Chapter 1: After 3 years
* children ages: Eliot – 18- stuck in this age, Joni – 18, Vanessa – 16, Katy – 15, Roy – 14, Tom – 11, Sheila – 7, Anfisa – 4, Zach – 3.6, Lizzy – 3.1, Eric (Donovan) – 7, Victoria (Vicki) – new born.
Author note – I am not the owner of Eliot's speech. HSM is the owner and Zac Efron aka Troy Bolton said this speech in HSM 3. Also i want to add that soon i will go to the army (IDF) so i couldn't update so much and be here a lot of time so i am sorry for late updates. Enjoy the chapter! =]
Well hello everyone! I don't know if you remember me or not so my name is Vanessa Salvatore. I am a vampire from Mystic Falls. I am in grade 11 well I will be in grade 11 after this summer vacation will be over. Also I can add that I have a boyfriend that his name is Eliot Mickalson and he is from New-Orleans. He is a senior in his school 'NOH' – New Orleans High, also he is a basketball player and a captain. Now he will join to me and my friends and be in 11 grade again. He didn't mind to do it all over again because now he will be near the person who he loves.
Both of us have little siblings. I have a cute little brother Zach Daniel that is 3.6 years old and Eliot has a little sister Liz Esther that is 3.1 years old.
There were quite some important events and I want you to read them. Here the summery:
1. Family celebration of finishing another year at school and started summer vacation and it was the first time when Zachy called me by my full name.
2. I flew to New - Orleans to support my handsome senior boyfriend.
Are you ready? Well I don't need any answer, I just start….
So first I can tell you that my parents and Eliot parents made for him a very big surprise on his graduate day. On 6th of July was his official graduation day and his parents wanted to give him a special gift for the graduation. The only thing that Caroline thought was to bring me from Mystic Falls and support him. It was really perfect and brilliant idea. My parents agreed to it as well as me. So right after I finish my 10 grade on 30th of June. My parents and I went to the agency to buy me a plane ticket for 5th July. That day I will be at Elijah Mickalson's house. Elijah is Klaus's older brother and my parents's friend. Only when it will the time for the ceremony Eliot will see me.
Of course before my parents and I went to the agency we went to my dad's restaurant with my friends and cousins to celebrate the beginning of the summer vacation. My best friends are: Debby, Bradley and Jared. They came with their parents and other sailings (like sisters and brothers) to the restaurant. I was sitting beside Debby and Joni. Joni was wearing a Mystic Grill uniform, he works there from first of April. On this date he become 18 years old, even that he was still in grade 11. He have a brother Eric who is 7 years old and he is going to the middle school with Sheila. Btw: my life becomes easier after I got al Joni's books and notes, and of course thank god that I can do a telepathy thing and can read minds and transform my thoughts to someone by the time when I call him\her name. This ability is a complete reversal ability from Edward Cullen from The Twilight Saga who can only read minds.
My parents were sitting in front of me and between them was sitting my little brother Zach. He was playing with my home keys, and be faded by my mom. Next to them were sitting my aunt Lexi, uncle Damon and Anfisa who was sitting between her parents. All the little kids of the family were sitting between their parents. Most everyone from my big family were there, only Rebekah couldn't be because she must to stay at home cause she is in a save pregnancy period. So from the Donovan family we have Matt and his two boy's Jon Only one family was missing and everyone knew that soon enough we will see them in Mystic Falls.
While everyone were still eating, someone from the little kids spoke "Mom, gife it to Vanessa, I want to play with my toy" I heard my brother's voice and looked at him with wide eyes as both my parents. "Here your toy little guy" my step-grandfather Alaric said it to Zach and gave him his toy and gave me my keys back. Then he looked at me and said "Why so surprise? And close your mouth unless a fly will fly into it." He and Damon started to laugh and then I closed my mouth, got up from my chair and went to my parents and told them "Zachy called me by my full name right now, right?" Then my dad nodded and said "Our little prince get alder. It is a very good sign that he knows your full name Nessie, he understands that we calls you in two names just like him."
