Chapter I

Searching all my days just to find you

Not sure what I'm looking for

I'll know it, when I see you

Until then I'll hide in my bedroom

Just stayin' up all night just to write

A love song for no one

→ Love Song For No One, John Mayer

AN: First time readers, there's a little bit of a connection with another fanfic of mine, You Belong With Me – basically all you need to know is that Kaylie is Seth's imprint.

Obviously Collin's POVs are flashbacks, and the song lyrics at the start and end of the chapter is the theme song for that chapter :)

The chapters are a little short, but hopefully there'll be lots of them ;)

I'm really nervous about this story, it might be a little confusing at times... tell me what you think!

Lots of love,

Lena xo

PS roman numerals are awesome... and these chapters have names (oo-er)

I'll never forget the first day I saw her. She had a thin frame and pale skin with a light pink tinge to her cheeks. She had blue-grey-green eyes and straight blonde hair that curled at the ends.

It was her lips that always got to me, though. They were pale pink, small and heart-shaped. And when she smiled...

Brady was driving us back from Port Angeles one weekend. It was a month into the summer holidays and we'd just graduated – me with flying colours, while Brady barely scraped through. We'd both skipped a grade to keep Seth company while he went to Forks High to stay with his imprint, Kaylie. The two of them had moved up to New York for college but me and Brady didn't see the point – La Push was our home, and our job was here.

Brady stepped on the accelerator as we drove down the streets lined with houses.

"I'm telling you," he said in a voice of pure conviction. "Seth reckons he's not going to do anything with Kaylie. Wants to be 'honourable' and marry her first. But they're horny teenagers locked alone in an apartment. All Kaylie has to do is get started and Seth'll never be able to say no."

I looked at him in disgust. "I cannot believe you are even thinking about that, but you're telling me why?"

Brady shrugged. "I was giving Seth my honest opinion before he left. He reckons he can make it."

I couldn't help but grin - I'd seen the way Seth thought about Kaylie. He was doomed.

At that moment, I looked out the car window.

She was standing on the street, trying to stuff a catalogue into a letterbox. She had a shoulderbag filled with magazines and didn't seem to notice us driving past.

From that moment on, all I could think about was her.

"Stop the car," I whispered.

"Hmm?" asked Brady absent-mindedly.

"STOP THE CAR NOW!" I roared and Brady hit the brakes. The car screeched to a stop on the bitumen and I jumped out, running straight to her.

I stopped when I was a few feet from her. Maybe I should've thought this through. What was I supposed to say to her? Hello, I'm Collin, and you're my soulmate. What's your name?

Someone up there must've been listening because just then, she pulled a stack of magazines from her bag. A breeze picked up, scattering the catalogues everywhere. She leaned down to pick some up, and I quickly went to help her.

She didn't say anything but I heard her heartrate distinctly pick up and the pink tinge to her cheeks darkened a little.

I held out a neat stack of catalogues for her.

"Th-thanks," she stuttered as she took them. As I handed them to her our fingers brushed and I saw her face change to surprise – probably because of my high temperature – but she didn't flinch.

"No problem," I said brightly. She smiled slowly.

"Weren't you driving past in a car two seconds ago?" I was a head taller than her, even though I was probably the shortest out of the pack.

"Yeah, my friend Brady just ran into some car trouble, he's having a look at it now," I lied smoothly.

She smiled a small smile.

"Er-- I'm Collin." I held my hand out and she shook it. Her hand fits into mine perfectly, I thought, although she hasn't got a very strong grip.

"I'm Jessie," she said. Her voice was softer than most people's.

"Umm," she added, "I'd better-- I've got these to deliver--"

"Yeah, of course, I better get back to Brady..."

Brady pulled up the car next to me on the curb. "Come on!" he yelled over the engine.

"Did you get the car trouble fixed up?" asked Jessie. Brady gave her a strange look.

"Car trouble? There was no-- oh, yeah! All fixed!" he quickly cut in when I gave him a glare.

"Bye," I said to her, even though leaving her was the last thing I felt like doing now. She gave me another of her small smiles before turning away.

I climbed into the truck and Brady started driving away.

"So what was that about? I mean she's not bad looking, but-- oh no."

"Hmm?" I said, not focussed.

"Collin. You've got The Look," Brady said wisely. "The Look" was the expression on a wolf's face when he looked at his imprint.

"Her name is Jessie," I said. "Doesn't that suit her perfectly?"

I realised then that I did have a goofy sort of smile on my face. Brady was clicking his tongue.

"You know, I thought we'd been through all this imprinting fuss now that Seth was moving out. Do you know anything about the girl, besides her name?"

I pulled, from my fist, the scrunched up piece of paper that was one of the fliers I'd taken.

"Yeah. What are you doing tomorrow lunchtime?"

Brady snorted. "Eating."

"You're coming with me tomorrow, back to Port Angeles. We're going to Robinson's diner."

I could've met you in the sandbox

I could've passed you on the sidewalk

Could I have missed my chance

And watched you walk away?