(A/N- I don't own The Vampire Diaries. I also don't own the songs mentioned in the chapter.

1. When it all starts.

A brunette groaned loudly when she heard her alarm clock. She slammed the snoos button on the alarm clock and threw the covers off of herself. She swung her legs on the side of her bed, and stood up. After walking towards her dressing table, she turned on her music player, which immediately started playing 'wait a minute' by The Pussy Cat Dolls. A smile lightened her face as she started dancing towards her bathroom, which was connected to her bedroom. A hair brush in one hand, holding it as a mike, she started singing with the song. A pair of forest green eyes, stared back at her through the mirror, as she shook her head to the music. After winking at herself, she stripped out of her pajamas and started the shower. After the shower she wrapped herself in a towel and started drying her brown hair with another. A few strand of red hair fell of her face. She had dyed her hair with stripes of red, which looked like fire compared to her natural dark brown hair.

She then hopped towards her walk-in closet, and picked out her clothes for the day. She picked out a blue denim shorts with a white tank top and a white hoodie which reached just below her butt, she left the chain open. Then she picked out an owl locket, which she put around her neck, and another locket which was shaped as a wolf with green eyes, just like hers. This locket was gifted to her by her best friend on her 11th birthday, and she had always worn that locket ever since. Then put on a ring with a big blue stone in the middle on her right hands index finger, and an owl ring on her ring finger. She also put ring with a black stone on the index finger of her left hand. Then she wore a silver men's watch on her left hand, which belonged to her late father who died when she was 9 years old. She then put on her black sneakers, on which she had wrote with a white marker 'fate' and 'faith' on another.

The 17 year old brunette quickly picked up her phone and her one shouldered book bag, which had various badges on it saying various life quotes, swears words or had smileys on them. After taking a quick look at the mirror, she walked out of her bed room. She walked halfway down the stairs before jumping over the railings and landing in a kneeling position.

"Evangeline Joanne Adams! How many times have I told you not to do that?" Her mother, Sarah Adams, scolded the teen, while looking at her with arms crossed over her chest.

"Sorry, Mum." Evangeline, or like most people called her, Evan, said with sheepish look on her face. She stood up from her kneeling position, and kissed her mother on the cheek, while walking around her to their kitchen. "And I told you not to stress like that." She said while taking out a juice bottle from the fridge. She opened the bottle while kicking the door shut, and turned around to look at her mother."It provokes wrinkles." She ended with a wink, before taking a gulp of her juice.

"Only you would know, Anne." Her mum said while leaning against the island with a smirk.

"I do not have wrinkles!" Evan gasped dramatically at her mother. "A 17 year old with wrinkles! Oh! The horror!" She put her free hand on her fore head for dramatic effect.

Her mother only shook her head in amusement at her teen daughter antics. She always remembered her husband, who died of a car accident, when her daughter would be dramatic. James Adams, the love of her life, her best friend, her partner in crime. Her daughter had his eyes and his personality. Just then she saw her husband's watch on her daughter's wrist, and smiled. She felt glad that her daughter still had not forgotten about her father, with the aching in her heart that she felt that her husband couldn't watch his daughter grow up into this beautiful girl.

"Hey, Mum?" Her daughter said in a singing voice.

She hid her smile while taking a sip of her coffee, and kept her eyes on the newspaper. She knew her Anne would now ask her about the 'back-to-school' party.

"Can I go to the 'back-to-school' party?"

Ha! She knew it!

"No." Was her short answer to her. She loved teasing her daughter. She loved the way her Anne would plead, and whine, and then she would sulk like a 5 year old, while pouting her lips.

"Please? Please? Pleaseeeeeee?"

Pleading. Check.

"Nope." Sarah said before taking another sip of her coffee.

"Why? Mom? Mom? Mommyyyy?"

Whining. Check.

"I said 'No', Joanne."

Here comes the sulking, Sarah thought as she watched her daughter sit heavily on the stool near the island, and pouting her lips while finishing her orange juice.

