Quick note, I did a little timeline manipulation for this one.

The rising sun over the Cul-de-sack starts melting the snow that covers the ground, but melting snow was not the only thing the morning sun brought. With the sun breaching his window a young teenage boy wakes from his sleep. The boy yawns and stretches, followed by scratching his head of black hair, making sure to avoid the area above his right ear.

"Today is finally here." The boy says moving to the side of his bed. "The first day of a new school."
The boy gets up off his bed, stretches again, and then turns around to make his bed. Once done the boy quickly exits his small bedroom and crosses the hall into the restroom of his family's two story house to start his morning routine.
He showers, brushes his teeth, and then checks for any facial blemishes. The teen years have not been kind to his two best friends, so he has been actively fighting against acne. Satisfied he turns off the bathroom light and returns to his bedroom.
He quickly donned his usual under apparel of boxers and a white undershirt, but instead of adding his favorite orange shirt and a pair of blue jeans, he excitingly puts on the new pair of dark blue dress pants and the white long sleeve dress shirt. Lastly he dawns his signature black ski hat.
He held off on putting on his tie and the dress jacket that goes with the rest of his attire for after he eats his breakfast.

With his jacket and tie in hand the boy grabs his black messenger bag, full of all kinds of supplies he believes he will need at his new school, and heads down to the ground floor of the house. He had awoken over an hour earlier than he needed so he took this time to prepare himself a well balanced breakfast. He makes a bowl of oatmeal, with a cut up banana in it, a glass of orange juice, and an exact cup of cottage cheese.
"A perfect meal for a perfect day." He says as he sits down at the table to eat his meal.
As he is eating his meal the boy's parents come down the stairs. "Good morning Eddward." The boy's mother says.
"Good morning Mother." Eddward, also known as Edd for short, responds back.
"Ready for your first day of the new school Son?" Edd's father asks following his wife into the kitchen.
Edd smiles. "That I am Father. I spend all of yesterday preparing. I have notebooks for each class, several folders for storing any documents I will get, and a wide arrange of writing utensils." He says, naming off everything that he had packed into his bag. He's also packed a wide assortment of various other objects and supplies he thought he might need as well, but he didn't think his parents would care to hear about that.
Edd's father couldn't help but smile himself at his son's detailed preparation for the day. "Good to hear Son, and what about lunch?" He asks turning on the coffee maker.
"I prepared a bag lunch last night Father."
Edd's mother gently places her hand on Edd's shoulder. "Our young man certainly has thought this day threw."
Edd's father opens the fridge to retrieve his own breakfast. "Well it is not every day that not only do you get into the best private school in the city, but you get in for free."
"Yes it was a godsend that the school board was able to get the students into a new school so quickly after the horrible accident that destroyed the public school."
Edd looks away from his parents. "Yes, it was. I am grateful for them doing so." Edd has felt the guilt of his part in the destruction of his high school at the fall dance for the past several months, even the mandatory home schooling he had to do while the school system sorted out the situation didn't keep the weight off his chest. But he fully intends to take advantage of the opportunity before him and do his very best at the new school.

After finishing his breakfast, putting on his tie and his winter jacket, he plans on putting on his dress jacket once he is at school, Edd says his farewells to his parents and leaves to head over to his best friend's house to make the walk to their new school together.
A few houses down from Edd's is the house of one of his best friends. Edd walks around to the back of the house where there is a side entrance into the house and knocks on the door.
Edd clasps his hands behind his back as he waits for a response to his knock, but after a full minute of waiting he still doesn't get one, so he knocks again.
This time it only took half a minute for a response to his knocking. The door opens and a teenage boy shorter than Edd, with a few new pimples on his forehead, wearing only a white beater and his boxers, is standing in the doorway yawning. "What do you want Sock-Head?" The shorter boy asks.
"We talked about this already Eddy, today is the first day of school." Edd isn't all that surprised that Eddy isn't ready yet. When the students found out that they were going to have several months off from school Eddy took to actively avoiding anything that would count as being responsible, much to the annoyance of Edd.
Eddy rubs his eyes. "The school is gone idiot."
Edd pinches the brim of his nose. "At our new school Eddy, the one that we had to go and fill out class schedules for. The one that you and Ed came with my Mother, Father, and I to get school supplies for."
"That's today?"
Edd sighs. "Yes Eddy."
"I'm not going."
Edd was already prepared for Eddy's defiance. "Anyone who doesn't show up for the first day will be expelled from the school and thus miss a year of school. How do you think your father would react to knowing that you will be unable to attend school for the rest of the year?"
Edd knew he had Eddy metaphorically corned at the mention of his father. "Fine, let me get dressed." Eddy closes the door on the smiling Edd.
Edd starts to hum to himself as he waited for his friend to get dressed. 'Try all you might Eddy, I am just too clever for you to get out of this.' He thinks proud of himself that he was able to outwit Eddy so quickly.

Five minutes pass and Edd was starting to wonder if Eddy fell back asleep. "You better not have gone back to bed Eddy." He says as he opens the door just enough for him to speak into the house. "Eddy? Are you almost ready?" He asks lessening for the sound of Eddy's snoring.
"Don't get your shorts in a bunch Double Dee." The door is opened the rest of the way and Eddy dressed in a matching shirt and pants as Edd, with a yellow zip up hoodie on over the shirt, though his are very wrinkled where Edd's was ironed to perfection.
"Where is your tie, and your jacket?" Edd asks, noticing that Eddy has the top two buttons of his shirt undone, isn't tucked in, and he doesn't have his tie on.
Eddy holds up the jacket of his school uniform bunched up in his hand around the strap of his backpack. "I got the stupid jacket and only chumps wear ties."
Edd ignores the fact that Eddy just said that Edd himself was a "chump" and reminds Eddy what the school administrator told them. "Eddy, any student that is out of dress code will receive after school detention for a month, again do you want your father hearing about that?"
Eddy pushes Edd out of the way so he could walk out of the back door to the house. "My dad wouldn't care about that."
Edd turns to follow Eddy to the house of the third member of their small group of friends. "Just, humor me Eddy. Please? This is a very important academic opportunity for us all and it would be very helpful for college applications to have a good record with this school. Why there are some schools of higher education that look highly upon your performance and record of infractions on your-"
Eddy cuts Edd off. "All right all right, I'll put on the stupid thing, just stop talking."
"Thank you Eddy." Edd smiles again, this has been a very productive morning for him. Every act of defiance from Eddy he has been able to counter with a well thought out and educated argument in his favor.

