Hello my friends! This is a HoA story! (If you didn't already know) It may be slighting AU (alternate universe) and definitely OOC (out of character)(Nina has a 'tude. She is more like me now… IDK might be interesting). Don't like, then don't read. I don't need you criticizing what I write.
ANYWAYS ;) I haven't really thought about where this story is going, but as far as I know there will be the traditional pairing (Nina+Fabian, Mara+Jerome, Alfie+Amber, Eddie+Patricia… and of course Joy can be a loser, all by herself… as far as I know, she will be down a hole for my of the fanfiction, or her and Mick can be alone together.)
Now to the fun stuff… well, almost.
Nope, don't own HoA… if I did do you think I would be writing fanfiction for it? (the answer is no…)
Enjoy my little minion's x.x
There were only a few things that I could do in a situation like that… cry, scream, run away, or a combination of the three. I chose to cry and watch as my parents were brutally murdered in front of me. I cried, and cried, and cried. They explained in court that my parents were America's most wanted criminals, but I knew it was all a lie. I knew that my parents were not the couple that has traveled the world, killing like there was no tomorrow.
They have never even left Michigan in their lives.
The worst part is, after witnessing something that traumatizing I still had to attend school. Not even my public school, where I could confide in my friends, who I have known my whole life. No, my grandmother, who is now in charge of me, sent me half way around the world, to attend a boarding school in England. I would have to meet a whole new group of people, and try and survive with no way to contact my friends except a 15 minute phone call to the United States once a week.
"Ma'am, we are here." The cab driver said, pulling me out of my memories of the past weeks. I gave a timid smile, feeling jittery for my first day and my new school. The cab driver opened the trunk and opened my door, leading me across the parking lot. House of Anubis was the house I was staying at. The oldest, but supposedly nicest on the campus.
I saw a cute boy with dark brown hair and brown eyes. He looked me in the eyes and smiled. I felt a blush rise in my cheeks, but luckily the cab driver caught my attention… by running off towards the house with my luggage, leaving me all alone. As I caught up with the bad driver, I pulled my wavy light brown hair into a messy bun. For the first time in a while, I let the world see my green eyes.
Studying the ancient house, I shrugged."Remember Nina," I said to myself. "Things could be worse." I sucked in a breath and walked up the steps into the foyer, passing my cab driver. "Thanks for the ride!" I yelled to him as he left.
When I stepped through the large door, the room was dead. Not literally, but nobody was there…
"Hello?" I called out, feeling very out of place. I heard a door upstairs creak open and heavy yet slow footsteps make their way towards the staircase. I swore I heard somebody tell me to run away, but it couldn't be. Nobody was near me.
"Miss Martin, I am Victor. Head of the house, if you have any questions you may ask me. The basement and attic are off limits at all times, and you must be in bed at ten o'clock unless I say otherwise. Understand?" he asked, seeming to be giving me the must-know information right there.
I gave him a salute that I packed as much sarcasm into as possible. He scowled at my attempt at a joke and retreated back to wherever he came from.
"Looks like you are on your own Nina…" I said to myself, out loud.
I mentally looked at the email that was sent to me earlier that day, and decided to find my room. In the email it said I would be staying on the second floor, in the room on the far right. I walked up the old stairs, exploring the old hallway, which led to my extremely old room. I opened the door and saw that somebody else was staying in the room too. I sat on the empty bed, dropping all of my bags on the floor.
"I could close my eyes for a few seconds…" I thought, slowly drifting off to sleep…
I dreamt about my parents… no, I was DREAMING about my parents, but then a rude red-headed girl with blue and pink streaks, dark eye make-up, and fishnet tights under her uniform SCREAMED in my face, causing me to literally fall out of my bed.
"WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY ROOM!" I winced at the volume of her voice, and rubbed my eyes, trying to get some of the sleep out of them. I scowled at her for waking up, ignoring her question. "Excuse me! I asked you a question!" she yelled at me again.
"You asked two actually…" I said under my breath, just loud enough for her to know I said something. She sent me a death glare. "Please stop talking. Your accent is too much for me to handle this soon after I wake up." I said, sending her over the edge.
"WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM? Why are you even here? Where's Joy?" She asked, seeming to become generally afraid. I just gave a look that said 'what are you talking about?' I said a layer of tears cover her eyes, but she blinked them back before most people would have noticed.
"I'm Nina Martin, from America. I came here on a scholarship. I wasn't supposed to come for another two weeks but they said the last girl who stayed here moved out." I tried to explain. Obviously nobody told this girl she was getting a new roomy. "Joy's the one who stayed here?" I asked getting a nod from the strangely high-strung girl.
