Disclaimer: I don't own NDSSG (it's just too long of a name to type out). It belongs to Scott Fellows. And the more I watch this show the more I find myself thinking, Ya know, Ned's kinda, sorta, maybe...cute... Also, in this chapter (and all the time) the song Picture Perfect belongs to Angela Via...it just fits Ned and Moze so well.

Title: Picture Perfect

Author: Silverflare07

Summary: So now Ned's over Suzie...and he and Moze have just been voted Best Friends by their fellow eight graders... maybe they'll both finally realize that, together, they're picture perfect... .Ned/Moze.

Dedication: Okay! This one goes out to Chibi aka Warlordess. Because it's her fault that I got hooked on NDSSG in the first place. She knows I have a 'best friends should get together complex' god only knows how she couldn't, and she still had to mention that there was an episode where Ned and Moze are rumored to be going out. So, of course, I had to watch it, and, of course, I had to fall in love with both the couple and the show... And so of course you all get this, the fruits of my obsession... Enjoy Chibi! You deserve it for listening to me ramble on about the show!

Author's Note: Okay, I haven't a whole lot of the show so if everyone is horrible OOC please forgive me I'm trying my best. I also have no idea when or how Ned starting liking Suzie so I just made it up. I hope it's not too off the mark, although it probably is. Oh...and the walk I have Ned and Moze do to gym it's that one they always do in the opening credits with they're arms around each other's shoulders and walk by like putting one person's foot in front of the other's. You know what I'm talking about? It's in the opening credits on the notebook page that says "In Guide We Trust".

Extra Info: Okay, this is my first NDSSG fic so I hope you guys don't think the idea is too stupid. This will only be a few chapters long (which is weird because I usually just do oneshots). It started out as a twoshot, but then I realized there was no way so... now it's more like three, maybe four.

Stuff You Need To Know:

"Speech"

Thought

Song Lyrics


"Cookie!" The 14-year-old turned around to find Ned racing towards him.

"Hey Ned." He greeted, smiling before he noticed his friend's panicked look. "What's wrong?"

"You were right!"

"I was?" Cookie raised an eyebrow. This was not a statement he heard very often. "About what?"

"About...about...about me..." Ned trailed off, mumbling the rest of his sentence.

"What?" Cookie cocked his head to the side in confusion. "I didn't catch that last part."

"You were right. I...I...I li..." Again he looked down and barely finished the sentence loud enough for himself to hear, let alone Cookie.

"One more time there Ned, I still can't hear you."

"I like Moze!" He yelled finally, causing Lisa Zemo to look at him strangely. "Oh like you didn't know." Ned snapped, causing her eyebrows to shoot up and making her walk away quickly.

Cookie laughed silently to himself, well aware that, in his state of panic, Ned probably had no idea what he'd just said. "Calm down Ned, you're panicking."

"I think this is a pretty good time to panic! Don't you?"

Cookie shook his head. "No. Think about it Ned, Moze is your best friend, you couldn't have picked a better person to like!"

"You're crazy!" Ned cried. "This could ruin our friendship forever!"

"Or make it even better." Cookie offered, shrugging as if this suggestion should have been the first thing Ned thought of.

"No it couldn't!" Ned rebelled, trying his hardest to convince Cookie to see it his way.

"Why not?" It obviously was not working.

"It...it...it just couldn't, okay! Look, I don't have time for this."

"You sure don't." Cookie agreed. "Because you have to deal with the Huge Crew right now."

"What?" Ned's eyebrows furrowed in confusion.

"Yeah, they just overheard our conversation and now they're walking away, and it looks like they're out for blood."

"Oh my gosh!" Ned's eyes widened in horror. "Moze!" He took off down the hallway after the three girls, calling back to Cookie as he ran. "I can't let them hurt her...or tell her how I feel!"

And with that he rounded a corner and was out of sight.


Moze walked out of 5th period Advanced Woodshop smiling as she listened to Claire Sawyer talk. Why the future lawyer was in Advanced Woodshop Moze could only guess, but it was nice to have another girl to talk to. Everything had been running fairly smoothly that day so she was surprised to find herself blocked from her locker by three bodies. She raised an eyebrow in surprise.

"Can I help you?" She asked the Huge Crew, trying unsuccessfully to get past them to her locker.

"Yeah. You can back off Ned!" The leader told her, pushing her face in Moze's.

"Okay...didn't I break up with him already?" She asked, half jokingly, half serious, referring to the time she and Ned had had to 'break up' because someone thought they had been going out.

"Well apparently you didn't do it well enough. Ned's ours," She gestured to her two friends, "and if you think for one second we're going to let you get away with making Ned l-"

"AHA!" Moze jumped in surprise as Ned jumped up from behind her. "I found you!"

