Hi everyone! This is my first fanfiction, hope everyone enjoys it. Please read and review :) Disclaimer: Do not own Vampire Diaries.

Celeste sighed as she pulled into the school parking lot. Arriving at her classroom, she set her book bag down and wrote her name on the chalkboard. Celeste sat down at her desk, took a sip of her coffee, and pulled out her current selection of reading. Today was her first day of teaching at Mystic Falls High. Although she had been teaching for a while, no one would guess that she had moved to Mystic Falls because she was running away from her previous life. She just couldn't seem to find anywhere where she could escape her past. Hopefully this would be the place where she could escape and start fresh. Checking her watch again, she saw it was 7:57…students would start coming in at any moment. She looked up as she saw the first students walk into class. A couple of them gave her shy smiles, whereas other ones just totally ignored her and went straight to their seats, seemingly not awake yet for the day.

Stifling a yawn, Celeste stood up as the last couple of students came in at the last minute. She shuffled through her paperwork looking for her list of students. When she finally found it, she cleared her throat and began to call out students' names.

"Joseph Davies, Samantha Grayson….." Celeste looked up as she read each name and nodded to each student who raised their hand when their name was called and the list went on and on.

"Well, my name is Miss Morrison, but you can call me Celeste. Now, I only have one rule in all of my classes: respect. Respect each other, respect me, and I will respect you. With that being said, let's get started." Celeste wasn't a strict teacher, in fact she loved teaching and loved being able to be a friend with students. She figured that they had enough authority figures that were making their lives difficult and didn't need to add an art teacher to that list. Besides, art was supposed to be about making people feel something and to express your individuality. Being a strict and mean teacher wouldn't really help in that particular area. Now, if they failed to respect her and fellow students, that's where the authoritative figure would come out but not until that happened. But, this particular teaching method had worked in every classroom and she rarely had any problems with students.

After school let out, Celeste gathered up her things and walked out to her car. If a person were to open up her car trunk, they would see a myriad of art supplies. It was very much so an organized chaos. Before she started the car to leave, she briefly checked her watch. It was half past three. Suddenly feeling her phone vibrating in her pocket, she grabbed it and checked who was calling. The screen read James Armenta Calling. Celeste quickly ignored the call and replaced her phone in her pocket. Celeste wondered how James could have possibly gotten her new cell phone number. She made a mental note that she would need to change it again. She prayed that she could remain here in Mystic Falls, hidden away from everything. She hadn't even heard of this small town before she researched it to move here.

Shrugging her book bag into the passenger seat of her car, she started the engine and drove away to her new house. After arriving home, Celeste crashed on the couch and just rested for a moment. Just as she was getting up to get a beer from the fridge, the doorbell suddenly rang. Groaning slightly, she walked to the door and opened the door to find a tall handsome man standing there. He had dark hair and piercing blue eyes and was wearing a black leather jacket with a blue shirt and a pair of dark jeans. Celeste thought she saw hunger flash in his eyes before he smiled charmingly at her.

"Can I help you?" Celeste asked with a hint of suspicion in her voice.

"Yes, I was wondering if I could come in and use your phone." He gave her his most encouraging smile. Not trusting him at all, Celeste thought quickly trying to come up with an excuse for her not to invite him into her house.

"Sorry, I just moved here so my phone isn't hooked up. Maybe you could try next door?" She smiled at him, but it didn't reach her eyes. Suddenly, he stepped very close to the door and got right into her face. She resisted the urge to take a step backwards as he came up to the door, seemingly in the blink of an eye.

"You will open the door and invite me inside," He said firmly, his eyes dilating slightly. Celeste clenched her jaw as she said, "Like I said, my phone isn't hooked up. Now, goodnight." As she said this, she slammed the door in his face.

Damon Salvatore frowned as the woman slammed the door in his face. He usually never had any problems with new people in town, which is why he preferred to feed on those people because they were often easy to compel and were ignorant of the existence of vampires.

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When Damon arrived back at the boarding house, he slammed the door shut. Listening for a second, he smirked retrieving a blood bag and going upstairs. As he walked into Stefan's room he saw his little brother and his girlfriend, Elena Gilbert, locked in a tight embrace kissing passionately.

"We have a problem," Damon stated as he opened his blood bag and began to drink. He chuckled as Stefan and Elena jumped hearing his voice.

"Damon! There is such a thing as knocking you know," Elena said glaring at him.

Damon rolled his eyes slightly before replying, "Oh please. I have seen and done it all. Anyway, there's a new teacher in town."

"And why is that a problem?" Stefan spoke up now eyeing his brother.

"Well here's the thing. See, I normally like to introduce myself to the new people in town, get acquainted, drink their blood before they get on vervain, etcetera. But, when I tried to compel the sexy new teacher, she couldn't be compelled. So either she knows about vampires and is on vervain or she is Wonder Woman," Damon explained sarcastically.

"How do you even know that she is the new teacher?" Elena asked, confused.

"Well we do have our own teacher who is on the inside of the school," Damon replied referring to Alaric Saltzman.

"So. I propose that you or Stefan get all buddy buddy with the teacher and see what you can find out about her and what she knows. She also lives across the street from you Elena, so that should be easy" Damon said as he began to get up and walk away. "Oh I almost forgot, have good sex you two!" He called over his shoulder as he walked out of Stefan's room. Elena rolled her eyes before turning to Stefan.

"What do you think we should do?" She asked him.

"Well maybe we could invite her over to dinner with Alaric, Jenna, you and I. Like a 'welcome to Mystic Falls, do you know about vampires' dinner." Stefan replied grinning.

"That's a good idea. But maybe we should hold off on the whole vampires thing," Elena said chuckling.

"That's a great idea! I'll bring dessert," Damon smirked as he popped in his head back in their room before sauntering out again.

"I can't wait," Elena rolled her eyes, before she wound her arms around Stefan's neck and kissed him. Grinning, Stefan lifted her up and threw Elena on the bed while she laughed and pulled him on top of her.