Kaith: It's time for school! What's going to happen with Berrynose and Hollyleaf, and what about poor Honeyfern?

Sunfeather: Don't worry, I'm doing the best I can, I do have school after all.

Spottedwind19: Yeah I'm working on trying to read the latest book, I'm number 4 in line I think…*sigh*

Owlwhisker: What indeed. XD

Chapter 3: School Time Drama and Dad's Class

Hollyleaf literally jumped out of the car the moment Brambleclaw parked it. Her heart was racing and all she wanted to do was to see Berrynose again.

"Someone's in a good mood." Brambleclaw remarked as he and Squirrelflight walked to the school together, their two toms walking a good distance ahead of them.

Lionblaze just barely heard his father and rolled his eyes. "She's not ready to date."

"Oh stop acting like a father Blaze." Jayfeather said, calling his brother by his nickname. "You just don't know what's it's like to be in love."

"And I suppose you do?"

Jayfeather purred in amusement. "As if." Lionblaze lead Jayfeather through the front door of the ThunderClan high school. "So what do we have for our first class today?"

Lionblaze opened his backpack and pulled out their class lists. "Looks like we both have Beginning Health with Leafpool."

Hollyleaf couldn't believe the high school of only three floors could be so big. All she wanted to do was see Berrynose again, and it seemed like the whole school keep changing shape just to mess with her. Hollyleaf rounded a final corner of the third floor, there he was, coming out of the bathroom. Berrynose instantly noticed Hollyleaf and he smiled. Hollyleaf couldn't help herself and she threw herself at him, wrapping her arms around Berrynose.

He grunted as he caught her, but still said happily, "It hasn't even been twenty-four hours, Holly, but you miss me that much?"

Hollyleaf nuzzled her head into Berrynose's shoulder before letting go of him. "I just really missed you, Berry." She said, still embarrassed to call him by his birth name.

"Well," Berrynose scratched the back of his head. "I'm not really sure what do at this point. You're the first she-cat I've ever gone out on a date with."

Hollyleaf blushed. "Well, for starters, how about we go to class?" Hollyleaf suggested, slipping her paw into his.

Berrynose smiled. "I'd like that."

"Alright class, settle down." Jayfeather heard his Aunt Leafpool say as she entered the classroom. From what he could tell, Jayfeather knew there was a lot of drama going on behind him. He heard Cinderheart chose the seat next to him, Berrynose was loudly scooting his desk closer to Hollyleaf, Jayfeather could fell Lionblaze glaring at Berrynose, and waves of sadness and jealously were washing off of Honeyfern. Jayfeather sighed, but then smiled grimly. At least he wasn't Berrynose or Hollyleaf; they seemed to be the center of Lionblaze and Honeyfern's attention.

"So, does anyone have any questions before I start our class?" Leafpool asked.

"Yeah," Mousewhisker asked from his seat. "Why do we all need to take this class if Jayfeather is the only one in our year that plans on becoming a medicine cat like you?"

Leafpool smiled at Jayfeather, not that he noticed, and then said, "Because all young cats should know how to take care of their bodies. So that way we don't need you toms come crying to us every time you start a piety fights with the other schools."

A few of the young toms laughed. "Okay class, open your textbooks to chapter one."

Jayfeather sat at his desk, his head in his paws. He didn't even bother opening his book; high school books usually don't come in braille. He twitched his ears as he heard Leafpool walk to his desk. "Are you okay without your book?" She asked in a hushed voice.

Jayfeather's tail twitched and he bit back a sharp reply. "Yes I'll be just fine."

Leafpool paused. Jayfeather could fell something coming from her, it was hard to describe. It was almost the same feeling he got from Squirrelflight. "Okay, now our first lesson will be about maintaining a healthy lifestyle."

The bell rang, dismissing the class from Leafpool's class. Honeyfern gathered up her books and left the class quickly, not even looking in Hollyleaf's direction, hopping that no one would notice. Unfortunately for her, Cinderheart noticed. "Hey Jayfeather, do you mind going to History class by yourself?"

Jayfeather rolled his eyes. "I'm not helpless you know. And I never asked for your help in the first place."

"Oh stop being such a sour puss." Cinderheart purred. Getting back to the task at hand, Cinderheart ran into the hallway and just barely caught seeing Honeyfern's tail disappear into the bathroom.

"What's wrong?" Poppyfrost asked, having walked up to Cinderheart.

"It's Honeyfern." Cinderheart nodded to the bathroom.

Poppyfrost understood immediately and followed the she-cat to the bathroom. She pushed to door open and saw that Honeyfern was standing at the mirror. Honeyfern spun and it was easy to see she was crying. "What do you want?" Honeyfern asked, whipping the tears out of her eyes.

Poppyfrost walked up to her sister and placed a paw on her shoulder. "We wanted to make sure you were okay."

"I'm fine." Honeyfern pushed her sister's paw away.

Poppyfrost frowned. Pausing for a few seconds before speaking again. "Honey, I know how you feel about Berrynose."

Honeyfern closed her eyes and crossed her arms, trying to block out the outside world. A few moments later, she gave up and Honeyfern spoke. "I remember being so close to him in elementary school. He was always so kind to me and would stand up for me when the older ShadowClan cats would come to pick us. I…I fell in love with him, and I still am." Tears started to well up in Honeyfern's eyes. "Seeing him with Hollyleaf just hurts."

Poppyfrost hugged her sister, not knowing what else she could do for her. Cinderheart decided to give the two some time alone, and left. Cinderheart pushed the door open and almost jumped out of her fur; Hollyleaf was standing there.

