"It’s just turned seven o’ clock on the 21st January 2002…" Kristen groaned as the DJs monotonous voice filled her bedroom. She reached to turn off her clock radio, instead managing to change the radio station several times. Eventually she hit the ‘off’ button and pulled her pillow over her head. After about a minute of lying in silence Kristen finally emerged from her bed.

She had straight brunette hair that reached just past her shoulders with a side fringe. Her hairstyle suited her heart shaped face perfectly and she was often told how pretty she was. Her figure was very slim and petite but she was pretty tall and always had been.

Kristen lived in her own apartment in London, although she had lived in her hometown of Liverpool until a month ago. She had moved down to London to pursue her career as an actress, which was what she had always wanted to do. She was ecstatic when she was discovered by her agent in a local production, especially when she found out the agent was from a London based company.

Although she had been excited about moving to a new city, she was a little reluctant to leave her family. She had left home three years ago, at eighteen, when she had started university but this was different, she was a four-hour train journey away from home now. Her family were all very close. Her mother had left her and her dad Steve when Kristen was only one. Needless to say Kristen was a daddy’s girl and had been so excited when he married Kim four years later, even though she was only five! Kim had always adored Kristen and she had loved Kim as if she were her real mother. She also had a half sister Ellie who was now fifteen.

Kristen rubbed her eyes as she stood up. She walked across the cream carpet almost colliding with one of the many boxes that was cluttering up her room. She’d never been very good at unpacking and just tended to search around the boxes until she found what she was looking for.

She walked across her living room to the kitchen and began pouring some cereal into a bowl while attempting to make a cup of coffee at the same time. After finishing her breakfast she went back through her bedroom and into her en suite bathroom. She grabbed a huge green towel, along with a much smaller pink one, off the rack and placed them on the floor by the shower. She heard the phone ring, but decided to ignore it and let the answer machine take a message. She’d recently put an ad in the local newspaper for a roommate and so far all the people who had phoned had seemed a bit creepy.

She hopped in the shower and stayed there for about half an hour, almost falling asleep. God I need to go to sleep earlier! She thought as the water poured over her body. In the end she forced herself to turn the water to cold to try and stop her eyes from shutting completely. She squealed as the freezing water hit her and immediately turned it off then stepped out the shower. Wrapping the pink towel around her hair and the green one around herself she staggered into her bedroom with the icy feeling still attached to her skin.

Quickly, she dried herself off and put on her cream combats with her brown top that had 2 black zips spaced out on the front. She then blow-dried her hair; it was lovely and sleek so she decided to wear it down.

She had almost forgotten about the earlier phone call until she went back into the living room and saw the answer machine flashing indicating that there was a new message. She pressed the button a little hesitantly then sat down on the couch next to the phone. Her agents voice blasted out of the machine,

"Hiya Kris, it’s Laura. I’m just calling to remind you about the audition for the film on Wednesday, it’s at 11 o’ clock. Come in and see me afterwards if you want. See ya hun."

Remind her?! She hadn’t been able to think of anything else since Laura had told her about it a couple of weeks ago. Kristen was determined to do well in this audition; she had always wanted to star in a movie.

"Crap!" Kristen glanced over at the clock and realised that she had to leave for work, well ten minutes ago.

She ran into her bedroom, grabbed her purse, phone and keys and threw them all into her bag. Running back into the living room she picked up her jacket that had been flung over the arm of the couch after returning home from work last night. She sprinted out the door and darted towards her car that her Dad and Kim had bought her for her nineteenth birthday.

She worked at a fashion store called ‘Open’ just to get enough money between acting jobs. She had made some good friends whilst working there and going out with them last night had been the cause of her tiredness that morning!

By the time she pulled up into the car park she must have sped through about three red lights but luckily hadn’t got caught. She dashed in the back entrance and literally shoved her bag in her locker that was in the cloakroom. On her way onto the shop floor she hung her jacket onto the coat hooks.

"And what time do you call this Miss Hargrove?" Kristen heard the voice behind her as she reached the counter. She spun around to see Becka, one of her close friends.

"This is your fault! Making me stay at the club ‘til some ungodly hour!" Kristen said as she smiled, "How are you not looking like Hell?!"

"Oh the wonders of make-up!" they both laughed as they took up their positions behind the tills along with their other friend Aimee.

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*RING RING*

"Oh…Shit…oh!!" Kristen couldn’t find her locker keys and now her mobile had started ringing.

*RING RING*

Becka and Aimee couldn’t help but laugh as their friend struggled to get hold of her keys that were buried deep in her pockets.

