Evelina Gilbert

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Friday Night Bites

Coming home was a mistake, I could already feel the regret swarming through my mind as I neared the front door of my old childhood home. I had left a few months back because my parents had died in a car accident, luckily I wasn't in the car, but my twin sister Elena was, she survived thankfully, if she didn't I wouldn't know where I would be. The way you could tell Elena and I apart was our hairstyles, she wore hers straight where as mine was layered and I had a side fringe, people say I look a lot older than her, but I'm younger, two minutes exact.

I knew I should've had stayed, but I couldn't handle the loss and the grief, it was all too much, I knew my family needed me, but watching everyone mourn and feeling the exact same, I couldn't deal with it. So I ran, off too Michigan, where my distant family was. Of course I kept in contact with everyone, but I never once thought about coming home until my Aunt Jenna called me urging me to come back and help with my little brother Jeremy.

I sighed as I walked up the stairs and knocked twice on the door, I could hear shuffling from inside the house. Did they really want me home? I could always run and say I missed my flight? I looked around seeing the familiar sights as the door opened showing Elena.

"Eve?" She gasped.

"Surprise." I winced, opening my arms, she hadn't changed, from the way she wore her hair, to her make up less face. She engulfed me in a bear like hug, squeezing me until I couldn't breath. "I've missed you..." I whispered, hugging her back.

"I'm so happy you're here." She cried, pulling me into the house. "JEREMY!" She called from up the stairs.

Jeremy ran down pulling on a jacket, he stopped when he saw me. "Eve.." He smiled, giving me the same hug as Elena did, "It's good to see you." I looked up at his face, he had gotten tall.. but he looked incredibly sad still, I understood his pain defintley, he wore darker clothes and he had let his hair get longer. He wasn't himself.

"Hey..." I smiled back, "You've got taller." I pulled on his jacket, "Where are you off too?"

"Grill." He walked past me opening the door, "Sorry, no welcome home party." He smirked, "Don't wait up for me."

The door closed and Elena and I looked at each other, "I can see why Aunt Jenna wanted me home.." I raised a brow, "he's looking goth."

Elena smiled sadly, "Yeah.. he's hanging out with Vicki Donovan, that's probably why."

"Where is Aunt Jenna anyway?" I asked, we had walked into the living room, seeing everything and how it had not changed made me feel terribly emotional.

"She's at college, she won't be home till tomorrow, has a big test." She said as she walked backwards into the living room. Nothing had changed, everything was still where I remembered it. I looked around the house as Elena sat on the sofa, "Bonnie is coming for dinner tonight." Elena said as I sat beside her, "and Stefan.. you'll love him."

I cocked a brow, "Stefan? He a new guy?"

Elena blushed lowering her head, "I'm happy with him.. it's the first time I've been properly happy since mom and dad." I tilted my head giving her a sad smile, I rubbed her arm giving her a knowing nod. I understood, when our parents died it wasn't just Jeremy and I who were mourning; Elena was as well. "I just hope you two get along, Bonnie isn't so keen on him... I'm not sure why, he's a good guy."

I shrugged, "maybe she was hoping you and Matt would get back together."

Elena shook her head, "Matt and I were over even before mom and dad, and she knows that. There's something else." She furrowed her brows, "I just want tonight to go well, I want everyone to get along and everything to be normal."

"I'm sure it'll be fine.. what's the worst that can happen?" I smiled, we both turned to the TV seeing Logan Fell on screen reporting an animal attack. "Wow, towns really gone too shit while I've been gone huh?"

"You don't know the half of it.. it attacked Vicki Donovan, she says she didn't see what it was... so don't go out during the night, they still haven't caught it yet."

"Don't worry... I defintley won't be going all Twilight on you anytime soon." We both laughed as we continued to catch up.

After I unpacked everything I was downstairs with Bonnie and Elena, the thing was, Bonnie and Elena were the closest out the four of us, where Caroline and I stuck together. I'm not sure why it was like that, but I would always be with Caroline and Elena would always be with Bonnie, it's just the way it was.

"So, why don't you like the new boy Bon?" I asked Bonnie while Elena was out of the room, I popped a sugar cube in my mouth as I walked around the island towards her.

"It's hard to explain..." She replied lowering her head, I gave her a look to continue, she huffed, "I got a really bad feeling when I touched him.. it felt like death." She shuddered.

I frowned, "well that's not creepy or anything.. are you sure you weren't sick?"

"Eve! I'm being serious, it's freaking me out! Everything my grams is telling me about being psychic is crazy.. but I can't help the way I feel about him."

"Well.. you've got to at least try for Elena's sake, it's the first time she's been happy since our parents and it would mean a lot to her." I smiled kindly, she looked away for a moment and nodded her head. "See, that wasn't so hard was it?" I grinned. Bonnie grinned as well, and pushed on my arm, but when she did, she froze, her face went pale and her eyes went wide. "Bonnie?"

"I see a crow... blue eyes... a man.." She whispered, I looked at her like she was crazy. She blinked a few times as she set back into reality, "I'm sorry.. I'm going to go see where Elena went." She rushed away leaving me in the kitchen petrified. I took a deep breath and got the serving spoons out, and that's when I heard my sister scream out my name which meant Stefan was here.

I walked through the foyer to see a man who had brown hair, green eyes and a romantic brooding look, if this wasn't Elena's type, I didn't know what was. He was seriously good looking, not one single flaw on his face, he looked like he had seen things, but the way he looked at Elena was precious. He passed her the flowers he was holding and glanced at me giving me a small smile. "You must be Evelina, Elena has told me a lot about you." He greeted.

I smiled warmly, "Hi Stefan, whatever she told you it's a lie!" I chuckled.

He did the same, "no, nothing bad. I promise."

"Bonnie is in the living room, I'll go get her and we can start dinner." Elena kissed Stefan's cheek looking for Bonnie. Stefan and I walked into the kitchen together, I could feel his eyes on the back of my head as we entered the room.

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