Still smiling, and picking up his humming again, Edd follows Eddy up to the front door. 'Nothing is going to mess this day up for me.' He thinks as Eddy pounds on the door.
The door opens and the two Ed's are greeted by their almost six foot tall friend. "Hey guys!" The tall boy yells excited to see his friends.
"What's shaking Lumpy?" Eddy says giving the tall boy a playful punch in the shoulder.
"Good morning Ed, are you ready for today?" Edd asks greeting his friend in a more polite manner then Eddy. As far as Edd could see Ed had his uniform on under his long green winter coat. Thought it looked as if Ed had once again not bothered to properly bathe himself this morning, with his oily and very messy hair and the dirt and grime visible on his acne ridden face.
"I am Double Dee, I put on the funny clothes just like you told me."
Edd claps his hand together. "Very good Ed. See Eddy, not everyone finds the new uniform unpleasant." He says looking down at his friend.
Eddy rolls his eyes at Edd before turning to walk away from the house. "Yeah yeah, so lumpy likes the monkey suits we have to wear now, big woop."
Ed laughed at Eddy's comment, but Edd didn't find it funny at all. He liked the uniform and had to almost literally bite his tongue to stop himself from correcting Eddy on his misuse of the slang term of "monkey suit".
"Well none the less, let us get going gentlemen, it is a good long walk to our new house of education."
On the walk to their new School Edd ended up ahead of the other two Ed's due to his excitement for the first day of school.
"Sweet, this way takes us past the gas station." Eddy says as they approach a small service station and convenience store. "Let's get some snacks for the walk."
Eddy took one step in the direction of the store before he is stopped by Edd with a firm hand on his shoulder. "No Eddy, we need to get to school. I'm sure there will be breakfast provided in the cafeteria."
Eddy shrugs off Edd's hand. "Buzz kill."
"You will thank me when we arrive on time Eddy."

For the rest of the walk the Ed's were quiet, Eddy because he was still quite tired, Ed because he had nothing to talk about, and Edd because he was daydreaming of the events that are to come. 'Oh boy, I hope that the math teacher enjoys long form problem solving, and that the science department has an Entomology club. Oh I so hope that the librarian is in need of an after school assistant and that the library has a large section of classical literature.'
Edd's head was so far in the clouds that he didn't notice that him and his two friends were in the parking lot of their new school.
"Who cool guys, it looks like a castle." Ed says commenting on the look of the school snapping Edd back to reality.
"It is a very old building Ed." The school building was a three to four story high old tan brick building with steep sloping roofs on some of the sections with tall ornate windows with very light stone crenulations. And a wrought iron fence encircles the building and grounds around it.
"Ok, I'll admit that this place looks kinda cool." Eddy says admitting to only part of his interest in the building.
"Trust me gentlemen, this next year and a half is going to be a life changing experience for everyone involved."

The boys follow the mass of students entering into the building into the entrance way. The tall ceiling is lit by a hanging chandelier giving the room a feeling of wisdom and age. The boys continue to follow the group until they are in the cafeteria.
"So now what do we do?" Eddy asks the three boys move to sit at one of the empty tables.
"You didn't read any of the paperwork we got in the mail did you Eddy?" A female voice says from behind the boys.
They turn and see a teenage girl with medium length blond hair dressed in the female uniform of the school. Which is a short sleeve white dress shirt with the same color tie as the boys under a dark blue sweater vest and dark blue and black plaid pleated skirt.
Eddy was the first of the boys to say anything. "What makes you think a cool cat like me got time to read Nazz babe?"
Nazz, the blond teen, laughs. "I wonder if you even know how to sometimes Eddy."
Nazz didn't mean what she said as a hurtful insult, the days of the Ed's being out casted and ridiculed by the other dwellers of the Cul-de-sack have long since past, but she still had to keep Eddy in his place and shoot down every attempt at flirting with her.
Eddy's face turns red from embracement, and Edd rolls his eyes at his friends attempt at courting Nazz. "Good morning Nazz, I hope you are as enthusiastic as I am about starting our new school." Edd says giving her a proper greeting.
Nazz looks around the school surveying the other students. "So long as they have a cheer team, I don't care about where I'm going." She then looks back at the Ed's and sees that Ed is burning red in the face. "You ok there Ed?" She asks concerned for the gentle giant.
Edd looks to his friend and see that he is red in the face and sweating. "Ed, are you alright? Are you feeling too warm with your jacket on?" He asks taking his own off to dawn his dress jacket.
Ed shakes his head up and down, then side to side, and then up and down again. Edd looks at his friend and then to Nazz, whom Ed had his eyes glued to. 'Oh.' Edd thinks finally understanding what was wrong with Ed. It was his personal body tempter, but it was also his hormones and the site of Nazz, who had grown into a very attractive figure over the past few years.
Edd holds his dress jacket out to Nazz. "Nazz would you mind holding my coat while I help Ed. I fear his hands may be too shaky to open his jacket."
She takes it and carefully folds it over her crossed arms, blocking her features that Ed was glued to. With the distraction out of the way Edd turns to Ed. "Ok Ed, let's get you out of this heavy coat." Edd pulls the zipper on the jacket down revealing that Ed had done a less than spectacular job of dressing himself then Edd had originally thought. His dress shirt, while on properly was miss buttoned, and he had tied his tie into a shoe string bow. With a sigh Edd says; "Here Ed, let me help you with this." And then starts to fix Ed's uniform. "And Eddy, you best tuck your shirt in as well."

