Ok I spent all day yesterday and part of this morning writing this... So here's Chapter One of my new Story: Equaled.


At the moment, I'm what people here call, 'Used, Abused, and Dumped' except for me... It's quite literal.

My Ex-Fledgling-Boyfriend used me; My "Teacher" abused me...

And my now Ex-Human-Boyfriend dumped me.

All I can say is that it was entirely my fault.

I allowed my Ex-Fledgling-Boyfriend to use me by ignoring my friends when they told me he was using me... Which led to my "Teacher" abusing me when I refused to have sex with him (I have common sense for Nyx's sake! But worst of all I betrayed my Ex-Human-Boyfriend, Jacob...

He was probably the only one out of the three that actually loved me... and I went behind his back and cheated on him with My Ex-Fledgling-Boyfriend (who was only using me to become more popular).

That is why I can't come to regret my decision to transfer to the Tulsa House of Night...

~*~Flashback~*~

"Good Eve, Athena."

I jumped as the voice interrupted my sobs. Turning I saw my mentor, High Priestess Isolde.

"Good Eve, High Priestess Isolde." I replied beginning to get up off the floor so that I may solute her, and follow her from my corner if she wanted me to. She put her hand on my shoulder, smiling warmly at me, to keep me there and, much to my surprise, instead sat next to me.

"Athena..." She trailed off before starting again, "My dear, a very close friend of mine has requested your transference to her House of Night." She said. I swear I was shocked to the point where my mouth fell open.

"What?! Where?!" I asked trying to hide the fact that I wanted to find whomever this was and punch them for wanting to take me away from my Mentor.

"Tulsa, Oklahoma, Dear." She informed me, I was about to interrupt but she knew me well enough to know that if she didn't continue I would try, "Her name is Neferet and she is the High Priestess there. She already has a Mentor set aside for you... Of course that is saying that you decide to accept. I believe you have at least heard of him. He placed first at this year's House of Night International Shakespeare Monologue Competition. His Name is Erik Night." She said.

Of course I had heard of him, I had even had the honors of meeting him as well while I was in London at the competition.

No, I had not been in the actual competition (there at least), but, they had asked me to sing during intermissions, for people who decided to stay in the theatre.

I had however been in Nationals. I was going to do Juliet's Monologue from Act III, Scene ii, Lines 1-31. As I walked on stage I looked out into the audience and suddenly I couldn't think of my lines. This had never happened to me before, not even when I had been Human.

'Sing my daughter, Sing.' I heard from a voice that was becoming annoyingly familiar. But I obeyed and began to sing the first song that came to my mind, My Heart by Paramore.

At first I had seen looks of confusion and looks of disgust but as I sang they began to change into looks of bewilderment, and looks of amazement.

Ok, yes they had disqualified me, but they also asked me to sing for the intermissions at Internationals, which I accepted.

All four days I sung during the time between monologues. It was like they would have 5 people perform their monologues then they would have me come out and do another song. I did as many covers possible in those short four days.

On the last day they even had a surprise for me. I'm sure Isolde had something to do with it but at that moment I didn't care, because they brought out my hero, or should I say Heroes?

They had Paramore, as well as Amy Lee from Evanescence, come out and sing with me. I got to meet them and talk to them while people were performing and then I got to sing with them during intermissions! I swear I would've fainted, had I not been so pumped.

Anyways... I had accidently bumped into Erik on the first day there...

~*~Further Flashback~*~

I walked into the theatre in London and stopped dead in my tracks.

It. Was. Beautiful. The designs reminded me just how close I was to my Ancestral Home. They were so complex that it made it look as though they were simple designs. I smiled to myself.

My sudden stop had surprised the person behind me and, because he had not been paying attention, he ran into me.

With me being the klutz I am, I was not surprised to fall over but the person I fell on was.

"Ow!" Exclaimed the Guy I had not only fallen on but knocked over as well.

"Oh! I'm sooo sorry!" I squeaked as I picked myself up and off of him. I began to ramble and explanation as he got up, "I'm sorry, I was just so mesmerized by the beauty of the building that I—"

"Oh no, It's fine." He cut me off. "The same thing happened to me my first time here." He said looking at me for the first time; He was smiling at me for a moment until his shocking blue eyes landed on my mark. I rolled my weirdly Sea Green colored eyes at his reaction.

"Hello?!" I said waving my hand in front of his face, trying to get his attention off of my filled in mark. He snapped out of it and looked me in the eyes, then looked back at my mark, then back to my eyes, and then his eyes landed on my mark again...

"But I thought Zoey..." He murmured. I was used to the staring but him mentioning that name made my gut feel weird... Like Nyx was trying to tell me to keep going, and that I was on the right track by talking to this guy.

