Like Other Girls
Chapter 1
All Elena Gilbert's life she only had one goal in mind, to be like other girls, but not just any girls, she wanted to be like those girls. But not just any girls she wanted to be like those girls. The kind if girls that had everyone wrapped around their little fingers. The kind of girls who ruled the school.
Elena had been kind of a lost soul on Middle school, she had only talked with other people if it was absolutely necessary. Not this yeah though. This year she would be popular. This year she would do whatever it took to be one of those girls. All she had to do was figure out how.
She knew her family didn't have the money to afford decent clothes. Hell most days they hardly had enough to feed everyone. How was she supposed to be pretty and popular is she didn't have money for trivial things every now and again.
"You could always get a job?" her mother had said at breakfast that morning.
Elena stirred the milk in her cereal and sighed. She wished her mother had the means to afford some new clothes. After all all of Elena's clothes were either passed down from cousins or other relatives or bought from garage cells.
"I'm only fifteen mom. I would need a work permit remember?"
Her mother shrugged as if Elena's problems were the last of her concerns. Elena guessed she understood after all her mother did work two jobs along with some odd and end jobs here and there to make sure all the bills and this house was paid for. It hadn't been easy since her dad had died, but they were making it through the best that they could.
Elena sighed putting her bowl in the sink and went upstairs to think about her outfit for the first day of school. It had to be fabulous even if it looked like she was a dirt poor hobo, she would be the most fashionable one that school had ever seen. She just had to figure out how to do that.
She looked through the outfits she owned and sighed there had to be a way to make her wardrobe more interesting. More appealing to the public eye. She wished her sister Katherine hadn't went to college . She always did have an amazing skill for making any outfit fabulous. Wait that was it. Katherine had left some of her clothes behind since she couldn;t take them all and since she made a lot of them by herself they were sure to be unique. She just couldn't let her mom know it was Kat's or else she would be in trouble.
Taking a deep breath, Elena snuck into Katherine's room amazed at how empty it felt without her. Elena and Katherine hadn't really gotten along in the past, but she was always there to talk to and now Elena had no one except her annoying little brother Jeremy, And there was no way she was going to him for anything fashion related.
Elena went to Katherine's closet and searched until she found the perfect outfit that was sure to turn a few heads. She couldn't believe she hadn't thought of it sooner as she grabbed a pair of Katherine's signature stiletto boots as well. She would look good rocking this outfit as she looked at it thoroughly.
It was a simple lace black top with a cut out back and a good pair of skinny jeans and boots. If Elena did her hair a similar style to Kat's she would defiantly turn heads. Only she had no real supplies to do so. Elena sighed and ran her fingers through her boring straight hair. It would be really awesome to actually do something different with it every once in a while.
Elena took the outfit to her room grabbing her leather jacket as she got there and put the outfit on a nearby chair. Tomorrow would be perfect she just knew it and someday she would be one of those girls.