Hollyleaf opened her mouth, but Cinderheart was faster, closing the bathroom door and demanding, "What did you hear?"

Hollyleaf dropped her gaze. "I had no idea I was hurting Honeyfern that much. I want to talk to her." Hollyleaf moved to enter the bathroom but Cinderheart intercepted her.

"You shouldn't do that right now. Honeyfern needs her space for now."

"But-"

Cinderheart cut her friend off and pushed her down the hallway. "Not now. So how about you tell me about your little date?"

Hollyleaf watched with a heavy heart as Honeyfern took a seat on the opposite side of the wood-shop room. Poppyfrost offered to sit with her but was turned away and joined Hollyleaf and Cinderheart. Lionblaze waved his hand in front of Berrynose's blank, dreamy into the distance while Brambleclaw listed off all the importance of wood-shop and its uses.

"So, spill!" Cinderheart hissed quietly, tearing her fur out in frustration. She had been trying since the bathroom incident to get Hollyleaf to spill, but the dark-furred she-cats lips were sealed. She wasn't one to kiss and tell.

Meanwhile, Berrynose, who had snapped out of his trance, was gloating to all of the toms. "And the pasta was awesome!" he exclaimed cheerfully, not realizing that his friend's wanted to know the actual details of the date, and not how good the food tasted. Both the she-cats and the toms kept pestering Hollyleaf and Berrynose.

Three gunshot-like sounds silenced the class, and three nails were embedded in a piece of plywood in front of Brambleclaw. All eyes fell on the teacher, who held a smoking nail gun in his hand. "If you're all done gossiping about my daughter's date,"

"Daddy!" Hollyleaf yelled, embarrassment crawling through her fur.

"Then I suggest you get back to taking mental notes. Now then," Brambleclaw positioned his paw on the wood with the nail gun. Brambleclaw ranted on, not noticing that his paw moved in the way of the nail gun. With a gunshot, the nail drove its way into Brambleclaw's paw. The wood-shop teacher, who had claimed to be a carpenter for years, was now nailed to a plank of plywood.

Almost the entire class paled at the sight of their teacher screaming like a little newborn she-kit and some, like Poppyfrost, fainted. Jayfeather and Cinderheart rushed out of their seats to help Brambleclaw.

"Dad! Are you okay?" Jayfeather asked.

"THERE'S A FU**ING NAIL IN MY PAW!" The loving father cried out.

"Hollyleaf, go get Leafpool!" Jayfeather ordered. "Someone call emergency!"

Hollyleaf rushed out of the door, followed by Lionblaze, as several of the conscious students pulled out their hidden cell phones and called 911.

"What are you doing?" Hollyleaf panted to her brother.

"Squirrelflight is going to want to know." Lionblaze smiled, darting down a hallway, headed his mother's classroom.

Ten minutes later, the ambulance rolled away with the crying Brambleclaw in the back, his hand finally detached from the plywood, to get bandaged up. A good crowd of students, from all schools, had gathered to watch the event.

"I never knew ThunderClan teachers we as stupid as their students." A ShadowClan warrior said mockingly. Firestar, who had come down like the rest of the principals to clear up the students, cast a look at the young warrior.

Blackstar, the principal of the ShadowClan section, intervened. "Now, now, just because something is true, doesn't mean you have to point it out. The ThunderClan members do have their pride after all." The ShadowClan principal smirked.

"At least we have pride, unlike the ShadowClan members who use shady methods to win matches." Firestar retorted.

Every young warrior in the area was watching and willing a fight to break out between the two principals. They had only heard rumors of the off campus fights between the two when they were in school themselves. And with the sparking flying between Blackstar and Firestar, the chances were looking pretty good.

However, Crookedstar and Leopardstar dashed their hopes, herding the students away. When the area in front of the ThunderClan high school cleared out, Firestar turned to his own students, "Alright, for those of you who had Brambleclaw's class, it will take a few days at least to find a substitute teacher. For the meantime, it's a study hour in the library so get your things and Graystripe will be your teacher for the time being."

Hollyleaf followed her class back to the wood-shop room and let herself be the last one out, telling Berrynose to go ahead. Honeyfern was the only one left in the room with her. "Honeyfern…" Hollyleaf started. "I overheard you in the bathroom after health class."

Honeyfern's eyes widened, then she looked down. "Hollyleaf, I don't want to make you guilty about dating Berrynose. He chose you rather than me. That's just something I have to accept…no, no matter how much it hurts."

Hollyleaf didn't know what to say. All she knew was that she wanted to talk, however, now that she was there, Honeyfern pouring her heart out, she was speechless.

"But," Honeyfern continued, "This just means you're my love rival now." Honeyfern looked up, a small smile on her face. "And I'm not going to lose."

Hollyleaf's heart fluttered a little as she smiled. "And neither am I."

The two she-cats smiled at each other, the quick opening of the door snapping the two out of their happy moment. Graystripe was there, "Are you two going to stay in here forever?" The vice principal asked.

"No sir." They both said quickly, rushing out the door and towards the library.

As they neared the library doors, Honeyfern spoke, "You know the rules, right?"

Hollyleaf nodded as she pushed up open the door to the library, her eye's instantly falling on Berrynose. "All's fair in love and war."

Kaith: Kay, I added a lot of new stuff to this chapter, so review and tell me how I did! And don't beg for immediate updates XP I have school to worry about as well as trying to finish off my other stories.