She Was Grace

• CHAPTER THREE •

Derek Smith.

He was the kind of teenage boy you would fall in love with immediately , but after a while, you grew further and further apart until your heart couldn't take any more abuse.

One look of his dark green eyes could change the way you felt in an instant. His warm embrace could make you melt and drown into a puddle of your own feelings.

That's what I thought at least.

At first it was great. I was young and I loved the thought of love.

At the time he was 19 and I was 16. We knew people wouldn't approve, but our love was something that people searched for all their lives. We spent every waking moment together... That's probably how the whole thing started.

After spending so much time with him, I felt that instead of getting closer, we were growing farther apart. He drank a lot, and got arrested multiple times. He got into drugs and smoking. Then I started noticing him flirting with other girls in front of me. Making fun of me in front of his friends. And then the dreams started happening.

The dreams were different every night. One night they would be of Derek and other girls, then the next, it would be of Derek and I in the future with a big family.

It's like my mind had known something was up before the rest of me did.

Early June, Derek and I were going on a date to Lake Erie for the weekend. It was just him and I and I thought it would be good for the two of us to spend some alone time together.

Once we had gotten our tent set up, we went for a midnight swim. Thinking it was just him and I, I just jumped in in my shorts and tank top. He had been drinking a lot that night, and was definitely high on something.

The water was dark and cold. It felt as if my skin was being stabbed by a million little needles as I swayed into the shallow lake.

As we were swimming I felt something touch my leg.

"Derek!!" I screamed.

It wasn't until then when I realized he was at lease five feet away from me. Then laughs of men filled the air.

One by one, boys a few years older then me started appearing in the water.

"Derek? Derek where are you?" I searched for him until I saw him behind me laughing as the men ripped at my clothes.

"Derek!! Please! Help me!"

It all went black from there. I couldn't remember anything. Maybe that was a good thing. I was left on the sand on the edge of the lake naked. Emergency workers had woken me up, filling my head with questions I had no answers to.

My parents then decided it would be best to sent me to visit my aunt and uncle in Santa Monica that summer. That's where I met Daniel. And my life had changed forever.

AUTHORS NOTE//

Sorry guys this is just a lil background on Derek and Grace... I thought you might want to know...

I might not update tonight or tomorrow morning, but this is just an explanation to clear some stuff up.