Title: What if.
Author: Vettegirl
Summary: What if Amanda wasn't who she really was? What if she didn't know when she was younger she was someone else? What if...
Date: 2/4/03

Thank you to my new beta readers, dawn and Ashlee, for helping me out. And also thanks to Jenna.


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"Good to see you Lee," Robbie said while the two girls were talking.

Lee and Robbie were friends right when they started school. Robbie somehow ended up on the wrong side of the bad kids at college and one day he was surrounded by
five guys, who were a bigger then he was. Lee saw that and came
to his rescue, helping him beat the five guys up in their freshmen years.
This made them the best of friends and they never had any trouble with any
goons ever again.

"So she came," Lee smiled. He always thought that Sara was beautiful and for
some reason he wanted to get to know her. The strange thing was, was that he
wasn't a 'get to know her' kind of guy. He liked to play the field a little.
None of the girlfriends that he had ever had made him feel the way that he felt
towards Sara and he didn't even know her.

"I hate to tell you this, but she didn't know that you were going to be
here."

"So, she's here under false pretences?" he sighed and frowned.

"Hey, she's here man, just..." He saw that Lee was looking at the two girls,
"What is it?"

"Did she just lick her lips?"

"Which one?!" He was about to turn his head.

"Don't turn your head around!" Lee whispered loudly. "It was Sara, not Ann."

"Well, I don't know, bud, but if she did, I don't think you were supposed to
see that," the two chuckled and they saw them heading towards the table.

Lee stood up when the two girls approached the table. Robbie followed him.

"Lee, I would like to introduce you to Sara," Ann said, introducing the two,
"Sara, this is Lee."

"Hi," Lee said.

"Hello," Sara said in a small whisper.

There was a short awkward silence and they were still all standing.

Then Lee broke the silence, "Uh, Sara, would you like to sit?"

"Sure," she replied and he offered her a seat on his booth. He then sat
beside her.

"So you guys going to sit too?" Lee asked.

"Well, actually..." Ann started and Sara gave her 'You better' eyes, "No."

"Ann!" Sara said not wanting to be left alone.

"Yeah I gotta go too," Robbie said.

"Where are you going Robbie?" Lee asked.

"Uh... that thing that I told you about."

"What thing?" Lee said. He knew he was lying to get the two by themselves.

"That thing. Remember Honey, that thing I told you about?" He said to Ann
hoping that she'd play along.

"Oh yes! That thing!" She looked at her watch, "Well you better hurry, you
might be late," and then she came up with something else, "I'll drive you!"

"Perfect!"

"But Ann you didn't bring a car," Sara reminded her.

"Yes, but I did and she loves driving my car. So see you guys later," Robbie
said and pulled Ann along.

"Buy Sara!" Ann called.

Lee started laughing.

"And what, pray-tell, are you laughing at?" Sara said with a little more
boldness in her.

"I take it that we were set-up," he stood up and moved around the table so
that they could look at each other. "Well, we weren't *properly* introduced.
My name is Lee Stetson," and he extended his hand.

"Sara Thomas," Sara said and shook his hand. "So Ann tells me that you
wanted to get to know me."

"Uh... yeah," he couldn't believe that Ann really told her that. He'll just
have to talk to her then.

"Why's that?"

"Because you look interesting," Lee said. He really didn't think that she'd
feel comfortable if a complete stranger said, 'Well, I think you're
beautiful and I've admired you from afar this past year and a half.'

"I do?"

"Yeah." Lee hoped that was the end of that conversation and asked, "So you
hungry?"

"Actually, no," Sara told him, "Ann and I already ate, considering that it
is "girl's night out"," and she even did the finger quotes to get her point
across.

"Good, I'm not hungry either," Lee said and got up.

"So, what, that's it? No 'getting to know me'?" Sara asked a little upset.

"No," he said, "How about we go for a little walk."

"Sounds great."

The two left the restaurant. Lee headed to his car and opened the passenger
side door.

"I thought you said we were going for a walk?" Sara asked.

"We are. I have to get us there first though," Sara hesitated a little, but
then Lee said, "Come on, I'm not going to bite." He said very seriously.

Sara decided to go and thought that if he tried anything funny, she had her
pepper spray with her. She got into the car and Lee shut the door. He went to the other side of the car and got in.

"So, what kind of car is this? I like it," Sara asked trying to make
conversation.

"It's a Camero. Bought it before I started college."

"Ah. So you like these types of cars."

"You mean like sports cars?" Sara nodded her head, "Yeah. I hope to one day
own a 1953 Porch and some type of corvette." Sara just nodded.

Lee drove out of the parking lot. For a while there was complete silence. He
hated complete silence and turned the radio on. "You can put it on any
channel you like, I'm not picky."

Sara just relaxed a little more in her seat and said, "Nah, this is fine."

They drove for about 15 more minutes and then Lee announced, "We're here."


TO BE CONTINUED....