Hello:)

I started watching Lost recently, and it rocked.

I know what you're thinking, another one of those Kate-centered high school fics. While I admit this is mostly Kate-centered, it will have stuff about other characters. I've also read those other fics, and my plan is fairly different from theirs.

So, without further adu, here is my story. I hope you enjoy it!!

Jack Shepard waited in the gym for his teacher to show up. He was standing and chatting with his friends Charlie, Hurley, Claire, Sayid, Shannon, and Boone. Standing nearby was James Ford, or Sawyer as he so strongly preferred to be called. Sawyer was an orphan living with foster parents in the slums of New York City.

Claire was rubbing her protruding stomach and whispering to her unborn baby. The baby had been conceived before Claire had moved here from Australia. She lived with her mother just a few blocks away from the school.

Hurley lived with his mother in the middle class side of town. His father had disappeared six years ago to Las Vegas.

Charlie lived with his family and older brother Liam. Liam, who was a senior compared to Charlie's junior self, was rumored to be using. Charlie, with the help of all his friends, and especially Claire, was clean. Charlie had some musical talent, and loved to play guitar.

Sayid lived with his parents in the middle of town. He was genius who was two years ahead in math, and had a 4.5 GPA in his computer science class.

Boone was Shannon's older step brother. The two of them lived in the rich part of town with Shannon's dad and Boone's mom. Shannon claimed that Boone's mom hated her. It was also pretty obvious that Boone and Shannon had some feelings for each other.

Like Boone and Shannon, Jack lived in the rich part of town with his drunken doctor father and his mother. His father was chief of surgery, and was always telling Jack that he was going to be a surgeon.

The gym teacher finally came in. He was followed by the school principal, Mr. Locke. Mr. Locke was an old balding man who was always going on about faith and not being told what to do.

Mr. Locke was followed by a girl Jack had never seen before.

The girl was average height, and had lovely curves. She was very pretty, and had long, brown, curly locks which were tied up into a ponytail. Her face was covered with freckles. She had deep, meaningful, beautiful, and mysterious green eyes. Her eyes were emotional, kind of like a green ocean containing many secrets to be unlocked. They were also piercing, and hard, and sad, and terrified.

She was wearing dark tight jeans, a faded white T-shirt, and a jean jacket.

"Students," Mr. Locke announced, "I would like to introduce Katherine Austen, who has just moved here from Iowa."

"Kate," the girl corrected him, "just call me Kate."

"Right," the gym teacher said as Mr. Locke left, "Well Kate, please join your classmates."

Kate walked over to the group of students, and stood silently next to Charlie and Claire.

"Ok," the teacher said, "today we'll have an open gym, so we'll have the equipment out and you'll be free to do whatever you want."

Sawyer spoke out, "Does that mean we can-"

"No," the teacher interrupted him, "You have to do something P.E. related."

"Nothing from FLE?" Sawyer asked jokingly.

The teacher just eyed him exasperatedly, and walked away.

At that, the students dispersed.

Jack watched Kate head over to the climbing ropes.

There were three climbing ropes of varying difficulty. The beginning rope had a lot of knots spaced closely together all the way up the rope. The intermediate rope had a few knots spaced far apart all the way up the rope. The advanced rope had no knots. No one had ever climbed all the way to the top of the advanced rope.

Kate was staring at the ropes.

Jack watched Sawyer go up to her and say, "Hey Freckles, the name's Sawyer. Thinkin' 'bout climbin' up there? I'll race ya to the top."

Kate turned to Sawyer and smiled as she pointed to the beginning rope, "I'll assume you're going to climb that one?"

"No," Sawyer said proudly as he pointed to the intermediate rope, "I'm gonna climb that one. You climbin' the beginning rope?"

Kate smirked, "Nope, I'm climbing that one," she pointed to the advanced rope.

Sawyer raised his eyebrows, "Good luck to you then."

After going to their respective ropes, they waited until someone said go, and they took off.

Along with many others, Jack gasped in surprise as Kate quickly and easily pulled ahead of Sawyer, climbing like a monkey.

People were starting to turn and watch as they whispered to themselves:

"Is that the new girl?"

"Woah!"

"OMG!"

Somebody wolf-whistled at the sight of Kate's body swinging around as she climbed higher and higher.

Up on the rope, Kate rolled her eyes and sighed at the sound. She reached the top when Sawyer wasn't even a quarter of the way up.

"Damn girl!" he shouted as she started her descent.

Sawyer gave up, and came back down. Kate walked up to him, and flashed him a smirk. Sawyer scoffed and walked away, his pride injured.

People stared at Kate and whispered amongst themselves. Jack watched as Kate shrugged and walked away to go for a run.

Wow!! Out of all the chapters I've written for all my stories, that was the longest. Hope you liked it!!

Please review and let me know if you did!!