Author's Note: Hey guys, I'd just like to start this chapter by giving a shout out to three people :)

Thanks to Em Gi, for submitting the two new characters Lita (who will be our character with an Earth Affinity) and Professor Sylvia (A Foreign Language teacher that has a dark past… no spoilers though, MAHAHAHA! Lol) and also leaving a helpful review - I've corrected all the type errors on the previous chapters.

Thanks to BLACKwriterForever for submitting new character Morrigan (who will be our character with a Fire Affinity and I've got an awesome storyline planned for her as well as Lita).

And finally, thanks to krikanalo who has always reviewed a chapter.

Okay, this will officially be the last time anyone can submit a new character to add into my story and after that the characters will be strictly my OCs.

NOTE: Vanessa is my new OC and will be Lucy's rival, but she's a bitch for a reason - I think those characters are great to read (and write) which is probably why I absolutely LOVE Katherine from The Vampire Diaries (TEAM KATHERINE ALL THE WAY! Elena has kind of got on my nerves since watching season 4 and I'm getting a little bored of the Stelena and Delena love triangle... it's still a great show, but I think Elena needs a new love interest that is NOT a Salvatore and find herself again because I miss the sweet and selfless Elena)

Okay, back to House of Night and start the next chapter, so enjoy and leave a review to give feedback :)


Chapter Four

Lucy

My new dorm bedroom looked weirdly like I'd already lived in here for a while - my books (which mainly consists of teen supernatural romances) were piled on a bookshelf near my new bed and I even recognised a few of my favourite films among them Les Mis, West Side Story, Dirty Dancing and Now Is Good were just a few of the films I absolutely adored. I turned to my new roommate Catherine, looking at her with a confused face… how had my stuff got here?

"Your Dad brought your stuff while you were in the hospital room," Catherine explained, sitting on her bed with a friendly smile "are you feeling okay? Apparently they found you unconscious on a bench."

Oh God, how embarrassing.

"Yeah, I'm fine…" I assured her and sat on my new bed and felt awkward, wondering when she was going to ask the obvious question.

Surprisingly she didn't and went onto a completely normal subject.

"So, how are you finding the House of Night?" Catherine asked casually, not staring at my weirdo filled in Mark and looking like I wasn't a freak among vamps "I know it looks like some creepy, medieval horror film but it's actually pretty cool and it's basically like any other school."

"No it's okay…" I said uncomfortably and Catherine's expression changed briefly to concern "are you seriously not going to ask about my Mark?"

Catherine smiled kindly at me, brushing her hair behind her ears and shook her head.

"I did notice it, but I just sort of guessed you wouldn't wanna talk about it," Catherine said honestly and I found myself liking my new roommate even more, I'd only know her five minutes and she was already the sweetest person I'd ever met "it's really uncommon, but it happened to someone else like a few years ago… her name's Zoey Redbird and she's a really powerful High Priestess."

Good for her, Zoey can save the world and I can just focus on trying ti get through the Change without dying. That reminded me of that mysterious woman who had given me this Mark in the first place, I even debated whether to tell Catherine. No, not yet… I need to know I can trust her before that, but it looks like I probably could.

"Well, I just want to get through life being normal," I said instead and Catherine giggled.

"I hear that, but if you wanna talk about anything…" Catherine began, but there was a sudden knocking on the door and a girl's voice that was strongly hinted with an Indian accent called:

"Cathy!"

Catherine pushed herself off her bed and opened the door, revealing an Indian girl that looked eighteen standing in the doorway her jet black hair that fell to her lower back.

"Lunch is in ten minutes and I'm hungry," the girl said in annoyance, but she rolled her eyes in complete exasperation when she saw Catherine's T-shirt "I thought I told you to burn that thing?"

"Hey, I love Twilight," Catherine defended as she frowned at the girl and the Indian girl scoffed at that "I read the books and Jacob Black is every girl's dream guy, Edward's too pale."

Edward isn't pale! Okay, I'm clearly Team Edward. Bite me, no pun intended.

"You are a true fan, but your fellow Twi-Hard fans need a fucking reality check and Jacob Black isn't that…" the girl began, but she stopped when she noticed me and looked at Catherine is confusion "Cathy, who is this?"

"My new roommate, Lucy Cullen." Catherine introduced us and allowed the girl inside the room "Lucy, this is Lolita, but we all call her Lita."

Lita smiled friendly at me and shook my hand and I stood up, but quickly realised this girl was taller than me by seven inches.

