Hey guys! As you can see, I've decided to write a new story and I hope you guys enjoy it :)
Disclaimer: I don't own anything to do with The Vampire Diaries, I only own Alyssa.
Alyssa's POV
I sighed as I looked up at my ceiling. Today was the first day of the new school year. It marked the beginning of a new me, a happy me. I stretched and jumped out of bed, ready to start getting myself together. I walked over to my mirror and practiced my carefree smile. "I'm good, thanks." I said over and over again, rehearsing it so that it looked believable. When I was happy with it, I started getting ready.
I walked down stairs and was met by my aunt Jenna and my twin sister Elena, we look almost exactly alike, the only difference being is that my hair is naturally curly while Elena's is naturally straight.
"Toast. I can make toast." Jenna exclaimed stressfully.
"It's all about the coffee, Aunt Jenna." Elena muttered, gripping a mug and pouring coffee into it.
"Is there coffee?" Jeremy asked, walking into the kitchen. He then came over and grabbed Elena's mug. She rolled her eyes and poured herself another one, only to have me take it this time.
"Seriously?" She growled at me. I shrugged as she turned around to make another coffee.
"Your first day of school and I'm totally unprepared. Lunch money?" Jenna carried on stressing.
"We're good." Elena assured her.
"Anything else? A number two pencil? What am I missing?"
"Don't you have a big presentation today?" I wondered out loud.
"I'm meeting with my thesis advisor at...now. Crap!" Jenna cursed, looking at the time.
"Then go. We'll be fine." I told her. She gave me a thankful look and left.
"You okay?" Elena asked Jeremy, who rolled his eyes.
"Don't start." He replied, walking out of the room.
"He'll be fine, Elena." I said to her in a gentle tone. She just nodded.
We were in our friend Bonnie's car heading to school. I was sat in the passenger seat whilst Elena was sat in the back.
"So Grams is telling me I'm psychic. Our ancestors were from Salem, witches and all that, I know, crazy, but she's going on and on about it, and I'm like, put this woman in a home already! But then I started thinking, I predicted Obama and I predicted Heath Ledger, and I still think Florida will break off and turn into little resort islands...Elena! Back in the car." Bonnie babbled before getting Elena's attention. I snickered a little.
"I did it again, didn't I? I-I'm sorry, Bonnie. You were telling me that…" Elena trailed off, not know what Bonnie had been saying.
"That she's psychic now." I finished for her.
"Right. Ok, then predict something. About us." She said, referring to herself and I.
"I see…" Bonnie started but was cut of when a big black crow hit the car. Bonnie hit the brakes and the tires screeched loudly. We gasped and by the end of it the three of us were breathing heavily.
"What was that?! Oh, my god! You guys, are you okay?" Bonnie asked, panicking about how we would react.
"It's ok. We're fine." I told her. Elena nodded in agreement.
"It was like a bird or something. It came out of nowhere." Bonnie explained, feeling guilty.
"Really, we can't be freaked out by cars for the rest of our lives." Elena gave Bonnie a small smile.
Bonnie bit her lip before nodding to herself. "I predict this year is going to be kick ass. And I predict all the sad and dark times are over and you both and that you are going to be beyond happy." She smiled. Elena and I returned her smile.
We were now walking through the halls of Mystic Falls High School. We stopped by Elena's locker.
"Major lack of male real estate. Look at the shower curtain on Kelly Beech. She looks like a hot — can I still say "tranny mess"?" Bonnie wondered.
"No, that's over." I joked.
"Ahh, find a man, coin a phrase. It's a busy year." Bonnie said, making us both laugh. I noticed Elena was distracted and followed her line of vision. Elena waved over to Matt, her ex-boyfriend, but he just sent her a puppy dog look and ignored her.
"He hates me." Elena sighed.
"That's not hate. That's 'you dumped me, but I'm too cool to show it, but secretly I'm listening to Air Supply's greatest hits.'" Bonnie informed her, trying to make her feel better.
"Yeah, don't worry about it. He'll get over it…eventually." I shrugged.. A peppy blonde then came bounding over to us and pulled Elena and I into a big hug.
"Alyssa, Elena. Oh, my god. How are you? Oh, it's so good to see you. How are they? Are they good?" Caroline asked Bonnie as if we weren't even there.
"Caroline, we're right here. And we're fine. Thank you." I told her, slightly annoyed by the way she was handling this. But then again, that was just Caroline for you. She was about as subtle as a punch in the face.
