Author: Blaze
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Authors note: I started writing this fic around two years ago; I found it this morning and decided to try and finish it. It's still not finished and need's a lot of work but I thought I'd send the first part out and see if people like it before I go and finish it. This is my way of procrastinating from doing my uni work! I hate sending things out before their finished because I change my mind of often so if the time line looks a little shaky I'm sorry.
Author's note 2: this may be confusing for a while as it's not B/A for a while but please give it a chance. All will make sense in the end.
Pairing: B/A
I don't have a beta, so all mistakes are mine.
Feed back: PLEASE, PLEASE!!!! Not that I'm desperate of anything.
Disclaimer: the idea came from reading "a walk to remember" and watching the film so that's why if there any similarities. But it's not that story; you'll under stand when you read this. I don't own the people you recognise but everyone else is mine.
Dedication: to some of my old friends Leonie, Ryan, JT, Adia and Elizabeth.
Distribution: if you want it just ask and take it.
Summary: Au kind of. You can get the basic gist from reading the prologue.
Rating: I'm gonna say PG.
Lizzie Jenkins wandered through the halls of NS Academy, as the 'new girl' a name she was still called by even though she'd been at the school two months she was still finding her way in the new town.
Her father had packed her and her older brother Jake up and moved them here with out even asking her permission. Jake was old enough at nineteen to have stayed but he didn't want to leave his only family. Their mother died when Lizzie was twelve there were strange circumstances surrounding her death but it was ruled death by natural causes. They lived in a decent sized house on Crawford Street it was big enough for all of them with space left over. Jake attended NS university, doing a degree on god knows what while making her life miserable as part time body guard. Her father Robert Jenkins bought his own little computer business in the town and was managing, but they do say it takes six months to make or break a business.
Lizzie spotted Sarah across the building next to the lockers and made her way over. Sarah had been the first person to say hi on Lizzies first day and they'd made friends and Sarah had introduced Lizzy to all her friends in turn.
Before she could reach Sarah, Melinda Townsend roughly brushed past her almost knocking the books out of her hands.
"Watch where your going freak," Mellie barked and narrowed her eye's at Lizzie.
"Sorry," Lizzie whispered and bowed her head and carried on over to Sarah.
Sarah saw the exchange and placed a comforting arm around Lizzie's shoulders and gave her a gentle squeeze. "Honey your going to have to start standing up for your self," Sarah said putting her head on top of Lizzie's.
Lizzie shrugged and pulled away from Sarah and fidgeted under her friends gaze.
"Didn't she have Brown eyes last week?" Lizzie asked changing the subject.
Sarah who seemed to ooze confidence stood at least a foot taller than her with mousy brown hair that had been permed into spiral curls that fell down to the middle of her back. Her eye colour seemed to change with her moods from a light blue to a darker shade when she was angry.
"Yeah, they were and her hair was black yesterday too," Sarah confirmed. "She's going all out to make sure she gets Buffy's part in the play, everyone knows she's going to get it though. She played Dawn when she was younger and that's always a guarantee."
"There's a play?" Lizzie asked with a curious look on her face.
Sarah cocked her head tucked her hair behind her ear then placed her hands on her hips, "Honey where've you been? I know you're new and everything but come on you must have heard of 'and so she sleeps no more' it's all any one's talking about."
Lizzie shuck her head in the negative.
Sarah pulled her arms up and folded them across her chest, "It's a play that's on every year. Some girl wrote it that used to go here and Principal wood turned it into a play and it's just been done every year. There's rumour's that it's a true story but well not entirely because vampires don't actually exist, it's just like a metaphor for life."
Lizzie nodded but got a strange chill up her spine.
"It's a love story, this girl called Buffy found out she had this huge destiny to fight evil and ended up falling in love with a vampire with a soul called Angel. It's such a beautiful story but it's a tragedy and makes me cry every time I see it," Sarah's eyes got misty and Lizzie pushed her glasses up on her nose.
"Anyway they chose someone from the middle school every year to play the little sister and Mellie played her when it was our grades turn. She did good and was actually a nice person then, who ever gets Dawn always end's up playing Buffy." Sarah looked down the hall at Melinda and rolled her eyes.
The girl looked a mess her naturally black hair had been dyed Blond and she was going around wearing green contact lenses trying to be the part of Buffy.
"When are the auditions?" Lizzie asked and Sarah pulled her attention back to her friend.
"Why you thinking of going for a part?" Sarah asked with a smile.
"Yeah, I love acting. I used to be involved in the play every year at my old school."
"This is great you need something to build up you confidence," Sarah beamed and linked arm's with Lizzie's. She slammed her locker shut and guided Lizzie down the hall-way to the drama board where the list was posted to sign up.
"Okay, there are four main roles for girls. Buffy, Willow, Cordelia and Anya. You can't have Anya I'm going for her, let me think." Sarah turned and looked at Lizzie eyeing her.
Lizzie's blond hair was tied into a bun with her fringe brushing the glasses sat on her nose. She dressed okay but nothing overly stylish.
"I think you should go for Willow, Buffy's best friend. They normally have a red head so you'll probably have to wear a wig but I think you'll be great at the part."
Lizzie took the pen than was swinging slowly on the string and wrote her name under the name Willow on the paper. She noticed that under Buffy's name there was a huge list of girl's names and for the others two or three.
"The auditions are tonight?" Lizzie asked with a frown.
"Yeah, sorry I didn't tell you earlier I honestly though you knew. Is it a problem?"
"No." Lizzie said and took out her mobile and phoned her dad, he wasn't picking up so she left a message on his voice mail and did the same on Jake's phone. "I need something to do when I audition though," Lizzie said and began to panic.
"If you go in the drama department they'll give you a sheet with some lines on for you to memorise. I've got to go to the library now so I'll meet you in biology?"
Lizzie nodded and watched Sarah leave before turning and going into the drama office. A young lad sat at desk and looked up when she walked in.
"Hi," she said shyly and shuffled her feet and moved her books from one arm to the other. "I'm auditioning and I need…" she didn't get to finish and he sighed and took a piece of paper out and handed it to her. She smiled said thank you and walk out.
"They all go blond for the part," He shuck his head and went back to his work.
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