
Meant to Be Together:
The Story of Paloma and Jacob
Prologue: Jacob
(All Jake chapters by Denise unless otherwise noted)
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I was sitting in the living
room of my foster parents' home, watching Titanic for about... oh, the fiftieth
time. Then that classic line came up again.
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����������� I
was at softball camp, thinking about the letter I had just received from my
sister, Charity. Just then, I was called into the main office.
"Jacob," Mr. Sullivan, the director of the camp, said, in a solemn
tone, "there's been a fire at your house."
����������� "What?
Are my mother and sister okay?"
����������� "Charity
is just fine. But your mother... your mother's body hasn't been found. They
believe her to be dead. I'm so sorry."
����������� I
collapsed into a chair. "I can't believe it. My mother's dead, I don't
have a home... where is my sister?"
����������� "We
don't know."
::Reality::
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��������� Let me tell you this: I'm special. Not to sound conceited
or anything, but you don't meet people with powers every day. Yeah, I said
powers. Like Prue, Piper, Phoebe, Michael, Max and Isabel... (if you don't know
who they are, I suggest you start watching Charmed and Roswell) But this is
real life. I have powers because my family has been fighting evil for
generations. You want to know what I can do? I can freeze time and people (like
Piper). I can heal people (like Max), I can sense things that people try to
hide, I can sense evil, and sometimes I get visions (like Phoebe).
��������� And you thought that was cool? That doesn't even compare
to what my sister can do.� Charity has the real powers. She just
doesn't know it yet... because she has amnesia. I know, I know, I just said I
haven't seen Angel (my nickname for Charity) in almost a year, but I have ESP
with my sister. I can read her mind, and she can read mine. She doesn't
remember me though. Anyway, she's the one that the evil forces have been
prophesizing about for generations. She's been destined since birth to destroy
every evil force in the world. I know she's scared. I know she knows she's
different, but she doesn't know why. That's why I have to find her.
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��������� "Jacob, she needs you. They need you."
��������� "Charity?" I asked. "She needs me?"
��������� The angel nodded. "The evil is coming after her. The
battle has begun, Jacob. Good and evil are fighting for your sister's soul. She
needs you. They need you."
��������� "But where do I find her? Where is she?"
��������� "She's with Grace," the angel told me. "Find
Grace. And be careful." And with that, she disappeared. I got up and
started to pace. "Grace? Did she mean Aunt Grace? She's alive?" I
asked to myself. "Where is she?" Just then, I saw something...
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::Premonition::
������� "Oh,
Miguel, it's beautiful," Angel says. The boy with her smiles and says,
"Just like you." They kiss and smile, then walk hand in hand past a
sign that says "Harmony."
::Reality::
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��������� "I know where to go now," I said. So I went to
pack up my stuff and headed for a place called Harmony.