prologue

My name is Angel Scarlet Erickson, It was my senior year of high school when I finally realized that I was in fact in love. Being the shy, timid, modest girl I was, I never told anyone how I felt. I was the girl no one really talked to. I kept to myself and stayed in the back of the classroom with my sketchbook and pencils. Sometimes I would sketch my crush in the very back on the book, on the very last page. His name was Jacob Thomas, he was the guy all the girls wanted. I just stayed silent when the girl’s around me would talk about him. Even my best friend was in love with him. Renee would just go on and on about how handsome he was, how his eyes seemed to change color in the sun. You see Renee was friend’s with his sister, Chloe.

Chloe was a nice girl, a bit on the chunky side but she had the voice of an angel. Whenever she would sing, it was like the birds stopped their songs to listen to hers. Her blonde hair always made me jealous and her eyes were as blue as the ocean. I told her everyday  that she was absolutely gorgeous but she wouldn’t hear of it. Even though her brother was the school heart throb, she was still bullied for her weight. Even Renee would chide her for what she ate at lunch. I always packed a lunch and rarely ate, which annoyed Chloe. I was bullied as well for always reading “Japanese nonsense” which was most people's term for manga. I wanted to become a comic book artist and tried everyday to get better at drawing.

Chloe would help me come up with ideas for stories and characters. She was amazing at coming up with them. Only she knew about my crush on her brother and she encouraged me to talk to him but I wouldn’t. So one day she got tired of seeing the sketches I did of him in my book and invited me over. Now you see she has done this countless times, invite me over I mean. But i would politely decline by making up some lie or saying that I had a ton of homework, even though she has the same classes and knew i was lying. I wasn't ready to talk to him and see where they lived, he was always well groomed and held himself with such an air of authority.

I mean if Renee found out about my crush on Jacob everyone would know and I would be the laughing stock of the school. Most days to keep myself from exploding I would draw and paint the sunset when the sky was pink. Chloe saw it as me being love sick, so on her birthday she invited me over. I told her no but she showed up to my house after school with her brother, and this is how my story begins.