A/N: Because I thought the idea of the other people on the flight was interesting. For your reading pleasure, I have for you a few one-shots about other people that were on flight 815. They are all original or semi-original characters, though there are no Mary Janes. That's right, you won't find 'so and so was Sawyer's lover.' Now, if these characters died or if they are somewhere on the island, while I guess it's really what you think.

Also, I'm going with a guess and saying the plane crashed six hours after take off.

Disclaimer: I do not own the idea for 'Lost'. I do own all characters that do not appear of the show. Also, I do not own any quotes or song lyrics, they belong to whoever wrote them.

Lonely Boy

Two Hours Before the Crash

I walk a lonely road
The only one I that have ever known - Green Day, 'Boulevard Of Broken Dreams'

Josh Dylan was seventeen and traveling alone. Not that he minded, after all he had been all over the world in his short time on the planet. His mother was rich and so they traveled anywhere and every where she wanted. However, Josh's mother had decided that she wanted to return home to Maine-which meant she needed to beg her parents for money. Not wanting Josh to deal with the family, Josh's mother had bought him a plane ticket to Los Angeles. He would spend a month enjoying the sites and he would meet up with his mother back at their Australian apartment.

So, that meant he got a whole month away from his controlling mother and her newest and very young boyfriend. That made Josh very happy. He was seventeen and no seventeen year old boy should have to deal with his mother the way Josh had to deal with his. 'I'm your best friend. You don't need to know your peers, Joshua. They'd only use you for your money. Besides, they are all beneath you. You graduated high school early. Yale can wait a year. Come travel with me. We'll travel together just as soon as I go see my parents.' That was the last thing Josh's mother had said to him before she had gotten on her plane the day before. If Josh's math was correct, his mother would be charming her mother right about now. The thought of that made Josh sick to his stomach.

He looked around him and unexpectedly felt pleased with himself. He was glad that he had changed his ticket from first class to his current seat. Josh hated being rich and he was quite certain that if he had had a say in the matter, he wouldn't have been born rich. Rich kids ended up getting stuck with parents like his.

"Can I get you anything else, sir?" Josh glanced up at a pretty flight attendant. He held in a smile, almost giddy that he had been called 'sir'.

"No, no." Josh waved a hand. "I'm just fine, thank you." He gave the attendant a small smile before going back to his magazine.

Josh waited until she was gone before putting the magazine down, he hadn't really wanted to read it anyway. In reality, he just didn't really know how to deal with people. Sure he could order room service in ten different languages, but he could hardly have a conversion with a girl his own age. He wasn't very good with the whole peer thing.

"Pull!" Such a strange word to say on an airplane. Josh leaned out into the aisle and looked behind him. It had been a young girl that had spoken, her accent a strange mix of Irish, Australian and American. She seemed to be having a fight with the man that was sitting next to her. Already flight attendants were trying to calm her down. She really did not seem right in the head.

Josh watched with interest as the man and two flight attendants tried to keep the girl sitting. She seemed to have an unusual strength and she seemed very determined to get out of her seat. The girl was babbling something or other and it made Josh nervous. It made him down right terrified when her eyes caught his. She stared at him for what seemed like forever. Suddenly, she mouthed 'Alone', before stopping. In a flash she was calm again, sitting silent and still in her seat. At first he thought it was something he had done, but then he noticed that the man sitting next to her had a needle, which he placed back in a little black bag.

Josh quickly sat correctly in his seat and stared straight ahead. That had been too strange. It had been like the girl was trying to tell him something. Of course, she couldn't have been, because they didn't know one another, still it had been rather creepy. He felt a shiver run down his back. The girl had mouthed 'Alone' to him. What had that meant? Did she mean he shouldn't be alone. That he was alone? Or was she not even talking to him. Or was she just some crazed person who had to be drugged to be on a plane? Josh settled on the last one. After all, it wasn't like the girl knew him or anything. And it wasn't like he was alone alone. He wouldn't be alone for the rest of his days. He'd make friends one day. Right? Right. Josh would not be alone forever and he knew it. That crazy girl had been just crazy and he…he would not always be alone. One day, he would be surrounded by people.