It took Edd a few minutes to help Ed with his shirt and tie, and Eddy with his own tie, but by the time he was done he was confident that his friends would be free from being in trouble for being out of dress code.
"I look like James Bond Double Dee." Ed says looking down at his clothing.
"I feel like a monkey now." Eddy adds commenting on his own uniform.
"Well now you look like what you are Eddy." A raspy voice says coming from behind Nazz.
Nazz, who was admiring Edd's dedication to helping his friends, jumps and turns around at the sound of the voice. "Kevin!" she exclaims to the teen boy about Edd's height before hugging him.
Kevin hugs Nazz back before the two share a quick kiss. "Hey Nazz."
Seeing Nazz and Kevin kiss shocked all three of the Ed's "Whoa, you guys, uh failed to mention something to the rest of us?" Eddy asks almost in shock.
Nazz leans back from Kevin. "Yeah." She says with a very wide grin. She holds Edd's jacket out to him as she says; "Kevin invited me to go with him and his family on this snowboarding trip just before Christmas, and well one thing lead to another…"
Eddy felt as if he just came in last place in a scamming contest at the reveal of the news that Kevin and Nazz were a thing, Ed didn't quite understand so his mind went to thoughts of gravy, and Edd, well Edd didn't really care. Yes he had a teen crush on Nazz, as did every boy did at one point from their class, but he knew that they were two very different kinds of people, so their interests would never line up to be more than anything other than friends.
"Well, so long as you were." *ahem* "Safe. I'm happy for you." Edd says with a clearing of his throat.
"You speak of safety Double the Ed Boy! Then save Rolf from this infernal contraption." Rolf, a foreign boy that is also from the Cul-de-sack, just as Nazz and Kevin are, yells struggling with his own tie as he approached the group.
Edd finished buttoning up his dress jacket just as Rolf reached the group. "Here, allow me Rolf." With hands that are quickly becoming experts and tying ties on other people, Edd fixes Rolf's tie.
"You should start charging people for clothing help Double Dee." Nazz says as her and Kevin move to hold hands
"My services will remain free of charge Nazz, I enjoy helping others where I can."
"Well I bet you could get into some tutoring here after school then." She adds.
Edd was about to comment on how good of an idea that was, but a voice came over the PA system of the school.
"Attention students."The voice, a rough and aged voice, says through the speakers on the wall. "This is your Headmaster David Moon. First off I would like to welcome back all of our returning students of St. Mary Abbots, and to welcome the new students that will be joining us for the rest of the year and the next. Now for those of you who are uninformed, last fall the local public high school, Peach Creek High, suffered severe damage during their fall school dance and had to be closed for repairs. Threw the combined efforts of the public school board, the mayor, the teachers of Peach Creek High, and our own governing body, we were able to make arrangements to accommodate half of the students displaced by the accident." This was followed by a large amount of the students, most certainly the ones not from Peach Creek High, groaning.
"This does mean that classes will be fuller and the hallways more crowded, but I know we can make it through this. And before your parents start to ask, they will be receiving a discount on your tuition until the public school students are back in their school, which is documented in the letters we sent them over the brake. Now all of the public school students, you will be in classes with the rest of the student body. You will not receive any special treatment and will be subject to all the same rules and punishments they are. You will report to your Homeroom listed on your schedule that was mailed out to you with the guidelines and rules book. If you do not have your schedule report to the office and we will issue you a new one along with your first demerit. That is all."
The dwellers of the Cul-de-sack look at each other, all six of them, and three other girls that they have yet to see and hope not to see, each played a part in the destruction of their school. But they swore to secrecy that they would never speak a word of what happened that night.
"So… did anyone else not bring their class list?" Eddy asks scratching the back of his head and looking away.
"There is a list of classes? Can I be a mage Eddy?" Ed asks confused.
Edd reaches into his messenger bag. "I was prepared for this and made several copies of your class schedules. Say for Math and Fine Arts we three are in the same classes all day." Edd hands his friends the lists of their class schedule as the PA comes back on.
"And one more thing." Headmaster Moon says. "Any of the new students that wish to rent a locker may do so from the office, but you will have to share it with two other students to make up for the increase in students. You may choose who you wish to share with, or have administration do so."
Nazz turns to Rolf. "Rolf, you wanna go in on one with me and Kevin?"
Rolf nods. "Yes good, Rolf will need a place to store his lunch of fish heads and goats milk."
Kevin, Nazz and Rolf turn to walk away, forgetting that the Ed's were still there. "Oh no Rolf, you are to put books, and only books in our locker." Nazz says as the three disappear into the crowd.
Edd turns looking away from his other friends and to his fellow Ed's "Gentlemen, would you care to go in on a locker with me?" It was a question Edd knew he didn't need to ask, but he still did so out of politeness.
Eddy grabs his backpack. "I'll need a place to ditch all the homework I'll not be doing."
"And I will need a place to- um… I'll go in too Double Dee." Ed couldn't think of a reason he'd need the locker, but he does everything with Eddy and Edd so he didn't really need a reason.
Edd smiles. "Excellent."

