AN: Okay so I want you to get an idea of Booth's back story, I changed it just a tad to fit the story better.. I should've put in last chapter but I didn't. This is the first day up to where I left off with Brennan's day. Oh and thanks for all the story alerts and reviews, keep them coming :)
Disclaimer: Thankfully I don't own Bones because then the show probably wouldn't be near as good.
Seeley Booth laid in bed wide awake; he couldn't get to sleep that night. He was out with his friends earlier that day while his dad was gone. He wanted to get home before him but his dad got their first and he was drunk, really drunk. Whenever his dad drank he was his personal punching bag, and his dad drank a lot. He would retaliate but he knew his younger brother would then suffer just like he did when Seeley wasn't home last night. His brother Jared was thrown into the wall and punched so hard in his stomach that he threw up, which he was forced to clean up. Seeley felt awful, if he would have been home that day then his dad would have hit him instead of Jared. It wasn't fair, why couldn't have a normal teenage life where his dad didn't beat him senseless and his mom didn't pretend everything was okay when it wasn't.
"I've been thinkin' 'bout all times you told me, you're so full of doubt, You just can't let it be" Seeley lightly slammed his head against his headboard as he turned his alarm off. Time for the first day of his junior year, he wasn't nervous because he was very popular being the captain of the varsity football team. He also played other sports like hockey, basket ball, and he even boxed.
He got out of bed lazily and went straight for the shower; he let the water relax him for a little while. When he got out of the shower he went to his closet to decide what to wear. He grabbed a pair of light ripped jeans, a long sleeve light blue and white plaid shirt, and a plain white shirt to go underneath, along with a pair of white sneakers. After getting dressed he went in to the bathroom and applied some jell in hair and gave it the tasseled look.
It was getting late so he grabbed his keys and bag and went to make sure Jared was ready. He found Jared dressed sitting on his bed looking bummed. Jared had a purple mark on his face from his father's beating yesterday and Seeley once again felt horribly guilty.
He went and stood in front of his brother. "It's not that bad, if anyone asks say you were in a fight with a big guy and you took him down and that's the only hit he got in. Don't worry I'll back your story up; it'll be fine." He tried giving his brother a reassuring smile.
"Alright." Jared smiled back.
They got to school around 6:50 and Seeley was immediately surrounded by his friends. They decided to stop and talk to coach if they had time but as they were walking up the stairs he couldn't help but notice a beautiful girl starring intently at her schedule. Seeley could instantly tell she was new because he knew just about everybody at the school and he would have remembered her face. As she was walking her boot missed a step and he reacted in a second catching her with his arms. She felt so soft under his hands; he loved the feeling of her in his arms. She turned around in his arms and her incredible blue eyes left him speechless; normally he would have already asked if she was okay and introduced himself but he was lost in her eyes. She took a step back and he got a better look at her and she was absolutely breathtaking. She wasn't like other girls at this school who wore heavy makeup and miniskirts; she just had this natural beauty to her. He looked at the way she was dressed, she had on a thin black sweater with a hood, dark denim jeans, along with black furry boots.
After realizing he probably looked like a perv starring her up and down he found his voice again. "Are you okay?"
Seeley saw his friends stop at the stairs after realizing that he was no longer with them. "Hey man you coming?"
"Yeah just give me a second." He didn't know why but he found himself not wanting to leave her side.
He turned back to face her and repeated. "Are you okay?"
"I am just fine." She shot back and he could definitely tell she was annoyed.
Seeley thought for sure that she must of saw him checking her out but he couldn't help himself. He saw her bending down to pick up her books but he was faster and grabbed them before her. "You sure?" He said handing them back to her.
Her blue eyes turned to stone before him. "Why do you even care?"
She turned around and started towards her class; at least what she thought was her class. "Uhm Mr. Jacobs class is the other way." He pointed his finger in the right direction and handed her back her schedule after noticing it still on the ground when she went to walk to class.
"I can walk you there if you like; it's my first class too." He really hoped she said yes but didn't know why because after all she wasn't even being nice.
She nodded her head and they walked to class in silence, he didn't want to make her feel uncomfortable by making small talk; he could tell she was anxious about today.
They got to class on time and he took a seat next her. He tried his best not to stare at her and focus on what Mr. Jacobs was saying.
