First 3 chapters

THE FIRST CHAPTERS OF BITTERSWEET....

Prologue

She came from a place where any type of life form was extremely rare. War raged between all creatures. Most of her ‘family’ perished in that war. She had barely been able to escape with two older and more experienced of her kind. The oldest of their new clan decided to use this as an opportunity however. She and her new “family” relocated in a popular place to live, and disguised themselves and their, unusual, features so they could study a race similar to their own. The next Monday morning, she took several deep breaths, feeling the oxygen spread all over her delicate frame, and walked in the doors of the Los Angeles high school.

Chapter One
Ocean

Overwhelmed just by looking at the concrete building in front of him, Felix “Flix” McKean panicked. He thought frantically of the teasing he had received that first day. Last week he began high school as a country hick. He was laughed at continually because of his accent, height, and muscles, or more accurately, his lack of muscles. Flix would be considered attractive almost anywhere else, with his long auburn hair and freckles. He was six feet tall, pretty average from where he came from, and was very skinny. Flix was nicknamed because of his chosen profession. He wanted nothing more than to be a photographer. Well, nothing more besides home. He missed the small town where he had spent his childhood. He missed his mother, his friends, and his dog. But all of that was gone for now. He would see them next year at Christmas. Right now he had to focus on making it through that year. Unfortunately, his father was the last person on Earth who would help Flix with that. His father, a lethargic, angry, alcoholic was the former rock star, Stud. He had no care for Flix at all and preferred to sit in his mansion with one of his many wives and relive the ‘good times.’ The only reason Flix was in Los Angeles was because his father’s most recent wife was a lawyer who specialized in custody arrangements. Desperate to meet Flix, she convinced Stud to allow Flix to come to the west coast. Flix liked Lauren fine, but he knew she would be gone long before he would be. But right then, his whole mind was focused on the ugly school in front of him. In danger of being late, he took several deep breaths and wished for a miracle. Then, Flix walked through the open doors. * * *
A miracle was exactly what Flix received, and in more ways than one. As he walked in his second period classroom, a tall and slender girl sat in the seat next to him. She looked like a princess from a fairy tale. With her translucent white skin she looked eminently breakable. Her long hair looked like silk and was cut at an angle as to hide her forehead, but was the palest blonde Flix had ever seen. Her hair looked almost white. Her deep green eyes peered up at him through impossibly thick lashes.
Staring at her, Flix truly believed she was impossible, a ghost, an angel. She was elegant and interesting. She seemed incredibly graceful. Her pale, thin lips moved quickly in a mesmerizing way as she stared at him.
“My name is Ksenia Alla. I am new to this,” she paused, “school? Not to be rude, but who are you?” She asked in a quiet airy voice. Flix had trouble gathering his thoughts as he raced to answer her.
“I, I’m uh, Felix. Flix! McKean.” Shoot! I must sound like an idiot! Ugh, she’ll probably think I’m retarded now.He thought angrily. Ksenia stared at him, looking like she was concentrating very hard on something. Suddenly her eyes seemed to go blank for a moment.
“I don’t think you’re mentally challenged,” she murmured, “and you don’t need to be nervous around me. Much.” She said in a much darker tone. Flix watched her in amazement for the rest of the day after that, through English, just marveling as she sat there, and gym, where she looked as if she was flying as she ran with unnatural grace and speed. But even after three classes with her, he never asked how she knew what he had been thinking. Because every time he saw her, an ocean of the strangest feelings washed over him.

Chapter Two
Mist

Ksenia arrived at the apartment Patamon and Hypate had picked out for Hypate’s lab. They had both been scientists back in Narooma, but Hypate had all the materials. As Ksenia walked in the moldy smelling house, she saw that both of her guardian’s had let their disguises fall. They were both showing their eyes and had mist swirling around them. Patamon’s looked smoky. Ksenia figured that he was once again angry.
“These human’s are idiots!” He shouted angrily in the other room, both him and Hypate unaware of Ksenia. “They say I need a resume to start working at their shack they call an office! Back on Narooma there were fountains and light shows and all that other junk in offices, but here there are these stupid cardboard ‘dividers’ and a couple lame plants! And not even man eating plants! I’m telling you Hypate, we should move to Arizona and start working at their alien research center. Now that would be fun. Their technology is so boring; we could spiff it up and.... Ksenia’s here. Come on out Ksenia. Tell us your big news. You seem pretty stressed about it.” Ksenia took several steps into the room and let her disguise fall. Mist swirled around her, and her bangs fell around her face. On her forehead there was an eye. There were long lashes surrounding it, but the green eye stared at nothing. It was as blank as the surface of a calm lake. Patamon gasped as he read what was behind the troubled eye.
“You didn’t....” he trailed off. Hypate immediately grasped something was wrong. She glanced at Ksenia worriedly. Ksenia nodded in response to Hypate’s unspoken thought.
“Mind reading,” Hypate noted. “And you’re strong too. Funny, I always thought you had the shiner eye.” As soon as she said this, Ksenia gasped. Her eye went completely empty. Seeing as if it was real, it showed the battle from Narooma. But the vision was wrong. All the villains, the opposite side in the war back home that she had grown to hate so much when they killed the others she lived with, were on Earth, in Los Angeles . Ksenia’s knees gave out and she fell to the ground. Hypate rushed to help her up, but as soon as Patamon saw Ksenia’s eye he collapsed too. Ksenia’s eye focused, and the mist that swirled around her disappeared. Ksenia brushed the hair over her face and ran from the apartment, ran from what was coming.

Chapter Three
Secrets

For the rest of the week, Flix watched Ksenia but never said a word. He watched her as she turned down almost every boy in the junior class. He felt a pang of sorrow for each of them. The look on their faces was indescribable when she rejected them, each in a different way. It was if she knew how to make it hurt the most. However, while Flix felt sorry for the other boys, he couldn’t help but feel triumphant, it was as if she preferred him. But then Flix noticed who she stared at everyday. Daniel Whittaker, the most popular guy in eleventh grade. He drove a flashy Honda to school everyday, had an adoring steady girlfriend, was an athlete, and all the teachers loved him. He was one of the only boys who hadn’t teased Flix though, and they had become friends, but Flix was super jealous of Daniel. Now even more so that he had Ksenia. Flix couldn’t get over it. How could Ksenia fall for someone so average? Maybe he had gotten it wrong, maybe Ksenia wasn’t the intriguing girl he thought she was. That didn’t stop him from watching her though. The next week, Flix started to notice something strange about Ksenia. When she wasn’t peering over at Daniel, with the same empty look in her eyes that she had gotten when she had talked to Flix on that first day, Ksenia doodled. She doodled a lot, but that wasn’t what he noticed. She drew the same thing over and over again. An eye. Not a pair, like a normal doodles, but a single solitary eye. She was an incredibly talented drawer too. Flix could see each eyelash as he stared at the drawing in the margin of her paper. Each eyeball she drew had the same hazy reflection in it. It looked focused, but on something that wasn’t there. Flix didn’t know why, but something about that doodle presented a mystery to him. He had a sudden urge that he wasn’t supposed to have seen it. It was a secret.
The next day Flix asked Daniel if he had a thing for Ksenia.
“No, not really,” He had answered, “Why man?”
“I don’t know. She just stares at you all the time.”Daniel raised an eyebrow at this. The he told Flix that he had to go. Later that day, Flix had heard that Daniel dumped his girlfriend and asked Ksenia out. Ksenia had said yes.