Chapter One

   'Faith, come to me Faith. It's time, it's time.'
   I look around the dark forest to find the owner of the voice, but I don't find anyone.
   'Who are you? Where are you?' My voice echoed through the rustling, dying trees.
   'You'll find out soon my dear, very soon.' The voice replied, and by the sound of it I can tell it is a male who is speaking.
   I wanted to ask what that meant, but I felt a hand roughly wrap around my ankle and I looked down, and the hand came from the ground. Fog slowly crept up around me. I turned my head and came face-to-face with someone in a cloak with the hood covering the face, and my breath was stolen from me.
   Then the hood came off reveling a rotting corpse with maggots coming out the ears and eyes, spiders walking all over the face going in his nose, and worms doing the same.
   Finding my voice again I screamed in terror. 
   Then I woke up with a cold sweat, sitting up in my bed breathing heavily. After catching my breath I looked at my clock on my nightstand and it was 6:00, so I decided to get up and get ready for my first day at a new school, in a whole new country.
   I went down the hall of our new house and was glad my mom, dad, and I moved, because I never liked the school I went to, and I hope I can start over at my new school. 
   I went to the bathroom and took a quick shower to wake me up, then when I got done I went back to my room and got dressed.
   It is summer time so I grabbed a white spaghetti strap tank-top and then a black crop-top, dark blue jeans, with a pair of black and white vans, then I brushed my long brown-red hair.
   I looked at the clock again and it was now 6:45, which is not a normal time for me, because I am usually faster than this, but I really want to look good for my first day.
   And to pass the time I went down stairs to the kitchen and had a bowl of cereal.
   I washed my bowl and spoon after I finished and decided to watch some shows. A few minutes later my mom came downstairs.
   "Good morning Faith." My mom said.
   "Good morning mom. Hey, am I going to use the car today?" I asked her.
   "No I'll take you today. I want you to be familiar with the roads here before you drive to school by yourself, so let's go." My mom grabbed the car keys off the key holder next to the door and we left.
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   I did watch the roads and stuff taking mental notes about then and I didn't even notice that I was scratching at the black birthmark on my neck.
   The mark is a weird tribal flower with a star in the middle, which was a reason why I was made fun of in school, and I moved my hand and placed my hair over my chest to cover it.
   When we arrived I saw some kids walking into the building. Above the entrance it had the name of the school: 
   Williamster High School.
   My mom stopped the car in front of the school and I took a deep breath and walked out the car.
   "Bye Faith. Have a good day." My mom said and I said a quick bye before she left me here, nervous. I gulped and walked into the school and found the front office.
   I walked to the front desk and asked the lady for my class list and things. She handed them to me and I was on my way to my first class...English.
   When  I walked into the class I was the first one there so I stood outside in the busy hall and waited for the first bell to ring, so while I waited I pulled out my class list and really looked it over, but then the teacher, I believe came and he looked at me confused.
   "Are you the new student?" He asked, and he looked to be in his 40's.
   "Yes, hello. I'm Faith Kiala." I introduced myself.
   "Well I'm Mr.Carson. You may come in and I'll find you a seat." Mr.Carson said and we walked into the classroom.
   "Well Faith you came in the middle of the year so you're going to have to sit in the back at the corner." He said and I went over to that seat and sat down and waited for the students to come in.
   The first bell rang and the classroom started to poor in the students, and they all went to their desks and everyone was staring at me, so I looked out the window trying to not notice them.
   "Hey?" I felt a finger poke my shoulder in a playful matter, and I turned my head and saw a girl with tan skin and brown hair.
   "What's your name?" She asked me and I answered her.
   "Faith Kiala...What a pretty name." She said, "My name is Carly."
   "Hi Carly." I said shyly.
   "Awww your soo cute! You have to sit with me and my friends at lunch." Carly exclaimed then went to her seat which was two desks in front of me, and I felt my nervousness go away a little and I smiled to myself thinking that today will be good.
   The tardy bell rang and the seat next to me was still empty.
   Maybe the person is absent? I thought and then focused my attention to the teacher who seemed to be talking to me.
   "So Faith where are you from?" Mr.Carson asked.
   "I came from the UK." I told him.
    "Ahh that explains the wonderful accent." Mr. Carson said, then the door opened.
   "Why Mr.Carson I have an accent aswell." A guy said when he walked in and he sounded so familiar.
   Mr.Carson sighed, "Yes we know that you do Damon now please take your seat and everyone open your books to page 324." Mr.Carson said and we all did what we were told, but soon my attention was on the hot guy next to me. Damon. He had dark messy hair and the most gorgeous green eyes. He was wearing a plain white t-shirt and black jeans.
   "You know staring is rude darling." Damon said and he turned his head towards me, but when our eyes met it felt like my whole world stopped and there was nobody but me and him.
   "You know that your birthmark is the mark of one of the devils?" Damon said to me smirking.
   "What?"My hand flew to my hair and I realized that there was no way he could have seen it.
   He reached over and moved my hair showing the mark.
   "You know that mark is one of my masterpieces. I truly adore this one." He said.
   I was about to ask him what he meant but I couldn't.
   "Mr. Lived please leave our new student alone and get back to work." Mr.Carson said and everyone stared in shock at us and Damon took his hand away.
   What the heck did he mean?