A/N- OK so you know the drill. I don't own the House of Night or any of the characters. But I hope you enjoy!
Shaunee's POV:
"I'm so bored!" Aphrodite exclaimed, tossing her long blonde hair. I sighed, she'd been doing nothing but complaining for the past fifteen minutes. We were handing out programs for all the different booths and events happening at Tulsa's House Of Night's first ever fair. "Look Aphrodite, this is an excellent opportunity to build a bridge between humans and vampyres. So we have to try our hardest and make friends." I said handing out a another flier." She snorted " I know that what do you take me for? An Idiot?" I smiled. "Do you really want me to answer that question?" She raised one blonde brow and I expected her to come back with one of her sarcastic remarks but she just laughed and tossed her hair again. I joined and both of us started laughing like a bunch of idiots.
"I see the Geek Squad is still stuck together like glue." A snide voice commented followed by a series of snickers. I gulped and turned to see Dallas and the rest of his red fledglings following close behind him. But what made me hold my breath was seeing Erin, my former BFF/Twin hanging on his sorry ass. "What do you want Dallas?" I asked calmly, not wanting to make a scene. "We're sorta in the middle of something here." I said waving the fliers. "Yeah. And it's the Nerd Herd. Not the Geek Squad." Aphrodite corrected glaring into his red eyes. "Not helping." I muttered under my breath. "Oh I just wanted show Erin what pathetic losers you are." He sneered and a few of his red fledglings giggled. I peeked at Erin, she was smiling, but her eyes were chips of ice. Cold. Lifeless. "Well here's what I have to say to that." Aphrodite stepped forward and before I could stop her she smacked Dallas. Hard. She let fliers flutter to ground as she crossed her thin arms. He stepped back and cupped his cheek. The other fledglings (Including Erins) mouths fell open in shock. "You bitch! I'll fucking kill you!" Dallas shouted as he reached for Aphrodite but before he could touch her a mountain of man aka Darius stood between them. "Now young fledgling, you certainly wouldn't hurt another in front of all these people, would you?" Darius growled and gave Dallas a look that would have most run away with their tails between their legs. And that's exactly what they did. "C'mon guys. These sluts aren't even worth my time." They all turned and walked off, none of them looked back.
"Are you alright my beauty?" Darius questioned at once, bringing her in for a hug. "I'm fine handsome. I just couldn't let him get away insulting my friends. Only I'm aloud to do that." I glanced over at the fliers Aphrodite had dropped, they had all been trampled on and were covered in mud, "Hey uh Darius, not that I don't appreciate your help or anything, But what are you doing here? I thought you were supposed to be at the warriors tent with Stark." I asked, bending down to pick up the nasty fliers. "I sensed my lady was in danger, so I rushed to her aid naturally." Aphrodite smiled. "Naturally." She breathed kissing Darius smack on the mouth. He grinned. "It is a Warriors duty to protect his prophetess at all costs." I threw away the ruined fliers in a near by trash bin and glanced at Darius. "Man I gotta get me one of those." I said. Aphrodite took Darius's arm. "Well this one's taken so try somewhere else." Darius and I laughed and I sighed. Seriously, a big strong protector didn't sound half bad right about now. "I need to get back to the Warriors Tent. I left with no explanation and Stark is probably has his hand full." When Aphrodite began to protest he kissed her forehead. "I'll be back soon my beauty." He jogged off but stopped and turned his head. "Oh and please try not to get yourself in to much trouble." Aphrodite winked and grinned at her Warrior. "No promises." And he was gone.
And just as fast as he had left Aphrodite was gone to. "Hey! Aphrodite! Where are you going?" I yelled as she moved through the crowd. "Bye bye Shaunee! I'm going to find Zoey!" and like that. She was gone. "You've got to freakin' kidding me!" I screamed. "Um. Excuse me. Are you alright?" A woman asked hesitantly, as if afraid. She was older in her mid to late thirties and she had her two kids with her in a stroller. "Oh. Well, yeah. I'm sorry if I startled you. Would you like a flier?" I asked that same question for at least another forty-five minutes before Aphrodite came sprinting in my direction. "Oh so you come crawling back to me huh? Well don't expect any forgiveness unless your prepared to do some serious groveling. I mean come on Aphrodite how could you just leave to deal with all of this?" But I hit the breaks on my rant when one word popped out of her mouth. "Neferet,"
A/N: Sooooooooo that's it. I hope you like it. Sadly Kalona wont be in the next chapter but I promise he will be in future ones. Review please