Chapter 1

My name is Kassandra Josephine Parker. My parents divorced when I was very young. I only have one picture of us as a family. Just one. That being said, it is very dear to me.

Growing up, my father was rarely in my life. At school, teachers would ask kids what their parents do for a living. Sometimes there would be projects we would do at the beginning of the year. A way to introduce ourselves to the class.

It was embarrassing, because I never knew what my dad did. I only saw him maybe a handful of times a year. If that. Therefore, as I grew older I changed my story. I used my stepdad rather than my blood related father. It seemed less embarrassing and plus I got to talk about someone who was in my life.

Whenever I would see my actual father, we had good times together. I never understood why he hardly saw me. He was supposed to have me every other weekend. There would be many days when I would wait by the door or window for him to show up, until one day he just stopped coming all together.

I blamed myself for his strange disappearance. You see, my father wanted a boy. Instead, he received a girl. Me being a girl, I hated myself because of it.

My mother told me why he was gone. She told me he got into trouble with the cops. She mentioned that he wouldn't be seeing me for quite some time.

As I grew older, I realized it wasn't my fault that he never really saw me. I did nothing wrong.

Here I am now, a twenty-year-old working at a library. Books have been something I hated when I was a child. Now, I cannot get enough of them. They are like movies in your head. You can go on a romantic get away with the man of your dreams. You can watch the fight of a hero slaying a dragon. There is also sexy French vampires who are bratty and so full of themselves that you can read about. I am not so ambitious when it comes to going places. I like to stay home with my cat. I do wish to go on adventures though. Little did I know that my wish would come true.

I sat at the desk at my work. It wasn't very busy. There were maybe three people in the library. I flipped the book I was reading open, flicking through the pages to find my place. I had lost my bookmark on the way to work. The wind carried it away when I was walking here. It was my favorite bookmark too. Yes, I know that it's just a bookmark, but it was a Harry Potter one!

"Excuse me!" A male voice called to me, removing me from my book.

I looked up at the man. His hair was messy. He wore dark framed glasses and a nicely fitted suit. He had an English accent, which to my American ears found very attractive.

"Hello." I greeted and stood up from the chair. "How may I help you?"

"I saw you walking here and…" He reached into his pocket, pulling out a beat up bookmark. "Oh, well...I guess I should have returned it sooner…"

"Is that my bookmark?" I asked as I pointed and reached for it.

"Yeah. Sorry. I would have returned it sooner, but I had a few errands to run." The man explained himself. His voice sounded apologetic.

I took the bookmark out of his hand and examined it. It looked old and warn out. What had he done to make it this way?

"Well, thank you for returning it to me." I said, not knowing what else to say.

"What day and year is it?" He asked me unexpectedly.

"What?" I was dumbfounded at this point. "It's…September fourteenth of two thousand and fourteen."

"Ah, yes!" He shifted in his stance. "Okay, you see…there will be a man that looks like me. He'll talk like me, act like me, and smell like me." Smell? "Go up to him and tell him that The Doctor says…" He leaned closer as his spoke. His voice got darker and then out of nowhere he sounded happy again. "Hi!"

"Hi?" I questioned.

"Yep!" He pronounced the p sound. "Don't be scared. He is a little weird at first. Well, that's what people tell me anyways. Well, it's what I hear other people telling each other. Well…."

"Who are you?" I interrupted him.

His smile was warm and bright. He tapped on the desk like a drum before he hit it a final time and announced who he was. "I'm The Doctor!"

A/N: Please tell me what you think of the starter of this story. :) I would like to know if I should continue it or not.