Hello, my name is Niklaus. I know weird name but you must understand that I didn't choose it, my parents did and you know you can't choose your parents. I am ten years old. I have four siblings, but I think I heard my parents talk about a fifth one. I have two elder brothers, Finn and Elijah. Finn's older by a year but Elijah is the one we usually look up to as eldest. Elijah's twelve and Finn's thirteen.I have two younger siblings (which make me a middle child) named Kol and Rebekah. Kol is an irritating trouble maker and Rebekah's his feisty partner in crime. Kol's older than Rebekah which makes Kol five and Rebekah three.
We are originally from Norway but we did live in Mystic falls for a time, before I was born I think but we moved back to Norway. Father has a job that requires us to move from time to time. This time father got a promotion at his job but his office was in North America. Mystic Falls to be exact. Since we are from Europe we do have an accent, well some of us. Finn has a slight accent that you can hear in some words. Elijah barely uses his, only when he loses his temper. Kol and Rebekah are still learning how to say coherent words, so we'll see. And mother and father have one. It's a little hidden but you can still catch it.
Remember how I said we moved? Well, you can't move to another country without re-enrolling in school. I am going to Mystic Elementary School (how creative) for 4th and 5th grade. And since Mystic Elementary apparently has kindergarten, Kol will be joining me as well. Finn and Elijah are going to Mystic Middle School (I repeat, how creative.) for 7th and 8th grade. And little Beks is going to Mystic preschool. (Do I even need to say it)
I am not excited... AT ALL. At my last school I was called weird, a freak, a loner because I talked "funny" and I rather draw then actually talk to people. So I didn't have many friends. Who needs them? And I don't expect anything different from this school. I hadn't known I was frowning during the car ride until Elijah tapped me on the shoulder. "What's got your tighty whities in a bunch." Elijah questioned. I wear tighty whites ONE time and no one forgets it. "I'm fine just not looking forward to this school." I answered. Father jumped into the conversation. "Looking forward to it or not, the enrollment cost money that we're not getting back so stop being a little crybaby and man up boy!" Ouch, this first time he's yelled at me for things I say or do. And he usually yells the same thing (Man up boy!) yet I cringe a little each time.
I didn't get to dwell on his words for long because Kol took Rebekah's sippy cup and threw it at my head. "OW! YOU LITTLE-" Five or not I was strangle this kid but Elijah held me back. "Kol no dessert for you tonight!" My mother yelled. Kol started wailing and Rebekah started laughing which made Kol upset so grabbed her hair and then she practically screeched out in pain. "Kol! NO DESSERT FOR A WEEK!" my mother yelled again as she picked up Rebekah. You think she would have learned her lesson the first time but nooo. Kol started kicking and screaming. And by the look on Finn's face I could tell he regretted holding me back. To avoid more yelling Elijah picked up Kol and began to tickle him. His screaming turned to giggling and Rebekah had stop crying because she was suddenly fascinated by mother's necklace. I looked over at father. He looked ready to kill us all if it wasn't for the fact that he was driving.
We drove for about five minutes of peace until father stopped at the middle school. Finn and Elijah said their goodbyes but Elijah wouldn't leave with ruffling my blonde locks and saying "good luck at school." It was all good until he was a few feet away and yelled "And make sure you don't soil those tighty whities!" and then he jogged into the school. ONE. TIME. You can imagine how red in the face I was.
The next stop was my school which one minute away by car. What was that three, four blocks? Reluctantly, I got out of the car, grabbed Kol and said my goodbyes. Mother said to make sure Kol gets to his class alright. And father said to stay out of trouble. Rebekah's still learning how to say my name so instead of saying "Bye Niklaus" she said "Buy Nickle!" Mother started cracking up. And I just shook my head in embarrassment, grabbed Kol's hand and walked into the school.
I will say this. This school was HUGE. And I mean HUGE. And it seemed so busy. I got to Kol's classroom and was about to go in when Kol let go of my hand. I turned to look at him and Kol just shook his head and ran (partially wobbled) down the hall. For a five year old this kid was fast. When I caught up to him he was saying how he didn't want to be here, he wanted to go home and play with me. He even called me "Nicky" which he doesn't do unless he's desperate. To add a cherry on top he did one of his specialties. Big puppy dog eyes. I am defenseless against puppy dog eyes. But I really needed to get him into that classroom and into my before the 8:30 late bell hit and it was 8:05. Most people would soothe their kids, tell them how nice their teachers are and what friends they'll make. Did I do that? HELL NO! I played this situation on Kol's personality. So when I told him there would be lots of toys and kids to mess with he shot into that room like bullet. (How five year old so fast?) My work here was done. Now to find my classroom.
