Chapter 1~ The Meeting
One warm April morning while Katerina was walking to school she felt like she was being followed. Not just the feeling you have in the back of your mind but the honest to God feeling that you were being followed.
There is no one following you. It is just in your head. Your paranoid.She thought to herself. She decided to take one look behind her to make sure it was all in her head. There was someone behind her; a teenage boy talking on his cell phone.
How did I not hear him talking on his phone? He's not really a quiet talker. He is kind of cute though. But she couldn't think like that. She had to focus on school for the rest of the year. Besides she has a boyfriend. She couldn't let this boy mess things up between her and Matt. He looks so familiar. Where have I seen you before?It was going to drive her crazy until she figured it out.
"Ok Lexi. I have to go. I am almost to school… Because if I don't go to school all I'm going to do is sit around my house doing nothing…... Kay Lex I'll call you after I get home. Bye." Al least I don't have to listen to him talk any more. He has such a cute voice. Ok he can talk one more time and that's all I want to hear from him.
"Excuse me?" That cute voice from behind me said Holly crap he just talked to me. Say something before he thinks you're deaf. Katarina turned around to find the boy standing two feet away from her. "Do you go to Sky View? I'm new and I don't really know where I am going."
"Uh, yeah. I do. We can walk together and I can show you around if you need it." She could at least be nice since he was the new kid. And she knew how it felt to be the new kid with no one being nice to you.
"That would be great. Oh, I'm Damon by the way. Damon Salvatore. Me and my brother Stefan just moved in with our uncle." He held his hand out for her to shake.
Katerina gently shook Damon's hand. "I'm Katerina, Katerina Petrova. But everyone just calls me Katherine." Yeah. Just tell him your name. That's all he needs to know.
"I don't know what other people are talking about, but I think Katerina is much prettier than Katherine." Aw that is sweet.Katerina thought with a smile on her face. But I think if we don't leave now we may be late."
With the smile still on her face Katerina said "We don't want you to be late for your first day at a new school, now do we?"
Katerina and Damon spent the next ten minutes walking to school. They talked about everything from how school was before Damon moved there and how their home lives are. Damon didn't have much to say about his home life because it had been only him and his brother for so long. Katerina found out that both of his parents died when they were little kids. Katerina had not much more to tell.
She told Damon about how she hadn't talk to her parents in a long time because they kicked her out over something that happened a while before they kicked her out. But she was not willing to tell him what happened between them to have them react that bad. And she found out a year ago she found out that both her parents died in a freak car accident last year.
"Well, here we are. Sky View High School, Home of the Bobcats. Nothing special about our school but I love it. We have amazing school spirit; I hope you can handle it. I used to be the head cheerleader, so it was my job to make sure people had great school spirit. People here don't like it when you don't have school spirit. Be aware."
"I don't think you look like you have very amazing school spirit. But I am also not good at reading people so I could be wrong. But I would like a chance to prove myself wrong and get to know you better."
Katerina couldn't believe what she was hearing. She couldn't let him think that way. She was with matt and she loved him. She couldn't let this strange boy mess things up between them. That was that. Well I guess we could just be friends. There is nothing wrong with two people being just friends.
"Yeah we can definitely hang out sometime. I warn you now, I am a really boring person. I don't get out much." That was true. Before her parents died she was the kind of girl who loved to go out and party. She didn't want to tell Damon that ever since her parents died she had lost her urge to party.
"We don't have to get out to have fun. We can sit around listening to music, watching movies, normal people stuff. We could even sit around and do nothing at all. Just stare at a wall and make out shapes. I don't care. I just want to get to know you better."
What the heck is up with this kid? He wants to stare at the wall and make out shapes. Who in their right mind would want to stare at the wall. I could see you staring at the wall if you are really bored but not when you are trying to get to know someone. He's really weird.
"Yeah we can do that. Maybe not the stare at the wall and make out the shapes, but we can hang out sometime. We could go to a club and dance our butts off all night. It should be fun. I'm not a good dancer though. So you have to promise not to laugh at me."
"You have to be good at doing something on the dance floor. It is impossible for someone to completely suck at dancing." Man, was he wrong on that one.
"That is where you are wrong. The only thing I can do is shake my butt and even that is not good. I guess I'm just not a natural born dancer." Which is true. I make the people who do the stupid ass moves in the middle of the dance floor look like professionals.
"Well when we go to a club I will have to teach you how to dance. It's really not hard. You just move to the music and hope the moves turn out right. And hope it looks good, of course."
He is really in for a surprise when he sees me dance. He will want to leave the club as soon as he gets there. "Since today is Friday, we can go to Club New York tonight. You will love it. There is awesome music, lots of people, they serve us drinks, which is a plus, and there are lots of cute girls there for you." Maybe that will make it seem like I am not interested in him.
"Well I already found this girl that I think is really cute and I want to ask out." Damon said looking down at the ground with a slight smile on his face.
"Maybe she will be at the club tonight and you can ask her to dance. I know girls really like it when guys ask them to dance in the middle of the dance floor." Its nice that he has a girl that he likes. Then I can stop wondering if he likes me and focus on Matt.
"Yeah, you're right. I have a strong feeling that she will be there tonight." Well there you go. He cant like me. It is not even possible. "I just thought of something. I don't have any clothes that are good for clubbing. All I have are t-shirts jeans, and shorts. Nothing club worthy."
"Ok that's a problem. Meet me here right after school and we will stop by my house after school. Get something I can change into. Then we will go to your house and I can raid your closet. There is bound to be something you can wear in there." Then the bell rang telling them to go to class. "Ok, your first hour. I can just walk with you cause my class is right across the hall. Don't get on Mr. Dambsteads bad side. You will never get on his good side if you do."
Walking to their first hour they passed door after door. Not stopping at any of them, and walking towards a door, Damon thought that she was taking him out of school making him miss his first day of school. When they came to the end of the hall Katerina stopped and motioned to the door right next to them.
"That's your class. Go all the way back, that's you section of the class room. The first section is Mrs. Johnson's class. You may get to meet her. She's awesome. The second best teacher in the school."
"And who dare I ask is the best teacher in the school?"
"Mrs. Burrningham. My first hour teacher. Best teacher you will ever meet. Take and art class and you will have her." The bell rang telling them they had thirty seconds to get to class or they would be in trouble. "Well there's our cue. Its time for us to go to class. Meet me here right after and I will walk you to your next class. See ya after."
"Bye, Katerina." Damon said as she walked the few feet away to her classroom
In the few seconds after she walked away Damon caught himself staring at her. What she didn't know is that she was the girl that he had a feeling was going to be at the club tonight. He wanted to ask her to dance, that way they could be close and no one could say anything about it. He just needed to wait until the right time. Then he would make his move.