Things Only Poets Understand #Wattys2016

This is a story about a young girl named Eliza. She used to live in Russia and Romania so coming to America is quite a change in scenery. She's running from her past and holding many secrets about what happened in Russia with her parents, but no one knows. She has countless nightmares about demons that live inside her and her mind.
JJ is a boy her age that grew up in America. He has a constant dream of meeting this beautiful red haired, blue eyed girl. When he walks into class the first day of school and she's in his class his life starts getting thrown into hers. They have the same classes, they ride the same bus, they are neighbors in their apartment complex, and to the both of them it seems as though they have always known the other.
Enjoy this story in verse about these two teenagers that have struggled through many things in life, but have found each other and are willing to go past what has happened.