Thanks for the reviews! They make me feel warm and fuzzy. To clear things up, 7th grade is 12/13 year olds, and 8th grade is 13/14 year olds. Sorry it's taken so long to update. I let Rose keep her maiden name. If you can't remember which character's last name was Jackson, it was Scott. Review pretty pretty please with strawberries and fish biscuits on top!

While Liam Pace laughed at his teacher's name, Charlie Pace wrote his name inside all of the books Mrs. Henderson handed out. It was funny how his dentist's wife was his teacher.

Sayid stared at the girl in front of him. He was sure she was the girl who had pushed him in the mud before school. Her name was Nadia, he remembered from attendance this morning.

Hurley was daydreaming about lunch. He hoped they would serve chicken tenders, or chicken patties, or popcorn chicken, or some form of chicken for lunch. He loved chicken, and he loved that about himself.

Desmond was staring at Claire. Claire was currently fingering her hair. She saw him staring, and smiled at him. Desmond managed to smile back through his amazement at being smiled at.

Mr. Arzt's class

Mr. Arzt was now passing out class schedules.

Colleen was comparing hers with Danny's. It was exactly the same. She squealed in delight.

Jack and Kate however, were not faring so well.

"We've got homeroom together. And the whole homeroom has gym at the same time. And we'll see each other at lunch," Kate promised Jack. Kate knew that Jack liked being with Kate all throughout the day so he could make sure the other guys couldn't hit on her. Kate was fairly popular.

When Alex and Karl compared schedules, they found they had science and math together. Science was their favorite subject. Alex smiled at Karl. Karl found her smile irresistible.

Ben and Juliet had everything except foreign language together, since Juliet took Spanish and Ben chose French.

The bell signaling the end of homeroom and the beginning of first period rang.

Ben checked his schedule to see what he had first.

"Physical Education," He realized dismayed. What was so educational about the bigger students hurling dodgeballs at the smaller ones? Just what I need first thing in the morning, he thought to himself sarcastically.

Danny's favorite subject was gym. What wasn't to like about it? He could spend a full period throwing heavy rubber balls at Sawyer without getting in trouble.

The class walked into the gym. Since it was the first day, no one had known whether they had gym or not, so no one had brought gym clothes. The gym teacher, Mr. Jackson, just droned on and on about locker room responsibilities, aimed at the guys.

Ben was so bored, he'd rather have been being pummeled by dodgeballs than listen to the lecture. There really was no point. There would still be locker room skirmishes. Juliet smiled a sarcastic smile and rolled her eyes in Mr. Jackson's direction. Sitting in the bleachers for an hour listening to a pointless lecture wasn't that bad when you were sitting next to Juliet.

An hour later the lecture was over. Jack had science, so he said goodbye to Kate and walked to Mr. Arzt's room for science class.

Once everybody was settled down, Jack looked around. Jack scoped out his competition. He was normally the best in his class in science. Who hadn't been in his science class last year? Alex, Karl, Juliet, that blonde girl whose name he didn't know who had shoved him on the way to class, and, oh crap, Jack thought. Ben. He gave off the air of an evil genius. He was probably a science whiz.

The next five minutes were spent breaking the class into groups. In Jack's group were John, Sawyer, and the blonde girl who had shoved him, whose name he found out, was Isobel. Jack had problems with Sawyer last year. At least Sawyer wasn't in Kate's science class, where he could be hitting on Kate without Jack's knowing.

Juliet was content with her group. Ben sat next to her, with Karl and Alex on the other side.

For twenty minutes Mr. Arzt droned on and on about class expectations, and the agenda for the year.

"This first unit we will study the solar system. Second we shall learn about the human body, and we'll see about where we are then and…"

"Mr. Arnst, can I go to the bathroom?" Liam Pace asked, showing that he clearly just wanted to leave the classroom.

"Mr. Arzt," He corrected, looking agitated. "Fine, you can go."

After lecture after lecture about class expectations from teachers for half the day, lunch finally rolled around.

Most of the discussions the seventh graders were having revolved around the new school, as opposed to the eighth graders, who only wanted to talk about who was dating who.

"Isn't the French teacher crazy?" Claire asked to her lunch companions.

"Bloody insane," said Charlie.

"You don't take French Charlie," Claire told him with a smile. Charlie grinned. He's kinda cute, Claire thought to herself.

Hurley was fully immersed in his lunch. The food tastes better here than it did in elementary school, he noticed.

Desmond sat next to Penny. When did she get this beautiful, he asked himself? He hadn't seen her all summer. The moment he had first seen her today in French, he forgot about his Claire watching obsession.

Jin and Sun sat next to each other. Sun had to thank Claire later for recommending Jin the seat next to the one Sun was sitting in.

Sayid was busying himself with wiping ketchup off his pants. That Nadia girl had "accidentally" poured it on him.

"What I can't understand," Sayid said, reaching for a new napkin, "Is why she bullies me. I haven't done anything to her." He paused. "I think."

"Dude, she likes you," Hurley said, his mouth full.

Sayid spent the rest of lunch pondering this.

Coming up next: Arzt hasn't blown up yet, but will he? What have the eighth graders been talking about? Are you on the list? Oops, wrong show.