Chapter 1

FIRST SIGHT "Is he dangerous or not?"

As I wake up from my awful nightmare I think to myself "I swear that was real, it was so…" The words fail me and I'm stuck looking out of my window to see dark and light grey clouds holding the Seattle sky in a hold that looks like the sun is in a blanket. I glance over at my alarm clock and realise I've sleped in and I only have 5 minutes to get dressed, brush my hair, teeth and to get to the bus stop in time. I jump up out of bed and put on my favourite pair of jeans and sweatshirt I look at myself in the mirror and all I see is my usual pale face, dark brown eyes and my light and dark brown hair. I rush downstairs to grab my cellphone and my school bag and rush outside and realise it's stopped raining and smell the fresh damp air of Seattle. As I walk to the bus stop my subconsciousness says through her tutting and displeased face "You should have taken up your parents offer for a car. Tut… tut… tut, Grace Mia Rose what are we gonna do with you?" I ignore her, my subconsciousness always says stuff like this. I sigh and think to myself, "I can't, they've already done so much for me and I'm grateful for that, I don't deserve their love, money or gifts."

Eventually I've arrived at School which is West Seattle High school. As I walk into class I see I'm 20 minutes late, and Mr Hardy my teacher is staring at me as I walk in. I hand him my late to school slip, and he says "Ahhh Miss Rose I hope you have a good excuse to come late to my class." I exhale and say "Sorry Mr Hardy I'm late because I sleped in today." He then practically yells "THAT'S NO EXCUSE MISS ROSE!!" He sighs and says through a much calmer voice, "Just take your seat. Now where was I when Miss Rose interrupted me, oh yes we have a new student with us called Mr Jackson." He's glaring at me while he says this. Shit! There he goes again, he hates me I'm sure of it. As I look up I see a boy about my age but strangely older at the exact same time walk into the room, from what I can see he looks like me except with unruly copper brown hair, dark brown eyes and a pale face with a grey sweatshirt, black jeans and a black leather jacket, but most of all he's absolutely beautiful like the son of an angel, unlike me.

I can see under my lashes that he's walking toward where I'm sitting and my conscious says "No dah you idiot the only seat left is the one next to you." Anyway I ignore her… Again! As he sits down our eyes meet and all of a sudden he talks his voice low and husky sort of hot "Hi my name is Christian Anthony Jackson and, you are?" and before I stop my mouth saying the words their out "Umm…" He then says with the most beautiful of smiles on his face that just makes me feel something I've never felt before, "Well hi umm… nice to meet you." He laughs a little bit which is low enough for only me to hear and I can't help but giggle at his joke. I somehow feel safe but in danger with him so close to me our palms almost touching. Anyway, I say with uncertainty in my voice "No my name is not Umm…, its Grace Mia Rose it's nice to meet you Christian." "Nice to meet you too Grace." The next thing he does is asks me another question "How old are you?" I stare at him for a while and finally say "I'm 16 turning 17 soon. How about you?" He stares at me for what I think is an "Are you serious?" look. And he finally says "I'm 18 years old, now we really should be listening to Mr Hardy."

And before I know it I'm out of class and going to meet my friend Ana in the library for lunch, it's sort of our quiet place. Ana is waiting at our usual table in the library and is smiling her usual smile and comes to hug me "OMG Grace, How are you?" I say back with a smile "Hi Ana good to see you, I'm good. You?" She says "Yeah I'm good. Hey Grace, why is that godlike guy staring at you?" I turn around and freeze because I can't believe my eyes its Christian and he's holding what looks like his lunch in his hands. He smiles a polite smile and I blush and feel the alien like feeling I felt in English with him. He laughs at my expression and walks over gracefully, and right then and there I realise the perfect body that he has, he has broad shoulders but not too big and a perfectly sculptured face, chest and legs. He takes me out of my gawking by saying "Hey Grace I was wondering if I could sit with you and Ana and have lunch." I mutter in embarrassment "Yea sure."

Next thing I know Christian Jackson is having lunch with Ana and I, but while Ana's talking non-stop he's only staring at me never breaking eye contact.

When the bell finally goes he says "Bye Grace… Ana it was fun hanging out with you." Next thing he does is he walks out of the library and Ana turns and gapes at me "Well well well Grace, who was that? Your boyfriend?" She's smirking at me when I say "No Ana he's not my boyfriend he's the new kid in my English class his name is Christian Jackson. Anyway we should be heading to class." I turn and walk out of the library with her behind me.

When I get home from school my Mum and Dad are waiting for me with my older brother and younger sister, and before I know it my mum and dad are hugging me "Welcome home sweetie. How was school?" And dad says "Hey Grace, how are you doin?" "Hi Mum hey Dad

I'm fine so was school, hey big bro hey Violet." The next thing that happens my big brother Edward and my little sis Violet hug me "Hey sis I'm fine and so is little Viol." After my welcoming at the front door I rush upstairs to my room and get ready for work, I work at the local Starbucks. I glance at my watch and see its 16:30 (4:30 pm.)

Paul Clark the boss's son calls my name "GRACE!" I scream back in annoyance "Coming Paul!" I walk to the back of the store and glance over my shoulder and see the last person I want to see, my subconscious is smirking at me because it's Christian. I decide to ignore my subconsciousness and turn around and I'm startled to see dark brown eyes that meet mine. My subconscious scowls at me and screams "It's Christian you idiot!" And she's right it's him, but he was at the door before. I say "Oh… Uhh…. Christian." He smiles warmly at me and says back "Hi Grace." I look at his face, and I can see he has black around his eyes and he's pale white in the face and his hair is the same copper brown colour except it's darker almost black at the ends. I ask him with curiosity in my voice "Hey Christian, are you sick? And, did you dye your hair? Because you're pale in the face and your hair isn't the same colour." And before he can answer Paul is calling my name again "GRACE!!" I turn and wave goodbye to Christian who smiles at me and turns to leave the shop. After I've finished my job I go home and warm up my dinner and eat it I then brush my teeth and get into bed. And as I fall asleep I dream about a pale faced teenager with hints of black in his unruly copper brown hair and his dark brown eyes staring at me.