A.N: Alright, my schedule is getting busy yet again, but should clear up within the next few weeks. As for everyone who's favorited, followed and reviewed, thank you yet again for the support. Anyways, hope you all enjoy this next chapter, and reviews are always appreciated!

To say that the week was uneventful would be an understatement. A huge one. When I went into this week, I was hoping for an uneventful week, where I could just lie low and not be noticed. But as it turns out, Peach Creek High School was a small world as at this point I had just met up with Nazz and Jonny, and had Kevin and Marie in my classes. For someone who wanted to lie low, I was sure given a full plate. I had no idea how I would survive this week, but I had to at least try.

. . . .

I woke up Tuesday, knowing that today would be as stressful as Monday, if not more stressful. I was yet again sighing to myself and dreading going to school, but at least I know what to expect. When I was riding my bike to school, I remembered my commitment to meet with Nazz and her friends. Fuuuuuck...why did I agree to that? I thought. I didn't want to, but I was kind of forced into it. Anyways, I knew that I could keep my cool and not be found out when I would go to eat with her friends, but I still didn't like the idea that I would have to eat with them. I've never been intrigued by normal conversations, and I would always get bored from them, but if it was something that I was interested about, I could go on for hours. I also loved to see someone talk about something that they enjoy, and I loved to see the passion light up in their eyes. That was something that I always loved to see. After these little thoughts, I got my bike and went to school.

The first part of the day seemed to go by normally and uneventfully. I hardly talked in first period, talked a little with Jonny in band, tried not to be noticed in chemistry, and went out of my way to blend in in calculus. Luckily for me, I was never pointed out or called on in either third or fourth period, so neither Kevin nor Marie saw me. I was very appreciative of that, but I still had lunch to go through, and this could end up to be a disaster. Knowing my luck so far, I was expecting it to be one, but my luck had finally decided t give me a break, although it was an awkward one at that.

I left my calculus class and went off to the table where I assumed they would be...but saw no one there at the time. Oh, great, now what? I thought. I decided to go to my other spot and sit down there for a while. I was glad that they weren't there, but also kind of upset that they would just leave me. Maybe they didn't get their lunch yet...ah well, whatever. They can come over here and yell at me then. I thought as I took out the lunch I had made yesterday, which was just a simple sandwich with some chips and a drink. But as I was about to start eating, Nazz came up to me.

"I thought you were coming to join us," She spoke with a hint of annoyance in her voice. Jesus, I looked over there like a minute ago!

"I was going to, but when I looked I couldn't see you guys," I said as I rose up. I gathered my lunch and looked back at her.

"Alright, let's go then." She started walking off toward the tables, and I now saw that the table I had looked at just a minute ago was now full of girls. Alright Edd, it's just for one day. I don't have to go after this, it's just a one time thing I thought. I still didn't want to go, but I didn't want to be on anyone's bad side yet, especially not someone who I knew in the past. We got to the table and there was an open seat, which I found strange and slightly suspicious that they managed to leave one open seat in the table. I sat down and put my lunch down, and felt very weird being surrounded by girls, and the cheerleading team at that. Two days into school and I find myself in this position. Ah well, it's not going to be awkward though, I hope.

"So why did you want me to eat with you guys?" I questioned, wanting to know what their motives were. After all, I doubted that they invited people to sit with them all the time, so what made me different?

"Well, some of us noticed that you were new here," Nazz said, her voice directed toward someone who I remembered from my chemistry class, "and we wanted to just tell you about the school."

"Alright, so what should I know?" I asked uninterestedly, but tried my best to put up a facade of curiosity instead.

"Alright," the girl across from me started. "well, the first thing you have to know is the groups here at lunch and breakfast." Oh, wow, that's something stupid to start off with, I thought. To me, it sounded like the start to some cheesy movie where the new girl gets to sit with all the popular girls in the beginning. "So, I'm not sure if there were groups where you were from, but here there are lots. You have nerds, jocks, popular kids, rejects, pretty much any group you can think of, they are all in their own groups." I thought for a second before coming up with a question to make this conversation at least a little entertaining.

"Well, in New York there weren't any groups, we all just hung out with our friends. So, which group do you think I should be in then?" I asked, and smiled to myself as I saw their looks go from eagerness to tell me about this school to processing the question I just asked them.

