This story literally came to me in a dream. I needed to get it out of my head.
I don't own anything but Rena Petrova and Samantha Markley.
Chapter One: Pilot
Dear Diary,
I guess I should introduce myself. Elena said this helps with the loss, though I don't see how. You see, Diary. I've lost my only family that I've known, my loving dad. He died in the same car accident as Elena's parents. Elena and I survived, though I don't know how. I was on my way home from the park and Elena was on her way home from the party that I decided on against going to. I'm not sure who lost control of the car first, and I remember is both cars tumbling over the bridge and falling into the deep water. My father died on impact. I passed out not remembering what happened, same with Elena. But next thing I know, Diary, I'm waking up in the hospital next to Elena's bed.
Since I don't have any other family that's willing to take me in, I'm going with who my dad put in his will, Miranda and Greyson Gilbert. I guess he wasn't expecting them to die the same night he did. Elena's aunt Jenna moved in with her and her little brother, Jeremy, so Jenna was my next best bet. I can't say I was close with Jenna, but she's someone to trust. I will always be thankful for her taking us in when she didn't need to. She has a lot on her plate with working and college, the last thing she needed was having to take care of a couple teenagers. But she took us in anyways.
Diary, I said in the beginning I was going to introduce myself, and I never did. My name is Samantha Rena Markley. My best friends are Caroline, Matt, Tyler, Bonnie, and of course, Elena. I have many other friends but trust me, you'll be hearing about these people more often or not. I am 17 years old, and I am in my Junior Year in high school. Speaking of which, today's the first day. I have to go meet Elena downstairs to get to school. Bonnie drives us most of the time, due to the fact that it's easier to carpool.
Well, Diary, today's the today. I wish my dad was here to watch me go off on my first day of Junior year.
"Sam, you up?" Elena called from the other side of the door.
"Yeah, I'm good!" I shouted closing my journal and laying in on my bed. I sighed at the unfamiliar room. I just got everything finalized about a mouth ago, 3 months after my father's death. This room was still uncomfortable to me. I needed to personalize it. The plain white walls and the wooden floors aren't doing much for me. I shook my head and ran my fingers through my brown hair. It's now or never, I guess.
I opened my white door and stepped into the hallway. I heard everyone talking in the kitchen and I quickly followed their voices, watching my black boot cladded feet jump off the end of the stairs.
"It's your first day of school and I'm completely unprepared." Jenna shook her head as she grabbed her purse. She looked through it quickly before looking up at the three of us. "Money for lunch?" She asked.
"No need." Elena shook her head.
"Don't worry about me, Jenna." I smiled softly at her.
Jeremy was the only one who hesitated before taking some money and stuffing it in his pockets.
"Anything else? A number two pencil?" Jenna sighed. "What am I missing?"
"Don't you have that big presentation today?" Elena asked her aunt. I watched Jenna's expressions go from confused to anxious.
"I have a meeting with my thesis adviser..." She looked down at her watch. "Now. Crap!" She shook her light brown hair out of the pony tail so that it was falling around her loosely.
"Go." I laughed at the older woman.
"Yeah, we'll be fine." Elena agreed.
Jenna watched us for a moment before nodding. She grabbed the stuff that she needed and shouted a quick 'bye' before heading out the door. I sighed when she was gone and took a sip out of Elena's coffee cup. She rolled her eyes at me but didn't stop me.
"You okay?" Elena asked Jeremy. He took it the hardest out of all of us. Elena and I just lost some of our personality, Jeremy turned to drugs and pills.
"Don't start." Jeremy snapped before leaving the kitchen with his coffee cup in his hands.
"What about you?" Elena asked looking at me, not even bothered by Jeremy. He's been like this all summer.
"Well, school's never been a big thing for me, but I'll be fine." I shrugged handing her back her coffee. She nodded that she understood. "It'd be hard, but we got each other. We'll get through it like we always do."
"Yeah, true." Elena smiled gently at me before a beep outside pulled us away from our thoughts. "That must be Bonnie." She commented dumping the rest of her coffee in the sink.
I nodded and grabbed my black bag that was on the couch waiting for me, mocking me. My dad gave me this bag when I was 14 and it hasn't failed me yet. I slipped on my leather jacket that matched with my black boots before following Elena outside to Bonnie's car.
"My grams goes on to tell me that I'm psychic." Bonnie explained to me. I would include Elena in that, but she was too busy spacing out in the back seat.
"It could be true, Bon." I shrugged. Anything was possible in the world.
"Maybe." She sighed. "Our ancestors are from Salem, apparently. She will not stop talking about it, and I think, 'put this woman in a home!' But then I started thinking, I predicted Obama, and I predicted Heath Ledger, and I still think Florida is going to separate and process into little resort islands." Bonnie explained. She looked in the back to see that Elena wasn't paying attention to anything that we were saying. "Elena, back to the car." Bonnie called.
"I did it again, right? Sorry Bonnie, Sam." Elena sighed frowning at the both of us.
I shrugged. "It's no biggie. Bonnie was just telling me that she's psychic now." I smiled over to the dark skinned teen driving. She rolled her eyes but smiled back.
"Right." Elena nodded. "Okay, predict anything. About the both of us." She pointed to me and her.
