Sarah parks her car before sliding out of the driver's seat and grabbing her already full backpack. She locks the door as she walks away and sees her best friend Amanda up ahead getting out of her own car. The girl smiles at her as she walks up and laughs lightly at the bag thrown across Sarah's shoulders.

"Geez, Paulson. It's the first day. What could you possibly have in that bag already?" Sarah grins at her and just shrugs.

"I had a lot of summer homework and you know I never show up unprepared," Amanda nodded as she grabbed her own smaller bag and shut her car door before they turned for the school.

"I always forget that my smart mouth friend is actually a genius," Sarah blushed lightly at the word genius. School had just never been hard for her. She was taking a full course of AP classes this year including Calculus. Looking at her, you'd never know though. She was the kid who wasn't afraid to challenge another student or even a teacher. But she always did her work and it was always done well.

"Did you pick up your schedule last week like you were supposed to?" Amanda nodded and fished the paper out of her bag before handing it to her friend. Sarah unfolded the crumpled paper and studied it, "Taking the easy way out this year?"

"It's our last year and I only need two credits. Why would I take a bunch of core classes that I don't need?" Sarah just shook her head and handed the girl her schedule that was filled with mostly electives.

"We have the same lunch period," Amanda grinned and looked up when the first bell sounded letting them know they had ten minutes before school would begin. "I'll see you later?" Amanda nodded and the two of them went their separate ways.

oooOOooOOooo

Sarah had gotten through her first period Calculus class and her second period extracurricular class which she had chosen as AP Spanish. She was now taking a seat in her AP Biology class. There were only a few other students there already and the teacher hadn't shown up yet. Sarah had expected to have Mr. B this year for biology. He'd taught it for years and had finally made the choice to retire over the summer.

She'd had him for chemistry the year before and he was a good teacher. She hadn't heard anything about the new teacher yet. The bell rang and everyone took their seats. The class was small. Only about ten seniors had chosen to take the course. About three minutes later the door swung open and Sarah assumed that the new teacher had finally found the room.

"I'm so sorry. I got turned around and ended up in the English building on accident," Sarah's head snapped up at the deep feminine voice that came from the woman. She was flustered yet cute and her blonde hair hung in lose waves around her shoulders. She had on black dress pants and a white blouse with a black blazer thrown over it. "I'm Miss Rabe. I'll be your AP Bio teacher this year."

She grinned at the small class and Sarah felt her heart skip a beat. 'Oh, no. I cannot under any circumstances have a crush on the new hot teacher. Oh no, I called her hot. It's over. I'm fucked.' Sarah forced herself to look away from the teacher and trained her eyes down on her notebook. She could hear shuffling from the front of the room and glanced up to see the woman shuffling things around on her desk.

The brunette glanced around at the class who were looking at the woman in amusement and rolled her eyes before taking pity on the woman. She stood and grabbed the clipboard that was on the lab table at the front of the room and handed it to the blonde. She looked down at it and grinned. "Thanks," The woman whispered sheepishly before Sarah sat back down and her teacher started taking roll.

She finished that and sat the board down on the table again before smiling at all of them, "Okay. Let's get started."

oooOOooOOooo

The bell rang signaling the end of class. They hadn't gotten to much. Miss Rabe had made it through her syllabus and basic first day of school things. The students left quickly being that the only one of them who had unpacked anything was Sarah. She stood and shoved her notebook back into her backpack and threw it over one shoulder before looking up at the teacher who was now sat looking at something on her computer.

The girl moved toward the door and was stopped by that voice again, "Sarah?" The girl turned and nodded at the blonde woman who had turned in her chair to look at her, "Thanks for earlier. I never would have looked on the lab table. I could have sworn that I put it on my desk," Sarah just nodded and saw the woman's nervousness again. She took a step toward her and leaned against the table to look at her.

"Look, I probably shouldn't say this, but your nerves are all over the place and it's pretty obvious," The woman's blue eyes went wide and she gave a small nod, "I also probably shouldn't say this, but calm the fuck down," Miss Rabe's eyes went wide again before a grin took her face.

"I probably shouldn't let you talk to me like that but you're probably right.. I've never had a student curse at me before," Sarah smirked.

"Have you ever even had a student before?" The teacher stood from her chair and shook her head at the question that had been fired back at her, "I didn't think so."

"What's that supposed to mean?" The woman wasn't upset though, just genuinely curious.

"Oh, umm, just that you look really young. How old are you anyway? Twenty three?" The blonde looked at her in amusement.

"Twenty two," Sarah grinned and nodded.

"See what I mean. Just, I don't know, grow a pair and no one will mess with you," The woman in front of her let out a laugh and the late bell rang. Sarah groaned and grinned sheepishly at the woman, "I don't suppose you would write me a pass would you?" The woman grinned and walked toward her.

