A/N: Thanks to everyone who reviewed.

Dramedy: Thank you for your review. I wasn't really looking for any more characters. Sorry. But I did manage to give your character a small cameo in this chapter. And she will probably appear again, if that's okay. Thanks again for reviewing.

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"I existed from all eternity, and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end." –Kahlil Gibran, Anthem of Humanity

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Chapter 6

In Which Our Hero and Our Heroine are Joined

"Gran?" Cappi asked when she reached the kitchen, "What was your mother's name?"

"Elizabeth Marie Bowen. Why?"

"I was just wondering," Cappi replied, sinking into a chair at the kitchen table.

Cappi spent the rest of the evening and the day following sitting in her room reading her great-grandmother's diary. She turned the final page when something fluttered out of the book and onto the floor. She bent over to retrieve the item and noticed that it was a photograph. It was of a young man standing in front of a house—her grandmother's house, she noticed. He looked to be about eighteen, and he was wearing a cowboy hat, bandana, and a large grin. Cappi turned the picture over. On the back the words "Jack, 1901" were scrawled in her great-grandmother's delicate script.

She pushed the photograph into her pocket, promising herself that she would show it to her grandmother. With that, she stepped out of her room and bound down the stairs.

"Cappi, honey," Gran said when she saw Cappi coming down the stairs, "Could you run to the grocery store for me?"

"Sure," Cappi replied, forgetting about the picture in her pocket.

"The list's on the fridge and there's money in my purse," her grandmother told her.

Cappi stood in the check-out line at the grocery store, contemplating what flavor gum to buy.

"Next."

Cappi snapped out of her gum-induced trance at the sound of the cashier's voice. She grabbed the first pack of gum she saw and tossed it onto the check-out counter with the rest of her items.

"Will this be all?" the cashier asked. She was a tall girl at about 6 feet, and she had brown hair that fell to her shoulders. Cappi read her nametag: Hello. My name is...she couldn't read the name. It looked like Victoria, but she wasn't quite sure. The handwriting was large and loopy and the name looked as if it had been written quickly without much consideration to its appearance.

"No, this'll be it," Cappi replied, smiling.

The cashier returned her smile as she ran a loaf of bread over the scanner. $1.48 flashed on the cash register's small computer screen.

At that moment, a tall, dark-haired boy in jeans and a faded grey t-shirt sauntered into the store. Cappi found herself thinking that this boy was oddly familiar.

"Ugh, he is sooo cute," the cashier said to no one in particular. Then she turned to Cappi, "He must be new in town; I hadn't seen him around here until yesterday when he came in to buy milk."

Cappi just nodded mutely, watching the familiar boy wander to the back of the store.

"That'll be $16.76," the cashier said, once again snapping Cappi out of a trance.

She handed "Victoria" a 20 dollar bill and continued to watch the boy. She then took her change, grabbed her grocery sacks, and left the store, pushing all thoughts of the all too familiar boy out of her head.

Cappi placed the grocery sacks in the backseat of her car. She was just putting on her seatbelt when her grandmother's words entered her head: "Don't forget the ketchup."

"Shoot," Cappi cursed, remembering the item.

She climbed from her car and proceeded back into the store. She reached the condiments isle and found the ketchup quickly. As she headed back down the isle, not watching where she was going, she found herself colliding into a large figure and tumbling to the floor.

"Sorry," she heard a male voice say, as a hand was shoved into her face for assistance.

"''s okay," she mumbled in reply, taking the hand that was offered.

When she was on her feet again, she looked into the face of the tree-like figure she had crashed into. It was none other than the familiar boy that she had seen enter the store earlier. She knew she knew him from somewhere, but she just couldn't place him. He had slightly shaggy brown hair and chocolate brown eyes. When he turned around and bent over to retrieve her dropped ketchup bottle, Cappi noticed that there was red bandana poking out of one of the back pockets of his jeans.

"Really sorry 'bout that," he said, apologizing again, "I didn't see you there." Then he extended his hand to her and said, "I'm Jack Kelly."

And realization struck her like a bolt of lightning.

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