Hey, guys I just wanted to say that I am really sorry I haven't written in so long. I wish I wrote more and I am definitely going to try I had a really hard time trying to write this chapter, hey, even I get writer's block. I wish that I was able to say that I had a good reason for not writing but unfortunately my only excuse is that I was reading so many other Fanfic stories and the fact that our school gave out 'Stimulus Packets' doesn't really help that much either. Then again I probably just making some pathetic excuses again.
Be warned that this is again more of a filler chapter... I didn't really know what to write because of the whole 'writer's block issue'. I'm sorry that this AN is so long but I promise that from now on I'm going to try to keep them down. I also promise that I'm never going to do a AN chapters again unless they are really important.
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ON WITH THE CHAPTER!!!
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Chapter 12
Talk About the New Kid
I woke up after the weirdest dream about cats. Yep that's right cats. I could've been dreaming about cool powers and hot, sexy boys but instead I'm stuck with cats. There was one cat that kept popping up every three seconds. It was an Abyssinian cat that was totally gorgeous. Its tail, face, and ears were brown but its face had the look of a brown mask and the rest of it was all white except for one paw which was a honey color. It looked like it was about fours years old which, put into human years, was 17 like me! I looked around groggily when I got up. Everything was still blurry. I looked to my alarm clock- it was 7:13pm. Jeesh, I had slept for more than twelve hours and yet it felt like waking up at 5am for a regular school day. I looked around the room and all of the details from yesterday came flooding back to me. I swiveled around to see Zoey still sleeping but I couldn't even blink before her eyes snapped open. It was really weird though. Most people I know usually are disoriented when they wake up but Zoey seemed to know exactly what was going on.
As she got out of bed she handed me a schedule. I looked and saw that it was almost exactly like the one I had at my other school. I looked up and down the list to see that even though it was similar, there was no way that classes at my old school sounded that cool. There was a whole bunch of stuff like equestrian classes and I could tell just from their names that the teachers would be pretty cool. While I was getting ready for my first day at the "Vamp Finishing School" (something that The House of Night was commonly known as.) Zoey started explaining to me that each of the "forms" had different symbols that they had to wear at all times. We were third formers; therefore we had Nyx's Silver Spiral.
"The third formers' symbol is embroidered in silver in the shape of a spiral that glitters in a delicate circle. The symbol – the silver labyrinth of the Goddess Nyx – stands for a new beginning for the third formers as they walk the Path of Night and learn the ways of the Goddess." Those were her exact words and good God did she sound like she was quoting from a text book or what? Although that it basically repulsed me that we had to wear school uniforms she told me that it wasn't all that bad because you got to personalize your outfits and that no one's ever looked the same unless that planned it that way. She also told me that we actually got to go off of the campus but there were REALLY strict rules. We couldn't let people know that we were fledglings. If we did there was a really harsh punishment. She wouldn't tell me exactly what punishment it was and when I asked she just shuddered delicately and then quickly changed the subject.
She suddenly looked at the clock and gasped. She turned back to me and muttered something about 'better style than the last newbie'. I looked at her questioningly and she just replied that we were running later than planned. Pfft, yeah right, then proceeded to toss me a cute chic vest with out third former sign on it. I had to admit that even though I thought the signs would be darkish, this one actually just added to the cuteness. It was a spiral that sparkled like crazy wherever the light hit it. I put the vest on over a light blue camisole. I looked at myself in the mirror and found that I actually looked better on my first day of my junior year in Vampyre School than on my first day of my junior year in High school. I had a weird glow around me, which was way unexpected. Everything about my new life just seemed to fit me. It was like I was meant to be a vampyre, which was weird but it also made me feel like I belonged in this new world more. I looked at Zoey who was applying some lip gloss. She glowed as well- huh maybe my vision was just betting fuzzy.
After she handed me the clothes she walked over to a desk on my side of the room and handed me a piece of paper. It looked like a daily schedule. The teacher's names were unique although you could say that they were professors instead of teachers. The schedule wasn't even complex like the one I had at Sharland:
1st hour- Vampyre Sociology 101. Rm.215. Prof. Neferet
2nd hour- Lit 101. rm. 214. Prof. Penthesilea
3rd hour- Spanish 101. Rm.216. Prof. Garmy
4th hour- Rencing. Gymnasium. Prof. D. Lankford
LUNCH BREAK
5th hour- Intro to Equestrian studies. Field House. Prof. Lenobia
6th hour- Drama 101. Preforming Arts Center. Prof. Nolan
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Sketching 101. Rm. 312. Prof. Doner
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Intro to Music. Rm. 314. Prof. Vento
We exited the room quickly since we were running late. We went down to the kitchen to grab some breakfast. Since I was fully awake now I was able to absorb the details that I had ignored last night. We went down to the kitchen to grab some breakfast. Since I was fully awake now I was able to absorb the details that I had ignored last night. The Main floor of the dorms seriously amazed me. It's not like I assumed everything was going to be dark and foreboding but still it was just a normal dorm, which I hadn't expected. The floor consisted of a TV/Living Room and the Kitchen. It was amazing, the TV/Living Room had a whole bunch of comfy looking couches, bean bags, and recliner chairs. They also had those amazingly long pillows that you could lay down on. We rushed past the TV room and into the kitchen. The kitchen was phenomenal! It had long counters and cabinets with two gigantic refrigerators. There were four islands that dominated the central space of the floor and two small tables that seated four people each. I was surprised because it was just like a normal dorm would be- there was no blood in the fridge or sun-blocking powder in the bathrooms and the fledglings were just like normal teenagers.