Evan sighed heavily, so that her mother would notice her sulking. But her mother just turned the page of the news paper. So, she sighed more heavily.

"Mom?" She questioned when her mother so rudely ignored again. "Mom?"

She quickly walked towards her mom and hugged her tightly.

"Mom? Please? Please! I loveee you." Her Anne said as she rubber her nose on her neck. She just smiled to herself. "Mom! I swear I'll do the laundry, and the dishes, and keep my own room clean!"

"Sweetie, you already do that."

"Mom!"

"Okay! Okay! You can go to the party!" Sarah finally caved in with a small laugh.

Her Anne gave her a big kiss on the cheek, and then hugged her again tightly.

"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!"

"You know the rules, right?" Sarah said after hugging her daughter back and kissing her head.

"Of course! Two bottles of beer is the limit, don't go anywhere alone, don't accept drinks from strangers, don't talk to strangers, even if they're absolutely gorgeous, and always stay with the good boy, Matthew Donovan." Her Anne said counting off the rules on her fingers.

They both heard the horn of a truck.

"Speak of the devil." Evan muttered, with a small smile.

"Yo! Evan! Get out here before I leave your sorry ass behind!" They both heard the voice of Matt Donovan, one of Evans best friend.

"Well, my chariot is here!" Her Anne announced dramatically. "Now I must leave to go to the castle of evil, and fight the evil dragon!" She then hoisted her bag on her shoulder and picked up two apples, and left towards the front door after giving her mother a kiss on the cheek. "Love you, mom!" She hollered.

"Love you, too." Sarah shouted back with a small smile on her face.

She heard the front door slam close. She shook her head at her teen daughter, before going back to reading the news paper.

She never wanted this to change.

Evan quickly jogged towards Matt's Chevy truck, and sat in the passenger's seat. She threw Matt an apple before taking a bite of her own apple. Matt nodded in thanks, before doing the same. He then started his truck, and flinched when Air supply's greatest hit's started playing on the cassette tape. He could feel the glare Evan was giving him before he even looked at her.

Evan was glaring at her best friend. Seriously? He was still moping over his break up with the infamous, Elena Gilbert. Get over it already! She dumped you. End of story. Move on! There are lots of fish in the sea, my fellow idiot fisher. Gosh!

"Seriously?" Was all she said.

"I-I, uh.., that's not mine?" Was Matt's lame attempt to save his ass.

"Matt, I love you, and all, but if I see this stupid cassette in your truck again. I. will. make. You. Suffer."

Damn, the devils glare, Matt thought to himself while driving the truck out of Evans driveway and towards school.

"Okay."

Evan immediately ejected the cassette tape and threw it under the passenger seat. She turned on the radio and made a noise of approval when 'If today was your last day' by Nickelback started playing.

"Listen to this, Matthew. This is what you call music." Evan slowly said as if talking to a small child. "Awesome music."

"I know!"

"Good boy." She said patting Matt on the head like a dog. And chuckled when he swatted her hand away.

Evan then started singing with the radio.

If today was your last day

Tomorrow was too late

Would you say good bye of yours today?

Matt glances at her and smiles. He loved when Evan sang. Her singing made you want to sing with her, even if you can't sing. Evan would just completely loose herself in the song and start to shake her hair, and then raise her voice so high, people would look at her as if she had lost her mind.

Would you live each moment like your last?

Leave all pictures in the past

Donate every dime you have?

Evan said the next line pointing at Matt, with a raise eyebrow. He knew what she was saying. 'Are you going to move on from She-Gilbert and live your life in awesomeness or do I have to kick your ass?'. Matt and Evan have this weird brother-sister relationship where they both were protective of each other. A lot. And Matt loved it. He wished he had this relationship with his sister, Vicky Donavan. Evan was best friends with Vicky too, despite the age difference they had. Matt thought that Evan was a good influence on Vicky. She always helped Vicky like any sister would. And she was also trying to get Vicky to stop the drug use, in a way that she won't provoke his sister's anger.

