A/N: This is loosely based on a Tumblr post I saw and the idea got stuck. I don't know about you guys but here, American literature and English literature are two separate subjects, so I hope this doesn't confuse some of you. Anyway, thanks for reading and hopefully, enjoy!

"Alright, today we will continue our lesson on Lord of the Flies." I tell my class brightly, some just quietly nodded and started opening their books while some groaned quietly obviously bored.

In my mind I'm rolling my eyes, these kids don't know the definition of bored. Try teaching this lesson for three periods over and over and repeating the process the next day.

Why did I think being an English Literature teacher would be such an awesome job again? Oh yeah, because I was young so eager and bright eyed, I loved literature, so I thought teaching it would be easy and fun.

Don't get me wrong, I love my teaching job, but sometimes it just gets tedious and frustrating. Especially when you're faced with some annoying teenagers like I am right now.

"No, Mike. This novel is not a sequel to Lord of the Rings." I told the blonde boy at the back row. I don't know if he's joking or he's serious. And I also don't know what's worse.

Yes, very frustrating indeed.

Why did I get here in the first place? Teaching students literature and clearing out misconceptions in book sequels? Well, I was originally from London, I grew up, graduated and started my first work there, but I visited my sister Trina who lived in L.A with her new husband one summer and I fell in love with the country, so I decided some changes in my life was in order. I packed my bags and moved to L.A and applied to Hollywood High as an English Literature teacher, being born in Europe and having a great knowledge in the culture certainly helped me in getting the job.

So here I am, sitting in front of my class as they silently read, finally having a moment of peace.

The bell rang signalling the end of class and the start of lunch so my students started to pack their things, chatting loudly with each other.

"Class, don't forget to read Chapter 15 and prepare for the quiz! Also, please pass your assignments." I half shouted, to keep my voice from being drowned by their chatter.

They passed by my desk, dropping off their homework, as I waited. Seemingly patient, but inside I was begging them to hurry up so I can have my lunch break too.

The last student to pass his assignment was Ryder, one of the rebellious ones in my classes, with the whole bad boy attitude and leather jackets and pierced ears, I groaned internally.

Why? Just watch.

"Here's my homework Miss Vega or can I call you Tori instead?" he asked as he half smiled at me, perhaps this boy thinks it's hot or something like that. But the effect on me is the exact opposite. I was supressing the motion to cringe.

"No, Mr. Daniels you certainly cannot refer me by my first name." I say giving him a firm look. But it seemed to just slide off him because he just continues to creep me out with his unwanted advances.

"Why not Miss? It's not like were that far in age. You're what? 25? C'mon give me a chance. Maybe we could get coffee and you could change your mind." He says wiggling his eyebrows. Ugh. This guy thinks he's all that.

"Mr. Daniels, may I remind you that I am your teacher and your advances are highly inappropriate inside or outside of school? No, just no. I'm sure there are plenty of girls here your age that would be happy to date you."

Yeah right, I highly doubt that.

"You're accent is so hot." He says, obviously ignoring whatever I said. This boy is so frustrating, why can't I just kick his nuts and get it over with? Oh yeah, I'm a teacher, and that would be unprofessional.

"Good day Mr. Daniels." I say, and I quickly moved towards the door, putting much space from the annoying boy as much as possible.

-0-0-0-

I arrived at the teacher's lounge with an armful of papers and slumped at the couch with a loud sigh. Finally, lunch! I was about to get up and fetch some coffee when a cup of was handed to me. I looked up and smiled at the person who provided me the heavenly drink.

"You looked like you needed it. How's the day so far?" Andre, one of the best music teachers in the school and my close friend sat down next to me.

"It was fine at first, same as always. But at the end, I was ambushed by Daniels." I say, giving a sour look when I said his name.

"Ryder Daniels? Again? Man, that kid can't really take a hint cant he?" he says, shaking his head.

"No! It's highly annoying." I huffed and I heard him laugh.

I glared at my friend and colleague; most of them are amused by my persistent admirer and occasionally tease me for it.

"Aww, don't be mad Tor, it's the accent. It's so foreign, guys dig that. Give the boy a break. Teenage boys and their hormones yknow." He teases me, elbowing me a bit.

I huffed again and moved towards the fridge for my lunch, when a heavy force knocked the breath out of me, I gave a loud groan, knowing who it was.