This place was a maze. I was told to go upstairs I ended up downstairs. I tried to go up, I ended up outside. I think I was on the right floor when some kid smashes into me sending us both to the floor. It was a boy. He had raven black hair and icy blue eyes. "Hey watch where you're going Ken doll!"the boy yelled. Excuse me? I may be blonde I may have blue eyes but I am NOT a Ken doll. "Me? it was your ass that crashed into me pasty face!" I yelled back. "You have an accent. Does that make you a royal ass?" Oh I did not like this kid. "The only royal ass here is the pig in front of me who need to get of his high horse!" I responded loudly. (How hasn't anyone heard us?) We kept on trading insults with each other ignoring the time when a girl bumped into the boy. This caused us to stop and look at her. The girl appeared to be older since she was taller than us. (maybe she was dropping someone off like me) She had brown eyes, brown curly hair and olive skin. The older girl was wearing gold flats, a white skirt and a loose purple tank top. I don't why I noticed that. I just did. The older girl looked upset and said to the boy. "Watch where your going squirt!" The boy was quick to defend himself. "I didn't do anything you bumped into me!" he said. "Yeah right." she replied. They both looked to me for the truth. I wasn't going to help this dick but I also wasn't going to lie so I just shrugged. "Listen touch me again with your germy hands and I'll make you sorry." she threatened. "What? it's not my fault your a klutz you crashed into me!" The boy was getting riled up. He obviously didn't like being accused.
"Yeah right. I don't believe you. You wanna know why? I'm big your small, your dumb I'm smart, your wrong I'm right. And nothing you say or do will change that." She finished with condescending smirk. And started to walk away leaving the boy dumbstruck. The boy still didn't back down and screamed out "BITCH." The girl turned around and smacked him in the face leaving him shocked with his mouth open. Satisfied she started to walk away again. I don't know why but that really irked me and before I could even think about what I was about to do and ran up to the girl and yanked down her skirt. The older girl screamed as she tripped and fell to the floor. Just then a little blonde girl with blue eyes (was blue eyes common here?) ran down the hallway and came to us. (I knew we were being loud) The boy was laughing, the little girl was amazed and I was dumbstruck because guess what? The older girl was wear tighty whities! I can see why Elijah makes jokes now. I couldn't hold it in I started to laugh so hard.
The older girl was embarrassed but she tried cover herself and and she was getting ready to kick me. The boy must have recovered from his shock and noticed because he was beside the girl in a flash. He took his water bottle and dumped it all over the girl's shirt. The shirt must have been made of weak materials because her shirt became see through and we saw her black bra. The boy fell to the floor laughing his ass off so hard he was choking a bit. The girl screamed. (I'm curious as to how we haven't seen any teachers yet and only one student because we weren't being quiet.) The girl got her skirt up and got up herself. She pushed me to the side and went for the boy when the blonde girl tripped her. Not only that but the blonde girl had stepped on her skirt so when she tried to get up her skirt ripped. As in the skirt fell off because the rip had torn the side of the skirt in half. The older older girl screeched and ran off to some other direction. I couldn't help but smirk. That girl seemed like the type of girl who was used to getting her own way. She deserved that.
The boy had gotten up and walked over to me and the other girl. "Damn, that was fucking hysterical." he proclaimed. "Thanks for helping me out." he looked at the girl and me. "I'm Damon." "I'm Caroline." "Caroline? I'm gonna call you Blondie or Barbie to go with Ken over here." Damon smirked and pointed to me. Caroline rolled her eyes. Well since everybody introducing themselves. "I'm Niklaus." "Niklaus huh, sounds foreign." Damon said. "It is. It's not the name I would have chosen." I replied. "You can change it if you want?" Damon suggested.
I was going to turn him down but then I thought why not? New school, new name. Damon and Caroline were staring at me with expectant eyes so I just blurted out "Klaus" "Klaus, sounds tough...and German but how bout Blondie and I call you Nik while everyone else calls you Klaus?" Damon suggested. I already get called Nik by my family so why not? I nodded in approval. Damon put his arms around me and Caroline. "This looks like the start of a beautiful friendship." sarcasm was dripping off his tongue but I could see that he meant it on some level. Damon didn't seem mad over our spat. To be honest I was over it already. Things were looking up. Until I remembered. The time! I stopped in my tracks and told them what was wrong. Damon checked his watch, it was 8:28. We had two minutes left and we had no idea where our classroom was. WE. WERE. SCREWED. Until Caroline remembered that she saw our names on the classroom list. She knew where the classroom was. The three of us raced to the classroom, practically trampling over each other.
