I do not own the Night World books LJ smith does.

Please tell me if you like it or even if you think it is bad. Thanks for reading.

Chapter 1

"What?"Lara Park yelled at her mother. They were in the living room with Lara's stepbrother and stepfather. Her mother had just told her that they were moving and she did not like it much. She started out sitting on a chair and was now standing up.

"I said that the family is moving."Her mother said in a calm, happy voice. She was a tiny woman with glasses and, big bright blue eyes and always was wearing a necklace, and loves the color pink way to much.

"No, I am not, Mom."Lara yelled.

"Do not back talk to your mother."Said Ken looking just plain mad. Ken was a tall lean man that towered over Lara and made her feel like a little kid, him and his son had brown eyes and looked alike. Lara sent a rude look his way and was yelled at."Get up to your room now!!"Ken shouted at her.

She ran up to her room, but before she had the door all the way close she heard her mother's voice downstairs."We can't take her with us, Ken." She slammed the door closed behind her making sure that they all knew she had heard that last commit. She ran over to her dresser and pulled out her CD case and flipped through it and said out load the bands that sounded good right at that moment "Joan Jett, Papa Roach, Buck Cherry, Bon Jovi, Slipknot,"in the end she was listening to Papa Roach. Lara curled up on her bed and started to cry till she was a sleep.

She missed her dad he had passed away after being in coma for three days he had had head trauma from a car crash. She had been in the car with him and was in the front seat and had hit her head on the dash board. (This is not a dream just what she can remember)

"Come on, Lara, we need to go to the store for your mother."Logan said to his fourteen year old daughter. She had a book in hand on the couch and was so into it that she did not hear him. He walked over to the couch and said."Do you want to go with me, Cat?"Cat was the name that only he was able to call her.

She finally looked up from the book and smiled slightly and said in return,"Umm, yeah, Dad, let me run this up stairs and put this away" She said referring to the book she had been reading a minute ago.

"Okay, I'll wait,"Logan said, but she was already half way up the stairs.

Lara walked into her room and went over to the bookshelf and put the book away in it's place, her room was very clean. She felt like something really bad was about to happen, but she shrugged it off and left the room. Down stairs her dad was sitting on the couch he got up and smiled at her.

"You ready to go?"Logan asked Lara.

Lara nodded, smiling.

They walked out to the car and got in the car. The car smelled like her dad. She sat back as he got in to the driver's side, looked through his CDs and pulled out a country one that went good with a ford, but not with his little Kia. They pulled out of the drive way to go to Safe Way up the road.

"Hay, what did mom want, Dad?"Lara asked

"Umm, I have a list in my back pocket."Logan said, laughing. That was when there was an explosion and the glass broke and Lara's head hit the dash board and she was knocked out and that was all she could remember, all that happened in the matter of a minute. In all the sound she heard the sound of her dad saying"I love you, my Cat,"That was the last thing that she would ever hear her father say. She woke up two days later in the hospital with her leg broken and in a cast.

* * *

"Ginny, what do you want to do with her?"Ken asked his wife.

"Go put Mickie to bed then we will talk."Ginny said, she was still on the couch and could hear one of Lara's favorite CDs playing for the second time through.

Ken walked his son into his room he was five years old and loved Cars the movie. Mickie got in to bed and looked up at his dad,"Daddy, can you read Little Bear to me?"

"Not tonight, Mickie."Ken said pulling up the Cars bed spread and playfully covering Mickie's head. Mickie stuck his arms out of the blanket and started to laugh."Goodnight, Son."Ken said and kissed Mickie on the forehead lightly.

"Daddy, don't forget to to turn on the night light." Mickie said.

"Okay" Ken said and then walked out of the room leaving the door open ajar. He walked in to the living room and put an arm around Ginny."What are we going to do?"

"I don't know, Ken."Ginny said and started to cry on his shoulder. He wrapped her in a hug.

"Shh, it's okay,"He said.

"I have a high school friend she said if I needed anyone to help with my kids for a while she would do it."Ginny said.

Ken looked grim."Do you want me to call her?"

"No, she has no idea who you are."Ginnie said."I will call her tomorrow and ask her if she will take in Lara."

"And what is her name?"Ken asked.

"Nina."Ginnie said in a hushed voice, Nina her been like a sister to her in high school they had fallen apart and had not talked in years she only hoped that Nina would take in Lara.

