Chapter 1
This is going to be a long day. Mia thought as she sat in class listening to her math teacher ramble on about the history of the pie symbol. He always gets excited about this kind of stuff, and on good days the class gets a free period because the teacher takes the whole period just talking. No one ever listens though. Mia looked beside her and saw Eric Roil listen to his iPod while reading a comic book. She looked at the opposite desk beside her and saw Michael Stewart text. It was probably his girlfriend, Sophia. They started dating when they first started high school and they have been inseparable ever since.
Mia sighed, feeling the loneliness in her heart whenever she sees Michael's face and see the love and happiness when he's talking to Sophia. Or even thinking about her gets him excited. Mia wishes she had something like that come from another guy who feels that way about her. There is one in particular that she would love to see that expression on, Rick. Star swimmer in the whole school, smartest person ever to exist, beautiful sandy brown hair and eyes so blue that whoever looks into them would think that they were drowning in the ocean itself.
She looked at the clock. 5 more minutes, she told herself, and then you get to go to class to see Rick. She felt giddy just thinking about it. She sat in front of him in her science class and during the whole hour she would daydream about him tapping her on the shoulder and asking to be her lab partner or helping him with his work.
She touched her necklace absentmindedly, a thing she does when she wonders if it was Rick himself that gave her the necklace and all the other finer things that would mysteriously appear on her doorstep in the mornings once a week. This morning she found a diamond necklace with a diamond that had to be as big as her head. People say she stole it because when people ask her where she got it from she would say that it just appears at her place. She didn't care about the rumors about her being a thief. She brushed it off and kept walking. She wonders all the time who gives her the diamond necklaces and $4000 earrings. She thinks that if she wears them to school, that either A) someone would recognize it from a stolen jewelry store and turn her in so that way she can give it back or B) the person who gave her these beautiful things would appear and give his love to her. This has been going on for 2 months yet no one proclaims any love to her. The bell rang. Finally, Mia thought. As she was walking toward her science class, she somehow thought that she saw Rick watching her from a far distance.
Little did Mia know that Rick was watching her. Not like a stalkers look but a look of pure awe. She was the most beautiful thing in the world to him and he would risk being late to class to watch her go toward his very own class. The same class she was in. The same class where she sat in front of him, where he could stare at her. Oh, how he wished he could watch her all day. He already stares at her enough. He loves the way her hair was black as midnight and eyes green as a forest. Her skin was slightly pale, but anyone could tell that she was in the sun a lot trying to get the paleness away. His heart swelled with love when he saw her wearing the necklace he bought for her. It brings her eyes out, he thought, makes her look more beautiful than a star twinkling at night. He walked into class, and saw her sitting in her desk, doodling on her notebook while waiting for class to start.
When he sat down he instantly heard her heart rate beat quicker. He blushed at the thought of her blushing about him. When the bell rung the teacher came in and gave everyone a ton of work to do. Rick, who knew beforehand what the work would be and did it last night. So he sat there and looked at Mia with a loving expression. He was glad he was in the back of the class so no one could see his face expressions and the blush he always got when he thought about Mia. How he adored the fact that even though her hair was long, at the end her hair would curl up, and how when she breathed, her shoulder blades moved with the rhythm of her breathing. He loved to hear her breathe period. He hasn't breathed except once, and that was when he was born. All of the people of his race did that when they were born. They breathe for once just to let the parents know that they lived through the birth labor and then they stop breathing for the rest of their lives.
Rick would give anything to breathe like Mia did. He would give anything to even be with Mia. But of course he couldn't. His race's laws made it where none of his kind was allowed to fall in love with a human. But what if that human was your soulmate? Soulmate, he thought, and his heart nearly jumped out of his chest thinking that he and Mia were soulmates. She was the perfect fit for Rick, but Rick only wished that he could talk to her.
Don't make this any harder on yourself than it has to be, the little voice of him in his head told him. Don't talk to her, you will screw everything up. But I have to at least talk to her, he said back to the voice; I want to spend whatever time is left for us before she goes away forever. It broke his heart that this was their senior year and the only words he had ever told her were a couple of "Hi"s and "Hey"s. This is it, he said; after science, I am going to sit with her at lunch and talk to her. The voice in his head protested, but he ignored it and paid attention to Mia's beautiful hair. Time seemed to go by forever until finally the bell rang.