"Hey Audrey! Over here!"

I turned around to see one of my best friends, Ryan walking towards me, a football hanging limply in his right arm. "Go long!"

I nodded and set my bag full of books on the ground, doing as he asked and started running backwards, concentrating hard when he finally pulled his arm back and threw the football in my direction. Seeing that the ball going to go way past my position, I turned around and started sprinting, until finally, I turned around and caught the ball swiftly in my hands. I threw the ball to the ground and raised my arms in victory. Ryan caught up to me, and shouted, "touchdown!"

I laughed and picked the football up, giving it back to Ryan, where he put it under his arm again, and started walking by my side, handing me my bag that he had picked up on his way running over to me.

"Where are you heading to?" Ryan asked, admiring the beauty of the landscape at Starfleet Academy.

"I just got done with my medical classes, I was going to go study," I replied, dreading the idea of going back to my dorm room to study all alone.

"Well, that's no fun. Come on and hang with the guys for a while, you need a break," he said, tossing the football in the air so that I could reach out a grab it. I rolled my eyes and turned to face him.

"As tempting as hanging out with your piggish friends sounds, I think I'll have to pass. I hate studying, but I'd rather do that then go and sit around drinking beer while you and your friends cat call at girls," I joked, playfully tossing the football back at him.

"You've got a point there, but studying?" he put his finger in his mouth as if the thought of "studying" made him want to puke. I rolled my eyes again and shifted the bag in my arms.

"Oh please, you study too. I've seen you sitting under trees, with a schoolbook or two. And then when all of your friends come over, you shove the books in your backpack and take out a Maximum magazine and pretend like your flipping through that. Don't pretend your such a badass when your really not," I laughed, watching his eyebrows raise in shock that I knew his dirty little secret.

"Oh Audrey," he said, shaking his head slightly. "Now that you know all of my deepest darkest secrets," he paused and took a deep breath, simulating a 'dramatic pause', "I'm going to have to kill you!" he laughed, slightly pushing me so that I stumbled a bit on the sidewalk. I counterattacked and shoved him back, harder than he, so that he almost fell. We both laughed and when he came back to me to push me again, I held up my hands and shouted "truce", because I knew that when he played rough, he played rough.

All of the sudden, he stopped mid step. His eyes were wide with disbelief. The football fell out of his hand after a couple seconds, and his mouth was slightly parted from shock. I followed his gaze and my own mouth dropped with disbelief. Over by one of the trees on Starfleet Academy's lawn, stood Anna, Ryan's girlfriend, and of course, Captain Jim Tiberius Kirk. He was a man-whore and it was no surprise he would go after Anna, she was just a regular whore. I didn't know what Ryan saw in her, but he claimed that there was something special between them. Still, I couldn't believe that a captain would be doing something like this. They were making out, his hands on her lower back and hers tangled in his sandy blonde hair.

I felt Ryan's jaw clench in sudden anger, and he started walking fast towards them. I pulled his arms and shook my head no, but he continued to walk, not paying any attention to me at all. "Ryan, don't," I warned. "You can work this out some other way, but don't get into a fight," I said, trying to pull him so that he would listen to my reasoning for a second. He just continued to walk; in his chocolate brown eyes was a burning flame of anger that scared me to see it. I let go of Ryan's arm, and wondered if I should go warn the two of them what was coming, but he broke off into a run and before I could do anything to stop them, he was pulling them apart.

"Ryan!" Anna exclaimed, shocked to see him.

"What the hell is your problem man!?" Ryan ignored his girlfriend and instead turned on Jim. "Why don't you go and find a girl that doesn't already have a freaking boyfriend??" he growled, his nostrils flaring and his muscles flexing.

"Dude, chill out," Jim said, still looking relaxed and comfortable.

"Ryan, please, don't do anything stupid," I whispered to him. Jim looked at me and smiled and winked, and that just made Ryan even more furious.

"Stay out of this Audrey!" Ryan snapped, pushing me away from him. I landed on the ground with a thud, and stared up in surprise. Ryan was still glaring at Jim, who was looking at me, a concerned look clouding his piercing blue eyes.

