Pisces exited her room. On the door of the room next to hers, Pisces noticed a sign. It read Stay out or you will be sorry! -Aries.

Pisces jumped at the sound of a door opening. A girl with wavy blue hair and matching blue eyebrows looked at her in surprise. "Ohhhhh right. Today is the day the new girl arrives." She shook Pisces' hand. "I'm Aquarius. Did you already get a tour?"

"Libra showed me around. But she ran off after we heard screaming."

Aquarius didn't look surprised. "I don't know why she expected the others to behave. We should have locked them in a closet, honestly." She noticed Pisces' nervous expression. "Not that we lock people in closets. Haha."

"I'm going to check out the rest of the house now. I didn't get to see the basement yet."

"Did you meet anyone else besides me and Libra yet?"

"Scorpio. Although as soon as he saw me he ran away."

"Yeah, he's like that. Scorpio is really shy. I keep trying to get him to interact more with the rest of us."

"There were also two people chasing each other."

"Probably some combination of the fire signs or Gemini. If you need anything, just come find me, alright? It may take a while to get used to, but you'll like it here." And with that Aquarius walked downstairs.

Pisces decided she was going to check out the basement.

***

When she got downstairs, Pisces walked into a room comfy-looking room. There was a flat screen hung from the wall, a mini fridge, six bean bag chairs, and shelves full of books. There were multiple video game devices hooked up to the tv.

A tall and muscular boy was currently playing Just Dance. Pisces watched as he struggled to match the dance moves, looking funny in the process.

After he was finished, he wiped the sweat from his brow and turned around. When he saw Pisces, he screamed.

"Sorry." Pisces awkwardly looked around. "I'm the new girl."

"You surprised me. I'm Taurus. Wanna join me?"

"Maybe after I explore the rest of the house."

"Okay. I hope you stick around. Unlike the last ten."

"Last ten?"

Taurus continued dancing, ignoring her question.

Pisces sighed and noticed two doors across the room. Inside the first was an exercise room with lots of equipement. Pisces saw a boy running on the treadmill. He had earphones in his ears, and was running pretty intensely. His red hair was drenched in sweat.

Finally he noticed her and stopped running. He grabbed his water bottle then drank from it as he unplugged his earphones. "Hi... You must be... The new... Girl. My name... is... Cancer." He took another long drink from his water.

"Hi. I'm Pisces. Nice to meet you!"

Cancer finally regained his breath. "I forgot you were coming today."

"I think everyone did."

"What do you think of this madhouse so far?"

"I'm still checking it out. Just a second ago Taurus said something about the last ten people not sticking around."

Cancer rolled his eyes. "Taurus is messing with you. Listen closely, you cannot trust half the people in this house. Especially if you're new."

Pisces' eyes widened. "Why not?"

"Because they like playing pranks on people. You don't know them yet, that makes you vulnerable."

"You're starting to scare me."

"Oh no. Sorry, I wanted to warn you not to scare you. But if you stick with me, I'll protect you from the others."

"Okay."

"Now I've got to take a shower... Maybe we can talk again later?"

"Sure."

Cancer walked upstairs. Looks like I finally made a friend! thought Pisces excitedly. She walked back to see if Taurus still wanted her to dance with him, but he was gone.

Pisces went upstairs to see if her stuff arrived.

***

Pisces opened the door. On the front step was a few boxes labeled "Pisces." She took a few boxes at a time, but eventually managed to carry all her stuff up to her room.

Taking a break from exploring, Pisces decided to pack some things away.

She was in the middle of arranging her closet when she heard someone walk into her room.

Pisces stood up and saw a girl with very thick dark brown hair pulled back into a neat bun. Framed by a pair of glasses was greenest eyes she had ever seen, which were lined with a thick coat of black eyeliner.

"Hi I'm Virgo." She smiled awkwardly.

"Pisces."

"I'm the unofficial leader. Our official leader is Aries but... I'm the one who acts like the leader. Have the others made you want to leave yet?"

"Uh-"

"They can't behave to save their lives. I'll deal with them later. I hope you plan to stay here for a while. Although everyone is crazy, our friend group is pretty fun."

"Libra, Aquarius, and Cancer seem really nice."

"They are. Have you seen the house yet?"

"Libra gave me a tour earlier, and I just checked out the basement." Pisces picked out a bathing suit. "I'm planning on checking out the pool now."

"I'll let you go do that now. You seem normal enough. Let's hope the crazies don't corrupt you." Virgo left, leaving Pisces low key questioning her decision to live here.

