Anyone Else But You

AUTHORS NOTE

Decided to roll with Lyla kissing a girl though it was a slip of hand.

I put Tim on a date in this one...

Chapter Two

Do you like Lois...?

"Tim?" Julie asked on the way to school, her parents at the daycare attempting to drop Gracie Bell off. She liked getting a ride with Tim, she liked his company. Not that he was really talky. "Lois wanted me to ask you if you liked her."

"Cool."

Silence stumbled apon them.

"Well do you?"

"Tell her I think she's a nice girl." Tim said.

"I'll do that." It was awkward riding with Tim but she didn't want to go with her parents' to go with Gracie.

"You like Lyla?"

Silence.

"Yes."

More silence, and then they were there.

Lyla's New "Friend"

Tim avoided Lyla in history class, but she found a way to confront him. "Tim... I got the flowers." she looked apologetic, yet flattered at the same time. Tim just gave her a once over, "What flowers?" Lyla sighed, in exasperation.

"You know the card the flowers come with, Tim? The one you filled out? It said I love you? I'm tired of this, of us. I've met someone."

"A new "Friend"," Tim

Lyla glared at him.

Tyra

"Hey... Jules!" Julie heard in the hallway and turned around and saw her less pathetic friend, well compared to Lois. Julie just smiled, glad to be around somebody who wasn't infatuated with Tim,

"Hey, are you working tonight?" Julie asked and Tyra nodded, "Can I reserve a table in your section?"

"For you, anything." Julie smiled, "Thanks."

"Your my best ho."

Willow

So, just like that he had a date. Her name was Willow, a new kid in his Cosmotology class. Someone might ask why he was in cosmotology, and yes it was because he enjoyed girls' company. When he'd told Tyra he was taking cosmotology the previous year she'd laughed and ask if "She"'s do her hair. For the rest of the week Tim was refered to as "she". And then Jason found out, and Lyla. Once Lyla laughed about something Tyra didn't like it too much. When he actually started the class they barely talked.

Willow had long auburn hair and was a petit, he'd given her a blowdry style and then asked her out, laughingly she agreed. She was new from Canada. She had no idea about how Tim was small town superhero because he played football. He doubted in Canada they even played football. It was kind of a turn on, knowing she'd agreed due to the perfection of his hairdressing skills and not that he played football.

When it was evening he told the coach he was going out and mumbled something about hairdressing skills and Julie, from across the room, started laughing and said, "You have hairdressing skills?" It was all giggles when Tim left. He didn't really appreciate this.

The date went good, she said she had to be home by eleven, so she could watch the hockey game on pay per view. "Hockey?" he asked and she smiled, "Did I mention I was canadian?" he laughed, and they went to a small coffee shop where she had a double double, and then on a walk. It ended with a kiss, and Willow saying, "Thanks for the hairdo"

Applebees

"You have hairdressing skills?" Julie burst out laughing at this, accompanied by Shelly. maybe she should get her new friend to give her a style oneday. She told her parents she got them a reservation, which was hard the day before game day and they'd promised to have family time. When Tyra took their order Julie requested a local favourite, and her parents requested ribs as per usual.

The ribs were good, and Gracie was safe at home with Shelly. When the coach brought up football for the third time Julie said, "Dad please." and Tami nodded, her father never talke about anything other then football. It was even worse now that Tim had been living with them. And so Eric asked, "Any cute boys at school?"

"Football it is." Julie said, Tami laughing. "I hear the powdepuff is coming up..." Julie said, anything to distract her father from the topic of boys.

At this, Eric's eyes shined, "Yes, I have to decide who's going to be the coaches." he paused, "You're doing it this year, right?"

Julie just laughed, "Last year it was a punishment." but her parent's eyes just looked at her, "I thought you had fun?" Tami asked. Julie just looked at them and sighed, "I'm not doing it." When the waitress, Tyra, came and asked what they wanted to have for desert Mrs. Coach asked her, "Are you doing powderpuff this year."

Tyra smiled, politely, but said, "There's no way in hell.:"

"I thought you guys enjoyed it." Tyra and Julie looked at each other and laughed.

"I'll do it if Matt's not a coach again," Tyra said, Julie giggled. "I'll do it if Tyra does it."

Home

Tyra had agreed, just to make Julie go. Julie had stared at her, with no mercy. When Julie walked through the door, pausing in the garage to grab her bag Tim was getting to hear the story from the coach about what a great QB his daughter was. Julie rolled her eyes, Tim knew. He was the other team's coach. But he just listened to the coach's story anyway. "Recruiters are all over me." she joked grabbing some milk.

"Ignore the talent," Eric said, walking past Tim and into his bedroom where Tami was already getting ready for bed. Julie hadn't even started her french homework. She just didn't get the imparfait tense. And the imparfait tense didn't get her. Since mid-terms were fast approaching and she had a 69 in her class she had to pull it up to atleast a 70 so her parents weren't dissapointed when they got the report. "Ait, Ais..." she mumbled what she was suppoused to for the je's and tu's and il's and elle's.

Riggins was looking at her like she was crazy, but then dismissed it not wanting to get back into the hairdressing class. He was watching The Office with Shelly, who had Gracie ballenced on her knee, "Julie, honey, wanna keep it down?" Shelly said.

"Yeah, I'll keep it down." she left, walking to her room.

Powderpuff, One

"So, dad, who are the coaches gunna be?" Julie asked her father, sitting in his car. Tim shrugged, "Riggins volunteered." It wasn't surprising. Riggins did anything to be around girls. There was no way Julie wanted to be on his team, she saw what a violent coach he was the previous year.

"I'm really proud of you," the coach said, ruffling her hair, messing up a perfectly good style. But she didn't comment. "But, Matt's not."

"Why would I care if Matt was?" Julie asked, but she did. Sort of, it was hard to let go of that relationship. She missed him, she missed talking to him. She missed his kisses at times. But he didn't make her feel... well it wasn't important, was it? He had some nurse-maid girlfriend now. He picked her third.

"Right." the coach said.

When time came, Julie walked in through the doors with Tyra. "Remind me why we're doing this?" Julie asked, and then she saw Landry walk in. "You knew." and Tyra gave Julie a sickening doe eyed smiled.

Unlike last year, Tim's best player (Garrity) wasn't here. The school's only female gym teacher introduced them, and then it was time to pick teams. Landry and Tim had some sort of conversation. "I'm going first." Landry said and picked Tyra. Tyra gave another smile that tripped Julie's gag reflex. "

"Second year in a row picked first." Tyra smiled.

And then, to Julie's dismay she was the next picked... by the evil coach. (Well it's better then third, Jules.)