Trading Places
Chapter 1
Elena
Elena burrowed under her cover reluctant to get out of them. She always hated the first day of school. Especially since this was her first day at a new one and she didn't make friends as easily as her siblings did. She pulled the covers over her in hopes that she wouldn't have to go and this terrible experience was just an overall nightmare. Elena had almost made herself believe it until her door flew open and her sister, Katherine pounced on her. She groaned and flipped Katherine off the bed. Katherine laughed and picked herself back up determined to get Elena out of bed.
"Come on Elena. You don't want to make a bad first impression on your first day of school would you?"
Elena groaned and looked at Katherine through peaked eyelashes. She really didn't want to start this new life at Mystic Falls High School. From what she heard this town was a drag anyway.
"Don't give me that Elena. You know how much Aunt Jenna sacrificed to bring us here and take us away from our drug addicted slut of a mother. Do you really want her to get a call from CPS because you didn't go to one of our classes. I'm pretty sure our mother would love to use that against Jenna."
Elena sat up and looked at Katherine with narrowed eyes.
"That was a low blow." She said getting out of bed.
"Well it was a realistic one. Now come on. Get dressed and I'll take you and Jeremy to school with me."
Katherine left the room and Elena put on her band t-shirt and jeans with her sneakers. When she exited the room Katherine gave her a look up and down snearing.
"You're going to wear that to our first day at school?"
"I really don't give a shit what people think of me Kat."
"I'm just saying sometimes a makeover is a good thing especially in a new place. You're not the same old Elena Gilbert anymore."
"I happen to think that I wasn't that bad before."
"I'm being serious here Elena. No hanging out with the stoners or kids that will get you in trouble do you understand me?"
"You're not my mother Kat. Why don't you try to act like a teenager for once? By the way I really don't want a makeover. I mean I'll just look like Katherine 2.0 anyway."
Katherine sighed and took out her car keys out of her purse.
"Are you ready or what?"
"I thought you'd never ask."
"Let me just get Jeremy and we can go."
Elena sighed as Katherine went to Jeremy's room. Sometimes it was hard having Katherine as a twin sister or just a regular sister. Elena tried to branch out from who her sister was a thousand times, but found out it was nearly impossible not to be just like Katherine unless she dressed a different way and acted a different way.
Elena looked at herself in the mirror and smiled at her plain jane face. She still looked like Katherine, but she didn't feel as confident or beautiful as Katherine felt. She guessed she could try to fit in at this new school but she really didn't want to waste her time and energy into making people like her when she would only be there for a selected amount of months. She sighed and turned around to see Katherine and Jeremy coming out of Jeremy's room.
Elena followed them down the stairs as she prepared to go through the day that would forever change her life in so many ways. She just had no clue about it yet.
