Chapter 1: Abby Thorn
'Just a normal day at school. It's weird we've been through so much in the past couple of weeks, between looking for Stefan and trying to turn his humanity back on and dealing with Klaus and trying to open that coffin. No today is ordinary. Nothing supernatural going on. Today, as Head of the Cheerleading Squad, I am interviewing for new cheerleaders (as Klaus killed the last one)' Caroline thought as she went into school and got out her clipboard ready to interview new potential cheerleaders.
"Right, everyone we need to keep to the schedule. No one spends longer on a cheer than the 2 minute time limit. Guys on the panel make sure your comments are quick and last a maximum of 30 seconds. Ok? Right, let's get on with it then." Caroline said making sure everything was perfect and that nothing was going to go wrong today.
"First we have Abigail Thorn." Caroline called out to a long line of potential cheerleaders. Abigail Thorn walked into the gymnasium, her long brown wavy hair bouncing as she walked. "Hi, Abigail, yeah your hair needs to be tied up, ok." Caroline said.
"Yeah ok whatever; by the way call me Abby. Abigail sounds too formal and everyone calls me Abby anyway." Abby replied as she tied her hair up with a bright red ribbon.
Abby stood in the middle of the gym and started to cheer. "O.M.G, L.O.L, we're the best above the rest. We will win. Go Timberwolves…"
Crack. As she landed from a jump, she slipped and fell and broke her leg.
"Oh my God, are you ok?" Caroline rushed over to her.
Before Caroline could get there Abby quickly pushed the bone back and stood up. "Yeah, I'm just a little bruised." Abby answered pretending to be in pain.
"But, I-I-I…" Caroline stuttered trying to make sense of what had just happened.
"What Caroline, are you ok? Look, I'm gonna go. I only came because my mom wanted me to come and I can't lie to her about anything. If I didn't come she would have killed me or at least impaled me." Abby exclaimed as she looked around and saw everyone staring at her so she followed with a small laugh to brighten the mood.
"Ok." Caroline replied confused and still trying to understand where she heard the 'crack' coming from if it wasn't Abby.
Abby walked out and bumped into Elena. "Sorry Elena." Abby apologised, trying to then quickly move on past Elena.
Elena looked down and saw some blood on her leg. "Hey, Abby are you alright. You've got a little blood on your leg."
Abby looked down to the spot where she had just broken her leg. "Yeah, just a little paint, my mom is decorating my room and I must have got some red paint on my leg." Abby quickly turned around and walked away to avoid any more questions.
Elena wasn't sure but went into the gym anyway and watched as other people performed their cheerleading routines.
"How did it go?" Abby's mom asked her when she got home.
"There were complications but I went. I didn't get in though." Abby replied quickly not looking her mother, Charlotte, in the eye.
"Abby, come here," Charlotte called out to her daughter "What happened?" She asked looking her daughter in the eye.
While keeping eye contact, Abby replied "I broke my leg, put it back in place and walked out. Then I walked into Elena who asked me about some blood on my leg. I said it was red paint."
"Thank you, now, forget we had this conversation and go upstairs and do your homework." Charlotte told her daughter.
Abby snapped out of the conversation and went upstairs and did all of her homework without a second thought.
"Hey Care!" Elena shouted to Caroline who was leaving the gym after a long day of interviews and deciding who the new cheerleader was going to be.
"Hey Elena, sorry was totally in a world of my own. Saw something earlier and still trying to get it out of my head." Caroline replied.
"What happened? Do you want to talk about it?" Elena inquired trying to understand what Caroline was thinking about.
"You know Abby Thorn. Well she was doing her routine and fell after during a jump and then I heard a crack, and I thought she had broken her leg but when I got to her, her leg was fine and she just got up and left after talking about her mom killing her or impaling her because she had to try out as she can't lie to her mom at all. I don't know it was weird never mind." Caroline sighed.
Elena listened and thought about earlier as well. "Wait. When she came out of the gym I saw she had something on her leg. She said it was red paint but if you think that she broke her leg then you know what that means…"