This is my first ever Vampire Diaries story, but I hope you enjoy it! It has been brilliant to write!

Prologue

A scream echoed through the halls and the sound of feet pounding against the ground.

"Elena!" shouted a voice. "There is no use in hiding from us! We live here!"

Another scream as Elena rushed up the stairs followed by two young boys, one blonde, the other raven dark, that were hell bent on catching her.

A chuckling woman in her early thirties commented on the troublesome trio.

"I swear, one of my boys will end up marrying your Elena one day," she predicted.

"Do you really think so, Lil?" Isobel Gilbert asked. Lily Salvatore nodded.

"Elena has Damon and Stefan waiting on her hand and foot!" Giuseppe Salvatore said with a booming laugh. All the adults joined in.

"But really?" John Gilbert questioned. "I've never really thought of that." The two woman rolled their eyes.

"For goodness sakes John, are you men really that slow?" Isobel teased him.

"It looks like it," he chuckled.

Their conversation was interrupted by Elena running in the room. Her long brown her was flying behind her as she catapulted in between her mom and dad.

"Hide me Mommy!" she cried. "Damon nearly caught me there!" Her mother obliged by covering her with a throw that was laying over the couch. The four of them tried not to laugh as a confused Damon and Stefan entered the room.

"Have you seen Elena?" Stefan wheezed, gasping for breath after all the running he had been doing.

"She hasn't come through here at all," his mother answered, "Have you tried your bedrooms?"

Damon smacked his head. "Of course!" he muttered. "The bedrooms!"

The boys ran back out the room again. Once they were gone Elena popped out from under her hiding spot.

"Are they gone?" When her question was confirmed she clambered on to her Dad's lap.

"What were you talking about before I came in?" She questioned. John smiled. His daughter was always full of questions these days, he could tell she was going to be one smart girl.

"We were talking about how you will marry Damon or Stefan one day," he told her. Elena stuck her tongue out in disgust.

"Ewww! Boy's have cooties!" she laughed and with that, the rest of them burst out laughing again.

"I found her!" screamed Stefan at the door way. They entered the room again and pinned Elena down before she could get away. They tickled her until the tears were rolling down her cheeks.

"Stop!" she screamed with laughter as the two grinning boys tickled her triumphantly, happy that their night of running around had finally paid off.

Chapter 1

Tomorrow is the day. The day all the town has been waiting for since last year. For this Saturday is the annual Salvatore party. I have got everything prepared this time; the perfect dress; the perfect shoes; the perfect bag, but there is still one important thing missing from the equation: I don't have a date. Yet again, I will be attending Mystic Fsll's biggest event of the year alone. How am I ever going to impress Damon and Stefan when I don't even have a date to this. I wonder if anyone doesn't have a date to it yet, and if so, who would it be?

Elena shut her journal with a sigh. Once again she didn't have a date for the annual affair. Last year had been a disaster, she had a rubbish dress that she had to borrow from her mom and she was completely unorganized. Worst of all she had asked Tyler Lockwood if he would go with her and he shot her down. In all fairness he was going with Vicky Donovan but he could have been a little nicer about it.

She shuddered at the memories. All of those emotions from last year were inside this journal and if she ever felt slightly depressed about anything then she would read those memories and feel a lot better about herself. She replaced her journal back into it's secret hiding spot. Then she picked up her bag so she could get breakfast and head out to school.

Elena found herself sitting next to Jeremy when she was eating breakfast. He was doodling in the sketchbook she had bought him for Christmas. Drawing was his only release after his parents died in a car crash and Elena was the only one he could talk to. She had grown to love him as her brother rather than a cousin. There wasn't anything she wouldn't do for him. Her Mom and Dad adopted him as they were the closest family he had apart from his Aunt Jenna who didn't know how to raise a kid.

"Hey Jer, are you ready for tomorrow night?" Elena asked. Jeremy raised his head and looked at her for a minute before bending down again to his work.

"I don't know if I'm going."

"Why not?" she said confused.

"Vicky is going with Tyler again," he said miserably. Elena felt really sorry for Jeremy, he had spent the whole summer with Vicky but she had dumped him for Tyler, again.

"Oh no," she said, enveloping him in a hug. He rested his head on her shoulder and they stayed like that for a few minutes. "Maybe you should go then, to show her what she is missing," she teased.

"You know what? That's not a bad idea!" Jeremy stood up slamming his fists against the table. "I have to get prepared then!" He left the room leaving Elena in shock. She didn't think it would be that easy to convince him.

Around fifteen minutes later Elena was driving them both to school. When they arrived, Jeremy headed off in one direction and Elena in another. She was looking for her best friends, Bonnie Bennett and Caroline Forbes. When she found them, she discovered that they were watching the cheerleaders.

"This year, I want to be a cheerleader," Caroline sighed. "Look at the way they are worshipped." The three girls watched as Damon and Stefan approached the head cheerleader Katherine Pierce. She was a Senior, like Damon, and would thankfully be away from the school next year. Elena didn't like her but that was probably because Damon and Stefan were both vying for her attention.

"I might join you in the tryouts," Elena said curiously. This made the other two look at her in shock.

"You'll do what?" Bonnie spluttered. However, Caroline was ecstatic.

"Thank you Elena! Oh thank you, thank you!" she squealed. "It's going to be brilliant, I assure you!"

