*Beep, beep, beep*
The annoying, persistent sound of her alarm woke her and she sighed angrily about having to suffer through another day of high school.
High school. The best four years of your life.
That is, if you're either sexy, rich, outspoken, or athletic. Also what some teachers might like to say 'involved'. If you didn't fit into any of those categories you were screwed and although there were only four categories, somehow everyone else seemed to fit into at least one. Elena, however, did not.
She wasn't saying she was ugly, she considered herself about average, a little smaller than the other girls, but had clear skin and nice hair. Yes, she had braces, but those were only temporary, but she still knew she was for sure not the sexy type. While other girls wore tank tops, Elena wore one of her dad's baggy t-shirts, while others dressed in short-shorts, Elena wore yoga capris. No makeup ever, her parents would interrogate her if they saw her wearing even chapstick, and nothing flashy.
Her and her family certainly weren't rich. The seven of them, Elena, her mom and dad, and her older brothers, Matt, Tyler, Jeremy, and Alaric, all lived in one house and although Elena had her own room since she was the only girl, the boys had to share. It wasn't like they were poor, but they all knew the difference between what they needed and what they wanted.
The last word anybody would ever use to describe Elena would be outspoken. She was so shy, having trouble making eye contact and fidgeting when anyone besides her family would talk to her. She was the girl who would spend her friday nights curled up on the sofa reading a book rather than out partying. During class presentations she would talk so quietly and look nowhere else but her notes, much to her teacher's displeasure.
Athletic? Elena? No way in hell. She had always been clumsy, half the reason she never wore heels, the other because they were uncomfortable. Not only that and the complete lack of talent in any sport, but she also hated them. She thought it was gross, running around, getting all sweaty and getting nothing out of it except burning some energy, and maybe a more fit body, but still. Later in life, when starting an actual career, none of that would matter. Knowledge was her sport, and she was proud of her straight As. She believed dedicating your time to education versus sports would benefit you much better in the long run.
Unfortunately, none of her other classmates saw it like that.
Elena rolled off her bed, struggling to keep her eyes open, she was one of those people who had a hard time shaking off sleep.
She walked over to look at herself in her mirror behind her door and consider what she should wear. She rubbed her eyes, which were still half closed, with her fists and sighed when she realized she hadn't hit puberty over night and her breasts were still training bra size with no curves whatsoever, still looking like a skinny ten year old versus the sixteen year old she actually was. She was dressed in a torn up t-shirt that fit her more like a dress with baggy yoga pants on underneath. Her long, dark hair was sticking up in random places and she worried about the battle she would have to face with her hairbrush in the near future. Maybe it would be easier to just tie it up in a pony.
She gave herself one last glance, then walked over to her closet to get dressed.
*TVD*TVD*TVD*
*Cause I got a really big team
And they need some really big rings
They need some really nice things
Better be coming with no strings*
Suddenly the music cut off as Damon was finishing up on his bench press workout with his little bro, Stefan. He set the bar down and sat up to see who had interrupted.
"Damon! Stefan! I called you boys a hundred times! It's time to get your butts to school, I don't want you to be late!"
"Sure, mom." Him and Stefan replied at the same time as they got up to take a quick shower and change out of their workout clothes.
Once Damon reached his bedroom, he stopped to give himself a look in his mirror. He smiled. He looked good. He had the most ripped muscles in his whole year and his hair was shaggy and soft, all the girls loved to rub their hands through it while they kissed and pull at it while they fucked. His smile was one of a model. It could be a devilish smile or a naughty, flirtatious smirk. His eyes were a rare kind of blue, like ice, and one look from them had girls begging him to just take them. Sometimes he did. He laughed internally at the thought.
The Salvatore boys were good looking, there was no doubt about it.
Excited to start the day and show himself off to the rest of his peers, he quickly jumped into the shower.
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Once he pulled his blue camero into the parking lot with Stefan in the passenger right beside him, he felt that swell of pride and power that filled him every time he pulled into school. He loved it here. He was a king and the school was his kingdom.