"Really?" The blonde asked.
"Yes. Much better." My sister answered, also annoyed.
"Oh, you poor things." Caroline pouted and hugged us again.
"Ok, Caroline." I said in a warning tone.
"Oh! Okay, see you guys later?" She said before walking off.
"Okay! Bye!" Bonnie called after her.
"No comment." I rolled my eyes.
"I'm not going to say anything." Bonnie shook her head. Elena laughed at us.
We were walking by the main office when Bonnie stopped us.
"Hold up. Who's this?" She asked curiously.
"All I see is back." Elena shrugged.
"It's a hot back. I'm sensing Seattle, and he plays the guitar." Bonnie said, nodding her head.
"You're really going to run this whole psychic thing into the ground, huh?" I commented.
"Pretty much." She replied.
"Jeremy, good batch, man." I heard a guy say. I turned around and saw my brother go into the boy's bathroom. Elena had noticed too.
"I'll be right back." She said. I followed her, leaving Bonnie to stare at the guy's back.
I found Elena searching Jeremy for drugs.
"Where is it? Is it on you?" She asked angrily.
"Stop, all right?! You need to chill yourself, all right?" Jeremy responded defensively.
"Chill myself? What is that, stoner talk? Dude, you are so cool." Elena replied sarcastically.
"Look, stop! I don't have anything on me. Are you crazy?"
"You haven't seen crazy, Jeremy! I gave you a summer pass, but I am done watching you destroy yourself. No, no, no, you know what? Go ahead. Keep it up. But just know that I am going to be there to ruin your buzz every time, you got it? Jeremy, I know who you are. And it's not this person. So don't be this person." Elena ranted. Jeremy sent me a pleading look. I sighed in annoyance.
"Ok Elena, that's enough for now." I pulled my sister away, trying to calm her down.
"But Lyss-"
"Elena, enough!" She gave me a look of defeat and walked out.
"Thanks." Jeremy smiled gratefully.
"No problem but she's right, Jer." I told him.
"I don't need this." He said, walking out. I let out a groan, noticing that I was now in the guys bathroom on my own and walked out. I found Elena talking to the new guy. She went to leave but he went the same way, she went the other way and so did he. I watched in amusement. The new guy then made way for her just as I walked over.
"Thank you." Elena smiled. I gave the guy a nod and walked with my sister to history.
"Once our home state of Virginia joined confederacy in 1861, it created a tremendous amount of tension within the state. People in Virginia's northwest region had different ideals than those from the traditional deep south. Then Virginia divided in 1863 with the Northwest region joining the union…" I tuned Mr Tanner out and got lost in my thoughts. I wonder if anything will happen this year. I noticed Elena looking at her phone. 'HAWT-E. STARING U.' Bonnie had sent her a text. Elena looked at the new guy and then at me. I gave her a wink.
Elena and I were sat in the grave yard. Sounds weird I know, but we find it peaceful. After all, our parent's were buried here, so it was only natural that we felt at peace here. I leaned my head against the rock and closed my eyes.
Elena was scribbling away in her diary. "I think I've said 'I'm fine, thanks,' about 37 times today." She said tiredly.
"Did you mean it?" I asked quietly.
Her brown eyes met my matching ones. "No, not once." Elena looked down. "But no one noticed. When someone asks, "How are you?" They really don't want an answer." I nodded in agreement. A crow suddenly appeared on our parents' grave stone, making Elena and I jump.
"Okay…" I muttered, slightly creeped out. "Hi, bird. That's not creepy or anything. Shoo!" I said, shooing the bird away. Elena looked at me weirdly. "What?" I shrugged. The crow then reappeared and fog started to surround us. I looked around and saw a silhouette stood behind a tomb. I let out a gasp. "Elena run!" I shouted. We both began to run until Elena tripped over. I helped her up and saw the new guy in front of us.
"You ok?" He asked us.
"Were you following us?" I asked breathless.
"No, I-uh I-just…I saw you fall." He stuttered, looking at Elena.
"Uh-huh, and you just happened to be hanging out in a cemetery." Elena stated suspiciously.
"Elena…" I warned. He had as much right to be here as we did.
"I'm visiting. I have family here." The guy informed us.
"Oh. Wow. Tactless. I'm sorry. It's the fog, it's making me foggy. And then back there, there was this-this bird, and it was all very Hitchcock for a second. That is the bird movie, right, the Hitchcock?" She paused, inwardly cringing at herself I expect. "I'm Elena."