Against the grain should be the way of life

What's worth the prize is always worth the fight

Every second counts cause there's no second try

So live your life like you're never living twice

Don't take the free ride on your life

If today was your last day?

Evan was there for him too when Elena broke up with him. They spent the whole day watching sucky movies and shouting at the stupid victims of the monster. He remembered what she said to him that made him laugh. Evan said, 'There are plenty of fish in the sea that you don't have to grill before you eat it, if you know what I mean.' She said with her big smile which showed her white teeth, and both eyebrows raised.

"If today was your last day!" Evan shouted loudly as Matt parked his truck in the school parking lot. Matt just laughed at her and shook his head at her antics, as they both got out of the truck. "Oh, my God! People, Matt Donavan is laughing! Be careful. Next thing we know everyone is getting attacked by aliens!"

Matt just looked at her with an unamused look.

"Ha ha. You are so funny, Evan, I forgot to laugh!" Matt deadpanned while hoisting his bad on his shoulder.

"Oh, come on, Mattie!" Evan said as she walked towards Matt. She used her thumb and index finger to pull up the corner of his lip, so he was smiling. "Show me that beautiful smile of yours, which makes girls swoon!"

Matt pushed her hand away, while giving her a smirk.

"My beautiful smile makes you swoon?" He teased her.

Evan then put her hand over his shoulder, and pretended to faint.

"Someone save me from his beautiful smile, that's making me go weak on my knees!" She dramatically said.

"Okay! That's enough, Ms. Dramatic." Matt said while putting his arm around her shoulders.

"Brat."

They both then started walking towards Matt's locker so that he could get his books.

"So, are you coming to the 'Back-to-school' party in the woods?" Evan asked as she casually leaned besides Matt's locker as he took some of his books.

"Yeah. I have to keep an eye on Vick and you are going to help me." Matt said with a sad smirk.

"When have I ever refused to help you?" The brunette seriously asked with a small smile.

"Almost, never." Matt said closing his locked and then leaning against it to look at Evan. "You are such a good friend. Did I ever tell you that?"

Evan pretended to think.

"Well, there are so many times, I can't even count." Evan said with fake surprise.

"No need to brag about it."

"But you make it so easy, Mattie."

They both laughed at themselves. Matt's smile faded when he look behind Evan. There was standing his Ex-girlfriend, Elena Gilbert, with her best friend, Bonnie Bennett. Elena raised her hand hesitantly, and waved. Evan looked confused about his sudden change of mood. She followed his line of vision, and saw Elena and Bonnie. She gave them a fake smile, and left, dragging Matt with her.

Elena watched with a sad face as Matt, her childhood friend was dragged away by his best friend. She turned to Bonnie with a sad sigh.

"He hates me." She sadly said. "And I think Evan is going to murder me in my sleep any day now."

"That's not hate." Bonnie, her best friend, immediately said. "That's 'you-dumped-me-but-I'm-too-cool-to-show-it-but-sec retly-I'm-listening-to-Air-Supply's-greatest-hits' . And as for Evan, she just acting as a best friend would be acting when their best friend gets dumped by their childhood friend."

After the school, Evan started walking towards the new kid, to get to know him. She liked to know everyone. Connections everywhere helps her a lot. She also hated it when she didn't know anything, when some one hides something from her. The plus side? Everyone knows you, and you're popular. Now that she carefully looked at the new kid, he looked kinda hot.

"Hey, new kid!" Evan started walking with him with a warm smile.

"Hi." He replied with a small smile.

They both kept walking down the hallway.

"I'm Evan. Everyone calls me that. Just wanted to welcome you to mystic fall. We don't have many new people moving in this town, so the news about the new hot kid in school spread like the 'd-virus' from Resident Evil in the whole school."

"Thanks, I guess. I'm Stefan."

"Don't worry, Stefan. If you want anything, or want to get some information about anyone, you can come and ask me. I know everybody, everybody knows me." Evan boasted about herself.

