Aw so glad that people are into this! AU's aren't usually my thing so you'll have to bear with me while I get my head around the switch. I have an idea as to where I want this to go but if anyone has any ideas or theories or absolutely anything you want to share or ask, drop me a review or PM and I'll have a go.

Anyhoo, little post today, just getting introductions out of the way before I get stuck into the actual plot, which is definitely there I assure you.


"Hey Baby."

Sharon looked up when she heard his voice behind her, she smiled when she saw it was Jackson. Though Sharon was happy to see him she fought the urge to berate him: she hated when he called her 'Baby'. It wasn't so much the word it was the tone.

Possessive.

"Hey." She called back when he moved along the line that formed outside the chem lab towards where she stood with Andrea and Brenda.

"Ladies." Jack nodded towards Sharon's friends, a smug smile on his face. He slipped one arm around his girlfriend whilst the fingers of his free hand ran through his sandy brown hair.

Brenda pulled a face at the action. Over the summer Jackson had grown his hair a little longer, it was kinda floppy now. Made him look even dumber than before. In Brenda's opinion anyway.

"Raydor." Andrea nodded in his direction, folding her arms across her chest as she leant against the lockers that lined the hallway.

"Always so frosty girls." Jack laughed, pushing a kiss to the side of Sharon's head.

"Don't be an ass Jack." Sharon whispered, sometimes he could be a real jerk in front of her friends, and his own firends, but when they were alone it was different.

"Yeah Jack. Don't be an ass." Brenda smiled sweetly at him, her southern accent a little more pronounced in the moment. "Don't you think you should be a little nicer to us, since our opinion of you is important to Sharon and right now, we still think you're a lying, cheating trash rat."

"Brenda..." Sharon started, her friend interrupted only a second later.

"Oh I'm done, just needed to get that out there honey."

"You got a lab partner yet, Baby?" Jack, to his credit, didn't bite to Brenda's remark, instead he changed the subject.

"Well I was hoping you were free?" Sharon smiled at him when he raised his hands and feigned a look of shock.

"Oh my god, just what I was thinking. We make the best team!"

Andrea rolled her eyes and looked to Brenda beside her. "Please tell me we can go in soon, before I vomit my chicken salad all over the hall."

"Honey, it's all I can do not to retch up that last ding dong."

Sharon rolled her eyes at the exchange, she loved her friends but they could really bitch some times.

"Oh god, here comes the new guy." Andrea pushed herself up to stand straighter, her hand automatically raised to smooth her hair. Her gaze followed Andy Flynn as he walked past the group, flanked on either side by Louie and Mike.

"Hi." Andrea smiled at him, flipping her hair as he turned towards her.

"Hey." Andy cocked his head at the group, throwing a wink in Sharon's direction as he passed, completely ignoring the guy beside her.

"Did he just wink at you?" Jack watched the guys leave to join the back of the line, his brows knitting together in anger.

"Hardly." Sharon rolled her eyes in reply.

"Yeah he did."

"He did not."

"Ohhh he did." Brenda smirked from beside her friend, there was no way she could resist the remark.

"What if he did? Like I care!" Sharon spoke, her eyes narrowed, folding her arms in agitation.

"I care!"

"Jack, it was one wink and a smile, it's not like he walked up and asked me out!"

Just as her friend's were adept at knowing when to push Sharon's buttons, so was Jackson Raydor. The door to the chem lab swung open before anyone could add to the conversation and they began to file inside, Jackson stepped away briefly to catch up with his friends across the room.

"This seat taken?" Andy leant nonchalently against the desk, his foot shifting the vacant stool beside Sharon as he spoke.

"Yes. Actually." Sharon raised one eyebrow at the new guy. She hadn't intended to sound so harsh but it just happened.

"Let me guess. Boyfriend?" Andy smiled, nodding in Jack's direction, so far he hadn't noticed Andy talking to Sharon, that much was obvious.

"How'd you know he was my boyfriend?"

"I do my research."

"I just bet you do, Andy Flynn."

"Aha. So you already know my name."

Sharon closed her eyes for a second at her own idiocy, finally meeting his smug gaze a moment later. "Actually, it was Andrea that wanted to know who you were. I was just around to over hear."

Andy opened his mouth to reply when the voice of their lab teacher resonated across the classroom.

"Stools are for sitting on Mr Flynn, not kicking across the floor."

"It barely moved!" Andy called back without thinking twice.

"It moved enough now sit on it."

"Um Mr Lambert, sir, he is NOT my lab partner." Sharon stood up at the implication that Andy would have to sit and therefore by extension become her new partner.

"He is now Miss Sinclair!"

"Sir!" Now Jackson joined the debate from across the lab, obviously offended by the exchange.

"Don't even bother Mr Raydor you're perfectly fine over there with Mr Dunn. Now all of you sit."

Sharon lowered herself slowly onto the stool, she wanted to protest but the proud, and stubborn part of her wouldn't allow it. She certainly wouldn't give Andy Flynn the satisfaction.

"Sup Partner." Andy whispered on a laugh as they settled in to listen to their instructions.

"Shut up Flynn."

"Make me." Andy's brows wiggled suggestively, eliciting a sigh and tut from the irritated girl beside him.

"Just...take note of the apparatus we need. I'll do the instructions."


"Should it be like, frothing, that much?" Andy raised one eyebrow as he leant his elbow on the desk, his head resting on his hand as he looked sideways at their experiment.

"Well if you actually helped, we might be further along!"

"I'm sorry, you're just terribly distracting."

"And you're terribly irritating."

Andy laughed and sat up straight. "Ok. You win. Hand it over."

Sharon raised one eyebrow when Andy held out his hands. He could almost see her brain thinking it over. Eventually she reasoned that there wasn't much damage he could do with this particular beaker and test tube.

"See. You need to hold the beaker at an angle, and empty the test tube slowly. Less froth and steam."

"When did you become such an expert?" Sharon folded her arms across her chest, only margins away from what could be classified as a huff.

"I'm no expert."

"Could have fooled me."

"Okay, wanna know the truth?" Andy looked at her sideways, the slight quip of her brow answered his question. "We did this experiment last semester. Our lab teacher was a bit of headcase with experiments, least two a week."

"And you actually listened?"

"Come on Sharon! Give a guy a break here, we're stuck with each other for the next year we could at least be civil."

Sharon exhaled slowly and gave a slight nod. "You're right. I'm sorry. I'm giving you a hard time which isn't fair. I barely know you."

"I get it. You might not know me but you know my type, and you don't have time for my bullshit."

"I was always taught not to judge people before I knew them." Sharon looked at him, for the first time without rolling her eyes at his cockiness.

"So let's start over. Andy Flynn."

"Sharon Sinclair." Sharon smiled as she shook his outstretched hand. When he threw in a wink she couldn't help but roll her eyes. It was clear he was used to girls swooning under his charm, Sharon wasn't about to be one of them.

Still, there was something about Andy Flynn that she couldn't quite figure out. Good or bad, would she even allow herself to learn more?


Short and hopefully sweet! Forgive my lack of science knowledge, I've just realised its been ten years since I sat in a science class and that's a little upsetting! lol

oh and points for those who spotted a brief mention of our old nemesis Mr Dunn. I figured we could lump all the bad guys together!