Ok so this is the first chapter of my second Stelena story. I'm super excited and I've been planning this for a while and I hope you enjoy!
Before I start, I'll just make a quick summary.
All human. Elena lost her parents and she's been depressed and she's dating Matt Donovan, quarterback on the football team. Not even he can make her feel better though. Unfortunately, Jeremy or Jenna doesn't exist in this story. When a chaos strikes not only Mystic Falls but the entire world, Elena is rescued by Stefan Salvatore, a loner at her school that everyone just chooses to ignore. But during this crisis, can Stefan and Elena save each other from their darkness and despair while saving themselves from danger? Oh, and don't expect smut because it's a freaking zombie apocalypse! I don't know how 'The Walking Dead' can pull it off but I can't, so sorry about that, but other than that I hope you enjoy!
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It's been months since their death. Since I thought that I would die in that car with them. It's been months since I felt so isolated in that car filled with nothing but water. If it's been months since my parents died, then why am I not better? Why do I still come home, and end up with new cuts every night? Not even my friends or Matt can help me. Matt. Sweet and kind-hearted matt, he deserves so much more than me. It annoys me and sickens me how I'm just stringing him along, how he doesn't see the bad in me. I love him, but I'm not in love with him. Every day I wake up, I feel number than the day before. My parents wouldn't have wanted this, but what choice do I have? I'm seventeen, I lost my parents and I'm struggling to get through life one day at a time. The main question is, how am I going to get through life?
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All I want to do is just disappear. I mean no one will ever miss me or remember me right? My mom died, my dad left, my own brother left me. Every time I want to just give up, I can't. There's this restraint. Elena Gilbert. The day her parents died, was the day I saved her life. The memory is still fresh in my mind. The screech of tires, the sound of a car plunging into the water…
Abandonment, it's all I've ever been fond of. My family scattered away from me, I'm practically just air in my school. I'm just Stefan Salvatore. The guy who wears dark clothing, inflicts pain on himself, and desires nothing but to escape this cruel town. The only escape I can get is old wickery bridge. As I walk on the crinkly leaves of the forest, being able to see the clearing, I see a car pass by. As it passes by, I saw the most beautiful brunette in the backseat. Suddenly, the car takes a sharp turn and swerves off the bridge. Without any thought, I quickly ran and dived off the bridge. The water was freezing and dark but all I knew was to find the girl and her parents. When I saw the car, it was completely submerged. It hit the bottom of the river. I swam towards the car as quickly as I can and saw that the girl and her mother were already unconscious. The dad was still struggling to crack open the window and open the door. When he noticed me trying to help, he immediately told me to save the girl. Once I moved to her window, I could've sworn that time just froze. Her face had the most flawless features. Most of her dark hair covered her face, but I was able to get a good look at her face. I managed to rip the car door off and pulled her out and swam to the surface. Once I laid her down on dry land, I dived back underwater to save her parents. I managed to pull them both out of the car and above water, but it was too late. The last breathe was drawn from them and now the girl's survival was my priority. After minutes of performing CPR, she choked out water but remained faint. Once I called an ambulance, I quickly left, not wanting her to thank me or be on the town's news.
Ever since that day, I watched her. I watched her cripple from her loss and saw the grief and depression in her eyes. What sucks is I did nothing to help.
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Making my way down the hall to Mr. Saltzman's daily guidance counseling is a dread. Every time I come out of his office I pretend that it's actually helping, which it's not. Everyone assumes that talking about your "feelings" helps you break through your "shell". It's all bullshit. "Elena, have a seat," the first thing Alaric says. With a sigh, I plop myself down on the uncomfortable chair.
After about an hour of talking about my parent's death, I finally had it. "Can I go now?" I ask, not wanting to be in his office any longer. With a gesture of his hand, signaling me that I can leave, I quickly make my way to the door.