Good news we made it to the class room on time. Bad news Caroline, Damon and I made such a ruckus coming into the room that we have to stay in the classroom for silent lunch.( Silent lunch? I know this is 4th grade but that's the best you can do?) There would be a teacher in the hallway checking in on us but that is it. Other than the fact that we have to sit away from each other. After dishing out our punishment the teacher, Ms. Harplemen (I wonder if there's a Mr. Harplemen) assigned our seats in groups of three at our desks. Guess who I got paired up with. You guessed it Damon and Caroline. Due to the look on Ms. Harplemen's face I knew she had a feeling she would come to regret that decision.
Our classes would be done like this. Ms. Harplemen taught math and science. Spend one hour for each subject. Then go over to Mr. Galloway's room who taught English and social studies. Hour each. After that it would be 12:30 which meant lunch. While everybody went down to the cafeteria we stayed in room with a teacher in the hallway. (you know this) After an hour lunch. We get some fun and go to either Art, Computers, Gym etc. (Depends on your original classroom) That's for an 35 minutes. The we head back to the classrooms we started at (Ms. Harplemen for me) collect our stuff and wait for the 2:15 bell. Then freedom.
Since it was the first day we didn't do any of that stuff we stayed in the same classroom meeting new kids, playing games, learning about each other and the teacher, watching videos etc. Unbelievably I met a few people who didn't annoy the crap me. Matt Donovan. Blonde, blue eyes (Man blue eyes and blonde hair must be common) and a pale-ish complexion. He had an older sister name Vicky and he lived with his uncle since his dad died and his mom is never around. He doesn't seem stuck up or pretentious. Good. Good. Next Elena Pierce. Get this. Remember the girl that Caroline, Damon and I humiliated in the hallway? This girl look EXACTLY like her. Only smaller and with straight hair. Damon literally did a double take when he saw her. I asked her a few questions about her family and there is no doubt in my mind that they are related. I didn't get much on her sister (not even her name) except that she's eleven and is in 7th grade at Mystic Middle.(Poor Elijah) But I did get that she had a younger brother named Jeremy in second grade. Her parents died in a car crash over a bridge into water. (How tragic) So she lives with her Aunt Jenna.
I learned more about Damon and Caroline too. Damon had a little brother in Mystic Elementary too. In kindergarten (Hopefully Kol doesn't bite him he does that) his mom died of cancer. (So much death in this town) So he lives with his dad and his brother. His eyes seemed to droop when he mentioned his dad but I didn't mention it. Caroline had two parents (finally good news) that were divorced. (spoke too soon) Her father left her mother for another man. (you heard me right) In retaliation Caroline's mother threw herself into work to keep busy, she's a cop. While Caroline loves her mother she's upset with her or not paying as much attention to her.
The two classrooms did a switch to meet the other teacher and other students. In Mr. Galloway's classroom. I met Bonnie Bennett and Tyler Lockwood. Bonnie was a sweet yet feisty girl who lived with her grams since her dad was busy with work and her mom had took off. Tyler was a bit of an airhead and a jerk but I got along with him nonetheless. He's one of those 'you have to get to know them first' people. His father was the mayor and his mother was on some council along with his father. The council just talks about the town, what they can do to improvement and stuff like that I think. Quite boring if you ask me. Fun fact: Elena, Bonnie, Caroline, Matt and Tyler all knew each other from preschool. Damon and Stefan had lived here but they moved away and came back this year. Go Figure.
Everybody was enjoying getting to know each other and before I knew it, it was 12:30. Time for my lunch and to face my punishment.
In the class room I sat at a desk at the back of the room. Damon was furthest to my left and Caroline was way in the front. In the first minutes a teacher did indeed come check in on us. So to avoid trouble we all ate in silence. For about five minutes then Damon shouts out "I'M BORED." I've known this kid for about four hours and I can tell he's going bring some interesting moments into my life.
"Damon shh! We were lucky enough we didn't get caught with Elena's sister in the hallway. We don't wanna push our luck!" Caroline chastised. "C'mon Blondie! Isn't that how life is meant to lived. Pushing it to the limits and doing crazy outrageous shit that would be awesome stories one day before we died. Why don't we start today?!" Damon exclaimed and pointed to me. "Nik you agree with me don't you?" Caroline looked at me.
