Hey! wow, i spent last week skimming through the mediator, and i've come up with this idea..its pretty odd, but it made sense in my head. this first chapter is short..but i didnt know what else to put...the summary was a little short, but i dont know what else. I dont want to give too much away.but the title should help

Jesse POV

I walked through the house. It

was bright. Everything looked the same Yet I felt different. That girl disappeared. Where did she go? Even now I could still feel her arms wrapped around mine and the flames licking our heals.

"Mama?" I called to her. When I heard no answer, I began my trek to the kitchen where she would probably be. She was.

"Mama, did you not hear me calling you?" I asked.

"Hector de Silva!" I was twenty years old and the sound of her voice calling my name still brought forth a sense of running like it had when I was a child.

"Is there a problem Mama?" I sat on the stool in front of her. She was rolling tortillas.

"I thought you were on the way to Maria's. Why are you home so soon?"

I felt my eyebrow twitch in an automatic response.

"I have news. I was going to tell you before, but I'm not sure you would take it so lightly. I have decided not to marry Maria."

"Hector" she said in the same tone as before.

"Mama, I am twenty years old. I feel that its partial to my rights as a man on whom I should and shouldn't be marrying."

"But you like Maria don't you?" she asked.

I chuckled.

"No I don't. and I think she felt the same when she sent her slave runner to do her bidding for her and end the engagement her self by killing me. If it weren't for Susannah-"

"Who is Susannah?" it appeared she only heard half of what I said, and the name Susannah brought up curiosity.

"A girl who aided in saving my life. I owe her that much. If it weren't for her, I'd be the one at the bottom of the burn barn."

She stopped rolling all together.

"Why would Maria do such a thing? She wanted to marry you. Don't you want to marry her?"

"Mama, please try to see my reasoning. And I am not making this up. Felix Diego is dead. He was sent by Maria to kill me so she wouldn't have to marry me. Even though I was on my way to break it off anyways. Could have saved them the trouble if they would just let me complete my journey."

"What will they say? We'll be the laughing stock in the entire city"

"I think you should count your blessings Mama. Where is father? I will break the news to him."

I walked off from my mother and went out to the fields. Father was there talking to one of the workers.

I leaned against the fence that held the pigs in the hen. Susannah's voice was in my mind

"So it's Miss Susannah is it? Oh that's just great. I come all the way back here, risking major brain cell burnout, and you don't even believe me? I'm basically guaranteeing myself a lifetime of heartbreak, and all you have to say is that you think I'm not right in the head? Thanks a lot, Jesse. No, really. That's just fine"

She started crying then. It was a moment later when she announced something secret that I had told no one, except maybe my horse. She had to have known me. Only someone I trusted and loved would have known it. Did I love her in this future she came from? She did care for me to some extent if allowing me to live would cause her heartbreak. Another thing she said came replayed in my mind.

"Because you see, if you don't die tonight, you and I-in the future, where I come from-will never meet. And I couldn't bear to let that happen. And you even-in the future- said you didn't want that to happen"

Who was this Susanna to me that I would rather have stayed a ghost knowing her, than never have died So that we would never have met? She was someone dear to me. I was sure of it. I looked up into the sunset.

"Susanna Simon, wherever you are. One day we will meet again. I promise you that much. I owe you so much, you wont spend a lifetime where we have not met. I promise"

With the coming of twilight, I went to break the news to my father.

hmm, and the judges say...