"Who? My name is Athena, and yes my mark is filled in, but I swear if you don't quit staring at it like it's a disease then I am gonna slap you all the way back to my home-town in Tennessee!" I said. That got him to stop. "This is why I usually use the concealer on my mark." My total southern accent was now very clear in my voice.

"I'm sorry." He apologized, "It's just... My girlfriend is the only other person I've ever heard of whose mark has been filled in before completing the change..." He trailed off like he was contemplating asking me something before he said, "What's your affinity? If you don't mind me asking..."

"I have an affinity for all five elements..." I said, his eyes started to go back to my mark so I added quickly, "Oh, and one for the Fine Arts as well."

"Oh right, you're the girl from National's aren't you, the one who panicked?" He realized. That was my cover-up story... I told people that I had just panicked because that is what I had thought back then... I was beginning to think it was something else.

"That's me!" I replied, smiling. "Name's Athena Kieran." I told him with my southern accent. For effect I curtsied as well before offering him my hand.

"Erik Night." He told me smiling back. "If you don't mind... would you do your monologue real quick? I'm curious now, since you have an affinity for the Fine Arts." He began to blush. I just smiled at him.

"Sure. Just one second." I turned around and relaxed.

As soon as I turned back I became Juliet, Calling out to the torturous sun and telling it to set so I could see my dear, sweet Romeo once again.

People in the crowd turned to look at me but I became distracted... There was a guy standing in a corner and I couldn't take my eyes off of him. I realized that my voice became stronger and it made my monologue sound more realistic.

At that moment the only difference between Juliet and I was that her voice grew stronger from excitement... Mine was growing because I felt like I knew this guy, and I felt not only as though I wanted him to hear me, but I needed him to hear me.

"O, I have bought the mansion of a love,
But not possessed it, and though I am sold,
Not yet enjoyed. So tedious is this day
As is the night before some festival
To an impatient child that hath new robes
And may not wear them."

I finished with a sigh as I saw that the guy in the corner still didn't acknowledge that I was here. I turned to Erik and saw that his mouth was quite literally hanging open.

"What?" I asked suddenly feeling self-conscious.

"That was Spectacular!" He said to me with a smile on his face that was kinda funny. "Did you know your eyes changed color when you did that?" he suddenly asked me.

"No I didn't..." I said. Why would they change color?

"They're Sea-Green now but while you were saying your lines they turned like a midnight blue..." He informed me.

"Oh." Was all I could think to say.

"Why didn't you just ask for a moving at Nationals? If you had you would probably be here in my place right now—"

"Nyx told me to sing." I cut him off. He looked at me like I was crazy. "She did. Just as today she told me not to wear the concealer, which I only half obeyed." I murmured the last part as I reached up to my face with my sleeve and wiped of the concealer that was hiding my tattoos.

When I look at my tattoos they remind me of a story being told through display, like plays do, and as they descend down to my neck they begin to remind me of a melody, like in a song, the ones that ran across my shoulders reminded me of a poem written across my shoulders, as though they were in a book. They were the same color as my eyes were as well. As I brought my hand away from my face Erik's mouth fell open again.

"How did you—" He began but my trusted sidekick, Artemis, cut him off.

"Athena!" she shouted my name from a door that led backstage, "Come on! You need to warm up!"

"Well... that's my cue." I said rolling my eyes. "Well, it was nice meeting you Erik." I said bowing to him formally.

"You too, Athena." He said as he held out his hand for me to shake. I shook it just before Artemis took my arm and said, "Seriously, Athena, Do I always need to be the responsible one?" as she pulled me away.

The last thing I did in that hall was look back over to where I had seen the guy standing... and saw that he was no longer there.

~*~End Further Flashback~*~

"So Kira-Chan, Do you accept?" Isolde asked me, bringing me back to what was then the present. I looked up at her as tears came to my eyes, and I got that gut feeling that I needed to say yes.

I didn't want to say yes, because that would mean leaving my friends... but then I realized that they weren't my friends any more... They had turned their backs on me.

Looking into Isolde's purple eyes I told her, "I'm gonna miss Ya," as I nodded my acceptance to her.

"As I will you, Kira-Chan." She said leaning down to hug me. "I shall make the necessary preparations right away." She told me as she stood up. I swear I saw a tear fall from her eye.

As I watched her walk away I sent a silent prayer to Nyx, 'What am I getting myself into?'

~*~End Flashback~*~

As I sat in Nashville International Airport, I watched as people walked by me with their various packages and carry-on's and wondered what had gotten them to this day.

All I could be certain of was that their story would never turn out as interesting as mine was about to get.


Okay this get's a little confusing so let me clear it up. The Further Flashback is a Flashback she had during the regular Flashback. I hope that doesn't confuse you.

~Kim (A.K.A. Xxfanpire4lyfexX)