After paying the renting fee, that Edd paid all of, the three Ed's found their locker with a few minutes to spare before they needed to be in their Homeroom.
"This is an excellent location for a locker gentlemen. Close to the Library and Cafeteria, and not too far from our Homeroom." Edd says as he opens the door to the boy's locker. It was a half locker with a small shelf on the top and a hook on the inside of the door. The three boys stow their jackets in the locker and Edd adds his lunch bag to the locker from his messenger bag.
Eddy rolls his eyes. "So long as there will be plenty of tail to watch, I don't care where it is."
"Eddy." Edd scolds him. "You are to not make every female in the school feel uncomfortable."
"Oh he is going to be too busy with me to worry about any other chicks in this place." Ed, Edd, and Eddy froze. They knew that voice, it was a voice that struck fear into the hearts of everyone they knew. Slowly they turned around to see who the voice came from. But they knew who it was, standing across the hall from them was three teen girls.
"Kankers." Eddy says finding the taste of the word disgusting.
The tallest of the three, a curly red head with her bangs covering her eyes, grins. She was the one that drew attention to them in the first place. "See girls, I told you this new place wouldn't be all that bad."
To her right was the shortest of the three with long platinum blond hair and buck teeth. "Hi ya Big Ed." She blinks her eyes doe like at Ed.
Edd almost didn't recognize the third member of the Kanker sisters. All three of them were dressed in the school uniform, though it was clear theirs were second or even third hand, along with their signature pink belts. But for as long as he could remember the middle Kanker had blue hair that curved to cover her right eye, but now it was significantly shorter, dyed jet black, and her bangs came down to just below her right eye in pointed clumps of hair revealing her eye slightly.
Another thing that threw Edd off as to the identity of the middle sister was that the other two had their hands on their hips, as they did when ever tormentation was to be done to the Ed's, but she had her arms crossed and was looking away from the boys, as if she didn't want to be there.
"Hey May." The tallest sister says to the shortest.
"Yes Lee?" May asks back, not taking her eyes off Ed.
"Did you see these two eyeing up that tramp Nazz? You'd think they had forgotten that they are taken." Lee says as she grin grows.
"I did Lee, I think they need to be reminded who's they are."
"Ah crap… Double Dee, exit path?" Eddy whispers to Edd.
Edd thanks his need to know everything in advance to having memorized the map of the school. "Down the hall five doors is Homeroom on the left."
"Got it." Eddy turns to Ed, still whispering. "Lumpy, stay with me and we can make it." Ed just nods not taking his eyes off of May out of fear.
"What about you Marie? You going to remind your Honeybun?" Lee asks turning to her other sister.
Marie, the black haired one with her arms crossed, just blows air out of the side of her mouth. "I got better things to do."
Lee shrugs her shoulders. "I guess you got lucky Double Dee." Lee takes a step towards the Ed's triggering Eddy.
"RUN BOYS!" He yells and Ed and him take off running down the hall with May and Lee right after them.
But Edd didn't run, he was shocked that Marie didn't want to join her sisters in the bullying of him and his friends. "You… don't wish to bully me?" He asks his curious nature ignoring his better judgment.
Marie quickly looks at Edd before turning to walk down the hall in the opposite direction that Ed and Eddy rand to get away from her sisters. "Like I said, I got better things to do."
Edd watches Marie walk away. 'Strange, she is usually the more aggressive of the three of them.' He thinks walking away from the locker.

A few doors down the hall Edd sees Lee and May walking in the opposite direction of him, no doubt done with his friends for the time being. Edd starts to worry that May and Lee may choose to attack him if they didn't get their hands on Ed or Eddy.
"You boys got fast, those two just barely got into that door before we could get to them." Lee says as she passed Edd. "But we know where your Homeroom is now." She adds as May and her start to laugh their signature evil laugh.
The laugh sent a shiver down Edd's spine, and stays there as he opens the door of his Homeroom. The classroom was one of the English classrooms, book shelves against the back wall and various quotes from classical books on the wall. There are about twenty desks in rows with three long tables in the back for students to sit at, the tables were there to make room for the extra students.
Edd sees Ed and Eddy sitting at one of the tables and quickly walks over and sits down just as a bell rings throughout the school. "Did Marie get you?" Eddy asks as Edd sits down.
Edd sets his bag down on the table. "No, she didn't. She just walked away."
"Well just take your blessing and run with it man. But more importantly did you get a look at Nazz? Who care if she is taking now, that uniform is smoking hot."
Edd is not surprised that Eddy also ogled Nazz earlier, but then a thought came to him. "You do realize that that it is the same uniform that Lee has on don't you Eddy?"
"What, no it wasn't" Eddy argued back as the class room door opened.
Ed dropped his voice down to a whisper. "It may not have been as new or in the best condition, but the Kanker sisters were in fact dressed the same as the rest of the female students. And so by commenting on how it looked on one student, means that that comment works for all students in it."
"Not it dos-" Eddy is cut off by the teacher walking into the class.
"Good morning class." The older gentleman with a managed white beard and round wire glasses says walking into the classroom with a briefcase in hand.
"Good morning Professor Jargon." The students who were not from Peach Creek High say in unison.
Professor Jargon sets his briefcase down on his desk. "New students, you will only get a pass on this for today. When a teacher greets a class here, you greet them back just like the rest of the students." He moves to stand in front of his desk. "You will report to this classroom every morning. The classroom door will be open shortly after the school itself opens. You are allowed to spend the morning time in here and work on homework or other various projects. You are not allowed any electronics say for school approved laptops in any of the classrooms. Those are the basic rules for Homeroom."
Professor Jargon then turns and opens his case and removes a piece of paper and starts roll call. He reads a name off the list and then looks for the student that replied with a "here".
Roll call was going on without any problems, but when the Professor reached Edd, a problem arose that Edd didn't even think of.
"Eddward Vincent?" Professor Jargon asks.
"Here Sir." Edd responds quickly back.
Professor Jargon looks up at Edd. "Take your hat off, that is your one warning."
Edd feels the blood drain from his face. "Um, Sir, could I please not? It is rather important to me that I keep it on."
Eddy chimed in for help Edd. "Yeah Teach, he's got a good reason for having it." Eddy and Ed are the only people outside of his family that know why he has his black ski cap on at all times.
Edd and Eddy's pleading fell on deaf ears. "No. take it off, or you're going to the Headmasters office."
Edd looks from Eddy, to Ed, and then back to the teacher. "Please Sir, I beg of you."
Professor Jargon points at the door. "Out."
"But but Sir." Edd tried to argue one last time.
But Professor Jargon wouldn't have any of it. "No buts, the Headmaster's office is on the second floor. Now get going."
Edd once again looks to Ed and Eddy, he never thought he would be sent to the Headmasters office for rule breaking. He sighs and is already predicting the reaction his parents will have when they find out that he got in trouble within the first hour of school as he stood up from his chair. He grabs his bag and hangs his head as he walks out of the classroom into the empty hall.
"This is disastrous."

