Amestris High

Chapter Nine

Chapter Nine - Jam Tarts

"Now that i have explained, you may proceed!" Breda told his Food Tech class and walked back to his desk, which stood away from the kitchen and started marking some papers while the students got started. As the next topic, Breda's food tech class were making jam tarts, which were surprisingly easy to make yet delicious. Dawn and Mimi were situated at the same work station, much to Dawn's annoyance. She had taken a serious hatred to the new pupil, and wanted her as far away from herself as possible. That was not going to happen soon, since they were next to each other on the register (for some odd reason). On the other hand, Mimi loved winding Dawn up, and laughing at her face when she looked like she was about to blow her top like a volcano.

"Hey Dawn, I forgot my jam. Can i borrow yours?" Mimi smiled sweetly, hiding her own in the lower compartment of the work station. As always, she didn't really need Dawn's jam, but asked for it anyway. Dawn opened her mouth to insult her, but without waiting Mimi grabbed the jam from under her nose.

"Thank you! You're such a good friend!" Mimi grinned and open the jar of sticky strawberry conserve. Dawn clenched her hands into fists and held her breath, trying not to either scream or strangle Mimi. Instead, she silently promised herself she would deal with the red head later and got out the ingredients for  her pastry dough. 

Edward was working next to Gluttony. He was watching what his work station partner was doing all the time, and making sure he didn't eat any of his ingredients. Gluttony was eating the flour and butter instead of mixing it into the dough. Edward sighed and looked up at Dawn who was working opposite him.   What was supposed to be a quick glance tunred into a long stare, the kind which you start doing when you are off day dreaming. Dawn shot him a glare when she realised he was staring at her. 

"Hey Shrimp! It's rude to stare!" she called to him. Ed blushed despite himself and looked down, slightly embarrassed. Gluttony laughed with a mouthful of jam. Ed glared and mouthed 'shut up', turning his attention back to the mixture in his bowl. 

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Erin sighed and knocked her head against the desk, bored out of her mind. Falman had confiscated her doodle book, and so she had to result to actually doing her work. She would have been staring lovingly at her crush, but unfortunately Envy had a differernt class. 

"Pssst" 

Erin slowly turned her head to face her friend, still keeping it against the tabletop. Winry looked back at their English teacher, then passed her a small note. Erin sat back up and took it, opening it up and reading.

Have nothing 2 do huh? SOOOO BORING. D:

Erin grinned and glanced at Falman before answering Winry's note, passing it back. Winry folded it out.

Yea. teach took my notebook >_< why do we have to write rants anyway?!?!!?

Winry tried to hold back a laugh and picked her pen up to write back, when a hand snatched the note from under the tip of her Biro. Winry looked up at Falman and froze, so did Erin. 

"Passing notes?" he asked, holding it open in his hand. Winry didn't know what to say apart from; 

"Sorry sir" 

Erin hoped he wouldn't open and read their notes. Luckily he didn't, just threw it in the bin. As Fulman went back to his desk Erin slipped her hand into her pocket and switched on her iPod, checking the time. 1:00pm. 

"Hey Winry" she hissed, getting her friend's attention. "5 minutes" 

Winry nodded and smiled, turning back to glance at the clock on the wall to make sure for herself. 

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Dawn opened the oven and closed her eyes for a moment as the wave of hot air hit her face. Her tarts were ready, and Mimi's were resting on the top shelf in the cooker, not quite ready yet. Dawn grinned and pulled her tray out, setting it down on the work station. 

"Doesn't that hurt?" a curly ginger haired boy working on the station next to her asked, his eyes wide after watching Dawn pull a metal tray out of the oven with her bare hands, without dropping it and yelling in pain.

"Keep your abnormally large nose out of my business, Ginger" she said coldly. The student's face suddenly showed fear as he spun around, facing away from her. 

"That's right" Dawn warned and turned her attention back to her tarts. They looked perfect, crispy and golden and yummy. Dawn grinned in triumph and folded her arms. 

"Now that's what you call success" 

"Hey babes! Wow those look awesome!" Mimi came bouncing up, whipping one off the tray and biting into it. Dawn's jaw dropped. First the new girl isn't scared of her, now she is SNATCHING HER TARTS?! 

"Listen here princess" she growled under her breath, coming up close to Mimi's face. "You may not be scared of me. You may steal my pies, but never, and i mean never, call me babes."

Mimi stared at her with a mouthful of Dawn's jam tart. Dawn stared back, her eyes as sharp and dangerous as daggers. 

"Alright guys, finish up and start cleaning your work stations please, you have around 6 minutes left" Breda called to his class from his desk. The pupils started working faster, rushing to finish their tarts and clean their work stations, so they would be let out when the bell went.

"Ok" Mimi said happily, then grinned in a twisted way. "-babes" 

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lol this chapter is so long XD the original idea was that Dawn was gonna put cocaine or some sort of drug in Mimi's tarts, but i was a bit to scared of writing that.... O_O lol me and awesomness87 (the creator of the fantabulous Dawn) had an great idea for this story today in spanish, and yes i have decided to pair my OC with the gay palmtree :D *gets stabbed with a butter knife* 

i have a feeling Ed has a thing for Dawn... *grins and waves eyebrows*