Chapter One

He stared at me with his eyes intense on my motion as if he was waiting for me to run away or pass out. But I only stood there like a fool not knowing what to say or do. I took a deep breath feeling his fingers trace my cheekbone ever so softly in the dark as his eyes watched my reaction. My heart started to race as he leaned in to brush his lips on mine for the first time.

I opened my eyes in complete sadness to see how much of a dream it was. Who would of thought a girl like me could have such a moment like that. To allow my mind even think about a vampire or even me kissing one. Ha that was really funny, me being kissed? I laughed at my own joke with such in enthusiasm it kind of scared me. I sat there contemplating my dream for only a few minutes than got up and went on with my morning.

I got dressed in my jeans, with converse shoes and my Evanescence tee shirt and put my hair in a messy ponytail. Slapped on a think line of eyeliner on both sides of my eyes and grabbed my book bag. I raced to my car not worrying about breakfast and threw my stuff in feeling slightly anxious to get to school. Which was very odd to me since I wasn't big on school. Its not that I didn't have friends I did. I had some of the best kind of girl friends a girl could have. But the whole thing of not fitting in at school, fit well with me.

I pulled into my normal spot to find Volleys, Tori, Kitty, and Jessie leaning agents the fence chatting up a storm. They all looked so happy as if they all lived in there own little world and no one else was around. The staring eyes of our other classmates didn't seem to faze them for one second. It took Tori no more than a split second to realize that I pulled up. She always looked great, her hair soft brown short with bangs and spiked in the back. She cared her usual black book bag with jeans and a tee shirt that normally said something like "You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted and than used against you." We all would get a kick out of her shirts.

Volleys was the next one to come up to me all bubbly in her tall slender body in black pants and her white button up shirt with a tie and punk rock jewelry and just a hit of make up but not enough to tell. Her long blond hair swept off her face softly never looking to mess.

Jess followed quietly behind her with her hair pulled up with paintbrushes in her hair to add her own style. She were her favorite jeans and a cute top that you would know for sure that no one at this school would have. She smiled softly already knowing something was different about me but wasn't sure what. She had a tendice of knowing that something was different whether she knew what it was or not. It was one of the many corks that add to our group.

Kitty was already opening my door before I had a chance to open it myself waiting to pounce on me like a cat would do to its pray. Her long blond hair with black highlights was pulled back with a pen loosely. She wore one of the many anime shirts she had with her regular jeans and flip-flops. That was one of her touches, wearing flip-flops even though we were in the middle of January being in Portland, Oregon, never knowing whether it would rain in thirty minutes none less tomorrow.

I grabbed my stuff out of my car and jumped out of my truck and smiled, giving them a heart-warming hug.

"Hey you guys. What's kicking?" my mind was more in other places than what they had to say though I tried to listen.

"So there is this new family that moved in! And they have three older boys our age and two younger sisters kitty's and Jessie's age!" Tori looked like she was about to buster with excitement. "And well I heard from someone else that told them that the three boys were super hot and all single! Can you image that?" It's not that there were guys moving in to are little town here that excited her or any of us for that matter. It was that for the first time there was a cute guy that moved here and was going to our school.

My eyes light up with in seconds as I heard this. But soon was washed over with doubt as I saw Victoria and her gang walking up as they heard us jabbering about the new comers. Her Long blond tight curly hair bounced like in a commercial as she walked up to us. Victoria gave me the death glare, which sent chivers down my back. "So what is this I hear? Do you seriously think you have a chance with the three new boys?" her smile wasn't really a smile of happiness, but more like the satisfaction of already knowing she knocked my hopes off the scale within seconds.

I sighed to myself and blew my bangs out of my face to look at her. "Victoria don't you have to go try to steel someone's loser boyfriend?" I asked rolling my eyes because if someone was sure to have a boyfriend they keep it to themselves because she was and still is a boyfriend stealer. Victoria's face heated up with anger and her hand raised as if she were to hit me and I winced back not realizing Tori had already stepped in front of me. Its not that Tori was mean its just she was way stronger than any of us together and not even Victoria messed with her.