"You are a liar! What did you do to her?" She screamed again. I put my hands up in surrender, shaking my head side to side, giving up on trying to reason on the red head
"Trixie what are you yelling about?" I heard someone yell from down stairs. I looked at her as if to say 'you wanna tell him, or me?' she gave me a nasty scowl and shoved me out of the way.
"This girl says Joy left, but she was at school today." The girl called 'Trixie' explained to the African American boy. He was skinny and had a thin layer of black hair. He smiled a friendly smile at me as I walked down the wood, spiral like staircase. "ALFIE!" Trixie yelled, snapping him awake. I cringed at the level of her whiny voice.
"Sorry Patricia! What's the problem again?" he asked, staring at me smiling.
"She just shows up, sleeping on Joy's bed-"
"My bed." I interrupted. "It's my bed now…" I cracked my fingers, continuing my nervous habit. I have been cracking my fingers since my parents left, it kept my hands busy, and everybody thought that having that habit would be better than me cutting myself, so they let me do it without complaining.
"Joy's bed." She said, as if she convinced herself, it would be true. I just rolled my eyes and motioned her to continue. "Anyways, she comes in sleeping on JOY'S BED, all of her stuff is here, and Joy's is gone. Now she's telling me that she's my new roomy from America!" she flipped her hair over her shoulder, done with the conversation. "VICTOR!" she yelled as she ran back up the stairs, leaving me the boy she called Alfie.
"Hi. I'm Nina, nice to meet you." I said walking down the stairs to shake his hand.
"I'm Alfie. Nice to meet you too." I nodded at him and he let go of my hand. "Well, dinner is going to be ready in a few minutes so let's go to the dining room and I can introduce you to everyone." He said, almost bouncing with excitement. I started to laugh, but nodded and let him drag me into the room of the left.
When I walked in, the first person I saw was an older woman with chestnut skin, and black wavy hair, pulled in a lower pony tail. "Hi sweetie! I'm Trudy, the house mother. I cook and clean for all of you. If you have anything you need, come to me. Not Victor." She said, giving me a warm smile. I smile genially for one of the first times in a while. Trudy's smile reminded me of the one my mother used to give me when she gave me advice. I thought I was about to start crying right there in front of a room full of people, until a perky blonde ran up and hugged me.
"I'm Amber. It's nice to meet you!" She said in my face, very loudly and slowly. I looked over her shoulder at the table of people, looking for an explanation.
"Amber. She's from America, not a different planet." The girl who looked a lot like Trudy, but with straight hair. She stood up and held her hand out to me. "I'm Mara. I'm glad that somebody filled the empty bed so quickly." I smiled until I heard somebody behind me make a gagging noise behind me. I spun on my heel to look Patricia in the eye. I was about to say something but decided to not waste my breath.
"I'm Nina." I said to Amber and Mara, smiling at the hoping that I could become friends with them, because lord knows that I need them. Amber linked her arm through mine and leaded me to the table. She sat me down at the head of the table, next to the brown haired, brown eyed boy I saw earlier that day, and her.
"Okay Nina, this is Fabian, next to me is my boyfriend, Mick, next to Mick is where Mara sits and then after her is Patricia, who is also at the head of the table. After Patricia is Alfie, who you've already met, and then there's Jerome." They all said hello, and I smiled at everyone. (even Patricia who gave me a nasty hand signal.)
"So Nina, what's your story?" Fabian asked me after everybody broke off into their own conversations. I flinched a little at the question, but if he noticed, he was nice enough to not say anything. "You don't have to tell me if you don't want to, I mean, we did just meet and-"
"No, it's fine." I said, cutting him off from his nervous ramble. I took a deep breath, deciding what exactly I would tell him. "My parents were-" I started, until I got cut off by a certain redhead tapping her glass. I looked up with hatred in my eyes, but masking it with a polite smile, as I learned to do after countless hours in court.
"I think it's time for the initiation ceremony." She said, smiling at Jerome, and then fixing her gaze on me. "Jerome already thought of what she could do to prove she belongs at Anubis house." She continued. I pursed my lips. 'How bad could it be?' I asked myself. 'We are living at a school.'
"She has to get the key to the attic from Victor's office, and then get a souvenir." Jerome said, with a wicked smile forming on her lips. He winced for a second, like somebody gave him a well deserved kick under the table. I widened my eyes, as I thought I heard someone say it wasn't a good idea and not to do it.
Fabian gave me a look as if to say that I don't need to do this and Amber's jaw dropped. I knew that I should say no. Even my little voice knew that I should say know… but somehow I said:
"Fine." as usual, I ignored what the little voice in my head told me to do.
So there's the first chapter I guess. I know, it's kind of fast.
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I'm grounded until April 7th, so I will have a lot of time to write, but I won't write unless you want me too! And I do have a better idea of where this story is going now that the first chapter is written!
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Question-favorite HoA character, and why should I include more of them in the story?