Lita was really attractive and made me feel self-conscious, with her full lips and warm chocolate brown eyes. Her creamy light brown skin complimented her and made her more beautiful in a natural way, so this girl clearly never needed to wear make up. I noticed a small bump on her nose that didn't distract from her beautiful features and she was wearing a blue Sari which was a very traditional Indian outfit and looked great on her.

"Nice to… what's with your Mark?" Lita asked, not in a rude way but it still made me feel embarrassed and my smile falter. Which she noticed and quickly tried to amend what she said "I'm so sorry! I just… I mean-"

"When Lucy wants to tell us, she will" Catherine said simply, coming to my rescue quickly and I sighed with relief "but until then, we don't make a big deal about it and just be a friend to her.

Lita nodded and gave me another small apologetic smile.

"I am really sorry," she said sincerely, but I shook my head and smiled reassuringly at her.

"Don't worry about it," I told her "I've just had a rough day."

"Well, that's why we're here," Catherine told me with a grin and grabbed my hand, pulling me out the door with Lita following behind "come on, let's get some food."

We walked down the long corridors and students obviously stared at my new Mark, but I felt much safer with Catherine and Lita by my side.

"So Lu-Lu," Lita asked politely and I chuckled at my new nickname, she clearly liked to give people their own name that she only used and I found it more sweet than annoying "you know what classes you're taking?"

"Err…" I said awkwardly as we began our descend down a spiral stairwell, trying to remember if Professor Sky or Professor Erich had mentioned anything about a timetable and coming up blank "I haven't got my timetable yet."

"Oh bugger!" Catherine exclaimed, slapping her hand onto her forehead and quickly pulled a crumpled piece of paper from the back pocket of her jeans. I was still amazed that I'd just heard a seventeen year old teenage girl say bugger (I thought that saying died in the 1950s?) as Catherine handed me the paper "I completely forgot to give you this, sorry."

"You have the memory of a goldfish sometimes." Lita chuckled as we walked into a large dinning hall that was filled with students. Nearly every table was filled with students chatting and gossiping, but the large table in the centre of the room had a large bowl of fruit that was sitting next to a large glass of red wine.

"That's Nyx's table, it is set with food and drink because…" Lita began, but her words came to a halt as fear entered her eyes and a silver haired woman stopped us in our tracks.

Her features were young, but her silvery hair that fell past her waist and her deep eyes showed that she had lived a long life. Her red dress hugged her curves and she wore a black cardigan with the outline of a woman cupping a crescent moon embodied on her chest.

"Greetings young Lucy, I see Catherine and Lolita are showing you around the campus," the woman said kindly in her very posh British accent "it is always lovely to see friendships blooming in this school, absolutely adorable. I am Professor Sylvia and I will be your tutor in Foreign Languages, I am also Lolita's mentor."

I chanced a quick glance at the two girls beside me: Catherine seemed her usual happy self, but Lita was rooted to the spot with what was clearly fear and she was trying hard not to show it. I knew it had something to do with this Professor, but how could a tough girl like Lita be afraid of such a sweet woman? Maybe I was overanalysing again and Lita was just worried because she'd missed an assignment deadline or something, that was most likely it.

"It's great to meet you too, Professor." I said politely shaking hands with the Professor in vampyre style and giving a small smile, while trying to keep any unwanted attention away from Lita and get to a lunch table ASAP. I doubted this woman was a bunny boiler, but Lita's fear was so obvious and I couldn't believe I was the only one who noticed.

"I'll be seeing you and Catherine in my next class," Professor Sylvia told me brightly, before turning to Lita and smiling a little too sweetly at her and it looked like a very forced thing to do " Lolita, are your family coming to the Parent Teacher Meeting tonight?"

"No." Lita sid shortly, the anger clear in her voice and Professor Sylvia suddenly looked stricken as if she had just realised she'd said something she shouldn't have.

"Oh that's right," Professor Sylvia said guiltily and I could see Catherine looking at Lita's fierce expression with concern "that's still a touchy subject, I'm so sorry sweetheart. If there's anything I could do, just let me know."

Professor Sylvia walked away, but Lita stood silent with her hands curled into fists and tears brimming in her eyes. Catherine turned to give Lita a one armed hug, but Lita shrugged her off, shaking her head and wiping tears from her eyes.

"Lita…" Catherine began, but Lita bolted for the door and when I caught a glimpse of her face as she left the room… her eyes were flooding with fresh tears.


Author's Note: I was planning on introducing Vanessa and Morrigan in this chapter, but I decided that it would be better to do that in the next chapter - so get ready to see more new faces :)

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