"Uh, I think…"

"Maybe…"

"Uhm…" It was priceless to see the looks of confusion on their faces, but soon a couple voices came up.

"I think you could fit in with the jocks, or maybe the popular kids."

"Yeah, I think you would fit in with the popular kids."

"Well, if you don't find your group, you can always stay with us." Nazz spoke up after everyone got in their two cents.

"Haha, thanks. Now, what can you tell me that I'll really need to know about this school? Who should I look out for, which teachers should I avoid, what can I get away with here?" I asked, wanting to know the questions that were actually useful.

"Well, you should look out for Marie Kanker for starters. She's been known as a major bully here, but she somehow she hasn't been expelled or put down a grade."

"Wait, Marie Kanker? As in the girl with blue hair?" I asked, acting as if I didn't know her.

"Yeah, did you already have a run-in with her?" A girl next to me said.

"No, I mean I heard about her from someone else, but I thought that they were just messing around with me. She's in my calculus class and my APUSH class-"

"Wait, she's in calculus?!" A girl exclaimed from the opposite end of the table. I saw that everyone's faces were shocked at the statement I had just said.

"What, you didn't know that?" I asked. I didn't know how it seemed that Marie could have a reputation for the biggest bully on campus, yet have advanced courses all without people knowing.

"No!" was the answer that was shouted at me from almost everyone at the table. Those who didn't comment just stared in disbelief.

"Are you serious?" Nazz asked me. "I mean, is she really in those advanced courses?"

"Yeah, I mean, I'm not sure about her other classes, but she's in two of my advanced classes."

I saw that they just looked at each other, but I also saw a couple of their faces turn from disbelief to a smirk, one with evil intent in it. I decided to dismiss it for now, and asked my second question.

"Well, she doesn't seem like a huge bully, I mean, she hasn't done anything in the classes I'm in, and she hasn't even said a word." I said, hoping to get some clarification of how she is this "huge bully." Luckily, one of the girls across the table elaborated.

"Ha, then you haven't even seen her in action. Be careful of her, she is crafty and precise about how she bullies. She doesn't always use brute strength, but when she does, it can get bad." They all seemed to remember a bad memory, and all grimaced at the thought.

"What did she do?" I inquired. There was an uncomfortable silence at the table, and I looked from face to face, seeing if anyone would answer me. Finally, a girl on the left side of the table spoke up.

"Well, last year, she got really pissed at some guy and beat the crap out of him. He had to have stitches in his head from what she did to him." Well damn, I thought. I didn't think that she would do something like that. I always knew that she was a tough girl, but I didn't imagine this.

"Wow, she has an attitude." I remarked.

"Oh, you don't know the half of it. I'm surprised you haven't seen her do anything yet. Oh well, it'll only be a matter of time." Nazz replied. As lunch went on, we talked about other things, like what classes I was in, what shops I should go to for what, and every so often I looked to see a couple of the girls who seemed to fawn over me. Even if I was around Nazz, someone who could find out who I really am, I felt comfortable. I felt like I had back in New York, how me and my friends would always banter back and forth. And of course with Randy there, we had girls in our group all the time, who would always give us love-hungry looks. At first, it felt weird, but eventually I had adapted to it, and now I could talk to girls with ease, which some guys are jealous that I can do that.

The bell rang for us to go to our next class, and I walked away from the group. As I was walking to my class, I looked around and saw a couple guys looking at me and talking about me. I gave them a glare, and they stopped looking at me. I had a pretty good idea that they were talking about me getting invited to the cheerleaders table, but I didn't care about petty little gossip like that, unless, of course, it got me popular. That was something I couldn't quite risk at this point.

The rest of the day went as uneventful as it could have, and Wednesday was no different, except for one little conversation I had with someone at lunch. I decided to sit alone on Wednesday, as I just wanted to jam out and eat my food. Unfortunately, a guy decided to come up to me a few minutes after lunch had started. He seemed like he was part of the popular crowd, and he had short dirty blonde hair that was gelled up in the front. He had blue eyes and was dressed up very well. He had a smile on his face, and I was a little cautious about him, but I took out my earbuds anyways.

"Hey, not sitting with the cheerleaders today?" He said in a friendly voice. Even if I didn't like social encounters, he seemed like someone I could get along with.