"Hi Toriiii!" she greets me, smiling wide.

"Cat! Do you always have to do that every time we see each other?" I ask the red head who was currently attached to my waist at the moment. I didn't try to remove her grip; I tried that and failed too many times to try again.

Said red head just gave a giggle, and I have to remind myself that this woman was the smartest person I know, well when it comes to Maths. When inside the classroom she transforms from this bubbly woman into a serious and no-nonsense teacher, inflicting fear in the hearts of her students. She was awesome at numbers; she can solve and explain any math problem, no matter how complicated. It still makes me gawk at her in awe whenever I see her teach. She said it was because of all the shopping she did when she was a teen. I sometimes doubt that though. Maybe she was just born with magical math powers.

"That's not true, I don't greet you like this outside the lounge because Sikowitz told me it would be very unprofessional and weird for the students to see if I tackle-hug my colleagues, even if they're my friends." She says in a bright tone, finally releasing her grip. She grabbed her lunch and gave me mine.

Erwin Sikowitz, or Sikowitz he prefers to be called, is our school principal. He is a very nice man, albeit a bit spontaneous and weird. Hopefully you'll get to meet him as the day pass.

We sat at the couch next to Andre and began chatting about our day while eating, when the door suddenly bursts open, revealing two heavily breathing men.

"I think we lost them Rob." Beck Oliver, the acting teacher of our school says breathlessly. He ran his fingers through his normally perfectly styled hair which was now unruly from all the running.

"I'm not coming to assist you in class next time, never. That was terrifying." Robbie says, equally flustered. His glasses a bit crooked. He was the guidance councillor; he has very peculiar ways in providing guidance to our students. I'm still a bit confused about his song that has a lyric 'Attend class, its fun like breaking glass!'

They both walked towards us and sat heavily breathing sighs of relief.

"Hey you guys, what happened?" Andre asks the question that we all wanted to ask. As we look at the heaving pair curiously.

"Beck's fan girls, that's what happened. They were all 'oh Mr. Oliver, why is your hair so fluffy?' and 'Mr. Oliver you're such a great teacher' and 'you're so hot when you hold that chalk Mr. Oliver' and 'Mr. Oliver, have my babies!'" Robbie mimics the high pitched sounds of the said girls while batting his eyelashes, as we all laugh.

"Hey! They weren't so bad… most of the time. Some are just, overwhelmed." Beck defends, lamely.

"Dude, most of those girls don't even go to school here." Andre deadpans.

"Yeah, some are pretty weird. But we lost them, and later I can go back to my class in peace." He concedes and lies back on the couch.

Yep, just another regular day in teaching in Hollywood High. All was going well in my day, I was quite happy about it actually. I was chatting with my friends and eating lunch.

Then she came in.

"Oh good day Govenor! Lovely day for tea!" I hear a familiar voice say in a bad British accent.

"I don't talk like that!" I say indignantly and stood up, facing the smirking woman behind me, her blue-green eyes dancing mischievously.

"Blimey! Don't get your knickers in a twist." She replies smirk still in place.

I growled a little at her. Jade West, the American Literature teacher and the girl whose main achievement in life is to annoy me with her bad impersonation and adding stereotypical jabs to it, just to spite me.

When we first met and I introduced myself, she just grinned widely and started mocking my voice. Calling me Governor and always asking me if I wanted tea whenever we pass by each other. I don't even like tea that much! This woman is so annoying!

"Whatever Vega." she says waving me off, as if dismissing me and I don't know why, I'm usually a very patient and level headed person, but with her I always lose my composure.

I mustered every ounce of anger I have and gave her a glare that I hoped would intimidate her somehow, but when she looked at me, she just laughed like I was a sad little puppy attempting to scare her.

I didn't notice my friends looking at our exchange with sly smiles on their faces.

-0-0-0-

A few weeks later I was walking down the hallway on the way to my class when I heard a familiar voice coming from inside one of the classrooms, the voice seemed mad, very mad.

I peeked inside and there I saw Miss West, in front of a student, a scowl on her face. The student was cowering in fear and I couldn't really blame him, mad Jade is terrifying.

"So, not so confident now Mr. Martins? You think its sooo cool to play a practical joke on me and you think I'm some kind of idiot to fall for it. I can make your life hell, don't think that I-"

"Miss West." I interjected, but immediately regretted it because the glare that Jade has was now aimed at me. Sheesh, this woman has the coldest glare ever.