Bonnie started thinking. "I see-" She started but suddenly something black pops out of nowhere and hits the windshield. Bonnie slams her foot down on the brakes and pulls over on the side of the road so people could get past us. I froze for a second before I realized where we were. I wasn't in some pond, drowning. I was on the road with my friends, safe.
"What was that?" I asked breathless.
"Oh my God, you guys alright?" Bonnie asked concerned for the both of us.
"I'm okay." I sighed quietly.
"I'm fine." Elena said from the back.
"It was a bird or something. It came out of nowhere." Bonnie tried explaining to the both of us.
"It's fine, Bonnie." I shook my head at the brunette.
"We can't be terrified of cars indefinitely." Elena stated with a shrug.
Bonnie turned to look at the both of us. "I predict that this year will be awesome. And I predict that eventually the sad and dark times will be over and you both will be beyond happy." Bonnie predicted with a smile.
"Amen." I laughed nodding my head along with Bonnie.
Elena, Bonnie, and I were walking down the hallway. Elena was listening to me and Bonnie complain about the lack of cute guys. It was hard living in a small town and trying to find someone worth your time. "Lack of male restate." I rolled my brown eyes at Bonnie.
"The male population is bad this year." Bonnie agreed nodding.
I pointed to this girl Kelly Beach. "Look." I groaned.
"Look at that shower curtain Kelly Beach. She looks like a hot- can I still say, 'tranny-mess'?" Bonnie asked looking over at Elena and I.
"No. I think that's pretty much overused." I shook my head at the silly brunette. I reached my locker that was close enough to Bonnie's and opened it to keep the things that I didn't need in my locker.
"Find a man for you both-" Bonnie started.
"Find a man for yourself. And come up with a new catch-phrase." I pointed out shutting my locker closed.
"It's a busy year." Bonnie sighed.
"He hates me." Elena spoke up. I looked up from Bonnie to see Matt Donovan, Elena's ex boyfriend standing on the other side of the hallway.
I sighed. "That is not hate."
"That is: 'You dumped me, but I'm too cool to show it, but secretly, I'm listening to the hits of Air Supply.'" Bonnie finished for me with a frown. I sighed and patted Elena's shoulder. She didn't want to hurt Matt. It was hard to look at those pretty blue eyes and break up with him.
I got pulled away from Elena and into a strong grip. I gasped and tried pulling away but they just held me closer. They finally pulled away and looked at me sadly; Caroline Forbes. One of the other people in our little friendship group.
"Elena? Sammy? My God, how are you?" She asked and then pulled Elena into a hug this time. I stepped away from the preppy blonde and more over to Bonnie. I wanted to try and avoid getting hugged from her again. She won't let go this time. "It's so good to see you both." She said pulling away from Elena.
She stepped back and looked at Bonnie. "How are they? Are they okay?" Caroline asked like we weren't right in front of her.
"Caroline, we're right here." I said waving my hand in front of her face.
"And we're fine, thanks." Elena continued for me.
"Really?" Caroline asked unsure if she should believe us.
"Yes, we are much better." Elena spoke for the both of us but I nodded to ensure Caroline.
Apparently, it wasn't enough for the blonde. Because she pulled us into another hug, this time together. "Poor things." She whispered into our ears.
"Alright." I patted Caroline's back like she was the one that needed comfort.
"Alright, Caroline." Elena pulled back from the dangerous blonde and Caroline finally let us go out of her grip.
"See you later?" Caroline asked with her dazzling smile.
"Okay, bye!" Elena waved back to Caroline and the blonde took off down the hallway. I sighed when she was finally out of our sight. Don't get me wrong, I love Caroline, but she was too much sometimes.
"No comment." I shook my head at the two brunettes. They both nodded.
"I will not say anything." Elena shook her head before we turned and started walking down the hallway.
We just started passing by the main office when I pulled Bonnie back to look at the mysterious guy. "Wait a minute." I said looking at the leather jacket.
"Who is this?" Bonnie asked for me. She cocked a perfectly shaped eyebrow at the both of us and we shrugged.
"All I see is the back." Elena said looking at us weirdly.
"It's a hot back." I laughed over at Elena. She rolled her eyes at me.
"I sense Seattle, and plays guitar." Bonnie nodded with a smirk.
"You're really going to run this whole psychic thing into the ground, huh?" Elena asked with a laugh.
"Pretty much." Bonnie agreed with a shrug.
Elena turned to look at someone who called her brother's name. I watched as he went into the bathroom. Elena sighed at me before raising an eyebrow. We both turned to Bonnie. "We'll be right back." Elena said before leading me into the guy's bathroom.
We get into the bathroom just when Jeremy was putting eye drops into his eyes.
"Whoa! Pants down, chick!" Some random Sophomore yelled to us.
"Oh, be quiet. We've seen a dick before." I snapped to the kid making him pull up his pants and run out of the bathroom. Boys. I rolled my eyes.
"Great!" Elena said to her little brother. "First day of school and you're stoned." She sighed angrily, shaking her head.
"No, I'm not." Jeremy tried denying it.
"Listen, kiddo. We've been around longer, we know the signs." I shrugged at the 15 year old boy. He rolled his eyes at my nickname for him. I've called him kiddo for the longest time. He's always hated it. That's why I do it.
"Where is it?" Elena questioned starting to search her little brother. "Is it on you?"
"Stop!" He pushed out of her reach. "Just chill yourself, okay?"
"Chill yourself?" I snorted. "What is that? Stoner talk? Dude, you're, like, so cool." I said sarcastically.