"Nah, I might some other day, but I just wanted to listen to music today." I replied. He smiled and stuck his hand out to me.

"My name's Kenny." I gave him a handshake and told him my name.

"Mine is Daniel."

"Nice to meet you. Anyways, I just wanted to tell you a couple things. You're new here, aren't you?" I nodded, and gave him a sideways glance, wondering how he knew that.

"It's just because I haven't seen you around here. When a new person comes here, we normally know about it. Anyways, I just wanted to let you know that you can join my group at any time. We are a couple tables over from the cheerleaders. Also, I don't know what you did, but no one gets invited to sit with the cheerleaders. Well, unless they're friends of one of the cheerleaders, that is, but I don't know why they invited you. No offense, I mean, it's just so uncommon." He told me.

"No, it's ok, I don't know what I did either, but I decided to go sit with them, Anyways, thanks for the invite, I might come and meet you guys at some point." I replied. We said our goodbyes and that was it. Kenny seemed like a nice guy, and I decided that I would go eat with his group at some point in the next week or two. The rest of the day passed by as unremarkable as Tuesday, but unfortunately the same couldn't be said for Thursday.

. . . .

Thursday rolled around, and if I had known what it had in store for me, I might have stayed home. As the day started out like normal, I actually thought that I might have fallen into an actual routine, one that I could follow and stay in the monotony of the school without being noticed too much. Unfortunately, fate had other plans for me. At lunch, I was eating my lunch, jamming out to my playlist of harder hitting songs when I noticed someone who caught my eye. Or rather, two people. My eyes shot open, and I was surprised by who I saw.

It was Ed and Eddy.

I looked at them, and saw them walking to a different part of school, which meant that they had to be late today. I looked at Eddy, and saw that he was quite short, around five foot seven. He seemed like he was a little muscular, but also fat. He had a face that was filled with grumpiness and disinterest and a little goatee. I looked at Ed and saw how he had changed. He was towering, around six foot seven, a full foot taller than Eddy. He had become muscular as well, and looked like he would be an amazing football player. Ed had a face of gloom and sadness, and I felt bad for him. I don't know what happened to him, but I felt bad for my true friend, the one who I had left. I wanted to go and talk to him, but I knew he would make a big scene out of it, as he normally would. After that little encounter, I thought that my day would go back onto the path of normality. It didn't.

While at first it looked like it would be normal, when I got into my sixth period class, I noticed that all the APUSH students were around the outside of the classroom. I knew this only meant one thing. Shit, we're changing seats! I knew that this could be bad, but I also thought about how low the chances were that I would get seated next to me. Turns out, fate decided to make this days road take a sharp turn in a completely different direction. Sure enough, I was seated in the same group with Marie. She was in the spot diagonal from me, and when I heard that I was going to be in the same group with her, I froze up. Apparently, the other people in the same group also froze up, so I wasn't alone. I had a different reason to be afraid, though. After I got out of my frozen state, I sat in my seat and tried to hide away my face from Marie as best I could. The other two in my group sat down and seemed to be trembling from nervousness and fear. I managed to stay cool and brought my head back up, hoping that Marie was facing away from us, or rather, me. When I looked back up, though, she was facing all of us. Then for the first time in four years, I heard her speak.

"Listen fuckers, if I didn't make myself clear at the start of the year, none of you will tell anyone that I'm in this class. Got it?" While the other two nodded, I just took notice of her voice. It had definitely lost it's high pitched shrillness, something I could tell even if she spoke in a growling whisper. Then, she looked at me with narrow eyes, and I felt my face go red and I could tell I looked surprised, and it was all because that now could be the moment all hell broke loose and my real identity would be known. That's not what happened, though.

"And you, I know you're new here, and I have a reputation to keep, so you won't speak a word with anyone that I'm in here, and especially don't tell anyone about my math class." She was intimidating, but that didn't phase me. I lost my face of surprise, and instead chose one of disinterest.

"Don't know why you wouldn't want to be known as smart, but alright." I remarked. Her eyes narrowed, and for a split second she seemed like she was observing me.

"You obviously don't know anything about me, maybe I should show you what I mean about my reputation," she hissed. I could practically see the other two kids in our group swallow hard. They were scared, scared of her. It was at this point that I realized how much danger my actions were starting to get me into. While Marie hadn't recognised me right off the bat, I knew that if I kept this up I was running down the clock even faster. I narrowed my eyes at her, and just looked away, getting things out of my backpack. She snorted, and then I heard something she growled under her breath.

