Gliding on Thin Ice

Well, I'm back with another fic, and I hope you all liked the teaser I put out! This one's going to go on simultaneously with Scholarly Misbehavior, but it might be slower cuz I want to finish that one first. This one's going to be the Ami/ Zoi fic. This is just a little preview, but please tell me what you think!

Disclaimer: I don't own jack…or jill for that matter. Anyway, I wish I owned Sailormoon…but I don't…and I'm not even worth suing since I'm as poor as a church mouse…I'm just borrowing the characters for a little while…

Chapter 1

Amelia sighed as she threw her glasses to the desk, not caring if they skittered off and tumbled to the unwelcoming floor. Grading papers for her father's graduate classes was definitely a pain in her ass. Some of these idiots didn't have the slightest clue what they were talking about.

"This is what I get for volunteering to help," she muttered, rubbing the bridge of her nose to hopefully lessen her now pounding headache. "Well, back to grading stuff for these morons."

She sifted through the pile of paper, and then seeing one with leaning, sloppy words scrawled over a torn piece of notebook paper, she stopped, eyeing it curiously. Well, might as well get over with the worst ones first.

As she started to read, her eyes widened and she was completely amazed. This person not only knew what he was talking about, but stated everything was such eloquence and precision that she had to go back and read it twice. She was utterly impressed.

"That's Zyler's paper, isn't it?"

Amelia swiveled the chair around to find her dad intently reading over her shoulder, his lab coat unbuttoned and flapping near the window. His graying hair was neated combed and his suit underneath the lab coat was impeccable. With his naturally stern face, he made Amelia start in surprise.

"Excuse me?"

"I asked if that's Zyler's paper."

Amelia flipped to the front of the sloppily stapled packet, and looked for a name, finding it in the top, left-hand corner, almost illegible.

"Zyler Tennyson."

"That's the one. Smart boy. What do you think, Amelia?"

"It's very well written. One of the only in fact."

"I can't disagree with you there. Most of my class is just taking the course to get the eight credits it's worth. But Zyler…well, let's just say he's hated by most of the class."

"Why?"

"He breaks the curves."

"Oh I see."

"I'm thinking about offering him the Casington Fellowship."

"What? But you haven't done that in years."

"I haven't seen anybody I felt was up to par until now."

Amelia pondered over this. It took quite a lot to impress her, ever more her father. This young man must have something special. Professor Lason was one of the most critical and skeptical teachers in the whole history of Carlton University. So many people dropped his class that he became known as "Professor Fail-out" around campus. If he thought that what you said made no sense, he told you so, with nothing to soften the blow. Amelia had grown used to it over her life, and it took her skipping one year in high school and then becoming a Pereline Scholar before her father recognized her intelligence.

"Are you going to tell him soon?"

"Tomorrow after class, I suppose."

Her father walked out of the laboratory swiftly, and Amelia was once again left to deal with the immense pile of term papers mostly written by inept students who were trying to slip by with a C.

Amelia bit her pen cap and thought, "Zyler Tennyson. What a name to remember."

And she had no idea how right she was.

~So, what do you think? Good start? Not worth it? Might I remind you that Zyler, though extremely brilliant, is also a habitual playboy. If you've read Chapter 3 of Scholarly Misbehavior, you know what I mean. Amelia's personality completely clashes with Zyler's, which should make for some interesting scenes later on.

Also, addressing some people's comments that this seemed similar to Scholarly Misbehavior…although it is in the same setting, the characters are very different and have different personalities. I would be impossible to make Amelia as bold as Rei, and I hope the whole story will have a more intellectual feel since both Zyler and Amelia are bona fide geniuses. Zyler will also be somewhat more calculating and mentally determined to get Amelia than Jared was towards Rei. And another major point of difference is that this particular relationship is not forbidden, which is what Scholarly Misbehavior mostly centers around. Okay…now I'm done and I'll pass on the microphone to someone else…

So leave some review and comments for me! I'll continue with this story if I get enough requests, okay?^_^

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