"Stop!" Jeremy shouted again when Elena tried reaching for him. "I don't have anything on me. Are you crazy?"
"You have no seen me crazy, Jeremy!" Elena stated. "I gave you a summer pass, but I'm sick of seeing you destroy yourself." Elena complained. "No, you know what? Go ahead. Keep it up. But just know that I'll be here to kill your buzz every time I see you stoned, got it?" She questioned.
Another teenage boy stepped out of one of the stales looking at me and Elena like we were weird. I waved him off and he ran out of the bathroom.
"I don't need this." Jeremy shook his head at the both of us before running out of the bathroom.
"Jeremy." I sighed going after him. I saw him turn the corner before a body interrupted my line of sight. Elena came running out of the boys bathroom, bumping into me, which in return made me bump into the stranger in front of myself. I carefully caught myself on him, trying not to knock him over in the process.
"Sorry, Sam." Elena helped me stand up straight. I nodded my head at her before turning to the new guy in front of me. Wow, green eyes.
"I'm sorry." He said. "Is this the men's bathroom?" He questioned with a cock of his head.
I laughed awkwardly. "Yeah. It's a long story that you probably don't want to hear." I shrugged. I saw Bonnie wave Elena over to her quickly, trying not to get noticed by me, but I noticed. Elena followed after the dark skinned teen before smiling back at me. I rolled my eyes at my friends. They're dead meat.
"I should probably be getting to class." I said pointing to my friends at the end of the hallway. The green eyed teen nodded before trying to step around me, but I went the same way he did. I laughed but tried again, resulting in the same situation. I grabbed his arms before switching our positions, so I was were he was and he was were I was.
I patted his arm awkwardly before turning around and following after my friends down the hall and into my history class. When I noticed that the mystery guy wasn't watching me, I slapped my forehead. "Stupid." I muttered to myself before going into the classroom and taking my seat next to Elena.
"Our state of Virginia joined the Confederacy in 1861, this created an enormous tension within the state..." Tanner, the history teacher, dragged on. I sighed and leaned back into my chair before taking my phone out and texting Bonnie.
'I am so bored. Tanner's voice is putting me to sleep. Zzzzz... -S' I texted Bonnie. I looked up when I felt eyes on me to see the new guy staring at me from his seat. I smiled at him awkwardly- because everything I do is awkward.
"People in Virginia's northwest region had different ideals than those from the traditional deep south." Tanner explained further breaking me out of my thoughts.
I looked over at Elena to see her doodling on her paper, not realizing Matt was staring at her with lost puppy-dog eyes.
"Virginia was divided in 1863, with the northeastern region to join the Union." Tanner stated.
I looked up at the new student again and made eye contact. I looked away and smirked down at my desk. I turned in my desk to look at Bonnie and she winked at me. I flipped her off under my desk and she rolled her eyes. I felt my phone buzz in my hand and I looked down at the text to see that it was from Bonnie.
'Cutie's looking at you- ooo la la. -B'
I smirked down at the text message before texting her back.
'Groowl. ;) -S'
I heard her snort at my text message. I smirked at my friend before shutting off my phone and paying attention to Tanner's monotone voice.
"I swear, if I have to go through one more year of Tanner's voice, I'll kill myself." I complained to Elena as we made our way to the cemetery. It was our monthly visit that we decided to do together. We would come here and do whatever. It was a good time to actually get things out of your mind. Now that I was trying to write things down more, I could use this time to write to dad.
"You always say that." Elena laughed at me about Tanner.
"It'll happen." I sighed sadly. She pushed my shoulder before making her way to her parents grave. I headed in a different direction and landed next to my dad's grave.
Terry Markley
Loving Father and Friend
Will Be Missed For Eternity
I sighed at my dad's headstone before getting my journal out and a pen.
Dear Diary,
It's the end of the school day, and I surprisingly didn't yell or scream at anyone. Elena told me on the way to the cemetery that she must have said, 'I am well, thank you.' about 37 times. I couldn't agree more. It's hard without you here, dad. It's hard to actually go through the day and pretend that losing the only thing I had in my life, that was good, was getting easier to deal with. It wasn't. It's getting real hard not being able to hear you singing in the morning anymore, dad. I wish you were here.
A caw from a crow made me look up from my journal. It was between the tombstone of Elena's parents and my dad. I shared the same look as Elena before getting up and shooing the bird away.
"That's not creepy or anything." Elena said getting up from the ground. I shrugged my shoulders, it wasn't that bad. I looked down at the ground just in time to see fog rolling around us.
"Fog?" I asked confused.
"Let's get out of here." Elena suggested. I looked up to see how nervous she was being out here. I nodded my head and picked up my bag. I nodded my head to follow me and we headed out of the cemetery.
I looked back at the spot where we just left to see a black figure standing, looking at us. I heard Elena's quick intake of air and knew that she saw him too. I turned back around just in time to trip on a tree branch on the ground. I landed on the ground with an 'unf' and a groan.
"Sam, are you okay?" Elena looked down at me. I waved her off and got back up on my two feet. "Alright, well, I think I've had enough excitement to last a while. I'll meet you back at the house, okay?" She questioned. I nodded my head and she turned away, passing by the new student who was making his way over to me. She looked back at me and gave me a thumbs up.
"Are you okay?" The green eyed boy asked me concerned.
