I'm the girl that you don't see in the hallway. Well maybe you do see me but then you look away. Some people might say that I look pretty with natural-blonde hair that was a family trait as my aunt and had it but not my parents, and blue eyes. What I see is a girl who is too short to be beautiful, but I don't really have body issues of self-loathing issues. No, my issues can be drawn to a simpler solution. They deal with the death of my parents in a car wreck this past spring. I was outside with a bottle in my hand. It was the first day of school and I hated being here. The only thing I wanted to do was be with my boyfriend, but him being a year older than me made that unlikely. My name is Margaret Gilbert, though I prefer to go by Mary.
I finally headed into the school. I wanted to go the bathroom and use some eye drops to get rid of the look. I had perfected walking with a buzz after much practice. With any luck, none of my teachers would notice. I did have a bit of a stagger to my step, but it was limited enough to get back. I began putting the drops in.
"Unbelievable." My sister Elena interrupted. "It's the first day of school and you're already wasted."
"No, I'm not." I argued. "You just need to chill yourself already."
"Chill myself?" Elena challenged. "You're so drunk that you can't form coherent sentences. I bet you feel so good right now."
"I'm not drunk." I shouted. "Just leave me alone."
"People are going to stop giving your breaks, Mary." She told me. "They don't really care that we lost our parents anymore."
"I don't need this." I told her. "I have to get to class. So get out of my way."
I walked out and I immediately collided with a guy. Since he was much bigger than me, I was knocked to the ground. He held his hand out to help me up. I didn't grab it and got up myself.
"You're in my way." I told him, smelling alcohol on my breath.
"Are you drunk?" He asked me.
"Not you too, you don't even know me." I pointed out. He was kind of cute. It was too bad that I wasn't single. "Please get out of my way."
He obediently moved. He probably thought right now that I was a huge bitch. I began to wonder if I should even go to class. The teachers really weren't teaching anything that I didn't already know. This school really wasn't all that challenging to me. I could easily get straight As if I gave a damn. I wouldn't even need to be sober to do it. Hemmingway wrote pretty much all of his books while he was drunk and he is one of the greatest writers who ever lived. I could do it too.
By the end of the day, my buzz was wearing off. I decided to go for a walk to clear my head. I wasn't entirely sure what Tyler was doing, but he said that he couldn't hang out with me. The worst thing about him wasn't that he was kind of a dick, but that he was the mayor's son.
Suddenly, I saw this crow and a fog began to form around my feet. It was a bit creepy. In fact it was very creepy. I decided that it would be a good idea for me to run, but I fell on the ground. I looked up and saw the same guy from the bathroom. I couldn't help but notice that I was near the old cemetery by Fell's Church where my parents happened to be buried.
"Are you okay?" He asked me.
"What are you doing here? Were you following me?" I responded as I stood up.
"No, but I saw you fall." He answered.
"And you just happened to be chilling in the woods." I quipped.
"I was visiting someone." He stated. Of course, we were near a cemetery.
"Wow, you probably think that I'm a bigger bitch than before." I commented. At that point, he reached over and I wondered what the hell he was doing, but then he pulled a twig out of my hair. I smiled awkwardly. "Thanks."
I then realized that I hadn't bothered to introduce myself earlier. He seemed like he was waiting for me to do it.
"I'm Margaret, but everyone calls me Mary." I stated.
"Stefan." He reciprocated. He then looked at me kind of funny. "Did you hurt yourself?"
I then pulled up my sleeve and noticed that my elbow was bleeding.
"Whoa, that is fucking disgusting." I remarked.
"You should probably go treat it." He replied. Before I could even respond, I noticed that he was gone. I then figured he was one of those wimps that loses it around blood. It didn't really matter anyway because I was spoken for.
I went home and put a Band-Aid on my elbow before I realized that I needed some more to drink. There wasn't any in the house because my aunt Jenna seemed to be catching onto me. It was then that I realized that I had left without my purse, which meant no fake ID. That meant that there was only one place I could go.
I headed to the local restaurant, the Mystic Grill. It wasn't creative, but there was a waitress that I knew that would mix liquor into my drinks. I also happened to notice that Tyler was there and took a seat next to him. He immediately gave me a sloppy kiss.
"So do you have anything for me to drink?" I asked him.
"I can get something and you should probably eat something too." He suggested.
"Well you're going to have to pay because I lost my purse." I declared. "I was running from this weird bird and when I got home, I realized that it was gone."
"Okay, I've got it covered." He remarked. "You'll probably want to cancel your credit card when you get home though."
Within the next minutes, Bonnie Bennett and Caroline Forbes, Elena's friends and Matt Donovan, Tyler's best friend and Elena's ex arrived. He was also the brother of my supplier. Not long after did Elena walk in…with Stefan. I wasn't aware that they knew each other. He then began to walk toward me.
"Mary, I was hoping that you'd be here because I needed to give this to you." He stated before he reached into his bag and gave me purse, still zipped up. "Don't worry, I didn't take anything from it. I didn't even open it."
"Thanks." I told him. I couldn't help but wonder why he had been so polite about it. "Stefan, this is my boyfriend, Tyler."
They briefly shook hands before Stefan went to sit with Elena, Caroline, and Bonnie. I guess it would be more fitting for him to date her. She did just get out of a relationship with Matt.
"That new guy is weird." Tyler told me. "Why did he even have your bag?"
"Because he was there earlier when I lost it." I answered. "I checked and everything was there. He was just being nice. It's something that you might wanna try sometime."
"Well he better not get too nice with you." Tyler remarked.