Aimee was 21 like Kristen but Becka was a bit older than the two of them at 25. Becka was slim but not quite as tall as Kristen. She had lovely auburn coloured hair that reached just below her shoulders. Aimee on the other hand had thick blonde hair that reached half way down her back. She always looked very innocent and sweet.

"YES!" Kristen had finally retrieved her keys and opened the locker. She snatched her bag and pulled out her phone.

"Hello?" she almost screamed into her mobile, making sure the caller hadn’t hung up.

"Oh, Hi! I’m calling about the ad in the paper for a roommate." The voice of a young girl could be heard through the speaker.

"Right" this one didn’t seem so creepy, "How ‘bout you come over tomorrow to look around and we can have a chat?" The girl, Hollie, agreed, they arranged a time and Kristen gave her the address.

It was now 5.30pm and the girls’ shifts were over. Aimee and Becka walked to their cars but Kristen decided to have a look around the other shops as she was in no rush to get home.

She looked around at the different shops trying to decide where to go first when she saw someone she recognised out of the corner of her eye. Oh my god! What the hell’s Ryan doing here? Ryan was Kristen’s ex. She had split up with him a few months ago, before she had moved to London. She’d wanted to break it off with him for a while but couldn’t bring herself to say the words, so moving to London was her perfect excuse. Ryan had always been nice to her, but he was so overprotective, he always wanted to know where she was and who she was with. She couldn’t live like that. She liked her independence.

Kristen covered her face with her hand as she walked, a lot quicker now, through the small crowds of people.

"Kristen?" Kristen winced as she heard Ryan call her name. She started running and turned the corner, still looking behind her, crashing right into someone. She turned to meet a pair of dazzling eyes.

"I’m sorry" the man apologized, even though he knew it wasn’t his fault. Kristen was almost mesmerized, he was so gorgeous. Quickly remembering what she was running from, she turned her head to see Ryan turn the corner.

"Are you alright?" the guy asked, sounding concerned. Kristen snapped her head back towards his direction. She had to think of something to get Ryan to go away, suddenly, she just said it.

"Kiss me!"

"Excuse me?!"

Before she knew what she was doing, Kristen cupped his face in her hands and kissed him. Luckily he didn’t pull away, but kissed her back, putting his hands on her sides. She spun them both around, whilst still kissing, so that she was now facing Ryan. He hung his head and walked away, her plan had worked!

Kristen pulled away feeling extremely embarrassed, she couldn’t believe what she’d just done.

"I’m sorry, er…I’ll…erm…just go" With that Kristen turned and walked away cringing while the, now very shocked, man just stood there and watched her leave.

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Kristen couldn’t help but laugh as she opened her front door thinking about her earlier actions. Well at least Ryan will have realised we’re over! She looked over at the clock in her living room, which showed that it was 6.30pm. She fixed herself some dinner (well, ordered a pizza) then decided to phone her family.

"Hiya Kris! How are you honey?" Kim had answered the phone.

"I’m fine. Just ringing to see how you all are. Is Dad there?"

"No, he’s had to stay late at work." Ellie could be heard in the background begging her mum to give her the phone. "I’d love to talk longer but I think El wants to speak to you!" Kristen giggled.

"Hiya El! Missed me?!"

"Yeah right!" They both laughed. They were both very close despite the age gap.

"So, how are you? Have you got any auditions coming up? Have you met anyone famous yet?" Kristen couldn’t help but laugh at her enthusiasm.

"Fine, yes, and no!" Little did she know she just had!

They chatted for about another fifteen minutes before Ellie had to go as she was going to the cinema with her friends to see The Fellowship of the Ring for about the millionth time in a month. In fact Ellie’s leaving present for Kristen was taking her to see the film!

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Dominic walked home, thinking about how weird the day had turned out to be. Only ten minutes ago some stranger had suddenly started kissing him. Not that he was complaining, he’d never seen such a beautiful girl before. She had the most amazing chocolate brown eyes and the perfect lips. He hadn’t been able to think of anything else since it had happened, he could still taste her kiss on his lips. If only I knew who she was. Why did I just let her leave?

He smiled as he remembered how she blushed and apologized afterwards. She looked so cute all flushed.

Dom reached his apartment that he was sharing with Orli and Billy. He opened the door to see them both playing on the PS2. Dom rolled his eyes as he walked in; they seemed to spend most of their time on that thing!

"Hi!" they both shouted out as they heard the front door shut, while making sure not to take their eyes off the screen.

"Hiya" he said before collapsing on the couch. "You’ll never believe what happened to me tonight!"