"Where does she live? Here in town?"Ken asked.

"No, she lives in Las Vegas where I want to high school." Ginnie said, thinking about something that Ken would never get, it was in between two teenage girls and high school. Sleep overs, boyfriends, and family problems. They sat there and talked about Nina and high school for a few more minutes and then went to bed.

* * *

Lara was asleep till she heard the bathroom light come on it was one of the fan lights. She sat up in bed shivered and figured that she should get up then she looked at the alarm clock it was not even midnight yet. Lara got up and went over to her CD player and changed the CD. Then, went and brushed her teeth.

Lara went back into her room and tried to sleep but could not go back to sleep. She knew that she was more then likely grounded again. She ruled her eyes at the thought of being stuck in her room again no TV or cell phone. What are they going to do with me? She thought.

Soon she went over to her bed and sat there. She was asleep not long after lying down on the bed spread that had Pooh Bear with Tigger on it was old she had had it since she went to a "Big kid bed" and she loved it her grandparents had given it to her.

* * *

Ginnie was calling Nina on the phone, on the third ring she finally answered the phone with a, "Hello, this is Nina Kail."

"Hello, Nina,"Ginnie said

"Who is this?"Nina asked, in a confused voice.

"Well it has been a long time I think it might come to you it's Gin---"Ginnie was cut off by the screeches in the other end.

"Oh my God is it really you, Ginnie?"Nina asked

"Yes, we have not talked in so long." Ginnie felt a tear roll down her down her cheek.

"Well what have you been doing? How is your daughter and your husband? Are you all still living in Oregon?" She kept up the questions until Ginnie popped in and said.

"Hay, Nina, we are having some trouble with Lara. I am sorry to ask this because I never thought that I would ever take you up on the offer. . ."She trailed off.

"Well I told you back in high school that I would help if you needed it," Nina said.

"Okay, well we are moving and Lara is having some problems with that. I was talking to Ken last night---"She was cut off by Nina again.

"Wait a minute, where is Logan?"She asked.

"Oh, um, Lara will tell you if you will take her?"Ginnie wanted it to be a statement but it came out as a question instead.

"Yeah, I will take her in sure. If you are okay with her being home schooled?"Nina asked." My husband left us last year, just packed up and left."

"Yes, that is fine about the homeschooling, "Ginnie told her going on like she had not even heard about the point that Nina's husband left, and then. "We were going to try to get her out in a few days before we do any real packing."

"Okay, just call me when you by the ticket for her."Nina said, her son walked in to the room on her end and said,"Who are you talking to, Mom?"

"A friend."Was all she said.

"Okay, I will get the ticket tomorrow."Ginnie said.

"You seem to want to get her out of the house, why?"Nina asked Ginnie. She had never wanted to give her son up, and the night world would never let a family give up their kid willingly unless death was in the picture, but Ginnie was a human.

"She just will not listen any more to me at all."Ginnie said. Nina thought that that was probably not true Ginnie was known back in high school for not listening. For the most part in high school people would not tell her stuff she would not listen to them.

"Okay, how long will I have her? she is sixteen now, right?" Nina asked, wanting to know as much as possible about the girl she had not met since the girl was three years old and her son was almost four.

"Yes, she is sixteen now."Ginnie said.

"Okay, how long will I have her?"Nina asked.

"I don't know."Ginnie said, "Well, Until you don't want her at your house anymore?"

"Okay,"She let out a breath and said "I will talk to you later?

"Yes, bye."and the line went dead.

* * *

"Nick, can you come in here."Nina said, Nick walked into the room. He had blond hair and green eyes that in the light had brown spots in them.

"Yeah, Mom,"Nick said, sitting in the wooden chair by the door.

"My friend, Ginnie's daughter is going to come and stay with us for a while."Nina said looking grim Nick was not a human person.

"What is she? A vampire?"Nick asked, smiling.

"No, She is not a night person at all. She is human."Nina answered.

"Then why take her in?"

"Because, I told her mother that I would help if she ever needed help with her kids. Ever. and she said the same for you."Nina said," And you will be nice, and no night people that I do not trust in the house, Okay?

"Okay, Mom, what is her name?"

"Lara and she will be here within the week."Nina said."Don't tell anyone that she is human, not even James and Poppie." She knew that James and Poppie were his friends and that Poppie had been a lost witch that was dying of cancer.

He nodded, and left the room.