On the flight to San Francisco, Alice sat next to me and on my other side was Jeremy. When Jamie wasn't looking Alice and I would share a kiss or two. The flight wasn't that long but Alice still managed to fall asleep, whereas Jeremy and I were too excited to sleep.

'Do you think this trip will be actually fun or do you think it will just be museums and shit?' Jeremy wondered.

'Come on this is a school trip and you can trust school to turn anything interesting boring, even if we aren't going to museums' I countered. Alice was moving around my in arms, she could hear my voice.

'That's so right, man! We should ditch when we can' Jeremy chuckled. 'Yes definitely' I said enthusiastically. 'Will Alice be daring enough to do it though' he said while looking at Alice who was asleep. 'Yeah she'll be down for what I'm down for' I laughed.

Before Jeremy could reply the stewardess offered us a drink, so I gently woke up Alice. She squinted her eyes at me and I said, 'Do you want a drink sleeping beauty?' At that Jeremy burst out laughing and we ordered our drinks.

The first place we went to was our hotel in Silicon Valley; the weather was nice and hot. The sun was burning against my skin, the sun radiated off Alice's hair, turning her hair into a reddish brown. The boys and girls of the trip were separated but I was sharing a bunk bed and room with Jeremy. That night after Jeremy was asleep; I went to find Alice's room which wasn't hard she had put a signed on the door. 'Hayley and Alice's room' even though she had been staying in that room for less than 4 hours she has still personalised it; trust her to do that! I gently knocked on the door and Hayley answered the door; she doesn't like me that much so I forced a smile at her to seem nice.

'Are you lost, Bradfield!?' she spoke with a bitter tone when she said my last name. I wonder why she hates me so much.

'Nope, this is Alice's room, right?' at my words Alice appeared behind me and said, 'sorry I was in the toilet' her apology seemed like it was to both of us.

She then grabbed my hand and we started walking until Hayley couldn't see us anymore. 'How about we meet here, instead of my room?' Alice suggested.

'Okay then' I agreed, 'Do you want to see my room?'

'Sure' she smiled.

Then in a second we were in my room, on my bed, this shook the whole bed and made Jeremy moan in his sleep.

'Shh, you almost woke him up' she said cautiously.

'Opps' I replied, whispering. After talking for another hour or so, I insisted that I take Alice back to the place near her room so that we could both sleep. Even though I could stay with her all night, Alice's company is always my favourite company.

That night I had a dream about the couple we saw, I thought about that night and what like looked like. How curious I had been about them, I also dreamt that I went after them, I wish I did go after them. As I relived this memory, I noticed that after the couple went another person followed them. He was in the shadows, I didn't remember seeing him before; maybe it was a figment of my imagination. Then my strange dream turned into a nightmare as I remembered the man in uniform outside my house and when the electricity stopped my teleporting. Jeremy hit me, interrupting my nightmare and said that we had to go and have a shower.

At our first tourist attraction the Intel museum, our tour guide was just going on and on. So as promised we ditched, don't get me wrong I was happy that Jeremy was there I just wasn't over the moon about not teleporting anywhere. It was far too easy to escape our group and as soon as we got outside we went shopping. That was obviously Alice's idea. San Francisco is so beautiful and the weather is fantastic! We went gallivanting around, making sure we weren't too far from the Intel museum. It was so much fun; we took a lot of pictures and lost ourselves in excitement.

At night, Alice and I teleported back to the museum and looked for more places. This time felt more naturally and easy because I could teleport to places it meant we could do everything a lot faster. I teleported on top of a building and me and Alice just looked down on this beautiful place. I held her head in my hands and kissed her neck and moved my lips slowly to her cheek and then softly carefully kissed her lips. Then our moment was ruined as I heard a woosh behind us. I turned round and there was the man in my dream that was in the shadow. He had short but wild hair and was wearing a leather jacket and jeans. There was something about him that looked familiar though, he also had stubble around his chin and then he flashed me a smile. I could tell that Alice was nervous about him as she was squeezing my hand this is normally a sign for me to teleport back home.

'Sorry, I didn't mean to – interrupt' he said sarcastically, he had a Scottish voice but not so husky.

'It's fine… we were just leaving' I mumbled and then teleported off the building and to the ground.

I was thinking merely of Alice's safety it wouldn't be so bad if one more person knew. They would probably assume they were crazy or that I was a God or something; I laughed to myself at the thought. Though Alice's face stopped my laughter she was staring at something behind my shoulder. As I turned around, the guy from on top of the building was behind me.

'That's really rude, you didn't even stay to chat' he joked. I was too shocked to say anything and as he realised that he continued speaking. 'You should work on being less inconspicuous with your talent'

'Sorry' was all I could manage to get out of my mouth.

'So you can teleport too?' Alice whispered it was so low I was surprised he could hear.

'I hate the term teleport it is so sciency, it's called jumping, we are jumpers' he said casually to me.

Then he teleported right in front of Alice and I.

'Jumpers? That's what that guy outside my house called me' I muttered more to myself than to anyone else.

'What guy outside your house?' the strange scottish guy asked.

'Erm, I was going home one night and this guy followed me home; he was wearing strange uniform but what was really strange was that he made a phone call and said he followed a jumper home' I explained.

'That my friend was a paladin, I'm guessing you jumped home instead of walking' he tone was calm and sarcastic most of the time.

'Yeah' I said trying to get use to the term jumper and jumping and then i asked, 'wait what are paladins?'

'I'm surprised you haven't come across one, you are not actually careful' he joked but it seemed like he knew that I wasn't that careful as if he'd seen me before. I just looked at him waiting for my question to be answered. 'Paladins are a religious organisation that kills our kind'

'Kills? Our kind?' I asked shocked.

He laughed 'you didn't think you were the only one did you? they always assume that' the end of the sentence seemed like he was talking to himself.

I didn't answer though as I thought I was the only one until I saw the couple and after met whoever this guy was.

'So, er, who are you then? Jamie's long lost brother' Alice wondered, seeming to be back to her jokey self.

He laughed again 'he wishes he could be related to me!'

'So who are you?' I asked, moving on from his comment.

'Griffinr' he said, his accent coming through in the way he said his name.

'I'm Jamie and this is Alice, my girlfriend' I said setting the record straight about Alice and me with him. Alice smiled at me sweetly and Griffin's face turned cold as if the word girlfriend hurt him in some way. Then he composed his face and turned his head to look at these three people coming towards us.

They walked in a kind of formation with silver rods in their hands and they were wearing uniform identical to the person outside my house.

'The paladins have found you now' he said with a sort of dark humour.

'They're paladins? That… er… kill us' I said and gulped.

'Let's go then!' Alice shouted.

'There's no point they'll just follow us, running won't help' Griffin said almost laughing again.

'So what do we do? Fight?' as I said the words I could feel Alice squeeze my hand even tighter.

'Yes' Griffin said and then he put his hand on my shoulder and continued with the same dark cold voice 'welcome to the war'.