"Uh, I'm fine." I shrugged. "Were you just back there?" I pointed to the place where me and Elena came from.
"No, I saw you fall. I thought I'd help you." The teen explained.
I nodded my head. "Well, thank you. What are you doing in a cemetery?" I questioned curious on the fact.
"I was visiting. I have family here." He explained with a shrug.
"Same." I nodded understanding. "I'm Samantha, but people call me Sam or Sammy." I smiled brightly at the male in front of me.
"I'm Stefan." He smiled back holding out his hand for me to shake. I gave it a light shake, feeling a spark go up through my arm. I tried not to act like I felt anything. Hopefully it worked.
"I know, we have History together." I shrugged thinking back to this morning.
"And English, and French." Stefan pointed out.
"Right." I nodded agreeing.
Stefan lifted his hand and pulled out a small twig that was stuck in my hair. I laughed and pulled out a leaf that I found. "Wow, how nice." I said sarcastically. "Thank you." I looked down at his hand to see a huge ring on his finger. "Nice ring." I said in appreciation.
"Yeah, it's a family ring. I'm stuck with it. It's weird, huh?" He asked with a laugh.
I shook my head. "No, it's unique looking. I mean, I have rings, but that's a ring. I like it." I shrugged explaining.
"Did you hurt yourself?" Stefan asked nervously. I raised an eyebrow at him.
"Um..." I looked down at my knee to see a little damp spot on my black jeans. "Shit." I shook my head at my clumsiness.
"You should probably go and take care of that." Stefan said uneasy. I looked up at him to see that he was uneased about the thought of blood.
"Yeah. I should be getting home anyways." I shrugged my backpack higher up on my shoulder. "I'll see you around, Stefan." I rushed out of the cemetery and started heading home. Elena was right, I've had enough strange for today.
"Elena," I called up the stairs. "We're going to be late, if you don't move your butt." I moved away from the stairs.
"Where you off to?" Jenna asked coming out of the kitchen. I turned to the sound of her voice.
"Elena and I are going to the Grill to meet up with Bonnie and Caroline." I stated with a smile.
"Have fun." Jenna said as Elena came down the stairs. "Wait, I got this. Don't stay out too late, it's a school night." Jenna smirked triumphantly.
I laughed shaking my head at Jenna as Elena nodded and told her that she did good. I opened the door to leave but was stopped when I looked up in familiar green eyes.
"We got to stop meeting like this." I pointed between the two of us.
Stefan smiled down at me. "Sorry, I was about to knock." He stated with a shrug. "I wanted to apologize about earlier. I didn't mean to get all weird with your leg." He tried apologizing but I waved him off.
"Not to worry. I get it, blood makes you uneasy." I shrugged.
"Something like that." He commented. "How is your leg?"
"It was just a scratch, nothing I can't handle." I shrugged. "How do you know where I live?" I asked confused. I was pretty sure that he didn't know I lived with Elena.
"It's a small town." He pointed out. "I asked the first person I saw." He explained with a joking manner.
I nodded my head. "Touche." I laughed slightly.
"I thought you might want this back." Stefan reached into his pocket and pulled out my small leather bound journal. I smiled up at the green eyed boy before taking the book from his hands.
"I must have left it." I shook my head at myself. "Thank you, so much. I'd be going crazy later on when I tried to find it." I stated with a laugh.
"Don't worry about it." Stefan said. "I didn't read it." He commented shaking his head.
"Why? Must people would love to know what goes on through Samantha Markley's mysterious mind." I said sarcastically.
"I wouldn't like people to read mine." Stefan shrugged.
I pushed his shoulder jokingly. "You do not have a journal." I laughed slightly.
"I do." Stefan admits.
"No way." I laughed slightly.
He nodded. "Yeah, if I didn't write, I would forget. Memories are too important."
I nodded my head. "They are."
"Sam, ready?" Elena asked coming into the conversation. I nodded my head before turning back to Stefan.
"You don't have to stay out there." I shook my head before going into the house and putting my journal onto the book shelf. Not many people look there, it was a good hiding spot.
"I'm fine here." Stefan called into the house. I ran back over and met up with Elena and Stefan before grabbing my bag and throwing it over my shoulder.
"Sorry," Stefan said. "Were you going somewhere?"
"Yeah, we are meeting a couple friends." I said softly.
"You should come with us." Elena smiled at the both of us.
"Do you wanna come?" I asked brightly at the male. Stefan smiled at the both of us before nodding.
"Okay, so the brunette is Bonnie and the blonde is Caroline." I pointed to the two teenagers as we got into the Grill. Stefan nodded that he understood. "And the male is Matt, he's Elena's ex. It's a little awkward right now because they just broke up about a month or so ago." I sighed quietly.
"Got it." Stefan nodded at me.
Matt come up to Stefan, Elena, and I. I saw Elena get really awkward. I gave Stefan a, 'told you so' look and he nodded.
"Hi. I'm Matt. Nice to meet you." Matt took out his hand for Stefan to shake.
Stefan grabbed Matt's hand before intruding himself. "Hi. I'm Stefan."
Matt lets go of Stefan's hand before looking at Elena. I pushed Stefan a little to the left to get around the awkward ex's. He understood what I was doing before following my lead. I nodded my head telling him to follow me. I brought him over to our usual table that we sat at and smiled at the two girls. They smiled brightly at Stefan before smirking at me. I rolled my eyes but sat down at the table anyways.