"I think you've got the problem," Jim muttered, cautiously walking over to me and offered his hand. And that was when Ryan lost it. He grabbed Jim's shoulders and pushed him as hard as he could into the tree. The he punched Jim in the face. Jim's nose broke with a sickening crack, and blood squirted out of his nostrils. Jim let out a hiss and punched Ryan back, and got into a huge fight. I stood up and walked over to Anna, who was smiling and cheering Jim on. A whole crowd was beginning to form, screaming like maniacs and betting on who would win. Ryan might have bigger muscles, but Jim was sly, and could easily over come someone like Ryan, with the right techniques.

"They're fighting over me!" Anna exclaimed happily when two of her bitchy friends showed up. "Well, it makes total sense, I mean, look at me," she said, giving a little laugh and watching as Ryan threw another punch towards Jim, who ducked out of the way and kneed Ryan in the stomach.

"Enough!" a voice sounded from inside the crowd. Everyone turned to look when they saw Commander Spock walking through, a disappointing look in his eyes. Jim and Ryan stopped immediately.

"Jim Tiberius Kirk, I don't think this is any way a captain should be acting," he said, eyeing Jim's disheveled appearance.

"Jim just scratched his head awkwardly and caught eyes with me again. I looked away quickly and decided to stare down at my feet, which were scratched up from falling. There were only a couple scratches on each foot, but still, it was because Ryan had pushed me, and that made me angry.

"You two, follow me," Spock said, walking away through the crowd while Jim and Ryan followed slowly behind. Ryan glared at Anna as he walked past, but she was too busy flirting with another guy to see him, or even Jim for that matter. I wanted to slap her in the face, really hard. I figured that one day; I might, but not today.

When Jim, Ryan, and Spock were out of sight, everyone dispersed back to their spots or got back to their training. I made my way back to my quarters and walked into my dorm room quietly. I walked over to my desk and took out my books, and decided to take this time to study. I studied for a long time, until finally, I thought my brain would explode, so I was going to go see where my friend Alice was so that we could go and get some dinner together.

Before I left my dorm room, I took my hair down from my ponytail and watched my abnormally straight hair fall down perfectly and rest on my shoulders. It was a dark brown; some would even call it black. My lips were full and moist, and had a shimmer from lip-gloss that I had put on it earlier in the morning. Most people would think I was a girly-girl; that I loved shopping and boys and everything, but I wasn't. I did love boys, but I would much rather play a game of football than go out dress shopping. I wasn't a tomboy either; I was someone in the middle of both.

"Hey Audrey," a voice came from outside of my door. "You in there?"

I knew exactly whom the voice came from. It was Ryan's. I really didn't want to talk to him, so I just kept quiet and pretended like I wasn't in the room. Hopefully, he'd give up and start looking somewhere else.

"Audrey, I know you're in there. I can see lights coming from inside your room," he said, staring down at the crack under the door.

"Shit," I murmured, wanting to go turn off the light, but I knew it was too late now.

"C'mon, just open the door!" he said desperately.

I sighed and walked over to the door. I opened it, but only because I had to face him sometime. I rolled my eyes when I saw him. He had some stitches on his cheek and numerous cuts all over him. He looked upset and depressed when I looked him in the eye. I actually felt sorry for him for a moment.

"What?" I asked sharply when I saw him.

"Listen, I just wanted to tell you how sorry I am. I don't know what I was thinking, and then he was only trying to help you up, and I still attacked him! I don't know what happened to me, I'm so sorry," he said quickly, his brown eyes watering slightly. "I told Spock that it was all my fault; Kirk merely attacked me for self-defense. Spock threatened to take his captain title away. For all I know, he might not have been aware that Anna had a boyfriend," he admitted, looking down at the floor with disgust. "And I just want you to know that I'm so sorry and I—"

"I forgive you," I said softly, cutting him off. "Except I kind of wished that you had pushed Anna, not me. It's about time someone shoved her off her high horse," I said, a playful look in my eyes.

"Thanks so much Audrey!" he said, as he enveloped me into a huge hug.

"Want to go get some dinner with me?" I asked, after our hug was over.

"Sure," he replied, and together, they walked to the academy's cafeteria and ate.

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-Haley-