AN: This is my new fic, by my self. It's every different, nothing like the movie or anything I have ever written before. It's new and sad. Read it, I'm sure you'll like it, and if you don't still review.

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" Hey." Jamie said as she joins Landon at their lunch table.

" What's up? You look more down then usual." Landon said as she studies her face.

" It's nothing." Jamie simply said as she stares at the table.

" When did we start lying to each other?" Landon asked as he cupped her chin and brought her face up.

" You know me to well."

No one knew how true that statement is. Jamie Sullivan and Landon carter know everything there is to know about each other.

Jamie and Landon have been friends since the first day of first grade.

They had a lot in common, both lived in foster homes, both felt alone. They clung to each other at such an early age. At 16 they moved in together, became roommates. They became each other's family, so yeah he does know her well.

Jamie, 18. Her mother and father died when she was 3 years old in a car crash. From that day she hoped between foster and group homes. None in which she was ever happy, she was treated bad, never felt loved.

Landon, 18. His parents left him when he was 4 months old. He lived in the system, group homes till he was 16, when he couldn't take it anymore. Since he wasn't old enough, at 16 he foraged his birth certificate and I.D and got an apartment and Jamie moved in with him. Till they turned 18 they ran from the system.

Everyone has always looks at them like they don't belong. Jamie because she only wears black and Landon for his bad boy image.

" I might get kicked out of school." Jamie said.

" Why?" Landon asked.

" For beating Madison's ass. She had that coming." Jamie said with a grin as she reply's it in her mind.

" It'll work out. Let's get out of here." Landon said before they left the school, there wasn't much anyway.

" I hate this fucking town." Jamie said as she and Landon walk down the street.

" So do I. This town, that school, our fucking tiny apartment." Landon said.

" it's better then where we were." Jamie pointed out.

" True." Landon said as they continue to walk.

" You working tonight?" Jamie asked.

" Yeah, you?"

" Nope." Jamie said.

" so I guess your all alone tonight." Landon pointed out.

" I know. Fuck man." Jamie said as they reached their apartment.

" Don't worry about it, you'll be fine. You're a big girl." Landon teased as they walk into the living room.

" Fuck you." Jamie said as she sits on the sofa.

" I love you too." Landon said as he sits next to her.

" Can our life suck any more?" Jamie asked as she looks around the small living room that only fit's the sofa Landon found.

" Yup it ca. Our light were cut this morning." Landon said.

" Well that's fucking great." Jamie said as she threw her hands in the air.

They both work two jobs each but between rent and food, there's never enough for anything else.

" I gotta get to work. I'll be back late tonight, I'm covering for someone." Landon said as he left.

" This fucking hole." Jamie mumbled as she walks into her room.

It's small but that's nothing new. On one side was is her bed and on the other her painting supply's. Jamie paint's and draws as an escape, it's the thing she's best most at.

After removing her shoes and closing the drapes so it can be dark, she lays in her bed, then closes her eyes.

She dreamt of an easier place, a place where she's loved and happy. A place where her and Landon can find love and be excepted for who they are. Landon's the world too her, her best friend.

Two hours later she woke up to a pitch dark apartment.

" Shit." Jamie said as she digs in her pocket for her lighter.

After she found it, she went to each room and lit a candle that was left over from the last time this happened.

The last room she walked into was Landon's. So when he got home, it wouldn't be dark.

Something caught her eye on top of his table, something that would change their friendship and lives and not for the better.

" What the hell?"

*** So what did you think?? So your not confused, Jamie and Landon are only friends. I know this fic is different but that doesn't mean you won't like it. Review and let me know what you think.***

Thanks,

Isabelle