"You will be assigned one partner by me and that will be your partner for the rest of year for whenever we do projects. No exceptions." He continued writing on the board as the class whined in protest.
He set the chalk down and began randomly pairing off teams by their last names. "Abbott and Aldrich, Allen and Andres, Booth and Brennan..."
Before he could look around to wonder who his partner was, he got a text from his friend Chris asking about football practice and he went to reply.
"Seeley Booth put away your cell phone before I take it." Mr. Jacob's eyes were glaring at him. Aw just great on the first day he already managed to get caught with his cell phone out.
AN: Okay now that you know a little more about Booth the story now picks up after Brennan figures out Booth is her history partner. Sorry that it wasn't in the first chapter.
Temperance Brennan was highly annoyed with the fact the Seeley Booth the gorgeous jock was now her history partner.
Mr. Jacobs blabbered on about himself for the half hour of the class; telling students' things about him that they didn't care to hear.
"Alright settle down class as our first project of the year I would you to pick a person from the list provided and research who they were, what they did, how they changed history, and so on. I am passing out a rubric sheet for you to see the details." He started walking around placing a sheet on each desk occupying a student.
"Mr. Jacobs who is Temperance Brennan?" Seeley asked but was all most certain it was the girl he saved from hitting the stairs.
Mr. Jacobs turned his head towards Seeley. "I believe she is sitting right next to you." He motioned a hand towards the direction Temperance was sitting.
He smiled and held out his hand to her. "Hello Temperance, I'm Se-" She wouldn't even let him finish his name.
"Yeah I heard it the first time; you're Seeley Booth."
He had to admit her tone was becoming a little irritating. What did he do wrong? He stopped her from tripping on the stairs, and even walked her to class and she has been nothing but snippy.
He ignored her tone for now, looking at the list in front of him. "So who do you want to do our project on?"
She looked over the list and couldn't decide who to choose. "You pick."
"How about Rachel Carson?"
Temperance was a little surprised that he picked a female environmentalist. "Sure." She heard the bell indicating class was over so she gathered her stuff and hurried out the door without a goodbye.
Seeley gathered his stuff before heading out the door but was stopped by his friend Josh. "Hey man who was the chick you were sitting with? I've never seen her before."
"Her name is Temperance, shes new."
"Oh well she had a hell of a body, imagine her naked." Josh had a huge grin on face while Seeley felt the need to slap him but he had no idea why. Him and his friends always talked about hot girls.
Without saying a word to his friend he walked out of class.
While walking to his next class he was stopped by Jasmine Russell, she was captain of the cheerleading team and had a thing for Seeley. Jasmine walked over and flung herself on him. "OMG! I haven't seen you in forever."
Seeley silently groaned. He had to admit Jasmine was attractive in a way but it just didn't appeal to him, and he didn't really like her but he was a gentleman. "Yeah the whole summer, hey look I got to get to math I'll see you later." He slipped out of her hug and walked to math.
During math he found himself barely paying attention to Mr. Lewis and instead thinking about Temperance. Why couldn't he get her out of his head? He knew there was something different about her, but he didn't know what. He was happy when class was over and it was time for lunch.
Some of his friends from the football, hockey, basketball, and the cheerleading team were sitting at a table and called his name. He took a seat next to his friend Chris and started talking to him when he heard Jasmine say. "Isn't that the girl the Perez's adopted?" She pointed her boney index finger towards a table with a girl sitting alone reading. Everyone turned to look and Seeley instantly recognized the girl as Temperance.
"Oh yeah, aye Seeley isn't she the chick from history?"
"Yeah that's her." Seeley wished they would drop it because he knew what they would say.
Zach eyed her down. "She's kind of hot."
"Really hot." Mike blurted.
"Seeley you should so tap that. She'd probably be easy."
Before Seeley could say anything Jasmine interrupted. "Hello guys were right here and can hear everything your saying." She motioned a hand at her and her friends. "Besides she is so not pretty, I mean just look at her shes so plain and boring looking."
Without saying anything Seeley walked over to where Temperance was sitting. He could hear his friends cheer him on but he ignored them; he had no intentions of taking advantage of her not that she would even agree. "Hey, remember me from history and from the stairs?" He took a seat in front of her.
