Chapter one

Hey guys, this is my very first FanFic, and I'm so excited! Yay! All I ask is that you respect my story and if you don't like it then don't read it. It's that easy. And of course all characters belong to the amazing Kiera Cass. Mwah I love her. And without further ado, my story. Enjoy!

America POV

I stood outside of Illea prep. A boarding school for either people with behavioral issues, absolute genius's or rich kids. Me, I got a scholarship in music. The most prestigious school in all of America wanted me, trust me I can't believe it either.

I took my suitcase out of the trunk of the cab and paid the cabbie. Then I walked up the marble stairs to began my sophomore year. The school was huge and designed to almost to look like a palace, but of course not as big. As I reached the top of the stairs I looked up at the large oak doors, and pushed them open. I stepped inside and looked around. The main hall was beautiful, with windows lining either side of the staircase right across from the doors. Lush red carpet lined the hallways and the staircase, and paintings of all sorts of things up on the walls.

As I turned admiring the schools interior the door slammed shut behind me. I jumped up out of my skin and mumbled to myself. "Great job America. You haven't been here 10 seconds and you've already woken anyone within a five mile radius, at 8am on a Saturday."

"Miss Singer, I presume?" I spun on my heel to see a women standing at the top of the staircase. She wore a sharp black suit with a pencil skirt. He hair was tied up in bun that looked tight enough to stretch her skin to the breaking point.

"Y-yes ma'am." I knew she meant business by the way she walked and looked at me. She handed me a folder and a pair of clothes she was holding, that I didn't notice till now.

"Come with me." And she started walking back up the stairs without looking back to see if I was following. I quickly gathered my stuff, which was nothing more than a suitcase and a duffel bag, and followed her. For a women in high, and I mean very high, heels she moved fast.

"Welcome to Illea Prep. I am Miss Silvia, your guidance counselor. The folder I have given you contains your schedule, locker number and combination, dorm number and a key, and a map of the school. The clothes I gave you will be your uniform it is required wear it during all class hours, and you will begin classes on Monday. You may be a bit behind considering you came later in the school year, but I'm sure you will be fine." She stopped in front of door. We were in a hallway with doors on either side identical to the one we were in front of, but all with different numbers. "This is your dorm room. As any other student you will share with two other girls. I hope you enjoy your stay here, and if you need anything please don't hesitate to ask." She smiled a tight smile and walked away back in the direction we came.

"Uh, thank you!" I called back to her. She continued walking as if she didn't hear me.

I sighed and turned to look at the door. Room 215 was posted on the center of the door, it too was made of oak wood.

"What is with this school and oak." I whispered to myself. I opened the folder Silvia had given me and took the key out of the pocket. Once the door was unlocked I opened it mindful of the girls that might be sleeping inside.

"Whoa," I stood in astonishment at the doorway, "this is not a dorm room. More like a mini mansion." The entire right side of the room was a kitchen it had already been decorated with chairs and a table, with some pictures here and there, but it looked unused. On the other side was a living room. It had a red couch and a flatscreen tv over a fireplace. Right across from me there were three doors lined up each had a name on the front. I walked up to the center door and read the name.

America

Singer

"Guess this is my room." I looked at the doors beside me and read the names. "Marlee Tames, and Celeste Newsome. Huh, I hope they're nice or at least decent."

I opened the door to my room, and looked around. There was a queen size bed in the center with a dark blue canopy, sheets and blanket. To the left wall there was a vanity and to the right a dresser. Beside the bed there was a nightstand and lamp on it. On the other side of the bed was a door I assumed was the bathroom.

I checked the clock on the nightstand and it read 8:15am. Better unpack, I guess. I unpacked my bags and put everything in the dresser, when something and the bottom of my duffel bag caught my eye.

"What the…" I looked in and saw a very old book almost 500 years old. I shoved it back in my bag and stuffed it under the bed, determined to forget it was there. "I am so going to kill you when I get home May."

I sat on the bed and looked at the clock again. 8:30am. Might as well look around while everyone is still asleep. I got up and quietly walked out the door. I stood in the hallway for a second and began to wander. I didn't know where I was going or for how long I walked, actually, all I know is that I ended up in the gardens. I continued walking through them, and got lost in my own thoughts. I missed the family I left behind but I knew I had to for our own safety it was best I left. I couldn't put them in any more danger than they were already in, and I was glad they understood that. Tears started to form in my eyes as I thought about them. I wiped them before they could fall and looked up.

