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Chapter 1

Ray was twelve when she met her big guy. If you really want to know how they've met, the first thing you should know is her childhood.

Ray had always been the weird kid around the neighborhood, other kids constantly called her nicknames like "creepy Ray, looney girl".

Rachel was her name, but her mother called her Ray for short and thought it was cute for her; and she's not creepy nor is she weird, she was just too quiet, too calm for a kid around her age, too bold as well.

She was observant and a good judge of character, a bit too smart for her own good, a precocious child.

Ray once got a detention when she was seven for fighting, the rich kid Chris and his dawgs bullied her - like always - this time she got angry and fought back, leaving a long, bloody scar on Chris's face and other kids screamed, reported her to the teacher. They grinned when she got scolded in the teacher's office, but she just stood there blank-faced. It wasn't her fault, she didn't even flinch, because she knew her father would come and take her home, there was no reason to cry, the old hag - her teacher - just wanted her to be scared so she would behave.

She knew it.

The old hag said there was something wrong with her, she doesn't behave like a normal kid, but her father defended her.

There is nothing wrong about my daughter. Then her father took her home and left everyone there, just like she'd predicted. Ray was happy and she smiled at her with a smirk, the teacher felt great disrespect.

The very next day, that old hag told the whole faculty about what had happened. Nobody wanted to talk to her no more ever since. The brat Chris and his friends still tried to tease her, and the teachers just looked other way.

Well...since the fight, she at least was able to keep them at bay.

Ray lived in a small town in the middle of nowhere near the military air base, there was not much else to do, so she would go out to the woods in the summer almost everyday, to observe the animals, or speak to them and feed them, even though they didn't understand her, but she was lonely, and she realized she enjoyed the companionship, they don't judge.

She had a favorite hideout place that was less than three miles away from her house, secluded, no one really knew about it, she would hang out there for hours after school. It relaxed her, she could think and admire the blue skies, watch the military jets and planes soaring through the air. Once a year, in spring time, the base will practice parachute jumps, she would stare in awe, and her mind would drift far away to other places.

She had a flair for sports, she loved running through the woods and enjoyed breathing in the smell of nature, sweat makes her feel alive, it was her way of coping with the harsh reality throughout her childhood. She never went out to the woods alone at night though, she knew too well that it'd be too dangerous for a kid like her.

But that night Ray was so furious, she didn't care, and that night changed her life forever.

Her mother had brought home a medium-sized black cat one night as a gift, Ray was so happy and she named him Midnight.

She was perfectly aware of the purpose of the gift. Her mother knew she was lonely, and his parents were so busy with their jobs and her little brother Brandon, they felt bad and wanted to get her something to make her happy, and she did.

She cared for the cat, talked to him, fed him, they wandered in the forest together, they were inseparable. One day, Midnight brought home a mouse and dropped it at her feet, Ray didn't know why, but her mother got very annoyed, she screamed and got rid of the dead mouse in disgust. Ray never saw Midnight after that night, her mother gave him away.