He parked the car and got out slower than most for added effect and he loved how without even saying a word he had everyone's attention. He smiled and waved at a few of his football teammates and winked at some of the girls who all blushed in response, however, he was heading to his girlfriend, the cheerleader captain of course, Caroline Forbes. Although the two slept around on each other a lot, which they both knew the other did, they still called each other boyfriend and girlfriend, mainly because no matter what guy Care went with or what girl Damon hooked up with, the sex was best with someone else more experienced, such as themselves. And not to mention the fact they made the sexiest couple in the school. Caroline had the blonde, curly hair which was cut just right to notice all her gorgeous facial features, as well as the blue eyes, not as blue as Damon's, but still. She had curves so sharp, you could get whiplash and her full breasts were to die for.
Today she was wearing a black, spaghetti strapped tank top which showed an incredible amount of cleavage, as well as light colored short-short jeans which you could most likely see her thong through since they were as tight and about as short as regular underwear. All of this was complemented with a pair of white allstar Adidas.
Damon smiled, proud that she was his and she smiled back, obviously feeling the same.
Right when Damon was about to reach her and pull her into a deep kiss that both the male and female population would later fantasize about under the covers he was hit hard and fell to the ground along with what felt like a bike and a small little body sprawled out on his chest.
"What the fuck!?" He said, angrily.
"Get the fuck off me!" He shoved whoever had fallen on him harshly, hearing a small yelp after he did so.
He stood up quickly and looked down to see who had run into him.
It was Elena Gilbert. Of course. The stupid little bitch she was. Her wide brown eyes were staring up at him, frightened and he noticed that her knee was scraped and bleeding.
"Of course it's you. The school's worthless clutz. You can't walk, can't run, and now you can't even ride a fucking bike!" Caroline declared angrily. The other students who were circling them, watching the scene, started laughing.
"Seriously you stupid bitch, what the fuck is wrong with you? Can't you get anything right."
Before Elena even had the chance to apologize, Caroline roughly pushed her back to the ground. Tears welled in her eyes and she internally begged herself not to cry.
'Not here, not now! It'll only make it worse!' Elena thought.
"Hey! Stupid ass twig, apologize!" Caroline growled.
"I'm sorry." Elena whimpered, looking into Damon's eyes, pleading with him to show some mercy.
"Sorry for what." Completely unaffected by her desperate eyes, his voice was condescending and he didn't say it like a question.
"Sorry for running into you?" She was nervous how she should answer, how to avoid the most conflict.
"But that isn't the only thing you have to apologize for, is it?" He smirked at her in a devilish way and she had no idea what he was talking about, but she felt her hands start to shake as she stayed still on the ground, not daring to stand up.
"Shouldn't you apologize for being such a mistake? I mean who here has been annoyed by this mistake? Raise your hand!"
Everyone raised their hand. Literally everyone. That was the last straw and like a dam bursting free, the tears ran down her cheeks fast and hot while sobs that she was trying hard to silence shook her shoulders and tumbled out of her mouth. Her head was down and her eyes were closed, wishing she could just disappear.
It amazed him how pathetic she looked, sitting on the ground with her bleeding knee, tears running down her face, making her eyes all puffy, while sobs that got louder along with the jeering laughter made her whole tiny, little body shake. She just made it so easy. Her hands went up to cover her ears as the laughter just continued to get louder.
Damon, starting to get bored with the crying Elena scene which happened pretty much daily, smirked his signature smirk while walking away coolly.
Elena sat there, hands now over her ears, crying, until the bell rang signalling that class had started. All the other students scampered off and Elena waited an extra minute to make sure everyone was gone. She had to go to the nurse to get a band aid for her knee and clean up the blood that had streamed down her leg. The nurse would excuse her tardiness and give her a pass to class as well.
She got up and grabbed her bike, limping slightly as she headed towards the bike rack. She had stopped crying, but still had some tears in her eyes and running down her cheeks which she wiped at with the back of her hands. Honestly, it wasn't even that bad this time.
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It was lunchtime now, sixth period, and Damon was sitting at a large table overflowing with all his popular friends, including his brother Stefan, his girlfriend Caroline who he currently had his arm around, as well as majority of the football team and cheerleaders. Him and Care sat in the very front of the table and while he ate a poor school excuse of a hotdog filled with toppings, Caroline drank nothing but a diet coke, listening to one of her good friends, Bonnie, get her updated on all the gossip.