***

Once Pisces stepped in the pool room, she took a towel from the shelf and put it on a chair for later. Then, she noticed someone in the hot tub. A girl with long curly brown hair was relaxing with her eyes closed. Pisces went over and stuck her feet in.

The girl's eyes snapped open. "I haven't seen you before."

"I'm Pisces. I just got here today."

"Cool. I'm Aries." She looked happy and relaxed. Pisces didn't want to bother her, so she got out and jumped into the normal pool.

Pisces was swimming around a bit when something grabbed her leg and started dragging her underwater. She started panicking and was about to scream to Aries for help, when she noticed Aries was gone. Pisces tried to shake her leg loose but the grip did not loosen. She was too busy trying to keep breathing in air to notice what grabbed her leg. She was under water, when she heard a muffled voice. The thing that grabbed her let her foot go.

Pisces swam upwards, and grabbed into the ledge of the pool as she gasped for air.

Standing over the ledge looking directly at her, was a boy. He had blond hair that could almost be considered a mullet, and swimming shorts. His abs were very visible. "Aries you were scaring the poor girl!"

Pisces looked behind her.

Aries was in the water with an evil grin."I was just having some fun."

"I thought I was going to drown!"

"Relax, I was going to let you go as soon as I pulled you under." Aries climbed out of the pool.

The boy handed her a towel. "Aries you're so cute when you're up to no good."

Aries smiled and pushed him in the water before leaving the room.

"Hi I'm Gemini. I see you've met Aries. She's not always like that, when ever someone new arrives at the house, it's been her tradition to pull a prank on them."

"I'm Pisces. What did she do to you?"

"We do not speak of that."

"She dyed his hair purple in his sleep." Pisces looked up and saw Libra standing there. "I heard Aries laughing so I decided to look for you, but I see you're alright."

"She grabbed my leg and tried to pull me underwater."

Gemini smirked. "You should have seen what she did to Libra."

"She doesn't need to hear the story!"

"Aries used makeup to make Libra's face look nice and pretty. Then she took a photo and sent it to all of us."

"She used permanent marker. I had to go to school with a moustache! Also when I woke up my face was orange!"

Pisces and Gemini laughed. Gemini climbed out of the pool.

"Will Aries pull any more tricks on me?" asked Pisces.

"No. Not unless she wants revenge," replied Libra. "Now lunch is ready!" Pisces climbed out of the pool and got her towel.

Letting Gemini walk ahead of them, Libra whispered to Pisces. "That's Gemini. He's always smirking and he flirts with all the girls. If you're looking for a romantic relationship, I'd suggest staying away from him."

"Why?"

"There's someone else here who won't be happy if you start flirting back."

Pisces thought of Aries who dismissed Gemini's words and pushed him into the pool. Was it her? Or someone else?

Pisces went upstairs to take a quick shower and wash her hair before lunch.

***

After her shower, Pisces paused in the living room. The girl and the boy who ran through the house were tied back to back with a thin rope. A boy with blond hair and glasses lectured them.

"You knew the new girl was coming. Yet you had to prank Sagittarius with glitter! What do you have to say for yourself?"

The curly-haired boy sighed. "I'm sorry... that I didn't use more glitter."

The boy with glasses smacked him on the back of the head. "She probably thinks we're all crazy. We'll be lucky if she doesn't move out tomorrow. And you-" he turned to face the girl. "Why did you chase him?"

Now that she was staying still, Pisces noticed she had lots of freckles. Small spots decorated her arms and legs as well, like stars in the night sky. "What am I supposed to do Cap? Let him get away with it?"

He sighed. "You both are completely and utterly-" he paused when he saw Pisces. "Oh hi."

The two others turned to face her.

"This is just a normal day in the Zodiac mansion," smiled the curly-haired boy.

The other boy looked like he wanted to slap him again, but didn't want to scare Pisces away. "Ignore those two. I'm Capricorn. Nice to meet you."

"I'm Pisces."

"Can't you at least introduce us Cappy?" the girl smiled innocently.

"Yes. This is Fuckingmotherfucker, and Annoyingshitdisturber."

Pisces chuckled. "Hello Fucking motherfucker and Annoying shitdisturber."

"Hi."

"Hello."

Capricorn pointed to the curly-haired boy. "This is Leo. And the girl beside him is Sagittarius. Do you think they deserve lunch?"

"Well... everyone deserves to eat..."

Leo and Sagittarius cheered while Capricorn sighed and untied them.

"I'M FREE!" Leo jumped up and ran to the dinning room.

"I'LL STILL KILL YOU!" The girl chased him.

Capricorn gave Pisces a tired smile. "Well, welcome to the zodiac mansion!"