Thanks again for your reviews I know this is still near the start of the story but your guys reviews are what make me want to carry on writing this. I'm enjoying writing this and I can get it done quicker with it being the holidays so I have some spare time on my hands.

As I promised there will be some skate stuff in this chapter and gonna introduce a new character who could stir some things up.

When they reached the rally most people were already there she saw most of her friends she met today they talking and getting seats ready the events which had been planned for the night. Kate couldn't help but notice that Charlie and Claire were walking by each other and then sitting by each other. She could tell something was going on there but if Claire wanted to tell her she would.

"Look I'll come and see you later I'm needed with the rest of the team got a big speech tonight for everyone on how we're gonna win" Jack laughed. With that he started to walk away leaving Kate to find a seat by her friends. She sat by Claire who was sitting awfully close to Charlie.

"Hey!" She spoke to Claire looking in her direction

"Hey Kate" Claire was in a real happy mood kinda hyper. She then lowered her voice "You'll never guess what happened, Charlie asked me to the rally tonight and since then we've been getting along great" Kate smiled at her friend and was happy to see her so happy. Shannon was also sitting with a guy she remembered him being called Sayid.

"So what's happening with Shannon and Sayid?" Kate pointed over to them

"Sayid gave her a lift down here because of her car breaking down. She didn't want Boone giving her a lift so Sayid volunteered but I think that she likes Sayid but she would never admit it" Kate kept nodding at the information she was being given by Claire.

"So what's going on with you and Jack?" Claire asked Kate.

Kate shook her head "Nothing's going on I promise."

"I don't believe you" Claire replied

"Well it's the truth" Kate tried to tell her and it was the truth.

"Ok what ever you say" Claire joked.

Music started to play and everyone started to quieten down as the cheerleaders of the school came onto the school field. All eyes were on the cheerleaders now watching them do their cheer for the football team. Cheering on the team and how they will beat Otherville high in 2 days time.

"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
hate to beat you, but we must
when you're up, you're up
when you're down, you're down
when you're messing with the polar bear
you're up clap side clap down clap
up side down!"

The cheerleaders had the chance to show try new rhymes out for Fridays match and the crowd seemed to being enjoying it. After the cheerleaders had finished the school football team came out with their coach and Mr. Locke the principle.

"Ok if I can get everyone's attention, I know that for a long time now our school has always come up to this time of the year when we will be going against our biggest rival school being Otherville high" Mr. Locke started the speech "And I know that whenever we have played against them we have always ending up losing but this year I feel different I feel that this year we have a chance at winning against them" There were a few cheers coming from the audience. "But I know I don't know a lot about this game so I will leave it up to Coach Whitey and our new Captain Jack Shephard. The crowd cheered and went silent as the coach and Jack walked forward closer to the audience.

"So are you ready for Friday's big match?" Whitey asked the crowd and he got many cheers and yells from the audience. "Well that's good because this year we're gonna beat 'em. Thanks to our new Captain Jack Shephard" At the mention of Jack's name many girls were screaming out. Kate stayed silent even if she came with him to the really she didn't have to scream out at his name did she? She wasn't one for doing all that stuff anyway. After the crowd started to quiet down Jack started to speak.

"As you all know that we plan on beating Otherville high on Friday and this year I feel hopeful that we're gonna make that happen" His speech lasted longer than this and some people were getting bored of his tactic speech. Kate just wasn't really paying much attention to begin with but after 10 minutes of a speech from Jack it was time for the bonfire to begin.

All students had to make it down to the beach which was only a 5 minute walk from the school. Jack was walking with his jock friends but mainly talking to his best friend Mark Silverman. Kate was walking with her friends down to the bonfire as she didn't fancy walking over to Jack while he was with all the jocks and he didn't bother going over to her so she didn't want to go out of her way for him.

When they reached the beach old stuff from Otherville high was being burnt in a huge bonfire. The bright orange flame was warm and welcoming to all the students who were standing round the bonfire. Charlie and Claire were sitting down on the sand together watching the bonfire Kate was watching them for a while until there was shouting which could be heard.

"Shut up Boone can't you just leave me alone for 2 friggen minutes?" Shannon shouted at her brother. It wasn't clear why there were arguing but they were always arguing so it wasn't anything new. Shannon had been spending her night with Sayid she had been getting to know him better and Boone had interrupted on them for the 10th time that night.

"I'm Looking out for you Shan" Boone defended himself

"Looking out for me how?" Shannon argued back

"I…I just don't like you hanging around with Sayid" Boone tried to think of an excuse truth was he was jealous that Shannon could get along with any guy but him.

"10 minutes ago you were his damn friend and now you don't trust him? Whatever Boone!" and with that Shannon and Sayid walked away from Boone leaving everyone staring at him.

Jack still hadn't come over to see Kate she looked round for him to see him talking to a girl she didn't know. She thought she would go over and see who this girl was.

"Hey" She spoke to the both of them

"Hey Kate" Jack smiled at her "Kate this is Ana-Lucia, Ana-Lucia this is Kate" The two girls exchanged looks before Ana-Lucia spoke.

"So I'll see you there then?" She asked

"Yeah" Jack replied and with that Ana left them going over to her friends.

"What was that about?" Kate asked. What Kate didn't know was that Jack and Ana-Lucia used to date but they broke things off and managed to stay really good friends. Jack still cared for Ana-Lucia deeply and he always thought about what life would have been like if they didn't break things off. He didn't want to explain to Kate that they were meeting up together after the bonfire because he had asked Kate to the rally with him.

"Erm…nothing it was nothing" He told her Kate for some reason wasn't completely assured by his answer.