"You know that he's over there flirting with my sister right now." I pointed out. "I don't think he'll be a problem. So let's talk about the bonfire tomorrow night. It's going to be awesome. There will be all of the beer that we want with absolutely no adult supervision. It's the perfect place to get wasted."
"It's also a good place to get freaky." Tyler replied. I just looked at him. "Don't tell me that you never wanted to have sex in the woods."
"No, I haven't because I'm a normal person." I pointed out.
"Normal people don't drink like you do." He argued.
"I'm still not going to let you fuck me in the woods." I told him. "I just want to have a good time and maybe after we're done, I'll do it with you in a bed."
"I'm gonna say that there isn't a very good chance of that happening, Ty." Vicki remarked as she passed by.
The following night, I headed to the Falls that our town got its name from where I met Tyler. Elena would be there and for once, she wouldn't judge me for drinking because she would be doing it too. I wanted to not be able to see straight. I began to guzzle from the bottle. For once, I actually felt good. I guess I was just glad to be at a party for a change. It was somewhere that people wouldn't give me sympathetic looks and we could all just focus on having fun.
Later in the night, I went out into the woods because I saw Tyler walking out. I saw him with Vicki against a tree, getting busy. I walked over angrily, wanting to break it up.
"What the fuck is going on here?" I asked angrily.
"It's not what it looks like." Vicki declared. Tyler took the opportunity to leave. "I told him no but he wouldn't stop."
"You're lying." I responded. "You know what fuck both of you. I thought you were my friend, but I guess I was wrong. I'll find someone else to get my drinks from."
"I walked out of the woods crying before I grabbed another drink. I don't know if anyone even noticed that I was upset. Well, one person did.
"Are you okay?" Stefan asked me. It just had to be him.
"I don't want to talk about it." I declared.
"Maybe talking about it will help you feel better." He suggested.
"Fine, I just caught my bastard of a boyfriend cheating on me with one of my friends." I told him. "My life is screwed up. I did way too much, my parents are dead and now I don't even have Tyler anymore. No one seems to care about me."
"Your sister does." He offered.
"My sister just wants to judge me." I argued. "I don't expect you to understand."
"You could tell me?" He offered.
"Okay, last spring my parents died. They drowned in the lake." I explained. "Elena must not have been wearing her seatbelt, because she was ejected and survived. Now we're left with our aunt that doesn't have a clue what she's doing and I drink and she spends her time writing in the cemetery. We're both damaged goods and now the one good thing in my life is gone."
"You're not going to be sad forever, Mary." He told me. I guess it was nice of him to say. He probably wouldn't want me, but I guess that I was single right now. I looked around the party and saw Tyler, but I didn't see Vicki. That was strange. If what she said was true, she didn't do anything wrong.
"I have to go find someone." I declared.
"Are you sure that's safe?" Stefan asked me. "I could go with you."
"No, I have Mace." I told him before I walked into the woods. It wasn't long after that I noticed Elena was following me. I guess even when she's drunk, she judges me.
"Mary, stop and come back to the party." She ordered. "It's not safe out here."
I continued walking before I tripped over something.
"Are you okay?" She asked as she ran over to me. I looked at what I tripped over and it was a body. I then noticed that it wasn't just any body, it was Vicki.
"Oh my God, Vicki." I remarked. I was mad at her but I didn't want her to die. "Is she dead?"
"Check her pulse." Elena instructed. I went to do so before she suddenly gasped for air before passing out again. I grabbed her torso and Elena grabbed her legs as we carried her back to the party.
"Someone call an ambulance!" Elena screamed.
A crowd quickly formed before we set her down on a table. The ambulance arrived pretty quickly along with the police and animal control. I guess that made sense considering the bite marks on her neck. I mean it had to be an animal. I took a seat away from everyone with a bottle. I was pretty sure that Elena had called Jenna to pick us up since we had both walked here and didn't otherwise have a ride.
"You know those guys in blue are the cops." Elena quipped. I chugged the bottle and then chucked it. "People are going to stop giving you breaks. We need to move on already."
"You write in the cemetery alone. That's not what I call moving on." I pointed out.
"Mom and Dad wouldn't have wanted this from us." Elena stated. I don't think that the dead could want anything. Though, I would bet that they would be disappointed if they saw us right now.
Jenna drove us home and I noticed that it was only 10:00. Nevertheless, I did feel sleepy, probably from all of the booze that I drank. I went to my room and began to change for bed. I was pretty sure that Jenna wasn't surprised that we were drunk. She was partying not that long ago. I couldn't help but wonder why she ended up getting custody of us instead of our uncle John. While he had never had kids either, he was definitely more responsible. I didn't even know where he was, but it didn't even really matter.
I wore a tank top and my panties to bed. I looked outside my window and noticed that Stefan was outside. I decided to put a robe on and answered the door.
"What are you doing here?" I asked him.
"I know that it's late but I just wanted to know if you're okay." He declared.
"You know that has to be my least favorite question in the world." I explained. "It's all that I've been hearing since May."
Well I'm sorry for asking you." He apologized. How was this guy so polite? "I suppose the answer wasn't something that you enjoyed either."
"Well it started out nice, but then I just let the sarcasm take over." I told him. "The answers would be something like 'Does it look like I'm okay' or 'I'm super if you don't count that my parents are dead'. So it feels weird saying all of this to you while you're outside. Would you like to come inside?"
He stepped in and I closed the door. We didn't have sex or kiss or anything. I just told him more of my story.
So Mary isn't really that much of a stoner, she's more of an alcoholic, but if she's the main character, she probably wouldn't be able to keep that up. She's played by Chloe Moretz. So Stefan is going to be a love interest but would you rather see a love triangle with Damon or Tyler? Let me know if reviews.