House of Arrival

We watched the train go by. Looks like there's no going back now. Not that there wasn't any chance when we were boarding the train. Hi my name is Katelyn Sanders but I like being called Katie. I'm a 15 year old American girl. Right now I'm with one of my best friends named Nina Martin on our way to an England Boarding School.

"Nina Martin, Katelyn Sanders," a cabman said.

"Oh that's us," said Nina.

"So your American," the cabman said.

"How'd you know," asked Nina. "Was it the Accent.

"Nina," I said, " I could be the fact that you have a huge American flag on your suitcase."

"Oh ha, ha.' She ripped of the American flag and we got in the cab. We were almost there when Nina's Gran texted her.

"That your parents checking up on you," the cabman said.

"No it's my Gran. I live with my Gran," Nina said

The school finally came up. "Welcome to Hogwarts!" I said.

The cab stopped and we all got out. "Which house." The cabman asked.

"The House of Anubis."

"Wow this place is so pretty," I said.

"I know," said Nina.

"Come on Nina lets go." We finally got to the house and the door opened by itself. "Hello," we both said. Nobody answered so we walked in. when we were fully in the door closed by itself. We turned around and a man was standing there.

"Does the doorbell not work" he said

"No, well I don't know the door was open so we came in." said Nina

"Victor I hope your giving these girls the warmest of welcomes" a woman said to the man now known to me as Victor. Then she turned to us "well as warm as he gets anyway. My name is Trudy, I will be your house mother." Trudy showed us the living room and dining room then we went to be shown our room.

Nina you have a room mate but Katie your room is a single room considering it's all we have left." Nina's room was shown first and then I was brought to my room. I was so glad I was by myself because I can be a little shy when I'm around new people. I started to decorate my room and was almost finished when I heard yelling and then someone stomping down the stairs. I went to go see if Nina was alright.

"Hey," I said, "you ok?"

"My roommate doesn't like me," was all she said.

It was about an hour when we decided to walk down stairs. Everyone was talking down stairs but I couldn't hear about what. We walked into the room and that's when my shyness kicked in. I hear Nina say, "Hi, I'm Nina and I'm from America." I saw one of the girls eyes roll and wondered how many times she had said that. One of the guys came up and said something really weird and something about being an alien. Trudy said it was time for dinner. Everyone sat down so I sat where there was the only spot left next to alien guy.

The guy a crossed from the alien guy (wow I really need to learn their names) flung food at Alien guy almost hitting me. They got into a food fight that I was lucky enough to stay clean but Nina wasn't. Some girl who I think was her roommate poured the pitcher of water on her. Nina got up and so did I.

"Nina Martin phone," said Victor. "What happened here?" he asked.

The girl who poured water on Nina said "Nina just accidentally spilled the water." Nina and I walked to the phone. I sat there while she talked. When she was done talking I gave her a hug and she started to cry. One of the other guys walked in and asked if everything was alright.

"Oh it's just her allergies, you have cats right." I tried to cover for her.

"No," he said.

"Oh well we got to go.

Later we walked down stairs most of the house was in the living room. Nina was reading a magazine in a chair while I sat on the ground in front of her reading my favorite book The Hunger Games. When I looked up I saw Nina and the guy who I learned to be Fabian, after asking Trudy who everyone was, look at each other. I can barly talk to a guy who not my friend without blushing and she already has a guy so not fair.

The girl named Patricia came in and sat in the chair next to Nina. She kept talking about her friend Joy's disappearance and how she knew Nina had something to do with it. I finally got fed up with her.

"Nina has nothing to do with your friends disappearance. We got our acceptance letters late that why we came late so will you just let it go!" I yelled. I realized everyone was looking at me and I started to blush and ran out of the room. I went to my room and when I heard a knock on my door. "Come in," I yelled. Nina walked in.

"You okay," I heard her ask.

"Yeah it just everyone was looking at me and you know how I am with people I don't know, plus I don't even think they know my name." I heard another knock on the door. "Who is it" I asked. "Its amber" they said. I told her to come in and she did.

"I never introduce myself properly. My Name is Amber and yours?"

"I'm Katelyn but I prefer to be called Katie." I said. Nina, Amber and I sat there for a while talking. It was nice to know that I knew someone other than Nina in the house.

I woke up earlier than usual. When I was done getting ready I waited for Nina. We decided yesterday that we would go to school early to get away from everyone. While we were walking to the school and old lady was sitting outside of the house. We asked her if she was ok and she kept saying that's was my house. Then she told us she was waiting for us and said her name was Sarah. We told her it was the schools and then went to get help.

