8:15 a.m., I could have been asleep by staying home and pretending to be sick but instead here I was standing in front of a school with the words 'Ylisse High School' written above the double glass doors. Even though I could have probably somehow convinced my parents to let me stay home I didn't want to – because I actually wanted to be inside that building.

There were a lot of friendly people there who made the experience all the better: Lissa, a girl in my grade who was quite the social butterfly. She had blonde hair and green eyes, the complete opposite of my brown hair and eyes. When the year began, she was the one who introduced me to all her friends and from there I became friends with the whole interesting band. She had a brother named Chrom who was a year ahead of us. There were a lot of other people who I met, but to go into detail about all of them would require ten long pages, so I'll wait to introduce them.

Anyway, I walked into the building and was immediately found by Lissa. We had first and second period together so we often just met each other at the start of the day. Today, my friend was wearing a cute white skirt with a dusty yellow long sleeved v-neck sweater with a fluffy infinity scarf around her neck. On her lower half was black argyle knee-highs with brown loafers on her feet. She greeted me with one of her famous, contagious smiles.

"Hey, Teresa! You ready to tackle another one of Mr. Excellus' and Ms. Pheros' boring lectures?" She wondered, even though the answer was obvious. I rolled my eyes sarcastically.

"As I'll ever be. I bet Mr. Excellus will torture us with a ton of sheet work again today." I sighed as we walked to our lockers, "At least Ms. Pheros' biology class seems to go by quickly – at least, I think so anyway; biology is fun."

Lissa stared at me in disbelief, "Fun!? What's fun about biology? All that icky talk about hearts and colons makes me sick!" I laughed at her reaction as we reached my locker first as it was only a hop-skip and a jump from the entrance. I retrieved my books for Ms. Pheros' class and quickly closed my locker after I got my things and tucked my kitbag away.

"Well, if you want to be a nurse, Lissa, you've got to learn about those kinds of things. Not only that, but you're also going to have to see some pretty gruesome things." I explained to her as we walked now to her locker. She sighed, frazzled.

"I know… but, I dunno, can't they just like censor that stuff? I don't want to be staring at that when I'm trying to learn." Lissa complained.

"Speaking of staring at all those things, we're supposed to be dissecting a frog today in her class." I recalled, "Looks like you're going to have to see those things in order to learn."

Lissa shrieked, "I totally forgot that was today! Nope nuh-uh, nadda; there's no way am I cutting up a dead, stinky frog!" She turned around about to leave, but I caught a hold of her scarf before she could disappear in the hallways.

"Hey, you can't back down now. You're here, so you might as well come. Besides, if you want, I can do all the cutting. I've done it before, so I kind of have experience… but I did kind of squish up its brains a little bit last time." I said the last part abashedly.

"Ew! Teresa! You're not making it any better!" Lissa protested.

"OK, OK. I'll try not to do that this time. Let's just hurry and get to class." I laughed. With that, Lissa hesitantly came to Ms. Pheros' biology class. Ms. Pheros was a young intelligent woman with long blonde hair and strict blue eyes. She wore a light red blazer with a white dress shirt underneath which was buttoned up to her chin. She wore a black, knee-length pencil skirt and matching black pumps. She made one of the guys in my class, Virion, swoon, but then again, every girl made Virion want to swoon. One day he even began to flirt with Ms. Pheros, but it was in her contract not to go out with students. Not only that, but she had her eye on the Principal for quite some time – which everyone but Virion noticed.

Virion was a sophisticated man of whom I was acquainted with when I became friends with Lissa. He had light blue hair in a weird style, almost like he had an 'M' on top of his forehead. He always wore nice clothes because his parents were rich. Though, I always wondered why they sent him here when he could have gone to a more prestigious school in a foreign country. Then again, he explained that he was from a place across the sea from Ylisse, but why his parents chose this school for him, I couldn't answer.

