FRESHMAN YEAR. :)

"LEAH! Put that red dress on and come on!" My best friend Carry said.

"Why?" I asked angrily.

1. I hate dresses.

2. I hate dances.

3. I can't even dance.

4. I don't have a date.

5. I don't want to go to a stupid Christmas dance. I don't care if this is the only dance other than prom and we were to young to go to prom.

"Because you need to come." She threw the dress at me and I growled at her, but put the dress on.

She had already curled my hair up and I felt like a poodle as she pulled me down the hallway. I hoped my mom and dad would notice the whole kidnapping thing but no such luck. They wanted me to go to the dance.

"Have fun!" Mom said as Carry drug me through the house.

Outside she scowled at me. "Was that really that hard? We're late now."

I unwillingly got in the car and let her drive me to the high school. "I hate you." I growled at her when I saw the school. The outside was all red and green with the marry Christmas signs and bows and ribbons on the door to the gym. I could imagine the inside..

"Oh, come on. Have fun." She begged, pulling me out of the car. She looked adorable of course. She was dressed in a green dress that matched mine with her hair curled just like mine looking almost like my twin.

"Yeah. Right." I scoffed.

She opened the door and pushed me inside. I gasped.

The gym was worse than I feared. Red and green balloons lined the walls and there was this big stage that had a microphone and a HUGE marry Christmas sign. The sign was covered in green and red hearts and stars.

I gagged at the sight of Embry and his on again off again girlfriend Nikki kissing among the people who were dancing to various Christmas songs that would play for a second and then switch over.

I saw a sign in the entryway made of painted pink and green letters that read: caught under the mistletoe?

I wanted to turn and run, but I didn't have the keys. Crap. Where did Carry go? I rushed inside running through the people in search of Carry.

Halfway across the gym I ran into a tall guy who was facing away from me in jeans and a white polo shirt. "Sorry!" I said quietly as he turned around.

"Leah?" He asked and I nodded. "Little Leah Clearwater? It was Sam Uley standing there with a strange little smile playing on his lips. Sam is a junior and tall (not to mention HUGE). He had a beautiful smile and eyes black as night. He and I had grown up together. Mom and his mom were best friends.. I couldn't stand him back then. But ever sense he went to high school I haven't seen him half as much.

"Little?" I asked him.

"Leah!" Carry squealed coming out of nowhere.

"I've been looking for you-"

She cut me off. "Look up Leah." She was laughing so hard I thought she was going to die from lack of Oxygen.

I glanced above us and I almost died when I saw the mistletoe hanging above my head. I glanced at Sam, who was looking up too, before turning and trying to run away. "UM.. Leah!?" Sam called, grabbing my arm. "Not so fast."

He pulled me back and kissed me. Not quickly at all, no he held on to me for a good thirty seconds and when I pulled away I was breathless.

"Wow, Leah." He murmured, not letting go of my arm.

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"What just happened?" Carry asked.

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