Another story? Yup. If you haven't noticed, I like to start a whole bunch of different stories at the same time. It's all fun though.

Okay, I'll give a little summary: Annie Flowers is a 16-year old girl who lives in Chicago. She lives with her father and her little brother. Her older sister, Scarlet, died 5 years ago when Annie was only 11. She loved her sister a lot, they use to do a lot of things together. Well, Annie gets marked and is sent to the Chicago House of Night. Let's see what happens...

Chapter One:

I gently touch my sister's gravemark. I stare at the engraving with tear filled eyes:

Scarlet Flowers
Dec. 20, 1989 - Dec. 19, 2006
Beloved Daughter.

The tears fall down my cheeks, making my face even colder than before. I rub my nose and sniff.

"Annie? When is sissy gonna wake up?" my seven-year old brother asks.

I look down at Christopher with a little smile. "I don't think she's gonna wake up for a while, hun."

"Why not? She has to! I want to play spin-the-Chrissy!" He does a little spin and laughs.

I hug him and cry and cry. Chris is quiet for a while, then he asks, "What's wrong, Annie?" He wraps his arms around my waist. "Don't cry. She'll come back." That makes me cry even harder.

I look up and wipe my cheeks. A boy stands not that far from us. He's a little older lookin' than me. Actually, I know him. His name is James Stark. Him and I were childhood friends, but then he got marked a couple months ago and I rarely get to see him. His lips move. My eyes widen as he points his finger at me. My vision becomes blurry and my knees become weak. I feel myself falling backwards.

"Annie!" Chris cries.

I hit soft snow. My eyelids close. Heat spreads throughout my body. Then darkness takes over.

"Do not worry, Mr. Flowers, your daughter will be fine," says a pretty female's voice. "Oh look, she's waking up now."

My eyes flutter open. The first thing I see is my father's face. "Dad?" my voice is hoarse.

"Yes, honey, I'm here," he smiles.

I return the smile. "Where's Chris?"

"He feel asleep." He looks over to his left. I follow his gaze. Sure enough, Chris is sound asleep on the bed next to mine.

"What happened?" Once I asked the question, I already knew the answer.

"You've been blessed by our Goddess, Nyx," the vampyre says. I look up at her beautiful face. Her red velvet hair is wavy and stops at her waist. She has huge pretty light blue eyes with long eyelashes that girls envy for. Flawless pale skin. And she has the body every women wants, a perfect hourglass figure. Just looking at her made me want to cry with jealousy. "My name is Soliel Love," she smiles. "Merry meet."

"Um, merry meet," I mumble as I sit myself up. A sudden rush of dizziness hits my head. I let out a groan. It feels like someone is squeezing my brain.

"Here, take this," Soliel hands me a pill and a cup of water.

I pop the pill in my mouth and gulp the water down. I didn't realize how thirsty I was 'til now. "Thank you." I raise the cup. "May I have some more water?"

"Yes, dear." Soliel walks over to a sink across from me.

I look up at dad, who has been quiet for a while. His eyes are misty, making his gray eyes sparkle. "Dad, I'm fine. Stop looking like you're gonna cry."

He pulls me into his arms. "When I saw you lyin' there in the snow, I was so scared. I thought I lost my baby girl."

"I'm sorry that I scared you, dad."

"You're lucky you're brother came to get me or else you would've been there for who knows how long!" He lets me go and smiles. "I'm very happy that you're okay."

I smile. Wait... But I saw James there. Why didn't he get my dad? "Was James there when you found me?"

"James? No. You were all by yourself." He stared at me hard. "Was he suppose to be there? Why wouldn't he come get me?"

"Well... I just thought..." I mumbled. Thinking hard. "I thought I saw him standing there. I guess I was so upset that I was imagining things."

"Hm." Dad sighed, he ruffled my hair. "Are you feeling okay?"

"Yeah. I'm fine," I replied. I look up Soliel who was watching us with her blue eyes. "Oh." I reached for the cup. "Thank you."

She smiles and hands me the cup. "You are welcome." She claps her hands together. "Now, I must explain some things." I look up at her again while drinking my water. "Since you have been marked, it's like you are starting a whole new life. That means, you get to choose a different name."

I thought for a while. Then the corners of my lips turned upwards. "Scarlet," I whisper. "Scarlet Moonflower." I look over at dad, who has tears in his eyes again. "Moonflowers were her favorite flowers, did you know that?" He nodded slowly. "Yeah, they're my favorite too..."

Soliel gives us a sad smile. "Okay, Scarlet. I am your mentor. I am also the High Prestist here at Chicago House of Night. I also teach Arts. Do you like Art?"

My smile widen. "Oh, I love art! My sister always thought I was the greatest... She said I was a talented 12-year old..." I look down at my shoes. "Um... Tomorrow is her birthday, do you mind if I go to her grave with my father and brother?"

Her hand rests on my head. "Of course, dear. But I must go with you. You cannot be away from an Adult vampyre for long, or else your body will regect the change." I nod my head. Her hand drops to her side, she turns to my dad. "Will you like to come with us to Scarlet's room?"

"Well, I better get the munchkin home." He gestures towards the sleeping Chris. "And I'll pack your stuff for you, Scarlet." He gulps. "I'll try my best to fold the clothes neatly."

"Thanks dad." I smile at him.

He gives me a hug. "Stay out of trouble, hun."

I hug him back. "I will." He picks up Chris and leaves.

"Hm. I almost forgot, I have a meeting with another High Prestist in five minutes. I'll just tell you how to get to your room."

"Okay."

