Disclaimer: I do not own any Darkest Powers related characters or plot-lines.

CPOV:

It started as any other day.

I woke up too early, dragged myself out of the warm comfort of my bed, toes curling at the cool hardwood floors, and proceeded to get ready for another day at school. If you had asked me four years ago if I expected to be making up my senior year of highschool at 19 years old, after going on the run at 15 with people who were, at the time, complete strangers, and living off the grid ever since, I'd have diagnosed you with insanity and called you a liar.

Things were never easy with me, not even while playing the facade of the mysterious yet underwhelming new girl at a small town high school, hoping to slip by unnoticed. People asked questions in a small town, ones I wasn't willing to give answers to, and they often seemed off put by that. So, as a consequence I had zero friends in this new life, and was content on leaving it that way.

I made sure to grab enough food that I could avoid the cafeteria at lunch, as well as a light jacket before briskly leaving the house, locking the door behind me the same as always.

Today was different however, I arrived with 5 minutes left until the first bell signaling the beginning of classes, pulling into a parking space in the school's parking lot on my motorcycle, my tires moving on the damp pavement. It was a rather dreary morning, with overcast skies and the air still damp with last night's rain.

I was just preparing to head into the building to get the day over with when it happened.

My heart skips a beat, my hands shaking as I unconsciously shift my feet, body searching for an escape route. Memories rose unbidden of sleepless nights, walks in the forest, and maybe the last time I ever felt happy if I'm honest with myself.

Because across the parking lot I meet eyes I haven't seen in years, though they've haunted many a night's sleep, still the same startling shade of green as the last time I saw them.

The day they disappeared, a lifetime ago.

The day they left me behind.

A/N: R&R, will be posting chapter 1 soon. ~Mary