"Damn it, I'm lost." I was in the middle of a forest. I have no idea how I got there and I forgot the map back in my room, not to mention the key too. I sighed and turned around ready to hopefully walk back the way I came, when I heard a laugh.

Maxon POV

I laughed so hard I fell over. Carter stop there clutching his nose while the rest of us died with laughter.

"Quit laughing, it's not funny. You try getting attacked by a squirrel. I swear they're deadly creatures." We just kept on laughing, we were about to calm down when Aspen's nose started spewing Orange Juice, and we went at it again.

"You are on the football team, and you let a squirrel defeat you in tug of war!" I gasped out.

"Poor Carter you lost your pie and your dignity!" Celeste said, a big grin on her face. Carter simply glared at her.

"Come on let me see." Marlee had gotten up to tend to her boyfriends needs. "You'll be fine all it did was scratch you." She kissed him and let go of his face.

"Hey, so when do you guys have to be back to meet your new roomie?" Aspen asked having cleaned up his nose and lied back down.

"Umm, we're gonna meet her at 8:00, which is…" Celeste looked her at phone and jumped up, "WAS AN HOUR AGO! Come on Marlee!" We all gathered up the picnic we were having, and made a sprint for the school. We went at least ten yards before I slammed face first into something or someone more like it. I dropped the basket and caught the person by the waist before they fell and they wrapped their arms around my neck. I looked at who I crashed into and was met with the most piercing blue eyes I had ever seen that knocked the breath out of me. For a moment I panicked, thinking her head was on fire when I realized her hair was just red, like a fire red, every strand was a different shade. I don't know how long we were staring at each other before I finally lifted her up and let go.

I cleared my throat and asked if she was okay. "Are you alright, I honestly didn't mean to crash into you like that."

"Yeah, I'm fine." She moved her hair out of her face and nodded, but she still looked a bit frazzled.

"Are you-" but I never finished my sentence because the guys had turned back around when realizing I wasn't there.

"There you are, you just like disappeared. Come on Maxon we have to-" Marlee reached for my arm to drag me away when she noticed the girl beside me. "Oh, hi." She looked from me to the girl and back again. She looked at the girl closely before saying, "I haven't seen you around here? Are you new?" The girl was about to answer when Marlee and Celeste gasped at the same time.

"YOU'RE THE NEW GIRL!" Then both of them started speaking at the same time in frantic apologies.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, let the girl speak will ya." Aspen said raising his hands in the air and motioning to her.

"Thank you," She smiled at Aspen, I felt something in my chest that I couldn't identify. Whatever it's probably nothing. "Yes I'm new, my name's America."

I don't why, but I liked her name a lot and I liked this girl even though I knew absolutely nothing about her. "Okay, America, how'd you end up in the middle of the school yard?"

"Yard?! You're kidding right? I mean this place is huge how far are we, from the school I mean?"

"About a mile, mile and a half, give or take a couple meters." Carter replied tilting his head from side to side.

"See, not a school yard." She said gesturing to woods around us.

"Okay so it's pretty big but that still doesn't explain why or how you got here." I raised an eyebrow at her and she blushed slightly seemingly to recall how she got here.

"Well I uh, kinda started wandering around a got outside. I guess I was so lost in my own thoughts I didn't pay attention to where I was going. So now I'm here." She threw her hands up and let them fall. "And I have no idea how to get back."

"We can totally help, we are roomies after all. Oh we're gonna be the best of friends I know it. We could go shopping every Sunday, btw's we always go into town on Sunday's. Argh this is going to awesome!" Marlee jumped up and down clapping her hands already excited.

"Um I'd love that if I kinda knew your names first, that might be useful." America said shifting her weight from foot to foot.

"Ah how rude of us, I'm Celeste, that's Marlee, Carter Marlee's boyfriend, Aspen Lucy's boyfriend, you might not see much of her, she loves making clothing, locks herself up in her room with Anne and Mary all the time. And the guy standing next to you is Maxon. I can't believe we made you tell us your name and didn't tell you ours. Sorry about that."

Just then we all saw a flash of light and a loud clap of thunder. And America's face instantly paled in immense fear.