Chapter 4
Disclaimer: I don't own LOST.
A/N: I'm so sorry for not updating sooner!! We're going to start meeting more of the characters now.
After leaving Tom's house, Kate and Jack had quickly gone home. The car ride home had been awkward enough, Jack had no idea of what it was going to be like back at the dorm.
As they walked in the door, Kate plopped down on the couch and sighed.
Jack tossed his keys onto the small table by the door, and sat down beside Kate, not saying anything.
"Tom's a good cook." Jack commented. Tom had insisted that Jack and Kate should stay for dinner.
"Oh Jack, I'm so sorry for bringing you into this!" Kate turned towards Jack, her eyes wet. "I never thought that he would be married, and I don't know what I was thinking, telling him that you were my boyfriend."
"Hey, it's okay." Jack put a hand on Kate's back as she leaned forward, putting her head in her hands.
"I feel so stupid." Kate moaned quietly.
"No, you're fine. I would have done the same thing. He should have told you that he got married."
"Yeah, he should have." Kate stood up.
Jack smiled. Kate was quickly returning back to her normal self. "Any guy would be stupid to not want to be with you, Kate. That guy doesn't deserve you."
"Yeah, you're right. And next weekend, when we go to his little party, we'll show him how happy I am without him."
Jack grinned. He kind of liked this side to Kate. "Sounds good to me."
Kate looked down at Jack, as if she had forgotten that he was there. "Thanks Jack. I know that you would probably much rather stay here than go pretend to be my boyfriend."
"It's no big deal. Really it's not. As long as you go to the barbecue that my parents are going to have then we can call it even."
"Deal." Kate turned and walked into her room, shutting the door behind her.
Jack shook his head and stood up. Living with Kate was going to be one hell of a ride.
Monday afternoon, Jack walked into his dorm and put his backpack on the ground, walking over to Kate, who was sitting down at the table, eating a banana. Jack pulled a chair out and sat down next to her.
"So how was your first day of college?" Jack asked curiously.
"It was good. It was nice knowing you are going to be in my Physics class."
Jack nodded.
"You might need to help me a little with that." Kate said, taking a bite out of her banana and then pointing the banana at him.
Jack nodded again.
"So did anything exciting happen to you? Did you meet anyone? Is Juliet in any of your classes?"
Jack laughed. "What's up with all the questions?"
Kate shrugged. "I don't know. I was just wondering."
"Nothing exciting happened to me, I met a kid named Charlie in my Lit class, and Juliet is in two of my classes."
"Oh really?" Kate's eyes narrowed.
"Are you jealous?" Jack grinned.
"Of Juliet? No. It's just that she seems to really like you, and I don't like her."
"So you don't approve of her?"
"No."
"So am I going to have to run my girlfriends through you first before I'm allowed to date them?"
"Yes. What's Charlie like?"
"He's okay. He wrote songs the entire period." Jack shook his head. "Apparently Charlie's only going to college to please his mother. He really wants to be in a band with his brother."
Kate nodded. "I'll have to meet him sometime. Hey!" Kate suddenly jumped up.
"What?"
"We should have a party!"
"What?" Jack repeated.
"You know, a dorm party thing.."
"No way. I'm not having a bunch of irresponsible people in my dorm."
"Oh come on Jack. You're no fun." Kate puckered her lips and gave Jack the puppy eyes.
"Oh no." Jack put his head in his hands. "Not the puppy eyes."
Kate laughed and pulled Jack's hands away from his face, staring into his eyes. It was then that Kate noticed how deep brown Jack's eyes were.
Still holding onto Jack's hands, Kate leaned forward so that her nose was almost touching Jack's. "Please?"
Jack stared into Kate's eyes, licking his lips. He quickly looked away, sighing. "All right. Fine."
Kate dropped Jack's hands and hugged him hard. "Thank you!" Kate pulled away and sat down again, pulling out a pad of paper and a pen. "Okay, so we'll need food. And streamers!"
"Kate, this isn't a birthday party."
"Oh, right." Kate scratched out the streamers, and put down soda instead. "This is going to be so much fun!"
Jack rolled his eyes. "I can barely contain my excitement."
On Wednesday, as Jack was walking out of his Literature class, he heard someone calling his name.
"Jack?" Jack turned, and noticed a guy walking towards him.
"Sawyer." Jack sighed. "You actually made it into college?"
"Yeah, you surprised Shephard?" Sawyer grinned.
"Yeah I am, after what you did…" Jack trailed off.
"Hey, a guy's gotta do what a guy's gotta do. So how was your summer?"
"Pretty good. Yours?"
"Exciting."
Jack nodded. "Okay.."
"So, what dorm number you at?"
"Uh, 815. You?"
"Hey we're on the same floor. I'm 820. Can't believe we haven't run into each other yet."
"Yeah, I can't believe it either." Jack stared at the wall behind Sawyer.
"Oh and you won't believe who I'm rooming with." Sawyer grinned.
"Who?"
"Shannon. You remember her?"
"The girl that was always hitting on her brother?"
"Yeah. That's the one."
"You're sick." Jack started walking, hoping that Sawyer would leave him alone.
"So who are you rooming with?" Sawyer asked Jack, following him.
"Um, a girl."
"A girl huh? Who?"
Jack hesitated.
"What? You afraid I'm gonna get to her first or what?"
"Jack!"
Jack quickly turned. He knew that voice. He smiled when Kate ran up to him. "Hey you want to each lunch together today? I was thinking Subway."
"What about the meat?"
Kate shrugged. "I won't get any."
"Sure."
"Hey." Sawyer stepped in between the two, thrusting out his hand out to Kate.
"Hi." Kate slowly shook Sawyer's hand.
"I'm Sawyer, and you are?'
"Kate."
Jack squinted at Sawyer. Never had he hated him more than now.
"How do you know Jack?" Sawyer asked.
"Jack and I are roommates."
"Sawyer and I went to the same high school." Jack explained to Kate.
"So this is the girl that you didn't want me to know about." Sawyer nodded at Jack and Kate raised her eyebrows.
"Don't pay any attention to him." Jack put a hand on Kate's back, giving her a soft push. "See you later Sawyer." Jack said.
"Hey Sawyer, we're having a party at our dorm Saturn day night. You up for it?" Kate called back to Sawyer as Jack kept pushing her forward.
"Oh yeah, count me in. Mind if I bring a few people?" Sawyer called back to her.
"As many as you want." Kate grinned at him.
"Okay, that's enough." Jack pushed her a little harder.
"What?" Kate asked.
"Now Sawyer will bring the entire campus with him."
"No he won't."
"You don't know Sawyer."
"I don't think I want to know Sawyer." Kate frowned and Jack nodded, trying to hide a smile. For some reason, Jack didn't like the idea of Sawyer and Kate being together and the fact that Kate didn't seem to like Sawyer made Jack's day a whole lot better.