"Ok" Kate replied she didn't feel like spending her night with Jack and looked round to see whether there was anyone she could go over to but it seemed for some weird reason that everyone had been coupling up or was no where in sight. Jin and Sun were together talking and holding hands but everyone knew that they had been dating for years. Charlie and Claire were still sitting down watching the bonfire. Shannon and Sayid had gone off to be seen nowhere. Boone had also managed to disappear into the crowd now so she had now way of getting out of Jack's Company.

"I'm just gonna go for a walk down on the beach ok" Kate thought of the idea quickly some time on her own sounded nice. As soon as Jack nodded she was off she didn't give him time to say anything so he just watched her walk off down the beach.

Kate was sitting down on the beach staring out into the ocean as she heard someone approaching her she hoped that it wasn't Jack but then she heard his southern accent she knew it wasn't

"On yer own again freckles?" he asked. She looked up at him, he was just staring at her waiting for a reply. She looked back out to the ocean before replying

"Not one for crowds" She only told him part the truth she wasn't going to tell him that she wanted to get away from Jack.

"So where's Jacko?" he asked "Thought he would have been followin ya like a lost dog"

Kate laughed a bit at his comment "I like being on my own Sawyer" Sawyer then sat down by Kate.

"Well I can't help it when I see a pretty girl on her own I just have to come over" He smiled showing his dimples Kate couldn't resist not to smile back.

"Why aren't you watching the bonfire?" she asked

"Already told ya freckles pretty girl sittin on her own I gotta come over" He explained. Kate just laughed at his comment. She hated to admit it but she enjoyed his company she decided that she felt like going back to the bonfire but she wasn't going to go on her own

"Get up" she told him getting up herself

"Hell freckles I've only been sittin down for 2 seconds now I gotta get up" Sawyer moaned

"Just get up" Kate argued. Sawyer groaned a bit getting up

"You wanna tell me what for?" He asked rubbing the sand off his jeans

"Well there's a bonfire just behind us and I thought we could watch it instead of sitting in the dark" she explained both walking over to the bonfire.

"You sure Jackass ain't gonna mind me watchin the bonfire with you?" he asked already guessing that Jack had done something wrong and she was probably trying to make Jack jealous.

"Can you see Jack?" She asked smiling. Sawyer shook his head at her question "Well then if he's not around I don't see why he should care and I don't have to report to Jack with who I want to stand around a bonfire with" She teased.

Both Kate and Sawyer spent the next hour at the bonfire together just laughing, flirting, and talking. When the bonfire came to an end most people were getting ready to leave. Kate was still with Sawyer and forgot that he was meant to be giving her a ride home. He was no where in sight and his car had already gone. 'Where was he?' she thought she couldn't understand why Jack had all of a sudden left. Was it something to do with Ana-Lucia because he was meeting her somewhere? She just didn't know what was going on. She was thinking all of this and not paying attention that her body had walked her all the way with Sawyer to his truck.

"You want a ride freckles?" He asked. Kate was silent for the moment and realized that she should be catching a lift from Sawyer but Jack was no where to be seen and she didn't want to be stranded there for ages.

"Ok" she replied. He then gave his signature smile and opened the passenger door for her to get in shutting it behind her when she was in. He then got into the truck himself and started to make his way to Kate's house after getting directions from her where she lived. They went most the way in silence and then Kate looked at the clock in Sawyer's car.

"Shit!" Kate moaned seeing the clock it read 11.15pm. Sawyer looked at her in confusion he didn't know what was going on. "How long is it gonna take for you to get me home?" she asked. Her dad was gonna kill her when she got home because he wanted her home by 11pm well that's what the time he told Jack he wanted her back by.

"Bout 10 minutes why?" he asked not knowing why she was getting so worked up about

"My dad's gonna kill me he told Jack he wanted me back by 11 and if you haven't noticed it's gone past that time" Kate moaned. Sawyer thought this was a good time for a little joke

"Well if you haven't noticed already I'm not Jacko" Sawyer grinned "I don't remember him telling me what time he wanted you back" Kate looked at him seriously

"Not a good time for jokes Sawyer, he's still gonna kill me" Kate then turned silent again while Sawyer started to speed up to get her home quicker. They arrived at her house at 11.20 and Kate's dad was already standing in the window waiting for Kate.

As soon as the car pulled up in front of her house her dad walked out the house ready to have a go at Jack. When he saw Kate get out the car he gave Kate a serious but angry face.

"Bye Sawyer" she told him shutting the door. Before anything else could happen her father spoke

"Inside Katie" he told her. She didn't reply she just walked into the house. Her father walked up to the car and knocked the window. Sawyer heard the window knocked and rolled the passenger window down. They shared a glance and then Kate's father spoke

"I wanted her home by 11 and have you seen the time?" he asked Sawyer. He looked at the clock but he knew what time it was.

"Sorry sir I wasn't told what time she had to be back for" He replied. Sam realized this wasn't the same guy who took her to the rally and accepted that and he didn't want to spend all night arguing so he left it at that.

"Goodnight" and with that Sam started to walk back into the house. Sawyer then rolled the window back up and started to drive back home.

When Sam got back in the house he looked at Kate and asked "How come you got someone different picking you up and dropping you off back home?"

"Jack wasn't there when the bonfire finished so Sawyer gave me a ride home" she explained. Sam nodded and replied

"Well in future I would appreciate it if you could tell who ever is giving you a lift what time you need to be back for" Kate nodded in agreement and started to walk upstairs it was late and she had school the next day.

Hope you enjoyed it. I did most of it today so its kina rushed but please review. I'm starting chapter 4 now so if you review i will post it lol please hit the review button and tell me what you think of it