Underneath

"We see what we wish to." I say softly, but challengingly.

"And did you wish to see someone like me?" He attacks back, his face coming even nearer to mine.

"I just wished for someone to see me." I say, my voice now no more than an uneven whisper. I'm barely breathing now and my eyes are no longer narrowed. He opens his mouth and then closes it. He swallows hard. His eyes are huge and deep and blue. If only he'd let me drown myself in them, I think. That way it would be in something other than silence.

"I see you." He says. And my world

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Rayne, seventeen-year-old senior at Lincoln High School, has always been alone. Well, for long enough that it feels like always, anyway. She has no friends, no social life, no anything, really. She's what one might call a wallflower, without the "flower."

For years she's observed her peers, seen them as they've aged and grown up, blossoming or not, into who they will become as adults. But not one of them had ever seen Rayne. She was completely alone in the world, unnoticed, unseen, and unheard of. Quite frankly, she was invisible. That is.. until the new kid.

He's not quite like the rest, there's something odd about him, something off. Maybe it's just the fact that he can see what no one else can, or rather, see the girl no one else cared enough to see. But theories aside, he has secrets of his own.

However, his attention is the door that opens all others, and Rayne is thrust into the worlds of other people. And not all of them are good..

With the revelation that she can, in fact, be seen by others, Rayne begins to see inside herself. But what lies underneath scares her. Who is she, she wonders, and most direly, what will