In the Eye of the Beholder

Chapter 1

Elena Gilbert never really considered her life as normal until it wasn't normal anymore. She didn't really know when this had all started, but if she had to take an educated guess she would have guessed that it had happened the night of her accident.

It had all started as a typical day for her. She had woken up that morning feeling as if today would be the day she lost herself. She had no clue why she felt this way. She just did. But she decided to be an adult and go into work anyway.

Elena sighed and after getting ready for her day, she went to the magazine. Before the accident had happened she had been one of the world top journalistic minds, but she always felt herself craving more than just writing articles about peoples dating and sex lives. Something had to change she just didn't know what.

When work was over, Elena turned off her desk light determined to get home as fast as she could. What she didn't know was what would happen to her.

She was driving down a busy street when it happened someone had cut her off during traffic and she served to avoid them, but she wasn't fast enough. Before she knew it her car was flying over the bridge and her head hit the window cracking it before the car hit the water.

She gasped as the car slowly drowned in the river. She screamed and cried until she was swallowed into nothing but darkness.

The light burned her eyes as Elena woke up. She had no clue how she was still alive, but for some reason instead of sore like she should feel all she felt was happiness. Not the most common reaction to someone who had been in a car crash, but she just couldn't help it.

Before she could ask the nurse questions about the accident , her friend Caroline came into the room and hugged her. She didn't know why but when Caroline touched her, she saw a flash of an image before pulling her hands away from Caroline. What the hell had she just saw?

"Elena? Are you okay?"

"It depends. Did you really sleep with our boss so you could get that promotion for editor?"

Caroline's face turned white. Had she honestly just saw what she had saw?

"How did you know about that?"

"I don't know. I just knew."