"And I'm Alyssa." I introduced myself.
"I'm Stefan." He let out a small chuckle.
"I know. We have History together." Elena smiled sheepishly.
"And English and French." I added.
"Right." Elena nodded. Stefan pulled a leaf out of Elena's hair.
"Thanks...Nice ring." Elena said. On his finger was a big silver and blue ring with an S in the middle.
"Oh. Um, It's a family ring, yeah. I'm kinda stuck with it. It's weird, huh?" Stefan chuckled.
"She just meant, there are rings and then there's that." I explained.
"Right. Did you hurt yourself?" Stefan asked Elena.
"Hmm?" Elena asked confused.
"Did you hurt yourself?"
"Oh, uh, I don't know." She rolled up her jeans and found a cut with blood pouring out.
"Oh! Would you look at that. That is not pretty."
"Ugh, you can say that again!" I said, wrinkling my nose up in disgust. Stefan turned around.
"Are you ok?" I asked.
"You should go. Take care of that." Stefan said. I looked back at Elena, who was still examining her leg.
"Really, it's nothing." She said, turning around and looking confused.
"What's wrong?" I frowned and looked around, only to find Stefan had disappeared.
Elena and I were about to leave to meet Bonnie.
"We're meeting Bonnie at the grill." Elena told Jenna.
"Ok, have fun. Wait, I got this. Don't stay out late, it's a school night." She smiled proudly.
"Well done, Aunt Jenna." I laughed. Elena opened the door and jumped at the sight of Stefan.
"Sorry, I was about to knock. I wanted to apologise for my disappearing act earlier. I know it was...strange." He explained.
"No worries. I get it, blood makes you squeamish." Elena smiled.
"Um, something like that. How's your leg?"
"Oh, it's fine. Just a scratch, barely. How did you know where I lived?"
"It's a small town. I asked the first person I saw. Um, I thought you might want this back." He said, handing Elena her diary.
"Oh, I must have dropped it. I-thank you." She smiled.
"Don't worry, I didn't...read it." Stefan assured her. I found it amusing how smitten they were with each other.
"No? Why not? Most people would have." Elena asked.
"Well, I wouldn't want anyone to read mine." He replied honestly.
"You keep a journal?"
"Yeah, if I don't write it down, I forget it. Memories are too important."
"Yeah. I'm just gonna...umm, you don't have to stay out there." Elena told him, running upstairs to her room.
"I'm fine. Sorry, were you going somewhere?" He asked me.
"Yeah, we're meeting a friend. Do you want to come?" I asked.
Stefan took me up on my offer and joined Elena and I. When we got to The Grill Matt walked up to us.
"Hey, I'm Matt, nice to meet you." He said, introducing himself to Stefan.
"Hi. Stefan." Stefan nodded.
"Hey." Elena greeted awkwardly.
"Hey." Matt replied just as awkwardly. We sat down with Bonnie and Caroline.
"So, you were born in Mystic Falls?" Caroline asked.
"Mm-Hmm. And moved when I was still young." Stefan answered.
"Parents?" Bonnie questioned.
"My parents passed away."
"I'm sorry. Any siblings?" I wondered.
"None that I talk to. I live with my uncle." Stefan replied.
"So, Stefan, if you're new, then you don't know about the party tomorrow." Caroline smiled.
"It's a back to school thing at the falls." Bonnie explained.
"Are you going?" Stefan asked Elena.
"Of course she is." I answered for her. Elena gave me a big, real smile.
"The Battle of Willow Creek took place right at the end of the war in our very own Mystic Falls. How many casualties resulted in this battle? Ms. Bennett?" Mr Tanner asked Bonnie. I was glad he wasn't asking me. I hate history, or rather, I hate our teacher.
"Um...a lot? I'm not sure. Like a whole lot." Bonnie smiled innocently, making the class buzz with laughter.
"Cute becomes dumb in an instant, Ms. Bennett. Mr. Donovan? Would you like to take this opportunity to overcome your embedded jock stereotype?" Mr Tanner smirked.
"It's okay, Mr. Tanner, I'm cool with it." Matt replied coolly.
"Hmm. Elena? Surely you can enlighten us about one of the town's most significantly historical events?" The teacher picked on my poor, innocent twin.
"I'm sorry, I-I don't know." She stuttered.
