As I walked to my foster parents' home I thought of a way to tell them, more specifically tell Jennifer, that I had to leave and go live at the House of Night. I thought that I would just go up to Jennifer and show her my mark and let her drive me there.
That plan went out the window, so to speak, when I walked into the house to find my foster dad sitting in the living room.
"Is Jennifer home?" I asked him. He pointed towards the kitchen and I walked passed him.
"Jennifer?" I asked and she turned from the stove to look at me. "I have to leave." I told her. Jennifer nodded and grabbed her car keys. We were headed towards the door when my foster dad walked over to us and stopped us from leaving.
"Where are you taking her?" He spat out and glared at me from where I was behind Jennifer.
"She has to leave or she'll die." Jennifer told him and started to push passed him to get out the door with me.
"Well she's not leaving. She can die or whatever but she's not leaving this house." He told Jennifer and slammed the door shut.
"I am taking her to the House of Night and you can't stop me." Jennifer said calmly. She pushed passed him and pulled me out the door towards her car.
"Get in and wait." Jennifer told me. I nodded and opened the passenger side door and sat down in her car.
I heard the sounds of a fight and soon Jennifer was walking out to the car, looking a little worse for the wear but I couldn't see any permanent damage. She got into the driver's seat and started the car. We were soon heading for the Tulsa House of Night.
On the way there Jennifer tried to talk to me about things. I was glad she put forth the effort but it was useless to try. "Serenity, I hope you will succeed in the House of Night and become who you were meant to be." Jennifer said to me as she dropped me off at the gates of the school.
I nodded to her, gave her a brief hug and walked through the gates to the school that would forever change my life as I knew it. I didn't know it now but as soon as I walked into the school, I would meet a group of people that would change how I saw the things around me.