Elena smiled. She had never outwardly expressed that she wanted to be a cheerleader but she had always, in her mind, admired the grace and moves of them. Worse, she always seemed to envy them for having such confidence but this year she wanted to be part of it.

The bell rang and everyone headed off to class. Her day was slow and uneventful until History where she sat next to Matt Donovan. She had slumped her head down on the desk before lesson started and Matt noticed the change in her usual chirpy self.

"Are you alright?" he asked her. She looked up at him and his heart skipped a beat. He had always liked Elena and now that they were older he had always wanted to make a move but he was always to shy. Just looking at her now proved his point that she was too beautiful to ever like him.

"I'm just nervous for tomorrow night," she explained, sighing.

"Why are you nervous? I'm sure you will look beautiful, as always." Elena blushed and so did Matt. He didn't mean for the last bit to slip out but now he was glad it did.

"Well, it's just…" She hesitated. Did she really want to explain to Matt her troubles? She decided that she did. "I don't have a date for tomorrow night. I don't really want to go alone."

Matt's stomach done a flip. Was this a non direct way that she was trying to ask him to the dance? His palms started to sweat and he gulped.

"Uh, I'm, uh, not taking anyone to the dance, uh, do you want to go with me?" He asked, trying to keep his voice level. It didn't quite work though, his voice rose to such high levels that Elena could barely make out what he said at the end. But she got the just of what he was saying so she smiled. This visibly relaxed Matt and he waited for her answer.

"Matt! That would be wonderful!" she cried. He grinned as he watched her face light up though it wasn't really for the reasons he wanted. She was happy because she wouldn't turn up alone, not because she liked Matt. She didn't really realise that she was leading him on.

Matt sat with a dopey smile on his face all the way through class.

Bonnie didn't know what was up with Elena. Firstly, she had expressed an interest in joining the Cheerleading squad, something she never thought that would come out of Elena's mouth. Secondly, Elena just informed her that she would be attending the Salvatore dance with Matt Donovan. Bonnie found this more than a bit shocking as Elena had confided in her that she liked Damon not one week before. Bonnie was friendly with Matt and she knew that he was going to get his heart broken by Elena. But she just didn't know what to do to stop it.

School was finished and Elena was heading over to the Boarding House to do her homework with Stefan. It was where the Salvatore's lived and had been her second home for as long as she could remember and she went after school everyday to do her homework with Stefan. He was in most of her classes and they helped each other understand the work. Of course, it was usually Stefan that needed help understanding but Elena was more than happy to help him. Sometimes, she even helped Damon understand his work and she was a Junior! She pulled up in their massive drive and greeted Lily when she went in the door. It wasn't often that Lily was home when she came in and she liked to have a chat with her.

"Are you ready for tomorrow night?" Lily asked excitedly. She was directing some delivery people with flowers and telling them where to put them. Elena picked up a vase and followed them through the rooms.

"Yes! It's going to be brilliant," Elena sighed happily. Lily smiled knowingly. She knew that look and mostly it was to do with a boy. She wondered which of her boys had finally asked Elena to the dance. She wasn't going to pry, she would just wait until the night and see for herself. It would be a little surprise for her.

"I know! Are you fully prepared this time?" she asked quietly.

"Don't worry, I have everything under control this year," Elena told her confidently.

"That's good," she smiled. "Now you run along and do your homework with Stefan, there's a good girl." Lily laughed as Elena grinned and put down the flowers before running off into the house.

Stefan and Elena were knee deep in homework, it was even more than an average Junior got. They were lying on Stefan's bed and she was trying, unsuccessfully, to get Stefan to remember important dates in history.

"The Battle of Willow Creek was 1865, how can you not remember this?" she raged. "It's a fairly easy number!"

"I don't know!" Stefan moaned. "Give me a break, Elena, it's been a long day."

She rolled her eyes and sighed, looking back at her book. "And what has happened in this long day which has made you so crabby?"

"He didn't get much of Katherine's attention, I got most of it," came a husky voice at the door. Elena's heart stopped as she lifted her head to see Damon standing there with a smirk on his face. She adored the smirk, it made her feel things she didn't feel for any other guy, not even Stefan. For a long time Elena had been back and forth between the two brother's when it came to romantic feelings. Last year at this time it was Stefan she liked but now, it was Damon. It had been Damon for around a year now because not long after the party she was put off Stefan by the way he acted. It was only Damon in her eyes now.

And Damon was the first person she had ever developed feelings for. She guessed that strong feelings like that didn't leave easily which was why her world was mostly dominated by him. She was aware that she hadn't responded to his statement because she was staring into his ice-blue eyes.

"Katherine wasn't always looking at you," Stefan growled.

"Yes she was," Damon teased.

Elena sighed. This was the main reason she didn't like Katherine. It was more than dislike, she practically hated the girl. She was vile and overall, such a bitch.

"I still don't see why you're fighting over her. She's awful," Elena said disgusted. Damon raised his eyebrows in a way that made her think he could see right through her. It made her shiver. Elena thought Damon was going to reveal something important to her, the way he stared. But then he said the worst thing.

"She's hot." His serious face slipped away as he laughed carelessly. Elena scowled but her stomach was still in knots looking at him. She hoped that tomorrow night wasn't going to be filled with Katherine lurking around every corner. But she had a horrible feeling that it would be.

Well, that's the end of the first chapter, please let me know what you think!

I would like to thank 123nenagirl for helping me with the whole Damon/Elena side of the story. You should check out her stories, they are absolutely brilliant.

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