Then, Joni as the adult child decided to said a toast and it was something like that: "Hmm…hmm… I want to say something if I am allowed to say… All I wanted to say is congrats to all who finish this school year. Also I want to add that on the next year I will be the president of my liar and I will need to say a speech so Nessie, I would like if you will help me with this. Yes I know that we have a lot of time till this but I ask you it because 11 grade is the hardest, the awfulness and the longest from all over school classes. So please help me, don't worry I will help you with all your school homework and stuff if you will need it. You now that I give you my school stuff, so please help to your 'big brother' and also I will pay for you".
"Jonatan, without any paying. She is a family." Matt glared at his son and after that we all laughed and I said "Well of course I will help you Joni. Don't worry about that, also I will teach you dancing moves if you will need it for your prom" after this we hugged and high five our special 'high five thing' and continue to eat.
On the time of the special lunch it was made a decision. Everyone will come to our house and spend the rest of the day in our big pool that we had built since spring. Today will be 'opening of the season' swimming time. At 15:00 everyone came with their swimsuits, beach toys, pool toys, ice cream, hot dogs and meat for the BBQ dinner. It was one of the bests first summer days ever.
New – Orleans:
Well as I wrote here before on the 4th of July I flew to New-Orleans and spent my day at Elijah, Klaus's brother. At the airport I was greeted by Klaus, Caroline, little Lizzy and Elijah.
"Nessie, welcome dear, how was your flight?" Caroline asked me while hugged me. "It was pretty good, I saw a movie 'Vampire Academic'. And I can said that the vampires of Mystic Falls and New-Orleans are well better than in the movie" and we both started to laugh. Elijah took my suit case, but then I told to Klaus to take it because I won't need it. Everything that I will need for the rest of the day is packed in my back bag. It was pack for a week, there were some cloth for me, presents and a lot of free place that soon enough will be filled up with presents back home and some stuff from the Mickalson family that will move back to Mystic Falls to rest of their lives. Of course that they will visit New-Orleans and because of that they won't take all their house with them.
"Ness!" I heard a little tiny voice called me and grabbed my legs with a tiny hand. This was Liz Esther, Eliot's little sister.
"Hello, little princess. How are you sweetie?" I lifted her up and gave her a lot of kisses and then started to tickle her.
"I…am…fine" she said between her laughs.
"I brought you some presents from my parents, I will give you them tomorrow. Ok Lizzy?" I was sure that she would said presents right away but this little angel just nodded because her attention wasn't full with me. It was with my necklace. I were the same necklace that Eliot gave me with the 'E' letter there.
"'E' fo Eliot, ight?" she asked me.
"Yes, Liz 'E' is for Eliot" I answered.
"Caroline, Where is Eliot? I hope that he not suspecting anything about that you all here? And I am little hungry so I wander if we can stop by Subway and I will buy me a sandwich. If it is ok of course?"
"Nessie, sweetheart, Eliot is right now writing his speech so his mind is full of thoughts about how to right the perfect speech." Klaus said and then Caroline continue "And of course, honey, we can stop by Subway. Actually I want to go to the supermarket to buy some products for you for your dinner and breakfast so it is really no problem at all… she wanted to continue but I interrupted her.
"No, Caroline I don't want that you buy for me anything. I can take care of myself very well and don't worry about dinner and breakfast. I already have cereals and some schnitzels with macaroni in my bag. My mom took care of it already. And for the rest of the week I will live at your house so there it won't be any problem to eat human food or drink animal blood. Still you know that every four days I must to drink animal blood or human blood from the hospital bags so everything will be fine. "
After it we drove to the Subway, I bought there a sandwich for me and we drove than to Elijah's house.
"So tomorrow at 10:00 we will meet you in Eliot's school?" I asked Caroline who was holding napping Lizzy.
