Hayden Zachariah

"Another thing that he noticed was that the girl was strikingly attractive, if not beautiful. Her eyes were a deep shade of green and matched her jacket. She smiled and hooked a few loose strands of hair behind her ear."

--Daniel upon meeting Hayden for the first time.

Hayden Zachariah, born May, 2434, is the niece of Bray Zachariah. Nothing is known about her mother, only that she kept Hayden home-schooled while the girl lived in New York. She is also the current love interest of Daniel Mitchell.

Early Life
Daniel Mitchell: "You know Sign Language?"

Hayden Zachariah: "I do. Your name is Daniel, right?"

--Daniel and Hayden communicating in Sign Language.

During Hayden's younger years while being home-schooled, she learned how to communicate in sign language in order to talk to her aunt, who was deaf. In doing so, it allowed her to communicate with her current love interest, who is deaf, Daniel Mitchell.

During her Sophomore year of high school, she decided to move in with one of her aunts on Elenwood Island and began attending Elenwood High School. Here, she met and quickly became friends with a deaf boy named Daniel Mitchell, whom she later began dating.

Appearence
"''Just as they stepped into her office, Daniel noticed a girl with dirty-blonde, waist-length hair looking out the window. When she turned around, he saw she was wearing a bright yellow dress and had a hooded dark green jacket on over it that was unbuttoned. She also wore a pair of red cowboy boots. It was a rather unusual attire for someone to be starting school in." ''

--Hayden's first appearence.

Hayden has waist-length dirty blonde hair and is fairly skinny. She also has deep green eyes that matches the jacket she commonly wears. She also typically wears girl's cowboy boots with her outfits, as she wore a black pair with her white dress she wore to the Winter Formal. She has also been noted by several male characters to be fairly attractive as she was not only the love interest of Daniel Mitchell, but also of Ashton Brennan, a kid who has been bullying Daniel since grade school.

During the Winter Formal, she sported a plain white dress that Becka had convinced her to get along with a pair of girl's black cowboy boots. Even though it was an unusual outfit, she was still attractive enough for Daniel to think she was beautiful and for Ashton to get jealous of the fact that her and Daniel were dating.

Personality
Hayden Zachariah: "But I think Daniel caught sight of that, of how I was feeling. And he assured me that I was the most beautiful person in that gymnasium. And that made me feel better. I just started feeling al giddy inside when he told me that!"

Bray Zachariah: "Well tell me everything. Did you guys at least try to dance somehow?"

Hayden Zachariah: "We did try. It was the cutest thing ever since he didn't know how and I had to show him! He was only doing it to make me happy. And I liked that."

--Hayden talking about her relationship with Daniel to Bray.

Hayden is known to be a very nice girl, nicer than most girls her age. While she was dating Daniel, she was known to be more happy than usual, stating that their relationship was going really well. When she figured out that Daniel and his three brothers were marked, as well as Jensen Alistair, she was very understanding of why Daniel didn't tell her and they still remained a couple for a couple of months after that.

She also has a serious and more couragous side to her, which was shown during the fight that killed Jensen and Shade where she wanted to stay with Daniel and Aaric to help them fight the storm demon.

Even though the two broke up for unknown reasons, her and Daniel still remained very good friends, apparently without feeling uncomfortable around each other.

The Boxes of Lucifer
Starting at the Elenwood High School, Hayden was introduced to Daniel Mitchell by the school's counciler since Hayden knew sign language and thought that she and Daniel might become friends. Upon first seeing him, Hayden instantly grew a crush for him, despite him being deaf. When she found out that the two of them had the exact same schedule, she often stared at him during most of their classes, even pretending to accidentally touch his hand to get his attention.

Overtime, her, Daniel, Jensen Alistair, and Shade Masters, the latter two dating at the time, grew closer together, particularly when Jensen was going through a sickness that was brought on from his mark trying to bond with his body.

She also grew a particularly close friendship with Shade since the girl tried to get Hayden to show her feelings for Daniel to the deaf boy.

After a month of spending time together, her and Daniel shared their first kiss while at the community swimming pool with Shade. While the her and Shade waited for Daniel so they can leave, the building was struck by a series of red lightning strikes. While the three of them managed to come out of the event relatively unscathed, save for a few deep scratches, most of everyone else died from either the building collapsing or from the lightning striking the water, eletricuting everyone inside.

Once the trio emerged from the rubble, they found that it wasn't just the community pool that was affected but that it was the entire block, with many buildings destroyed and much more people killed.

While sleeping over one night at Daniel's house, along with Jensen and Shade, they were all attacked by Becka, a woman whom they had met one day at the mall while Shade and Hayden were shopping for dresses for the upcoming Winter Formal. It was here that she learned that Daniel, Aaric, Jensen, and Becka were marked. Thanks to Daniel protecting her throughout the fight, she emerged from the skirmish with only a slightly deep cut on her cheek.

The next day, while Jensen and Aaric went through Becka's bag that she had dropped, Daniel and Hayden went to the airport to pick up Hayden's aunt, Bray Zachariah, who was moving back to Elenwood Island. After talking with Daniel about everything that happened the night before, with Hayden being perfectly fine about it, they met with her aunt and her aunt's hearing dog, Bruno. After telling Daniel that Bray was deaf, the two convinced Daniel to get a hearing dog.

Along with Bray, her and Daniel talked Aaric into letting Daniel keep the rare Siberian Husky puppy that Daniel bought, whom he named Artic.

After learning about a box that was in Becka's bag, Hayden, Aaric, Shade, Jensen, and Daniel all searched Daniel's family manor for another box. While her and Aaric searched the thrid floor, they found that it looked like the entire floor lit up in a flash fire. However, this later turned out to be an illusion the box made as a means of defending itself.

That night, her and Daniel went to the Winter Formal together, with her wearing a white dress and a pair of girl's black cowboy boots. When the two of them picked up Jensen and Shade, she felt intimidated at what Shade was wearing. However, Daniel assured her that she more beautiful than Shade and just about every girl there, lifting her spritis.

While the two had a good night, hers was quickly dampened when Shade began making fun of Daniel's car, pointing out all the other things that wouldn't be in a normal car that Daniel needs in order to drive. While Hayden grew incredibly angry at the girl, she kept in until Daniel dropped her off so that she didn't tell him.

While explaining things to Bray, Bray admitted that Shade wasn't being a good friend if her friend needed those things in his car in order to drive.

A week or so later, Shade called Daniel, Hayden, Aaric, and Jensen to her house after she found a metal safebox laced with lead that she believes may have held a Box of Lucifer. But before the group can continue any further, a red lightning bolt dropped into Shade's house, causing a massive explosion that killed Jensen and Shade. While Hayden was deeply upset about their deaths, she wanted to stay with Daniel throughout the rest of the fight.

Ultimately, she was convinced to go back to Aaric's house. Once Daniel returned, the two decided to break up though it is never specified why. The two however still remained very good friends.

The Ephemeral Line
While Hayden was not seen in the preview for the Ephemeral Line, it is possible that she will return in the next novel.

Abilities

 * Sign Language: Due to her aunt being deaf, Hayden was taught sign language by Bray and is considered bilingual with both it and English. She is very fluent in sign language to the point that she can have a reltionship with Daniel with no problems and can translate what people say for him.