Chapter 21!

i am so sorry it took forever for me to put this up. alot has been happening and i just couldnt find the time. im back now so yay!

remember that the stuff between the )('s are flashbacks.

Rookie Blue and its original concepts do not belong to me.

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"I remember Noelle laughing about it one time. She was saying how we were like long lost brothers or something, which was especially ridiculous seeing as how we looked nothing alike. We all laughed about it together."

"We only found out much later that what Noelle said wasn't as ridiculous as we had originally thought."

"Needless to say, that one fact changed everything between us. The day before we graduated, they post a list telling us where we were going once we did graduate."

I attempted a weak smile.

"Pissed off wouldn't begin to describe what I felt when I read his name on the same list as the one mine was on."

"I could feel the tension building up as I read those two words posted on the same 15th division list over and over again."

"Luke Callaghan."

I took a deep breath as all that old resentment came rushing back.

Standing in front of that list just staring at that one name that I was sure that I would never have to come across again once I graduated.

If only.

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I remember Jerry coming up behind me, slapping my shoulder, exclaiming happily how the four of us were all going to 15th.

I remember the bitterness in my voice once I told him that the four of us weren't the only ones.

At first a look of confusion came across his face, but a quick look at the list over my shoulder had his eyebrows shooting up into his dark hair as his eyeballs almost popped out of his face.

He undoubtedly saw what I was seeing this time.

I looked across the room in the direction of the second set of lists where Luke Callaghan was also staring dumbstruck at the second 15th division list.

He was obviously not believing our horrible luck either.

"Oh... Luke?" I heard Oliver say as he came over to stand next to Jerry and me.

He had also caught onto the murderous look on my face.

"Yeah," I muttered angrily. "I mean come on! What are the chances of us being sent to the same division? Do you have any idea of how many of us there are in the graduating class?"

"And out of all those people, he had to be placed in the same division as me?" I forced through my clenched teeth.

"Hey, Sam. Calm down. This may not turn out as bad as you think it might," said Noelle who had also come over to stand with us.

I sent her a scornful glance. Why did women always have to parade the 'good side' of things? Especially when there was no 'good side' of this situation.

"Come on Noelle, now's not the time to be the ever so optimistic one," I told her with a bit more bitterness than really necessary considering that she was only trying to help.

"You where standing right there three months ago when the two of us found out. You saw what kind of a reaction that brought out from us. After that, how can you even consider that it might not be bad?"

"Well she may be right," said Jerry and I snapped my head over to glare at him disbelievingly. If any one of my friends would understand, I was sure that I would be him.

"It won't be 'bad' it will be horrible," he finished, and I remembered why he was my best friend.

Noelle smacked the back of his head as we began to walk away towards the back of the academy, but she knew that he was right.

"I swear that this was all McGreggor's doing," I said, naming my least favourite teacher.

Considering that I didn't like teachers to start with, I had some serious hatred going towards Sheila McGreggor.

"Knowing her and how much she enjoys torturing me, it was probably her idea to put the two of us together."

"Well that could make sense, but she wouldn't do that to Callaghan, she adores him," Noelle said, and she was right.

Like almost all the other teachers at the academy, McGreggor had had a special liking towards Callaghan.

"Maybe she hates me enough not to let the opportunity pass," I said angrily as we reached our usual hang out spot behind the academy.

We were all quiet for a long time.

"I guess just ignoring him is out of the question," Oliver said, breaking the long silence.

"Trying to ignore him is like trying to ignore an elephant," I said. A big, stupid, blond elephant. "It's impossible."

I heard Jerry sigh next to me.

"And I thought high school drama was bad," he said in an overly exaggerated forlorn tone.

Noelle let out a short laugh and Oliver was laughing to. Jerry looked at me grinning and I couldn't help myself as a grin spread on my own face.

"High school was nothing compared to any of this man" I said still grinning.

I heard Noelle scoff. "What kind of high school did the two of you go to?" she asked mockingly.

"The kind where almost all the drama came from Sammy's ex girlfriends," Jerry joked and we all laughed again.

Count on Jerry to lighten the mood.

And sitting there laughing and poking fun with the three of them, I actually thought that I could get through being at the same division as Callaghan.

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Now that I thought back on it, they had made working with Callaghan much easier than it would have been without them here as well.

Of course during the first year at 15th we tried to avoid each other like the plague. Tried being the operative word.

No matter how hard we tried, somehow we'd always cross paths.

He got through it by sending me withering glares and 'thinking' that he was better than me (as if).

I got through it by not looking or talking to him unless it was unavoidable, relishing the fact that I knew more people around the station than he did, and knowing that I was one of the best rookies of the 2006 group.

Of course having my best friend and two other really good friends there with me got me threw it as well.

In fact, I was sure that they made it as easy as it was for me at 15th division as possible.

Well, as possible as they could have made it when I had a much hated half brother there with me.

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