4 Years Ago
"What's your name?" The black haired boy wondered, lisping his s. He was missing his two front teeth. After all, he was only eight.
A look of thought washed over the girl's face. She looked down at her bracelet as if reading something, and finally said, "Jade Hollow. Who are you?"
"Jacob Hunt," the little boy replied, reaching out to shake the girl's hand. As she took his hand, he noticed her long black hair moving in the wind from the cool fall breeze. The way her jade green eyes that she was named for twinkled as if she knew nothing. Little did the boy know, the little girl truly did know nothing.
"Wanna go get a lollipop?" Jacob asked, wanting to befriend the beautiful six-year-old girl.
"Sure!" Jade answered, plastering a toothy grin on her face, standing up from her spot on the park bench, completely forgetting her sister's instructions to stay put. The two kids raced to where Jacob's mother was on a picnic blanket under a large oak tree. She was a beautiful woman, with the same sapphire blue eyes as her son. But while Jacob had jet-black hair, his mother had dirty blonde. She looked so young. Most people that saw her with her son usually thought, "teen mom." And they weren't wrong. She was 18 when she had Jacob.
"Mommy, can me and Jade have a lollipop, please?" Jacob asked, putting on an adorable smile.
His mom could tell Jacob meant the girl standing to his right, so she handed Jacob two chocolate tootsie-pops, smiling.
"Here you go!" Jacob said, handing the lollipop to Jade. All of a sudden a confused look appeared on Jade's face.
"HELP! HELP!" She screamed out, "A STRANGER IS TRYING TO GIVE ME CANDY!" Jade kept screaming, tears streamed down her face, "HELP!"
Jacob's mom quickly got up and rushed over to calm down the little girl, while Jacob just stood there confused, and many people giving them awkward glances. He had just introduced himself minutes ago...and now she's acting like he's trying to kidnap her! He just didn't get it.
A woman with red hair then appeared, running up to Jade.
"Shh Shh, it's okay baby. Sissy's here now," the redhead said, embracing Jade in a hug, stroking her hair. Jade cried into her shoulder, and Jacob still just stood there.
When the little girl finally calmed down, and people started to move on with their lives, the redhead stood up, grabbing Jade's hand.
"I'm so sorry about that! It's just, Jade here has S.T.M.L-"
"S.T.M.L?" Jacob's mother asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Short term memory loss. I'm Elise by the way, Jade's sister." The redhead said, sticking her hand out to shake the mom's hand.
"I'm Rebecca, and this is my son Jacob." Rebecca replied nervously, giving Elise's hand a shake, studying her. She looked nothing like her sister. Jade had jet-black hair like Jacob, jade green eyes, tan skin, while her sister had fair skin, red hair, and grey blue eyes.
"Who are these people?" Jade asked nervously.
"This is Ms. Rebecca and Jacob, they are friends," Elise said, gesturing to the two as she said their names. Rebecca wasn't sure why Elise called her a friend, but she could only assume it was to ease Jade's mind.
"Why don't you go play with Jacob?" Elise suggested.
"Okay! Tag! You're it!" Jade screeched excitingly, whacking Jacob in the arm and running off. Jacob followed Jade; interested in the young girl he had just met. She completely forgot the fact that she just had a mental breakdown due to the fact she thought Jacob was trying to kidnap her.
"So she's your little sister?" Rebecca asked, turning to Elise.
"Yep. And I also have two half brothers, Ren and Alex. The three of them are triplets, we share our father's blood." Elise replied, sharing a short story.
"Why aren't they here?" Rebecca questioned, raising an eyebrow.
"Ren is removing mistletoe from the trees with my dad. Alex is probably playing video games. Jade enjoys the gardening stuff... but once she was climbing a tree to get out some mistletoe, and she forgot what she was doing and fell out of the tree." The redhead sighed, watching her little sister play with with Jacob. She seemed so carefree; unlike Elise's self. Elise was burdened with the task of mother after her own mother left, and then the triplet's mother. The only time she got a break was over the summer when she went to camp, but after she leaves in a week to go, it will be her last time there. She'll be too old; after all, Elise IS 20.
The day went by; the midday sun that was there when the four had arrived at Central Park was now down in the west, shining little light onto New York City (not that it needed it). Jade only forgot what she was doing a few times until it was time to go.
"Time to go Jacob!" Rebecca called out to her son that was up in a tree.
"Coming!" He called back down, wiping his black hair out of his face.
"Time for us to go to Jade!" Elise yelled out to her sister at the base of the tree Jacob's in.
"But I don't wanna go!" Jade complained, "I wanna play with Jacob!"
"How about we see you guys next week?" Rebecca suggested as she folded up her blanket. "Will that work for you?" Rebecca asked, turning to Elise.
"Same time? Same place?" Elise confirmed. Rebecca nodded, taking her son's hand as he jogged over to her.
"See you soon Jacob!" Jade called out to the older boy, starting to walk towards home with Elise, the opposite direction Jacob was going.
"Wait!" Jacob yelled, removing his hand from his mother's grasp and running back to Jade.
"What?" She asked, turning around to face the boy. He then planted a quick kiss on her lips and placed something in her hand, then returning to his mother.
And that, my friend, is how they met.
Okay, so, cliche ending, but it gets the main idea across? Idk...ANYWAYS... review, follow...idk. Do what you do!
And sorry about the crappy character development in this chapter... I'll try to work on it. It's the first chapter, do I'm working on it! Don't worry!