Chapter one - Flashback

Selene has just lost her entire family in a horrible house fire and her friends to high-school rumors. Slowly she is beginning to slip. She doesn't know what to do anymore, Her nightmares have been relentlessly consuming and she cannot help but to feel guilty. Devastated over the accident and her realization that she is all alone, she goes to the one place that she is never judged, the only place where she feels like she isn't utterly alone: the cemetery that her family now lay in. She arrives with a plan made. The knife is placed precisely on her wrist as she closes her eyes in anticipation of the relief to come when she abruptly opens them to the gates screeching open. And then she sees him. Climbing a tree She watches him from a safe distance. Watching him, she experiences strange electric tingles coursing through her entire body, when he sees her up in the tree and smiles warmly Something awakens deep within her as she feels the deja vu hit, and she recognizes him. Strange memories of the past rush to the surface. She knows. Once, a lifetime ago, they had loved each other so immensely that they would have died for one another. And she had done exactly that to save him.