AN: Okay, listen up people! I don't want Shannon and Sayid to be together on the show! The story idea just came to me and I had to write it! People out on the mesage board, don't hate me, please:)

Definition of Love

Chapter 1- Shannon Strikes

"Why God, why? Do you just hate me, or do you delight in making me miserable? Out of all the books in the world, you let me find the dictionary among the luggage. Well, that's just great! I'm sure I will be able to extend my vocabulary now that I have a dictionary on this crappy island. I mean, COME ON! The dictionary? Thanks a lot!"

Shannon's thoughts were less than sunny when she found a leather-bound dictionary while rooting through some of the suitcases. She felt like ripping it up and throwing it in the sea.

But she didn't. She ran her hand over the cracked cover, tracing the peeling gold letters on it. "Hell, why not? Maybe if I get really, REALLY bored one day ?I can read it."

Shannon's thoughts made her laugh out loud. Yeah right! Read the dictionary? Not in your life!

"What's so funny?" a familiar accented voice asked her.

Shannon whirled around to see Sayid standing behind her, looking slightly amused. She blushed.

"Uh, nothing. It's just that I found a dictionary in this suitcase." She gestured to the blue bag lying on the ground, it's contents spilling over the sides.

"A dictionary?" Sayid chuckled.

Shannon giggled "Yeah, weird, right?"

Sayid looked like he was about to say something, when-

"SHANNON! What are you doing?" Boone was walking across the sand, and he looked pissed.

"Where have you been? I told you to stay in your tent until I got back!"

Shannon scrambled to her feet, still clutching the dictionary "Sorry if I don't like being treated like a child!" she sneered.

Sayid knew a fight when he saw one, and this one was about to get ugly.

"Well, I gotta go….I just have to go!" he said nervously. But he may as well have been talking to the dictionary in Shannon's hands, because Boone and his sister were yelling at each other so loudly that they didn't hear him.

Sayid backed away and hurried back to the caves.

Shannon continued to shriek at her brother "You always ruin everything, Boone! Couldn't you see that Sayid and I were talking?"

"Yeah I did! That's why I came over here! I don't want you hanging around him, Shan! He's bad news."

"No, you're bad news! Just stay out of my life, okay? I don't need you telling me what to do!"

"Hey, I've always looked out for you, you were just too self-centered to notice! That's what you are, a self-centered little bitch!"

BAM! Shannon slapped Boone across the face. "How dare you! You know, why don't you go play with Locke and LEAVE ME ALONE!"

With that, Shannon spun on her heel and stormed away, clearing a path through all the people that had been standing watching the fight.

"The first word I'm looking up in my dictionary," she thought furiously "is jackass!"