Eve groaned as her alarm clock screeched in her ear. As annoying as a normal alarm was it didn't much help that hers was the freaking ancient, nineteen year old cat that she hated yet it always came to to be fed.

She grunted as she reached for her bedside table to turn on the lamp and instead found herself getting scratched by the freaking (in her opinion) evil feline that never died.

She glared at the cat as she nursed her hand, "Fine you freaking stupid, useless….." and so the day began.

Same routine as always, feed the cat, get scratched, care for her Dad, realize her mother was gone, go to school, be….. Invisible.

It had been years since the last time her routine had changed. Not that she minded, that's just the way it was. Nothing changed.

Life was simple when you've been forgotten….

"Bye Dad, I'll see you after school." She kisses her dad on the forehead and was gone.

She sat at her usual desk and watched as Lance and Neil walked in quietly, more subdues than usual, and sat down in their seats.

She sat for a good five minutes before trying to test a point, "Hey, Lance can I borrow a pencil?"

Lance looked over at her, surprised, "Oh, uh yeah sure I guess."

He gave her a pencil and looked over at Neil for a hint as to who she was but was met with a shrug, "Hey, I'm sorry, what's your name again?"

Eve gave a strained smile, "Eve Jones, I've…. I've been in the same class as you both since third grade…."

Both boys turned slightly red and very confused, "Really? It's a small school Eve, not really any way we could not have noticed you before…"

Eve smiled, "Yes there is." They both frowned at her, "I'm invisible."

Their frowns deepened until Lance sent her a small, albeit confused smile, "Hun am sorry if there's been a mix up somewhere, but I think id remember someone like you."

Eve blinked in surprise, what?

The boys grinned at each other, warming up to the mysterious girl before them, "Eve, that's your name right? I don't know if you ever noticed but you're kind of pretty in a mysterious kind of way ya know?"

Eve frowned, "Pretty?"

Lance frowned, "No one's ever called you pretty before?"

Eve blushed, "Not since…. Well not since my Dad left…."

She could practically see the wheels turning in his head as he tried to remember so he didn't seem like a complete and total jerk and failed, "Hey… I'm real sorry Eve, for not having noticed you before, I'll make sure that doesn't happen again."

Eve blinked in surprise. No one had ever decided to get to know her again after they had forgotten her…. This was…. Weird feeling.

Jane caught her at lunch, "V! V, I'm so sorry about yesterday, I know you hate it when I do that! It's just I don't want anyone to hurt you. You have to understand…"

Ever calmly went on eating, contrary to what Jane obviously thought, she had made no effort to hide from her, just didn't bother to make the effort to be noticed was all.

"Jane…?" Jane looked at Eve hopefully, "Yes V?"

"Can you answer me something?"

"Sure, yeah just please don't be mad at me!"

"How do you expect me to never be hurt when the only person I talk to is the person keeping everyone else in the world away from me?" She finally looked up at Jane expectantly.

It was ALMOST funny how pale she could get.

"I'm….. I'm hurting you?"

Eve narrowed her eyes at Jane, past caring about hurt feelings, she'd been dealing with being forgotten for twelve years, she was sick of it.

"How would you feel if everyone forgot you?"

Jane sat, staring ahead, shocked at the revelation. She was hurting Eve…

"HEY EVE!" They both jumped in surprise at the ridiculously loud voice.

Looking up, Eve found herself facing a grinning possy of jocks, led by none other than Lance Gregory and Neil Barret, her two newest (Funnily enough considering their now forgotten history of teasing her) friends.

Lance grinned brightly, "Look who isn't invisible now eh."

Eve couldn't help the fact that her lips seemed to automatically react to him by forming a small smile, when he was nice he made you happy, when he wasn't he was miserable, she was only just seeing the new side.

She could see Jane looking between them in confusion before sighing.

For once, Jane was quiet and Kyle couldn't figure out why. Eve had a new friend that wasn't her.

And he had called her pretty.