We brought Sarah back to the home and started talking to her. Sarah gave Nina a necklace say she had been waiting for Nina and me and that we needed to keep the necklace hidden. She told us there was treasure in the house and we needed to find it and keep it safe. But the thing that stuck out to me the most was when she said Beware the black Bird.

That night I had a horrible dream about Sarah and a black bird. When I was up and ready I walked down stairs with Nina. Patricia, Alfie and Jerome were talking about the black bird and I knew I was gonna have to talk to Nina about it. She started talking to Fabian. Amber came down talking about her hair straightener at first, then sat down.

"I see you two haven't left at the crack of dawn." Amber said. Nina and Amber kept talking. I really wish I could make friends as easily as Nina could. I was brought out of my thought when Amber asked Nina what happened to her parents. Nina explained that her parents died when she was younger that why her gran brought he up and that they were really close. That's when Patricia started with her usual being mean act and said "that's why she packed you off to a boarding school. Seems to me she didn't wand you." That's when Fabian came to the rescue.

After Biology Patricia came up to Nina talking about her initiation.

"If Nina need an initiation doesn't that mean I do to," I said trying to get Patricia. But I guess I didn't because 5 seconds later she said, "Don't worry shy newbie Jerome has yours."

I finally new these people so I said, "I'm not shy I just don't like talking to people I don't know that well." Then I walked away leaving Nina to walk with Fabian like planed. My plan was to get them together. Nina's never had a boyfriend before and I knew they would be just perfect together.

All of a sudden I felt someone put their arm around my shoulder. I looked up and blushed because it was Jerome.

"What do you want," I asked him although I was still red.

"Just to walk home with a pretty lady," was what he said.

I was really red then but this time not from blushing. I really hated when guys were arrogant. I clenched my teeth together and told him, " If I were you I would take you arm off my shoulders before I make it so you can't have kids." He did and I walked away.

During dinner that night Patricia talked about Nina's initiation and that it was to happen at midnight. Then Alfie said, "Ooooo the witching hour." Alfie and Jerome started laughing and Fabian told them to cut it out.

Jerome looked at Fabian and asked him " does it get boring always, always being the one who say cut it out or that's not right or fun is bad."

"Jerk" I whispered although he couldn't hear it.

Fabian started laughing then his face turned serious and he said "No."

"What does she have to do?" Amber asked.

"Just go into the attic." Said Alfie.

"Your going into the attic!" Said Amber

"Yeah sure," Nina said. "It's not like its-"

"Totally haunted" Amber cut in.

"Really asked Nina. Then Jerome started being his jerk self and started trying to scare Nina. Before they could do anything though they had to get the key so that was Nina's task for tonight.

Nina was able to get the key so all they had to wait for was the next night.

We were in drama class the next day and we were going to start Romeo and Juliet. I'm definitely not a big fan of this play though. The fact that they both die at the end kind of sucks but it's ok other than that. Everyone was given a seen and a partner. I was unfortunate to get the kissing seen in the beginning with Jerome.

"Excuse me. I don't truly have to kiss him right?" I asked and thank go the teacher said no. We started our seen and when the kissing part came Jerome started to lean in and I stepped back. I said "Sorry bud your not getting this girls first kiss. Then walked away. It was Alfie and Ambers turn. Amber started to change the words and kissed Alfie. I still can't believe she did that I mean I knew she and Mick had a fight but really the poor boy. Mick ran out of the room and class was over.

The clock struck midnight and everyone was by the attic. They were going to try and keep me away because they thought I might ruin something. Patricia made Jerome my 'body guard' so he could keep me from stopping the initiation. When Nina went in she left the key in the lock. I realized that Patricia was going for the key. I went to grab it but Jerome lifted me up by the waist and held on to me. Sometime I really hate the fact that I'm only 5 foot 3. I tried to get out of his grip but he was definitely a lot stronger than I thought.

Nina was trying to get out and Patricia wouldn't let her out. Patricia kept asking what she knew about Joy's disappearance but she didn't know anything. I felt Jerome's grip slacken and I looked up. He looked very confused. Guess he didn't know about this part. I took this opportunity to get out of Jerome's grip and when I did Victor came. Crap! We all had to go back to our rooms. If Nina gets in trouble I will so hurt Patricia.