"I was willing to be lenient last year for obvious reasons, Elena. But the personal excuses ended with summer break." Mr Tanner snapped. Okay, that was out of line.
"There were 346 casualties. Unless you're counting local civilians." Stefan said, saving Elena.
"That's correct. Mister…?" Mr Tanner trailed off.
"Salvatore."
"Salvatore. Any relation to the original settlers here at Mystic Falls?"
"Distant."
"Well, very good. Except, of course, there were no civilian casualties in this battle." Mr Tanner smirked.
"Actually, there were 27, sir. 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'd like to brush up on your facts. Mr. Tanner." Stefan answered back.
"Hmm." Tanner was speechless, which made everyone snicker.
"Just admit it, Elena." Bonnie said. She was trying to get Elena to admit that she liked Stefan. We were currently at the back to school party.
"Oh, ok, so he's a little pretty." Elena admitted.
"You liar, Elena Gilbert. You think he's hot and we all know it!" I stared at her accusingly.
"Alright, alright." She said, putting her hands up in defence.
"He has that romance novel stare." Bonnie commented.
"You noticed that too?" I asked. She nodded.
"So, where is he?" Bonnie enquired, searching for him.
"I don't know. You tell me, you're the psychic one." Elena joked.
"Right, I forgot. Ok, so give me a sec. Grams says I have to concentrate." Bonnie said, closing her eyes.
"Wait, you need a crystal ball. Uhh…" Elena declared, looking for something for Bonnie to use.
I looked around and picked up an empty beer bottle. As Bonnie touched my hand she began spacing out. When she came back to her senses, she abruptly pulled her hand back. "What? Bonnie what is it?" I asked, concerned for my friend.
"That was weird. When I touched you, I saw a crow."
"What?" I whispered. Elena and I shared a look.
"A crow. There was fog and a man." Bonnie murmured. She shook her head. "I'm drunk. It's the drinking. There's nothing psychic about it. Yeah? Okay, I'm gonna get a refill." Bonnie tried to convince herself and walked away.
"How is that possible?" I whispered to Elena, still in shock. She didn't reply, instead she went to go after Bonnie and bumped into Stefan. Momentarily forgetting my psychic friend, I smirked and excused myself.
I walked around for a while and noticed Jeremy going into the woods.
"Jeremy, where the hell are you going?" I called out after him.
"Whatever you're going to say, I don't want to hear it!" He replied.
"Yeah, well, too bad!" I shouted. Jeremy tripped over something.
"Vicki? No! Oh, my god, it's Vicki!" He started crying out.
"Jeremy?! What is i-Oh my god!" I gasped. Vicki was led on the ground unconscious, she had a big bite mark on her neck.
"Jeremy, pick her up and follow me!" I ordered. He did as I said.
"Somebody help!" I shouted as we got back to the party.
"Vicki? Vicki, what the hell?!" Matt yelled running up to us.
"What happened to her?" Tyler asked.
"Somebody, call an ambulance!" Matt demanded.
"Everybody back up, give her some space!" Tyler shouted at the crowd, ushering them away.
"It's her neck. Something bit her. She's losing a lot of blood." I explained.
"Put this on her neck." A boy said, handing Matt and piece of cloth.
"Vicki, Vicki, come on, open your eyes, look at me." Matt begged.
The ambulance arrived shortly after being called. Matt left with Vicki in the ambulance.
"Hey. We're gonna go and get some Coffee, wait for news." Bonnie informed me, referring to herself and Caroline.
"We've got to take Jeremy home." I told her.
"Alyssa, there's no way I'm psychic. I know that. But whatever I saw, or I think I saw, I have this feeling…"
"Bonnie, what?"
"That it's just the beginning."
I walked over to where Elena and Jeremy.
"You ok? I called Jenna, she's on her way. Those people in uniforms, last time I checked, they're the police. People are going to stop giving you breaks, Jer. They just don't care anymore. They don't remember that our parents are dead, because they've got their own lives to deal with. The rest of the world has moved on. You should try, too." Elena lectured Jeremy. I nodded in agreement.
"I've seen you both in the cemetery. Alyssa, you just sit there with a pained look on your face, and Elena, you sit there writing in your diary. Is that-is that supposed to be you two moving on?" He asked, looking down.
"Mom and Dad wouldn't have wanted this." Elena sighed.
As soon as I got home I went to bed. I couldn't stop thinking about what Bonnie said. The beginning of what?