"So, were born here in Mystic Falls?" Caroline started asking questions around the time that we all got settled into the booth.
"Yeah, and then moved when I was young." Stefan nodded his head.
"Parents?" Bonnie asked this time around.
Stefan's expression turned from friendly to sad. "My parents passed away." Stefan stated with a sad look.
I patted his shoulder softly. "I'm sorry, Stefan. I know how much it hurts to lose a parent. I just recently lost mine."
Stefan nodded at me in understanding before Elena sat down on the other side of me. I knew she heard the conversation because she was right there listening. "Do you have siblings?" Elena asked curious.
"None that I talk to." Stefan shrugged.
"That's sad." I pouted at the male. He shrugged.
"I live with my uncle." He stated.
"So, Stefan, if you are new, you don't know about the party tomorrow." Caroline smirked over at me. I laughed and shook my head. The last party that I went to, I ended up drunk and almost naked somewhere outside. It took me a good 10 minutes trying to find my way out of the woods.
"It's a back to school thing." I finished explaining.
"Are you going?" Stefan looked down at me. I opened my mouth to answer but Bonnie beat me to it.
"Of course, she is going." Bonnie smiled in my direction. I shrugged my shoulders at Stefan.
"I guess, I'm going." I laughed.
Let me tell you how time dragged on when you were looking forward to something after school. I can not sit still. I wanted to go to this party tonight and Tanner's voice wasn't helping my situation.
"The Battle of Willow Creek was ended in here, in our Mystic Falls. How many causalities resulted in this battle?" Tanned looked around at the bored class before setting eyes on the dark skinned brunette. "Miss. Bennett?"
Bonnie hummed. "A lot?" She guessed with wide green eyes. "I'm not sure. Like a whole lot."
"Cute becomes dumb in an instant, Miss. Bennett." Tanner snapped at the girl. Bonnie looked back down at her notepad. "Mr. Donovan? Would you like this opportunity to overcome your embedded jock stereotype?"
Matt shook his head. "It's okay, Mr. Tanner. I'm okay with that." Matt jokes making the whole class burst into little giggles.
"Miss. Gilbert?" Tanner looked at the young girl next to me. She shook her head quietly. Tanner sighed before turning to me. "Miss. Markley?" He raised an eyebrow. I sighed and leaned against my chair. "Surely you can enlighten us about one of the most significant historical events?"
"Well, when you put it like that." I mutter under my breath before looking up at Tanner. "I'm sorry. I don't know." I shrugged.
"I was willing to be lenient on you and Miss. Gilbert last year for obvious reasons, Samantha. But the personal excuses ended with summer break." Tanner said to both me and Elena. I looked from Tanner's brown eyes to the doodle-filled notebook.
"There were 346 causalities. Unless you're counting local citizens." Stefan's voice rang out through the room. I glanced up from underneath of my side bangs to see Stefan looking up at Tanner from his chair.
"That's correct, Mr...?" Tanner asked the silent question.
"Salvatore." Stefan answered.
"Salvatore. Have any relations with the original settlers in Mystic Falls?" Tanner asked interested.
Stefan shrugged nonchalantly. "Distant." He answered Tanner.
"Very well, then." Tanner nodded. "Except," I knew it was coming. "Of course, there were no civilian casualties in this battle." Tanner disagreed.
"Actually, there were 27 civilian casualties, sir." Stefan corrected the tall teacher. "Confederate soldiers, they fired on the church, believing it to be housing weapons. They were wrong. It was a night of great loss. The founder's archives are, uh, stored in civil hall if you want to brush up on your facts, Mr. Tanner." Stefan said with a ghost of a smile. I laughed in my seat and patted Stefan's shoulder when Tanner turned back to the board. Stefan shared my smile before turning back to Tanner.
"Just admit it, Sam." Bonnie rolled her eyes at me. I sighed for the fifth time tonight since I've gotten here. Bonnie was trying to get my to admit that Stefan was a potential love interest for me, but I wasn't completely sure. I just met the guy the other day.
"He's obviously gorgeous." I said with a roll of my brown eyes. Bonnie and Elena smirked in satisfaction. I finally said something they wanted to hear.
"He has that romance novel stare." Bonnie nodded to me. She sighed dramatically. "'Stefan looked into her eyes, piercing into her soul.'" Bonnie quoted one of her mushy romance novels. I laughed loudly before shoving Bonnie away from me.
"You're unbelievable." I laughed at the brunette.
"So, where is he?" Elena said still laughing from me and Bonnie.
"I don't know." I shrugged with a sigh. I looked around me but I couldn't see anyone with piercing green eyes that ripped through my soul. "Bonnie, you're the physic, you tell me where he is."
Bonnie laughed and nodded. "Right, I forgot. Give me a second. Grams tells me that I have to concentrate."
"Wait!" Elena interrupted jokingly. "You need something." She looked around before grabbing a beer bottle from the ground and handing it to Bonnie. "Crystal ball."
Bonnie laughed and took the bottle from Elena's hands. Suddenly, Bonnie's smile fades and I looked between the two of them but couldn't sense anything out of order.
"What?" Elena asked pulling away from Bonnie. Bonnie looked at the both of us nervous.
