There are at least several turning points in our lifes,for most parts my previous life hadn't really hit on anything that wasn't a regimented,elite lifestyle with school on the side.They both went hand-in-hand and I was always for the most parts unquestioning growing up.I simply went to school when it was school hours and hunted when it was Huntsclan hours.My family was and always had been a distant want but the goal of slaying a dragon was more realer to me,Rose.

When I first moved to New York,it was a dream come true from growing up in the Academy and being homeschooled with other kids my age.The Huntsclan had been my everything since my infant days and going to a public school with students who had no clue even of us was sort of unnerving but it was the Huntsman's wishes that I enroll when we moved there.I remember when I was walking towards it for the first time,it was like any mission.Go in,enroll and return the next day.I was so preoccupied that I didn't watch where I was going when I hit someone.

His name,a new friend of mine informed me the next day,was Jake.He had seemed like a nice guy from the way he smiled,friendly and easily.I'd like to say at this point I felt some spark or something that led me to feeling attracted to him but at the moment I was far too busy keeping up with a million different things.Aside from school work,a certain dragon was high on my list.

This cocky,airheaded dragon dubbed the first ever 'American Dragon' was whom I'd been selected to slay.As irrtating and macho as this dragon was,he had a cool flare to him that was not unlike my own at times.When he saw an advantage,he took it.It impressed me to a point.

Meanwhile,Jake began to show up more frequently in my life.He noticably tried to show off too much but there was this charm to him that I always caught somewhere when we had short encounters with one another.My interest in him grew little by little and felt cemented when he asked me to dance with him that night.It was the greatest night of the life that I'd had before.

His eyes shined brighter then the colorful lights that revolved around us and my heart felt like it would burst out of my chest from beating so fast as he spun me around.I don't remember much after that.Happiness,confusion and then Jake walking away in the direction of the exit.

The moment I called out to him,is the moment I knew I was laying a foundation for a future.

I've always been into acting and so when the Cleopatra and Antony play came naturally I was drawn to join it.I knew the Huntsman wouldn't agree to me trying to do this,but I'd done some acting in my free time when I was younger.To my surprise,Jake joined up.Which surprised me because he didn't seem like the acting type but really butchered the Antony auditions after all.

My mind for once was starting to lose some Huntsclan focus,as me and Jake went stumbling through the next few days with trying to kiss.I didn't think anything of it at the time,a first kiss was what everyone went through.Well,this would've been my first time kissing Jake anyways.

As my motives weighed between liking Jake and wanting to act,the beetle business had really wavered with my priorites.Just when I thought the akwardness between Jake and me kissing wasn't bad enough,that ridiculous beetle interfered with the play that night.I'd just about given up all together when I met with Jake;when us just coming back in time for the kiss came was proposed.Two things came out of that.One,me in a stiff cast.Two,Jake's offer for a first date.

The day had been pretty chilly mostly but finally just being alone with Jake had been making all the difference.That charm about him was alive,we were getting along so well and it seemed that our happiness would last forever.This is what I wanted,a normal life.With a normal guy I was really starting to like.There was no akwardness,no Huntsclan,it was just us two.He even made me an exact ice sculpture replica of,well,me!But then he attempted something I wasn't quite ready for.I was always dissing people and dissing Jake was the last thing I wanted now.

But I couldn't yet kiss him.Even as he heightened himself up and I could almost feel him near my face,could feel the slight of his breath,all of it became overhelming.I had skipped out on so many new and interesting things with him and other friends over those months that now that I was finally following through something not Huntsclan related I totally freaked,to say the least.

Little did I know my problems were just starting,my friend Courtney had called and suggested I go on the school sponsered skip trip with her and I got to go.But only after a heck of a lot of persuading to the Huntsman that it was just an excuse to look for the just recently sighted yeti.

Everything I remember about the trip was a lot of flops with Jake,undesired encounters with the world's most meatheaded jock,a non-successful mission and then the American Dragon.

He was a lot of things.But crazy wasn't one.If I had been him I would have let me fallen off that cliff,down into an endless abyss of darkness that wasn't unlike my own soul at times.Low and behold,he saved me and I still had to slay him.I could show no pity toward him,it wasn't in me as Huntsgirl.As Rose,yes.But not Huntsgirl.They had always been two different people.

Neither of them ended on a good note with Jake or the American Dragon unforunately.

Tensions were growing high and the Huntsman was getting more impatient at me not slaying a dragon yet.I really tried not to dwell on my problems but.Jake pratically avoided me in school and I knew why.He was tired of all the secrets and so was I.So finally,I planned on telling him about the Huntsclan.But even when I caught him in a position where he had to talk,even then he still managed to get away.No excuses,no cool act,now just flat out and absolute rejection.

The life I truly wanted was constantly being shoved aside and mainly because of one person in particular;the American Dragon.I hated him.Things were just to the point now where I knew if I didn't slay him,well,I knew I was going to slay him.There was no doubt in my mind anymore.

So went set a trap for him,ever since the ski trip he had been acting differently every time we met up.Just straight to business and that was all but tonight he seemed in the mood for a what I called 'flirt' fighting.After a few rounds of taunts,his head was ladened with the thudding of a few dozen bricks and the chase ensued.A chase that would lead the two of us to the woods.

Day swept into night like a wave of black crashing over the sky and I couldn't sleep the night of the Grand Equinox Hunt.Maybe I would go out and insult the wretched dragon,maybe I'd rough him up a little but I laughed it off.It would be uncharacteristic of me to fight him on rage.

Anyone for that matter.Huntsgirl was someone who didn't get angry,she just got even.He had managed to contribute a large part in ruining my wanted life so far,so I'd ruin his remaining life.

Somehow,I didn't get that far.Don't get me wrong,he was just as arrogant and bullheaded as he always was.But as we talked,I experienced him growing slower,more concerned about me for some reason.For some reason,he wanted to know why I wanted to slay him.Hadn't he been listening?Why was he asking the obvious?It was inevitablity,or more plainingly,destiney.

I felt like a hunter playing with her prey at this point and was about to leave when I noticed...

"There's something about you...in your eyes.Something familiar..."

As hard as I tried,I couldn't place them and this dragon was giving me no hints so I just gave up on him.Then an idea hit me,when I slayed him a major burden would be lifted off of me.I'd be free.Well,free-er.With the largest task out of the way and my apprentice level raised,all my hard work would pay off.That would mean more time for myself and time for something else.

Someone else,Jake.If there was anyone I needed to talk to,it was him.He needed to know.

In a great twist of fate,I guess you could say I got at least half of what I wanted.The only thing was that Jake had found out sooner then expected.I didn't tell him but he told me in the largest way any one person could.I always thought that the best way to let someone know something is to just show them and that's what Jake did.From scale to skin,from claw to hand,and from enemy to friend.Truth be told,the reason I freed him was due in part with having to get even.

Just,you know,not in the way I had intended it before.

So the Huntsman berated me,we sold the penthouse and I was demoted.Though urgent news had sprung up from the Huntsclan Academy that a new project was underway.We loaded the car up just as when we had first arrived and drove to the Academy,to the inquiring neighbours it wasn't unusual.I was just an orphaned "niece" trailing behind my "uncle's" big name business.

As we rode away,I passed the first real school I had ever been to.I would be missing the final semester and since the Huntsman didn't see any reason in me continuing my education of the world outside the Huntsclan,I didn't give it any second thoughts but I did request one thing of him before I left.The only way I could tell Jake I was sorry,was to show him rather then tell.

Let's just say I gave him really the only thing either of us had to remember each other by.

A picture.

I'll get more into what detail about the after effects later on...

Signed,

Rose.

To be continued...