FreshSqueezedLemons

Kim POV

Flashback

My name is Kimber "Kim" Graystone, I am ten years old, and I have fallen in love. My older brother Elan falls in love every few days, but me never. That's just because I hadn't met Jared Thail yet. Technically I still haven't. He's over on the monkey bars and I'm sitting by a tree. Earlier at lunch he helped me up when I was tripped by Aiden Nargera. Jared gave me the sweetest smile I'd ever seen. I may not believe in fairy tales but I'm gonna marry that boy one day.

Present Day

Kim POV

I'm now seventeen years old and my life shows little sign of improving. I wouldn't say I'm in love with Jared, but it's an admiration from afar. Way afar. He's popular and I'm invisible.

I'm content though. I have a great family. Aiyanna, my mother, has single handedly raised my brother and I, though she's never complained. She had my brother when she was nineteen, then me at twenty, and my dad left a year later. She never speaks of him and he has never bothered to try and know my brother and I. We don't care though.

My brother Elan is a senior and acts as a father figure. He's always been protective of me. Everyone loves Elan. His name suits him since it means "Friendly" and he has always been popular. I suppose he got the social gene.

Apart from Elan and my mother, my only close friend is Louise Rivers. We have known one another since we were six, and she's the ying to my yang. We're opposites but it works for us.

The shrilling bell snaps me out of my trance and I hurry to English. It's my first period class and I sit next to…of course….Jared. That makes it difficult to keep my A average in my best class. As I sit down I quickly take out my tiny mirror. I'm not bad looking by any means but in no way Jared's type. I have wavy black hair, common on La Push. My eyes are hazel colored, and I have really long eyelashes, which helps. I'd say my best feature is my smile. Few get to see it.

First things first I am no stalker by any means. I don't stare at Jared, or talk about him. Though my brother, mother, and Louise know about my crush, no one else does. It's sort of like having a closet obsession, or a dream. I no longer harbor my past view that I will one day marry Jared. That shattered once I realized he didn't know I existed. Perhaps it's my own fault; I certainly don't try to run in the same social circle as him. Yet, I did try once a few years back to be friends with Jared.

Freshman year we were partnered up in a history class for a project. He was sick for a few days before and he missed the day we chose partners. Ironically so had I and we ended up being the only two without someone to work with. I was mortified at first, and then I realized this was my shot. Jared would never notice me without this push.

He was nice about it though it was obvious he didn't know me. We worked together well, and had fun.

By the end of the project we had a few great times, and once Jared had said hi to me in the hall. Little did I know at the time, that one of his friends had seen, and given him grief about saying hi to invisible me. So the next day in class when I smiled at Jared and waved, he ignored me. I'd like to pretend I didn't care but I did. I went home and cried, which is where Elan found me. I had to convince him not to beat Jared to a pulp. It wasn't just that I found out my crush was ashamed of me, but I had gotten to know Jared as well, so it was like losing a friend. He didn't seem at all affected by it though, so I moved on.

And there he was. Jared was around 5 11 with brown hair that curled slightly to his jaw line, and the most amazing brown eyes. They looked like chocolate with swirls of caramel in them. He sat in his usual seat next to mine, without so much as a glance at me. I was used to this. I listened to Mr. Burns lecture and put Jared Thail out of my mind.

Little did I knew in just three short weeks, this would no longer be possible.