"Really?" Stefan asked amused. He immediately liked this girl. She had that spirit and fire, which reminded him of his best friend, Lexi. She seemed like the kind of person, who would always try to help every one, and never say 'no' to her friends.

"Really." She repeated. "Like that's Dana Shoemaker. Hey Dana!" She said to a girl with honey colored hair.

"Hey, Evan!"

"See? She know me." Evan said as she and Stefan walked out the doors towards the parking lot. "She's an absolute genious in biology. Saved my life a few times."

Stefan nodded as he listened to her, but someone caught his eye. The girl who he bumped into, while going to the mens room. She was walking away from the school on foot. Evan followed his like of vision, and sighed.

"That's Elena Gilbert." She stated.

"What?" Stefan said looking at Evan again.

"The girl who caught your interest. Elena Gilbert. She broke my best friends heart, then lost her parents in a car accident, and her little brother is not helping her by being on drugs, and hooking up with my other best friend. Speaking of her..." She trailed off narrowing her eyes at her best friend who was smoking at the stoners corner, and laughing with the other stoners. "Well, it was nice meeting you, Stefan." She said smiling at Stefan.

"You too, Evan." Stefan said smiling.

Evan waved at him one more time before turning around and walking towards her best friend.

"Hey, Vick!" Evan said to her best friend.

Vicky replied by blowing the smoke on her face.

"Well, excuse me, your highness, while cough up a lung." Evan dramatically coughed out.

"Oh, come on. You know you want it, EJ." Vicky said while twerling the weed in front of her face.

Evans exhaled from your mouth.

"You coming to the 'Back-to-school' party in the woods?" Evan asked instead.

"Of, course! They have free beers!" Vicky exclaimed loudly.

"Then I'll see you there, Vick." Evan said. She then snatched the weed from her hands, and took a deep smoke. "Sweet holy, mother of god..." She sighed with smoke coming out of her mouth. She then handed it back to Vicky who was smirking at her. "Don't tell Matt." She said while walking away backwards.

"Your secret is safe with me, Bitch!" Vicky said loudly.

"See ya at the party, Ho!" Evan exclaimed loudly before turning around and walking towards her home.

Evan walked up her porch steps, and let herself in through the front door with the spare key she had. After throwing the keys in a bowl, and putting her bag on the table near the door, she walked up the stairs, and entered the second door on the left. She entered her room and took her guitar, which was hanging on one of the walls, and walked out of the room.

Evan entered the kitchen and picked up a chocolate pop tart. She looked around and saw that her mom was still at work. She put her guitar on her back, with the help of a belt, and walked out the front door after picking up her bag and the keys to the house. She then started walking towards the cemetery, to visit her Dad, while eating the pop tart. She reached the cemetery after a while and then started walking towards her dad's headstone. After putting her bag down on the grass, she sat in front of her dad's grave, while leaning on a statue of an angel. Holding the guitar in her hands, she started to play a rythem. And then she started to sing a song she recently wrote.

Falling a thousand feet per second, you still take me by surprise
I just know we can't be over, I can see it in your eyes
Making every kind of silence, takes a lot to realize
It's worse to finish than to start all over and never let it lie
And as long as I can feel you holding on
I won't fall, even if you said I was wrong

This song was about her recent break up with her boyfriend. His name was Paul Sean. He told her that she was not perfect, and then broke her heart by cheating on her with some cheerleader.

I'm not perfect, but I keep trying
'Cause that's what I said I would do from the start
I'm not alive if I'm lonely, so please don't leave
Was it something I said or just my personality?

Evan then stopped playing when she heard a crunching noise, as if someone walking on dried sticks. She looked around, but didn't see anybody. She started feeling a weird feeling in her gut, which told her to leave the cemetery, immediately. After picking up her bag and guitar, she looked around before turning to leave. As she turned around she saw Stefan standing there.

"Dude!" Evan gasped loudly, before hit him on the shoulder. "You scared the crap out of me!"