"Yes and no. I will took you and Elijah at 09:45 from here. Klaus and Eliot will be already there"
"Oh ok." I said and then I remembered what Joni had told me about his next year speech and I mumbled "Btw: Could you please tell Eliot to leave all his papers for Joni? He will need it for his speech next year…."
"I will tell him when I will see what he wrote, don't worry Ness" Klaus said and with that they leave me and Elijah alone.
"So, what do you want to do? We can watch TV, go outside, go to the witch shop and be with them or just relax at home." Elijah looked at me and asked while he was looking for interesting channel on the TV.
"First, I want to call my parents and tell them that I was met by you and I am already here at your house. Then I think, I want to go outside for a walk, later to have a dinner, shower and to sleep. If it is ok from you?"
"Of course it is defiantly ok from me. And if you don't mind we will eat in one of the famous New- Orleans restaurant." After that I went to call my parents and told them that everything is fine and I feel good.
* Btw: I think you little curious about why the hell this vampires eat more human food then drinking blood.
Well the answer is: We have a very special diet, when we don't feel well we drink blood and when we are good we eat human food. The blood give us strength but also it give us under control for couple of hours and we can be really bad and dangerous vampires near human. So we drink blood each 3-4 days or each night before going to sleep. It depends on each of us.
So… comeback to the storyline… Where I was, Ah! Got it.
Well Elijah showed me the town and it was really beautiful with all the lights and we ate at the famous restaurant and then we came back, and I went to sleep.
On the next day, I was excited and I thought that Eliot is as well excited as me as but more than me. I decided to send him a message and it was written: 'Good Morning, senior. Hope that you will rock with your speech. Love you'
while I was eating breakfast I got a message back: 'Thank you sweetheart, I love you so much and I really missed you, isn't it middle of the night in MF and you awake? You know it is bad for your sleeping time. Comeback to sleep my lovely lady'.
I wrote him right back: 'Well your welcome. And I put an alarm clock especially for that I will send you a little message. Don't worry about me, I am fine and I missed you too Wildcat. We will talk later'.
After an hour Caroline took us to Eliot's school. His school not such big as mine. His school remind me 'East High' in the movies of 'High School Musical', even the mascot is the same 'Wildcat' so sometime but only sometimes I called Eliot by his nickname 'Wildcat' like Gabriella called Troy in the movies. It is strange and cute at the same time but we don't care, Eliot likes it when I call him 'Wildcat'.
Btw: we both saw all the movies and both liked it.
We sat on the chairs which Klaus save to us. Lizzy was sitting on her mom knees. Klaus holed a camera. I just took out my phone to take some pics. We were sit after the students, who were all in caps and gowns, getting ready for the ceremony they were sitting back to us so Eliot didn't see me and notice me.
The ceremony began.
There principal started his speech: Welcome parents, family, and friends. What a beautiful day for a graduation. Thank you for joining us today on this special day, as we celebrate our graduates. So let's get started. With his words the cheerleaders of the school and of the senior liar got up and showed us a little leaving show, after them we greeted the mascot, the football team and the basketball team that was leading by Eliot. I saw how his eyes were looking for something, he noticed his father with the camera, and then he noticed his mom and Elijah who was hold Lizzy on his shoulders and then his eyes stopped searching when he looked at my eyes and gasp. 'Surprise! Now make me proud. When it will finish you will get a very special prize from me. Go Wildcat!' I used our special telepathy. He just nod and said 'I love you'. After that his team shows us some combinations and then everyone went to put their gowns and caps back. After couple of minutes the principle started to call each student from the senior liar to give him\her the certificate and a present from the school. After he finished calling most all of them he called Eliot to read his speech as the president of the liar and as the team captain: 'And now I want to congratulate our school president and our basketball team captain Eliot Mickalson'
"Thank you sir" Eliot said to him. The principal moved back and made place to Eliot on the podium.