She tore her eyes from her book and looked up into the eyes of Seeley Booth.
"How could I forget you?" She said sarcastically.
Ignoring her comment "About our project I was wondering if you wanted to get started after school?" she didn't answer. "Like go to the library or something."
As much as she didn't like Seeley she cared about her grade on the project. "Sure, meet me there right after school."
"Okay." He had practice right after school but he knew he could easily get out of it.
With the nod of his head and quiet "See you then." He got up from the table and went back to his friends.
Temperance went back to reading her book but was not too happy about having to hang out with Seeley after school, even if it was for the project. She didn't eat a thing during lunch, its wasn't that she wasn't hungry she just didn't have any money.
After lunch she was on her way to P.E and wasn't too excited since she barely ever played sports, its not that she was never any good she just didn't have the time to play them. When she found the class she went into the girl's locker room and found out they were supposed to dress out that day, meaning she was supposed to have gym clothes with her.
Luckily a girl noticed and offered her a pair of black spandex shorts and she thanked her. The girl then looked at her sweater. "You have to wear something else besides that sweater; it's not considered dressing out."
She groaned but took off her sweater and left on the white tank top. "What about my boots?" She held up one foot and pointed down at her feet.
"Here you can borrow these; I am a size 7. Will they fit you?" The girl then handed her a pair of white sneakers.
"Yeah they'll fit fine. Thank you." She smiled at the girl. "I'm Temperance."
"My name is Angela." She smiled back. "Okay well we better head out there."
"Where are we going?"
"Where going out in the field or in the gym, it all depends on what you decide to do. Today is a free day you can play soccer, basket ball, flag football, or boxing."
"Uhm okay." They walked out together and stood in the grass with the other students while coach gave them directions.
They headed to the gym after Angela insisted they watch some hot guys box. Temperance didn't complain; she just followed along. They walked up and took a seat on the bleachers and that was when she noticed Seeley and his friend sitting below them and she could hear part of what they were saying.
"So you going to practice today?" Josh asked.
"Nope I can't I'm going to the library to work on my history project with Temperance."
"Oh why not make her do all the work? She would so pick up the slack if you didn't do anything."
Seeley didn't say anything. "So you gonna hit that or what?"
By then Temperance was fuming and she couldn't hear Seeley's response but could have swore he said yes.
Her focus went back on Angela when she spoke. "Oh my god look Seeley Booth is going to box next. Isn't he smoking hot?"
She watched as he approached the mat and noticed no one was following. "Who is he going to verse?"
"I guess no body; looks like all the guys are too scared." Angela smiled as she checked out Seeley.
Temperance shot out of her seat and walked down the bleachers and picked boxing gloves off the floor and walked straight over to face Seeley.
When he realized her intentions he spoke up. "No way am I hitting a girl."
"Then allow me." She nailed him right in the side of his jaw with her right fist.
"Aw dammit." He yelled as his jaw throbbed. Booth watched as she walked off the mat and he ran after her.
He followed her outside and gently but forcefully pushed her up against the building with his body against hers. "Oh, no you don't." She tried pushing him off but he didn't budge. "What did I do to piss you off so much; I saved you from falling on the stairs!"
Their faces were now inches apart. "Yeah and then you talk about me to your stupid friend about how I'm going to do all the work for our project and that you're going to 'hit that' "
He looked at her confused and then instantly realized what she was talking about. "First of all that was what Josh said; I have no intentions of making you do all the work, and I never said I was going to 'hit that' He's just an idiot."
She felt guilty about hitting him but she didn't let it show too much. "Oh well then I am sorry for punching you in the face."
"Its fine just next time make sure you hear the while conversation before you hit me in the face. Now are we still gonna work on our project after school?"
"Deal, and yeah sure." She really did feel bad about hitting him in the face but felt kind of awkward about how they were close they were. She moved out from under him. "I got to go."
As she walked away he realized that she was wearing a very tiny pair of shorts and a tank top and he couldn't help but watch her hips and butt sway as she walked away. After all he was still a guy even if he didn't have intentions of 'hitting that'.
AN: Okay so I was a little all over the place with this chapter I am going to try to do better next chapter. Review please and let me know if you liked this chapter or not.