Alright guys, I'm going to attempt to post a number of chapters for this story today but I'm not sure how many and when. I have been extremely busy lately and I have another busy day today, but I really want to get some more chapters out there. So just hang tight, my life is bound to slow down sometime.


The next morning Kate woke up to the sun shinning in her eyes. She turned over and saw Jack awake.

"Did you get to sleep?" She asks.

"Yeah." He lied.

She noticed his eyes when he said that. "Don't lie to me Jack."

"Fine, I only got about fifteen minutes of sleep." He said with a yawn.

"Jack, why?"

"I just couldn't sleep."

She nods. She soon gets up.

"Where are you going, you're still really sick."

"I know, I just have to go talk to Claire for a second."

Jack sneezes and falls back onto the pillow behind his head.

She leaves the room and finds Claire in the kitchen making the pair soup.

"Hi Claire." Kate says smiling at the young girl.

"Hi Kate, I'm just making you two breakfast...What are you doing out of bed."

"Well I was hoping you were making us food, because I remember grandpa saying he sometimes uses sleeping pills to get to sleep...I was thinking of maybe putting one or two in Jacks soup so he can get sleep since he helped me sleep last night and he didn't get any."

"That sounds like a good plan, go find the pills and bring them back."

Kate nods and then heads for her grandparent's bathroom.

After searching for a while she finally found them. She went back by Claire and they crushed them up and put a different spoon in Jacks so they knew which one Kate should eat and which one she shouldn't.

Kate went back upstairs and joined Jack in the bed.

She smiles at his very red nose. "She's making us breakfast."

She takes a tissue and wipes her drippy nose.

"Ugh." He says as he puts a pillow over his head. Kate soon joins him under the same pillow.

"After breakfast you need to try and get some sleep." She says quietly.

"MmmHmm." He says as he gets out from under the pillow to feel Kate's forehead. She does the same for him.

"You're hot." He says weakly.

"Thanks, so are you." She says as she giggles.

Jack shakes his head in amusement.

"Why do you care about me so much Jack?" Kate asks.

Jack sits up and gets closer to Kate. She sits up as well. "Because I love you, and one day I want to marry you, and have lots of little babies with you, and be with you forever. Remember?"

She blushes and smiles. "Of course I remember."

Claire comes in after about three minutes where they both are just laying there complaining about being sick.

She brings in the soup and places the right one with the right person.

"I don't think I'm very hungry." Jack say right after he sat up, he soon got to lie back down but Kate puts her hand behind his back and tries to push him up, which works since because she got sleep and he didn't, she is stronger than him.

"No, eat at least a little, for me." Kate says with puppy dog eyes.

"And me." Claire says using puppy dog eyes as well.

"Fine...I can't say no when you both team up on me like that. It's too much to take. Especially with my weak immune system."

"We'll keep that in mind the next time we need something." Claire says smiling. She sits in the chair in the corner as the two eat. Soon both girls notice Jacks eyes starting to get heavy. His body soon starts rocking back and forth. Kate holds onto him and helps him lay down.

"Its funny, I just got...even more tired." He said around a yawn.

"That's because we crushed up some sleeping pills and put them in your soup." Kate says half smiling, half frowning.

"You two drugged me?"

"Yeah." Says Claire who is now taking the tray of food away from Jack.

"Okay." He says and starts to doze off.

"Goodnight big brother." Claire says quietly.

Jack then looks at Kate and smiles. "Goodnight." She says softly as he soon fades into a deep slumber.

Kate just watched his chest rise a fall and the peaceful look on his face the whole time. She took her hand and caressed the side of his cheek.

"HELLO?" Someone's voice called from downstairs.

"MOM!" Claire yelled loudly and ran out the door of the bedroom.

Jack didn't stir and Kate was grateful for that. Soon both Margo and Christian walk into the bedroom followed by Claire.

"See, they're sick and I took care of them and gave them soup!" Claire says proudly.

"Very good Angel." Christian says to his daughter. Kate gets up and hugs both adults.

"How was your trip?" Kate asks.

"Oh it was wonderful dear." Margo says feeling Kate's forehead. "Oh my goodness you're burning up."

Kate nods knowing this. "So is Jack. But we kind of...um...crushed up some sleeping pills and put them in his soup since he didn't get any sleep last night."

Margo laughs. "Well," Margo goes down to Kate. "You wanna know a secret hunny?"

Kate nods.

"Every time he's sick that's the only way he will sleep...but he just doesn't know I do that."

Kate giggles.

"Very smart thinking girls." Margo smiles. Claire laughs as well.

"Alright, well let's go home." Christian says starting to pack his sons suitcase.

A few more years past. Kate is now thirteen and Jack fourteen. It is the day before their first day of high school.

KNOCK KNOCK

"Come in." She says.

Jack walks in her room. Her walls use to be yellow, and somewhere under all the band posters, art work, and pictures it still is. All her furniture has been painted different colors and now it looks like a room belonging to a rebel...well Kate was a rebel so it fit perfectly. But even though she was a rebel and he was a jock, they still couldn't get enough of each other.

"You ready for tomorrow Katie?"

She looks up at him from her lyrics notebook that she is always writing in but never lets anyone see, not even him. She closes it.

