Chapter 1

I keep having these strange dreams. I'm standing at a cliff, when suddenly, I'm pushed off. I scream so loud it echoes all around me, waking up before I hit the sharp rocky bottom of the water.

The dreams always strike me as strange because I've never been to that cliff and i dont scream. When I say I never scream, I mean I never scream. My parents raised me to take a calm approach to everything, never even raising my voice. Even they don't yell or scream at me, as to not make anyone upset. I always thought it was weird, but I liked the peace.

Little did I know, my whole world was about to be turned upside down....

"Jenny! Jenny! I hope you're up! You're going to be late for work!" I hear my Mom's voice yell outside my door.

I look at the time to see 9:45 as I groan in reply since I am not up, and not ready for work in the slightest.

"I'm up." I say waiting to hear her footsteps recede before I get up.

I throw my bed back together and grab my uniform, swiftly changing, then heading over to my mirror to study my appearance.

My name is Jenny Saint. I'm 20 years old and unfortunately still living with my parents until I get a better job. My hair is pitch black, and my eyes a bright green, and on the verge of being underweight. All in all I'm pretty average( even my height being 5'7).

Anyways, I throw on the green heart pendant from my parents that perfectly matches my eye color, and head downstairs.

"Hi, sorry I need to head out", as I walk swiftly through the kitchen grabbing a cereal bar and shoving it in my mouth, hearing the muffled sound of then saying bye as I grab my keys. I hurriedly start the car and rush to work.

I get there right on time. I work at a restaurant called Maybels and I'm one of the main cooks so its important for me to be there on time.

"You were almost late... again. That's the second time this week." Says my manager, Kori.

"Sorry, I woke up late, it won't happen again!" I promise hurrying over to the cooking station.

Hey Ian, how are you today?

"Good! we still on for our date Wednesday?"

"Of course! I can't wait!" I say smiling

I've liked Ian for a long time and he finally asked me out so I've been pretty happy about that.

"So you guys are finally going out huh? When's the wedding?" Andrew says as he starts laughing his head off.

I chuckle, rolling my eyes.

Andrew and I have been friends for a long time, but we both decided we would never date, as to not ruin our friendship.

"You're just jealous I'm stealing your boyfriend!" I say laughing as I turn away and get to work.

The rest of the day went by quick as it was pretty busy, clocking out of my shift at 6.

"Bye Ian! Bye Andrew! Bye guys! See you tomorrow!" I say as I head out the door.

I get home and my mom made my favorite meal, spaghetti.

"So how was work hunny?" My mom said between bites

"It was alright, pretty busy." I say

"Hows ian?"

"Hes good."

"You guys still on for Wednesday?"

"Yes! I cant wait I've been looking forward to it for a week now. I cant believe we are finally dating!" I say, getting excited

"That's good, he seemed really sweet when you brought him over."

"Yeah he is." I agree.

Just talking about it got me thinking about his soft brown eyes, his golden blonde hair, those muscles.... I realize I started zoning and snap myself out of it, quickly finishing my food.

I head upstairs and lay in bed looking at my phone for a bit, texting Ian and Andrew before deciding to try and get to sleep once I saw it was midnight.

While I was laying there I couldn't help the feeling...the feeling that deep down I wanted to scream, to just let out all the built up emotions. I mean what's so wrong about that?

***

I wake up on time today, following the same routine as yesterday, except I had time to eat some waffles.

My parents were still asleep so I quietly grabbed my keys, closing the door carefully behind me. I look down at my phone to see a text from ian that read "coffee?"

I looked at the time seeing It was only 9:30 and decided I had enough time. I texted back "yes:)" before getting in the car heading to the coffee shop by my house.

I get there and see his car is already in the parking lot and head inside.

I look around and see he already got our usual table in the corner and head over to him.

"Hey!" He says, seeing me walk over.

"Hi!" I reply, giving him a hug.

"You know what you want? It's on me"

"You dont have to, really"

"I want to, really so order!"

"Haha okay!"I say, giving the cashier my usual order( a large cappuccino with extra vanilla).

We sit down and chat about life, our Hopes, and dreams.

I check my phone to see its 9:50 and mention that we should probably get to work. We reluctantly get in our cars and head to maybels.

We get there and all of a sudden I get a bad feeling... like really bad. I get out of the car anyways and go clock in, Ian coming in right behind me. I smile at him and get in my station.

"So you why were you two late huh? You know if I wanted to man the whole kitchen by myself..." Andrew was talking but I couldn't concentrate on what he was saying. Because I saw a man pull out a gun as he walked up to our register.