You'd think that my life would be tough. You'd think that moving away every few years when people started getting suspicious would be difficult, but it wasn't. Sure, we had to leave town every few years when people started adding up that my mother's age and my age didn't quite work out. As I grew up though, we started to look more like sisters than a mother and daughter, though we were never either.
My name is Yelena Petrova, I'm the adopted daughter of Katerina Petrova. And I'm her doppelganger.
Well, her real name is Katerina, but everyone calls her Katherine. Just like everyone calls me Elena.
It started the day I was born. My birth mother, Isobel, didn't want a baby and so she searched for a family to give me to. She'd been in contact with Katherine for a while before that and Katherine decided to take care of me for her. I grew up on the run. My mother and I were always running from a guy named Klaus who wanted her dead. When I started to grow up and began to look just like her, we went on the run for me. When I asked why we were running for my sake, my mother told me that I was a Petrova Doppelganger and that Klaus wanted my blood to break a curse.
It sounded crazy, but then my entire life was crazy.
Let's get one thing sorted out first. My mom, Katherine, is selfish, manipulative, and will do whatever it takes to stay alive. She doesn't care who she steps on to survive. She's a survivor at her very core and will burn the world down before it takes her with it.
She cares only about herself and always has. Well, that's a lie. She cares about me. Sure, we were brought together out of duty and blood, but when she realized that I was her doppelganger, her entire purpose was to keep me alive. Be it as leverage or to protect me from Klaus, I was never sure.
But, my mother's willingness to sacrifice everyone is what got me into this situation.
Here I was, surrounded by people who hate my mom, with the threat of my own life hanging over my head.
My name is Yelena Petrova, and I've been kidnapped by my mom's former lovers who now want revenge on her after she killed one of their girlfriends and turned her into a vampire.
My life is awesome.
Can you feel the sarcasm?