Chapter 1

San Francisco, CA
Present Day

"Damn it kids your late!" screamed my unforgettable mother, making the whole house shake.

"Coming mom!" my siblings and I yelled back. Shit! No wonder why teachers hate my family, it's the first day of school and my mom and dad forgot to wake us up!

It was time for the morning battle between me and the idiotic triplets Shane, Jake, and Emily as the three demons are called. I peaked my head out the door to see what I was up against this dreadful morning, I saw a head of rich chocolate hair. Jake. He turned around his blue eyes lighting up at the sight of me, and he darted. I ran right after him jumping over dirty clothes as I ran, then he went down in a tangle of legs and teeth. I got this one in the bag. I thought until my brother Shane ripped me down in this massacre.
“Shane you moron!” I yelled at him.
"Awww come on Skyler have some fun!” He replied
All I saw was my sister’s bleached out hair and ice colored contacts kick Jake right in the face then dart head first right into the bathroom, sticking her tongue out at us and kicking the door close. My brothers and I all sat against the wall waiting to go next. I started laughing on how bad my brother, Shane looks in the morning with his tousled blond hair and sleep covered blue eyes, it’s new to me because he always looks so stunning.
“Why are you laughing?” My brothers said simultaneously.
“Because Shane looks terrible!” I said between giggles. It was sort of awkward sitting there with my two brothers in nothing but their plaid boxers. I never really noticed how buff they were getting since they started getting ready for track season.
Jake started to laugh with me, when Shane punched me in my arm. “Your one to talk, look at yourself!”
“Hey! Why did…” my sister interrupted my sentence, she came out wearing a black Victorian dress with a modern twist, black nails, black lipstick, and to top it all off she had raccoon eyes.
Don’t you think that’s…umm a little too fancy for the first day a school” Jake said.
“Don’t you mean a little too demonic” Shane said between grinned lips, and Emily gave her own wicked grin right back.
“I decided to change my look this year” She said smiling has she walked past us.
As soon as she took one step out I ran straight into the bathroom and locked the door, I looked in the mirror and realized that my brother was right on how bad I looked. My hair looked like an untamed animal, I had black rings around my eyes, and my breath stank. It must be all the nightmares I’ve been having.
Just the thought of any of my nightmares sent a shiver down my back. They were all the same, me falling in love with a person or thing that I never get to see in the dream. Then he dies, I run than I get killed under the same polished hand with a silver dagger, each dream taking place in a different era. I was getting used to them now, or what I mean is I don’t wake up screaming anymore.        
After I got out of the shower I put on a violet/purple color dress with one of those really cool belts that were made out of metal with swirls and designs. I also had my charm bracelet that have all my charms on it. All the people that I loved would get me a charm or I would get a charm to at a place that I really liked so I could remember it. It was a family air loom that got past down to me so there are tons of other charms on it from other people in m family, and of course I had my converse on. I have well over twenty pairs of converse, some call it obsession I call it a passion.

See my siblings and I go to an art school that only the best of the best get into. It's called Dreams Academy. I know the name is cheesy but it’s the best. The only way to get in is to be chosen, my siblings and I all got in on a full scholarship. The Elwood family has always been talented artist but we never really became famous. I’m the painter of the family and I would sometimes act depending on the play. While my brothers and my dad are all musicians. My sister is a writer, my mom used to be an actress but now she writes plays.


After we all got out of the showers and we were done shoving food down our throats we left the house as fast as we could. Everyone got into their own cars but me. I had to car pull with Shane, since I don’t turn 16 until next weekend. But I don't mind, he's a good companion.
My brothers each had jeep wranglers, Shane’s was blue and Jake’s was Black. Emily on the other hand had a baby blue Bug, with about five to eight dents and scratches. She is the worst driver I know.
I got in the car and strapped in, we sat in silence most of the time listening to the Stones until we hit a red light.  

"So are you ready for sophomore year Sky?" he asked.

"Another year of teachers hating me, can't wait!" I said sarcastically.

"Well you bring it onto yourself. I mean what was the point of putting birth control pills is Mr. Wilson's tea then sticking a tampon up his butt" he said between laughs.

" Because he's evil! I mean with his fake hair, his old person skin, and ugly shirts."

My brother tried his hardest to laugh but he couldn’t hold it in and he burst out laughing. “I heard he's a sophomore teacher now too" he said between laughs as we were pulling up to school.

"Oh dear God" I whispered under my breath.

We all ran to our classes stuffing book and supplies in our bags, we all laughed when we saw my sister trip and fall. Just another reason why God hates me, I had Mr. Wilson for my homeroom teacher. I tried to walk in as silently as I could while Mr. Wilson was writing something down, until he looked up and gave me a detention slip.

"Your twenty minutes late Miss. Ellwood" he said like he was enjoying it.

"Your twenty minutes late Miss. Ellwood" I repeated in a childish voice.

As I was leaving I heard the snickering of my friends. Which were mostly all guys. I'm glad though, girls are just way too annoying and they gossip way too much. My friends and I are all part of the 'bad ass' group at school. You know the group that goes to Raves, sneaks out at night, well... anything people tell us not to do, we pretty much do. But we aren't druggies or anything like that. Those are just the losers.

And as I was walking out some girl ran in. A girl named Samantha Burns she was a natural ginger so most of the time she gets made fun of but she’s smart so nobody picks on her too much, Mr. Wilson didn't love her but didn't hate her either. Ha! She's going to detention with me, or so I thought.