"It was weird. When I touched Elena, I saw a crow." Bonnie whispered. I shared a look with Elena. We were having issues with a crow just yesterday at the graveyard.
"What?" I asked. I feel like it was just too weird, right?
"A crow." Bonnie repeated. "There was fog. A man." Bonnie listed everything she had sensed, or saw when she touched Elena. With every word that Bonnie said, Elena and I got more nervous. Bonnie looked at both our expressions before waving the whole thing off. "I'm drunk. It's the drink. There is nothing physic about it." Bonnie shook her head. "Yeah? I'm going to get another one." Bonnie pointed to the beer table and left us.
"Bonnie!" I shouted after her. I was worried about her. All this stuff her Grams was talking to her about was really getting her worried about things that she wouldn't worry about beforehand. I sighed and turned back around to face Elena but almost jumped out of my skin when I saw Stefan standing behind me. I sighed and put my hand over to heart slowing my heart rate down a little. "Jeez." I muttered under my breath.
"Hi." Stefan said with a loopy smile. I smiled back up at him before repeating the greeting.
"Sam, I'm going to go make sure Bonnie's okay." Elena pointed in the direction that Bonnie left.
I nodded my head. "Yeah, be careful."
"Will do." She nodded before taking off to look for our friend.
"You're upset about something." Stefan pointed out, focusing into my emotions.
I looked back over to the green eyed male with a raised brow. "No." I shook my head with a sigh. "It's just Bonnie. She's..." I looked back to see Stefan's face full of concern. This was a party, I didn't need to start any friend drama and make it all dreary. I shook my head. "You know what, never mind." I smiled brightly up at Stefan. "You're here. You came." I said excitedly.
"I'm here." Stefan nodded with a matching smile.
"Did you get a drink yet?" I asked, noticing his empty hands.
"I did not." He laughed.
I grabbed his cool hand into mine and pulled him away from the fire where Elena, Bonnie, and I were talking. "Then let's go!" I laughed over the music.
"You know, you're kind of a big shot around town." I stated looking at Stefan. I had let go of his hand after being reassured that he was following me.
"Am I?" Stefan asked curious.
"You're all anyone talks about. The mysterious new guy." I laughed and rolled my eyes. "I just think they're scared to actually figure out the mystery, but that's half the fun." I winked in Stefan's direction.
We reached the table with all the beer and I grabbed two of them before passing a couple bills to the guy behind the counter. Stefan looked like he was going to interrupt and pay for himself but I shoved away his money. "No worries." I shook my head. He sighed but nodded.
"You have that mysterious think going on, too." Stefan mentioned when we were away from the big group of people fighting over their drinks. "Twinged in with sadness and loneliness." Stefan pointed out frowning.
"What makes you think I'm sad and lonely?" I asked with a fake smile. I just met this guy and he could already read me like a book. Either, I wasn't doing as good of a job as I thought I was trying to be happy, or he was really good at reading people.
"Well, we did meet at the graveyard." Stefan joked.
"Well, no." I laughed. "Technically, we met in front of the boy's bathroom." I smiled up at him before getting back to the other subject. "You don't want to know about any of it. It's not exactly great party chit-chat."
Stefan laughed. "Well, I've never really been very good at, uh, chit-chat."
We came to the bridge that was far enough away from the buzz of people talking and the loud sounds of music playing. I sighed and turned to Stefan, stopping halfway onto the bridge.
"About 4 months ago in Spring, both my and Elena's parents drove off a bridge into the lake." I turned away from Stefan's intense gaze, looking down at the dark river below us, reflecting the stars and the moon.
"I was on my way home from the park. I had just got into a fight with my dad and needed to get out of the house. I was always the one kid that would run to a childhood spot, that happened to be the playground. Of course, my dad knew where I would be, and he picked me up. During the drive home, we were fighting." I sighed in the middle of my story. "He looked back at me the same time we got onto the bridge. No one knows how hit who first. Whether my dad lost control of the car and hit Elena's parent's car, who was coming back from picking her up at a party because she was drunk. Or they hit us. But we both went over the bridge's edge and fell into the deep waters. My dad never woke back up after that night." I finished my story with a sad sigh. "And that's my story."
"You won't be sad forever, Sam." Stefan looked down at me softly. I looked up from the water to see his green eyes watching me carefully.
"I hope not."
"I liked Elena and Bonnie, they look like good friends." Stefan commented. We were finally off the subject of my dad's death, now we were talking about Bonnie and Elena.
"They're great. The best friends a girl can have." I laughed looking at them from far away.
"And Matt, he can't seem to take his eyes off Elena, or us." Stefan pointed out as Matt looked over at us before returning to his conversation with Bonnie.
I sighed. "Matt's that friend since childhood that you owe it to yourself to always look out for. We've known each other forever." I shrugged nonchalantly.
"And?" Stefan pushed knowing that there's more.
"And, he was my first kiss." I laughed. "It wasn't anything special. It was at a big middle school party and we were playing 7 Minutes in Heaven and I got Matt. We talked the whole time before we finally just did it. It obviously was awkward considering Matt's like a brother to me."
"What about Elena?" Stefan asked turning his head slightly before looking down at me again.
"Matt and Elena..." I thought about it for a second. "After Elena's parents died, everything changed for her. Before, they were the power couple. A star football player, and a small cheerleader, cheering him on at every game. But then nothing mattered to Elena anymore. What she thought mattered, really didn't, and she grew up. She realized that what they had wasn't..." I paused to try and figure out a word to use.
