Milda was a small, isolated town hidden deep in the desert. Everyone knew each other, and the slightest hint of gossip could spread like wildfire. So you can imagine that secrets were hard to keep secret. Especially when that secret involved the mayor's son secretly dating the daughter of a world renowned disease expert, Maria Carter, who also happened to be his father's worst enemy. But hey, we managed. I really didn't know the details of their feud, my dad had never really gone into any detail about it, but I'm sure it was over something stupid. Maybe he had cut in front of her in the lunch line in school. So of course as soon as Dr. Carter had moved back into town with her seventeen year old daughter, Lissa, my father just had to and rekindle her anger towards him and I was forbidden from ever coming into contact with their family. A bad mistake on his part, since I had fallen in love with Lissa the second I laid eyes on her. I had always been impulsive, so as soon as my dad let me out of his sight, I ran straight back to get another glimpse at her. She was beautiful. Her long brown hair ran in waves down her back, and her pale skin contrasted nicely with her black dress that ended in ruffles just above knees. She was helping her mother carry boxes into the house that read 'fragile' but soon came out again to simply sit on the porch step. "Hey," I spoke softly, as if not to startle her as I made my way forward. My plan didn't work well though, since her eyes widened in fright, and she quickly ran back into the house. You would never have guessed from seeing that meeting that barely two days later we would start dating. It turned out she was pretty head over heels for me too. We had to keep our relationship a secret of course. I could just imagine my father's face if he ever found out, twisted in rage for me disobeying his orders. And it wasn't pretty.