They both had good points on one hand I didn't want to be stuck in the classroom for half an hour in total silence and boredom. On the other hand it would really bad if we got caught and we did luck out with Elena's sister. I didn't want to risk it and we could find something to do in the room instead. But the defiant part in me said to agree with Damon. "We only get in trouble if we get caught." The obedient part of me said "NO! It's the wrong thing to do and you don't need anymore trouble!" Guess which part of me won? "What would we do? How would we do it?" I asked Damon.
Damon grinned. Caroline groaned. But didn't resist since she was outnumbered. But it didn't stop her from frowning. For some reason seeing her frown made me upset. Someone that pretty shouldn't frown. Wait what? Damon interrupted my thoughts. "Easy I distract the teacher with something that would keep em busy for the lunch period. Then you two sneak out to the lower floor at the water fountains and I'll meet up with you." Damon said as if it was the easiest thing in the world. Caroline rejoined the conversation. Good, I liked hearing her voice. Wait... WHAT? "That's your plan? There's so many gaps in it we'll surely get caught!" Caroline and Damon kept bickering. Then they started yelling at me for not saying anything.
After what feels like forever we finally came up with a plan. The three of us threw away our lunches and took three bathroom passes off the teachers desk. Damon would ask to go to the bathroom. When he was there he would clog one of the nastiest toilets (let's be honest all school toilets are nasty) and get the teacher. When the teacher would go to the boys bathroom me and Caroline would sneak out to the lower floor and wait at the water fountains. Damon would leave the teacher saying he was going back to class. When in reality Damon would signal me and I would help Damon use some rope and tape from the janitors closet and jam the door. Then we would put an Out of Order sign on the door. Since there is no cell service in the school bathrooms the teacher wouldn't be able to contact anyone. Then Damon and I would join Caroline at the water fountain and we would walk around exploring. If any teacher asked us where we were going we could say we got lost and show them our bathroom passes.
It was 12:45 time to get this plan going. Damon went outside and asked for the bathroom. Two minutes later the teacher was following him to the bathroom. Check. Caroline grabbed the passes and we were out the door check. Check. She headed for the water fountain on the first floor.(we're on the second in case you're wondering) Check. I went to the janitors closet and got the tape and rope. I headed towards the bathroom and waited at the corner. The signal was three knocks on the wall. Knock Knock Knock. Check. He took the rope and wrapped it around the middle of the door handle and then went inside another room connected it to the handle and close the door while I made the sign. Check. To be safe Damon put some tape around the rope and door handles to make sure it was secure. I put the sign up. Check. Then we covered the door with one of those giant yellow trashcans. Check. The two of us ran to the water fountain where Caroline was waiting impatiently and sighed a breath of relief when she saw us and gave us our passes. Check. Oh my god did we actually get away with this?
In order to look inconspicuous we had to walk and act like we were three normal students who did nothing wrong. Although if any of us saw a teacher we made a quick detour. We toured most of the building. I was even able to say 'Hi' to my brother in Kindergarten and Damon said 'Hi' to Stefan. Now we were on the third floor. This was where the fifth graders learned. We could tell immediately that they had better equipment then we do. Especially in Science. It was 1:10 so we had time to play around with the equipment. We would just leave everything how we found it. Eventually we got a little careless so we started playing with the materials and mixing ingredients. We didn't know what was what, how much your supposed to put, and what shouldn't be mixed.
Then Damon being Damon thought it would be a good idea if we tried to "cook" it. So he turned on the burner. We didn't think much of it so we started laughing and mixing random stuff with random stuff. We heard footsteps so we hid underneath the table until the teacher or student or whatever was gone. When we got back up out "solution" was bubbling and it smelled awful. It was so strong and the smell was circling the room. We all started coughing. Caroline said something looked wrong with the beaker so we all looked in the beaker while covering our noses. The beaker exploded. Releasing hot sticky purple goo all over us. But that was the least of our problems because apparently the stuff we mixed was highly flammable when together. And now there was a fire that was growing rather quickly on the table in front of us. What a great first day of school so far.
If this were TV this would either be the end of the episode or a commercial. Either way you would be stuck with a cliffhanger. So let's just pretend that since this is the first "episode" it's a one hour long. Let's get to it shall we?
The fire had shown no sign of stopping and was in fact growing. The room would soon be filled with smoke and the smell from the exploded beaker was still strong in the air and it was horrid. Also Caroline, Damon and I were covered head to toe in some smelly sticky purple goo that was hot it was making our skin sizzle a bit. But did we move or do anything? NOPE! We just stood there like idiots. Caroline looked like she was about to faint. Damon looked more annoyed then scared. And me? I was just pissed off.
