The two fledglings ate breakfast alone in the large cafeteria; they didn't talk except on the way to their first ever classes in the House of Night. Tuesday, all day. Kaine knew Kimi's class was closer to the entrance, and hated her for it. She could see Tilla in there too, for which she hated her more.

When she walked into her history class, half way through, she nodded at the teacher, trying not to make eye contact as she made her way to the only empty seat next to an awkward looking kid.

"Hey… uh…"

"You're new." He whispered, practically inaudibly. Then he pushed his book towards her and she smiled and nodded in thanks. After class, he bolted without his book and Kaine sighed. She went up to the teacher, talking to her shortly about how classes work. Complicated apparently, because the petite blonde woman just sassed her and told her not to be late to her next class.

Kaine peered into the writing classroom and smiled brightly, seeing her short, Jew-fro-ed friend sitting near the back attempting to balance a pencil on her top lip. She came in with a crowd of other students and sat next to the pale girl.

"You're mature, right?" Our heroine didn't look at her friend until she heard the squeal of surprise and happiness. "Hey, think you'd get rid of me that easily?"

Eden smirked, hitting Kaine lightly. "Nah, figured you'd show your face around if you had to draw the damned thing on your forehead. You didn't, did you?"

Chuckling, she ruffled the large dark mess of hair. "Come on, give me some credit, I'm not quite that codependent on you asshats."

"Who else knows you're here? One of us?"

"Kimi, and now you." She smirked. "Don't think it's because you're special. We just happened to have this class together."

"Nah, pretty sure I'm special."

"Right." Then she sighed, eyeing the slightly younger girl. "Kimi told me you're not doing so hot?"

"Damn that girl." Eden scoffed. "I'm fine. I'm just not all 'yay suddenly blood sucking immortals', you know? It's a difficult situation to adjust to, alright?"

Kaine held her hands up defensively. "Woah there tiger. Just asking. Thought you'd be the person to talk to about something."

She scoffed again. "You've been here less than twelve hours girlie, give it some time at least. In a month when things still suck, we'll talk."

"Things suck?"

"Well, not the food, but a lot of things do."

Kaine raised her eyebrows then chuckled in realization. "Ah, well, I hope to stay away from most of those."

Then the professor finally walked in and the two were forced to stop conversing. On their way out later Eden asked her where she was heading. The answer was music and Eden's face lit up; apparently Circe and Tilla would be the next ones getting a shock. They got to class before the other two and they discussed how to surprise them, with glee.

Eden went in first and was very nonchalant as she conversed with them. Kaine watched very covertly from the window in the door until the teacher was starting class. Then she put a stricken look on her face and barged in. The teacher glared at her.

"Sorry, first day, lost." She smiled sheepishly. Circe and Tilla jumped, yelling her human name. She turned to them and winked. They both corrected themselves, as they had all been talking about name changes since Cleo and Circe were Marked. Then she smiled at the prof and apologized to him again, taking a seat next to her oldest friend who hugged her tightly.

"I missed you so much! When'd you get it?" Circe smiled at her like a child at Christmas, her hazel eyes boring into Kaine's face as she waited for an answer. Her blonde hair was up in a messy bun with chopstick and Kaine tried to keep herself from taking them out.

"This morning, during English."

Tilla smirked, climbing over Eden to join the conversation. "I bet Chaplin was flipping shit." The girl's silver-blue eyes sparkled at her expectantly, though one was covered by her long brunette side bangs.

"Nope, totally expecting it. She just rolled her eyes and told me to get a move on when she saw the tracker."

They both chuckled and were shushed by the prof, the four laughed harder, but settled down, though they exchanged glances and giggles throughout class. After that class, Tilla and Kaine parted from the rest of the group to go to class together.

"So, okay, the rest of the asshats don't understand, but this is totally awesome! Like did you see Circe's cross? She's still wearing it, like, hello, we have a moon goddess now." Tilla ranted. "But still love her, y'know?"

Kaine rolled her eyes, Circe had always been very religious so it wasn't surprising to her that the girl was having trouble converting. "I'm excited. Do I look like I'm not?"

Tilla stopped and appraised her. "You don't. But you could look more excited."

Rolling her eyes again as Tilla turned back around too quickly, falling on her face. She helped her up, chuckling a bit. "Well, aren't fledglings supposed to be a little more graceful than humans?"

"I didn't, like, injure myself majorly?" Then they both laughed, continuing the walk to class.

They caught up with the rest of the group at lunch, where Kaine saw the last member of the group. Cleo was talking with a boy with a fifth former insignia on his jacket; she kept twirling her long brown hair around her finger and her brown eyes looked into his flirtatiously. Kaine raised her eyebrows at Tilla, expecting some explanation. Tilla shrugged and went to the food line.

Tilla explained that the boy's name was Matt, and he and Cleo had been getting close. As far as she knew, he was a warrior in training and was sort of an asshole; it was almost impossible to speak to Cleo while he was around. Thankfully, the arrival of the last of their group was enough for her to say a few sentences.

"Kaine! You're here!" Cleo smiled at her when she sat across from her. "I'm so glad you're here!"

Tilla and Eden rolled their eyes, but Kaine smiled at her. "Me too, I missed you all so much. I'm also glad you're making new friends." Matt hadn't even looked at anyone since they had sat down, he just kept staring at Cleo with his arm around her waist.

Cleo nodded. "You met anyone new Kaine?"

She shrugged. "I've only been here less than a day. I'll make new friends, I'm sure." When Cleo nodded again, she turned back to Matt, sucking on his face.

Tilla made eye contact with Kaine, rolling her eyes and mouthing profanities. Kaine snickered, starting up idle conversation with the rest of the group. She learnt that the elements that the flaming twins, Cleo and Circe, were given were Fire and Water respectively, which she thought was pretty suiting. After that, things turned to teachers and ones they liked and ones they didn't.

They walked back together, still talking, but Kaine's eyes looked toward the Nyx statues in the quad. She still felt a little uneasy; the image of the goddess was like something foreign.

She had even noticed that she had stopped, feeling her stomach turn. A hand touched her shoulder and she looked at Tilla. "Botany's over in the greenhouses, this way…" Kaine nodded, shaking herself internally as she followed her and Eden.

Kaine finished her classes up for the day with Interpretive Dance. After the day was over, she played video games in Eden and Tilla's room with Kimi while Cleo and Circe were in priestess training. The four chatted idly, talking about their human life and their beginning Vampyre lives, cute boys and such. The conversation continued at dinner.