Chapter 2

Thought it was about time I updated this fic hehe. So without further adieu here it is and thanks so much for the reviews guys.

Enjoy

“Psych?” Kate questioned while contorting her face into a slightly displeasing expression.

“C’mon you said you were open to trying new things and plus you can use it for your Science requirement.” Claire explained, hoping that she wouldn’t be the only one wearing the "smarty pants" in the family as she was so commonly labeled by the members in her family, including Kate at one point.

“I just don’t wanna take on too much this year.” The brunette stressed feeling like she had enough in her life at the moment to deal with.

“Please. Just give it a try and if you still don’t like it then I promise I won’t hold it against you.”

“Fine” Kate relented yet again to the continuous pleas of the one person she could truly regard and trust as her friend.

“So how does it feel?”

“Uh…..scary is the first word to come to mind but I’m staying optimistic about the whole thing.” The tall man explained feeling a tad uneasy with the way he was being eyed by the woman across from him. A woman he was going to be working with during this semester.

“Good to know.” The woman commented with a bashful smile leaning against the edge of her desk to fully concentrate on the gorgeous man before her.

He was slightly intimidated to say the least, but he was more weirded out with the way she was already acting around him. She was considerably older than he was but still tried to make herself look at least 10 years younger which creeped him out even more.

Is this the reason she gave me the job in the first place? He wondered at first but soon dismissed it as being nothing but too over analytical about everything.

“So what made you choose UCLA?”

“Uh…..well it seemed to offer the best options at the time and the people are quite friendly here as well.”

“Yeah, well it’s nice to have someone lively and young for a change.” She commented, winking at him in a teasing fashion at mentioning the word “young”, and he didn’t know whether to take it as a compliment or as a cue for him to leave before things got out of hand. The latter turned out to be a clear winner, especially when she amped her advances by approaching him to presumably convey something but he certainly wasn’t interested or the least bit attracted to this kind of lewd behavior. It wasn’t in his nature or plans for that matter.

“Thanks, Professor Burke.”

“Please, call me Julie.” She corrected him feeling the need to do so in an effort to make her intentions clear despite it being one sided at this point.

For now , she thought to herself as she watched him vacate her office.

“Wow, think I think I might need a bigger back pack or perhaps a massive sack when I’m done.” Kate stated as she was literally piled with a load of books relating to the courses she taken, one of them of course being……….

“An introduction to Psychology” Claire read off the list and then went about checking the shelf to see if there were any copies still available and thankfully there were but at an unreachable level.

“I’ll get it.” Kate offered when she witnessed Claire’s discomfort, not even taking into account that she wasn’t that much taller than the blonde herself. Never the less she was always up for a challenge and in the end it willed her to bring out the daredevil in her.

“Kate!! Come down before you hurt yourself” Claire cautiously warned the brunette when she proposed on climbing each shelf to get to the books which of course she managed to get in the end, but on the way down one of the shelves gave way and as a result it sent her crashing down, though just in time to be pulled away by a pair of arms.

Oh my God, was all she kept on saying in her head, never having felt so scared in her entire life.

“KATE!! Are you alright?” Claire exclaimed while rushing over to her friend.

“Huh…uh, yeah as soon as my heart catches up with me I’ll be fine.” Kate replied still utterly entranced by what nearly happened and thankfully it didn’t due to the pair of arms that rescued her. A pair of arms that belonged to none other than…….

Crap, it’s him, the science nerd...

“Hi.” Kate humbly offered feeling just a tad awkward for the most obvious reason of course.

“You okay?” he inquired while gazing deeply into her eyes for an honest answer.

“Yeah, it’s just the books were too high and then everything went down.” Kate explained and then bent down to clean up the mess her stunt had accidentally created. The man across from her then taking it upon himself to help her.

“Intro to Psych huh.” The man mused as he picked up the book.

“Yeah, thought I would try it out.”

“Well you have fun. Professor Burke…she’s quite a character.”

“You’ve taken it.” Claire enthusiastically chipped in while she too helped out.

“I’m a T.A. I’ll be helping the professor out. I’m Jack.” He revealed with a warming smile that seemed to get infectious with the people around him, including Kate.

“Claire and this is Kate.” The blonde responded wiping the smile off Kate’s face completely.

“Well it’s nice to meet you both.”

“Yeah, I’m nice to meet. I mean you’re…..Jack.”

“That I am.” Jack shot back growing quite amused by his assumed effect on the stuttering brunette.

“Anyway I gotta run but I guess I’ll see you guys in class later. Ladies.” He announced and then politely excused himself from their presence.

“Now that’s one more reason we should be taking Psych.” Claire commented and Kate just rolled her eyes, laughing it off but the blonde knew better.

So there it is the second chappie to my Jate AU college fic, and yes I was heavily inspired by a certain scene from my other fav TV show of all time. The hint is in my username lol. So what do you think guys, yuppa or nuppa? lol