"Sorry. I didn't meant to scare you." Stefan said with a small smirk.

"Somehow, I don't think you mean it." The brunette said with a small glare. "What are you doing in a cemetery?"

"I, was, uh, visiting family."

"Wow. Tactless. Sorry. Uh, me too. I was visiting my dad." She said uncomfortably, while playing with her wolf locket.

Stefan sensed that she was uncomfortable talking about her father, so he changed the subject.

"I heard you sing." Stefan said with a smile. " You're very good."

"Uh, thanks." Evan said confused. When did he heard her? He wasn't anywhere around when she was singing. "My dad, encouraged me to sing, when I was little so. Just fulfilling his wishes." Then she saw the time. "Oh, crap. I gotta go. Or my mom will kill me." She said before biting her lower lip.

"Yeah. I understand." Stefan nodded.

"Okay." She said before starting to walk away. " Bye, Stef! See you at school?"

"Definately." Stefan said smiling.

Evan then turned around and started jogging towards her house. When she was going to sleep, that's when she noticed that she was missing her fathers watch.

"The battle of willow creek, took place right at the end of the war, in our very own mystic falls."Tanner said in the history class.

Evan was busy doodling, and ignoring whatever said. She was feeling like crap, because she lost her fathers watch. She even went to the cemetery early in the morning to search for the watch, but she didn't find it there. Either someone took it or she carelessly put it somewhere. Didn't matter, cause either way, she felt like crap.

Evan drew a wolf, while playing with her wolf locket. She was wearing a blue denim jeans with a V-neck Indian top which was red in color and had designs in gold, and her regular black sneakers, and some earrings with green stones, and her charms bracelet on her left hand and a ring with a red stone on her right hand ring finger.

"How many casualties resulted in this battle?"Tanner asked. "Ms Bennett ?"

"Um, a lot?" Was Bonnie's lame reply. "I'm not sure. Like a whole lot."

"Cute becomes dumb in an instant, "Tanner scolded."Mr Donovan . Would you like to take this opportunity to overcome your embedded jock stereotype?"

Matt who was looking at his best friend, wondering what put her in a sulky mood, looked up when he heard his name being called.

"It's okay,Tanner . I'm cool with it." Matt said , which caused a few people to chuckle.

then looked at Evan, who was busy drawing her wolf.

"Ms Adams ."Tanner said. "Surely you can enlighten us about the towns most significantly historical events?"

"Seriously?" Evan said without even looking at Tanner . "I don't know. I don't care! They're all dead!" She said before dully looking at Mr. Tanner.

"There were 346 casualties, unless you're counting the local civilians." Came a voice to her rescue.

Evan turned on her seat and Stefan, who gave her a small smile. She tried to give one back, but it came more like a grimace, before turning back around.

"That's correct. Mr...?" Tanner said impressed.

"Salvatore." Stefan answered still looking at Evan. He knew why she was acting so sulky. He patted his pocket lightly which contained Evan's Dads watch.

"Any relation to the original settlers here in mystic falls?"

"Distant."

"Very good. Except, of course, there were no civilian casualties in this battle."

"Actually, there were 27, sir. Confederate soldiers they fired on a church believing it to be housing weapons, they were wrong. It was a night of great loss." Stefan said remembering his days as a human and the war against demons. "The founders archives are stored in the civil hall if you'd like to brush up all your facts, ."

The whole class looked at Stefan in admiration, except Evan who immediately took off a few seconds before the bell rang.

Evan almost ran towards the girls room. She put her bag besides her on the floor, before covering her face with her hands, as tears started to fall. She just couldn't accept that her Dad was really gone now. The watch was the only thing she had of her dad, and now that was gone too, just like him, she just couldn't accept that. She put hands on the sink and took deep breadths to control her crying. She then wiped the tears away, and then washed her face before picking up her bag and walking out the girls room. She was lucky no one came in the girls room while she had her break down.

Evan walked out of the school after telling Matt that she was going to be walking home. She turned around as she heard someone call her name. Stefan was walking up to her.