As I was looking around the kitchen Zoey was getting our breakfasts ready. I seriously love any type of breakfast food as long as it includes chocolate. And I mean come on who wouldn't? My favorite food is croissants with French chocolate. Yeah, I know that it's a weird food combination but it is really good- trust me. Zoey pulled out a bag of Chocolate Rice Krispies. She looked over at me with a sheepish grin on her face.
"I love cereal, any type is my type." She sounded shy, like I was gonna reject even the most subtle difference between us. I have no clue why she would even suspect something like that. I could tell that we were going to be friends the second she accepted me into her circle, not to mention the fact that she had accepted Damien into her group. If he was friends with her then I was definitely friends with her.
We slurped down the remains of the cereal and rushed down the stairs. She had told me that we had first and fourth period together so I probably wouldn't need help to get anywhere because all of the third former classes were in one hall, that is except for the elective classes and physical activites which were to be found in their appointed rooms and the gym/stables. I was just thankful that we had left so quickly that no one had gotten the chance to gawk at me. We went into the classroom and I was barely able to take in the fact that Damien was waving to Zoey and I from about two tables away from the door. Almost immediately after we walked through the door Neferet swept into the room, she had an air of confidence surrounding her. It was stunning and yet it was intimidating as well. Then again all of the full Vamps were impressive but this was really different. She was enforcing the power by giving certain people in the room this weird stare. As she walked by our table there was an overpowering wave of hostility. She looked down at Zoey and smiled but it was more of a sneer. I doubt anyone else noticed because no one else was close enough, except perhaps Damien but he was too busy staring at the front of the class to notice. I looked back and Neferet was now starring down at me. It wasn't the full sneer that she had given Zoey, but it was close enough that my chin lifted up a fraction of an inch in my stubbornness. At first she looked like she was concentrating really hard on something but her expression quickly turned to one of frustration and then to a weird horror-panic before it smoothed out to a calm neutral look. She then looked down at me and gave a cold smile. It shouldn't have happened but she gave me that creepy feeling again, like she wasn't someone I should trust at all, or like she would turn on me at any second. But that wasn't possible right, fledglings were always supposed to be able to trust the High Priestesses of Nyx. That was the reason that they were there- to convey Nyx's message to all under her House of Night.
Zoey stared at me as Neferet walked to the front of the room and gave me a weird look. She looked confused and also… happy. She signaled to me that we were going to have to get together later and talk about whatever was going on.
The rest of the class period was okay. It wasn't the best lecture that I had ever listened to. Neferet was brimming over the top with power. Not only that but she seemed bent on proving something to everyone about how humans were inferior to Vamps and Fledglings alike. She kept telling us how the mythology of humans had messed up the facts from the past and twisted them to fit their liking. It was getting old fast. I felt like screaming at her "We get the point already, can we move on yet?!" I didn't move through most of the lesson. At the end I was sore from sitting still so long. I got up and stretched as Damien and I walked to our next class.
We walked into English/Literature which is my strongest subject. It was way different than when I was going to Sharland. All of my previous teachers believed that just because we were young that we couldn't comprehend the different tactics and styles of literature. We used to listen to the teachers and then mock them later. Katelin would go up and imitate Ms. Craig and say;
"Ya'll got nothin to talk about back there! Ya'll crazy kids gonna get yaselves in a herd of troubles one day with no un to blame but yaselves!"
Then Jasmin would start joking about how Katelin did that a little too well. I sighed. I couldn't believe that they hadn't made any contact with me in the last two days, weren't they supposed to make me feel better when I was sad? Thinking about all of my friends was making me depressed. I wanted to get off the subject of them so instead I started to study the teacher. She was different from Neferet, but not in a bad way. She was interesting because when she read to us she was able to tell us in-depth facts about the events of the past- because she was there. She was born decades before any of us and it was fascinating because she would suddenly stop to tell us cool facts. It wasn't anything like how my old teachers used to treat us. She seemed to respect us and any input that we offered. It was good to know that at least here the teachers would take you seriously. I was starting to let my thoughts drift and the next second all I could feel was Damien nudging me in the side.
I looked up to see him standing already. In this class, today, it was easy to lose myself which was unusual because I always used to pay attention- especially in English. He looked expectantly at me as we were about to part by the doorway. I looked back at him having no clue as to what he expected. He sighed and gave me a look that clearly stated that he thought I would know what to do.
"Can you honestly tell me that I've been away so long that you've forgotten good-bye hugs?" He asked me. It came rushing back. Damien never was one to be a girly gay guy but that didn't stop him from giving out best friend hugs!
I am so sorry I know that this is another filler chapter. You should definitely PM me and tell what you think her powers ( yes powerS, as in mulitiple) should be. I am so stumped. Tell me- do you guys think that I should use some of the powers from the Twilight Saga? I think it would be fun to write! PM ME or review hehe!
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ellil- thanks for being my 1st reviewer!!!
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Thank you so much for all of the reviews. All of my reviewers have no idea how special you guys are! Seriously you keep me writing when I start to think that no one is reading! I'm really glad that you like the idea of Damien being her long 'lost' best friend and her 'shimmering mark'. I really didn't know how my readers would react to the idea... I'm glad your not confused anymore even though I think that I'm starting to get confused by my own writing, which isn't the greatest thing. Hehe...
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