The walk to the Headmaster's office was longer than it should have been due to the fact that Edd was dragging his feet. He was trying to think of a logical excuse for his defiance of removing his hat, but he couldn't think of one and had to break what he is sure was another rule and message his mother on his smartphone.
"Mother, Something horrible has happened."
"Eddward. You know you are not to use your phone during school hours."
"I understand Mother, but my Homeroom teacher told me to remove my hat."
"Oh no Eddward, the school told us that they would allow you to wear it."
"I was sent to the Headmaster's office."
"I will call them and talk to them, but you remind them of the medical records and maybe they can look past this."
"Thank you Mother."

Edd finished his conversation with his mother just as he reached the Head Master's office. He slips his phone into his pocket and takes a deep breath before opening the door.
He was honestly expecting the school office to look different than what it did. It looked just like the office of Peach Creek High. There are a few tables with chairs around them, a receptionist desk with a woman typing away at her computer, and a few office room doors in the back.
"Um, excuse me." Edd says approaching the receptionist.
The woman looks up from her computer. "Yes?"
"I was sent to see the Headmaster by Professor Jargon"
The woman picks up a pen and a pad of paper. "Name?"
"Eddward Vincent."
"What did you do?"
"Well he told me to remove my hat, but my Mother and Father were assured that I would be allowed to keep it on due to my… medical reasons." Edd says finding the right words.
The receptionist writes what Edd says down on the paper and then rips it off. "Go sit down and wait." She points at the tables as she gets up from her desk.
Edd sighs and goes to sit down. 'I hope Mother can sort this out.'

Several minutes pass as Edd sits at the table waiting to talk with the Headmaster. The bell rings just as one of the office room doors opens. "Eddward, come in here."
Edd gulps and stands up from his chair. He walks across the office room to the open office and quickly takes in the room. There is a large wooden desk with a large leather chair behind it and a pair of small chairs in front of it, there are frames all over the walls, some with pictures and others with documents, and lastly a glass door case with trophies and awards inside it.
"Have a seat Eddward." The sound of the voice from behind Edd made him jump and turn. He looks behind him at whom he assumes is Headmaster David Moon. Headmaster Moon is a tall but thin man with short salt and pepper hair dressed in a dress shirt and tie.
"Yes Sir." Edd quickly moves to sit in one of the small chairs as Headmaster Moon walks around to his chair
Headmaster Moon looks at a few papers on his desk not saying a word for almost a minute. Finally when Edd was starting to wonder if the Headmaster was ever going to speak. "So you choose to defy a request of a teacher I've been told."
"Yes, but I ha-"
"And you understand that we have a zero tolerance for rule breaking?"
"Yes, but-"
"The you understand. You will take the hat off, apologies to Professor Jargon the first chance you get and report to after school detention for a month as punishment."
Edd was frustrated and acted out of character. "I have a medical reason for my hat sir!" He rips off his black ski cap off his head revealing a very noticeable scar over his right ear. "My Mother and Father were assured that I would be allowed to keep my hat on to keep this covered." Edd says pointing at the scar on the side of his head.
Headmaster Moon Looks at Edd and his scar. It is the one thing Edd is embarrassed about, and even more so as a teenager when appearance is more important. Headmaster Moon leans back in his chair and looks away from Edd. "I understand your need to keep this hidden from your peers Eddward and I am willing to make a compromise with you. You may continue to wear your hat, but you must start growing your hair out to cover the scar that way."
"Thank you Sir."
"However. Rules are still rules. Until you have your hair long enough you will be attending after school detention and then a month after that as well. And this punishment will carry into the next year in needed."
Edd couldn't believe the Headmaster. Detention for months was a very steep punishment. "I understand Sir." Edd felt a sinking feeling in his heart.
"I think it will be best to move you into a different Homeroom as well, Professor Jargon is not a very compromising person." Headmaster Moon starts to write on his own note pad. "Show this note to your teachers and any facility that inquire about your head wear." He rips the note off the pad and hand it to Edd.
Edd quickly reads the note; "Eddward has an understood medical condition that we are allowing him to temporarily continue to wear his hat until accommodations have been reached. Headmaster Moon."
Edd slips his hat back over his head. "Thank you very much for your understanding Headmaster."
Headmaster Moon gives Edd a very stern look. "I don't ever want to see you in my office again unless it is on good terms Eddward. This school has given a lot to you public school children and I don't want you adding to the increase in problems that are coming."
"I promise Sir that I will be a module student."

