Chapter one:
I awoke startled by the sound of my alarm clock. Before I even had time to hit the snooze button I heard my mom calling from downstairs "Time to get up Brittany, it's the first day of school!" Ugh. Another year at Mystic Falls High School.
Mystic Falls sounds like it would be a magical place, but it's not. It's just a boring little town in Virginia. I'm not sure why I was thinking of that as I drove into the parking lot, but I was. Bored of the small town I guess.
"Britt!" my friend Isabella squealed as she ran up to me. "Are you excited for the first day of our junior year?" she exclaimed, tossing her golden hair over her shoulder. "As I'll ever be" I muttered. "Come on Britt, it's exciting!" "Why are you always so happy Bell?" The conversation continued as we walked into the school.
My first class was history. As I walked into the classroom I idly wondered how long this teacher would last, it was starting to seem like a cursed position. I found a seat near the middle of the room, a couple of seats away from April Young who I've known since elementary school. I waved, then the teacher walked in & said all the same things every teacher says on the first day of school. The rest of my day went basically the same way.
After school Isabella & I went to the Mystic Grill. We were hungry, & Bell likes to stare at Damon Salvatore who's always sitting at the bar. "He's here!" she whispered way too loudly. "When's he not?" I replied. She rolled her eyes & found a table that was close enough to get a good view. "I wish he'd notice me..." she groaned. Damon glanced over & smirked. If I didn't know better I would've sworn he'd heard her.
"I'm pretty sure he has a girlfriend Bell" I said the next day as Isabella talked about how he smiled at her for the fiftieth time. I'm pretty sure I'll never hear the end of it. "But still!" she retorted, as if that was a valid argument. I rolled my eyes and tried to change the subject. "Can you believe we have English & history homework on the second day of school?"
Can Brittany's life stay this normal in a town full of secrets?