"Why don't you go play dolls with your little pest and leave us alone before I have to be sent to turn myself in for giving you a black eye." Tori spit the words at her with no doubt in them. Tori was always to her word. She was very honest even if it means beating someone up and getting away with it she would be sure to turn herself in. She says she couldn't live with the guilt of hiding like a coward. I give her props; I would scatter like roaches do when they see light before turning myself in. Though I was always to chicken to stand up for myself. I figured the world was better with me staying quiet and keeping things to myself. My group didn't tend to like that but they learned to deal with it.

Victoria shot another death glare at me before turning around walking off to class before the bell rang. I sighed in relief that the bell finally rung and I was free to go to class in peace and deal with math. I smiled at Tori and hugged her whispering in her ear "thanks" she pulled away just smiling at me. All of us go are separate ways since none of us had first together but we made up for it by having third before lunch that we had together. All of use took sat together. Are teacher wasn't very fond of that but they couldn't do much. And than there was seventh period P.E. that Volleys and Tori and I had together.

I walk in to my math class and sink into my seat in the back in hope to stay invisible. To my surprise I wasn't alone today like always. I looked up to find a very pail looking guy with black hair that was slightly covering his ice blue eyes and his tight black tee shirt that sculpted the shape of his very fit body. I didn't realize I was staring at him till he spoke with such melody my heart almost stopped. "Are you going to just stare at me or are you going to tell me your name?"

"I…um…." my heart felt like it dropped as I couldn't search for my own name. "…Raine" My voice sounded funny like it does when a thirteen-year-old boy goes threw purity. My face turned bright read as I took a deep breath as if I forgot to breath as he smirked at me.

"Hi Raine, I'm Owen. " He softly said smiling. To my surprise my name sounded so pretty when he said it.

Mrs. June called our class into order before I had a chance to recover myself to talk to Owen again to make up for my stupidity. I sighed in defeat and pulled out my notebook ready to take notes. Though the whole time my mind was wondering how could this gorgeous guy be so real and be sitting next to me non-less say hello to me. I figured it was better solved at lunch than to worry about it now. Yet I still stared at the clock the whole period watching one-minute pass slowly till class would be that much more over.

I nearly jumped when I heard the bell not realizing that class was over. I looked over in hope to talk to Owen but to my surprise he was already out of his seat and gone. I started to wonder if I was day dreaming longer than I thought I had since I didn't even see him walk out of class. Biting my lip in confusion, I grabbed my stuff and hurried myself to my next class.

Sitting in my second period I looked around in sadness that Owen wasn't in my class. I knew it would be a one in a million chance that he would be in my class but I still let myself hope for it. The tardy bell was two seconds before ringing when my face light up to my surprise to see Own gliding into my glass. I didn't get any hope for him to come sit next to me, though I watched him intensely at where he would sit. I felt slightly stupid feeling like a crazy stacker. I hit my head to the desk feeling stupid with such thoughts. I froze as I heard the musical voice again not sure if he was talking to me. "Is anyone sitting her Raine?" I looked up at him slowly as he said my name and he was grinning like he knew some secret. I shock my head slowly no as I watched him sit down keeping his eyes on me. I tried to look away but his eyes held me as if he was looking at me from the inside out. Biting my lip I felt my face blush cherry red still being speechless. Owen grinned the smile, his smile taking over his face as he laughed to himself softly. It felt like I was staring at him for a long time but my eyes flashed at the clock when the tardy bell rang.

"So are you new here?" I got the guts up to talk to him, though my voice was shaky the whole time. I looked at him hoping to not stare him like I was about to kill him.

"Owen smiled at me knowing that my answer was obvious but still spoke to me softly, "yes I'm new." Owen kept his gaze on me and I on him not looking away. Mr. Call made me jump when he put his hand on my shoulder asking me a question that I missed. I looked up at him confused and he gave a frustrating face as he restated the question. "Will there be a problem with him sitting next to you or will you be able to focus on your work?" I smiled sheepishly and nodded my head yes that I would be able to focus. Though I know I was lying in every aspect. I knew that his class would drag on just as long as the last one before I could even get a chance to tell my friends everything in third period. So I took out my spiral note book and started to doodle not really trying to draw anything pacific.