Okay, just for the record, this is not a Haley/James fic. Haley really, sincerely wants James and Sarah to get together. She's kind of a matchmaker. Of course her evil plan backfires a little.

I don't own LK.

Haley grinned, just about to set her evil plan into action. She took James aside.

"James, you like Sarah, right?" She asked, even though she already knew the answer.

James looked around fearfully before nodding.

"That's what I thought," Haley muttered.

"Do you want to get her jealous?" Haley solicited slyly.

James was skeptical.

"How do I even know that she'll get jealous?" James posed pessimistically.

Haley grinned evilly.

"Trust me, James, she will," Haley reassured.

James still didn't believe her, but he shrugged and shook her hand anyways.

"I just hope this works," He muttered cynically.

Haley smirked.

"Oh, James, it will. It's time Sarah learned that you won't be unofficially hers forever," She mumbled assuredly.

James shot her a curious look, which she waved off. Then Haley gulped, ignoring the rather nauseous feeling in her stomach and walking confidently over to the end of her driveway. James followed her apprehensively and planted himself in front of her.

Haley reminded herself why she was doing this. James and Sarah had been so helpful, it was the least she could do. And while Sarah might be pissed off, and James confused, well, she still had to do it.

"James, just go along with whatever I do, okay?" She said, pushing down the nervousness she felt.

Well, at least when her kids asked, she'd have an interesting story to tell.

James nodded urgently and Haley bit her lip. She swallowed once more, before leaning past James, looking straight at Sarah. There was no turning back now.

"HEY, SARAH!" She screamed at the top of her lungs, "LOOK OVER HERE!"

As soon as Haley felt Sarah's gaze, she did the unthinkable.

She pulled James into a passionate soul-shattering kiss. Haley kissed James right in the middle of her driveway, where everyone and his mother could see, in the twilight.

Sarah's mouth gaped open so wide that an entire egg could've fit inside. Her eyes were extremely wide and shock radiated from her every pore. But then, as James and Haley's own shock at her action wore off, Sarah was hit with an extreme anger.

James, who had never, to his knowledge, been kissed (although, he hadn't gone through the Sibyl Ludington episode yet before he was transported here), was very shocked, naturally. So, it took a while before the awkward boy even thought to respond. But when he did, it was satisfactory enough, or, it at least looked that way, to make Sarah smack him in the head and run home.

A minute or so later, Haley broke the kiss. She and James stared at each other for about a second.

"Wow."

"Wow."

James smiled a little.

"You taste nice," He remarked, rather chipper.

Haley grinned, pointing to her lips.

"It's the lip gloss. Not only shiny, but yummy too!" She giggled.

James laughed.

"Yeah, that is a fetching shade," He muttered somewhat nervously.

The shade now decorated his lips too. This resulted in more good-humored laughter.

However, the two of them now had bigger problems than Sarah's mood-swings.

"…Haley…PLEASE tell me I did not see what I just thought I saw!"

Haley gulped, knowing the voice without turning around.

"James, run to Brendan's house. I'll meet you there, okay?" She said, grasping his shoulders.

James nodded, running into the other neighborhood. Haley ran too, ignoring her irate father, in the opposite direction, all the way down to the beginning of the neighborhood. She wound up, of course, at her friend, Lindy's house. She swallowed, catching her breath, and walked inside.

Loren ;

In case you didn't realize it, the person yelling at Haley was her (uber-protective) dad, who saw her practically making-out with James. Yikes! Poor Haley.

So her kissing James was meant to make Sarah jealous and force her to admit her feelings for James. It didn't work, obviously enough.

Nah, Haley has her own romantic entanglements… And things.

Anyways, to any of you out there reading Passage from Pennsylvania (I'm really shocked that so many people like it… Shipped is waaay better…), anyways, I can't decide if they should go to New York City (if so, they'll stay a while, and they're gonna go there anyways… It'll speed up the plot), Fredricksburg (y'know, where Sybil lives… However, I think this is like, past NYC… But I can't remember, which is part of the reason why I can't decide), or some other small town that I get to (fun! … not) make up. So, gimme your ideas on that if you've read it…

Anyways, this is your author saying: REVIEW!

Please?