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"As a good start to the school year, I thought we should write a little introduction about ourselves." Miss Parkins, an 9th grade teacher at Elderwood Private Academy instructed, her back to the class and scribbling little notes on the blackboard. "You will have thirty minutes to complete this assignment and then I will read them out loud to the class. Things to be included are you full names, your birthdays and a list of favorites as well as a short back story. You may begin when some sheets of paper are handed back to you."

Evelynn sighed, slumping down onto her desk and waiting for the paper to reach her. It wasn't that long, seeing as she sat in the middle of the room, which was something that made her want to slam her head against the wall. This wasn't fun. All of these crappy, busy-work assignments teachers gave out, they weren't useful, they were just crap to kill time.

She looked up at the clock, there was twenty-five minutes left to complete the assignment and she should write something down.

My name is Evelynn Marine Pafica. I am fifteen years old and from Boston, Massachusetts but I was born in New York City. There's not much to tell about me, my birth parents abandoned me in Boston when I was about a year old and a couple of years later, I was adopted by this pretty nice couple. I don't know much about my past and I don't remember much either but I do remember this one thing. Dark eyes. That's my first memory, a pair of dark eyes looking down at me and this feeling of happiness. I think I was looking into the eyes of one of my relatives but like I said before I can't remember it clearly.

When I turned thirteen my adoptive parents sent me here to get a good education. I kind of like it here, it's alright you know? The classes and teachers are good but some of the students in my dorm I could live without. I don't know though, maybe it's just because I don't trust others easily. Perhaps I'm becoming paranoid. That would be the icing on the cake. Oh well, not like I need to worry about anything other than keeping my grades up here.

I was born in February, that's what the note I came with said, February 3rd. My favorite color is green, I like roller-coasters, comedies starring Adam Sandler, books by Stephen King and TV shows by Seth MacFarlene.

There isn't much to tell about me. I'm just a normal girl, working hard to get her shot in the world and when I get out of this school...I think I'm going to go to law school. I'd be good at being a lawyer. I can talk anyone into doing anything.

Evelynn set her pencil down and looked out the window, waiting for everyone else to finish up. Oh the problems of being the first one done of your assignments, there was nothing to do most days, all you could do was sit around and wait. This time though, there was something outside that caught her attention.

Two men were walking towards the front doors of her school, two men dressed in all black with strange tattoos and carrying weapons. Carryinglethal looking weapons! She gasped and elbowed the student sitting next to her, "Do you see that?" She whispered, hoping that she wasn't going crazy.

The student turned his head to look out the window and then turned back to her, "What are you talking about? No one's outside?" The look in is eyes was one Evelynn had seen many times before. He thought that she was crazy. Wonderful...and he was one of the new students too...one of the ones who didn't know about her seeing all those weird creatures. Maybe she should have written something about the things she saw...No. She'd get laughed at and called crazy again.

'Evelynn, you listen to yourself on this. You are not crazy. You are not going to look out that window again and see some dangerous men entering the school with weapons. You're not going to look, period. Focus on your studies. Focus. Focus. Damn it...' Her eyes drifted back to the window, wanting to see if they would still be there.

They weren't.

Well...it was rather hot outside today for September...perhaps the heat was getting to her.

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Present Time

The school carnival, the opening event to the school year, was a couple of hours later and Evelynn was grateful for that. Riding a couple of the rides, eating some junk-food and socializing would get her mind off what she had seen that morning. The two men with the weapons. All she could see whenever she shut her eyes was the two of them...they looked like the villains from the Clearly Cursed movie series!

No amount of cotton-candy and cheap amusement rides could take their pictures from her mind. The older one, with golden locks for hair and reminded her of the angels that she read about in books and fantasy novels and the younger one with hair like fire and a crystal-like sword on his back. They looked...like angels come to Earth.

Shoving her hands into her coat pockets, Evelynn started to make her way back towards the dorms. It was a little after twelve and she did have a big history test in the morning and unlike the others, she needed to pass it and couldn't get by otherwise.

Stepping threw the front doors, she silently made her way up the stairs back towards her dorm-room.

"Hello." A voice said to her as she reached the top of the stairs, causing her to jump and almost tumble back down. The voice chuckled, "Um...That was unexpected. Are you alright?"

"Fine!" Evelynn snapped, brushing the dirt off her legs, glad she hadn't fallen backwards because whoever this guy was, he might have seen up her skirt. "Just peachy. What do you want?"

"What do I want?" The voice repeated, "...I guess I do need to explain a few things to you don't I?"

"To tell you the truth I don't really give a crap. I just want to get to bed." Evelynn tried to push past him, tried to get down the hall to her room when she caught a look of something resting against the wall in the corner. Something a light shade of purple that yet, was semi see-threw. She froze, her body tensing up. "...You're the boy I saw this morning from my home room class."

The boy smiled, his light red hair falling down into his eyes. Evelynn hadn't been able to get a good look at him before, just a few details like the color of his hair and the sword on his back but seeing him up close now...she was horrified to realize that he was handsome. Milky skin with not a single blemish, hair that hung down around his face in a riot of curls and blue eyes that reminded Evelynn of the water in the lake behind her house. He was shorter than her, just by a couple inches though and his muscles were enough to put the Terminater to shame.

"I prefer the name, Gilbert." He said. "Gilbert Garroway...or Gilbert Graymark if you want me to use my clave name."

"I repeat, what do you want?" Evelynn asked, getting ready to kick him in the gut and run down the hall, screaming for help.

Gilbert's smile vanished and he reached for his sword. "It's a long story but to make it short, I was born to protect you." He knelled down in front her, still gripping his sword in one hand. "My charge, I am forever in your service. Evelynn Marine Lewis from the house Lightwood."

Before Evelynn could ask what the hell was happening, a loud noise from downstairs caught both their attentions. Gilbert grunted, getting up off his knees, drawing his sword and pushing Evelynn behind him as gently as he could. "Follow me downstairs." He instructed, "Jace should have this cover but we need to go now."

"I don't understand what you're talking about!" Evelynn protested, "What the hell is wrong with you!?"

"You must have known that you were different!" Gilbert said, his voice pleading. "Must have known that you weren't normal! Someone like me! If you want to know the truth about yourself, about where you come from, then follow me! I promise, I will protect you and make sure you get back here okay! You just have to trust me!"

He could see the creatures too...that's what he'd meant when he'd said that. Maybe it wasn't the smartest thing for a girl to do but when you grew up seeing things no one else could see...and suddenly here was someone who saw what you saw...you had to take a risk. All her life Evelynn had been playing everything safe, so maybe it was time to go out on a limb and figure out what it was she was seeing exactly.

...That didn't mean Evelynn was expecting something good to come out of it. She wasn't stupid. She knew that this guy could be very well trying to take advantage of her. But what he didn't know was she had a butterfly knife in her coat pocket and if he tried anything funny it was getting jabbed in his manly bits.