When I stepped outside into the hallway the first thing I hear is silence. That's the problem. I know that school is over but there are always those stragglers who stay behind. When the silence is unbearable, I start making my way down the hall towards the back door to get to the parking lot. At the end of the hallway, I see the familiar silhouette of Matt Donovan, my "boyfriend". Smiling that there is at least a presence that I know, I walk towards him. "Hey Matt." I said as I greeted him. There was no response except for a deep growl that erupted from his throat. Confused and not being able to see his face, I walk closer asking him if he's okay. I stopped making my way towards him, not knowing what his problem was, and then he stepped into the sunlight that shone through a window, making me gasp with horror on his appearance.
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I don't know what's happening. I come straight home and I find blood everywhere in my house. "Uncle Zach?" I call out. And I all hear are clashes of items in the kitchen. When I make my way towards the kitchen, there's a huge trail of blood leading to the back door. When I turn around, there he was. My uncle Zach or at least it was his body. His face was just discolored, and his body didn't look aligned or straight. His eyes lost all color there ever was in them and he looked as if he was going to just kill me…or even eat me for the matter. He didn't look alive...he looked…he looked dead. As he sauntered towards my direction I quickly dodged from his reach and ran upstairs into my father's study where he kept a loaded gun at all times. I pulled it out of his drawer and slowly yet quietly made my way back downstairs, wanting to get to the front door. Fortunately, Zach was out of sight but that didn't mean that I was safe. Right out of the blue, he lunged at me and that's when I pulled the trigger on my own uncle. It's as if everything just froze. I just realized that I killed someone, my own uncle! The thing is, he wasn't even alive to begin with. It's almost as if, as if he was dead yet alive at the same time. "Elena," was the first word that came out of my mouth after I realized that the impossible just happened to be possible. Without further thoughts, I quickly ran outside to my car and drove as fast as I can to the school.
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Numbness is all I felt the second I saw Matt's deformed shape. His blue eyes were now faded to a grayish white. His skin looked as if it was ripped apart and was now a grayish green. His mouth was the worst. Everything was just blood. His jaw looked as if it were just hanging. What's worse is that I couldn't move. My feet wouldn't budge even though I was internally screaming at myself to move. As Matt was walking, or limping towards me there was this look in his eyes. They just screamed "I'm going to kill you". Right when he was about 2 feet away from me, I felt myself getting tugged by my wrist and was soon running with a stranger towards the front door of the school. "Who are you?" I asked, not enjoying the fact that this man was rescuing me when I don't even know him. Without a word he seated me in his car and quickly got in and drove away from the school. Everything was just going too fast. The adrenaline from how fast he was driving was piling onto the whole adrenaline from the running. When I asked who the stranger was, all I got was ignorance. Right when I was about to ask him again who he was, another body that was in the same state as Matt was, just came out of nowhere and hit the car making me scream out loud. After driving with intense speed for another 10 minutes, the stranger pulled up at a gas station. "Let's just say that I'm your best shot at survival." He said, making me turn my head and look at him. I didn't know who he was, but I sure as hell wish I did. He had the most flawless face with the most flawless features. His eyes were just a beautiful shade of green and the emotion his eyes showed made me click with him instantly. His eyes had this sadness in them. Almost as if he was damaged as much as I am.
Snapping out of my thoughts, "A name please?" I asked him with a hint of bitterness, not liking that I have a stranger to save me from whatever is happening to Mystic Falls right now. "I'm Stefan. Stefan Salvatore." He replied, his name just fit him perfectly. "Well Stefan, I'm Elena." I stated. When I looked at him, there was this sense of familiarness. I ended up asking him out loud if we met before. "We've only been in the same class since the 6th grade." He replied, leaving me shocked that for 6 years this guy has walked the same hallways as me and I haven't noticed him at all. Before I can say a word, he gets out of the car to fill it with gas. "6 years?" I mutter to myself.
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So there it is! In case any of you haven't caught on, it's set during a zombie apocalypse. I hope you enjoyed it and remember to review and criticize if there are any flaws that you guys want me to fix. Oh, and also what I do doesn't reflect on this story. Like you know how Stefan and Elena are, I guess you could call them emo? Yeah, I don't cut myself I just feel as if, if I added that element it would add more onto the darkness and angst in this story.