You are born, you have a childhood, you go through your teens, graduate high school, go to college, find your true love, get married, start a family, watch your kids go through the same cycle, then you grow old, and finally death. When eternity finds you, you miss mostly everything in the cycle of life. For me I've been fifteen for a hundred and forty two years. Nothing changes when you are a vampire. And this is my story…

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Prologue

"Stefan wait up" I call out to my older brother. "Come on I'm barely running" he called back to me. It's a warm a spring night outside of a small town of Mystic Falls, Virginia. My home, I haven't been back here since 2002, to visit my nephew Zach with my brother. We don't stay long, I and my brother are waiting until morning to say good bye to him to go to our beach house in Florida. Right now we are hunting in the woods behind the old Salvatore Boarding House, even though our diet requires human blood, my brother found a way around it, we drink animal blood it keeps us alive but not as strong as other vampires. I never liked feeding on people before, lucky for me there was a war going on when I turned. I fed on the men that had no chance on surviving and in return I gave them some of my blood in return to heal them, I cheat I don't like when people die before their time comes it's not right.

We continue further into the wood until my elder brother suddenly stops and shoots his head up. "What is it, I don't smell a deer" I ask as I use my super sense of sniffing, I smell a couple of squirts, to a vampire their blood smells like sweet honey with a mixture of mint. Then there is a rabbit with the sweet smell of roses and sugar, there is also a coyote a mile away, I can tell it is insured from how strong the scent is, but I prefer deer's it is what keeps us the strongest the most. It has the smell of vanilla, but I don't smell any at all. "No, it's not that' he says, "Listen". I hear every sound of nature imaginable but, I try to focus on any not natural. Then that's when I hear it, it's about two miles away, a car was speeding down a road, then I hear the shrieking sound of the car brakes, and a splash in water. "HURRY" Stefan shouts as he speeds of toward the accident. I quickly follow him to an old bridge. We both look down as we see the bubbles forming in the water. We both know that the car is already submerged.

Before I could manage to say anything my brother beat me to it, "Wait here" he said as he leaped of the edge of the bridge into the water below. I felt so bad, after a hundred of years being alive, you would think I would learn how to swim. I waited on top of the bridge patiently, for what seems like forever. Finally I hear the water splashing below; I look down to see my brother with a girl, he is bringing her over to the bank of the water. I pull out my cell phone and dial 911. "Hello this 911, what is your emergency?" the lady asks on the end of the line. "Um… a car sped off of umm…" I look around for a street sign, I look around and see a sign off the under end of the bridge "um the old wickery bridge" I reply very quickly. "Ok help is on the way." The lady says as she hangs the lineup. I quickly run down to edge of the water where my brother is hovering over the girl, "Was she the only one" I ask hoping the girl was ok. "What, um no, her parents." He says and before I know it he is in the water again. I carefully walk over to the girl, I can hear her heart beat, so I know she is alive. As I make my way over to her I take a good look at her face. I almost want to scream, Katherine Pierce, this is the person who ruined my life.

I'm still standing over her with my mouth hung open, as my brother appears by my shoulder. "Is that her" I ask weakly, "No she has a heartbeat "Stefan replies. We stay standing by the girl until I ask, "Parents?" "No, I was too late" He mutters under his breath. Tears start to form in my eyes, I turn around and hug my brother, he knows I hate it when people die, even people I don't even know. We are interrupted from our thoughts as the sounds of sirens make their way toward the bridge. "Come on" I say as I tug my brother's arm. We quickly flee the area and make our way toward the boarding house. Inside my brother goes into his room and I find my way into Zach's office. I tell him everything that happened tonight. But as if on cue, before I mention the girl that looked like the person who ruined my life, Stefan appears in the room with a photo in his hand and I know who it is, he shows it to Zach and asks, "Do you know who this girl is" Zach takes the photo and says, "That's Elena Gilbert".