"Passionate?" Stefan offered. I snapped my fingers and nodded at him.
"Exactly. It wasn't passionate." I agreed.
Stefan gulped before looking away from me to the ground. He started rubbing his eye but I got a small glimpse of it before he turned away. It looked like something was in his eye the way it was so red. "Hey, are you okay? Your eye..." I reached out with my hand to comfort him.
"Yeah. I know. It's nothing." Stefan cleared his throat. "Are you thirsty? I'm going to get us a drink." Stefan grabbed my cup before turning around and going back down the bridge.
I watched Stefan's body retreat before sighing. I shook my head at his bipolar attitude before going to find someone to have fun with.
I watched Matt leave Elena speechless before I made my way over to the lonely teen. "Damn." I sighed under my breath. She nodded silently. "Are you okay?" I asked turning to the brunette.
"Yeah. I'll be fine. I just don't like hurting him. He still thinks we can have a future together but I don't see it." Elena explained with a breathy voice.
I nodded my head in understanding. "Of course. You shouldn't be with someone because you feel bad. It should be because you love them."
She nodded along with me. I looked up to see Stefan pushing Caroline away. She looked at Stefan's retreating body with a sullen face before turning around and walking the other way.
"I was wondering who had kidnapped you, but I can see that it was the devil herself." I laughed at Stefan. Caroline wasn't that bad... sober.
"Is she like that with every guy?" Stefan asked coming closer to Elena and I.
Elena and I shared a look before turning to Stefan. "Pretty much." We said at the same time.
"Sometime's worse." I shrugged.
"You got to be kidding me!" Elena shouted looking in the other direction, behind me. I turned my head to see Jeremy walking into the forest, with drunken steps.
"What?" Stefan asked confused on what was happening.
"My brother." Elena sighed.
"The drunk one?" Stefan asked again.
"That will be the one." I confirmed with an angry sigh. "He's going to get himself killed."
"Do you need help?" Stefan asked looking down at Elena and I.
"Trust me, Stefan. You don't wanna see this." I said as Elena pushed past us calling out to her brother.
"Will she be okay?" Stefan asked concerned.
"She'll be fine. She'll yell at him like she always does, threaten to try and get him to stop. It won't work. She'll get madder at her brother before complaining to me about which I will need to defuse and tell her that he's just a 15 year old boy and he needs to make his own mistakes. Blah, blah, blah..." I sighed at the end of the sentence.
"Every time?" Stefan asked with a slight grin jokingly.
"Seems like it." I grinned back. "You'll see."
I was talking about nonsense to Stefan when I heard Elena's shout. "Somebody help!" She called. I turned around to see her and Jeremy heaving a body out of the woods. I quickly dismissed Stefan before running over to help the two Gilbert's.
"Vicki?" Matt asked coming closer. "What the hell?" He yelled helping us.
"What happened to her?" Tyler asked as he made his way through the crowd.
"Call an ambulance." I ordered someone in the crowd. I pulled off my cardigan before holding it to Vicki's neck to apply pressure. "Tyler, back everyone up. She needs air to breath." I ordered the line-back receiver.
"Everyone back off! Give her space." Tyler ordered holding back the crowd.
"It's her neck." I explained to Matt when he came up next to me concerned. "Something got to her. She is losing a lot of blood." I tried applying more pressure to the wound without hurting Vicki.
"Come on, Vicki. Open your eyes. Look at me." Matt pleaded. He grabbed his sister's hand and held on tightly. I knew that Vicki wasn't going to wake up. She lost too much blood. We needed to get her to the hospital now.
I looked up remembering about Stefan. He was in the back of the crowd, watching with concerned eyes. His green orbs met my brown ones and I nodded my head. "It's okay." I mouthed to Stefan. He nodded at me before turning away from the site and leaving. I knew that he wasn't a fan of blood. We didn't need two people going to the hospital tonight.
Stefan's POV:
I ran into the old building, scaring Zach almost off his desk. He turned away from his work to look at me coming into the house. "What's going on?" He asked confused.
"Someone else was attacked tonight. And it wasn't me, Zach." I explained quickly before running into my room.
I immediately feel like someone was in my room the moment I got into it. I looked around carefully before a crow flew into the room with a loud shriek. The black bird circled around my room before it flew back outside. I turned to watch the mysterious bird only to found someone who I haven't seen for 15 years. Dressed in all black with a thick leather jacket, and a smirk to match was my brother. "Damon."
"Hello, brother." Damon greeted with his usual smirk on his face.
"The crow is a bit much, don't you think?" I thought out loud. My brother was always one for dramatics. Damon started circling me like I was his pray. He looked around at all the things that I had in my room.
"Wait and see what I can do with the fog." Damon smirked over at me.
"When did you get here?" I growled at my brother.
"Well, I couldn't miss your first day of school." Damon teased. "Your hair's different. I like it."
"It's been 15 years, Damon." I stated with a roll of my eyes.
"Thank God." Damon sighed dramatically. "I couldn't take another day on the 90's, that horrible grunge look. Did not suit you." Damon pointed out walking to a different book shelf. "Remember Stefan, it's important to stay away from fads."
"Why are you here?" I asked in a low voice making Damon turn around to look at me.
"I missed my little brother-" Damon tried starting but I stopped him.
