"Lunetta Carter! Wake up! It's time for school!" My mother called to me. Little did she know that I have been awake for a half an hour texting my BFF.

Loony: ENOUGH ABOUT BOYS! What are you wearing to school?

Luna: wwweeeeellllllll…

I loved dragging out a conversation it annoyed the crap out of her.

Loony: TELL ME!!!

Luna: kk

I waited until she exploded.

Loony: NOW!

Luna: OK! OK! WE are going to wear our… blue and grey diagonal striped tank dresses and our checkered blue, grey, and black ballerina flats from gojane… and our Hailey Dark Wash Jeans from aeropostle… rolled up of course!

We always go shopping together. We are like sisters and practically twins. When we entered Middle School we started wearing the same clothes and cutting out hair to match each others.

Just recently we dyed our hair to be Mahogany and have black low lights and blonde high lights. Our hair is shorter in the front and longer in the back with long side bangs.

Loony: ok… accessories?

Luna: you choose…

Loony: YES! Ok ok umm… our Falling Stars Lariat from Donna Lisa… OH! And our Crystal Flower Chain Belt from Bebe… and our diamond dust lipgloss also from Bebe?

Luna: Perfect!

It was perfect but it was missing something.

Luna: and how about some bronze shimmer powder eye shadow?

Loony: GREAT! See you at school?

Luna: sigh… where else would I be?

Loony: LOL!

We said good bye and I got dressed.

I got off my bed and went over to the mirror. I have to admit we make a good team and I look hot in this outfit. I laughed. Lunetta will always be my best friend!

Thirty minutes later I was getting off the bus and stepping onto the high school grounds. I was looking around for Amy one of my friends cars when I spotted our group of friends walking along the curve in front of where the busses park.

I ran up behind them and said "Hey Loony!" Lunetta and I share the same name so we gave each other nick names hers being Loony and mine being Luna.

She spun around wearing the same clothes as me and yelled, "LUNA!" She gave me a big hug. She may be wearing the same out fit as me but we both have different tendencies. I wear my hair down in the morning so it can dry from my shower but Lunetta puts her hair up according to her mood. Today she is wearing it up in one of our sloppy buns that is basically just a not finished ponytail. After my hair dries I put it up in a sloppy bun or a ponytail but you'll rarely find Lunetta with a ponytail.

Around school we are inseparable and people often get us mixed up especially because we have most of our classes together. They think of us as twins and even though we are not actual twins we look, act, and feel like twins. It all started because we have the same name.

After our afternoon classes our group of friends was walking back to our lockers. Loony, Amy, and I all have lockers next to each other so we went down a separate hallway. We are the best of friends and Amy just happened to wear the same thing as us except instead of blue she was wearing purple.

We were just arriving at our lockers when we noticed something was different. There was a guy standing in front of our lockers. I stopped and because I was in the middle I grabbed both of them by the hand. They looked at me like I was crazy. I knew what that guy was in front of our lockers… he was a tracker. I mouthed 'tracker' and they looked shocked and scared.

It has been over a year since the last kid was marked at our school. I had been there. I had seen everything and they knew that.

I had been walking down the hall early in the morning before first period. Amy was sick and Lunetta had a doctor's appointment so I was all alone. The hallways were crowded and I was there because I was in advanced math which meant I took algebra first period in the high school then took the bus with the others in my class back to the middle school where we would get there just in time for homeroom.

I was a couple hallways over from the algebra room and I was in the freshman hallway. I had just turned a corner when I saw the tracker approach Jasmine one of my freshman friends that had lived next door to me my whole life. "Jasmine White! 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!" I stared in horror as my friend for years was marked. Amy and Lunetta would be devastated. She was like a big sister to them… and to me.

She was clutching her forehead in pain when she looked at the scattering people. I was the only one not scattering. I was too in shock. Her gaze fell upon me and she fell. She started crying and begging me not to run.

She was only a year older than me and it felt like she was a million years out of my reach. I slowly walked over to her and knelt down. She was still crying but she had removed her hand from her forehead and was now using it to cover her coughs… I could see the outline of the crescent moon on her forehead. Before she had fallen and before she had seen me it had looked like she was ready to run. But she saw me and didn't look afraid of being there. Just afraid of being left alone. Tears were silently running down my face and I hadn't known that the tracker was still there until he was right in front of me.

He looked at me with a gaze that said I would be next. I had told my friends just that and they believed me.

After that I would forever be afraid of the tracker.

We were standing there too afraid to move when he turned to face us. I swear each of us stopped breathing at that moment because his gaze fell upon me with a knowing look. "Lunetta Harris, Lunetta Carter, and Amy Evans! 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!" Our foreheads burst with pain and I fell to the floor clutching mine. I could hear Amy crying and Lunetta kneeling down beside me. I sat up and took a deep breath that caused me to cough. Amy started coughing also and fell to the floor beside be. We didn't say anything we just sat there crying and coughing.

"Loony? Luna? Amy? Where are you guys? We've been waiting out side the school forever! If you guys want a ride to the mall today you better hur--" She cut herself off and we continued coughing and turned around to find one of our best friends Claire standing at the end of the hallway with her hand across her mouth. Tears streamed down her face and she turned around and sprinted away shaking her head.

We looked around crying more and noticed our stuff was everywhere. Our sunglasses and hats that we had taken out of our lockers this morning noticing it was going to be very sunny were a few feet away with our purses that we had been carrying.

For the first time we looked at each others faces and spoke. "What does this mean for us?" I said while whipping the tears from my eyes.

Amy answered, "It's easy! We loose our friends… we loose our family… we loose everything!" She started sobbing harder.

"No!" Loony stood up. "We still have each other! We're Best Friends! We can get through this!" I looked up at her. She was so right. We still have our friend ship.

I stood up. "Your right…" I was going to say lets get cleaned up but was cut off by a cough.

"Let's all get cleaned up and find a way to the House of Night before we die." Amy said standing and sulking.

We grabbed our sunglasses, hats, and purses and made our way to the bathroom.

I looked at myself in the mirror and saw tears silently stream down it again. Lunetta was brushing her hair and Amy was taking deep breaths and coughing.

I started coughing and suddenly had a migraine. "Um… you guys I think we should get to the house of night." Suddenly the headache was so powerful I fainted.