Ugh, the pain, the horrid pain. I can't even look at the sun without feeling like I wanted to collapse.
All the things I would have wanted to do human, could I still do it without looking like an outsider?
No doubt I had made some amazing friends... not to mention I had lost my virginity, something I would of
wanted to do while I was human, and with someone else, it didn't matter either way, what was done, is done.
Heath still loved me. Still loved me the way I am, what I am and didn't care. Could I still be wanting
him even if we were really so different? Talk about two totally separate worlds!
There was really only one alternative, one I had been thinking about for a while now but too selfish
to be wanting it and for myself as always, I didn't want to put Heath in danger, in danger of not making it.
But, what if... what if he does make it? He could be even cuter than he is, I could be helping him,
He and I could always be then, no one could tell us what to do. No. He had a bright career ahead
of him and I don't want to demolish that. I couldn't.
But.. he would make an amazing Vampyre.

Shit. Zoey, what are you thinking?! I thought to myself hazily waking myself up, I could never do that to Heath. I jumped up in surprise when I realised where I was, the blanket was on top of me while I was sleeping onto the only sofa in this room, I scanned the room immediately only to see someone tucking into their cereal.

"Hey Zo!" Heath half-shouted with a mouthful of cereal, waving his spoon at me.

I smiled back "Heath?" I said surprised to see him well, awake and... normal.

Finishing his last bite Heath gave the place a good look around "so, is this our pad or something?"

That question had caught me off guard.

"Um, wh-why do you think that?"

"Well we are both here aren't we?" He said stating the obvious "Unless this is a dream" sounding unsure he pinched himself and then grinned "No its real"

I couldn't help but giggle at him "Do you remember what happened last night?"

He scrunched up his eyebrows while itching his head, obviously thinking long and hard about it, after a few minutes he spoke "Nah, did I get a hangover or something?... Not that I had a drink or anything!" he said saving himself from trouble. He then notices that his arm was bandaged up "Woah, I had an accident?" he asked surprised.

How could I tell him? This could freak him out, yeah so he didn't react badly the first time it happened to him but Neferet stopped that from happening because she did this weird thing on him to make him forget everything but what if it put him off wanting to stay with me. I couldn't really say 'Oh yeah some red flegdings took a bite of you, hope you-' My thoughts instantly stopped, Stark had taken a bite out of Heath, did that mean... No! it couldn't be possible, well it happened to Aphrodite and Stevie Rae so why not? No. No. No. My mind was racing back and forth wondering the possibility's of imprinting. I hadn't been learning in school for a very long time, everything was going blank. I could still remember the last time my imprint had been broken, the internal pain that was hovering my body yet the next minute I was fine, I didn't feel any sort of pain the second time round except when I felt really crappy the morning/night I woke up which was weird as I had slept the whole day that day, the possibilities or our imprint to have been broken were becoming clearly visible.

"Did we get... frisky last night" he asked still grinning.

I scoffed "No!"

His grin vanished slowly, the way I had just said it made it seem like something else.

"Look... you were... you were attacked last night" I said trying to make my voice sound calm.

"Attacked?" he repeated "By what? or who?"

Ugh, I had just started the 20 questions.

"I don't know" I lied, hoping he wouldn't notice, well he did before while we was imprinted but, I have a horrible feeling we wern't any longer.

"Huh, I had a dream about me getting battered well I didn't think I was getting beaten up because we were having fun, you know play fighting but it couldn't be real because..."

I was utterly confused with his babbling on "Who was... playing fighting with you?"

His grin returned "Miley Cyrus"

"What?" I chuckled, there was only one person who I knew by that name, but she was a celebrity, they don't do things like that! Or do they...?

"Yeah, she had that cute country accent, the light brunette hair and those eyes, oh man those eyes" he started day dreaming about his 'dream'.

"What happened?" I asked.

"Hmm?" he said in a pleased tone, he was still dazed.

"Heath!" I snapped.

"Oh right sorry... what?"

"What happened in your dream?" I asked getting annoyed.

"Seriously Zo, I don't know much, it just came to me when I said it, it's like it comes back and then goes again, like im losing my train of thought or something" he shrugged.

"Okay, but what do you remember"

"Miley Cyrus jumped on top of me and she was playing around with me and my body... I think.. well that's it"

This dreamed sounded more like a flash back, but it couldn't be because there was no 'Miley Cyrus' in the park.

"Do you remember where you were in your dream?"

He chuckled "Yeah, under a tree, quite a romantic scenery" his vocabulary had definitely increased and he obviously didn't think it would bother me since he thought it was a dream, the pieces to his dream were slowly starting to come together as he started to remember more but felt too difficult to join them up.