"Sit down Miss. Burns" he told her.

I stood there open mouthed. I wanted to scream what the hell!

"Leave Miss. Ellwood" Mr. Wilson grunted.

I looked at my friends, and we all had the same devious look on our faces. And on that note I left for an hour worth of detention. As I walked to detention I was planning my revenge. I could do this, oh no I’ll do that, or maybe this.
The detention teacher was Mrs. Kani I've known her since my first day of middle school. She was always the detention teacher and the guidance teacher but she was the most chill teacher ever.
 "What do you have today?" she asked me.

"Detention for being late until second period." I replied.

  “For who? Mr. Wilson?”
“Yeah, who did you think.”
“Oh I don’t know it changes everyday with you. Now go take a seat.”
I'm always the only one in here, but today there was a boy maybe one or two years older than me. He was wearing a rolling stones t-shirt with baggy jeans. But I could tell he had rock solid muscles underneath. He was at least a foot taller than me. Mmm I thought to myself. He had is head down but I could see he wore a grin on his face.

I took a seat next to him pretending to not see him. That lasted a few wild heartbeats. What is this guy doing to me, it feels like I'm a bomb ready to explode. When he did look up and face me, I almost gasped. He was the sexiest guy I've ever seen. He had hair as dark as midnight and gold eyes with swirling colors of red and orange in them, making them look like an ocean sunset. They were the most beautiful eyes I've ever seen, but yet they held a cocky twinge to them.

“The names Asher, and may I ask what your name is.” He said waking me up from this time of bliss.
 “Umm...” I just sat there staring at him like an idiot. “Can you please repeat the question?” He just sat there grinning, as I could hardly breathe.
“What’s your name, precious?”
 “Oh, it's Skyler.”

He turned to face forward, “you know my friend had a dog named Skyler.”
“Excuse me?”
“You heard what I said, my friend had this small, annoying dog named Skyler.” I was really starting to hate this prideful jerk.
“Who the hell do you think you are!”

"I told you I'm Asher, do you want me to be more specific, can your brain handle it" he replied.
“What! Kid I'm seriously about to punch you right now.”

"Shhhhh" Mrs. Kani demanded.

“Asher Holt that's who I am, is that specific enough for you, and  I’m anything but a kid.”
Be a bigger person and ignore him. He's not worth it, even if he is really hot I thought to myself.

"I'm new here think you could show me around?" he asked.

"Oh I'm sorry you said my brain isn't capable to know you full name, then how am I suppose to show you this huge school?" I said sarcastically.
He turned to look at me again with that cocky grin of his, he just shrugged,” you’re probably right.” That was not the answer I was looking for.

Then the bell rang telling us it was second period. I tried to rush out as soon as I could. But that Asher kid caught me by the wrist. He slipped a piece of paper in my hand. He pulled his mouth to my ear, “call me.” He said it in a very seductive voice, I might add.
“In your dreams!” I yelled as he was walking out. He stopped, looked around, and winked at me.

When lunch came Asher was nowhere to be found. Good, I barley whispered.

"What?" My friend Blake said.

"Nothing, so what are we going to do about Mr.Wilson?" I asked. All my friends started to crack up laughing.

"He hates you!" laughed Sarah.

I don't have many friends like my siblings who were the most popular kids at school. But the friends I do have I stick with, I would never stab one of them in the back and they wouldn't stab me in the back.

Blake was my best friend since pre-k, he had dark brown hair, with gray eyes, and he was about a half foot taller than me. Sarah is my only friend that is a girl, she dies her hair a different color every month this month it was blue with pink highlights.
“It’s sort of like punk and pop combined” she said giving me that wide Sarah smile.  She's great.

“Oh my God! Did you see the new guy? I would sure want to....” “Sarah!” Blake interrupted.
 “What? He's hot.”  
“Uhhgg he's a jerk” I moaned, even when I said that I felt a tingle of electricity. What the hell was that, I just ignored it.
“I agree” said Blake.
“What? Oh yeah. So you met him” I said.
“Yea he's too cocky for me.”

“Right! I mean who does he think he is! I mean with his stupid clothes, and his stupid....” I must of been babbling, from the blank looks on my friends faces. Then the Bell rang. Oh great saved by the bell.

The day went on, I got another detention by Miss. Fig for giving her the bird, when it wasn’t even me but the kid behind me. When I got out my brother was nowhere to be seen, I guess my brother already left, looks like I'm taking the bus. When I did get on the bus, just as Blake was going to sit with me, Asher slipped in besides me. He did not look like the type of person to be riding the bus. “What do you want?”
 “To kiss you he replied.” He's just messing with me I thought.
 “Fine then, do it.” He raised his eyebrows,
“What?” he said looking a little surprised.   
“Kiss me.”
“It’s not the right time,” then he just grinned and left my seat. He looked over at Blake, “she’s all yours dude.”

"What was all that about?" Blake asked.

"Nothing" and we were quiet the rest of the ride home. Blake tried to start a conversation by I was too busy thinking.  I probably looked like a moron to Asher now. Why should I care though, he's just another guy. A really hot guy, but who cares.

When I got off the bus so did Asher. “What!” I yelled. He looked over at me, and out of anything that could of happened I blushed. I blushed! I was mentally kicking my ass.

“I bought some land in that farm over there to put my trailer up.” Asher leaned up against a tree. “I guess we'll be seeing a lot of each other, precious.” “
“Wonderful I said between gritted teeth.” He just laughed and walked away.