Hi guys, this is my first chapter of my first story so it might not be brilliant but here it is!

Disclaimer: I don't own anything.

House of Night

Chapter one – Just the Beginning

Zoey stepped out of her mini pink VW. It was a lovely sunny day and the sun was shining so brightly that Zoey had to raise her sunglasses to her eyes just so that she could look upon her school with dignity. Out of the corner of her eye she spotted a tall and thin boy leaning casually against a nearby tree.

'Hey Heath!' exclaimed Zoey.

'Hey Babe!' replied Heath. 'You do realise I've been waiting 10 minutes for you, don't you?'

'Oh I didn't really notice!' answered Zoey, not so truthfully!

'So do you want to walk then?' Heath asked, not really as a question.

'OK then.' said Zoey.

So Zoey gathered up her things and started to walk with Heath until she saw Kayla, her best mate.

'Sorry but I gotta run!' exclaimed Zoey.

'Oh ok, I'll see you at lunch then' replied Heath a little sadly.

What Zoey didn't realise was that she won't be seeing anyone except her own kind at lunch! Uh oh!

Zoey strode up to Kayla who was looking cool, as usual but there was a sad expression on her face that Zoey noticed straight away.

'What's up, Kayla?' asked Zoey.

'My dad's got to go to South Africa for a week and my mom is going to New York on that same week, so I'm stuck with my evil Aunt Sally!' exclaimed Kayla.

'That sounds awful!' exclaimed Zoey.

'Well obviously, why would I call her evil, if she was really nice?' questioned Kayla

'Sorry, I can act really stupid sometimes!' answered Zoey truthfully.

'Yeah you can, actually!' jeered Kayla.

In the distance they could hear the ringing of a bell. So the girls started to run down the hall to there 1st lesson of the day. Maths, how fun! (Not!).

'As always we are late for our first lesson, but I don't mind because it's Maths anyway!' said Zoey.

'Yeah but I think Mr Pig Face will mind!' exclaimed Kayla, who just absolutely hates Mr Porker.

They skidded along the corridor to the big blue door when suddenly a man who looked dead but wasn't, stepped out from behind the door. Before she even knew it, Zoey was lying unconscious on the cold-tiled hall.

5 Minutes Later

'Miss Zoey, are you all right?' queried Mr Porker.

'Ye...yeah...I suppose, but what happened?' enquired Zoey.

'Y...you...g...g...got...m...m... (GULP) marked' stuttered Kayla, who had a scared expression on her face. 'I don't want you to go!'

'Go, go where? Not the hospital!' screeched Zoey.

'I'm sad to say this Zoey, but!' And Kayla just burst into tears so a nerdy guy called Steve answered for her.

'You've got to go to the House of Night!' Steve finished bravely.

'What's that?' asked Zoey.

'It's a school for your kind!' replied a boy called Bob.

'My kind, but I'm just as normal as any of you guys!' exclaimed Zoey.

'No you're not, you just got marked it proves that you're a Vampyre and you don't belong here; you can't even survive in the sunlight and if you reject the change or don't get to a house of night then you will die!' informed Steve, as if he had just read it out of a book!

'Well, I guess it's goodbye then!' replied Zoey, a little sadly.

She stood up and marched straight out of Chellaston Schools grand front doors with her head held high. Then Zoey ran straight towards her car and sighed happily as soon as she got in. She decided to drive straight towards this House of Night because she lived literally next door to one. She lives with her kind grandma and her selfish mum and greedy step-dad. She took one last glance towards her house and drove straight through the House of Night gates, while trying to call her grandma about what had happened.