Edd quickly left the office and made his way down to his first period class. "No more mishaps Eddward, we are going to be a straight arrow student from now on." He says as he opens the door to his first period class, which is Sophomore English.
This classroom is just like his Homeroom classroom, bookshelves and posters on the walls. Relieved, but not surprised, Edd saw Ed and Eddy sitting in the back of the classroom at one of the tables.
"You must be Eddward. Where were you that made you tardy?" The woman's voice made Edd jump and turn. Behind the teacher's desk sits a mid forties looking woman with her brown hair tied in a bun.
"I was in the Headmaster's office, I am sorry for being tardy, he told me to show this note to any teacher I came to." Edd holds the note out to his teacher and she takes it.
Quickly she reads it and then hands it back to Edd. "Very well, I will expect fifty lines as punishment for your lateness. You may do them today after school in detention. Take a seat now."
Edd couldn't believe he was being punished, again. "I-." He started to argue against the punishment, but he remained himself of how that turned out for the last teacher he tried to argue against. "Yes ma'am." He hangs his head and sighs a quiet sigh as he walks over to where Ed and Eddy are sitting.
Eddy didn't even wait for Edd to fully sit down before he started the questioning. "Dude, what did the big guy say?"
Edd lowered his voice and kept his mouth movements to a minimal. "I can keep my hat until I grow my hair out to be long enough to cover the, youknowwhat, but I will have to be in after school detention until then and for a month after that."
For once Eddy didn't have the heart to make fun of Edd's miss fortune. "Damn man."
"And I am to be moved into a new homeroom as well."
"Jez, want me and Lumpy to get ourselves in trouble so we can keep you company?"
It did Edd good to hear his friend so quickly jump to his aid in such a way, but Edd knew it wouldn't do Ed or Eddy any good to get into extra trouble on top of the trouble they are sure to get into without the intent to help Edd. "Thank you Eddy, but I must whether this on my own."

English went by without any trouble for Edd, he took the notes needed and answered every question asked of him. The teacher did give him the line he will need to write as he walked out after the bell, "I will not be late to class ever again", which reminded him of that to come.
Same was the case with his World History and Biology class that followed. But after the third class hour of the day, Edd had to part ways with Eddy and Ed. Where Ed and Eddy were off to the Fine Arts class, Edd had Intro to Algebra.
"You will do fine guys, just listen to the teacher, only talk when called upon and try and take notes." Edd says trying to reassure his friends as they stand at a split in the hallway.
"Why did we have to take a stupid art class Double Dee?" Eddy asks kicking a nonexistent can.
Edd pats his friend on the shoulder. "Because the school required one arts class. And it was this, Choir or Classical Dance to choose from. I figured you would prefer neither of those."
"Holy crap, this place is evil."

Intro to Algebra was the class Edd was most looking forward to, that is until they got to insects in Biology. He quickly reached the classroom and took a seat in the front row eager to learn. Edd had quickly come to realize that the layout for the classrooms were very similar. Desks with tables in the back, bookshelves behind that, and chores related material hung on the wall. 'Keep it simple and consistent must be part of the planning process for the school.' He thinks as students start to file into the room.
Just as the bell rings Edd sees the last student entered the room, and it is someone he desperately didn't want to share a class with. Marie Kanker, with her beaten up blue backpack with "Kanker Life" scrawled across it throw over her shoulder, walks in Edd's direction and he feels the all too failure panic wash over him. But it is quickly replaced by the same confusion from that morning. She didn't stop as she walked past, she didn't say a word, she didn't even look at him with her devilish eyes. All Edd got was a quick glare threw her black bangs as she passed.
'Ok Eddward, what did we do to free ourselves from Marie?' He asks himself as the teacher enters the classroom.

Marie had taken a seat in the very far back corner as far away from Edd as she could get and remained quiet for the whole time the teacher, Professor Grimm, talked. Edd found Marie reaming quiet very odd, she is known to speak out at least once in every class, and would take quick looks back at her to reassure himself that she was still there.
When it came to working quietly on the tasks set forth by the teacher Marie went from sitting not saying a word to working on something in a book, as far as Edd could tell it was a book anyway.
Marie's drastic change in personality, and distinct changes of her appearance brought thoughts of wonder as to why to Edd, but also thoughts of concern too. 'Could something bad have happened over the brake that has unbalanced her? Or maybe it is a reaction to a severe emotional trauma.'

When the bell rang signaling the end of the class Professor Grimm yells at the students about doing a list of math problems the students need to do for homework as they got up from their seats to file out of the door.
Edd gathers up his things, but stops briefly as Marie walks past him. Again she doesn't say anything or even looks at him, which only added to his wonder.
Once out of the classroom Edd makes a beeline to his shared locker to retrieve his lunch bag. 'Let us hope that the rest of the day is calmer.' He thinks walking down the hallway.

