Zoey

My Circle and I, including Stark and Darius, were walking back to the girls dorm when Neferet popped out of nowhere. I stifled an eye roll and sighed aloud. Stevie Rae bumped me in the shoulder and gave me a stern look. At dinner she told me that we should act like nothing is going on. Neferet glared at me.
"We will be having six students from New York stay here for a few months. You will each pair with someone and teach them about Vampyres and show them around the House of Night. Zoey and Annabeth Chase, Aphrodite and Piper McLean, Damien and Jason Grace, Stevie Rae and Nico Di Angelo, Shaunee and Leo Valdez, Erin and Percy Jackson. They will arrive here any moment so meet me at the front gate." Neferet informed us and walked towards the front gate. I stuck my tongue out at her back.

Stark chuckled at my childish act. "Anyone else find that weird? I mean why were we picked to baby sit?" Aphrodite complained.

"Who knows? Maybe they won't be so bad." I suggested trying to lighten up the mood. Stark was standing closer to me than usual.

"Y'all need to stop bickering! They should be here any minute." Stevie Rae ushers us towards the front gate.

"No need to push, Bumpkin. We're moving!" Aphrodite stomps angrily to Neferet. "So where the hell are they?"

"Right there." Neferet points to a minibus.

Aphrodite snorts. "They got a retard bus!"

Stevie Rae hits Aphrodite. "That's not very nice! The R- word is mean."

Aphrodite rolls her eyes and we wait for it to stop. Darius is the first one to get off the bus being followed by six kids around our age.

"Welcome to the House of Night." Neferet greets them. Such an act. "These are the fledglings you will be partnering up with while you stay here. Zoey Redbird, Aphrodite LaFont, Stevie Rae Johnson, Damien Maslin, Erin Bates, and Shaunee Cole. These two are Stark and Darius. Zoey, I want you to get them whatever they need." She didn't look at me with disgust like she usually does. Her face was unreadable, but she smiled at the guests. A while ago I would have thought she was being nice. When Neferet walked away we awkwardly stood there. Thank the Goddess Damien decided to talk when he did or we would have been standing there for a while.

"Annabeth, you will be with Zoey. Percy, you'll be with Erin. Shaunee and Leo, Stevie Rae and Nico, Piper and Aphrodite, and me and Jason."

"How about we just do this together? I don't understand why we have to do this as partners." Stark said, grabbing my hand.

Damien shrugged. "We could do it that way. Oh, Z, have you seen Jack? I can't seem to find him."

"Sorry, honey, I can't say I have. Have you checked his room? Maybe he's just walking Dutch or something." I wasn't going to be mean to my friends because Neferet got me pissed.

"Maybe." Damien looked thoughtful. "Can you help them? I want to find Jack and introduce him to our guests."

"Sure thing. We'll meet you back in my room."

"No, my room. It's bigger." Aphrodite told him. "Just don't touch anything." She told the new people and twitched off with Darius in tow.

"Hag," Shaunee said with disgust.

"From hell." Erin said with as much disgust, maybe more.

I rolled my eyes at the Twins and walked with Stark towards Aphrodite's room. "Stark, do you think Neferet is up to something?"

"She's always up to something." Stark replied.

"It's sad that that's so true. I wish we could go back to when everything was normal. There was no one trying to kill anyone." I said sadly. The truth is that I miss having a mom figure. Grandma is like a mom figure, but she's not with me all the time.

"We'll get through this and live a normal life, Z. I promise." Stark squeezed my hand.

"Don't promise that. You know nothing will ever be normal again." I snapped.

"We can try." He said quietly.

"I'm sorry for snapping at you." I said, equally as quiet.

"You have a lot of stress. Don't worry about it." Stark kissed my head.

We arrived at the dorms a couple minutes later and went up to Aphrodite's room. When I got up there I decided I was thirsty. "I'm going to get some brown pop. Anyone else want anything?"

"Can you find some real chips and dip?" Stevie Rae asked.

"Of course." I smiled and went back downstairs with Stark in tow. "So why'd you follow?" I asked, not looking at Stark. I bent down and started to go through the refrigerator. Arms wrapped around my waist and made me stop what I was doing. Stark moved my hair and sucked on my neck probably leaving behind red marks. His hands went to my hips and massaged them through my shirt. He turned me around and planted kisses along my jaw until he reached my mouth. I was placed on the counter top as he nudged my mouth open and our tongues battled for dominance. His hands explored my body while mine tangled themselves in his hair. We both pulled away at the same time, panting. This went on for a while until I remember about the pop and chips. "Shoot. I forgot about the food." I hopped off the counter and dug in the cabinets to succeed in finding real chips. Then I went back to the refrigerator and got brown pop and found some real genuine horse radish dip. Stark followed me back up to Aphrodite's room after I made sure we both looked decent even though we didn't do anything. We just had a hardcore make out session. I walked in on everyone talking.

"What the fuck took you two so long?" Erin asked.

Aphrodite grinned and then made a face. "Not in the kitchen right?"

"Aphrodite! No, we didn't even do anything."

"Sure you didn't." She winked.

Sorry! The characters may be a little OOC. Anyway I've decided to rewrite all of this.