I still don't own Lost. Football in this chapter is American football. I'll give you fish ice cream if you review. I'll give you fish ice cream if you don't review. Depends on your view point.

Charlie and Claire spent the rest of the afternoon thinking of the prospect of a band. Liam actually came in handy part of the time.

"Liam, do you know anyone in the eighth grade who plays an instrument?" Charlie asked. No one he knew of in the seventh grade played anything.

"That Ben Linus kid plays piano I think," He answered. Liam then went back to spitball target practice.

"We'll ask him if he can help us out tomorrow," Charlie told Claire. "It's going to be tough finding a drummer and a guitarist though."

Ben and Juliet spent the afternoon at the library. It was one of their favorite spots. Today, Juliet had a mission.

"Read it," she insisted, waving the book in his face.

"No way," he refused.

"Would you ever read it?" Juliet asked him.

"Only if I were tied up in tiny windowless room with nothing else to do," He answered.

Juliet sighed and put the copy of Carrie down.

Goodwin, Danny and Tom were still practicing kicking and throwing footballs even though they were all shoo-ins for the football team. Try-outs would be held Friday, two days from then.

Colleen cheered "Go Danny" from the bleacher son the school field as Danny kicked another field goal. Colleen was a little over-enthusiastic.

"Take that Sawyer," he murmured to the football.

The next morning in homeroom, Charlie filled Hurley in on his magnificent plan.

"If we can, we'll get this Ben kid to play piano for singing auditions. If he's pretty good, I'll ask him to join the band."

"Join the band…?" Hurley repeated.

"Okay, join me so far. Who am I going to get to play drums and guitar?" Charlie asked Hurley.

"No idea," Hurley went back to day-dreaming about candy bars.

"Want to hang out today Jack?" Kate asked the next morning in homeroom.

"Not really," Jack replied.

Kate was ready to do this. "Jack… I want to break up."

This got Jack's attention.

"What?" He asked.

"I want to break up." Kate repeated. She hoped she wouldn't regret this.

"What?" Jack said once again.

"Exactly. You don't pay any attention to me. You never want to do anything. What am I to you? A possession? I want to break up."

The bell rang. Kate left for English.

Jack sat there, defeated. Kate had left him, she didn't want him. He was rejected.

"Jack! JACK!" Jack looked up and saw an explosive looking Mr. Arzt yelling at him.

"Unless you have science next, get out of the room," Mr. Arzt screamed his face red.

As Jack didn't have science, he scurried off to math, alone and heartbroken.

For Jack, it took forever for lunch to arrive. For others, it came quickly. Everyone had learned from Colleen in the hallways before homeroom that Ben and Juliet were now officially dating, so the two of them were free to be cute and flirty with each other.

Juliet was giving Ben some pudding off her spoon when Charlie walked up.

"Uhh, are you Ben Linus?" Charlie asked nervously.

"Yes," He answered. "Why?"

"I'm Charlie Pace, Liam's brother, and I was wondering if you could help me out with something. You play piano, right?" Ben nodded. "Well, I'm trying to find a lead singer, see I'm starting a band, and I was wondering if you might play piano for the auditions. I guess I could use a pianist in the band too." Charlie finished, and waited for Ben's response.

"Who's in your band so far?" Juliet asked.

"Just me," Charlie said, embarrassed. "I play bass guitar," He added.

"Alright, I don't see why not. Just tell me when and what songs the auditioners are going to sing," Ben told Charlie.

"Brilliant!" Charlie exclaimed. "I'll tell you when it's gonna be. Probably next week, or the week after that," Charlie talked quickly through his excitement. "Bye!" Charlie walked back to his table.

Juliet looked at Ben. He shrugged, and they went back to their pudding.

Charlie sat down next to Claire. "He said yes," He informed her.

"Charlie, that's great!" Claire said joyously.

"An occasion like this calls for… peanut butter!" Charlie pulled out a small bag of sandwich crackers with peanut butter in the middle. "We'll have to take the cracker parts off, but that's the fun part," He told her.

Claire was surprised that Charlie remembered she liked peanut butter. She had thought he had never paid much attention to her, but she was wrong as could be.

Kate sat down next to Sawyer. Sawyer already heard the news, but he had to hear it again.

"You dumped McDreamy?" He asked her.

"Yes, and since when do you watch Grey's Anatomy?" Kate smiled.

Sawyer showed off his trademark dimples. "Wanna get some ice cream after school?" He asked her. "Goes out of season soon."

"Sure. As long as you don't ask for fish in yours," She said.

"I don't have a fish obsession!" Sawyer exclaimed.

"What are you having for lunch?" Kate pointed at his lunch tray. A packet of Goldfish and several fish sticks were visible.

Sawyer rolled his eyes.

"You're probably going to get strawberry, Shortcake."

"Correction: You're getting it because you're buying."

"Of course, Freckles."