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"Hey Claire," Charlie greeted. "How are you feeling?"

"Good, thank you," Claire replied happily. Shannon and Kate snickered.

"What are you eating?" Charlie asked, ignoring Shannon and Kate.

"French toast," Claire answered simply.

"With peanut butter," Kate and Shannon added in unanimously. "Which I find disgusting," Shannon added.

"So we're all going to that Halloween party, right?" Charlie asked Claire. Kate and Shannon snickered again.

"Yes," Claire replied. "ALL of us."

"Hey," Shannon interrupted. "Don't we have a basketball game soon? Aren't you coming?"

"Yeah," Charlie said. "It'll be great. It's co-ed, right?"

Kate and Shannon nodded.

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Kate was sitting in Chemistry, working on an assignment. The room was completely silent.

She looked to her left. Sawyer was talking to Ana quietly. Ana looked like she would explode at any moment. Kate ignored this and went back to work.

Suddenly there was a thud sound and Ana was walking out the door. The class turned their attention to Sawyer, who was slowly getting up over his overturned desk and a red mark on his face. The whole class erupted with laughter.

"Ana!" Mr. Sams yelled. "Get back in here this minute!" They didn't see her the rest of the class.

"What did you do to her?" Kate whispered to him, hardly controlling her laughter.

"I didn't do nothing," Sawyer muttered angrily. "She just lost her temper, that's all."

"Right," Kate laughed sarcastically. "I'll believe that."

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That same day Kate sat next to Sawyer at their tables in Tech.

"Now," the teacher said. "Please partner up with someone at your table. Sun, will you help Jin with the English."

"Yes, sir," Sun said.

"I guess that means you and me, Freckles," Sawyer said to Kate.

They stared at their worksheets for a full minute. "What do we do?" Kate finally said.

"Like I'd have any idea," Sawyer said. "You actually expect me to listen in this class?"

Kate looked around the room. To her left, she saw Sayid bent over the sheet and Jack looked completely overwhelmed and lost by how fast Sayid was going. To her right, Shannon and Ana were quietly arguing about what to do. Most other groups worked peacefully.

"Excuse me," came their principal's voice from the door. "May I see Boone Carlyle and Shannon Rutherford please?"

The teacher excused them and put their partners, Libby and Ana, together.

Sawyer and Kate glanced at each other, but then quickly went back to working.

After a while, Boone and Shannon hadn't come back. Sawyer pulled out his cell phone and began texting.

"What's he saying?" Kate whispered urgently. "What happened?"

Sawyer showed Kate the message:

Family stuff. Don't worry about it, be back soon.

"Ow!" Sawyer said, careful not to yell. He picked up a pink eraser from the floor. They both turned to Sayid. Sawyer scribbled Boone's message onto a paper, scrunched it up, and tossed it over to Sayid and Jack, who, after reading it, threw it over to Hurley.

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"So, Freckles," Sawyer said. "Do you want to come shoot hoops with me and Sayid today?"

"Can't," Kate replied. "Homework. Sorry."

"That's everyone's excuse," Sawyer moaned. "Ana? How about you?"

"Detention," Ana growled angrily.

"I see," Sawyer laughed. "Claire?"

"Oh," Claire said surprised. "I… basketball's not really for me…."

"Sure it is," Sawyer said spiritedly. "Come on, let's go." He grabbed her arm and pulled her outside towards the court.

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Claire was just passing the ball back and forth to Sawyer and Sayid.

"Ford! Jarrah!" It was the coach. "Come over here."

"What is it, Coach?" Sawyer asked once he got over there.

"Who is that you're playing ball with over there?" He pointed to Claire.

They turned and saw her shooting a multiple times and making it each one.

"Claire Littleton, sir," Sayid answered.

"Littleton, eh?" he said. "She's good. Why isn't she on the team? Go invite her to join, now!"

Sawyer and Sayid returned to the court.

"He wants you to join the team," Sawyer told Claire.

"Oh," Claire said, surprised. "Well, you can tell him I don't really want to. Oh… never mind, he's not even there anymore."

A dog suddenly walked up to them.

"Hey look, a dog," Claire said. She read its tag. Vincent. Return to Michael Dawson.

Vincent jumped up and grabbed the ball from Claire's hands.
"Vincent!" Sayid shouted. "No!"

The dog kept running until it got to the woods behind the school.

"Oh, man," Claire groaned. "We're not allowed in there, for some reason."

Sawyer didn't listen. He pushed the tree branches aside and went through. Sayid followed, and Claire ran in after them.

She found the basketball and scooped it up. "Ew," She said. "Dog drool." Disgusted, Claire tossed it to the ground a few feet away from her. It made a 'clunk' sound.

"Did you hear that?" Sayid asked. "That's not the kind of noise it should make."

All three of them went to investigate. They tore away leaves and undergrowth to search for what had made that noise. They didn't have to dig for long.

It was a metal hatch.

Alright I think this one is a bit short. Next chapter will mostly be focused around 'Sploding the hatch!

I might be starting a new fic soon which means I won't be updating as much on this one… but I won't forget! Don't worry!