Annie Edison was driven, determined and extremely smart. These qualities were what made her great, but they also were the cause of her down fall. Adderall, it focused her mind in ways she couldn't before and gave her the time she needed to study as much as possible with her large amount of extracurricular activities. To her it had no downsides, except for her limited supply, but that obstacle was easily conquered when she stole her doctor's prescription pad.

She was at the top of her game, ready to graduate as valedictorian when the secret to all her success turned on her. She got an A minus on her first final of that week and it was devastating. Her teacher wouldn't let her retake the test because it was the end of the school year and she passed with flying colors according to him. She was determined to make sure this didn't happen with her other finals, so she doubled up on her Adderall and studied more. When she nearly fell asleep before one of her classes she decided to triple her Adderall dosage and wash it down with her canteen of coffee so that it would be impossible to fall asleep. In hindsight, that would be her greatest regret to date.

When she couldn't get her test to stay still enough to read, she knew something was wrong. It kept twitching and she couldn't understand why. When she looked up at the classroom she realized that that too wouldn't stop twitching and the people around her were moving in a very mechanical manner, it made her think of robots. She really needed to get out of the room and get some fresh air and when she went to raise her hand, she realized she too was moving in the same mechanical manner. For the first time in her life she decided to completely disregard classroom etiquette and got up. She tried to explain what was wrong, but the only thing she could articulate was robots. Getting up made her feel even worse and she really needed to go outside. There was a glass plate window that was so clean that she didn't realize it was there until she had ran through it to get outside. At least that's what she tells people when they ask her how could she be so stupid as to run through a window.

After that she really only remembered a great deal of pain and then everything went black before waking up in a hospital bed. The events following that didn't get any better. Her physical recovery was long and painful, but it gave her a lot of time to think. She decided to go to rehab, though her time in the hospital was keeping her clean, she couldn't help but think about getting her hands on more Adderall. She realized she needed help; unfortunately her mother didn't share the same opinion. Annie was promptly kicked out with only her savings to survive on.

Though her decision to go to rehab cut her off from her family and everything she'd ever known, she couldn't bring herself to regret it. It taught her how to differentiate what a family actually is and she found her family at Greendale Community College. It only consisted of two other people, but that was more than she's actually ever had, so she couldn't complain.

Troy Barnes and Abed Nadir were both in her Spanish 101 class last year, which is how she met Abed. She actually knew Troy and had a huge crush on him until she realized her energies were wasted. They formed a small study group on the first day of class. Annie, to get close to Troy and Abed to follow their Rom Com and Troy just thought Annie was going to do all his homework. By the time they all realized none of those things were going to happen, they had already forged friendships so strong that disbanding the group wasn't an option.

They moved in together when they learned where Annie was living. It was originally just Abed and Annie living together, he didn't feel that they were good enough friends for moving in to affect their friendship, but then Troy's dad kicked him out and they added a blanket fort that would become Troy's room and when they made the dreamatorium, it became Troy and Abed's room.

It was Troy's birthday and they were non-celebrating with a cake that was compliant with Troy's Jehovah Witness background. Annie was reading off some Birthday facts about the year they were born, 1990, when Troy corrected her by telling her he was born in 1989.

"1989 is 21 years ago not 20." Abed said in his mechanical voice slightly confused.

"Yeah, but everybody's ten for two years because fifth grade is hard for everyone… MOM! How many lies have I been living!" Troy was still contemplating all the lies his mother told him when Abed spoke.

"So it's your 21st Birthday. Which calls for a whole different set. We need go to a bar. And you need to get drunk, maybe we lose and spend the night trying to find you which sparks a list of adventure that'll-" Troy was staring at Abed as he figured out what being 21 actually meant when Annie interrupted Abed.

"Abed!" Annie spoke in her high voice that she uses when she's particularly worried about something. "We don't need to lose Troy and plus I can't get into bars. I'm 19."

Abed thought about this for a moment before then an idea sparked in his brain. "Wait here."

He went into their blanket fort room and made some noise before he came out with a driver's license in hand. "Here."

Annie took the license apprehensively, it had her picture on it, but didn't have her name on it. It said Caroline Decker from Corpus Christi, Texas. All of the other information on the card was correct."Abed, why do you have a fake ID for me?"

"Oh, I thought you might need for a caper I was planning, but the caper got cancelled and I just kept in case another one came up. But I guess this is a better use for it. I had one for Troy too, but it's unnecessary for this situation."

"What was the caper and what the caper and why did it require me being Caroline Decker from Corpus Christi, Texas?"

"That's unimportant right now. Now we need to find a bar. Do any of you guys no any?"

Both Troy and Annie looked at each other with clueless looks on their faces and shook their heads as they looked back at Abed. Neither of them had ever had any use for bars, so they didn't really know where one was.

"Hmm, well that's a little problematic. Annie, you went to rehab, perhaps someone there would know of a bar."

"Well I don't know where it is, but the guy who was an alcoholic used to talk about this place called the Ballroom, but it didn't sound like all that great."

"Well considering that's all we have at the moment. We're going to the Ballroom. I'm sure the GPS on our phones can find it."

"Well, TO THE BALLROOM!" Troy shouted with childlike wonder.

"To the Ballroom." Annie and Abed said in unison at a much lower volume.

A/N: I know it's short, but as I said before, this is just preliminaries setting up for the actual story. Also I was very disappointed with how season four portrayed Annie's overdose so I changed that to something a little more plausible in my opinion.