Preface
My life had been planned out since I could think. I wanted to be a famous singer with a lot of money, many fans and men falling down in front of me when they saw me. I would be living in a huge mansion with my best friends Liz and Alex and a few attendants. My mother would own the beautiful house besides me and she would come to visit me every day. We never would have problems with paying our bills or had to worry if the money would hold us over the water this month. That was actually how my reality had really looked like and I had hated to be the girl with the old clothes, the torn shoes and the only child in school without having a father. You see my father had gotten my mom pregnant when she was still very young and Charlie, that's my father, had tried to be a good role model. But he was just too young to handle the situation and after a year he bailed on us. Amy, my mother, had to take care of me all alone and we had to struggle to get by. I saw my father twice a year in Forks, Washington after he married a nice woman named Renee, who got pregnant from him when I was two. She had been the one getting in contact with my mother and asked her if it was okay if I would come to visit, so that I could get to know my still unborn sister. So for a few months I would spend my time with my father and his new family and even though I wanted to hate Bella, my sister, I found it hard to do so. She was so cute and tiny and I loved to smell her nice scent. I spent a lot of time with her, protecting her from other children and giving her tips to not get in trouble. When I turned six Charlie and Renee divorced as well and I feared that I would lose my sister and Renee, which I started to love like my own mother. Thankfully Bella spent her vacations with Charlie and so we saw each other like before. And I loved our meetings, because the older she got the more I could do with her. We teased the neighbour kids, we held tea parties on our lawn and we went into the forest directly behind our father's house, although we weren't allowed to go there alone. But we were really sneaky and Charlie never found out what we did. Sometimes all three of us went down to La Push to visit Billy Black and his son Jacob. They were Quileute and lived at the Indian reservation with a lot other people. I liked them and the beach there was beautiful, nothing I was used to, seeing as I was living in the alien capitol of the world, Roswell. The only thing existing there was the desert and a lot of UFO freaks. But at La Push I felt really at home, which was strange. Jacob was almost four years younger then me, but I really loved him to pieces. He was usually trying to get our interest, but Bella was always too busy with other things to notice it and I found his antics just amusing. Then I stopped visiting my dad after I got thirteen. Charlie and I got into a nasty fight about how he always seemed to love Bella more than me. One thing led to another and before I knew what I was doing I was storming out of the house. Billy found me at night time hiding in the forest, telling me that my mother was waiting for me, she was taking me back to Roswell. I gladly went with her and I didn't even look at my father once while I went out of his house. I never called him and he never tried to get in contact with me, although I was still phoning with Bella and Renee every week. They never told me how he was and I never asked. When I turned fifteen, I made a single attempt to call him. But then my life turned upside as soon as I found out my best friend Liz had been shot at and healed from an alien. He, his sister Isabel and their friend Michael Guerin were extraterrestrials and they crashed on earth in 1947. Yeah the famous UFO crash and that's no lie, I saw their pods. For three years we tried to avoid the FBI, which had been on our ass as soon as they found out that the incident in the Crash down, the restaurant where Liz and I worked was a little suspicious. Most of the time we barely escaped them and a lot of times we could prevent anything bad from happening. And still we lost Alex through the hands of Tess, who was a good actress, because we didn't notice that she wasn't exactly playing in our team. I still hate her for that and I had wished more than once that the aliens never landed here. But then I felt guilty because if they wouldn't have landed, I wouldn't have met Michael, the love of my life and the only one able to drive me crazy without even trying. We had a strange relationship. We broke up a lot, but we made up a lot, too. That was just because we were both so scared about being dependent on another person. And after the many bumps and hits we've taken we finally found a common ground. Unfortunately that was the moment Max told us that the FBI was planning to take us down. Liz, who after she had been healed developed powers saw it in one of her premonitions. So that meant leaving town and seeing as it was shortly before our graduation it was the perfect opportunity to disappear. I was scared shitless and I didn't know what to do. I mean it would be a life altering step I would take, leaving everything I knew behind and being on the run for the rest of my life. I also had to consider that I was the only one in the group without any powers and that would make me a target as well as a liability, because we wouldn't just run from humans but from evil aliens, too. And I didn't want to imagine what would happen when Michael had to constantly keep his eyes on me. I didn't want to get anyone in danger because I wasn't able to defend myself. It was a hard decision and it would have been easier if Michael wouldn't have been so understanding, telling me that no matter which decision I would choose he would still love me. Bastard didn´t know what he was doing to me. But that didn't keep me from making the biggest step I would do in my life. And at this point destiny interfered.