Hey, you guys!

It's been a while, and I just can't find it in me to keep the story to myself anymore even though I have other stories I need to finish. Don't worry, Blind Date and Something Like Fate are on progress, I have written two chapters for each of the story so it just a matter of editing.

Well, here's the new story, enjoy!

Chapter 1

Jenna Sommers, with her blonde hair pulled back in a ponytail and her perfectly ironed green blouse hugging her body, signs the white paper contract in her hand before hands it to the dark-skinned man in front of her with a satisfied smile on his face.

"Well, here you go, Mr. King. I hope your bride-to-be is excited for the house as much as you do. I will call the renovation guys tomorrow and get them re-do all the bedrooms and also the back yard," Jenna smiles happily. She gives the man a set of keys from her purse, "and here are the keys to the house and all the rooms."

After a few minutes of exchanging pleasantries and thank yous, they go separate ways. The twenty-eight year old woman, who shows her perfectly white teeth when she smiles, gets into her car; places her purse on the passenger seat, then punches some buttons on her GPS to make a call to someone on her contacts named 'Elena'. After that, she starts the engine and makes a move to leave the house she has just sold to her own house that she has been occupying with her niece for the last three years.

"Hello?"

"Hi, 'Lena. I'm going home now. Do you need anything? I'm going to cook pasta for dinner and stop by Tesco or Fresh Market, anywhere closer from here basically," Jenna said as she sees a Whole Foods sign in less than a mile, "Well, Whole Foods it is."

"No, thanks, Jenna."

The older woman slightly frowns, "Did someone call you names again at school? Bully you again?"

"No, and I don't need you to look out for me, okay? I'm fine. Bex just finished her homework here with my help and I'm just tired," Elena mumbles through the phone.

"Okay, then. I'll see you in thirty."

"'Kay, bye."

Jenna hits the end button and takes a deep breath.

Elena Gilbert is an eighteen-year-old girl with long wavy chocolate locks that she often straighten. She has lean figure with legs that goes on forever and long fingers that she used to adorn with rings that her parents had bought her. Her round, doe eyes happen to be her best feature that can make guys' knees go weak, and her happy, bright smile is something that a painter would like to draw because it just so real and beautiful. And, she happens to be Jenna Sommers' niece.

Her niece is the only family she has left. Elena's adoptive parents, which happen to be her sister and her brother-in-law, had an accident three years ago and pronounced dead at the scene when they swerved their car and crashed when they got home from their date night. At that time, Elena was in her friend's, Bonnie, house. The police had called Jenna immediately, then she'd took an hour trip from her apartment to the hospital only to find her niece on her knees on the floor sobbing really hard with nurses trying to calm and comfort her. She'd known right then that she had become an orphan and Jenna had sworn to herself to be the best guardian Elena could ever have.

Ever since the tragedy, Elena has been shutting people off from her life. She used to be a popular girl in her school, but after the accident, she just didn't want to talk to people, let alone hang out with her old friends. Jenna had decided, in her own time of grief, to change the scenery and moved to the small town of Mystic Falls in Virginia. She'd bought a decent house with three bedrooms and two bathrooms for her and Elena with her own money so that Elena could use her parents' money for her college funding. She'd also transferred Elena to the only high school in Mystic Falls and quit her job as a design interior in New Orleans to selling houses in Mystic Falls.

Elena was fifteen back then. Back when she had friends and boyfriend who loved her. Now, at eighteen, she only has one constant friend, Rebekah Mikaelson, who lives two blocks away from their house and has a pair of twin younger brother, Klaus and Elijah. She is not a straight A's student like she'd used to be, but her grades never disappoint Jenna. Aside from her choice to be a loner, she is proud of her niece for being strong and keeps moving forward.

The twenty-eight year old woman gets out of her car before fishes out her phone from her back pocket and starts to text. A few minutes later when she gets to the dairy aisle, a tap on her shoulder breaks her out of her concentration from reading nutrition information on the milk carton.

"Hey, babe," a tall, broad shouldered guy kisses her cheek from behind. She turns around with a loving gaze on her eyes.

"You're here fast," she comments before she gives him a proper hello to his lips.

"I was just around, waiting for you to text me. What you're making for dinner?"

"Pasta; it's domestic."

They fall into silence as he wraps his arm around his woman's shoulder and they move from dairy to vegetable aisle.

"What's wrong?"

"Why can't you just turn your Jenna radar off for a day?" she teases, "you always know when something is up."

"I can't just turn it off. I love you," he bats his lashes to her making her let out a girlish giggle.

"Oh, God, I'm twenty-eight. I shouldn't be giggling like some school-girl."

"But I love your little giggles," he pouts then goes to kiss her temple. "Enough stalling, now what happened?"

She sighs with a heavy heart, "It's Elena. Again. You know, it's always about Elena, Ric."

"What about her?" he asks. Concern writes clearly on his handsome, manly face. He has never met her but he knows her niece means the world to Jenna.

"The usual. She still acts like she's the only one hurting in this entire world and she won't share her burdens, you know. Now, I understand that she doesn't want me to be sad because of her problems, but I want her to confide in me. I am her aunt after all, I'm family," she complains. She can just talk and talk about her problems and Ric, her boyfriend, will be the one who always listens and that one of the things that she loves about him.