"What do you want Miss Vega? Can't you see I'm occupied at the moment?" she hisses at me. The boy in front of her sunk even deeply into his seat as if he wanted to meld himself into it. I couldn't blame him to be honest, Jade is terrifying but at the same time she's hot when she's angry.

Wait, what?

"Miss West, don't you think it is inappropriate to scare your students like that?"

Her glare even intensified, if that's even possible. She looks absolutely livid now.

"I have to stop you right there, you have no right to dictate me on how I should and shouldn't treat my students Miss Vega."

"Well as your fellow teacher I can at least have a say on how can you treat your students a bit better and discipline them without scaring their knickers off."

I saw Jade smile amusedly at the way I said knickers but then her face again returned to its usual scowl

"I don't scare my students' knickers off! You're just jealous because you can't control your students and just let them walk all over you. That's not the way I am Vega get used to it."

We continued to go back and forth, our voices getting angrier and louder the student who Jade was harassing earlier slowly backed away from us and going through the still open door. We both didn't notice the crowd of students watching us there; apparently our arguing gathered a rather large audience.

I was going to offer a very rude comeback at Jade when we both heard someone clearing their throat near the doorway, we stopped and looked towards it and found our principal standing there.

Slightly balding head, a hippy shirt and baggy rainbow coloured pants and sandals, that's the usual attire of our school principal, Sikowitz. When I first arrived here, I mistook him as a homeless person and gave him 2 dollars. To say I was embarrassed and shocked when we met at his office a few minutes later was an understatement, I was just glad he didn't take offense and was rather gracious at the little gift I gave him. But don't let the silly clothes and wacky gestures fool you, he is a very wise man, and when the opportunity rises, he can be strict and firm too.

One of those moments was now.

"Children, go back to your classes or everyone will get detention. Now." his sentence wasn't finished yet but the group of students started to dissipate until it was only the three of us left; everyone knew not to mess with Sikowitz when he is mad.

"Ladies, in my office." He said and walked towards said room.

Jade huffed, obviously disliking the way she was treated like a bad child or a teenager that was reprimanded, but we followed him nonetheless.

"Now can you two ladies kindly explain why you're shouting at each other back there?"

We immediately started shouting, each voice overlapping the others.

"Because she's annoying!"

"I'm annoying? How about you, you have been mocking me and making rude comments in my expense since day one!"

"Oh my! How can someone accuse me, of such preposterous things, I'm just an innocent little princess who can do no wrong!"

"See! You're doing it right now! My voice does not sound like that Miss West!"

"Does too!"

"Does not!"

"Bleeeh!"

"Bleehhh!"

"Enough! Good Ghandi you sound like teenagers! Now, you two are the best literature teachers in this school but if you two don't stop this unnecessary bickering I will be forced to relieve you. Always fighting especially in front of the students is unprofessional and it sets off a horrible example. You two are adults. Act like it."

"Yes, sir."

"Whatever."

We both know Sikowitz is bluffing and Jade looked like she wanted to call him out on it but an angry stare from me refrained her from doing it. We are already in heaps of trouble and making smart ass comments will not benefit us one bit. So we just both agreed, albeit Jade is more like dismissing the topic to move on to more interesting things.

Sikowitz smiled at us, looking satisfied then reached under his desk producing a coconut. I will never understand his fixation in those things, it's weirder than the vice principal Mr. Lane's overuse of lotion.

"Now, run along. I have a meeting with this rather gorgeous coconut."

-0-0-0-

Weeks have passed since our meeting with Sikowitz and I was walking at the school's parking lot, I had a lot of paperwork to finish marking and didn't notice the time, before I know it, it was already 8pm and I was the last person leaving the school, so it was deserted.

The lot was not large and since it was late, only a few cars were parked so despite the dim lighting I located my car easily, I breathed a sigh of relief on the idea of coming home to finally relax but those ideas were thrown away when I dropped my keys and it flew under my car.

"Bloody hell." I muttered, while shuffling my things and patting my pockets for my phone to use as a flashlight to get my keys. Finally as I located it a hand suddenly grabbed my arm, forcing me to face their direction, startling me.

"Mr. Daniels! You almost frightened me to death!" Ryder just kept looking at me, his tall form looming over mine obscuring the already dim light of the parking lot. His eyes looked bloodshot and I can smell the faint scent of alcohol when he breathes. My heartbeat quickens, this doesn't feel right.

