bat Mrs. Jeepers. We were third-graders last time you saw us, and have changed quite a bit since then." Liza said causing Mrs. Jeepers to blink slightly and smile ever so slightly.
"Yes you four do look familiar…you must have been some of my third grade students. What are your names?" Mrs. Jeepers asked causing Melody to step forward, standing beside Liza in an almost protective way. They had never truly figured out if the woman was a vampire or not so better safe than sorry.
"We were some of your students back then and it looks like we'll be some of your students now too. The tall boy is Howie, baseball hat is Eddie of course, I'm Melody, and this is Liza." Melody said idly playing with her soccer ball as she locked eyes with the teacher who looked over the four of them slightly surprised.
"Yes I remember you all now. My you four have changed. I would have never recognized you if you had not told me your names." Mrs. Jeepers said staring surprised at the four teens who stepped a little further into the room, Liza smiling friendly at Mrs. Jeepers.
"You're telling us. Liza and Melody's parents hardly recognized them when they first started changing, now I doubt they'd recognize them even if they did still live with their parents." Eddie said with a snort as he jabbed his thumb at the two girls of the group.
"Yes I had heard rumors that two of my old students had gotten into a huge fight with their parents and moved out. I did not realize that it was true…and that you two were the ones the rumor was about." Jeepers said nodding her head slightly, recalling that rumor she had heard one day while out shopping for groceries.
"My parents were being idiots and Liza's mom and sister were lucky I didn't break their jaws when I heard what they were saying to her." Melody said bluntly and causing Liza to smile sadly but turn and scold Melody.
"You shouldn't call your parents idiots even if they act like it Melody, it's not nice, and you know I wouldn't have let you break their jaws no matter what they were saying to me. Broken bones hurt, as you should very well know, and although they were being mean that doesn't mean we need to put them in pain. Violence isn't always the best answer." Liza scolded Melody, much to the boys and Jeepers amusement while Melody sighed slightly.
"It might not always be the best answer but it is the most effective one. No one's tried to pick on or bully you since I broke Ben's nose in the sixth grade." Melody retorted, saying nothing about the rest of Liza's scolding.
"True and I still say you overreacted when you did that." Liza admitted while Eddie and Howie snuck over to Mrs. Jeepers, Eddie snickering quietly.
"And some people wonder why they were voted last years cutest non-couple couple, even though they don't have a clue about that." Howie said snickering himself while Jeepers looked amused, as did the rest of the class that was filling in as they saw Liza and Melody's 'argument' going on.
"He pushed you down a set of stairs and caused your ankle to be broken and you wrist sprained!" Melody said in disbelief, she still believed that Ben had deserved everything she had done to him and more.
"And you broke his nose, gave him a black eye, broke his jaw and pushed him down a set of stairs which also broke his arm. You overreacted." Liza said flatly causing Melody to pout at her while Jeepers looked surprised at what Melody had done.
"And the only reason why she didn't throw him down the other three stair cases was because you had regained consciousness and told her to stop it. In which case she dropped him like a sack of hot potatoes and pretty much screamed down the teachers ears to hurry up and get you to a hospital." Eddie said from his seat, causing Melody to blush slightly. So she had been worried about her best friend, sue her!
"This coming from the boy who freaks anytime Howie so much as stubs his toe." Liza replied smoothly, causing Eddie to blush and scowl playfully at Liza.
"This coming from the girl who always has a first aid box in her bookbag." Eddie retorted causing Liza to raise an eyebrow at him.
"The first aid box is so I or Howie can patch either you or Melody up whenever you two either get into a fist fight, usually with each other, or do something incredibly stupid. You and the incredibly stupid part are practically joined at the hip so you should probably be grateful I always have the means to patch you up." Liza replied calmly and causing Eddie to pout but glare at her. He couldn't argue against that! Not with the class snickering in agreement. In a heartbeat a soccer ball connected with Eddie and knocked him clean out of his chair.
"Stop glaring at her Eddie! She's only telling the truth and you know it!" Melody said stepping in front of Liza protectively and glaring at Eddie who was now rubbing his sore stomach as he tried to refill his lungs with the air that had been knocked out of them.
"Cough it up." Howie said sticking his hand out to Carey who glared at him and grumbled as she handed over twenty dollars.
"I'm buying lunch today guys." Howie told his friends with a smirk as they looked at him confused.
"We made a bet on whether or not Melody would hit Eddie with the soccer ball again before the first bell or not and he called it." Carey grumbled causing Eddie to pout while Melody snickered and Liza shook her head slightly.
"You shouldn't gamble, let alone on your friends." Liza scolded Carey and Howie lightly while Eddie grumbled about how Melody always hit him with the soccer ball and no one else.
"That's cause no one else is dumb enough to do anything stupid around her or Liza anymore. We leave that to you Eddie." Huey said snickering from his desk beside Eddie who glared at him before glaring at Melody as he tossed her the soccer ball back. Mrs. Jeepers was about to break up the spectacle and tell everyone to get to their seats so they could do roll call when Liza's head snapped to the side sharply, which caused her friends to tense while everyone else froze. They recognized that look in Liza's eyes, something was either wrong or dangerous.
"What is it Liza?" Melody asked tugging her friend further behind her protectively as she surveyed the area.
"What is going-" Mrs. Jeepers didn't even finish her sentence before Howie gave her a brief explanation.
"Liza has a large sixth sense for when something is wrong or there's danger nearby. And her sixth sense is always right, there's something dangerous nearby." Howie explained just before the speaker system came to life. Many gulped at the message while Liza and Melody looked at each other and nodded.
"Code Red! I repeat Code Red there are armed men in the school! I repeat! Men armed with guns are in the school!" Eddie was the one who broke the all encompassing silence that filled the room at the message, even as he signaled that he would back the girls up if they needed him to.
"Well…that would set off Liza's danger sense alright."