I decided to put this story under the catagory of Twilight even though I was writing it long before I ever heard about the book. I put it there because a lot of the actions reminded me of that book. Sorry, couldn't think of anywhere else to put it. Anyways, all these characters are of my own creation and enjoy!

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Preface

Cold.

Dark.

Completely irresistible.

She felt the icy water rushing over her feet, beginning to numb her skin. He, or rather, it, was on the suspended island, just a few feet away. So close, but out of reach. Within her sight, but untouchable. She looked down at her feet. They were a bluish-purple hue that should have been worrying, but she discovered that she really didn't care. She didn't care because she knew that as soon as she stepped into that pit of darkness she was dead. She just had to reach the presumed corpse on the other side, the precious body. She glanced at his cold blue face once more, and felt her legs moving, pulling her forward towards her death.

Chapter 1

Her feet pounded on the sidewalk, jolting her body so that her chin-length wavy honey-blond hair bounced around her head, limiting her line of vision. After running about a mile and a half she could see the school. She checked her digital watch. It read 7:54 AM.

'I've got six minutes to be in class with all my stuff. God, I can't wait until I can drive, but I also have to have enough money to buy a car. There goes that idea until when I'm about, oh say 50 or so when Marie stops mooching off of my money. The sparse amounts I have, that is.'

She bitterly swung her enormously heavy backpack off her shoulders and dashed to her locker. She grabbed the other books she needed and started sprinting to her first class. The halls were empty, not a good sign. The bell started echoing in the gym.

"Dang it," she muttered as she turned the corner into her classroom.

"You're late again," her first period Civics teacher Mrs. Perkins said.

"Yeah, I know, I'm going," she said while dumping her bag onto her desk.

"Car troubles again?" her best and only friend Krissy whispered to her. She turned her back and walked out, giving a miniscule nod to the question as she strolled to the door.

She tried to step lightly over the linoleum to reduce the echoing in the empty hall. Her efforts had no effect. In the eerie silence there was.... something. She couldn't identify what, but there was most definitely something wrong. She continued down the hall. Something slipped up in the rafters. She jerked toward the noise and caught a shadow moving out of the corner of her eye, but then there was only an open space. She paused for a second longer then continued to the office to retrieve a very familiar late slip.

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So what did you think? Just getting started so this chapter is pretty suckish compared to the rest. Please tell me what you think!