"You know a death of a family means death of herself, right? You told me that yourself. She's so selfless and because of that, she becomes like that. She thinks she burdens you enough, honey, and she doesn't want to add more pain for you," Ric says softly.

"I know," she rests her head on Ric's shoulder, "but she can't keep it all up inside forever. If it's not me, she needs someone to be there for her. She doesn't even tell her friend that she's an orphan. I talked to Bex one time, and she didn't even know. And we'd already moved for a year that time. One day, her selflessness and her loner behavior could kill her."

Ric goes silent for a minute as Jenna takes carrots and corns into her shopping cart. She's just about to grab a broccoli for dinner tomorrow when Ric half-whispers-half-shouts to her.

"I got it!"

She gasps and widens her eyes, "You startled me!"

"I'm sorry, baby. But, I know how to stop this. All this," he makes a big round with hands gesture, "with Elena."

"What do you mean?" she asks, a little confused.

"We do what we do best. Playing cupid. Except this time, we use the same way you used the first time you met me," Ric smiles so big that Jenna thinks it would hurt his face.

Jenna's natural make-up covered face lights up slowly as s happy smile forms on her face, "Oh my God, You are a genius! That way, she will find someone who can be there for her and she can confide in him... well, or her. Anyway, whoever she gets, it will be her destiny that's decided. She can't run from her destiny, right? Once that person gets her to be her happy self again, I will get my niece back."

"Yeah, we need a plan first, though," Ric says, pausing their happy moments.

Jenna frowns, thinking hard for the way to get Elena happy again. After a minute or two, she gasps excitedly.

"I know! I know how to get her do that. So," Ric gets closer as she telling him her plan, "We will..."

"I'm home!" Jenna yelled with both hands holding a big paper bag filled with her groceries.

Elena runs down the stairs then helps her aunt with taking one of the paper bags out of her hands, "You're late. You said you'd be here in thirty."

"Yeah, I met someone when I shop," she went to the kitchen with her niece following behind and put the groceries on the marble island in the center of the kitchen.

Elena mumbles as a response. She doesn't really curious about the person her aunt's dating as long as she is happy. And she knows that Jenna is happy from the way she has been acting lately for the past five months. She knows her aunt has met someone special and if she doesn't want to tell her yet, why should she be nosy about it?

"Could you boil the water first, 'Lena? I'll go get changed," as soon as she finished saying that, Jenna bolts out of the room.

Elena does as she is told. As she waits for her aunt and for the water to boils, she cut the carrot. It is her specialty, cutting. It is something that she likes to do when her mother was still alive and she had asked Elena to help her in the kitchen.

When her parents were pronounced dead and she'd gotten a call from the hospital, Bonnie's mother had taken her immediately to hear the verdict from the doctor. She won't go out of her room for days made Jenna really worried. She'd felt bad for punishing Aunt Jenna like that, no matter what, it wasn't her fault that her parents got into an accident and killed themselves. She'd started to avoid the crowds in school and always ate lunch by herself. She had ever even talked to Jenna only ten words once.

She wasn't close to Jenna because she had lived in New Orleans whilst Elena's family lived in Denver. She felt she had no one anymore. But then, Jenna started to make her come out of her shell when she asked her what did she think about moving to Virginia. She moved town and she moved school. She found new friends but still, some of her classmates looking at her weird most of the times. Only Rebekah Mikealson, who was never tired to asked her out many times to The Grill. She kind of found herself in Bex. She had lost her youngest brother, Kol, before her twins brother had born.

"'Lena, have you put the pasta into the boiling water?"

Jenna's shouting heard from upstairs makes her break out of her reverie then stops her cutting and takes out the pasta and puts it into the boiling water, "Just did!" she shouts back.

"Thanks," Jenna's footsteps are getting closer as she goes down the stairs. She is already dressed in her worn out college t-shirt and yoga pants.

"You can prepare the table, I'll finish this one up," Jenna says then the younger woman nods.

"Wine or juice?" Elena asks as she opens the fridge.

"Wine for me and juice for you."

Elena smirks slightly before pouring out the wine and the juice separately.

"Oh, before I forget," Jenna turns around from the pan to her niece, "Could you do me a favor after school tomorrow?"

"What is it?" Elena asks for more details.

"I left some documents in the house I just sold. I really need it to make a report then send it to my boss as soon as I can. Can you get it? I'll give you the address tomorrow," Jenna smiles sweetly and when she sees Elena's blank face, she adds, "Please, please, I'll bring home Ben and Jerry's for you," she pleads.

Elena sighs with a heavy heart, who is she to deny her aunt who has been taking care of her in her time of need?

"Okay, I'll do it. Just don't forget the address," Elena answers, "and I want cookie dough ice cream."

"Deal! Thank you so much!" Jenna claps her hands enthusiastically then back to her and Elena's dinner.

So, yeah. Do you like it? Do you hate it? Should I continue? Should I just stop?

Oh, it's the first time I used present tense actually. So, if you find any mistakes, point it out and let me know :)

Tell me what you think by reviewing the story, or send me PM, it's up to you basically. Constructive criticism is appreciated.

See you!