Introduction

You could say I was always pretty laid back, living life in the slow lane. At least that's how I felt after I met Tanner. Before that my world was very…….well I don't want to paint too horrible of an image in your mind. Let's sum it up in six words, hate-anger-crying-pain-disaster-goth. Or as I like to call it ,"The before time."Like I said before ,I don't want to start this story on too awful of a note,(or make you depressed),so I'm not going into details.

The Day I met him all that went away, all the confusion in my world disappeared. It was a sunny afternoon, and I was twelve. I'd just ditched my sister in the mall ,and took refuge in one of the shops.

*Falshback*

I reached my destination, Holister. I wasn't sure why I came here. I must have been thinking the insanely loud music and overwhelming smell of perfume would take my mind off things. I'd been trying to find distractions a lot .My younger sister had dragged me out here this morning, so I couldn't do up my outfit as much as I wanted to .Instead of my usual insane clothing, I was wearing plain skinny jeans and a gray t-shirt with black roses on the front. A little random, but I really didn't care anyway. After fourty minutes of browseing the store ,a lady working there told me to buy something or leave .I glared at her ,then walked out of the store. On my way I got out my cell phone and started texting. I'd been at the back of the store so it took me a while to get back. Still texting I began to hum the song, and soon my steps were in sync with the beat. The song was my favorite one and I got completely lost in it. Hearing that song again made me feel better, the words pounded against the sides of my body.

"…….Do you remember? Do you remember? Do you remember? All of the times we had! Let's bring it back! Let's bring it back! Let's bring it back!-"The flow of music inside me was interrupted as I bumped into someone and fell on my butt. I was about to punch whoever it was right in their inconsiderate face-when I looked up into it first.

It was a guy, about my age standing over me, an extremely guilty expression on his face. And I hadn't done this in a while, but that very unused part of my brain that likes guys-was spinning off the hook.

"I'm so sorry," he said, holding out his hand.

"No problem, "I said as he helped me up."I wasn't paying attention anyway."

"I'm Tanner, "he told me," I just moved here,"

"Janelle," I said." so what school are you going to anyway?"

"The one in Sherwood."

"Oh me too, maybe we'll see each other sometime."

"Yeah that'd be nice." he said then picked up his bags and walked away, leaving me utterly speechless.

*End Flashback*

It turns out, Tanner moved to the end of my street so we began to walk to school together. We were only friends at first, but our relationship progressed, and a year later he asked me out .I didn't care if we went out or not though. I was content as long as I was around him .Just to explain, Sherwood is a small town right next to a bigger town called Bayville(Which is actually nowhere near a bay)

We were also both in love with music. Any kind of music, we had passion for it all. All couples had their thing and music was just ours. Sometimes we'd spend silent hours listening to our huge collection of CDs, or even singing along. It had a way of running through us, like all we were meant to do was listen.

So anyway, we fell farther and farther for each other. Now we were fourteen, and little did we know our lives were about to take a very unexpected turn……