"You have small towns. It's boring. There's nothing for you to do." I pointed out like it was obvious. I narrowed my bright eyes.
"I managed to keep myself busy." Damon shrugged with humor. He enjoyed watching me struggle.
"You know, you left that girl alive tonight." I mentioned about the 'animal' attack. "That was very clumsy of you."
"That could be a problem... for you." Damon shrugged.
"Why are you here now?" I demanded for the second time tonight.
"I could ask you the same question. However, I'm certain the answer stays with one little word, Samantha." Damon smirked knowing that he was right. He was right about the fact I stayed because I wanted to know her, but not about why. "She took my breath away, Sam. She's a dead ringing for Rena. And Elena, woo, she's exactly like Katherine. Is it working, Stefan? Being around Samantha, being in her world? She make you feel alive?" Damon taunted with a nasty growl.
"She's not Rena." I shook my head.
"Let's hope not. We both know how that ended. Tell me something, when was the last time you ate something stronger than squirrel?" Damon teased about my eating diets.
"I know what you are trying to do, Damon." I shook my head. "It's not going to work." I turned away from my brother. I didn't need to hear what he had to say.
"Yeah?" Damon questioned. I could feel the anger inside me start to fuel. "Come on. Don't you crave a little?"
"Stop!" I growled to my brother. I tried to ignore him.
"Let's do it!" Damon jumped at the thought. "The two of us together. I saw a couple of girls out there. Or we can just cut to the chase and go straight to Samantha. Or maybe that pretty Elena."
"Stop it." I pushed Damon away from me.
"Imagine the taste of their blood." Damon tempted me. "I can."
I looked up at the mirror to see my white eyes turn black and veins start to pop underneath my eyes. "I said stop!" I growled before turning around and running for Damon.
We smashed through the window with an unbeatable force. I felt the impact of the concrete floor before I really thought about it. I looked up from the ground to see that I was alone on the ground and Damon was standing away from where we landed, watching me struggle. I stood up from the ground and dusted off my clothes.
"I was impressed." Damon spoke up. I looked up at the dark vampire. I death glared him. If only looks could kill. "I give it a six. Missing style, but I was pleasantly surprised. Very good with the face." Damon mocked the snarling noise that I made just a few minutes ago. "It was good."
"It's always fun and games with you, Damon. But wherever you go, people die." I commented with facts.
Damon chuckled. "That's given."
"Not here." I shook my head. "I won't allow it."
"I take that as an invitation." Damon commented.
"Damon, please. After all these years, can we just give it a rest?" I begged the only way to get through to Damon.
"I promised you an eternity of misery so I'm just keeping my word." Damon shrugged his shoulders.
I sighed knowing there was no way I could make Damon leave Mystic Falls. "Just stay away from Sam- and Elena." I added at the end.
"Where is your ring?" Damon questioned looking down at my hand. I quickly touched my finger where my big, bulky ring usually sat. To find it empty made me start to freak out a little bit. I looked around on the floor to see if it fell off my finger when I landed. "Right, the sun is coming up in a couple of hours, and poof, ashes to ashes." Damon tsked. "Relax. It's right here."
Damon passed me my ring. I watched Damon with caution. I slipped the ring carefully back onto my finger, relaxing now that I didn't have to worry about the sun coming up. Just as I was letting my guard down; Damon's vampiric face turned towards me with a snarl. He grabbed me by my throat before throwing me against the garage doors.
"You should know you aren't stronger than me. You lost that fight when you stopped feeding on people." Damon commented coming closer to my laying body. "I wouldn't try again."
A door opening turned us away from each other. "I think we woke up, Zach." Damon said with a smirk. "Sorry, Zach." He laughed before walking back into the house.
I sighed against the wall. This wasn't going to be fun.
Sam's POV:
Dear Diary,
Well, Diary, I couldn't be more wrong about everything. I thought it could be easy smiling at people and pretending I was okay with my life. But I couldn't be more wrong. I had a plan this year. I was going to be someone different. Someone without pain. Someone without a past. But it's not that easy. The bad things stay with you for life. We can't escape from them. No matter how much you want to.
I pulled away from my journal when a knock on the door interrupted me. I looked up from the couch to see Stefan on the porch, waiting at the door. I got up from the pale couch before answering the door with a smile.
"I know it's late, but I needed to know that you were okay." Stefan said in a small voice. I sighed as I let go of the smile that I was playing.
"You know." I laughed humorlessly. "For months, people ask me that and all I can say is, 'I'm fine, thank you.'"
"Do you mean it?" Stefan asked with the same voice as before.
I sighed as I thought about it. "Ask me tomorrow." I smiled softly at the green eyed boy. I looked back at the house before stepping aside. "It's more warm in the house. We can talk inside. Would you like to come in?" I asked with bright eyes.
"Yes." Stefan answered with a gracious smile.
What do you think of Sam? If you want to know how I view her, you can look up Meghan Markle. I love Elena and Stefan's relationship, but I love Elena and Damon's relationship too. I already have a successful Damon/OC story, that you guys can go check out, so I thought about making one for Stefan. It is going to be Damon/Elena later on when they get together in the show. It just won't be awkward because there is no love triangle-thing. Or whatever you want to call it.
Well, let me know what you guys think about this story. I'm not sure where this story is going, but I will update if you guys think this is a good idea. :)
Love,
Swim-