Anyway, we sat in our seats which were beside one another, but on the other side of me was another person who I met due to Lissa. His name was Vaike and you couldn't have found a more muscle-headed, blow-hard in the world if you tried. He had blonde hair, almost similar to Lissa's and green eyes. He always wore his shirt open if it was a button up. The teachers always chewed him out for that kind of sloppy dress, but he didn't care. In fact, school disinterested him – he was only here for the sports opportunity it offered and the only reason he was in biology was so he could get his necessary five sciences to graduate. Even though he was a masculine guy, he was fun to be around because of his care-free nature.

"Ya made it, squirt!" Vaike acknowledged Lissa, leaning his seat back with his foot.

"If you're wondering if Chrom is here today, he is." Lissa immediately answered, looking around me to tell him. Lissa's brother, Chrom, and Vaike had this rivalry going on… if that was even what it was. One day, Vaike just decided he didn't like Chrom and so he competed against him in everything. Gym was always exciting because both guys were in the same class, which I bet the teachers regret.

"Hey, can't ya at least say hi when I greet ya?" Vaike wondered.

"I know you were going to ask that anyway, so I just skipped that part." Lissa explained.

I giggled at that, but I said in Lissa's stead, "Hi, Vaike."

"At least someone says hi around here!" Vaike stressed, looking right at Lissa who ignored him as Ms. Pheros stepped into the room. She began the class immediately and explained that we were going into the lab to do our dissection of the frogs. I looked over at Lissa as she went over lab rules and all that fun stuff and saw that she was nearly green.

Soon, Lissa and I were sitting in front of a frog that was strapped down in a metal dish. Its soft underbelly was facing us and it looked utterly defenceless, "So… do you think it's a male or a female?"

"I don't care! This is disgusting!" Lissa groaned.

"Well, all right, let's just find out, shall we? Hand me the scalpel Nurse Lissa!" I ordered like a doctor. An unlicensed doctor. Lissa grabbed the scalpel and handed it to my waiting hand. With that, I read where I was to make the incision and proceeded. Lissa was breathing down my neck, literally. She was so flipping nervous that she was breathing hard right on my neck. I paused and looked at her, "Do you mind?"

"Oh! S-sorry… I didn't even notice I was doing that." Lissa apologized, giving me space. I went back to cutting the frog up where it said to. Just then, another frog flopped onto ours, surprising me. Looking up, I noticed that Vaike was the one who had thrown his frog on ours.

"I don't know what the heck I'm doin', so would ya mind cuttin' up my frog too?" Vaike asked, "My partner ain't doin' nothing neither." Vaike stabbed a finger back to his partner which was Stahl who was barfing on the floor. Ms. Pheros rushed over to help Stahl to the nurse's office, but he tried to insist that he was fine, just as he barfed again. Stahl was a kind-hearted man who wore a lot of green for some reason. Today, he was wearing a plain green shirt that had a picture of his guy thinking of bacon. He wore plain blue jeans that were well-worn and had messy light brown hair like he never combed it.

"It's enough cutting up one frog, we're not cutting up two! Do it yourself Vaike!" Lissa shouted, grabbing Vaike's frog and throwing it at his face. The frog stuck to his face for a while, then slowly slid down his face, then falling on the floor with a squishy 'thunk!'.

Vaike's eyebrow twitched, "Why'd you do that?! I just wanted some help, is that so much t' ask?!"

"Yes! In five seconds, I'm going to end up the same as Stahl – adding anymore frogs to that will send me to the hospital!" Lissa protested. Just before the argument got out of hand, I jumped in.

"Lissa, you're not doing any of the cutting, so it doesn't really matter if I decide to cut up Vaike's frog too. Also, Vaike, just grab the metal dish your frog was in and we can cut the frog together, all right?" Lissa and Vaike looked ashamed at fighting over a frog, but agreed to my terms. Vaike got the metal pan and strapped his frog to it and we got started. When we made the first incision, though, Vaike seemed to forget life because he murdered the frog with the scalpel and all its guts spilled out of the frog, either slashed to bits or cut into pieces.

"Uh… hey, teach? I think I killed my frog a second time." Vaike spoke up innocently. Lissa and I sighed, but we continued with our own frog while Ms. Pheros chewed Vaike out for ruining the dissection and that the frogs were expensive.