Inside the lunch room he finds all of his friends sitting at a table together. "Gentlemen and lady." Edd says greeting his friends as he sat down at the table. "I hope you have had an enjoyable first half of our first day."
"School is School." Kevin says.
"This place looks cool from the outside, but its stricter than prison." Nazz adds.
"Rolf does not see the problems with all the rules, the clothing however annoys Rolf."
"The next two years is going to be hell." Eddy adds to the complaining about the new school.
Ed didn't say anything, as to him shoveling food into his mouth.
Edd opens his lunch bag and pulls out his plastic container of dried fruit and granola. "While I agree this will be a challenge, I for one am looking forward to the academic challenge and the potential of meeting new friends."
Eddy rolls his eyes. "Easy for you to say, your Kanker seems to have given up on you."
Nazz, Kevin, and Rolf all stop eating and their jaws fall open. "Marie gave up on you?" Nazz was the first one to gain her sense back enough to ask what the three wanted to know.
"It would appear so. She showed no interest in pursuing me along with Ed and Eddy when her and her sisters showed up in the hallway." Edd responds, confirming what Eddy said.
Kevin, still with wide eyes was the next to speak. "Seriously? Wow man, congrats are in order then. You are finally free."
"Yeah. Oh damn Double Dee! You can finally start talking to girls now! I know this one chick from PCH that would be perfect for you. She was on the cheer team with me and I know you'd just love her." Nazz quickly got excited at the idea of setting Edd up with one of her fellow cheerleaders from Peach Creek High.
Edd however never had an interest in most girls, that is not to say he didn't like girls and it is a well know fact that he also found Nazz attractive alongside the rest, it's just he knows how different of a mindset he posses and that a vast majority of the females in their age group would find his more academic nature "boring". And so he never sought companionship with a member of the opposite sex. "I appreciate the offer Nazz, but school work and maintaining my GPA comes before courtshiping."
Nazz rolls her eyes at Edd. "You can't put a curtain up forever Double Dee. It's a whole new school which means it's a whole new start."
Kevin and Eddy both nod. "She's right Sock Head, with Marie out of the picture you can chase tail without the fear of getting stabbed." Eddy says, over exaggerating what the Kanker Sisters would do if they found an Ed with another female.
"Eddy!" Edd scolds his friend. "You shouldn't talk about ladies as such."
"Yeah Eddy, that is kind of a jackass thing to say, especially when I'm within earshot." Nazz isn't too surprised at the way Eddy talked about her gender, she just hopes that Eddy doesn't influence Kevin with his way of thinking. It took enough work to get him to look at her as a girl to begin with.
"I just wish to focus on my studies for the time being. Besides what would I have to talk about that would interest a lady? The detailed thinkings of long dead historical figures that have influenced currant culture?"

After lunch Edd was again in a class without Ed and Eddy, this time it was Edd's turn for Fine Arts and Ed and Eddy for Intro to Algebra.
After Edd told Eddy and Ed to pay attention to the teacher and take notes, tasks he knew would go unaccomplished, he made his way to his fifth period class.
He wasn't too sure about how this class would go for him. While he knows a good amount about classical works of art, it isn't his best subject. But it's not his worst, which is Physical Education, so he was at least confidant in his chances of passing the class.

Upon entering the class Edd takes a quick look around. Where all the other classrooms had a similar layout, this one was far from it. Where before there were rows of desks and tables in the back, there are just rows of long tables, four rows to be exact. There are no bookcases in the back, instead there are painting easels with half finished paintings upon them and more finished paintings on the walls.
After he finished taking in the layout of the room his eyes fell on a sight his mind didn't believe so he skipped it over at first. Sitting at the front row table in the middle, upright with her hands clasped together on top of a black book sat Marie Kanker. Seeing Marie was not the unbelievable part, it was the fact that she was in the front and was doing her best to hide a smile that Edd himself has worn so many times he couldn't count. It was a smile that showed that she was eager for the class and learning what was to be taught in the class.
Marie seemed to be so lost in her own world that she didn't see Edd walk in the room, or take a seat at the third row of tables.
Shortly after Edd sat down the bell rang and the teacher walked in, a short woman with long mousey hair tied hastily into a ponytail. "After noon, now let's get right to it. New kids I am Ms. Marpole, and by now you should know the rules."
Ms. Marpole grabs a piece of chalk from the black board and quickly scrawls "Vincent Van Gogh" in very messy handwriting. "Who can tell me how Vincent Van Gogh influence the art world?"
To Edd's amazement Marie's hand was the first to shoot up. "Name?" Ms. Marpole asks pointing at Marie.
"Marie Kanker." Marie answers.
"Ok Ms. Kanker go."
"He was a major part of the Post-Impressionism period that took place in like the nineteen hundreds."
Ms. Marpole smiles at Marie's quick answer. "Very good, would you care to elaborate?"
"Well he preferred everyday life subjects over religion and fantasy, and the use of bold colors and thick brushstrokes. He was more interested in the fleeting effect of light and color of nature. It's believed that he wanted to break away from naturalism. Instead, choosing to paint with emotion and was interested in a more individual, subjective and creative view of the world."
Not only was Ms. Marpole impressed, but so was Edd. He's never seen Marie speak in such a way. She clearly knew about Vincent Van Gogh and his work, Edd wasn't even sure that Marie could read prior to this event.

As class went on Ms. Marpole talked more on Vincent Van Gogh and his work, and every question asked Marie knew the answer to impressing Ms. Marpole and Edd more and more.
"I think you will do very well in my class Ms. Kanker." Ms. Marpole says just before the bell rang.
"Thanks Teach." Edd almost dropped his messenger bag. Marie just thanked someone that wasn't one of her sisters.

The finally class of the day was the one Edd didn't look forward to at all, Physical Education. He met up with Ed and Eddy outside the boys locker room.
"Dude, this class is coed. Can you say hello ladies in shorts?" Eddy says to Edd with a playful punch in the arm.
The events of the day and Marie acting so out of character had Edd out of his normal mind set. "Eddy, I swear to the Maker that I will have you neutered if you don't stop treating every female as if they are only for your enjoyment."
Eddy is shocked at what Edd said. "Damn man. I'll stop ok?"
Edd lets out a sigh. "Thank you Eddy."

