Beautiful Creatures

My name is Ethan Wate and it's been the same dream every night for months now. I can't ever see her face , but I know her, like I've known her all my life. And it feels like something terrible is gonna happen when I reach her. But at the same time, I'm not scared at all. I want her no matter what happens. But I never get her. And than I die. I first I was scared I was losing my mind. Until I realized that would be no great loss. I start junior year tomorrow, so insanity's inevitable. What's worse is waking up every night wanting someone I've never met...loving a girl who doesn't exist. I've been stuck my whole life in Gatlin. South Carolina's least famous middle of nowhere. By the time we get a movie, it's already on DVD. And our theater always gets the titles wrong. We're too far away from Charleston to have a starbucks. How sick is that? We have 12 Churches and one library with more banned books than books to read. Same damn families have lived here for generations. They keep reenacting the civil war like it's gonna turn out different. Mama used to say there's only two kinds of people in Gatlin, the ones too stupid to leave and the ones too stuck too move.