"Hey. What happened?" Stefan asked as he reached her. Her eyes were a little red from crying.

"Nothing. It's just, it's just about my dad." Evan sadly said.

"I'm sorry." Stefan softly said. "I wanted to give you this." He said as he took a silver mens watch from his pocket.

"Oh, my god." Evan gasped as she took it from his hand. "I thought I lost it." Then she looked at Stefan with a big bright smile, which caused him to smile too. "I could actually hug you right now!" She exclaimed before bringing Stefan into a tight hug. "Thank you." She said after pulling back.

"It's nothing. I understand how much important it must be to you." Stefan said while putting his hands in his jeans pockets.

"Well, I'm gonna go home now. See you at the party. You are coming to the party, right?" Evan asked as she put her dads watch on her left wrist.

"Yeah, I'm coming."

"Well, see you there then." Evan said while walking backwards. "Thanks again." She said before turning around and jogging to her home.

"Chuck! Chuck! Chuck!"

"You can do it, EJ!"

"You go! Evan!"

There were teens making a circle around a beer barrel. A girl was doing a handstand on the barrel and drinking the beer. That girl was Evan 'EJ' Adams.
She then stood straight again, and raised her hands in the air, cheering for herself. The other teens also cheered for the party girl.

"Give it up for, Evan Adams!" Shouted the Mayors son, Tyler Lockwood, raising a red solo cup which had beer.

"You go, girl!" Cheered Vicky, giving her best friend a hug.

"I'm totally getting grounded!" Evan cheered for herself.

"Hey, Evan! Why don't you sing a song?!" Shouted a random drunk person.

"Yeah, EJ! Sing!" Vicky said to her friend.

"Rock the floor, Adams!" Tyler shouted.

"Sing! Sing! Sing! Sing!"

"Okay! Okay!" Evan said with a big grin. She then climbed on the nearest table. "Okay! Everybody, listen up! When I say 'Bang', I want you all to stomp your feet, okay?"

The teens cheered positively.

I don't wanna lie

I'm gonna take what you're giving

'Cause I know you're willing

To take me all the way

You got me right here

Combustible

And I can't wait to finally explode
The big big bang

As Evan said they all stomped their feet when she said 'bang'.

The reason I'm alive

When all the stars collide

In this universe inside
The big big bang

The big big bang

the big big bang

On the other side of the crowd, was standing Elena Gilbert with Stefan Salvatore. Stefan was watching with a small smile on his face as Evan sang and the others stomped their feet as she asked them to.

"It seems like Evan is the life of the party?" Stefan asked Elena.

"Yeah, she's the Rock star of mystic falls. Everybody loves hearing her sing. Me too." Elena said with a small smile. "Honestly, I think that singing keeps her closer to her dad. And that's why she does it." She then nodded towards Evan. "You see that watch on her wrist? It's her dads, and it's always their."

"You seem to know a lot about her." Stefan stated.

"We used to be friends. But then, I broke up with Matt, and as a best friend of Matt it was her obligation to hate me. So, we stopped talking." Elena sadly explained.

Stefan nodded, taking in this information. Then he turned to look at the crowd as it cheered loudly for Evan, who was bowing in front of her audience.

"Thank you! Thank you!" Evan said as she bowed to her audience. She then jumped down the table as the crowd started scattering away. She looked around to search for her best friend. She saw Matt talking to Caroline and Bonnie, but she was searching for her other best friend. She saw Vicky walking towards the woods. So, she started walking towards her but not before stealing someones bottle of beer.

Evan walked into the woods, trying to catch up with her best friend, but she was nowhere to be seen. The noise of people talking dimmed, as she walked more away from the party. She kept walking while whistling the tune of the song. She paused her whistling to drown the bottle of beer, and then started whistling again. She paused again when she her the noise of foot steps.

"Vicky? Is that you?" Evan asked getting a bit sober as adrenaline started flowing through her veins. "I've been looking every where for you."

