House of Night: My Story Joanne Clarke

My day had been going ok just like a normal day, nothing special had happened. At least that was until Chemistry last period. I had been sitting laughing and messing around with Ellen and a few of the guys, when I started coughing. Ellen looked at me worried and asked if I was alright I just nodded and went back to joking around. Then I froze and looked out into the corridor, there he was the dead guy. When I saw him that's when I got the pounding headache, I was coughing more and more now and everyone was looking worried. I recognized this guy as a vampire, but not just a normal vampire. This guy was a Tracker. He lifted his hand and pointed one of his long white fingers at me then spoke the words most people would dread to hear.
"Joanne Clarke! Night has chosen thee; thy death will be thy birth. Night calls to thee; hearken to Her sweet voice. Your destiny awaits you at the House of Night!"
As he finished saying those words my forehead burst into an explosion of pain, I clutched my head and screamed in pain before I passed out on the floor.

When I came around I was lying on the cold floor of my Chemistry class with Ellen by my side and everyone else crowded around me. All of them had the same expression on their faces, I sat up and spoke. "You all look like you've just seen a ghost!" Everyone all moved away slightly and I stood up and turned to Ellen. "What's wrong?" She just looked at me then shakily said.
"You got Marked! The tracker came and he Marked you." She then handed me a compact mirror, I looked into it then gasped. There smack bang on the middle of my forehead was the unfilled crescent of a newly marked vampire.
I was aware of everyone staring at me but I wasn't that bothered by them, I was more concerned now to get to the House of Night, the vampire finishing school. This is where I would spend the next four years and I would either come out of this a fully changed vampire or my body would end up rejecting the change and I would die. I walked over to my desk packed up my things and left the class very quickly, I just couldn't be there I knew I had to leave, get home pack my stuff and get my parents to take me to the House of Night. I ran to the nearest bathrooms and when I got in I just stood in front of the mirror and looked at myself.
I didn't look like me but yet I did. I still had my shoulder length auburn hair, my deep brown eyes and the freckled that spread across over my nose but now the blue outline of the crescent was added to the mix.
I swiftly left the bathrooms and ran to my locker, everyone had left for buses and such as the bell had rang during my time in the bathroom. I arrived at my locked turned the key and grabbed my books, jumper and shut the small door. My body racked with a cough and I almost doubled over with the pain that spread though my throat from it.

I quickly left the building and ran to my red mini cooper that I had just received for my 16th birthday. As I walked/ran to the car I heard the faint noise of a certain group of boys and I knew that I didn't have the time to stop and chat with them. I was almost at the car when another cough ripped through my throat and I cursed under my breath because I knew that they had heard me. I didn't see him until I had walked right into him as the sun was too painful for my eyes. I looked up and saw him, Daniel. He looked down and smiled when he saw it was me. "Hey Jo! I thought you had already left." Daniel was my boyfriend or was I should really say, as I knew he wouldn't want to stay with me when he saw the mark on my forehead. I kept my head down with my side fringe covering my mark.
"Yeah, I was just getting some things from my locker, before getting home." I replied as I suppressed another cough but failed in my attempt to. He put his finger under my chin and lifted my head up so I was now looking at him. I looked at his gorgeous black hair that I would run my hands through and then I looked into his deep blue eyes and I felt safe, the past hour just faded away right there and then. Daniel just looked at me and smiled I always loved his smile.
He must have sensed something was wrong when he looked towards my mark. He moved his hand towards my fringe and gently moved it towards one side so now my mark was in full view. By this time the rest of his friends had gone and it was just him and I left in the parking lot. His hand dropped back down and he was looking at me lost for words, I slowly started backing away towards my car and shouted over my shoulder "I'm sorry! I'll call you tonight and explain. I love you!"

Then I climbed into my car as another cough sprouted up my throat and then started to sob. I put on the baseball cap that was left in my car by my brother and the sunglasses I always kept in the door on the driver's side of the car. I turned the keys and started off towards my house, not knowing what to expect. I turned the radio on and 'Need You Now' by Lady Antebellum started to play and I sobbed harder just thinking of how I need Daniel and his safe loving arms wrapped around me. The song ended and so did my sobs but the sobs just turned into those small sniffles you get when you start to calm down after a major crying session. The coughs kept on coming and worse and worse each time they crept up so I sped up to get to my house.
I finally reached my house after what seemed like hours, I parked in the space next to my dad's car and grabbed my bag and climbed out the car and locked it. I walked through the front door to the calming sounds of my mum clattering away in the kitchen preparing for dinner, the rustle of my dad in the living room reading the paper and the thumping and banging of my little brothers Alec and Cameron playing the Wii in the game room. I ran up the stairs with my bag and threw it down on my bed, and then I grabbed my blue suitcase from under my bed and started grabbing things and putting them into the case.

My clothes went in, my books, make-up, perfume, the money that I had been saving up. After my blue case was filled and zipped up I had to grab my second case and shoved the rest of my belongings that I wanted to take with me into the case.
I picked up the first case and as quietly as I could, I took it downstairs and outside to my car where it got shoved into the boot I then went back for the second case and done the same with that. Then I walked back into the house with my fringe covering my mark and walked into the living room, my mum had obviously finished doing stuff in the kitchen and she was now sitting on the sofa flicking through the T.V channels.
She looked up when I walked in and smiled, but that soon faltered when she saw how depressed and ill I looked. Another cough snuck up on me and that's when mum got really concerned. She flew up and went to move my hair out of the way to check my temperature but I was too weak to protest, so she proceeded to move my fringe and that's when she saw the fresh mark that had been placed on my forehead only an hour and a half ago.

"Have you... Have you been marked?" she asked. As she asked this my dad suddenly lost interest in the paper and was now looking straight at me.
"Yes." I answered and started on a new round of sobs. My mum just grabbed me and pulled me into a hug. "I need to get to the House of Night now mum," She just looked at me with a sad and panicked look on her face. "otherwise my body will reject the change. I need to get there now, I have everything I need packed and it's in my car I just need you and dad to come with me. Please?" I looked between my mum and dad and they both had pained expressions on their faces as if they were losing me for good.
"Ok, Joanne. Get in your car we'll get your brothers and follow behind you." My dad said. I hugged him and went out to my car and got in started the engine just as my dad started his.

Then I left the house I had always known to go to my new home the House of Night.

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