"There is absolutely nothing to be worried about!" my mother assured me for the fifth time.

"Yeah," I was starting my first day at the House Of Night the next day and I was very worried, "easy for you to say. You're weren't the daughter of the two most famous vampyres of all time."

"No, but I was the freaky fledging with the colored in mark, extra tattoos, a love triangle, and amazing powers."

She smiled at me and planted a kiss on my forehead, right where my mark would go be just the next day.

As she left the room and turned out the light, I sighed. Mom was great, but sometimes she just didn't understand things. When your mom was the most powerful High Priestess of all time, and your dad was the world's best actor, people tended to expect a lot from you, even if you couldn't always deliver.

Oh well, I would do my best, and hopefully it would be good enough. I was sure to make friends, my mom assured me, although she also promised that some girls would be downright horrible. "Don't let first impressions get to you" she'd warned me, and then gone on to tell me about the first time she saw my dad, recieving a very disturbing present from a at-the-time witchy girl who also turned out to be a pretty good friend.

There had been something else she wasn't telling me, I could see it in her eyes, but I didn't press her. When she was ready to tell me, she would.

When I opened my eyes in the morning, sunlight was streaming through the window, and practically blinding me. I hurriedly dressed and rushed downstairs, tripping on air a few times, as was my usual clumsy tendency.

When I finally reached the kitchen, I saw my mom, my dad (who were up at this hour to celebrate my last morning, since after I was marked I'd have my days and nights reversed, like them) and, to my delight, my Aunt Erin, Aunt Shaunee, Uncle Damien, and Uncle Jack.

"Aunt Stevie Rae would have been here, but you know how it is with her and daylight." We all laughed, and then I was pulled into a group hug by my namesakes, and Damien and Jack. (my name is Sharin-Rae Redbird Night. I know it's kind of weird, but it makes sense. Sharin is Shaunee and Erin, Rae is Stevie Rae. Redbird was my mother's maiden name. Jack and Damien aren't in there cause I'm a girl, and my name is girls only. If you want the guys, go to my little brother, Jack Damien Redbird Night. He's only ten months old.)

"Aww, thanks you guys!" I exclaimed.

"No need to thank us," Shaunee said.

"We wanted to be here!" Erin finished.

"Yeah" Jack and Damien said together.

There was one final hug, and then Dad ushered me to the car and began to drive me to the House Of Night.

Disclaimer- I don't own House Of Night, or any of it's characters.

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