"I'll do you one better; I'll walk you to your class. I need to go to the front office anyway and I don't have a class this period," Sarah nodded and thanked her before they left the room together.

oooOOooOOooo

Miss Rabe had walked Sarah to her AP Literature class and told the teacher that she had asked Sarah to help her with something. Sarah took a seat next to Amanda and grinned at her. Literature was the only subject that Amanda actually cared about. Amanda raised her eyebrows playfully at the girl who just shook her head. Miss Rabe left the room and the teacher started up the lesson.

A piece of paper was slid onto Sarah's desk and she sighed before unfolding the note and looking down at it, 'She was hot. Totally your type, you know? Ass and legs.' Sarah rolled her eyes and glared sideways at her friend. She wrote 'I hadn't noticed and I don't have a type.' Down on the paper and slid it back to Amanda when her teacher turned to grab a pen from her desk.

Amanda snorted and whispered, "Sure you don't," Before leaving the girl alone and turning her attention back to the front of the room. Sarah sighed in relief. This was going to be a long class.

oooOOooOOooo

The rest of Sarah's Literature class had gone well and she was now sat in the lunch room with Amanda and a few of their other friends who also had the same lunch as them. Zach looked up and let out a whistle to which Sarah just rolled her eyes at. Amanda looked up though and grinned, "She's spoken for."

"By who?" The boy was laughing and Amanda pointed.

"Sarah," The brunette looked up in confusion and turned her head to see Miss Rabe walking through the lunch room. She turned back to Amanda and shook her head.

"She's not spoken for and she's also a teacher. That's just weird you two," Zach shook his head as he watched the woman go and looked back to Sarah.

"But come on, she's fucking hot," Amanda nodded in agreement.

"That's what I said! Plus she's totally Sarah's type," Zach nodded in complete agreement and the brunette looked at the two of them.

"Okay, since you two seem to know so much about me. What is my type? Please enlighten me," Amanda grinned in amusement and leaned forward on her elbows.

"Tall," Zach nodded.

"She's definitely tall," Amanda grinned, "You also like blondes though that's not always a deciding factor," Sarah just stared at the two of them and Amanda spoke up next.

"You like the together type. Their lives aren't messy, they have to have a purpose," Sarah interrupted here.

"Oh come on, why would anyone want some loser that's going nowhere?" Amanda just raised her eyebrows.

"You also totally have a thing for dimples and I haven't seen her smile yet but her cheeks are cute," Sarah looked down when the boy said this and bit her lip, "But you have! She has dimples doesn't she?" The girl just glared.

"What's your point?"

"Our point is that you totally like her," Sarah just shrugged.

"Plenty of people have crushes on their teachers. That's all it is, a crush, nothing else," Though Sarah wasn't so sure about that herself.

oooOOooOOooo

Sarah's AP Economics class had gone fine and she was now sat in the library with a few books open on a table in front of her. She was taking a few notes when the empty library's door opened and she looked up to see Miss Rabe come into the room. She looked back down quickly and could hear the woman speaking quietly with the librarian. She thanked her before moving into the library.

Sarah couldn't hear her anymore and let out a sigh in relief as she flipped the page of a book and scribbled down another note. Footsteps approached and she looked up to see the blonde teacher who was grinning at her, "Shouldn't you be in class or something?" Sarah scrunched her face up cutely.

"I have too many credits already so the school won't let me take anything that's not a core curriculum or a language," Miss Rabe nodded, "So I have 'study hall' for the last two periods although I seem to be the only student. I think they made that up," The woman standing before her laughed quietly and gestured to a chair. Sarah just nodded at her and she took a seat at the table.

"So, they just have you in here for the last few hours?" Sarah nodded, "All year?" The girl gave another nod at the woman's incredulousness, "That's a little ridiculous. I mean if you don't need to be here for class they should let you go home," Sarah just shrugged.

"Don't you have a class?" Miss Rabe shook her head.

"I have two AP Bio classes and one regular Bio class and they have me teaching Driver's Ed during fifth period. I guess they figured I could use a couple cool down periods after almost dying in the car with a bunch of fifteen year olds," Sarah laughed at the look on the woman's face.

"I bet. I swear we drove the old Driver's Ed teacher mad. He used to talk to himself.. Like actual conversations with himself," The woman was laughing, "I'm not kidding. He came in expecting to just have to sit in a car and he left in a body bag," Miss Rabe's eyes went extremely wide and Sarah busted out laughing, "I'm kidding. Your face though. It was great."

Miss Rabe finally laughed at the girl and shook her head, "Well, I need to go get things ready for tomorrow but you're always welcome to do 'study hall' in my classroom if you get tired of the library," Sarah just nodded biting her lip before thanking her. The woman stood and left the room after picking up the book she had come after. Sarah watched her go.

"I'm so beyond fucked."