Eliot caught my eyes and started to speak: "East High is a place where teachers encouraged us to break the status quo and define ourselves as we choose. Where a jock can cook up a mean crème brulee, and a brainiac can break it down on the dance floor.(All of this was about his friends) "It's a place where one person, if it's the right person, know us the best and can surprise us every time again and again. (This was about me, I just fell it and knew that something about me will be in his speech) "Once a Wildcat, always a Wildcat!" Eliot finished his speech and got his certificate, the prize and a medal.
After it everyone got up and tasted their caps up to the air and hugged each other. At the same time Eliot came to us. First he hugged his family and his uncle. Then he reached me. "Hey Wildcat, you were exllenet! I like this speech very much. Did Troy Bolton helped you ah?!" on this words he led me up to the air and hugged closer to him. He put me down, and led up my face for that he can kiss my lips and we kissed. After we pulled apart we talked with his parents and decided that in half hour we will meet them at the Italian restaurant.
While we were walking and catching up about everything that we missed we kissed a lot. We didn't see each other nearly half year. We only chat by Skype but not see really each other. All the kissing part remind me our really first kiss that was three month before. And I had a flashback that I decided to share it with Eliot and with you too:
We were celebrating my uncle Jeremy's and ant Bonnie's wedding anniversary on one day of the spring break vacation. Eliot and I were sitting on a house tree and was watching out the little children. We were talking about everything: the now, the future, about us both. Then Eliot started to sing a very special song for us both that was sang on this same situation in a movie that we both liked. It was a song name "Right Here, Right Now". In the movie Troy Bolton (Zac Efron) and Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Hudgens) had singing it. And here we are who singing it.
Can you imagine what would happen if we could have any dream
I wish this moment was ours to own it And that it would think never leave
He sang his line and then I continued
Then I would thank that star that made our wish come true
Cause he knows that where you are is where I should be too
Right here, right now
I'm lookin' at you
And my heart loves the view
Cause you mean everything
Right here, I promise you somehow
That tomorrow can wait some other day to be
But right now there's you and me
If this was forever, what could be better
We've already proved it works
But in two thousand one hundred twenty-three hours A bend in the universe
Is gonna make everything in our whole world change
And you know that where we are will never be the same
Oh no
Right here, right now
I'm lookin' at you
And my heart loves the view
Cause you mean everything
Right here, I promise you somehow
Tomorrow can wait for some other day to be
But right now there's you and me
Oh we know its comin'
And it's comin' fast
(But there's always you and me)
Oh yeah
So let's make this second last
Make it last
Right here
Oh right now
Yeah I'm lookin at you
And my heart loves the view
Cause you mean everything
Right here, I promise you somehow
That tomorrow can wait
Some other day to be
To be,But right now there's you and me
You and me
You and me
Oh you and me
But right now is
You and me
We finished this song while we were hugging. He hugged me from my back. He let me to turn around to see his face and then when he was looking at me he led his head down and his lips met mine. This kiss was full of love, epic and had a taste of more.
"Now you know how much this song is important to me, and not only this. Remember the song 'You and I by Lifehouse' it's too." I told him and kissed him with all the love and passion that I had at the moment. When we pulled apart we heard a strange noise. It was my stomach. We laughed and went to the restaurant. The food was really taste good. After it we went home and watched all the ceremony again.
On the next morning I gave everyone presents from my family and packed the new presents and some of my shopping bags that I had bought. After 3 days we all went to the woods to hunt, it was funny to see how little Lizzy is hunting at age 3. She was pretty good. Her cloth were clean and without any mess. After the hunt we came back home and just rest. On the next day I helped them to pack some stuff and put some even in my suitcase. This day was my last day in New-Orleans. On the weekend all the Mickalson family (including Elijah and his wife Danielle, who is one of the witches) came to Mystic Falls. They took with them their two cars. We greeted them and gave them time to unpack their stuff. Right now they are living in the Mickalson Mason because they are renovating their house. Later the week we decided to have a 'Welcome home feast' and also 'Welcome to Victoria (Vicki) Alexis Donovan feast' that burn on 7th of July.