"Oh my God, Care, Elena got called out by Mrs. Claire to write the answer to a question on the board and she was so freaked that she was shaking so bad she couldn't even fucking write! Whatever the hell she wrote came out like super scratchy and shaky that no one could even read it and even the teacher couldn't help but laugh at her! I seriously don't know what her problem is! It's not like she was asking her to disarm a bomb, it was just to answer and write down one fucking question! She's just so annoying."
"She seriously is though. And what's with the clothes she wears? Like today, she literally has on a shirt that goes down to like mid thigh! My shorts don't even go down that low! She's such a fucking prude. You know, I honestly wouldn't even be surprised if she didn't know what sex was yet."
"Well, why don't you ask her? She's getting out of the lunch line right now."
Both girls eyes lit up with an evil glint, demonic grins spreading across their faces.
Without saying another word they both got up and started walking towards Elena who was heading to her usual lunch table in the back corner where she would sit by herself and read more than eat.
Once everyone saw who Caroline and Bonnie were heading for, nearly all conversation stopped. Elena, noticing the sudden silence, looked around to see her personal terrorists heading straight towards her, their blue and green eyes never wavering from her. Elena could feel the tension rising in her body, her throat suddenly stopped working and her tongue felt extremely dry. She needed to get out of here. But she had nowhere to run! She couldn't just leave the cafeteria!
Elena turned her head and kept her eyes down on her tray, speed walking towards her table. Maybe they weren't actually headed for her. Maybe once they see her head down they'll know she won't do anything to harm them or their reputation. Maybe-
"Elena." The blonde beauty's voice lunged at Elena while her hand slapped the table top to scare her even more.
Slowly she looked up, seeing Bonnie and Caroline standing in front of her, their postures intimidating and threatening, making Elena want to just disappear.
"Hi." She whispered, avoiding eye contact at all costs, that could appear as challenging and challenging two girls bigger and with more backup than her was the last thing she wanted to do.
"Hey, I wanted to ask you some questions, you know, girl to girl questions." Even though everyone was silent and listening to the point they could have heard Caroline even if she whispered, she still spoke in an incredibly loud voice.
"Have you ever had a boyfriend, Elena?" Bonnie said while Caroline let out a snort, knowing the answer already.
"No." Elena's voice was so quiet, it was unlikely anyone even heard her, but they didn't need to to know what her answer was.
Immediately the cafeteria buzzed with giggles and fake gasps.
"So, you only do one night stands then? Friends with benefits? Fuck buddies? You're that kind of girl?" Again it was Bonnie who had spoken.
"No." This time Elena's voice was slightly louder due to the disgust and shock she felt of just the idea of her doing that.
"Well then who do you have sex with? Do you just get off with a vibrator?"
Everyone's laughs echoed as if Bonnie had said something incredibly funny. Elena didn't even need to look up to see the sneer on her face.
She didn't answer, just focused intensly on her tray.
"Answer my friend you bitch." Caroline said.
She grabbed a handful of Elena's hair, yanking her head backward so she was looking up at Bonnie's face, eliciting a tiny scream out of Elena.
Now she was scared. What Caroline was doing right now was physical. So far none of them had ever actually touched her with the exception of a small shove or push, but normally they just called her names and said insulting things, but they never once had done something like this. This was new.
The cafeteria had fallen silent, holding their breath. Even Bonnie looked shocked at what Caroline was doing. She had pulled Elena's hair! Physically pulled it! What will she do next?!
"Please." Elena whimpered.
"Stupid bitch!"
There was a loud crack, similar to the shot heard around the world, it rang throughout the cafeteria and even when it had fallen back to silence, this crack having only lasted a millisecond, it still rung in everyone's ears. By the end of the day this crack would be the most talked about thing among the students, everyone would know what had happened. Everyone would know that Caroline Forbes had slapped Elena Gilbert. Hard.
Everyone's eyes, including Caroline's and Elena's were focused on Caroline's still raised hand, slightly red due to how hard she had hit her. Nobody knew how to react.
Finally Caroline broke the silence, unsure whether the attention she was getting was good or bad.
"Whatever, not even worth our time. Let's go, Bonnie."
The two headed back to their lunch table and once they sat down the noise level in the cafeteria reached an all time high. Conversation rotating around what just went down.