"Do you remember why you was down by the tree in the first place at night?"

"Yeah Yeah I remember, it was to see you" he confirmed.

"Was anyone else there?" I had only realised I was the one giving the questions here, I'm glad he didn't seem to mind it though.

"No idea, I wouldn't like to think so, I don't do threesomes" he joked.

"Are you implying you had sex with... with Miley in your dream" I said a little annoyed about asking him this.

"Uh.. I don't remember, and so what anyway it was only a dream!"

Okay so maybe he was getting a little uncomfortable talking about this with me, I sigh and let it go... for now.

I watched Heath as he stares at his bandaged arm he turns his arm around and tries to take it off.

"Don't do that!" I panicked.

"Why not? It doesn't hurt?" he said still trying to un-do it.

I didn't want him to expose his arm showing off his teeth looking bites that could look alot like Vampyre bites, god knows how he would react to it.

"It could get infected" I lied again.

He paused at that and does it back up again, wow It had seemed that lieing was staring to come more naturally to me now.

"So uh, where in the world are we? How long have I been knocked out? Are we still in the city?" His questions started pouring at me now one by one I explained it all hoping he would remember his 'dream' which seemed to have made no sense so far.

The next thing I was about to say, was something that made me unhappy, but knowing that Heath's parents must be worried sick about their son being missing for a few days, I didn't want that, "Heath, I think you should go home, your parents must be worried about you"

He looked at me long and hard, I tried to make him see it was the right thing to do. He didn't argue, he knew I was saying the right thing, we both left Aphrodite's house and went off into the day where is was pouring down with rain making the cloud's gray and dark, which was a good daylight for me.

We had no sort of transport which was a big problem if I wanted Heath to go home. Hijack a car? No, I didn't know how, and I didn't want to start learning how. Taxi? That was possibilty but would cost a hell lot and where in hell would we get one now? Ask someone back at school? No. I had done that too many times. I could always get my bug, the one thats just been sat by the school for ages and we were not to far from school.

"Lets go get my car" I told him grabbing his hand as we start running a few miles.

After a while, my lungs felt like they were going to explode, but with a boy that has had years of practice with his football team he was rearing to go, always ahead of me while I was feeling like I was being dragged by the hand we were holding.

"C'mon Zo, we are not that far from it now" he said.

I lifted my index finger for him to give me a few more minutes for me to at least get some of my breath back, I didn't want to run anymore, it felt worse the second time, the rain was making me feel hot I closed my eyes taking long slow breaths.

I cold hear nothing but the wind and the rain hitting the floor, I thought I had felt dizzy for that moment as my feet were no longer touching the ground but now in someones tight grasp while jumping up and down, when I opened my eyes, Heath was carrying me while running as the rain got harder, geez I felt so lazy. By the time we reached the school, I made Heath put me down while I grabbed my car which was luckily parked outside the school grounds, hoping no one would be outside at this time of night we got in, Heath offered to drive but I held onto my advantage of not being able to drive for months!

We were in no hurry to get home but everything was closed due to the weather conditions, the storms were searing up.

Finally, we arrived in front of Heath's door, how long before I could see him again?

"Well, I guess I'll..." I didn't want to say goodbye to him, so I dropped my sentence.

With his uninjured hand he gave me a one hand wave and opened the car door to get out, but he paused and looked back at me.

"I forgot to do something" slowly he put one of his hands on my neck bringing me closer, I put my hand gently on his leg leaning in as our lips crushed together, I put my other hand on his neck as I wanted to push him against me, his other hand was going up and down my thigh, this felt like a goodbye. Heath smelt so good to me, oh how I wish to take just one drink of his blood, the blood that someone else hand drunk, I was getting angry as we deepened the kissing, I wanted so badly to keep him to myself, why couldn't we just run away now. At that moment, out lips departed, we were breathing hard as we realised how long we hand gone without a breath of air, I continue to look into his eyes, how my hand on his neck wanted to make a slit for his blood.

"Go on Zo, you know you want to" he said with no sense of danger in his voice he turned his head for me to get to his neck easily, my mouth opened slowly as I reached for his neck...

"No!" I snapped back.

Heath stared at me confused.

"You- your parents the- they will be worried about you and having a big slit on your neck won't help" I said, which wasn't a lie, this wasn't the right time anyway, people here were weird like my ex step-loser of a father, well he wasn't my ex but I'd like to think so and I couldn't forget those people from the people of faith group.

"You know what, you are right" he said smiling at me.

"I guess I'll see you soon" my voice broke when I said that, I didn't want him to leave.