Her heart started pumping a little fasted as she noticed the fog she was surrounded with. She walked a few steps towards the party before she felt someone watching her. She turned around and saw a man. It all happened so fast, she didn't even had the chance to scream. The man attacked her and teared the flesh on her neck with his fangs, and started drinking her blood so fast, her eyes rolled back and she fainted in the strangers arms after a minute, with his fangs still in sunk in her neck.

Matt Donovan was not having fun. First, his ex-girlfriend, who he was still in love with, was crushing on the new guy, Stefan Salvatore. Then he had to keep an eye on his sister, so that she didn't drink to much. And now his best friend was missing. So, Matt Donovan was not having fun.

"Hey." Matt greeted Elena and Stefan. "Have you seen Evan?" He asked worried.

"No." Stefan replied as Elena shook her head.

"Tell me, if you see her. I can't find her."

"Yeah. We will." Elena replied to Matt before he left.

In the woods were an angry couple of Jeremy Gilbert and Vicky Donovan. Vicky was walking deep into the woods hoping that Jeremy would leave her alone, but he kept following her like a lost puppy.

"Vicky, just listen to me!" Jeremy said as he followed Vicky.

"I told you he was just drunk!" Vicky said defending to Tyler, who tried to have sex with her in the forest.

"I am drunk. Am I throwing myself at you?" Jeremy asked.

"No. You're worse. You wanna talk to me. Get to know me. See into my soul, and screw, and screw, and screw, until you're done with me." Vicky angrily said as turned around to look at him.

"Is that what you think?" Jeremy softly asked.

"That's what I know." She said before turning around and continue walking.

Only a few steps later, her foot got stuck in a root and she tripped with a small scream.

"Vicky!" Jeremy shouted before walking towards Vicky to help her up.

Vicky got up on her elbows, to see the stupid root, instead she saw something more horrifying.

"EJ!" She shouted as she saw the unmoving body of her best friend. She quickly tried to wake her best friend up.

"Oh, my god!" Jeremy gasped when he saw the girls bloody neck. He quickly checked for a pulse, and sighed in relief when he found one. "Come on. Let's get her help." He told Vicky before he picked up the unconsious girl in his arms and started walking as fast as possible towards the party with Vicky following him. "Somebody help!" He shouted as soon as he reached the party.

"Mattie help!" Vicky desperately shouted.

"Evan? Evan! What the hell?" Matt shouted as he quickly reached his best friend.

"What happened?" Tyler asked as he saw the unconcious girl.

Jeremy carefully placed the girl on a table, on which she was singing on just minutes ago.

"Someone call an ambulance!" Matt desperately shouted at the crowd which gathered around.

"Everybody back up give her some space!" Tyler shouted.

Elena quickly walked towards her friend.

"It's her neck! Something bit her! She's loosing a lot of blood! It's bad." Elena quickly noted.

"EJ! Evan! come on! Open your eyes!" Vicky desperately pleaded her best friend.

In the commotion, no one but only Matt noticed, when Stefan quickly left the party with an angry expression.

Stefan quickly entered the Boarding house through the back door, which caused his nephew to look up at him from his paper work.

"What's going on?" He asked.

"Someone else was attacked tonight and it wasn't me." Stefan quickly informed him before walking up to his room.

Stefan was so angry at whoever attacked Evan. She is a nice person, and she didn't deserved this. Just then he noticed the crow entering his room through the open window. The crow sat on one of the pillars on the ceiling of his room. Then he noticed a man standing at the open window. Stefan immediately identified him.

"Damon." The black haired blue eyed mans name was all Stefan said.

"Hello brother." Damon greeted Stefan with a dark smirk.

"Crow's a bit much, don't you think?"

"Wait till you see what I can do with a fog."

"When did you get here?"

"Well, I couldn't miss your first day at school." Damon said with a smirk, while walking around in Stefan's room. "Your hair's different. I like it."

"It's been 15 years, Damon."

