Chapter One: A little Glimps
Short Summary of Characters: 

Vanessa Orth -- Main Character -- Portrayed By Amber Tamblyn -- Father is searching for her after years of disappearance and killing her mother. Lives with her best friend Van Boswell [Chad Micheal Murray] who is secretly in love with her, although has a secret of smoking and doing drugs behind her back. 

Karen Lanchey  -- Portrayed By Britt Koth -- Wants to become a future porn star and crushes on Van. 
Setting----Asheburn, Ohio -- September, start of school
--story starts now--

The sky seemed to be a bit on the dark side, much of what Vanessa had been feeling the whole day. She had the constant fear of her father's hands on her shoulders and shuddered at the thought. The feeling was utterly horrible. Why did she have to feel that way? She was in another place, another state, another world! And Van was there. He would protect her. He would. He had to. God, he had to. She sat on her bed and heard the door open slightly with a click of the key in the hole. She sat straighter, knowing that only two people had the key. Administrators, the principal, and Van himself. She smiled slightly, rubbing her arms up and down to keep her hands warm. 

Van opened the door and smiled as he saw Vanessa. It always brought a warm feeling in his heart to see the girl that he was madly in love with. Throwing his own bag onto the floor he knelt near her. "Hey," he responded. "What's going on?" he gave an encouraging smile, to maybe brighten her day up. he had just gotten out of class and wanted to finally tell Vanessa about how he had felt about her. 

Vanessa shrugged a bit. "Nothing really," she replied. "You?" She knew that Van was smart, so he wouldn't be complaining about schoolwork like she did most of the time. She would confess about her feelings with her worries about her father, but it would just worry him. The last thing she needed was to have someone worry over her.

"Actually. I wanted to tell you something?" he replied with a grin. Vanessa nodded. Her hair was bundled up and covered half of her face, but you could easily see the eagerness of what Van was about to tell. She had the look of, sometimes, a little kid. So innocent, in Van's opinion. To get it over with he just took a deep breath and went with his instincts.

 "I love you,"