Author's Comment: This is my first fan fic. I hope you like it. Also, I don't own any of the characters in Once and Again.

1 Chapter 1

She woke up really tired.

~ I can't believe I went to sleep at 2:00 am last night.

She had been finishing up this huge project. The funny thing is that it wasn't a school project. She had stayed up writing poems and stories for the man of her dreams. She had decorated each piece of paper and she did all of this with love.

"Grace, hurry up! You'll be late for school!" Grace heard her mother scream for her.

When she got downstairs her mother told her, "Grace, Eli will take you and Jessie to school today."

Eli was Grace's stepbrother, he was Jessie's real brother. Grace had once had a crush on him, but now he didn't even compare to her true love. Eli was a pothead and she just wasn't into that. In fact he had got her to try it once, but she didn't like it. Instead of making her problems go away it just made them worse.

They were on their way to school when Eli noticed her "project." He asked her what it was. She shrugged him off and said it was nothing. From the back seat she heard Jessie say, "Yeah, right." Grace didn't like Jessie. She was always trying to take all the attention away from Grace. Jessie also kind of knew about Grace's "crush."

As they were getting off the car Grace said her thanks to Eli and left the car, forgetting her papers.