"Who's that?" Desmond asked. He and Sawyer were at the lunch table and Desmond was pointing people out and asking who they were.

"That's Michael."

"Who's that?"

"That's Sarah."

"Who's that?"

"That's Matt. He's in love with Ana Lucia," Sawyer explained. For that, he earned a punch in the arm.

"I see… who's that?"

"Eko."

"Who's that?"

"That's Michael again!"

"Oh…"

"Okay will you stop?" Sawyer said, annoyed.

"Alright, brother," Desmond laughed. He spotted someone at the lunch line. "Hey, who's that?"

"I thought you just said you'd stop!"

"Well I actually want to know who that is!"

"Her name is Penelope," Sawyer said.

Desmond noticed that she was struggling with carrying her lunch. She had a bundle of books and stuff with her.

"Does she need help?" Desmond asked, concerned. Sawyer grinned mischievously.

He opened his mouth to say something, but Ana interrupted and said, "Leave him alone, Sawyer."

Desmond got up and walked over to Penelope. "Hey," He greeted, taking her lunch from her hands. Penny then dropped all of her books. Desmond bent down and started picking them up.

"Sorry about that," Penny said. "I'm Penny."

"Nice to meet you, Penny," Desmond said. "I'm Desmond."

"Are you new here? I haven't ever seen you around."

Desmond nodded and scooped up the remaining books. "You're just lucky your lunch wasn't on their, otherwise you'd be eating lunch of the floor."

Penny laughed. "Yeah, thanks for that. I'm only carrying this stuff because my locker is jammed."

Desmond took her lunch to her table. "Well, see you later, Penny,"

"Yeah," She replied. "I'll see you when you take me to the Thanksgiving feast."

He looked at her. "I never said I would take you to the Thanksgiving feast."

"Not yet," She said.

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"Scotty's been here for two days and he's already got himself a girl?" Sawyer said.

"I couldn't even accomplish that. But if Ana Lulu here would be so kind…" Ana pushed him.

"Shut up, Sawyer," She sighed. "You know, I should really count how many times someone says that to you in one day. I'd like to see that."

"I don't think anyone can count that high," Kate told her.

"That's true," Ana thought aloud.

"Why are you two ganging up on me?" Sawyer asked. "What did I ever do to you?

"Shut up, Sawyer," they both said simultaneously, and then burst out laughing.

"Speaking of going out with people," Claire said. "Jack… when are you going to ask Sarah out? You've liked her since the beginning of the year."

"Soon," he promised. He had long since stopped denying it. They just didn't believe him.

"I'm holding you to that," Kate warned.

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Ana walked along the hallway until she heard Ace's and Matt's voices. She sighed, and expecting them to run up and talk to her any second anyway, she stopped and she waited.

She only overheard what they were saying. They were talking to Sawyer.

"Hey, Sawyer," that was Ace. "How do you get Ana to like you like she does?"

Did she just hear what she thought she heard? Ana liking Sawyer? Not a chance she thought to herself. This, however, gave her an idea.

"Go away," she heard Sawyer's response.

"No, really," Matt said. "You can make her smile, make her laugh. She's always happy around you."

Ana felt like she could puke at the very thought of that. It was, in a way, true, though.

"Maybe," Sawyer started to say. "Maybe you should just leave her alone. And leave me alone, as well." She heard Sawyer walk away and in her direction. He turned the corner. Ana ran up to him. She fell into his step beside him.

"They weren't giving you a hard time, were they?" Ana asked.

"Not too much," Sawyer answered. "I hope they'll stop giving you a hard time though. It's really getting on my nerves to see them continuously getting on your nerves."

Ana stopped to think about how to word this next phrase. "Maybe," She hesitated. "You could help me with that."

Sawyer stopped. "Help how?"

"Well," she began awkwardly. "If you and I- how do I put this? - we can pretend to be going on a date, in fact, a double-date with Jack and Sarah."

Sawyer stared at her. "You're serious?"

"Yes, I'm serious," She said impatiently. "Look, it'll only be a one-time thing, and things will be great for everyone. They'll stop bothering me, and we can hook up Jack and Sarah! It's perfect!"

Sawyer hesitated. "You owe me one."

"Thank you, Sawyer," Ana breathed. "Maybe now they'll leave me alone."

"I said you owe me one."

"What's on your mind?" Ana asked nervously.

"Maybe this doesn't have to be a one time thing," He started. "You pretend to go out with me long enough so that-."

"Kate will start to like you so you two can go out?" Ana finished for him. "I don't think so." She began walking away. Sawyer ran after her.

"Come on!" He persisted. "Don't you think that they'll keep bothering you afterwards?"

She froze. He had a point. "Fine," she mumbled. "Let's go get Jack and Sarah."

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"No."

"Please?"

"No."

"You said soon!"

Ana was trying to convince Jack to come on the double date. It was not going as well as Ana had hoped.

"Why are you suddenly so interested in hooking me up with Sarah anyway? I thought that was Claire's job."

"Well," Ana said, not looking Jack in the eye. "I was actually wondering if you and Sarah would double date with me and Sawyer."

Jack laughed. "You and Sawyer?"

"Yeah."

"I don't believe you."

"It's true!"
"Well," Jack laughed. "Just because that was hilarious, I'll do it. But that doesn't mean Sarah will say yes." He walked out. Ana was surprised. She pulled out her phone and texted Sawyer to tell him.

Ana waited for Jack to come back. After a long forty-five minutes, Jack returned with an unreadable expression on his face. "She said yes," Jack told her. "Saturday night of next week."

"Perfect!" Ana said, and pulled out her phone to text Sawyer again.

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OK!!! I love Sana. It's so great.

Next chapter-the double date, most likely with the feast too.