He had obvious sensed something in my voice "don't worry, we'll be together soon"

"Soon" I confirmed.

He kissed me gently on the forehead and left the vehicle, I waiting until he was into the house and drove off back to school, unfortunatley.

I parked my bug outside the school for an easy exit next time round, it was now getting darker, everything seemed the same before I had left it, except for that one big white van, nothing I had seen before I left the school. I arrived inside the building and everything was the same as before, students were everywhere as usual without a thing to do, I came in my dorm within a couple of minutes I couldn't see any one of my friends, but then again I spoke to soon.

"Zoey!" The twins screamed at me.

I jumped in suprise as they looked worried and annoyed at the same time they were in their school uniform, had I missed something?

"Why are you guys in your-"

"Forget that!" Shaunee interupped.

"Shekinah's back!" Erin blurted out.

"You need to change into your school uniform,"

"We've got an assembly with her!" I was honestly shocked from hearing this, why would Shekinah return to school? Something had to be up.

There was no time for arguing about that with them, the twins had helped me choose an outfit while I cleaned up a bit from days of not showering, by the time we entered the hall, everyone had been seated so we ended up standing up next to the only Sons of Erebus guard. As if she knew everyone had entered the room, Shekinah walked in a huge gush of wind came in too blowing most of the kids hairs infront of their faces along with some leaves.

"How the hell did that get in here?" Shaunee thought aloud.

"Yeah, there aren't even any leaves out there!" Erin said, which was true, the hall was inside the building, no where near the exit's, talk about a big entrance!

Shekinah gave us one stern look, angry and happy at the same time, as if that were possible but she carried on walking to the front of the hall and then turned to look at the whole room full of students, her beauty was something different from last time, she had definitely changed I just couldn't put my finger on what this time. The room was silent, so silent that it made me want to sneeze just to break the silence, but by doing something like that, I would have every person in this room staring at me like I had some sort of flu, I didn't want that!

"Merry meet everyone!" her voice was loud clear and soft all at the same time, she looked around pleasantly "We all know what a difficult month it has been, and I know everyone wants to know whats going to be happening next, no we will not be close down the school" there were a lot of happy breaths coming out, I was happy too. "School will be the same as normal starting Monday, start the same and end the same, it will be my job to protect this school from now on, any questions?" there were some unhappy groans about starting school, I was glad on the other hand that everything will be going back to normal. There was silence in the room as no one wanted to question her, I had full trust in Shekinah and took her word for it, but then again I was trusting people too easily nowadays, but she was the high priestess of all vampyres, so that was good enough for me. She obviously had a reason for her return 'it will be my job to protect this school' she had said, she was protecting us from something, something dangerous, something out to get me I suspected.

"Merry meet, merry part and merry meet again!" she said as she put her first infront of her heart, as we did. She left the room when she was finished with her annoucement just as slowly the students left the hall too full of unanswered questions.

The twins and I caught up with Jack and Damien, felt like I havn't seen them in ages,"Zoey! Where have you been?" Damien asked giving me a hug.

"Hey Damien, sorry I just had things do to really" he released me understanding as he was he just nodded. The 'nerd herd' was back and together again! And hopefully without troubles heading my way.

It was Saturday night, so I have a day and a half before I had to use my brain for school Monday night, I knew I would be having Erik as my drama teacher again, as it was before, but that's about it, I was nervous to be returning to school, it just wouldn't feel the same again.

Today we decided not to watch any movies (thank god) instead we decided to be the rebels we were and play a silly game of truth or dare, we had even invited Aphrodite- well she invited herself, and of course Darius, all 7 of us were sat around the huge round table near the back of the room in the lounge with an old alcohol bottle Aphrodite had 'found' in the centre of the table, Erik couldn't join us because he had alot of school planning to do for Monday's lesson, even though he wasn't here I was still anxious about the game but I didn't want anyone else to see that, I wish Stevie Rae was here, it just wasn't the same without her.

"O-okay, who starts?" I said awaiting the terror's of this game while the people around me were grinning in excitement.

Ooo A cliffy ;) Okay hardly a Cliff hanger because we know what will happen next, a fun game of truth or dare, but what happens in the game? stay tuned. Well Reveiw and you shall get the chapter.

A shout out to faint-of-hart for being true to this story along with her guesses on it, which are awesome! And for actually reading well when I said you have to reveiw to get the next chapter THANK YOU! And for reveiwing the story.

Well, keep the reveiws coming and I'll update. Many thanks!

Even though we all know this, I should point out I don't own anything from the House of Night series, this is purely for... fun! Peace out.