"Hey, Miss Vega, what's a pretty little lady like you doing out here at night? Some creeps might sneak up on you."

A creep already did, I thought. I can already tell he's drunk because of the way his word slurs.

"Yes, well…" I was in a predicament; my car was still locked with my keys under it so I can't get in. I tried to loosen the boy's grip on me but he was strong. "Mr. Daniels would you kindly let go of my arm." I tried to say it firmly but my voice started to shake, hearing the nervous fear in my voice his smile got broader.

"Now why would I do that? I finally got my hands on you, you little tease so just stop playing hard to get." I was now in a full pledge panic mode, I dropped my things and tried to pry his hands myself and try to defend myself in any way but he was too strong so he quickly overpowered me, gripping both of my arms so I wouldn't flee easily. I did the next best thing, I kicked his shin. His grip on me immediately loosens as he groans in pain; I took this as an opportunity to flee.

My breath came in white puffs as I ran out of the parking lot; I stupidly dropped my phone with my things so I had no way of contacting the police for help, so I just ran faster.

Apparently running in panic is not a good idea, especially if you don't look at where you ran. I tripped on a large crack on the sidewalk, face first.

"Ooooww." I groaned, this is just not my day. And the cherry on top of this horrid day is Ryder recovers quickly and was able to catch up with me.

"You little bitch." He growled, approaching me, but before he came closer there was a large thump, thenRyder fell.

"Whuu?" I dumbly asked. My vision still a bit blurry due to my sidewalk face plant.

"Vega?! Vega! Are you alright? Talk to me!" The voice was familiar, though the tone wasn't, I was used to it sounding angry and teasing, but now it sounded concerned.

I was about to say something, but due to the impact of my head on the sidewalk everything started to spin and everything went black.

-0-0-0-

The first thing I saw was the bright florescent lights above me.

The second thing I noticed was the dull throbbing on my head; I reached out and felt the texture of a bandage covering the left side of my scalp.

The third was a shock of black raven hair splayed over the side of the bed I was lying on, her hair looked so soft and before I knew it I was sitting up reaching out to touch it.

"Jade?" I quietly breathed, I didn't expect her to wake up because of it but she did and I was greeted by big blue-green eyes, Jade looked disoriented at first but sighed in relief when she saw that I was now conscious.

"I think this is the first time I heard you call me by my first name. You always call me Miss West." She smiled and I now realize that she's beautiful when she smiles.

"What happened? All I can remember was Ryder chasing me and then he fell…" as I mentioned Mr. Daniel's name the smile on Jade's face vanished, it was replaced with a menacing expression and it was colder than any frown I have ever seen on her face. That's saying a lot because I've been the target of her glares 80% of the time.

"I was on my way home from the grocery store and I saw you fall down, I was about to come and help you when I saw him about to attack you or drag you or both. And he fell alright; I made sure the whack on his head is hard enough that he'll see stars." I was surprised, I knew Jade had a temper but I didn't realize she could also be violent.

"Ms. West! You could've made serious damage to the boy what if he press charges?" I wasn't defending Ryder, I couldn't care less for him, I was more concerned about Jade if he decided to press charges.

But all of my concerns were apparently useless.

Jade scoffed, "So it's back to Miss West again? And as for that asshole, I couldn't care less about him, and you don't have to worry about him. He's in court now."

I sat up in my bed, "What? Why?"

"Apparently the creep has been stalking you, last night was his poor attempt in abducting you or some shit."

I was dumfounded, all I thought was he was just an annoying student who had a crush.

"Stalking me?"

"Yep, when I called the cops on him, they found out not only was he drunk but also high, when they searched his car they found several ounces of cocaine and dozens and dozens of pictures of you and stupidly, a notebook that has his abduction plan. They immediately took him to custody."

I was unable to speak, everything is happening too fast and my head is killing me. Jade seemed to notice this and gently pushed me back down to bed.

"You need rest Vega; you had a hell of a night. The doctor said you banged up your head when you tripped and scraped it a bit, good thing there's no concussion."

I gently drifted to sleep with the feeling of Jade's hand softly running through my hair.

-0-0-0-

"Are you sure you're feeling alright Tori? You should have stayed at home a few more days." Cat's concerned voice was soft as we walked towards the teachers' lounge for an early Monday morning meeting.

