Author's Note: Hey guys, I'm FINALLY writing a House of Night fanfic! This is going to be an OCs story, with the Nerd Herd as fully grown vamps (but this isn't going to be a story about them, this will be about new characters and the awesome characters by PC and Kristin won't be appearing until MUCH LATER... Except for Nyx of course)
This chapter will introduce my OC Lucy and I will be accepting your OCs to add into this story, through PMs and the ones I like the best will be official characters in this story.
Here is the first chapter, let me know what you think.
One:
Lucy
This school is a shit hole, like mega shit hole that has had a bad case of the runs and now is officially stinking up the corridors with its smell. I walked down the corridor to my locker, brushing my long blonde hair behind my ear (I hate wearing it down and I really do prefer to tie it in a ponytail, but I woke up late and didn't have time to find any hair bands).
To make things worse, I felt like shit and I had been having coughing fits all day (but Dad wouldn't let me have a day off, even if my head was hanging off and I couldn't walk Dad would still say "You'll survive, now get yourself to school"). It was times like this that I wished Mum hadn't moved out because she was definitely the most easy going, but Dad was the most reliable father on this planet and I wouldn't change him for the world... but it would be nice to get a day off when I feel sick.
Speaking of said cough, I had another small fit as I rounded the corner into the corridor with my locker and it took a moment to get a control of it, I groaned in pain as a headache began throbbing in my temples. Jesus, I wasn't going to last the day without rolling over and dying, but luckily two more periods before school was over and I could curl up in bed and watch Hunger Games.
I pulled open my locker and pulled my books out for the next class, glancing at the RADA poster on the inside of my locker. Ever since I was a kid, I had always dreamed about acting on the stage in London's West End and I can't imagine doing anything else. That's why I had decided that when I turned eighteen, I would apply for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (the BEST drama school in London!).
My only problem was I lived on a council estate in Harrow with my single dad and older brother, so money was tight and I still had two years to save for college.
I smiled at the poster, before closing the door and turned, bumping into Katie as she ran down the corridor and I automatically caught her to stop her from falling.
Katie was a pretty mixed race girl (her dad was African-American and her mum was a white Irish woman, but she was born in England and is officially British) her brown skin complimenting her light brown eyes and her black hair fell in curls. Katie and I had been best friends since we were six, now nearly ten years later and we were still like sisters regardless of our skin colours.
I steadied Kate on her feet and frowned at her, knowing that she had either done someone she shouldn't have or had said something she shouldn't have and really pissed someone off. As well as being her best friend, I was also basically a mother and sister figure.
"What's up?" I asked her and I immediately became concerned as I saw her eyes filled with fresh tears "what happened, babe?"
"Reece, he dumped me!" Katie bawled and I automatically hugged her, but I wasn't surprised by this and was planning on kicking Reece's arse when I saw him. Reece was an annoyingly attractive blonde guy, that was basically a twat and a sexist pig! Katie and Reece have been on-and-off-dating and even though I had warned Katie not to go near Reece, she went and did it anyway.
"Katie, he's not worth this," I told her firmly, looking at her sympathetically and trying not to cry when I saw her heart breaking as tears fell down her eyes.
"I really loved him!" Katie cried even harder and I looked around awkwardly, Jenkins High School was a secondary school with a seriously uptight headmaster and I knew we would probably get suspended if he heard a hysterical teenager disrupted his quiet school. I took Katie's hand and pulled her into the deserted girl's toilet and handed her a tissue, which she loudly blew her nose on.
"God, I'm such an idiot!" Katie hissed bitterly "he dumped me the day after we had sex for the first time…"
My jaw dropped as I stared at my friend in shock. This was something she had definitely forgot to mention, how could she be so stupid?!
She lost her virginity to an arsehole like Reece?!
I turned and put my face in my hands, groaning in misery and shaking my head. Katie had always been so trusting, but I would never have thought she would be that naïve to lose her big V to a guy like Reece.
True, I was still a virgin and I definitely had no plans to change that status anytime soon (when I wasn't acting, I was curled up on my bed with a good teen romance novel where the heroine falls for an amazing sexy guy that has a heart of gold and is willing to wait until the time is right to make love to her… unfortunately, this was 2013 and guys like that were extinct).
I turned to Katie, crossing my arms over my chest to stop myself from strangling her and tried to stay calm. A cough suddenly rippled through my throat and I covered my mouth to stop my small coughing fit, trying to control myself. God, this was annoying… I must be getting a bug, but I seriously couldn't think about that now and once I was able to breathe I looked at Katie with sad eyes.
"Kate, why would you do something like that?" I asked quietly, tears brimming behind my eyes as I saw my broken friend give something so precious to a fucking arsehole.
"I thought he loved me! I wanted to prove how I felt about him!" Katie said in a whisper that was almost inaudible "and now he's just been calling me a slag to our whole form room…"
Anger boiled in my gut and I clenched my hands into fists, wanting nothing more than to punch the smirk off his face. No one calls my BBF a slut!
I marched out of the bathroom and headed to my form room, pulling my rucksack higher up my shoulder and stopping dead when I saw him.
The vamp stood at the far end of the, his black hood covering his face and the long cloak pooling at his feet on the floor. Even though I couldn't see his face, his physique was masculine and I realised with a jolt of horror who he was and what he was doing here.
Why was he looking at me? Okay, stupid question of the decade and I knew the answer which made my gut twinge with fear. He was a Tracker…
Run, run, RUN YOU CRAZY BITCH! My mind screamed, but my body froze as the Tracker lifted his hand and his voice deep voice rang clearly and powerfully through the deserted corridor:
"Lucinda Cullen! 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!"
Pain shot through my forhead and I screamed, tumbiling backwards and falling on my back on the floor with a loud thud.
I rubbed my forehead in pain, keeping my eyes firmly shot and trying to convince myself that what had just happened hadn't happen. It couldn't have happened!
A shrill scream rippled through the quiet corridor and I opened my eyes to see Katie crouching beside me, new tears falling down her face. I looked around quickly for the Tracker, but he had vanished and was nowhere in sight.
"LUCY! I-I THOUGHT YOU DIED!"
If I wasn't in killer pain, I would have rolled my eyes and come out with a sarcastic comment. Seriously, Katie isn't someone that can handle a crisis and she has been known to become a Hysterical Drama Queen. I allowed Katie to help me into a sitting position and tried to give her a reassuring smile, but my full attention was still focused on my painful forehead as I tried to rub the pain away
"I'm okay, really I'm not-" I began, but Katie gasped in panic when I pulled my hand away from my forehead and she saw my face. I didn't need to ask or look in the mirror, I already knew what was there and Katie's shock just confirmed what my fears were screaming at me with a big neon sign.
The outline of a crescent moon was now tattooed on my forehead and that only meant one thing…
I had been Marked.
Oh shit!
Author's Note: All right, I hope you enjoyed the first chapter and here's the OC Form that you guys need to fill in when you PM me your character suggestions:
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Until the next chapter...
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