Chapter 1
Thursday, June 18
Dear Diary,
Hey it's me, Rose. Yeah sorry I haven't written for awhile, but I've had nothing to write about. No crushes, no plans, nothing interesting enough to put into writing. But now all of that has changed! I just had the weirdest week of my entire life! Despite how freaked out I am right now, I'm kind of happy I know the truth. Let me explain.
Apparently, my life hasn't always been the way it is right now, with a mother, father, and twin sister. I was walking home after school like I normally do when this guy walked up to me and called me by my name. I was honestly kind of freaked out, but I found that there was something extremely familiar about him. He seemed to be about my age, and he said he name was Jake. He tried to convince me that he was a dragon, A DRAGON, fire breathing and all and that I was some sort of dragon slayer. Yeah, I thought he was pretty insane. So I tricked him into thinking that he could talk to me privately and called the cops instead. But after he was taken away, I noticed something. He had forgotten his jacket. As I went to pick it up I noticed something on the floor. It was a picture of him, AND I was in it!! Suddenly, all of these memories of him began to come back to me, but I couldn't remember where they were from. After running to help him save his grandfather, he explained everything to me.
I was taken by this group called the huntsclan, who were trained to fight and slay dragons, when I was just a baby and had never met my real family. Thirteen years later, I met Jake at Fillmore Middle School. I could tell that he had a crush on me, and soon we became more than friends. Shortly after our first date, Jake discovered that I was in the huntsclan. As it turns out, he was the American Dragon, and I had been fighting him on a regular basis! I found out shortly after he did. A few months later, we began to date secretly in our sleep. The huntsman, leader of the huntsclan, found out however, and forced me to betray Jake. In order to save him, I had to destroy the entire huntsclan, myself included. Unwilling to let me die, Jake reversed my entire life so that I was never taken by the huntsclan. As a result, I had no memory of Jake whatsoever, although he had kept his memory of me.
So after I found out Jake wasn't some lying insane creeper, we hung out until he had to leave Hong Kong. It's really too bad that he had to leave. I really like him, and now that he's gone, more and more memories keep coming back to me. Some randomly, some in my sleep. One thing is for sure though; as these memories come back, it is becoming more and more clear that I really truly did care for Jake, and now I wish more than anything that we could move back to New York so we could just start all over again and pretend everything in our past never happened. This probably isn't normal, but right now, he is all I can even think about.
Wow, this is pathetic! I'm obsessing over some guy who lives on the other side of the world! *Sighs* I guess that even if I did move back to New York I don't know how I would ever get my parents to trust him. I mean, whose parents let them date a dragon anyways? Ugh.
But there is one bit of good news; Jake and I talked before he left and we decided to write letters to each other this summer! Not emails, letters. It just seems better because it's an actual thing, a hard copy, not just a bunch of words on a screen. Plus, I think it will be kind of fun! No one ever rights me letters anymore! As long as my parents don't find out, I don't think any harm can come of this.
Anyway, that's the story of my life right there! You should feel pretty special that I just shared it with you! :) It will be very interesting to see where my life goes from here. Well, my hand is starting to hurt so I better go now.
Love,
Rose 3