"Once you leave this room, take a left. Keep going straight, then take the first right. There should be double doors at the end of the hall. When you're outside, keep going straight. Then take a left by Nyx's statue. The girls' dorm will come into view then."

I nod. "Thank you, mentor."

"Please," she smiled, "Call me Soliel."

I nod again, then leave.

The girls' dorm is crowded. All the girls were either sitting on couches watching t.v. or on the comps. Some boys were around too. I look at the room number on the piece of paper Soliel gave me after I left. Room 14. I climb the stairs and start searching the room numbers. Mine was at the end of the hall on the second floor. I open the door.

A girl with long gray-ish, white hair looks up at me from her bed. She's lying on her stomach reading a book. "Hey there," she smiles. She had an a bit of a British accent. "You must be my new roomie." She sits up. "What's your name?"

"Scarlet Moonflower."

"Nice to meet you, lune-lune." She smiles. I cock my head to the right. "Lune means moon in French. My name is Bellus Lupus. Bellus means Pretty and Lupus means Wolf in Latin. Sometimes people call me Pretty Wolf or Wolf."

"Do you mind if I just call you Bell?"

"Sure," she perks. She gestures to the bed across from her's. "That is your's." She points to a door near the bed. "And that is the bathroom that we share. Has your mentor told you your schedule yet?" I shake my head no. "Okay. School starts at 8pm and ends at 3am. You'll get use to it," she adds quickly as my eyes widen. "Sometimes we have rituals after school or after lunch. They're really fun. Soliel always opens the circle."

"She's my mentor."

Her eyes go wide. "Really? That is so cool! She's really great and nice. Everybody loves her. I'm in her Art class."

"I hope I get to be in her Art class. I really love art."

"Me too! I enjoy drawing animals, and I'm very good at it if I think so myself." She smiles proudly. "Anyway. Oh. If you want to leave the House of Night to go shopping or so, I advise you not to go very far. I heard some fledgings actually died 'cause they went to far. Their bodies regected the change. Oh, that also reminds me, if you see a fledging regecting the change, do not freak. Just get your mentor. She'll know what to do." She shakes her head. "It's really awful. I've seen two kids regect the change..."

I frown. "Who were they?"

She's quiet for a moment. "My best friend and my boyfriend."

"Oh... that must've been hard. I'm really sorry, Bell."

She shrugs. "That was months ago. Just gotta move on, ya know?" I nod slowly. A skinny white cat jumps onto Bell's lap. "Oh, this is Luna. I'm her's." She laughs a little. "In the House of Night, we don't own cats, cats own us." I raise an eyebrow. "I know, it's weird. But it's kinda true. They like to boss us around. A cat will probably pick you very soon, you look like the animal type."

I nod. "I love animals. Especially cats."

"Good." She looks me up and down. "You have really long hair! How'd you grow it up to your knees? And it looks so healthy and shiney!"

I tug on a strand of hair. "It's very hard. I just got it trimmed every 6 weeks since my sister..." I stopped. "Um... since I was 12. My sister always liked my long hair, so I kept it long." She nods. "And taking a shower is sometimes a pain. But it's really not that bad. I usually put it in a braid." I shrug. "You have pretty gorgeous hair too." I stare at her gray-ish white hair. It stopped at her hips, and was really beautiful. It looked like wolf's fur, but silky and smooth.

She stares at me for a second, with sad gray eyes. I focuse my attention on the empty bed. "My dad'll be coming soon, hope you don't mind."

"That's fine. He bringin' your stuff?"

"Yeah."

She nods. "Oh, by the way, stay away from Jeremiah Jones. He's Athena's."

"Who's Athena?" I plop down on my bed.

"She's the most popular fledging at school. Everybody loves her." She rolls her eyes. "Everybody besides me, of couse."

"Why don't you like her?"

"She's nice to everyone, but 'freaks'." She air quoates around freaks. "I can see right through her fake ass."

"Ah."

After my dad left, I started putting my stuff away. I look at the picture of my family. Me, Scarlet, my dad, and Christopher. We all looked so happy. I sigh and put it on my night stand by my bed. If only things were like they use to be.

"Who's she?" Bellus points at my sister. "She's really pretty, and she looks a lot like you. Is she your twin?"

"No," I whisper. "She was my older sister." She looks at me with those sad gray eyes again. I avoid them. "She was raped and murdered four years ago."

She gasps. "That's horrible! I'm so, so sorry!"

I rub my eyes so the tears wouldn't fall. "It was a long time ago, time to move on, right?" I give her a small smile.

"Knock, knock."

We turn to our doorway. A girl with short straight brown hair smirks at us. "Hello, Scarlet. I'm Athena. So nice to meet you." She holds out her hand. I take it and shake her hand. I nod and mumble nice to meet you. "Well, I'm here because Soliel asked me to give this to you." She hands me a piece of paper. "It's your schedule. You'll be starting tomorrow."

"Okay. Thanks." I said, looking over the paper. She starts to leave. "Oh, um, do I just choose an elective?"

"Yes. There should be two options, you can just choose which one sounds more interesting and go to that class. If you don't like it, you can choose the other." She smiles, then walks away.

"She doesn't seem so bad," I said after Athena shuts the door.

"Just you wait..." Bellus growls, glaring at the door.

Eh, so, it's not all that exciting. It'll be somewhat like the real House of Night. Drama and shiz. You know. But it's gonna be different too. For one, she ain't gonna be no slut like Zoey! (Sorry for all those Zoey lovers, but I hate how she's in love with like... 5 different guys!)

Song of the day: Collide - Howey Day

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