Soon, biology was over and Lissa and I made our way to our next class – which happened to be on the opposite side of the school. It's always the same thing for us: We'd begin walking to the class, stop for a minute to rest, and then kept going. I swear, it was like a half a trip around the world in order to get from Ms. Pheros' class to Mr. Excellus' class. Luckily for us, though, Mr. Excellus' class was closer to the cafeteria – but for some reason, it was always packed even if we get there early. Anyway, we sat down in our class and I noticed Lissa scoping out the guys of the class – which there were a lot of. Lissa always liked talking about the cute boys in the school and I couldn't help but dive into the conversation.

"Did you see Gaius' outfit today?" Lissa said to me, "It looked nice on him and it made him look really dreamy…," I giggled and was about to reply to Lissa when I was suddenly cut off by her brother.

"And you're sort of dreaming!" Chrom shouted from way the heck on the other side of the classroom. I didn't know how he heard her, but the teacher quickly got on his case. Our teacher was Excellus and he was putrid. He always wore these goofy robes and he had his hair dyed purple which was cut in a gross, slightly feminine way. He thought he was a glamorous chick, but he was actually a moron. The only one in the school who liked him was Cervantes but he was just the janitor.

"Guess who gets more homework tonight?" Excellus screeched as he slammed a stack of paper on Chrom's desk. Chrom huffed at the amount of work but began working on it anyway. Lissa and I giggled at Chrom's misery.

He looked over at us while we were still giggling, "Hey! My marks come from diligence, you know!"

Lissa rolled her eyes, "And for the amount of extra work you get stuck with." Chrom cried, but Lissa and I knew it was crocodile tears and we laughed at him some more.

"Lissa! Teresa! Do you want more homework?" Excellus asked us and we quickly went back to our work again before he slammed down the same amount of work he gave to Chrom. Sumia, Chrom's girlfriend, placed a comforting hand on his shoulder as he cried through the amount of work. Though she must have misjudged the distance between them because she fell. Cordelia snorted a laugh like a pig at her but quickly covered her mouth. Virion laughed at her.

"OK Guys! Cut the poop! Let's get to work!" Excellus screeched like a banshee. Soon class was over and everyone trampled over Excellus to get the heck out of there. While we were all in a rush to get out, we accidentally ran into the Principal, Walhart. He glared at all of us with those sleepy eyes of his.

"Class isn't over yet, you maggots!" He yelled at all of us, "There's still one minute left!"

"What could we possibly learn in that one minute?" A person in our class, Frederick, wondered. Frederick was that unusual hard-working student that would tutor the rest of us if we asked. Though, no one liked to ask ever since he tutored this one student and he didn't come back to school for a week and when he did return, he would always look withdrawn and pale with his eyes wide like saucers. Frederick claimed that he just did one work sheet he designed himself and that was what happened to him. We were terrified ever since of the large brown haired man with the stern eyes.

"Lots! All right, since you kids had the gall to leave class early, you have to stay after school and learn from ME!" Principal Walhart growled. We all protested or groaned in disbelief. This wasn't fair at all – a minute wasn't going to end life or anything!

"B-but my Mom promised me burritos tonight when I got home! I was dreaming about them all day! I don't want to be stuck here when all my brothers get to eat those delicious burritos!" Stahl complained, stomach growling. He was looking a lot better than he was in biology class, which was good to see.

"SILENCE! I will hear no more!" Walhart hollered as his pants fell down. He looked down when all of us began giggling and turned a beet red, just like the suit he had on. He was wearing the cutest pair of My Little Pony boxers! It was full of Rainbow Dashes and Twilight Sparkle! He quickly retrieved his briefs as we all ran passed him. He lifted his finger in the air as he bounced down the hallway after us with his pants halfway up his knees, "I mean it you kids! The class is in session after schoo – WHOA!" He then fell to the recently waxed floor Cervantes just did. Cervantes apologized, but didn't help him up because he was too distracted by Walhart's underpants. Thanks to that, we were able to get away from Principal Walhart's after school class, but it didn't stop us from meeting the upcoming challenges that we would meet that we were soon to encounter…