A/N: Please, don't kill me for making any of the original ST characters smoke!  Also this one's especially for my best friend.  You know who you are babes!

Once Jack was out of sight, the girls sat on the bench, all of them across from Sue since Amy had told them she had to see their lips if they were talking to her.

"So... what have you got after lunch, Sue?" Nikki asked

"I've got science, with Mr. McRae, and then English with Mrs. McDade."

"Really? Me too, let's see your timetable for a sec?"

Sue simply nodded, rummaged in her bag for the timetable and handed the crumbled piece of paper over to Lucy who scanned it.

"Your timetable is the exact same as Amy's and mines so how come I never noticed you in any of my classes before?"

"I dunno, but I've been sitting right at the back of all my classes."

Lucy nodded, and glanced at her watch.

"It's only half one, time for a quick fag before science."

"Fag? What do you want a gay guy for?" Sue asked incredulously.

"A gay boy?" Lucy replied, laughing, "no, she means a cigarette!"

"Oh!" Sue blushed furiously for the fourth time in the short space of half an hour.

Sue followed them through a fire exit door, up a flight of stairs and round to the back of the school building where the girls led her behind a statue of the Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus. Amy took a packet of cigarettes out of her blazer pocket, removing a cigarette for herself and passed the pack around her friends. They worked a sort of system, where they took it in turns to buy the cigarettes each day. The small box ended up in Sue's hands. She stood staring at her, debating with herself whether or not to try it. She too removed a cigarette from the pack, rolling it between her fingers as she watched the rest of them light up one by one - they shared a lighter too.

"You don't have to smoke it if you don't want to, you know." Amy told her.

"Wouldn't hurt to try, I guess..." Sue replied, hesitance evident in her voice.

So Nikki handed over the lighter and Sue lit her cigarette, sucking in the smoke and blowing it straight back out of her mouth again.

"No, you have to inhale."

"H-how do I do that?"

"Look," Helen replied, demonstrating "you suck in the smoke, then breath in and then you blow it out."

Sue did as Helen had told her, but, unlike the rest of them, she breathed in too deeply and ended up coughing. Amy patted Sue's back and told her again that she didn't have to smoke if she didn't want to. Sue shook her head and tried again, coughing a bit less the second time. When she finally managed to take a drag without coughing, she found that she quite enjoyed it. Not so much the smoking itself, but the fact that she knew her mother would most likely kill her if she found out. Sue rarely let her rebellious side show, and she relished in the idea of breaking one of her mom's rules.