He goes and sits on her bed with her.

"I don't know, I'm sort of nervous but almost everyone from middle school will be there, and I suppose it will be almost the same as before, except we'll have more teachers in a day."

Jack nods.

"Well at least we have all our basic classes together, like history and math."

"MmmHmm." She says sadly.

"What is it Katie?" He asks lifting up her chin.

"Never mind."

"No Katie, I want to know."

"I'm just...I'm afraid."

"Of what?"

"That was going to lose this." She points between them.

"What do you mean?"

"Its just that I hear all these things about high school, how its so clicky and you go off into you're own group, like jock slash brainiacs, and then art geeks slash musicians...and everything in between...and I'm just afraid."

"Katie, you are never going to lose me...I have your back and you have mine. We will be just fine."

Kate nods.

Jack takes her in his arms and gives her a kiss on the cheek.

"It's late, I think I'm going to go to bed, it's a big day tomorrow."

Kate nods. "Goodnight Jack."

Jack looks back at her and smiles. He runs back towards her bed and tackles her. He starts to tickle her all over. She bursts into a fit of giggles.

"Stop Jack! Please! Haha! Stop."

After a while he does stop and just looks at her. "It's going to be fine." He says with a big smile. He gives her a kiss on the forehead and leaves her room closing the door behind him. He leans against the side of the door and lets out a sigh and smiles. He walks to his room, shuts the door and turns off the lights.

The next day came fairly quick. Jack woke up early and hopped in the shower.

When he was finished he went downstairs to grab some breakfast. It was weird because the house was so silent. It was about ten minutes before they had to leave. "KATE!" He says out loud realizing that's what he should be hearing...her getting ready. He ran up the stairs and entered her room. She had fallen asleep on her lyrics book and it looks as if she had been crying since the ink was now all over her face and smudged. He went over to her.

"Katie...Kate...wake up." He starts to shake her.

"Mmm...five more minutes."

"Kate we have to leave in ten minutes."

"HUH!" Kate springs up. Her hair is a disaster and her face is a mess.

She quickly springs up and runs to the bathroom. "OH MY!" She yells seeing her appearance.

She brushes her hair into a ponytail and starts to wash off her face, scrubbing hard. While she's still washing her face she runs back in her room and rips off her shirt and pants', not realizing Jack was still in there. She's standing in her bra and panties. His jaw drops. She's gorgeous even though she's a complete mess.

"Oh man, where is my shirt."

Jack clears his throat. She jumps hearing the noise and turns around.

"Oh...Jack, you're still in here."

He nods. Both of them are turning red. He's holding out her shirt.

"Thanks." She says shyly. "I'm going to get dressed now." She says smiling slightly while blushing.

"Yeah." Jack says almost in awe.

"Um Jack..."

"Yeah Kate."

She realized she wasn't going to get through to him, and in all honesty she didn't want to. She put her shirt on then found her pants. "Okay, all done, time to go."

"MmmHmm." Jack says as Kate grabs her backpack and takes Jack by the hand and pulls him out of her room. Soon he's back with it as he grabs their lunches. Lastly he grabs his backpack and they make their way towards the bus stop.

They wait there for a while until the bus comes. As it's pulling up Jack turns to Kate.

"You ready?" He asks.

"Do I have a choice?"

"Not really" he says slightly chuckling.

She turns back to the road but then he grabs her arm and turns her back to him. "You have a little..." He says pointing to her face. He takes his thumb and rubs the word love off her cheek. He smiles.

"I guess I missed some." She giggles.

"Yeah...I guess so." He smiles at her and thinks about the way he has always loved the way her nose wrinkles when she laughs.

The bus pulls up just then and they both get on. Kate was relieved when they saw all their friends in the back of the bus. Sawyer and Ana both save Kate and Jack a seat. Unfortunately the seats weren't together.

"Hey guys." Shannon says. "This is Julia, my cousin." Shannon nods towards a pretty brunette girl sitting in the back of the bus, "and that's her friend Sarah." She adds.

Everyone says Hi to them.

"Hello." Julia says.

"Hi" Sarah says looking at Jack. He smiles back at her and nods.

Kate sees the little exchange and she gets a bad feeling in the pit of her stomach, she didn't know what it was but it wasn't great.

"You okay there Freckles." Sawyer asks.

"MmmHmm just a little nervous I guess." Kate says turning towards the window.

Jack looks over at her and wonders what's going on. He doesn't ask though not wanting to get her riled up on the first day of school.

When the bus stopped they were outside their new school. They all started filing off the bus. Once they reached outside Jack grabbed Kate's hand and smiled his smile at her, the one he only lets her have. Her stomach ache turned into something different. It was more like a million little butterflies fluttering around. She smiled back and looked down.

Sarah watched this and turned towards Shannon. "Are they a couple?" She asks the blond.

"Well. Not really, but her dad and his dad have been best friends forever and her dad went off to the army and left her with them when she was a little over one years old. She's been living there ever since."

"Oh so she's almost like a sister."

"I guess, but sometimes they don't act like it."

"Oh."

"I wouldn't get any idea's Sarah, Jack is Kate's."

"Well we will see about that."

"Sarah, please don't be the school bitch."

Sarah just laughs.