Hey, here I am again. Since my little one-shot turned out to not have been half bad I decided to publish a story of more chapters now.

The story is basicly about an interracial love – therefore a forbidden one. Two young lovers have to come over the hatred between the white and the red man and their different cultures. Will that succeed? Or will these things tear them apart?

I hope you will like it.

Disclaimer: I'd be more than just happy if I owned House of Night. But I do not. I don't own the characters either... I wish I did but I do not. Rephaiiiim! Why can't you be mine? going slightly crazy over there ;3

~ Nessie

Chapter One – Depression

The morning was clouded but hot as always. Opening the curtains of her window she sighed slightly. Her blond curls bounced as Stevie Rae placed her elbows on the window-still and her head in her hands. Depressed she looked out. Out at the big, massive wooden stakes witch separated her from the freedom she was longing for so badly.

Stevie Rae hurried and got dressed to see her father and her brothers one more time before they would leave the prison of village they all called their home.

"Happy Birthday, Stevie Rae!", her whole family shouted as she stepped into the kitchen.

Oh yeah, right. It's my birthday, she thought. She actually had forgotten completely about that.

"Oh Stevie Rae, my baby girl! You've turned 16 today! I can't believe you're already that old! Where did the time go?"

"Calm down, mama!", Stevie Rae laughed. Her mama could really overdo it sometimes. But her mama wasn't all family she had...

"It's always the same, isn't it?"

"True, true, the same thing every year. And that four times!"

"Come on, guys! It's not that bad."

"... Shut up, Justin."

"Yeah, shut up."

"Oh, happy birthday Stevie Rae." You can't be serious,she thought. Willy, Justin and Roy. Her dear older brothers were as considerate as always. She loved her older brothers- that wasn't it! It was more like... she envied them. Being born and grown up in the west Stevie Rae hated her fate. She lived in a very dangerous area. The villagers needed water to drink and to have their plants growing so they built their home on a plane right next to the woods and the Silvercross-Stream. The big disadvantage and Stevie Rae's greatest dismay in life where their neighbors. Somewhere a little up the stream, behind the forest lived the Cherokee. The natives. Hostile people that would kill a white instantly if they met one in the woods. Since both lived on the same territory the village's men and the native hunters had to compete for the food. The natives hated the villagers for takingtheir food from them. It's said that the Cherokee wanted the others to move. They refused...

And that was Stevie Rae's big problem. With these hostile people and the beasts that lived in the woods it was pretty dangerous to leave the village so only the men where allowed. The women had to stay inside, washing, cleaning, cooking and raising the children. To the blond girl that was torture. She wanted to be free! See the woods from closer than just her bedroom window. She wanted to escape from this routine her life had fallen into...

Her father and her brothers had already left this hell, and since Stevie Rae hadn't got anything better to do she started walking around outside – the outside inside this cage. Looking up to the sky she noticed that it had cleared. It was around midday and now the sun shone down at the village, sending down a heat that anyone who had not grown up there wouldn't be able to survive it. Well, at least not more than half an hour. The heat lasted heavy upon Stevie Rae's shoulders. She decided to visit Zoey. Her life really was a living hell, but with her bff Z even hell couldn't be so bad.

She guessed that spending the rest of the so called 'most important day of her year' with Z could even get her out of her depression. It was the worst one she's ever had but if it was Z she was sure she could make it. What Stevie Rae didn't know back than: today's depression would change her life forever.

So, what do you think? Good? Bad? Should I continue? Please review~