AN: Hey *waves* since everyone else was posting a first teaser chapter, I thought I'd be the lemming and do so as well. :)

Summary: She knew him before she met him, but he would always disappear in a sea of black before she could see him. A story about taking control and finding your place in life. AH ExB.

Sea of Black.

Chapter 1.

Someone once said that life was made up of defining moments. The moments that made you, and the ones that broke you. The moments that lifted you up, and the ones that brought you down.

Fate, karma, and serendipity were all coincidence, life was directed by your decisions, and each consequence the by-product of that.

For years, I went through life believing that my life—as boring as it was—was meant to be how it was. I was just a wallflower, a girl on the cusp of becoming another small town statistic. I had the boyfriend who I had known all my life, and who everyone said I would one day marry. The rumors that I had been knocked up were already circling without much proof, and I was resigned to live out the rest of my life working at the local diner.

Then, one day, I realized I had become one of those insecure girls that whine about wanting something interesting to happen in their lives, yet sat on their asses waiting for it to fall in their lap.

Suddenly, I wasn't happy with my life, and I became conscious of the fact that it was me who controlled my life, it was my decision to do with it as I wished, not some cosmic force.

I was disgusted at myself for wasting my life and resigning myself to living a mediocre life when I held the power to change it, and change it I did.

It was a decision that I never regretted, because if I hadn't recognized how boring and unfulfilling my life was then I would never have met him, and that in itself would have been a tragedy.

My story isn't your run of the mill, girl meets guy and falls in love, but I wouldn't change a single second of it, and—if you like—I'll tell it to you.

AN: First chapter! Thanks for joining me on this journey!