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Summary: Elena Gilbert is the new girl to Mystic Fall's, well not completely...her parents, Jeremy, and herself lived there from the time she was born to five years old, then her father got offered a better job and they moved to New York. But now years later when Elena is seventeen and her parents died tragically in a car accident and Elena comes back to Mystic Fall's for the funeral (her parents wish was to be buried there), Elena's aunt Jenna takes her and her brother in. So, now Elena is new to Mystic Fall's high school and is gonna find that these southerners are alot more than meets the eye!

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Elena walked around the funeral home and stroked each flower that was sitting on the tables around the room. She wore a plain black dress and her straightened hair was pulled back in a ponytail pushed to her side. She was walking around with tear tracks when someone grabbed her arm.

Elena looked over to see a tall, redheaded beauty hovering over her. Elena faked a smile. ''Hey, Jenna.'' Elena said.

Jenna smiled. ''How are you doing, sweetie?'' Jenna asked. Jenna acted so motherly sometimes, yet she was only twenty three.

Elena nodded. ''Fine, I guess.'' She said.

Jenna smiled. ''Honey, you don't have to pretend with me.'' Jenna encouraged.

Elena forced her million watts smile. ''Whose pretending?'' Elena lied.

Jenna smiled in disbelief, then walked away. Elena unscrewed her smiled and felt the sorrow kick back in.

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''Elena, I need to talk to you.'' A woman in a gray suit with long brunette hair that had been oversprayed with hairspray and looked stiff said to Elena.

''Yes?'' Elena asked, as she moved to sit on the loveseat in the lobby.

The woman pulled out a file. ''I have a file on you and your brother; Jeremy Stephen Gilbert and Elena Nicole Gilbert. Since you two are now orphaned children. I'm afraid you have to come with me.'' The woman said.

Elena panicked. Orphaned children? Come with her where? So many thoughts crossed thruh Elena's mind like passing cars...Oh, no. Cars...accident...I think I'm going to be sick.

Elena bent over. ''I know it is very much to take in, but Miss Gilbert. There is no other choice.'' The woman insisted.

Suddenly Jenna walked over and grabbed Elena's arm. ''Who are you?'' Jenna asked.

The woman sighed and stood. ''Diana Folten. Child case worker. And you are?'' The woman asked.

Jenna's mouth formed a thin line. ''Jenna Sommers, sister of this child's mother.'' Jenna introduced.

The woman stopped being rude and paused for a moment. ''Oh, I wasn't aware that there was any family members living close by.'' She said.

Jenna almost glared. ''Well, there is. And what case is this exactly?'' Jenna asked.

The woman smiled simply. ''They're parents died, they are orphaned children now. I came to get Elena and Jeremy Gilbert to deliver them to the station.'' She said.

Jenna glared. ''I'm aware of all of this information. But I believed that my sister granted me full guardianship if something was to happen to herself and Grayson.'' Jenna said.

Elena relaxed. She didn't care if she had to leave New York as long as herself and Jeremy weren't faking happiness in a family that they don't belong in.

The woman stuttered. ''Start reading people's wills.'' Jenna said and they walked away from the case worker.

Elena smiled. Maybe thing's were going to get better...