Disclaimer: I do not own any part of the House of Night series or any part of it. PC and Kristen Cast do. The only things I do own are the characters I came up with and the plot of this story. Please R&R.
Chapter 1- A New Beginning
I sat in the music room of the Tulsa House of Night, with a pencil in hand and an empty sheet of lines in front of me. I closed my eyes and let the gift Nyx blessed me with flow, as my eyes were closed I heard someone enter the room, the only way I knew was I heard the familiar click of the door when it was opened and click again when it was shut.
As I opened my eyes and wrote down the melody I heard in my head. After I did so I turned partly around to see who the intruder was. He was absolutely gorgeous, he had dark brown or black hair that looked like night and he had those super human looks. Ugh why am I thinking this? "You know it is not polite to enter a room with a closed door with out knocking," I said quietly looking up some as I brushed my medium brown, that had a reddish tint to it in the sun (but now it's just plain medium brown), hair out of my face and into a low ponytail.
"I'm sorry," He said looking at me and into my warm brown eyes. "I didn't realize anyone was in here. I do hope that you'll forgive my intrusions."
I could feel my cheeks burning at this point, why couldn't I be like those vampyres in the books that I used to read that couldn't blush at all? "I'm able to forgive you; after all you didn't burst in here making a whole lot of noise. If you did then I would be extremely angry and probably wouldn't forgive you."
He laughed and I swear it made my heart accelerate to a point where I shouldn't be living. "Well, I'm glad you have forgiven me this time. I'm Jacob Night and you are?"
Shit Jacob Night?! Are you fucking kidding me? He's the son of Erik Night and Zoey Redbird; son of one of the best vampyre actors and one of the most powerful vampyre High Priestesses ever. One word came to mind as I thought about this. Shit.
"I-I'm Sagittarius Stark…" I stuttered, why the hell could I not have decent composure around this kid? I mean he seemed fine around me.
"Stark? I believe I've heard that name before. Isn't he a teacher here?" Jacob asked moving a little closer to me and pulling up a chair.
I nodded, dad did teach here. He had an archery class and I believe he taught another class but I couldn't think of the name at the moment. Plus he was a famous archer, he could hit any target, he could never miss.
"You're not the biggest talker are you?" He asked with a smirk playing on his lips and I couldn't help but blush so I had to look away.
"Not really," I replied turning back to the sheet music I had been writing a song on. "My brother is the complete opposite though."
Jacob stood up from where he was sitting and walked over to the piano where I sat with the sheets of music (Whether they had actual music on them goddess only knows). He sat down beside me on the bench and grabbed one of the sheets that had notes written on it.
"This is beautiful. Well at least from what I can tell," he said continuing to look at it until he reached the bottom of the page then he looked up at me.
"Thank you," I said pulling all of the papers together and putting them into a folder.
He stood up and offered me a hand, as I took it I felt he was very warm and I blushed again. "So who's your mentor here?"
"I oddly enough have two," I replied holding the folder as we walked out of the music room, although he didn't drop my hand.
"Ooh aren't we special?" He said laughing a grin over his face. "My mentor is actually your father, my original mentor transferred to a different House of Night that needed him. So now I have your father."
"Odd coincidence then," I started saying with a smile on my own face. "Your mother andyour father are my mentors. Only because I have an odd affinity and I'm musically talented blah blah blah."
"Really? What's your affinity?" He asked now looking extremely curious.
"I can move things with my mind, in a human movie called X-Men they called it telekinesis," I stated evenly judging his reaction, "I can also sense what people are thinking, I can't see word for word what they're thinking I can get the general idea. For example you're hungry." I pulled him towards the dining hall, it was after all dinner time. "I can actually read Orion's mind though, but they call that twin telepathy."
"Wow," he said slowly looking at me and letting go of my hand.
I rolled my eyes and explained, "Yeah….dad is so proud that both of his children are so gifted."
Jacob walked me all the way to the dining hall then walked over to his friends while mine looked on in awe. To avoid the twenty questions I ran up to the line and grabbed my dinner (it happened to be chicken noodle casserole, my favorite!).
When I got over to where my best friends and I sit they began questioning me.
"So what were you doing with Jacob Night?" Leah Clifton asked me looking at me intently.
I shrugged as I stabbed my fork into my dinner. "He walked in on me while I was in the music room, no biggie."
"No biggie?!" Lydia Hawkins asked looking at Leah, we joke that they're just like their mothers; huge gossipers and 'twins'. You see Leah's mom is Shaunee (Cole) Clifton, and Brooke's mom is (Erin Bates) Hawkins, dad said Shaunee and Erin finished each other's sentences and even acted like twins.
"Sage that is probably one of the hottest guys here," Lydia said with a roll of her eyes.
Leah finished it by saying, "Well not counting his twin Jasper and your brother…"
That one sentence made me choke on my casserole. "What?! You say that and you just ruined my dinner."
"They're definitely galling," Violet Maslin-Twist said with a laugh and I agreed.
"Did your fathers teach you that word Vi?" Lydia said with a roll of her eyes.
Violet looked at me and smiled; her parents are Jack Twist and Damien Maslin, yes they're gay but none of us really care, we figure they're happy that's all that matters.
"No actually that was the word of the day on my e-mail," She told them matter-of-factly.
"Anyway!" I said interrupting the possible verbal battle that was brewing. "He only commented on the piece I was writing and walked me here. He also asked about my mentor….er…mentors and my affinity."
"Ooh the boy may be jealous!" Leah commented taking a bit of her casserole.
"I agree," Lydia said also taking a bite of her side salad. "Or he could've been checking our little Sagie-pie out."
"Oh shut up!" I cried very loudly, loud enough that the entire dining hall looked over at me. Instantly I blushed and ran from the hall.
I wasn't absolutely sure where I was running to but I knew I just had to get out of there. My feet carried me back to the music room. I found myself sitting there for a long time, composing. Just closing my eyes and hearing a few measures of music in my head and writing them down. When she was finished she took the whole composition and played it completely. At the end of her piece she heard clapping, but not just one person, she heard four.
"See I told you it's amazing," Jacob said looking at both of his parents and brother.
"It truly is," His father, Erik Night said looking down at me as I gazed up still in utter shock I might add.
His mother and our High Priestess, Zoey Redbird/Night looked at me and smiled, "She is one of the best, and she is truly blessed by Nyx."
"No one told me we had another musician here," Jasper said looking up at his parents.
"She is also very athletic and a very talented actor," Professor Night said looking at his son. "That is why she has two mentors instead of one." He said again looking now at Zoey.
Sage blushed even more and looked away. This was something she didn't like hearing, especially with other people in the room.
"It's okay…I just wanted them to hear you. I had a feeling you'd come here after running off," he said, his voice very close meaning he was right beside her on the bench again.
"Don't be embarrassed it was very beautiful and I'm glad it came from one of my fledglings," Zoey said still smiling and looking at her two sons and husband.
Sage couldn't help it, one really amazingly hot boy was sitting next to her and commented about the song she just wrote, and his very powerful parents approved of it. Also his equally hot brother was there too. What a great way to start out my second day at the Tulsa House of Night.