I was pissed at my parents for making us move here. I was pissed at Elijah for the 'tighty whities' comments. I was pissed at Kol for throwing the sippy cup. I was pissed at Damon for that argument in the hallway. I was pissed at Elena's sister for being a bitch. I was pissed at Caroline for helping us. I was pissed at the teacher for giving us silent lunch. I was pissed at the dumb-ass who thought it would be a great idea to give highly flammable ingredients to 5th graders. But I was pissed of the most at myself. For the fact that I went along with this stupid plan and not just eating my sandwich!
I snapped out of my self pity long enough to see that the fire had spread to one of the lab stools. I shook Damon and Caroline to get them out of their self pity thoughts too. "What are we gonna do?!" I yelled. The flames were louder than I thought. Before anyone replied we started to cough. A lot. I wasn't sure if it was because of the smoke from the fire or the fumes from the goo. I was getting worried if we didn't think of a plan soon, we wouldn't be able to see.
"I'll go pull the fire alarm!" Caroline half said half coughed. She started heading over when screamed 'NO!' Damon spun her around. "Don't you know that if you touch that thing blue ink will spray onto your hand and it doesn't come off easily!" Damon yelled. "Well I wouldn't have to if you didn't come up with this ridiculous plan. God why the hell couldn't you just enjoy silent lunch?" Caroline spat. "Listen Blondie! You didn't need to come with us you could've stay in the classroom like a goody two-shoes while me and Nik had fun!" Damon spat back. "AND THIS IS FUN?! BEING COVERED IN NASTY SMELLY GOO AND IN A ROOM WITH A FIRE THAT WE CREATED?!" "IT BEATS BEING STUCK IN A CLASSROOM IN SILENCE FOR AN HOUR!" The two were full on screaming at each other now. I knew I had to do something quick. In the corner of my eye I saw a wooden broom across the room. I speed walked to it because to be honest I was getting a little light headed. I took the broom and went to the fire alarm.
With the stick of the broom I broke the glass and pulled down the lever. Sure enough blue ink shot out onto the broom. I threw the broom into the fire to get rid of the evidence.( I feel like I'm on a murder mystery show) The alarm started blaring so loudly that it shut Damon and Caroline up. Unfortunately the alarm seemed to set of a chain reaction. The alarm in the hallway started blaring, the classrooms nearby started blaring. It was deafening. I screamed at Damon to check his watch. It was 1:27. We had three minutes to get out of there. The three of us went to the door and leave but we saw three teachers and two of the school's cops coming our way so we stumbled back and hid the best we could and crouched down to our knees. To add to our day. The fire alarm sprinklers went off soaking us in water. On the bright side the fire was going down and the fire seemed to only do a bit of damage to that one table and a few stools. On the bad side, there were teachers and cops heading out way and we were covered in goo and water. Due to the explosion it was hard to see and/or smell without coughing. I was ready to give up when I felt a tug on my sleeve.
It was Damon. He was pointing to an air vent in the back of the room. I already knew what he was thinking. He wanted us to go in the air ducts and find our way around. Does this boy know nothing?! We could get chopped in half in there! Plus we don't know the root! I shook my head but Damon was determined to get out of this without getting caught. And to be honest I didn't put up much of a fight. I knew we were looking at some jail time for all the laws we broke. I nodded my head and Damon smiled. Now all we had to do was convince Caroline. Damon whispered the plan to Caroline. What do you think her response was? "Hell no we are in enough trouble!" she whispered. Damon was losing his temper so I stepped in. "Caroline if we get caught we would be looking at jail time do you really want to spend your puberty years in Juvie?" I asked. Caroline seemed to be in deep thought. But in my head I knew that if she didn't agree us Damon and I would drag her kicking and screaming. I REFUSE TO GO TO JAIL.
Luckily, 5 seconds later she nodded. YES! We crawled over to the vent. It was unlocked. FINALLY SOME LUCK. I thought too soon. The door knob started to turn. The three of us scrambled into the vent and I barely had enough time to close the vent. Now to figure out our next move. So much for staying out of trouble.
I HAVE NOTHING AGAINST PEOPLE WITH ACCENTS. I LOVE THEM. I'M SORRY FOR ANY MISTAKES AND I'LL UPLOAD ANOTHER CHAPTER IF I GET 5 REVIEWS. SO REVIEW! ALSO I KNOW NONE OF THIS CRAZINESS WOULD HAPPEN IN REAL LIFE BUT IT'S NOT REAL LIFE SO JUST ENJOY IT. I SAY THIS BECAUSE I KNOW I MIGHT GET COMMENTS THAT CALL OUT ON THE UNREALISTIC-NESS