Thunder rolled across the mid night sky keeping Lydia awake. Lightening was her worst fear, just the way it lit up the shadows in her room for half a second. Sometimes she saw so scary faces or weird looking man like figures in the corner.

Yes, this was most defiantly the scariest weather to her. But that night, the storm brought something even worse than shadows or monsters under the bed. For that night a real live monster rowed its way with the storm to Lydia's home. Branches of the trees outside began to hit off the window as the rapidly speeding winds blew around the house. The wind itself sounded like the moans of the dead.

"Mommy" Lydia shouted.

Still she did not come and Lydia grew more scared.

Another strike of lightening lit up the room but for these few seconds, Lydia saw a man at her window. This time she screamed, she screamed hard and loud so the whole neighbourhood could hear.

"Hey baby, what's the matter? Was it a bad dream?" her mother soothed pulling her daughter into her lap.

Lydia sobbed as she tried to explain to her mother what had happened.

"There.....was a bad m-m-man at m-m-my window." She hiccupped and sniffled.

"Oh dear honey it's just the tree outside, look see?" she explained hushing Lydia.

Lydia looked outside but wasn't fooled by her mother's distractions. She knew she was young but she was not stupid.

"I wanna sleep with you mommy."

"Okay, come on I'll carry you." she finished cradling her close to her chest.

The lightning struck again but this time taking the electric with it.

"God dam it" Lydia's mother cursed placing her on the dining room table

"Wait their baby; I'm going to bring the light back." She said while walking away.

For some reason Lydia knew she was not alone. She had the feeling of eyes watching her intently.

"Who the hell are you and what are you doing in my house?"

"I feel very welcome here Miss Gibson but you know fine well who I am."

"No your dead, I killed you myself!" she yelled.

Lydia grew scared so she hid under the table.

"You seem to forget that I am immortal."

"I stabbed you in the frigging heart you should be dead!" she screamed again.

"Oh I'm already dead just as you will be." He sneered.

"NO!" Lydia's mother screamed.

That was the last time she ever heard her mother's voice again.

"Hey Lydia, get out of bed! Your gunna be late for school!" yelled the familiar female voice.

Lydia smiled at herself in the mirror as she brushed her shoulder length jet black hair. She never thought of herself as beauty queen worthy what with her strong cheek bones, small pout lips and a, well not over weight body but not skinny either. Still she thought her clear grey eyes were the best part of her.

She hated to do exercise but with Goran training her to fight every night kind of counted as exercise. Made her wonder why her stomach was not nicely toned or why her thighs still got her down. Yep Lydia was defiantly the average teen of weight complaining.

"Josie, I've been up longer than Ethan. Try waking him up!" she yelled back, picking up her school bag.

As she walked along the landing she heard the unmistakable snoring of Ethan in his room. She wished that she could spend the entire day in bed but no she was to go to school and learn. History was the worst class. It bugged her that she had to waste time learning on the past when there was so much to look for in the future. School was just another obstacle in her way.

Obviously she knew not to disturb him during the day nor could she Goran. But the only time she ever saw them was at night and that was annoying. They were the closet people she had to a family and she only seen them for a couple of hours each night for the past ten years.

Hopping the stairs two at a time was quick and easy and always resulted in her meeting Josie at the bottom with a huge cuddle and kiss on the cheek goodbye.

"You have a good day misses and think up something for your birthday would you!"Josie shouted after.

"Will do"

Josie had been in Lydia's life since she was six and it was just as well Josie stayed in her life because she couldn't remember past that age. But what are the odds of people remembering when they were small. Goran had told her that she was in a bad situation all those years ago and that it was just her mind stopping those bad memories from coming back to haunt her. She often thought that that was why she was afraid of the dark.

"Hey gorgeous, hurry up and get in!" her boyfriend shouted.

"Ooo new car?" she asked sliding in next to him, kissing him lightly on the lips.

"Nineteen sixty five formula S Barracuda. My new baby, after you of course." He quickly recovered.

"Mm hum."

The drive to school was fast and quite. They had never been quite in each other's company before he got the car. Before the car they used to take the thirty five minute walk. Which would resolve in a lot of talking and a few kisses but today it only took them fifteen minutes to get to school.

Oh how she hated it. School was her own personal hell.

"So what's first period?" Lydia asked as she took Jamie's hand.

"Mathematics" he replied

"How about you"

"Same, meet me at lunch? I have a few things to catch up on."

"Yeah whatever"

Lydia strolled up to the school looking at all the familiar faces as they smiled at her. She got half way to the girl's bathroom and stopped.

Why was she here? Why had she wasted all her time here when she could be learning how to get stronger with Goran?

Lydia turned her back on school that day but when she did that she, she did not realise it would be the biggest mistake she could have ever done.