Moze raised an eyebrow in surprise. "Yeah...congratulations. Why were you looking for me?"

Ned suddenly turned nervous. "Oh...ya know, just looking for you because...because Cookie needs you!"

"Right..." Moze nodded. "I just talked to Cookie before class, he doesn't need me."

"Oh, right. Sorry different...Moze?" He finished uncertainly. Moze shook her head. "Well that doesn't matter right now." Ned told her hurriedly. "What's important is that I need you to be...anywhere but here!" With that he grabbed her arm and began dragging down the hallway.

"Ned. Ned! NED!" Moze yelled, ripping her arm from his grasp and placing her hands on her hips. "What in the world is going on?"

"I was saving you from the Huge Crew, who, by the way, were about to pound you into a pancake!"

"Yeah, thanks for that, but why were they trying to beat me up. Last time that happened it was because of that rumor about us going out." Moze blushed at the memory. "That's not going around again, is it?"

Ned shook his head. "No."

Moze shrugged. "Well, it's got something to do with you, they almost told me when you popped up." Moze so was so busy thinking about her current situation that she didn't see a relieved look wash across Ned's face. "Oh well, whatever it is, it'll pass." She checked over her shoulder to see if the three girls were watching her. "I hope."

Ned smiled and Moze couldn't help but smile back. "Of course it will. Now let's get to class."

She nodded and they threw their arms around each other's shoulders and began their traditional walk towards gym.


Ned walked into school on Monday morning and grinned when he saw the Huge Crew walk past Moze without so much as looking at her. It had been a week since the inevitable picture and his confession of his feelings for Moze, and he'd managed to keep the three girls off her back pretty well. True, he'd had to stalk her for a little while, but he'd done it eventually. They were leaving her alone.

"Hey guys." He joined his friends at their lockers.

"Hey Ned." Moze smiled and he felt himself blush and, judging by his 'I-told-you-so' smirk, Cookie could see the redness too.

"You ready for that-" He was cut off as Martin Qwerly's voice came on over the intercom.

"Attention! Would everyone please report to the gym immediately for a special presentation. Thank you."

"Wow," Moze spoke up as they walked towards the gym. "I think that's the shortest speech Martin has ever given."

Ned and Cookie both laughed. "No kidding," Cookie agreed. "What do you think this special presentation's about anyways?"

Both of his friends shrugged their shoulders and they continued on to the gym in silence. Once they, and everyone else, had entered and found a place to sit on the bleachers Martin stood at the podium with a microphone in his head.

"Thank you to everyone for coming, even though we sort of forced you. This year the yearbook staff as decided to try out a new idea especially for the graduating 8th graders. A video yearbook. If the idea works well it will be available next year for everyone. This seminar is a special presentation of this year's video yearbook. So sit back, enjoy, and if you like it, buy one!"

Martin pressed the play button on the remote in his hand. Immediately, the northern wall of the gym was illuminated with a picture of the cover of the 2006/2007 yearbook. "This one isn't quite finished, on the finished one we'll have Gordy doing some commentating, but for this one I'll do it." Music filled the arena around them. "And yes," Martin grinned, seeing most of the heads bobbing to the beat, "the song is included in the final product. We decided that this year's theme was the Picture Perfect Class of '07 so that's why we choose this song. Anyways," He grinned wider, "enjoy."

All of this time
Guess I must have been blind
Not to see you and me
We're picture perfect

The cover of the yearbook opened and on the first page was picture of James K. Polk Middle School and it's staff, Gordy included. It switched suddenly to a group shot of everyone from the school. Ned grinned, remembering what a hassle it had been to get everyone into one spot for the picture. It had certainly been worth it though, the picture looked fantastic.

Now baby we've been friends
For such a long, long time

Ned laughed as a picture of Loomer and his two friends (cronies?) appeared on the screen. It had been taken way back in sixth grade, before Loomer had had his growth spurt. Another one slid up next to it of Loomer and his friends, in the same pose, only it was from this year.

We've been through laughs
And we've been through cries

Everyone laughed as a picture of Ned, decked out in honey, feathers, and a random red glove appeared on screen. Ned grinned humbly as Moze elbowed him and laughed.

"Of course," Martin commentated, "everyone enjoyed Ned Bigby's classic chicken look."

The screen slid to a picture of Cookie face, pure horror written all over it as he looked down at his broken glasses.

"And everyone enjoyed seeing Cookie be more man than machine...if only for a little while."

But lately have you seen
The way my tongue gets tied
Can't hardly speak when I look into your eyes

Everyone, minus Ned and Moze, laughed at the picture of Ned freezing as he tried to talk ask Suzie Crabgrass on a date. Suzie even tried to catch Ned's eyes but he looked away and all she received was a glare from Moze.