"Thank god. Couldn't take another day of the 90's." Damon said while walking towards the other side of Stefan's room. "The horrible look, did not suit you. Remember Stefan, it's important to stay away from the fads."

"Why are you here?"

"I miss my little brother."

"You hate small towns, it's boring, there's nothing here for you to do."

"I've managed to keep myself busy."

"You know, the girl you attacked there, was my friend."

"You think I didn't know that?" Damon asked with a smirk. "Hmm mm. She was a tasty little thing."

"You left her alive. Why? That was very clumsy of you."

"Ah. That could be a problem. For you."

Stefan just shook his head at his brothers answer. Of course, he wanted him to be miserable.

"Why are you here, now?"

"I could ask you the same question. However, I'm fairly certain your answer can be summed up to one little word : Elena. Took my breadth away, Elena. She's a dead ringer for Katherine. Is it working, Stefan? Being in her world? Making friends? Does it make you fee alive?"

"She's not Katherine."

"Well, lets hope not. We both know how that ended. Tell me when was the last time you had something stronger than a squirrel?"

"I know what you're doing, Damon. It's not gonna work."

"Yea?" Damon asked hitting his shoulder."Come on! Don't you crave a little?"

"Stop it." Stefan said when Damon hit his shoulder again.

"Lets do it together. I saw a couple of girls out there." Damon said while hitting his shoulder again. "Maybe, Elena is willing to tap her vein for us. Or lets just cut to the chase, lets go visit her friend. You can finish what I started."

"Stop it!"

"Imagine what her blood would taste like!"

Stefan turned away from Damon as the veins around her eyes started to appear.

"I don't need to cause I just had a sample!"

"STOP IT!"

Stefan then jumped on Damon which caused both of them to fall out the window. But when Stefan reached the ground, he noticed he was the only one lying there.

"I was impressed." Damon said from where he was leaning against the hedge. "I'd give it a six. Missing some style. But I was pleasantly surprised. Very good with the face -rawr! rawr!- thing. It was good." He said chuckling.

"You think it's all fun and game, huh? Where ever you go, Damon, people die." Stefan said walking towards Damon.

"That's given."

"Not here. I won't allow it."

"I'll take that as a invitation."

"Damon, please. After all these years can't we just give it a rest."

"I promised you an eternity of misery. So I'm just keeping my word."

"Just stay away from Elena."

"What about your new BFF, Evan?"

"Stay away from her, too."

"Ah, ah, ah, brother. You can choose only one of them. And we both know who your choice is." Damon said while walking towards Stefan. "Where's your ring? Sun's coming up in a couple of hours, and poof! Ashes to ashes. Relax, it's right here." Damon showed Stefan his open palm which had his ring in the middle.

Stefan slowly took the ring, expecting his brother to attack him. But he didn't. So he put his ring on the middle finger of his right hand. When he was least expecting it, Damon grabbed his brothers neck and threw him against the wall of the garage.

"You should know better than to think you're stronger than me." Damon said when Stefan fell near his feet."You lost that fight when you stopped feeding on people. I wouldn't try it again. I think we woke our nephew up. Sorry kiddo!" Damon said before he started walking towards the boarding house, whistling the same tune Evan was whistling before he attacked her.

In the hospital, Evan was lying on the bed with all the machines attached to her. Her mom was sitting next to her bed in a chair, holding her hand. She couldn't lose her Anne. She had already lost her husband, she couldn't lose her daughter too. Matt was looking at Evans pale face while leaning against the door way. Vicky wanted to stay to, but Matt sent her home cause she was still drunk. Matt stood up straight when he saw that Evan was waking up. Her mother held her hand more tightly.

"Hey. Hey. It's okay. Sweetie. I'm here. Everything's okay." Her mother soothed her with calming words.

"Mom?" She croaked out with tears gathering in her eyes.

"It's okay, Evan. Don't talk. Just go to sleep." Matt softly said while walking towards Evan.

Evan looked like she was desperately trying to say something. She said the thing Matt least expected her to say, and pass out.

"Vampire"