Inside the locker room the Ed's store their book bags into lockers and head into the gymnasium. They didn't change into any gym clothing on the count of them not having any. The gymnasium was just like every other one Edd has seen, hard wood floors, basketball hoops, pull out bleacher, and blue mats attached to the wall, for reasons unknown to anyone.
Besides Ed and Eddy being in the class with Edd, Kevin and Rolf were in the locker room with the Ed's.
"Can you believe that we have to get all new gym clothes?" Kevin asks looking around the gym.
"Well it is to be expected that our ones from Peach Creek High would not be allowed." Edd says as the girls exit their locker room.
Nazz was at the front of the group of girls and quickly ran over to the boys. "You guys are not going to like this class, like at all." She says to the Ed's
"Why?" Asks Eddy.
Nazz turns and points at the group of girls. "That's why." She says as Lee, May, and Marie walks out of the locker room.
"Eddy!" Ed yells out of fear.
"Ah crap." Eddy adds followed by Edd saying; "Oh dear…"
"Whelp, this class just went to the pits." Kevin himself says patting Ed and Eddy on the back. "At least Double Dee here has been freed of his tormentor."
Nazz shakes her head. "It's still going to be hell in a handbasket."
"Oh look girls, more of our "friends"." Lee says once she spotted the other teens from the Cul-de-sack.
May follows her sister's gaze and her eyes light up at the sight of Ed. "Oh boy! Our men!"
Marie again didn't follow in her sister's excitement, instead she turned her back and crossed her arms.
"Wow… she really did give up on you Double Dee." Nazz says finally believing what Eddy had said at lunch. "What did you do?"
Again Edd found Marie's actions perplexing. "I honestly have no idea."

Shortly later the teacher of the class, a short and stout older man with a shaved head, came in to the gym. "Students, as I am sure you saw dress down is unneeded for today. However, it will only be for today. I expect all of you to be in the proper attire tomorrow. And you public school kids, the dress code is posted in the locker rooms. You can buy approved attire from the school office or bring in your own."
Several groans were heard from the teens from Peach Creek High.
"And for that, laps. Get running." The teacher says pointing away from himself.
The rest of the students that were not from Peach Creek High glare at the others. "Oh we are so hated now." Nazz says as the group joins in running around the gym.

The teacher ended up keeping the students running around the gym for roughly fifteen minutes before he was satisfied with the punishment.
"This school is hell. It has to be, we died and we are all in hell." Eddy says falling to the ground.
"No relaxing kids. Since it's a casual dress today, we'll keep it light. Onto push-ups."

For the rest of the class the teens did a wide arrange of exercises after the push-ups, leaving them all in pain and exhausted.
"Jesus, running was bad enough, but all that other crap in this monkey suite was horrible." Eddy says pulling his tie off as the boys walked out of the locker into the hallway.
"Yes it was rather diff-" Edd was cut off by a tall muscular boy pushing him out of his way.
"Watch it punk." The boy says with a glare at Edd.
Eddy glares back at the boy. "You watch it."
The boy stops and turns around. "You wanna start something? You filthy public school trash."
"Who you calling trash!" Eddy yells at the boy.
The boy pokes Eddy in the chest. "You wanna go? Cause I will lay you out."
"Eddy, stop. You know we cannot get into any trouble." Edd says putting his hand on Eddy's shoulder.
"Yeah man, it's not worth it." Kevin adds.
Eddy grits his teeth. "Fine, come on guys let's get going home." Eddy turns and starts walking away as the tall boy laughs at the boys.

"I hate that guy." Edd says as Edd opens the boys locker.
Edd pulls out the three jackets out of the locker. "You don't even know him Eddy."
Eddy takes his sweater from Edd. "Don't care, don't like any of these private school chumps. Thinking they are better than us because mommy and daddy pay for them to go to this school."
Edd closes the Locker. "Just let it go Eddy. Now I have to go to the library for my." *Sigh* "Detention. So you guys head on back to the Cul-de-sack and I will be home an hour later."
"Why don't you just ditch it?" Eddy asks.
Edd looks at Eddy with a stern look. He didn't have to say anything to Eddy about his reasoning for not ditching the detention sentence. But he did have to remind them about their Gym clothing. "Remember to attain the proper clothing for Physical Education for tomorrow."

With a heavy sigh Edd walks into the library, this was not how he wanted the first time into his new school's library to go. It should have been for academic reasons, not for punishment. And seeing the inside of the library only made Edd dread his punishment even more. The library was two floors of book shelves and several tables and arm chairs.
"Hear for detention?" A woman sitting behind a U shaped desk asks.
Edd turns to face her. "Yes, Eddward Vincent."
The woman looks at a list on her desk. "Here you are, dress code violation, there is just one other student here that was caught smoking in the women's restroom. You are to sit quietly and work on any lines given to you, homework or you may read in quiet. There is to be no talking or tomfoolery for the next hour. Understand?"
Edd nods. "Yes ma'am"
"Good, then go take a seat."
Edd walks into the library admiring the rows upon rows of books. 'Ok, maybe this won't be so bad.' He thinks, well that is until he saw who the other student was. It was his former blue haired, now black, stalker Marie.
Marie had noticed someone talk into the sitting area of the Library and when she saw Edd for a split second she smiled like she used to at the sight of Edd. But she quickly stopped and switched to glaring at him.
Edd saw the smile and as he walked over to a different table he could help but think about Marie again. 'What could have caused such a change in Marie? If only I had known more about her prior to today I might have a better understanding. Though had we known more about her we wouldn't have been so shocked at her knowledge of Vincent Van Gogh.'

For the hour nothing was said by either Marie or Edd. Edd did the lines he had to do for his English teacher and then moved onto his math work. But as he started the algebraic problems he was reminded that Marie was in the class, and he looked up at her.
She is leaning back in her chair with her head hanging over the back look straight up at the ceiling. 'So she was caught smoking in the restroom, I never peg her as a smoker, but then again we know little to nothing about Marie.' How much his next thought would impact and change his life was something Edd wouldn't see coming, that nine little words would be the start of something big and unforeseeable. 'It wouldn't hurt to inquire a little about her.'

AN: You know, I tired to write a FF about something other then Marie and Edd, yet here I am with another one on my favorite paring. I accept the fact that they are just the medium of my art and I hope you all like this one, it's going to be another long one too.