Pieces of You - Chapter One
The girl who they called 'average'?
Evangeline Jamie Hale was an average girl. She was seventeen, lived with her Aunt Susan, the lady with the nice garden, and went to High school in a friendly, average town.
She had straight blond hair to her shoulders, piercing blue eyes and red lips which rarely smiled. She blended in, wearing average clothes, doing well at school and putting her hair in a tight ponytail. She went by the name Jamie and had two friends, Rose and Will.
Everyday after school she worked part time in a clothes store, not far from her school. Sometimes she'd stare out the window at the rain and wish she was different.
People say she always seems to 'see'. She seemed to watch everything so carefully and analyze every little thing. She would never forget anything and seemed to be so organized. She answered people when they talked to her but she never really had a proper conversation. Rose was a quiet girl too, but more in the tomboy way as in she wanted to be. Will was the deep, soulful singer and rarely talked to anyone even though most girls were crazy about him. Jamie would sometimes look at other people having fun, falling in love and sigh. She would do a long wishful sigh that she was so familiar with she didn't even notice herself do it anymore.
She had remarkably pale skin (she isn't a vampire) and big eyes that always looked somewhere where no one else saw anything. She was mostly ignored because of her reclusiveness. After work she would go home to her Aunt Susan and study. She forever did excellent at tests and when she sometimes would stare out the window, teachers would call her, knowing she had not been paying attention, but always without fail she would know the answer.
Jamie was a flincher. Anyone touched her she flinched. Someone called her she flinched. And sometimes she would just be walking along and she'd flinch. Like someone had called her name or touched her but no one had. Sometimes her eyes would swivel to nothingness and she would be all of a sudden agitated. But no one noticed her. She was just Jamie, another normal girl in their school who was quiet.
Her life went on as normal until one fateful day. In that day her whole life secrets came out. But before that she was just your average teen girl.