"Oh, you're gonna learn your place soon." I would have replied with something like "I'd like to see you try," but realized just how stupid of a mistake that would have been. Instead, I just went about my normal activities, but Marie decided to say one last thing.

"Lastly, if I hear any of you bothering me or talking shit about me, you're gonna regret it. So you'd better keep your mouths shut, got it?" While the other two nodded and replied with faint "uh-huh's," I simply kept quiet, until she looked at me and said, "And you new guy?"

"First off, my name is Daniel, and secondly, you won't hear me say a word," Marie seemed to relax for a second, before I decided to add "My mom always told me not to say anything unless it's nice." She slammed a fist down onto my desk, and while the other two kids backed up from their desk, I stayed there, unphased. Marie stood up from her chair, and I could tell she was angry. It looked like she was about to start a fight with me, but Mr. Antonucci stepped in before anything could happen.

"MARIE, DANIEL! I WILL NOT HAVE FIGHTING IN MY CLASS! Marie, you know just how deep you are in trouble, so don't even try it." Marie was just glaring at me, and slowly sat back in her chair, I made a small smirk, knowing that I had just won that little skirmish. Once Mr. Antonucci looked away, Marie growled a warning to me.

"Daniel, you are going regret what you just did, I'm gonna make sure of it." I just looked at her with my smirk and went back to my classwork. Nothing else was spoken at the table for the rest of the period, and when the bell rang, I left class without looking back for Marie. While I still did feel bad for her, it was a little nice to give her a little of her own disrespect. As I was walking to my bike, however, someone from the APUSH class walked up to me, and started talking to me.

"Do you realize what you just did?!" a short, fat guy with round glasses and red, curly hair practically yelled at me.

"Apparently not." I replied.

"You just won an argument with Marie Kanker! The Marie Kanker!"

"You're overreacting about this, I hope you know that."

"Well, you haven't seen what she can do to people. I feel bad for you, because you just dug your own grave!" He started chuckling, and I started to feel annoyed by this guys presence.

"Well, unlike most of the kids at this school, I can actually stand up for myself. This whole goddamn school is one of those stereotypical 'high school musical' bullshit. I swear, most of you guys are just fucking cowards. I don't know how this whole school could let her become the biggest bully on campus. Jesus, in New York we would beat the shit out of someone like that and make sure they never did that crap again. None of you people can actually stand up for yourselves, can you?" I could tell this kid was surprised, and he looked down at the ground and started to walk away from me. "See? Not even gonna say anything back to me." I was glad to be rid of him, even if I was a little harsh on him. Well, looks like I'm not gonna be making any friends with him anytime soon. And so much for apologizing to Marie, I guess. While I still wanted to say that I was sorry that I left so abruptly, it looks like that apology might not go over as well as I would have hoped.

After my stressful Thursday, I decided to keep the rest of it nice and relaxed. I made sure to keep myself busy, play more guitar, and just have a relaxed afternoon. As I was doing this though, I remember that Marie hadn't wanted anyone knowing that she was in any advanced classes. Well, looks like that secret is out. I thought, remembering my conversation with the cheerleaders on Wednesday. I then wondered what she would do to me if she found out what I had said. I didn't worry too much about it, as I knew that I had made a new enemy. We would be at each other's throats until...who knows? After some thoughts about the rest of what had happened in that day, I went to bed, not knowing what tomorrow had in store for me.

If only I knew how much worse it was going to be than today, oh so much worse.

A.N: Alright, things are picking up pace and I'm going to drop some major things in the upcoming chapters, this story is going to go from about a 10 to about a 90 at least. So now we have a little description of Ed and Eddy, but they will be introduced better in later chapters, and maybe not in good ways. Oh well, things are going to go downhill for Edd in the next chapter or two, so that should be interesting to see. Anyways, if this update took a long time to release, it was because of school and finals, but I should have free time soon. Anyways, hope you enjoyed that chapter, and reviews are always appreciative.

Last question: I have another fanfic that I have the idea for, and it is on Gravity Falls, but I'm not sure if I should start it now, or once I'm done with this story. What are your guy's thoughts?