It's because of the way I'm feelin'
It's somethin' I never dreamed

Various pictures of different kids daydreaming slipped across the scene.


And our love has a different meaning
It took so long to reveal but now I know it

Everyone, including Ned, Moze, Loomer, and the Huge Crew, laughed as a picture of Moze slapping Ned in their fake break up (to go along with the fake relationship) flared up onto the screen.

"Camera Kid could not have gotten a better shot!" Moze whispered to Ned, giggling.


Ned nodded in agreement but as soon as she had turned back he shook his head. "He already has." He whispered to himself, remembering the pictures they'd taken last week.

All of this time, guess I must have been blind
Not to see you and me we're picture perfect
I should be yours
Baby, you should be mine
Meant to be, can't you see we're picture perfect

I'm yours, be mine, we're picture perfect
Forever picture perfect

I showed some friends of mine
My favorite photograph
You know the one of you and me from way back

Various pictures of the different happenings in James K. Polk flashed on the screen for the next several seconds. It suddenly turned into a picture that was an almost exact duplicate of the one of everyone as a group that had appeared earlier, only, as the eighth graders could tell, it was one that had been taken when they were just starting in 7th grade.


And when I told them all
That you were not my guy
They couldn't see it,
Couldn't understand why

Everyone thinks it's so romantic
They say we're two of a kind
And the more that I think about it
The more that I realize what
I've been missing

All of this time, guess I must have been blind
Not to see you and me we're picture perfect
I should be yours
Baby, you should be mine
Meant to be, can't you see we're picture perfect

I'm yours, be mine, we're picture perfect
Forever picture perfect

"And now time for the best ofs." Martin announced as another slideshow of various pictures, these ones mostly of school clubs, came to an end. "Nicest Smile goes to: Suzie Crabgrass and Seth Powers!"

A picture of the two teens, smiling brightly appeared on the screen.

My heart keeps tellin' me
Make up your mind, love's what you need

"Nicest Hair: Suzie Crabgrass and Michael Donavits!"

Once again the two teens appeared on screen. They were standing next to each other and a gentle breeze, probably courtesy of Gordy's large fan, was blowing their hair back in the perfect way.


You've been holding back for too long, yeah
You know it makes good sense

"Most school spirited: Suzie Crabgrass and myself."

A picture of the two teens, decked out in more yellow and green than should have been legal, floated across the screen.


The best lovers are the best of friends
I guess that we should have known all along

"And Best Friends: Ned Bigby and Jennifer Mosley!"

Ned found himself holding his breath as he wondered which picture the yearbook staff had chosen. He smiled as the picture of him and Moze sitting back to back, their arms linked and their hands clasped together, appeared.

Both Ned and Moze looked at each other and smiled.

Everyone thinks it's so romantic
They say we're two of a kind
And the more that I think about it
The more that I realize what
I've been missing

All of this time, guess I must have been blind
Not to see you and me we're picture perfect
I should be yours
Baby, you should be mine
Meant to be, can't you see we're picture perfect

I'm yours, be mine, we're picture perfect
Forever picture perfect

All of this time, guess I must have been blind
Not to see you and me we're picture perfect
I should be yours
Baby, you should be mine
Meant to be, can't you see we're picture perfect

I'm yours, be mine, we're picture perfect
Forever picture perfect

"And for this last picture that's about to come up the yearbook staff and I just decided which picture we liked best out off all the pictures we'd taken. Something to really give meaning to the phrase "picture perfect". This is what we choose, hope you guys agree with our "Picture Perfect Class of '07!"

All three friends waited excitedly for the picture to come up. They were friends with most of the yearbook staff and knew they wouldn't settle for anything less then the best picture of the bunch. It slid into place and Ned's eyes widened into shock.

Staring at him was one of the pictures he and Moze had taken for being best friends, the one where he had his arms around her and she was leaning into him. The entire gymnasium fell quiet and Ned realized just how much the picture made them look like a couple.

The picture perfect couple, according to the yearbook theme.

He and Moze looked at each other, both blushing madly, as noise continued to remain absent from the gym. Ned looked back at the crowd and realized that every face had managed to find the two of them; he had never been more uncomfortable being the center of attention.

Uh-oh!

I'll be yours, be mine we're picture perfect
Forever picture perfect


There's chapter 3! One last chapter to go!

Hey, tell me this. Am I the only one who noticed the...similarities between my fic and the newest episode Yearbook. I mean they're not duplicates or anything but I was just kind of struck with how similar the two ideas seemed.

Oh and an extra big shout out to Chibi for giving me the idea to have the Huge Crew hunt Moze for a little while. If she ever gets around to writing it you MUST check out her NDSSG fics!

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