-Everything they had, is lost. Just from one little mistake.-

It was the near ending of a great summer. Warm weather, cold water, staying up late with friends, eating ice cream, everything a summer should be, right? Brown haired, brown eyed, beautiful 13 year old girl, totally clueless. Clueless of everything that will happen next. I walked into my sisters work to see a handsome boy stocking some shelves with a few others.

I say to my older sister Emily, "Who is that?" , as I point to the boy.

"That's Nick, he is one of the stock boys. Why do you ask Gabrielle?" She gives me a weird look.

I scoff, "I hate when you say my full name."

She laughs, "I work till 7, just stay out of trouble ok?"

It was only 2:30 "That means I have enough time to go up to Nick and introduce myself." I thought to myself. As my sister worked, I was bored out of my mind. Why did I even come here? All she did was sell lottery tickets, cigarettes, and newspapers. What is so exciting about that? Nothing.

"Sissy, I'm bored. Can I do something?" I stand up and brush myself off.

She finishes up the customers that were there, and she turns to me, "No."

I wasn't expecting such a harsh answer. "Fine. I'm going for a walk."

I walk out of the door, with my sister yelling behind me. My town isn't a very good place to walk around. People walk around drunk, high, and sometimes both. I laugh at the thought. I'm a thirteen year old girl walking around a bad town. I never think that anything will happen to me, but what happens to other girls is just as luckily to might happen to me. I can't stop thinking about how gorgeous that boy Nick was. He was tall, about 6'5, slim, fit. He was perfect looking. Just only if I had the guts to talk to him. It starts to get dark outside so I head back for my sisters work. I don't want to go over to my sister so I go over to one of the cashiers on break.

"Hello." I walk up to a younger looking woman about the same age as my sister.

"Hey, are you Emmy's younger sister?" She raises an eyebrow.

I give her a weird look. "Um...Yes? How did you know?"

She laughs, "Emmy has mentioned you from time to time. She says your really funny. And you look just like her!"

I smile, "Oh yeah. We get that a lot."

Nodding, she stands up, shes really short, shorter than me, so I giggle. "What's your name anyways?"

"My name is Alyssa. Yours?"

"Gabby, nice to meet you."

She looks over to Nick then back at me, "So I saw you pointing at him earlier with your sister."

I try to look clueless, "Who?"

She doesn't buy it. "I'm not as stupid as I am short."

I try as hard as I can not to laugh. "In was just asking her who he was.

She walks over to her cash register and turns the light on to let people know shes open," She definitely knows who Nick is."

I give her a confused look. She knows exactly what I mean.

"Nick has a HUGE crush on your sister. Didn't she tell you?"