Two years later when I was a junior and Heath a freshman something happened out of the ordinary happened.
As I walked home from what seemed like a normal day from school. I soon felt a cold chill down my spine as I walked past a forest where nothing lay. Then out of nowhere I felt a hand on my shoulder turning my around, I tried to scream but was silenced quickly.
"Zoey Montgomery! Night has chosen thee; thy death will be thy birth. Night calls to thee; hearken to her sweet voice. Your destiny awaits you at the House of Night." The stranger placed his forefinger to my forehead. Then a white light flashed in front of my eyes as I fell to the forest floor gasping in pain.
After a few minutes I forgot where I was going, so I just booked it to heath's house to cry and to have him help me with hat I have to do.
"Zo! What happened? Are you okay?" Heath asked as I walked up to his door gasping in pain, crying and gripping my forehead. He must have seen me walking through his yard and came to the door. I thought, even though it was hard to think in this much pain.
"I…don't…know…I…think …I…got…marked." I said in between gasps of pain as I uncovered my mark to show Heath.
As he saw it he grabbed me and pulled me into him. We just stood there for a few minutes as I got myself together and stopped crying.
"We will figure a way out of this." He whispered as he kissed my forehead and pulled me closer to him.
A few seconds later the sharp shooting pain came back. I closed my eyes and pulled away from Heath. The next thing I knew, my head had hit something hard.
"Hello, Zoey Montgomery." The woman said to me with an evil looking smile on her face.
"Wh-where's H-Heath?" I asked stuttering each word.
"Zo, babe, I'm right here." Heath said grabbing me hand and holding it to his heart.
"He refused to leave until he was able to talk to you when you woke up." The woman told me.
"Who are you?" I asked the woman, confused about whom she was, let alone where I was.
"Oh my, I forgot to properly introduce myself, please forgive me. My name is Neferet and I am the high priestess here at the House of Night." She told me.
"Why am I here again?" I asked, forgetting completely what had happened in the half an hour.
"Why my dear, you are here because you are now a fledgling because you have just gotten marked by one of our trackers." Neferet told me matter-of-factly.
"So…when do I get to go home?" I asked with a hint of excitement as I glanced over at Heath who isolated himself in the corner of the room looking intimidated by the woman next to me.
Why is Heath so intimidated by her? He is always so confident of himself. I thought silently only to look up at Neferet staring at me with a look on her face that said she was confused about something.
"I don't think you understand. You can't go home. Once you are marked you are required to live at this school until you either make it through the change into a vampyre or reject the change and die." She told me starting to get a little frustrated with all my questions.
I could tell that I was staring at her with wide, shocked eyes because she just smiled and told me that everything would be okay and that most everybody makes it through the change.
"Now, you will need a mentor, who is the teacher you can go to with anything." She said.
"Who will be my mentor?" I asked, scared it would be a mean teacher.
"Your mentor will be Lenobia, the equestrian studies teacher." She told me with a joyful tone.
"Okay." I told her, trying to reassure myself that everything will end up being okay in the end.
"Well," Neferet said as she was turning toward Heath. "She has to go off to class now." She told him while she handed me my schedule.
I took the schedule from Neferet. Then I turned toward Heath with my eyes already starting to water saying, "I guess this is good-bye then, huh?"
"Yeah, I guess so." He told me as he was pulling me into him and wiping my eyes with his thumb. Clearly my tears had spilled over the rims of my eyes and down my cheeks.
He kissed my forehead and mumbled a soft I love you and pulled me closer to him and hugging me tightly.
"I love you too, forever and always." I told him with a whispered voice.
"Always and forever." Heath said as he bent down to kiss me.
This kiss was like heaven! It was only our second kiss, and I was hoping that it would not be our last. Heath was the first one to break away. He squeezed me quickly and walked away, out of the room, and maybe my life.
As I watched him walk away from me, lead by Neferet I hoped that this wouldn't be the last time I saw or talked to him. Another hope of mine was that that wouldn't be our last good-bye. I just stood there, staring at the place where he had just been. I let the tears spill over the rims of my eyes and down my cheeks not caring if people saw me at this horrible time.
After my eyes dried, I picked up my schedule and walked off to my next class. As I walked, I thought to myself, well, rather promised that I would call Heath tonight so I can hear is voice and hopefully see his handsome face again sometime soon.