Prologue- Annette's Story

I had that dream again, the dream that finds its way into my sleeping mind. A dream of fire and ice, a beautiful blue flame shines above my head. Every morning is the same routine, I shake the last remnants of the dream from my head, or so I use to think, Adrien always appears, his beauty still flowing but instead of a greeting, he glances at me as if I am an insect that he wants to be rid of, he, gives me the vision of not being welcome in my surroundings.

Perhaps, I'm not welcome, I was never really welcome anywhere in my life, high school was another example of a place that my presence wasn't accepted. I was always called fat or fatty. People were cruel back then.

I vowed I would hit it big and show everyone, but I was only kidding myself. I have lost the weight but making it big in a place like this, that was a joke that wasn't even funny.

Adrien had moved from Shepherd's Glen to Brahms. I see him when I shop, he seems to be the same person he was back in high school, only now instead of the reputation of loner keeping him sour, he has a good paying job and tackles extra jobs on the side.

Oh, sorry I have started a story but never really got to my name. I am Annette Jones a resident of Shepherd's Glen well at least for the remaining of the summer, I agreed to stay with my mother until she was back to her feet from a rough divorce from my father, a fourteen year marriage over and now once loving words have turned into words of hatred, no one would believe that my meek and humble mother was married to a worthless and waste of time person like my father.

My mother wouldn't agree to leave Shepherd's Glen, to move into my apartment with me, she always stated I don't want to leave behind the valued memories that we have made in this house.

Me though I had no problems leaving this place once I graduated from high school. I moved with Adrien for a few months until I had earned enough money to get me an apartment in a low salary building, before I left Adrien and me would work out most of the time that I was there, he never needed it but always stated, I don't mind working out with you, besides it's best to have a partner instead of losing motivation by going at it alone.

Well you are probably waiting to hear the origins of my dreams well, pull up a chair, my story starts early one Spring morning and I can say I will never forget that Spring, well not as long as I'm on this Earth; but somehow I want it to remain in my memories, because you were there with me by my side through it all, now you are just a ghost in a once popular town that has become a town for lost and tainted souls.