"Yes, Cat. The doctor said I was fine with just a week of rest due to my head and the stress of the…incident." I wasn't comfortable talking about the ordeal with Mr. Daniels, good thing the school took care of it so it wouldn't spread to the student body, as per my request only the faculty and the administration were informed about the incident. It would greatly affect everyone especially me when they find out that such incident of a student who tried to abduct his teacher. I shuddered again at the thought, if Jade didn't arrive that night…

I was pulled away from my internal musings by Cat who sensed my thoughts falling to less pleasant places.

"You're safe now Tor, he wouldn't be bothering you anymore." She soothed.

"I know. So, what did I miss?" I ask her brightly as we approached the long table of the lounge where the faculty and Sikowitz were seated.

"Ah, Miss Vega, I'm so glad you're fine and dandy. I take you're alright?" Sikowitz asked me with his usual enthusiasm, but underneath I can see he was really concerned if I was fine, all of the faculty were, I can see it in their eyes, the protective concern that made me feel all warm inside, smiled at them.

"Yes I am Sikowitz, thank you all for your concerns and well wishes for me." I tried to really make every word project the sincerity I was feeling.

"Oh jolly good day my dear chap!" I resisted the urge to groan when I heard the familiar voice behind me and sure enough there was Jade with her usual teasing smirk. I thought our moment in the hospital and her saving my life would somewhat stop the teasing but clearly that wasn't the case.

"Hello, Jade. And I don't talk like that." I greeted her. She just smiles teasingly in response.

"Alright, settle down children." Sikowitz addresses us; we give him an irritated look for calling us children but didn't comment on his quirky ways.

"This week as you all know is our annual Literature Week!" he claps enthusiastically and we clapped with him half-heartedly, well most of us did; Cat was cheering energetically like Sikowitz.

"Anyway, as part of a tradition, you will all dress up as your favorite book character. This is going to be a week-long celebration so I expect you all to wear creative outfits. No, buts!" he bellowed when we were about to protest to wearing silly costumes that would surely be a source of ridicule from our students.

"And last thing, no overly-sexual outfits, this is a high school full of children, yes I'm talking about you Jade." Sikowitz turned to said woman who just pointed to herself innocently.

"Who me? I would never." She gasps offended.

Our colleagues laughed at her antics while I looked confused, I just transferred so I had no idea what they were laughing about. Cat saw my confusion and helpfully explained.

"Jade here has a habit of dressing up in 'overly-sexual' outfits" Cat finger quoted, "Last year she dressed up as a female Dracula."

That wasn't so bad, I thought. But Cat continued, "She wore a corset and a skirt that barely covered her butt." She then proceeded to show me a picture of Jade in said costume.

I gulped, she looked great, the costume really matches her pale skin but it was overly-sexual. She was wearing a cape similar to Dracula, her skirt was short, and hugged her form, the black and red corset pushed up and emphasized her impressive…assets.

Is it hot in here? Did someone turned up the heater? Jade must have seen my flushed face because she winked at me and I gulped again.

"The students—especially the males were escorted out of the school premises because the showers too full to accommodate all of them." Sikowitz continued, oblivious to Jade's predatory stare at me. "So! I expect to not have a repeat of that incident! Alright, Jade?"

"Of course." She replied, still looking at me like her last meal.

"Okie-dokey! Back to work!" Sikowitz claps and heads out of the lounge.

I quickly stood up too, with slightly shaky legs. "Right! Back to work! Yes!" but before I could take a step I tripped on my bag that was lying on the floor, fortunately someone was able to catch me so I didn't end up face first on the floor. Unfortunately, it was Jade.

"Hey, Vega, you alright? You still seem unsteady on your feet. Let me walk you to your class." Jade offered with a knowing smirk on her face, she was still gripping my arms and in our position I was able to look down on her button down shirt and see her ample amount of cleavage.

This office really needs to turn down their heater, seriously.

"Oh no, Miss West, You're fine. I mean I'm fine. I mean, not that you're not fine because you are—it's just um…" I mumbled. I was sure my face resembles a stop sign now so I just sighed in defeat. "Alright, Miss West. You may walk me to class."

Jade grinned in triumph and offered her arm to me and I took it without a word.

A/N: Okay, this one will be in two parts; the next chapter will be up in a few days or so. Tell me what you think!