Elena continued to sit there in silence, her hand resting on her stinging cheek. Nobody came up to ask if she was okay. Nobody gave her a sympathetic glance, in fact the only glances she was getting where ones you would give to a strange new animal at the zoo.
Elena slowly stood up, leaving her tray behind, slowly walking towards the doors out into the hallway.
Damon stared at her, watching her leave, her hand resting on her red cheek. Everyone at his table had gone back to talking, now louder than before. He heard someone, didn't know who, congratulate Caroline, saying "she did the right thing" and "that frigid bitch deserved it".
It made Damon sick.
Yes, he made fun of Elena all the time, and no, he never felt bad for her before. Ever. He would even laugh when she would start crying. But his father had been physically abusive, smacking Damon, his brother, and their mom around just because they were smaller than him. Needless to say, because of this, Damon hated violence. And right now, just hearing Caroline gloat about how hard she had hit Elena made him cringe. He quickly stood up and left.
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"Elena! What are you doing home?! School doesn't get out for another two hours!" Her mom said, startled to see her daughter stumble into their house while school was still going on.
Elena tried to quickly dart into her room, her straight long brown hair covering her face and most importantly, her now bruised cheek. However, if Miranda knew one thing it was how to read her children, like a goddamn book, and Elena would never leave school early unless something serious had happened and Miranda had suspicion that she might be able to find out what if she could just see her face.
"Elena! Look at me!" Her mother moved quickly to block Elena from going up the stairs.
Elena still had her head down and her hair covering her face like a shield. Miranda reached out to gently lift Elena's face to her own.
"Oh sweetheart! What happened?!" Her mother stroked the bruise gently as Elena started to let the tears fall.
"Mommy, they're just so mean." Elena fell into her mother's embrace, gripping the back of her shirt in tight fists as sobs worked their way out of her throat.
Her mother held her back just as tightly, rubbing soothing circles on her back while whispering sweet nothings in her ear to try and get her to calm down.
"Come on, baby girl. Why don't you go lay down and rest for a little bit. I'll get you some ice and maybe I can make some cookies, ok?" She gently led Elena to the couch and layed her down, pulling a blanket over her and brushing the streaks of tears away.
She wanted to know what happened, to know who had hurt her precious little girl and whose parent was going to get a not so very nice phone call. But she couldn't right now. She knew her daughter better than anyone else and knew she was too upset right now to talk about it and the best way to calm her down would be a nice nap on the sofa.
She stood up to get some ice and sure enough when she came back Elena was sound asleep. She gently laid the wrapped up ice on her cheek while trying to hold back tears of her own. Her children were her world and she felt there pain which she always tried so hard to protect them from. But like her husband always told her, you can't always be there.
Still. She didn't understand how someone could hurt her Elena. Elena was the sweetest girl. She was always smiling and laughing and had such a thirst for knowledge, it amazed her. And how her big brown eyes would light up whenever she was informing the family at dinner about something new she had learned. Her laugh was incredibly goofy and contagious. It bubbled out of her and came with such an adorable grin.
All of her children were sweet, caring individuals, something that made Miranda very proud, but this fact just made it harder for her to grasp the idea of someone harming them.
Elena let out an adorable sigh as she curled up into a little ball. Miranda sighed as well, gently kissed her on her forehead and then got up to make some cookies to have ready for when she woke up.
A/N: Hey guys! So this is my first fanfic and I've been working on this chapter for a while, rereading it, fixing it, etc. and I had had part of the next chapter ready too since my original goal was to have at least three chapters ready before I posted this. However, the little I had for the next chapter sucked and I have no idea what to do. So, I was hoping you guys could give me some advice on what to include in the next chapter. Also, something you might want to know, it does take me a while before a new chapter is ready (this is for this fanfic and future ones as well) so I won't be able to post chapters super frequently and because of school and work, the chapters will not be posted like at a certain time or after a certain amount of time and I know that is annoying (I read fanfiction too) but one thing I can promise you is that I am sticking with this story all the way through, so you do not have to worry about not having an ending. And yeah. That's pretty much it for now. I hope you enjoyed reading and please don't forget to leave suggestions for the next chapter! Thank you!